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OKLAHOMA STATE REGISTER
Oklahoma State Register
Published Every Thursday by
OKLAHOMA PRINTING COMPANY.
f. M. DOLPH, Pres.
fcUblished Dec. 17, 1890.
JOHN GOLOniE, Sec.
Inc., Dec. 17, 1903.
■ tered at the Poatofflce at Guthrie, Oklahoma aa Second
Class Mall Matter.
Subscription Price per Year, #1.00
THI RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29. 1910.
JOHN GOLOBIE, EDITOR.
DIFFERENCE OP MA KIXG OB ENFORCING LAWS
That preachment is easier than performance again
shows itself in spontaneous reorganization all over
Oklahoma of the old prohibition societies, ready for
the fight to sustain the dispensary system..
One cannot help to wonder, however, why so much
■work called out towards political action to sustain a
law on the statute books, and none at all from the
same bodies Into actual enforcement of the law. It
shows that it is easier and cleaner work to exercise the
purely intellectual faculties in making sentiment for
the creation of laws, and having exhausted ourselves
In that exercise the honorous duty of enforcing them
is distasteful to us. And it is an anomalay that or-
ganizations who insist on retaining the present law
are not as busy enforcing it.
That was the funniest thing in the world—Sher-
man and his followers, trying to save Taft from the
man who made him—against their wishes.
THE WOMEN WIIO WONT.
There Is a woman's anti-woman's suffrage associa-
tion, and because of this it is taking for granted as
the strongest argument that since some women do
not desire to extend their rights as far as the right to
vote that therefore they should not be given that priv-
ilege.
There is always some members of a class, men,
■women, or children, that cannot see the benefit of an
advanced step for them. There is no doubt but in
the agitation in Turkey to allow the women to take
off the veil from the women's faces and allow them
to expose their free countenances to their families
and In public places, is opposed by some of the women.
The custom has become second nature to them and
they see in this extended freedom all the evils that
the American woman sees in the extension of the
right of franchise to her sex. The same is true in
Chinese reform of binding the feet. Children frequent-
ly do not see the benefit of being sent to school, and
if left to them would vote against being driven there
by force every morning.
The fact that some women fear the effect upon their
sex of being given the right to vote, and if the privil-
ege is granted will not avail themselves of it, is
quite as much an argument that they should be eman-
cipated from their present limitations as that they
should not.
The 30,000 delegates to the railway union conven-
tion in New York voted to take part in politics, but
not the old partisan politics that once disturbed the
unions, but that of men who hold right principles.
INDIAN SIMMER.
The rustling leaves'with faces turned
Welcome the kiss of the sighing wind.
A melody from a wild bird's throat.
Like the love song of the Indian maid,
Comes from the tangled underbrush
And over all the golden sun
Hangs in a haze. The autumn flowers
Are bathed In a sheen of gold.
The haunting stillness breathes of the souls
Of departed braves. -—John Gruelle.
THE STREETS BE A PTIFl'L.
** Really now, Guthrie is a model city. There is noth-
ing unseemly going on in its streets, and the general
character of the people as a street scene is above the
highest type of American citizenship. Next time you
are on the street just take a look at the good, clean,
healthy, well-dressed, average of men and women that
you'll see. This Is due to natural selection. In the
twenty years Guthrie has h3d a gradual growth, and
everybody has grown into reasonable prosperity. There
has been no emptying of the trash of the earth into
the town, such as happens to boom towns. There is
neither indigency, want, nor criminal viciousness here.
The few infractions of the law are mostly oversight;
there is not enough charity needed to remind one of
the suffering elsewhere. The young people are largely
grown, and they are an inspiration for beauty and
good character.
Just for the aestethlc pleasure it is prouably nec-
essary to hold church services in Guthrie, in order that
friends and neighbors may see each other, like the lil-
ies of the valley in holiday attire but he who would
preach the ordinary vehemence of wickedness would
do so from the dire romanticism of a hectic brain, not
from the realism of life and action. If a man has no
ambition to attain to the great and sinful centers of
population, where there are hundreds of good people
and thousands of bad ones, and hundreds of rich and
thousands of poor, he cannot find a city of like popu-
lation, equal to Guthrie in all that a man can reallv
live—leaving out the wicked dreams of fame, extreme
wealth, unwarranted pleasures and luxury, and the fol-
ly that comes with them all, but for which we never-
theless sigh.
If Henry Allen and E<1 Hoch have bought the Ok-
lahoma City Times, there will be the progressive kind
of republicanism In it and the Kansas kind of prohi-
bition to supplement the democratic kind.
Is it possible that three blocks north of Oklahoma
avenue, on Vine street, and the crossing on Oklahoma
avenue are to be the only portions of streets in Guth-
rie not to be paved just because they belong to a rail-
way company?
A .IIOM MMENT TO A LOVER OF TREES
The woods were God's first temples, and the center
square of Perry. Oklahoma Is a seat of beauty and
divinity that has had more to do to hold up the waning
hopes of an ambitious future the citizens of that com-
munity, during the trying days of drouth, poor crops
and poor business, than any other business or moral
element in the city. This influence for good was largely
imperceptible at first; and if there was ever a man
who, Emerson's phrase, buiided better than he knew,
that man was William T. Little who planted that cen-
ter square of Perry with trees at an early day.
Most of the center squares laid out by the govern-
ment in the opening of the Cherokee strip are hideous
objects that pain the senses. Perry's was mud-hole
when it rained and a sandstorm when dry. When a
lover of nature came along—when a tree genius was
constrained in the very pity of the ugliness of the
town to transform It Into an umbrageous wilderness,
carpeted with the mantle of green.
How "Bill" Little planted little elms by the thous-
ands, no bigger than a woman's hat pin. was the merrv
jest at the time. How he watered and tended them
year after year, became the burden of a rancose song.
But in the midst of the gay laughter at the insigni-
ficance of those slips of elms and the herculean labor,
seemingly so disproportionate, that the man of faith
put on, the scrubby shoots became trees, and from be-
ing the victims of demolition of every passing animal,
became their shade and shelter from the noonday sun.
Then, instantly, from ridicule sprang admiration, and
Perry awoke one morning to find that it had the most
beautiful forest park—made by man—in Oklahoma.
This is the history of William T. Little's gift of
trees to the people of Perry that will be "a joy for-
ever and will never fade into nothingness;" and the
people of Perry have ever since worshiped the grove
and blessed the planter thereof. And now they are
going to place therein a monument, or temple, or
grotto, ivied arch, not in his memory for the trees are
that, but as a tribute to their own pleasure of appre-
ciating so good and wise a deed. As for "Bill" Little
children, lovers, the aged, for a hundred years, as thev
sit in the shade of the giant elms, in hoar memory,
will tell fairy tales of the "opening" of the Cherokee
strip, the "run" for Perry, and one thoughtful man
who planted trees in time so that they might grow up
for them to sit under.
Little Stories
Of
Big People
Crescent City is wroth that she should be neglected
In the mention of the first bale of cotton this year anil
also the highest price at J.",.76, with a premium from
citizens of $42., while at Muskogee the first bale only
brought $3.10 and $10.00 premium from the citizens.
THE FEAR OF OTHER DAYS
One of the most plausible, as well as most handv
and easiest mede, arguments a'-'ainst the new move-
ment w thin the republican party for polities and
public service to he Icrs under the control of the old
order of party bosses and more under -the control of
the voteis direct, is to noint to conditions in the past
supposed to he analogous. One of the most common of
such threats is tr> point still to what the democrats
did under the Wilson bill, in order to scare off al' de-
sire of the progressives to make the tariff realy what
it ought to be. But they do not take for granted that
whole public mind has changed in regard to the theories
of the tariff since that democratic experiment. That
experiment having been made, stands as an example
not to be made again even by the democrats them-
selves were they to get into power in Congress a«ain
Ti>«*se who refer to the past on the theorv that his-
tory repeats itself fail to d stinguish between such
fundamental traits of human nature that change verv
gradually, if at al1, in many centuries, ar.d su< h art-
fic.al changes of purely artificial governmenta' funct-
ions as come bv l glslatlnn or arbitrary conquest,
the traits cf our character we duplicate in wn
generation after generation, but not necessarily in
single acts. The danger of an o'd character of free
trade tariff is no more possible today than the old
acter of free state rights or slavery.
In
era I
char •
TIFT'S FH!E\I)S.
It Is about time those politicians who were not for
Taft for President, but who afterwards advocated their
standpat policies, as they declared, in sunport of the
President and the prest-rvat'on of the republican party,
shall make another switch and now claim to be pro-
gressives.
ith the defeat of \ lc -President Sherman, w'th the
expressed wish of Mr. Taft himself and Col. Roose-
velt taking charge of the President's administrative
policies, the progressives become the regulars and the
standpatters tlie irregu'ars.
That New York victory Is the key note of the "New
Nationalism for the whole country, and the wise man
will see the light and follow it.
MONEY STRINGENCY.
There will be no money stringency, such as cur-
rent whisper has sent nbroad over Oklahoma to Intimi-
date loans and the purchase of state and other paper.
The balance of trade from Europe is In our favor: In-
side of the next month a large volume will come Into
the hands of Investors in trade balances: the cotton
crop of the country is 1,000,000 bales larger than last
year; and the general crop movement will bring large
sums Into general circulation. Inside of Blxty days
money will again lie seeking Investment Instead of hold-
ing in, waiting to see the outlook. Oklahoma has plenty
of money and It will again desire vigorous invest-
ment. .
SKCIlEI'AItV DICK-
THOSE win)
imagine that
our public
men are ou their
dignity a I! the time
should have been
aboard the liner Si
beria recently, on
which Secretary of
War I> I c k I two ti
traveled to Mnnih.
The first day rh.-
sw limning tntiK
was rigged up oo
taking his moruinu
BACHELORS IN OFFICE WHO WEI).
THE CLOSE VIEW.
One correspondent from the Rochester convpntion
writes that the average New York politician cannot un-
derstand the national interest taken in the "purely"
state conflict. Even' the hotel clerks wonder why so
many outside newspapers sent special representatives
to the scene.
We have a common way of saying that we want
a near view of a thing. The near view of a man. no
more than of a planet, cannot be the best view.
Roosevelt, even to those machine politicians whom he
overthrew, does not seem the force he really is. The
country at large has a much better measurement of
him. It is still true that a man is never a hero to his
valet.
New State Ofticluls Have Been limit-
ing Mates.
The marriage during the past week
of W. H. I... Campbell, clerk of the
Supreme Court, supposed to be a con-
tinued bachelor, to Mrs. Willie Bryar
Sherwood of Elk City, again calls at
tention to the ravages which the mat
rimonial microbe has made in the
present state administration in Ok
lahoma. The Campbell-Bryan wed
ding was strictly an official one, tak
ing place in Governor Haskell's suite
at the l/?e hotel in Oklahoma City
with Jesse J. Dunn, chief justice of
the supreme court officiating.
It was a notable fact, indicating
perhaps a prevalence of bachelor-
hood in ti.e state, that no less than
nine of the first state officers of Ok!a
lioma were unmarried at the time of
their election. Four of them have al
iy seen the error of their way and
it is believed that there is still hope
for seine ot the others.
The hirst t< Break.
State Auditor M. E. Trapp and
State Examiner and Inspector Char
les A. Taylor were the first to break
over. Both celebrated their election
j by getting married between the time
I when they were elected and the time
wuen t«ey took possession of their
oihees, Trapp married Miss Lou
Strang of Guthrie, and Taylor mar-
ried .Miss Skidmore of Fond Creek.
Matthew ,J. Kane who was at the time
chief justice of the Oklahoma su
preme court, was the next. His mar-
riage to Miss Catherine Regan of St.
Pan!, Kansas, was celebrated last
June. Campbell is the fourth of the
quartet.
Another weding which should prop
erly be classed as official, was that of
.Miss Frances Haskell, daughter of
Oklahoma s governor to Leslie G. Nib-
lack, editor and publisher of the
Guthrie Leader, it took place in the
state house, with Chief Justice Kane
by all
deck the secretary
walk with General Clarence Ed ward •
iiiul Captain Laiv. Anderson, was din-
cussing the lack of excitement on
board, lie expressed a desire to d
something that nobody had done be-
fore. Then lie saw the tank.
"I'll lint you fellows $20." he said,
"that you don't dare follow me just as
you are "
"Go ahead." said General Edwards.
"I'm game." chimed in Captain An-
derson. "I'll follow you."
"Bet you don't." said the secretary
as with a vault he landed right in the
middle < f the swimming tank. Gen-
eral Edwards regretfully followed suit.
Captain Anderson climbed in after him
"Now we're here," said the wet but
radiant secretary, "let's have some
fun."
With one hand lie ducked the briga-
dier general and with the other lie-sub-
merged the captain.
"I'll bet nobody ever did that be-
fore." laughed the secretary as lie
climbed out of the tank.
"You're wrong, sir." said the secre-
tary's secretary, who had just arrived
on the scene. "Mrs. Long wort li did the
same thing when she went out to the
Philippines with the Taft party."
"She did. ehV" said the secretary of
war. "Well. I'll bet she never did this.
Come and help me. Edwards."
The dripping pair seized the secre-
tary's secretary, swung him once or
twice and then plumped him into the officiating, and was attended
tau*. . of Oklahoma officialdom.
" I hat. said the head of the war
department, "is a new stunt. Let's go
dress for luncheon; I'm hungry as a ! ^'le ',acile'°rs still have a very fair
bear." j representation, however, in the state
administration. Justice Robert L.
When Colonel Roosevelt was in • vr !?,,♦. ♦
,,, .I.. i . .. u i Williams, Lieutenant Governor Geo
Cheyenne recently bis meals at the ho I r, ,,
tel were served to him in his rooms. Bellamy, Chairman J. E. Love ot
and as servitor be had a Swedish girl ^le Corporation Commission, and Miss
Kate Barnard, commissioner of char-
ities and corrections, have all suc-
cessfully withstood the attacks of the
microbe.
Colonel Bill Cross, secretary oi
state, who died just after the August
primary, was a bachelor, but his suc-
cessor, Thomas P. Smith, is a married
man. Thomas H. Owen of Muskogee
bachelor, resigned from the criminal
court of appeals, and was succeeded
by L). A. Richardson, married.
A number of the state emp oyeei-
in subordinate positions have also
shown a disposition to follow the ex-
ample of their chiefs. Captain M. H.
Taulbee, assistant adjutant general;
Captain Harrelson, who preceded him
in that office; Earl F. Keys of the
secretary of state s office; Will Mc- j
Brine of the stat" auditor's office, Al-
fred D. Bryan of the state treasurer's'
office, L. K. Huep of the school land
department and Claude Davenport of
the attorney general's office have ai:
been married since statehood.
Vet a \umber Left,
ifia
m -j
— If'ln. n.v American Hrep? Association.
HOOStYELT 8 PEA K INO IN THE WEST
«b« lui* I «•• *11 in this country but a
si. .t time Whenever he n^kod the
ir' it i|U<stion sin- answered "No.
i 11 <ft\ oi • W's. I eddy." to the amaze
in III •? the « oluiiel.
Il i maillot was so ingenuous, how-
it i. ihtit tie de< id* d that she was in
• * i n of in lent iona i disrespect. Fiual-
\ ti* m.ide uu|iiiries. and the mystery
Hh ;ii: thought that "Teddy." which
li ti ileard so frequently, was
.Mine sitrt of title, such as king."
lit D iiiti'd heartily when he heard
if i " Mil
\ tiMnl sfurv is being retold of Hoke
mini. wno was recently nominated
t >.on rn* r | y Georgia Democrats.
*VlM li lie was sre-
et «r> of i lie in
♦«ti' r Mr nniurally
tppolnfed si large
ill in I '"f of Geor
L'hins It kept on
ill people from
Mini *t- t«'* made
elt.ni.w- -tnatur
I'oorhees of Indl-
«uu hnd a Hoosier
friend t hat he
wanted an office
for, but so long as
there were any uu
appointed a p p I 1-
cants from Mr. Smith's own state
was in despair.
One day Voorhees walked dejected-
ly through the Interior department
whistling "Marching Through Geor-
gia." The tune grated on Smith's sen-
sitive ears, and he reproachfully said:
f'Wtant are you whistling that for'/"
MI Just can't help It," explained Sen-
ator Voorbeen, "Whenever 1 come
through your department I f«el n« If
IIOKE SMITH
TAFT'S LEISURE AT AN END.
i rosli'iit Upturns to Washington to
I'linirre into Midst of Government
Affairs ivitli Ills Cabinet.
Columbus, Ohio, Sep. 24 —After hav-
ing spent four days among old friends
and relatives in * Cincinnati every
minute of which he seemed to enjoy,
President Taft is speeding back to
Washington to plunge into a week of
hard work with his cabinet. He will
arrive in the capital early tomorrow.
The president left Cincinnati at 3:10
p. m. and passed through Columbus at
5:40.
Mr. Taft will remain at the white
house until next Saturday. During
the week he will have all the mem-
bers of his cabinet except Secretary of
\\ ar Dickinson, as his guests at the
executive mansion, and although for-
mal sessions will be held only during
the forenoon the president's consul-
tations with his advisers will be al-
most continuous. After that the daily
program will be something like this:
8:30 a. m.—Breakfast at the white
house.
11a. m.—Formal cabinet session be-
gins at the executive offices.
1:30 p. m.—Luncheon at the white
house.
2:30 p. m.—Golf or library work
for the president; departmental work
for the cabinet.
7:30 p. m.—Dinner at the white
house.
9 p. m.—Coffee, cigars and story
telling on the south veranda of the
white house.
A definite program has been mapped
out for the cabinet to consider and it
1. Judicial appointments, including
the supreme court vacancies and the
creation of the new court commerce.
2. Departmental reports and esti-
mates of expenditures for the com-
ing fiscal year.
3. Plans for greater efficiency and
economy in the government depart-
ments.
4. The putting into operation of pos-
tal savings banks.
5. Foreign affairs, including the re-
adjustment of affairs in Nicaragua
and recent events in Panama.
6. The extension of the civil ser-
vice to include assistant postmasters
and permanent clerks in money order
offices.
7. Just a tiny little mention of
politics.
ill Mi LEAK
Bishop Wm. A. Quayle will give his
great Shakespearian Lecture "King
Lear'' as the opening number of the
Epworth League Lecture coure at the
First Methodist Church, Tuesday
night, October 4th, at 8 o'clock.
Something worth your while. Tick-
ets on sale at Koetsch's jewely store.
HASKELL
1NDK THENTS
BOSEI>.
NOLLE
McAlester, Ok., 29.—Special.—Attor-
neys for the Federal government pros-
ecuting indictments against Governor
Haskell and others, charged with de-
frauding the government and Creek
Indians out of about 600 town lots in
Muskogee, asked Judge Marshall, pre-
siding judge, to dismiss the indict-
ments on the grounds that the statute
of limitation, three years, had run be-
fore the indictments were returned.
Land Lessees to Meet.
Lawton, Ok., Sept. 27.—Arrange-
ments are being perfected for a meet-
ing of Comanche county Indian allot-
ment lessees to be held in Lawton at
an early date to organize the county
and to cooperate with the other coun-
ties of the state with a view to secure
a two year's extension at present rat-
es of rental in which to recover from
the results of the drouth of two years
past. Also to endeavor through con-
gressmen and state representatives to
change the present method of leasing
to have the term of lease extended and
as nearly as possible to have it con-
form with the present method of leas-
ing the state school lands.
If you wish to sell or buy business
home or farm no matter where locat-
ed WRITE us TODAY. Merchants
Business Exchange, 171 Washington
Street. Chicago, 111.
I were iiumliluu through Qenrgin."
That day Voothee.* Indiana frioiul includes these general topics-
urns appointed.
LIBEL.
Colliers.
Is that editor a humorist or merely
conscientious? The individual to
whom we refer guides the destinies of
the Dewey "World'' of D-wey, Okla-
homa. In the "Local Happenings'*
olumn was to be read:
"An error was permitted go through
the 'World' last week in the announce
ment of William Rogers as candidate
for Treasurer of Dewey Township. He
s a candidate on the democratic tick-
et instead of the republican ticket, as
we had It. We apologize."
Under the guise of apologizing for
a misprint the editor of the "World"
has apologized for calling a man a re-
ublican. Perhaps he took a subtle
method of avoiding damages for li-
bel.
DIED FROM KICK OF HORSE
Mulhall, Okla., Sept. 25.—The body
of Franke Gripe has been received
here after being a week on the road
from Baker City, Ore. Mr. Gripe
was kicked by a horse and died from
the injury. His father, J. W. Gripe
and friends were here to receive the
remains and convey them to their bu-
rial in the cemetery near Clarkson.
This is the second son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gripe to die a violent deatli
within a comparatively short time.
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