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Give the People an Issue they Approve, and Party Success Follows—This is a Gentle Hint to the Republicans & f Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA EDUCATORS
A HE HONORED.
BRYAN NOMINATED
On First Ballot by 892% Votes
As I'sual the Huh) State Made Hit; Hit
at Hit1 National Educational .Meet.
Hon. E. D. Cameron, state superin-
tendent of instruction, together with
other distinguished Oklahoma educa-
tors, has returned from the National
DENVER Jui.y 10.—W. J. Bryan' address dealing with the trusts, Mr Educational Association at Cleveland,
nominated on the first ballot by a. Clayton omitted a large paragraph ' O. Air. Cameron and other members
vote of 892J4, Johnson 46 , Gray S'i'/i, j covering a message sent to congress of the party int. nded to return via the
8 not voting. | by President Roosevelt on the subject
Convention Hall, Denver, Colo., July of trust legislation.
9.—While the delegates were assemb-
ling this morning a report was circu-
lated and given some credence that
William Jennings Bryan would come
to Denver immediately after the nomi-
nation for presilent had been declared.
The democratic national convention
resumed its sessions at 11 o'clock to-
day with another vast assemblage
present eager and expectant, and with
the feeling prevailing that the culmi-
nating day was at hand on the presi-
dential nomination and the platform.
State delegations were busy all morn-
ing making their finaf canvasses on
the coming ballots, and it was 11:40
before the session actually began. The
feature of the opening hour was the
speech of the permanent chairman,
Henry D. Clayton, a sonorous presen.
tation of party aspiration and a severe
denouncement of President Roosevelt
Suggestions of the name were unfail-
ing signal for tumultuous clamor.
Platform Is Completed.
The platform is practical ly com-
plete as an entirety, and will be pre-
sented to the convention late in the
day.
During the morning John Mitchell,
the labor leader, appeared before the
Alabama delegation and formally de-
clared that he would not be a candi-
date for vice president.
The Missouri delegation called on
ex-Governor Francis of Missouri and
announced their intention of present-
ing his name to the convention for the
vice presidency. In view of the un-
wavering refusal of the Gray forces to
permit the Delaware jurist to the con-
sideration for second place, and Gov-
"1 will not weary you by reading
this," he said. "You can read It in
the newspapers."
As he approachcd t.~.e er.d of ills
speech, Mr. Clayton read more and
more rapidly, with the evident inten-
tion of finishing as quickly as possi-
ble. This waj due, however, to his
own desire, and was not caused by any
sign of inattention on the part of the
convention, which continued to accord
him marked attention.
Loud cheers of approval greeted
Chairman Clayton as he concluded,
and the applause was continued for
several minutes, the delegates stand-
ing upon their chairs and tossing their
hats and handkerchiefs into the air
While the demonstration in honor of
Denver convention, but were held up
at Kansas City so long on account of
poor train service that they decided
they would not see enough of the con-
vention to warrant them making the
trip.
The national convention of the su-
peritnendents' division of the N. E. A.
Will meet at Oklahoma City next Feb-
ruary as a result of the boosting done
by the Oklahoma contingent in be-
half of their own state.
Oklahoma also secured much rec-
ognition at the convention, Charles
Evans of Ardmore, president of the
Oklahoma State Teachers Association,
was chosen fourth vice president: Da-
vid R. Boyd, ex-president of the state
university of Oklahoma, was elected a
life member of the educational coun-
cil, of which there can be but forty-
lT'S A NEW CROWD AT DENVER.
The Campaign of 190S Will Not He
Fought lij the Old Time Managers.
Denver—One man who is attracting
wide attention here Is Tom Johnson,
the fighting mavor of Cleveland. All
the world loves a tighter just as it
does a lover, and in political contests
the fighter always has the kind of
following that makes Its presence felt
Johnson Is pointed out in the lobbies
and men ask to be presented to him.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, and
even "Alfalfa Hill" Murray, speaker of
the house in Oklahoma, are also niak
ing themselves known. Neither was
heard of in a national way before
1908. Only little interest is mani-
fested in any of the Democratic sena-
tors here. One could not tell he was
n the neighborhood of a senator, from
any interest the crowd manifests,
Aside from the senators who are
members of various Southern delega-
tions, a brand new crowd has come.
Not even the old time 16 to 1 agitators
are here In any considerable numbers.
Of the men who were delegates to the
convention of 1896, few are promi-
nently identl.ied with the convention
of 1908.
Mr. Clayton was in progress the doors \ five members. J. B. Taylor of Okla-
of the convention hall were opened
and the Jefferson club of St. Louis
was marshalled for a parade through
the aisles. At the head of the line
was a blue banner bearing David R.
Francis, for vice president. It elicit-
ed much enthusiasm.
As was to be expected, the new baby
in the democratic national convention
is ruling the household. Oklahoma,
the latest arrival in the American fam-
ily of states, is the whole show, day
and night, and has all its uncles and
aunts and brothers and sisters, not to
speak of distant cousins, running
around in circles to please the infant
mind.
Like Napoleon Newlywed, little
Oklahoma can have anything it wants
at this convention. All the other mem-
bers of the family are vying with each
other to Interpret' eorrect'y what the
homa City came within one vote of
being elected treasurer. Hon. E. D.
Cameron was elected director for the
state of Oklahoma.
ernor Francis' prominence as one of little dear wants, when t wants it
If it smiles, they know it has got what
it wanted, and if it crvs it ha s not.
"Da. da—da, da, da." says Oklaho-
ma, and the aunts and uncles respond
to the call.
"It wants Bryan," interprets Auntie
Kansas.
"Well, it shall have Bryan, the little
darling," promises Auntie Nebraska.
"Da, da, da—da," . rows Oklahoma.
"It says it wants Governor Haskell
to write the platform and be chairman
of the resolutions committee," ex-
plains Auntie Iowa.
"Let it have all it wants—that's the
only way to manage a baby," sagely
advises Grandma New York.
More Dn, Da's; More Gush.
"Da, da, da—da," pipes the child.
"It wants to run the campaign,"
translates Auntie Missouri.
"Give it the run of the whole house,"
says Auntie Illinois. "Mr. Roger will
give it his playthings. He won't need
them any longer."
"Isn't it a little precious," exclaims
Auntie Nebraska. "It reminds me of
my Willie—so precious and such ad-
vanced ideas for its age."
"Yes, it talks just like Willie,"
grunts Uncle Guffey of Pennsylvania.
"Da, da, da," assents Oklahoma.
Such a lusty child there never was
In any family. Its animal spirits
overflow and communicate enthusiasm
to the most reserved and dignified
grownups. It refuses to be put to
bed, but, day and night, may be heard
crowing and whooping it up In the
^rotunda of the Brown Palace hotel.
And Every Man an Orator.
Whenever you sight a large crowd
of people from which emanates the
joyful sounds of political oratory with
long-geared gestures, there you may
be sure Oklahoma is holding forth
the conservatives, there is some oppo-
sition to substituting his name for
Gray's.
Bell Uses His Gavel.
At 11:30 o'clock Chairman Bell be-
gan the ten minutes of hammering
with his gavel which he has thus far
found necessary in calling the conven-
tion to order. He kept up a hammer-
ing like that of a cooper driving a
hoop barrel, but after a time he gave
up and retired.
A third period of rapping began to
produce some effect, and the tempo-
rary chairman was able to make him-
self heard as he ordered tne aisles
cleared and repeated the sentence,
"Gentlemen, take your seats." At
11:40 the convention quieted and the
chairman announced that the prayer
would be made by Rabbi Samuel Koch
of Seattle.
Permanent Organization.
As chairman of the committee on
permanent organization, Senator Mc-
Creary presented the report of that
body.
It recommended Urey Woodson of
Kentucky for secretary and John I.
/Hudson of Missouri as sergeant-at-
arms.
The chair appointed Senator Mc-
Creary. Lewis Nixon of New York tond
I. E. Baker of California as members
of a committee to escore the perma-
nent chairman to the platform.
Chairman Clayton was soon advanc-
ing toward the platform and was
cheered to the echo, nnd the uproar
was redoubled as he was Introduced
to the convention by Temporary
Chairman Bell.
Clayton "Hohsonlzed."
Three little girls in red, white and
blue dresses were helped to the plat-
form before Mr. C.ayton began his
PRINCE I)E SAGAN WEDS ANNA.
London, July 7.—Mme. Anna Gould
and the Prince Helie De Sagan were
married at the registry office in Hen-
rietta street, off Cogent Garden, to-
day. A subsequent ceremony was con-
ducted at the French Protestant
church on Soho square.
There was absolutely no secrecy
about the wedding. Outside of Prince
Helie, Mine. Gould, witnesses and of-
ficials, no one was present. A great
crcw.1, consisting largely of porters
from the Covent Garden market and
employes cf publishing houses in the
vicinity, assembled in the street o it-
side. The party 1 'ft the building by i
back door and drove in cabs to the
French Protestant church, hidden
away in a corner of Soho square.
LOGAN COrNTY TEACHERS
INSTITUTE IN SESSION
Tuesday all classes were arranged
at the teachers' institute. The enroll-
ment had increased over Monday so
that there were eighty teachers in at-
tendance at the chapel exercises in
the morning.
No better corps of instructors can
be found in the institute work in Ok
lahoma and Logan county always has
had teachers of more than ordinary
ability. Chapel services are held every
morning and a program of siiecialties
will be prepared. Among these will
be lectures on wireless telegraphy
and liquid air by Prof. P. E. Laird,
which he will illustrate by the regu-
lar apparatus.
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address In their arms were large and telling all the grownups how glad
bunches of American beauty roses that | it is it's on earth. There are 500
almost smothered the little tots. The
roses were presented to the perma-
nent chairman amln much cheering,
then one by one the children were
lifted to the desk and Mr. Clayton
kissed them in turn.
Cheering and laughter continued
during the pretty little ceremony and
a gale of merriment filled the hall
when osme one called out "Ilobson,
Hobson." The little girls were Misses
Irene, Catherine and Mary Smith, all
of Denver. Mr. Clayton called out
first applause when, after thanking
the convention for the privilege of
presiding over its deliberations, he de-
clared, with much emphasis:
"This Is a democratic year."
Had l'lty on Ihr Delegates.
When he came to that part of his
Oklahoma politicians on the job and
every one a spellbinder, 500—count
'em—500.
The extent to which the baby rules
the house is demonstrated at any giv-
en time of the day or night. At 5 p.
m., for example, the headquarters of
the Oklahoma delegation on the sec-
ond Hoor of the hotel were crowded
and listening to an address by Sena-
tor Owen on the glories of the Okla-
homa system of government. Out on
the balcony wes an overflow meeting
of the home folks listening to a few
remarks by Senator Core, while down
on the stairway leading from the ro-
tunda, "Alfalfa Bill" Murray was
swinging his arms and rumpling hiB
hair and telling several hundred tall,
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GOVERNOR SAYS HE WILL
TEND TO PIPE LINES,
Attorney General Would Enjoin tom
pany from Piping Its Product.
4009 MOTTLES OE LIQUOR
ARE POI REI) IN GUTTER,
The first official "spilling" of the
state dispensary agency took place
Monday, and during the eight hours
that five men worked approximately
4000 bottles of "near beer" intoxicants
were emptied. The contents of
number of kegs also found their way
into the sewer in the rear of the
agency,
A crowd of curious men and boys
watched the disgorging process. Ev-
ery species known to the versatile
brewer of old Indian Territory and
the bootlegger was represented In the
motley pile of bottles. Two men
pulled corks on a temporary counter
THE ISSUF
By Albert J. Beveridge
(From Saturday Evening Post)
Galileo was a fine type of the man
who has a clear brain and a weak
heart. "The world moves," said Gali-
leo three hundred years ago, but that
simplest of truths he was forced to
recant by the narrow minds that ruled
that day. He had the mind of a scien-
tist, but not the soul of a hero. Had he
announced a political truth, the bene-
fits of that truth would have been de-
layed for a century by his cowardly
retraction. When any man conceives
a principle of human advice he must
stick to it if he would be a benefactor
of the human race—yes, even it he
would not become a worse enemy of
his own discovery than its most active
foes.
I do not find in reading history that
genuine reformers or even real states-
men ever compromise on principles;
there can be no opportunism in mat-
tes of conviction—that is possible only
on measures which do not involve
principles. In mere matters of legis-
lation, where the question is to get
something—a little good rather than
nothing good—compromise may be
the only good sense; but in the higher
realm of principle there can be no re-
traction such as Galileo made three
hundred years ago, and such as mere
politicians are making every day.
At the beginning of the militant
and purposeful movement against
slavery—not the slow, complaisant,
harmless "protests" that preceded it
—William Lloyd Garrison said, "I
will not retract; 1 will not retreat a
single inch, and I will be heard."
There spoke the soul of a moral move-
ment. Waodell Phillips put it even
and the third turned the seething hot
ties upside down. The liquid flowed j stronger when he declared, "The re
into a trough which conducted it to | former must have no social position to I British land laws for Ireland
win the election," and such-like moth-
eaten catch phrases, are used to halt
historic movements having for their
purpose liberty of men, honesty in
business and all those things that end
abuses. These methods are much
more dangerous to a moral cause than
unyielding defiance aud opposition.
Apparently they are so reasonable;
it really does seem wiser to win at any
price and attend to the moral move-
ment and the legislation it involves
afterward. The guile of the politician
working for corrupt forces, and the
ingenuity of paid lawyers working
for the same interests, are more pow-
erful against human advance than the
bayonets of kinngs or any other form
of rigid autocratic resistance of prog-
ress. For example, the Bourbons of
France were the real fathers of the
Reign of Terror; it was unyielding
denial of the people's just demands
that lit the fires of the French Revolu-
tion. Our own revolution was caused
by the royal stupidy of King George,
who firmly refused the smallest item
of the righteous petitions of the colo-
nists.
Moral movements come periodically
In every country. They come mora
frequently, of course, among free peo-
ple than elsewhere. Always they
are clear-cut; always they are histor-
ic, and always they move on until
their purpose is accomplished. We
see this quite clearly in the Cromwell
movement in England. We see it
again In the same country in the
movement which has for Its battle-
cry, "Justice to Ireland," and which
went on until to-day the dreams of
socialism itself are realized by the
We see
the sewer. ! maintain, no political party to serve."
rb- liquid was that confiscated at | For you Bee a ,norai movement whose
different times in raids, for the most I pUrpose it is to make life happier and
part ill former Indian Territory. human conditions better for the mil-
Down inside the cellar, under the „ong hag always run up against great
agency, a short man who hhils from
Blackwell, the home of State Agent
Lozier, is engaged in an apparently
endless' job of sorting real beer that
has been seized in the raids. Each
bottle he shakes and holds up to the
light. If a sort of cloud is visible he
throws the bottle to one side. It is
worthless. The good ones he lays in
another pile, to be labeled and sent
out to the different local agencies
some time in the near future.
LESSEE'S REASON EOR
SETTLING SCHOOL LANDS
There is a possible big fight up be
tween Gtvernor Haskell and Attorney
General West. The following tele-
gram was sent from Denver:
Asked to define his position in re-
gard to the effort by Attorney General
West to restrain the Prairie Oil &
Gas Company from exercising the
right of eminent domain in Oklahoma
by building a pipe line along it3 high-
ways in violation of the constitution
and the law, Governor Haskell said:
"My position on the pipe line suit
is that if the company is violating the
law I will stop it, just as I did before.
But I don't know the facts, and, there-
fore, will ask the court to continue
the case until I am home and have
had an opportunity to investigate.
"I wired the attorney general on
July 2d to keep me posted, but have
no reply yet. No case can be brought
for the state except on the request
of the governor, and If the facts gath-
ered by the attorney general, or com-
ing to me otherwise, show that any
rights of the state or of our people
are being violated, I certainly and
emphatically shall protect the state
in the future as I have done in the
past."
In answer to the telegram from
Governor Haskell, Attorney General
West wrote a long leter to Acting
Governor Bellamy, stating his posi-
tion in refusing to withdraw prosecu-
tion, and the suit against the Prairie
Oil Company stands.
Is the same as it was fifty years ago.
The history of the other states guar-
anteed to the settler on school land
the same rights and privileges as to
the homesteader^ except In a few
states, where the rental and price was
low. In the Cheyenne and Arapaho,
and the Cherokee, where it was open-
ed on the horse race plan, declaring
he who first took possession of the
land had the best right to it. Our first
governor, George W. Steele, who had
taken an oath to legally promote
whatever was for the best interests
of the greatest number of people in
Oklahoma. In compliance with his
official duty he issued his famous
proclamation, declaring to those who
had failed to locate on the home-
steads to settle on school iands, say-
ing that whenever Oklahoma became
a state, "You shall own It." Govern-
or Steele was the executive depart-
ment of Oklahoma, and had the same
authority, power and right In Okla-
homa that Abraham Lincoln had in
the United States when he issued his
famous proclamation calling for 300,-
000 volunteers. Were these procla-
mations based on good judgment and
common law? They certainly were.
In the above named openfngs there
were 61,000 homesteaders, and all of
them got free homes, and they solic-
ited and encouraged in every conceiv-
able way those who settled on school
land, for we will need you In organi-
zation of schools and it will be a
home for you.
The ab'ove are some of the reasons
why the lessee settled on school land.
When the lessee looks back to 1854
when Stephen A. Douglas' bill became
a law, declaring that the people
should decide for themselves what
they wanted, then we rejoice In the
hope that the good old time will come
again. In my next I will look after
the interest of those who bought a
relinquishment from the lessee.
M. P. ROBERTS.
Interests which in some form or other
are preying upon these millions. At
one time it was aristocracies and
kings, whose idle luxury was support-
ed by the masses—beautiful but
poisonous flowers nutured upon the
blood of the people. At another time
—and at bottom, always—it is evil fi-
nancial interests that are wickedly
profiting at the expense of the multi-
tude from practices which these mor-
al reforms will put an end to.
And so it is that, without that
heroism which would rather be de-
stroyed that retract, no principle
could ever be established against the
mighty opposition which always bat-
tles to defeat it—no moral movement
could ever acheive las purpose. Think
of Cromwell compromising with the
Stuarts; thing of Washington com-
promising wiht King George; think
of Lincoln compromising with Jeffer-
son Davis. If any of these men had
about-faced upon the movement
which circumstance and their own
stout hearts made them the leaders of,
history would have written them down
as infamous instead of making them
the worshiped champions of human-
ity's greatest cause.
When Compromise is justifiable and
when not
Let me here again draw the distinc-
tion between that compromise which
is justifiable in matters of practical
legislation where the life of no prin-
ciple is at stake and that wicked com-
promise by which the life of a princi-
ple is imperiled. If I find aB a legis-
lator that I can get some legislation
by yielding here and there without
sacrificing any principle, I am foolish
If I do not do so. Yet here is where
the mere politician who cares for
nothing but the success of his party,
and cares for that only because it
means his own success, gets In his
plausible and destroying work. "All
legislation is compromise" is the fa-
vorite expression of this enemy of the
people, and thus, throwing up the dust
until he hides the distinction between
a moral movement and a legislative
program, he compromises the moral
movement out of existence.
"Let us not go too far. Our direc-
tion is right, of course, but if we go
too far right now we will lose this or
that group of voters who are not keep-
ing up with us"—is another familiar
expression of this same class of ma-
nipulators. Still another and even
more effective watchword is "har-
mony." "Let us have harmony," "We
must have harmony i£ we would
it still earlier in that heroic struggle
led by the Immortal Shaftesbury to
end child slavery in the United King-
dom. A notable example was the
movement for the liberty and unifica-
tion of the Italian people, led by Gari-
baldi on the battlefield and Cavour In
the council chamber. A most brilliant
and awful example of such a move-
ment was that of the French people,
which had been so long resisted and
so strongly repressed that when once
it began its belated progress it rushed
madly on and worked destruction in
its effort to work righteousness.
The Declaration of Independence Op-
posed liy Business Men
111 our own country these moral
movements have been just as distinct-
ly marked. The first was that of our
independence. The second was the
movement for national consolidation,
which ended In our Constitution. The
third was the same underlying pur-
pone of national unity; It took the
temporary form of popular rights and
was led and personified by Andrew
Jackson. The fourth was that which
made Abraham Lincoln the greatest
figure, but one in the world's history;
and It, too, had as its deep and under-
lying cause the still firmer welding
together of the American People Into
a nation, and took the form of the
liberty of all men in that nation.
All these movements were resisted
In one fashion or another by the same
kind of forces. All of them were
fought out by the people—by the man
in the furrow, at the anvil, in the mill
and mine and store. All of them per-
sisted until they were finally success-
ful; all of them involved as a practi-
cal matter various form of legislation
which wrote the meaning of those
movements Into tangible law.
For example, It is a historical fact
that our Revolution was fought and
won by the common people; it is a
historical fact that the big business
Interests of every, city in the Colonies
were aggressively Tory in their sym-
pathies, with a very few splendid ex-
ceptions. New York City did not send
many men to the field for the patriot
cause; the "best society" of both New
York and Philadelphia was anti-pa-
trlot; and the Declaration of Indepen-
dence was actually opposed by com-
mercial magnates upon the ground
that It would hurt business, t is with-
in the memory of living men that the
speeches of Phillips and Garrison, the
essays of Emmerson, the poems of
Lowell and Whlttier, were condemned
by those in the higher places, even In
Boston, as being a "rub-a-dub agita-
tion"; and everybody will remember
when their attention is called to it
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