The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1897 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CHANDLER NEWS
Haruy Benson Gilsthap,
EfPIE GiLSTliAP FltAZIEK,
'Editors and Owners.
Lindsay L. Lewis,
Business Manager.
subschiption, one dollar.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1897.
Some of the press .correspond-
ents who have consigned Dennis
Flynn to the shades of political
oblivion would feel rather silly if
they realized that the common
voters were stronger Flynn men
now than ever before. By the
I way, votes count.
j Farmers of the west are now
! having as much difficulty in,get-
{ting freight ears to remove their
Yes, the republican party in ! crops as they were a couple of
Oklahoma is divided, but the j years ago in getting crops to put |
ratio of the two "branches" is into the freight, cars. Thous-
is about 100 to 1. ands upon thousands of freight
m ~T i cars which have
1 he recent call for a confer-1 idle since the
ence ox silver leaders is undei
W. K. MERYDITH, President. O. B. KEE, Vice President. F. B. HOYT, Cashier
The Lincoln County Bank.
STATEflENT.
Condition of THE LINCOLN COUNTY BANK, Chandler, Oklahoma Territory,
at the close of business June 30, 1 HS>7. made to depositors of said bank in accord-
nce frith the provisions of section 16. chapter 1, session laws of IW:
Loans and Discounts j Capital Paid In ? U.UOO.Ul)
Overdrafts 1,309.37 surplus 1,800.00
Warrants, Sureties, Etc 2,684.0% Undivided Profits 305.51
Keal Estate, Furniture, Fixtures, >,074.8s j Certilioates of Deposit ' 254.37
Expenses and Taxes 163.13 j Deposits 19,053.45
Cash and Si^ht Exchange ii.398.63
*30,413.38 I $30,413.33
I, F. B. Hoyt, cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. F. B. HOYT, Cashier.
Correct, Attest: O. B KEE, Director.
i T i Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of Julv. IS97.
- Seal \
i . f „ „ E. VV HOYT, Notary Public.
My ( omnnsson Expires November 2nd.
stood to be for the pur] ose of de-
ciding how they shall explain
the fact that wheat has advanced
-3 cents per bushel wliiTe silver
has fallen 10 yents per ounce.
been standing
summer of 1893
arc now rushing day and night to
carry the abundant crops of the
west, for which advanced prices
are being obtained, despite tlief
fact that .silver has steadily fall- ■
en meantime.
The democratic assertion that; .If silver goes on declining
trusts and a protective tariff go . the nex't three years at the rate
hand is hand is somewhat weak- which it lias declined during the
ened by the fact that the trusts last twelve months, Mr. Bryan (Chandler
never flourished in the United i in 1900 jvill have to argue for a
States as they did during the ten-cent dollar. The value of the
three yearg of the late democrat- metal in a silver dollar is but
ic tariff, which is happily past. aoout 44 cents now, while a year
ago it was 53 cents. Yet the in-
A. D. WRIGHT.
DRUG S 1 ORE, Book and News Depot
Drugs and Medicines,
Paint, Oil, Glass, Putty, School Supplies,
Fancy and Toilet Articles, Etc., Etc.
Oklahom
1 he managers of the silver consistency of promising to per-
party have .called ott ex-candi- mit people to pass 53 cents worth
date Bryan, pending further de- of silver for a dollar is not so
velopments. If silver continues much less than a similar propb-
O go down they recognize • the sition with reference to ten cents-
tact that they will have to tind a worth of petal when the princi-
new hobby, and they think it un- ple of the thing is taken into con-
wise for Bryan to harp on the aiHomtinn
wise for Bryan to harp
silver string any longer.
J.C. Fletcher & Co.
DEALERS IN
Shelt and Heavy Hardware.
All inds of hardware now on hand.
It see ins to us a little as
though the DeFord-Barnes tight
were being used by some of Den-
nis Flynn"s political enemies as
an excuse for making a tight on
Uie ex-delegate. It is asserted
by a number of papers known to
be jealous' of Flynn's popularity
that lie he must either prove
l apt. DeFord s charges against
Gov. Barnes or suffer a political
. 7 7— death. Such talk is all rot.
I iiOsi, people who are accusmir ti, i,
n 1''ore lias been no reason shown
Dennis Flynn of winninir and , • vt .v , , 1
, i, i i 1'a Aii*. I< lynn should take udoii
then betraying the contidence of i,;," lro >
i-v, Li i .. himself the burden of makintr an
DeFord are wilfullv misrenre- ^ aa
.. . • 1 exposition of the governor's char-
senting the matter. Not an in- .. t , „ ® scnai
f I, i acter, and therefore it is difficult
stance can be shown where Flvnn t . .
• , , wmnt!riynn to understand how a failure to
has ever been ffuiltv of ti-pach i-. 1
p,unly in U' dcn- prove that Mr. Barnes is a h-ul
ery. Besides, if DeFoml had' kinesis a baa
been betrayed oi
Those Silver senators who
have just left for the Orient to
study the silver question should
make haste in the accomplish-
ment of their task. Japan has
already gone to the gold stand-
ard and if China should' take the
same step while they are theiv
it would be embarrassing to
them.
^ Itl & rr\ c:l 1 ee r~
Olclei 1
T.o m
DEACON & ULAM
We were not blown away by the
CYCLONE,
And
old
we are still doing business at the
place. In Fletcher's building
handIer- " " - Oklahoma
'made
prove
, man can injure Mr. Flynn. But!
, , , , / cat 8 ! eve# if it were possible that the
paw would he not be the first n„ti, . i,, , .
one to kick? authoi lties at \\ ashmgton should
• 1 become prejudiced
Every farmer in
Oklahoma Should Subscribe
for th>e
Those people who are accusing
Senator Gorman of straddling
again on the silver question
should again read the platform I
which his convention ifdoptefi,
and they will see that he and his
party are not straddling and
have merely taken their position
upon the republican platform of
last year which declared for in-
ternational bimetalism, and
which the Maryland democratic
platform now so cordially com-
mends.
against Mr.
Flynn, there would be no politi-
cal! death in that. His standing
in Oklahoma is independent of
j any outside influence. His pop-
ularity with the settlers and bus-
iness men of .the territory has
boon won by his own honest,
able,* energetic, faithful work fox-
Oklahoma interests, and it will
be hard indeed to rob him of the
high esteem of his fellow-citi-
zens. tIt will take more than the
speculations of newspaper cor-
i • spendents to shake the people's
faith in Dennis Flynn.
Oklahoma Farmer,
The Recognized Agricultural Journal of the Temiopv
Devoted exclusively to the interests of the farmers ofOFh'
homa, and containing from week to week mh;,.i *
liens of experienced and prLttealfarm«'sa?' lf tl,-e
growers, dairymen, poultry, and other bnnrJ^S11'!
£% T, *SSST "
addressing the publishers. No farmer^can afford tfT0 or 'j.V
out it. Price, year. PERRY&VVKrV'f ""
Oklahoma City, Okla. n u
Publishers.
The Neois and the Farmer Both tor $1.
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1897, newspaper, August 13, 1897; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115348/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.