Pauls Valley Democrat. (Pauls Valley, Indian Terr.), Vol. 3, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1906 Page: 4 of 12
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Pauls Valley Democrat.
StUW & PARIIAM, Proprietor*.
PAULS VALLEY, • IND. TKly
NEW STATE NEWS.
A Kingfisher man dug four sweet
potatoes from u hill and their com-
bined weight was eighteen pounds.
C. S. Jones, a Texas boy now living
near Foss, is the champion col ton pick-
er In that vicinity. He picked 620
pounds of cotton in one day on the
farm of John P. Aden.
Ben Rogers, a Creek Indian, of Ca-
toosa, has sued to recover land al-
lotted to his dead child. He charged
that his wife filed on the land with-
out his knowledge and then sold the
land. She has left him, and, he claims,
has sold the land.
Natural gns will be piped ten miles
Into Okmulgee. Applications for the
privilege to lay the pipe has been ap-
proved by the secretary of the Inter-
ior.
J. W. Jeag'sr, of Rich Hill, Mo., has
been granted !he contract for the con-
struction of a system of waterworks
in Hobart, the contract price being
*23,370.
Hank Examiner H. H. Smock has
luthorized the First Hank of Chatta-
nooga, Comanche county, to begin bus-
iness with $10,000 capital stock. The
officers nre: G. E. Parkhlll, presi-
dent; R. M. Carr, vice president; and
J. R. Tearpe, cashier.
The school teacher at Hambright,
upon the opening day, found but four
scholars to greet him. He learned
that all the children were out picking
cotton, so he decided to suspend school
until a more convenient season.
L. W. Haxter, territorial auditor,
paid to the state of Kansas the sum
af $14.608.SO for the maintenance of
>klahoma convicts in the Kansas pen-
itentiary at Lansing, during the past
quarter.
Ed jerry Fleetwood, of Long, I. T., a
minor of Charles Fleetwood, has been
allowed an original pension of $8 per
month from September 25, 1864 and
$2 additional from July 25, 186G. for
each of two minor heirs. In all he
has been allowed almost $10,000 by
the government.
The department has authorized the
establishment of postoffices and the
appointment of postmasters as fol-
lows: Dee, Heaver county, Ida A. Mc-
Coy; Oshuskey, Reaver county, Maye
Oshuskev; Otex. Heaver county, Ret-
tie Hatterson; Shrock, Woodward
county, Ephraln Shrock.
Work has begun at Tulsa on a three
story brick building to cost $20,000,
which has been leased by the govern-
ment and will be used as federal head,
quarters until congress provides Tulsa
with « federal building.
The secretary of the Interior has
disapproved the application cf the
town of Mill Creek to sell bonds for
school purposes. The bonds were dis-
approved on the grounds that Mill
Creek is a town of less than 1.000
population, and that the bonds to be
issued exceeded the lege' amount
that could be issued by such a town,
taking the assessed valuation as a ba-
sis.
Oklahoma City was selected as the
place for holding the next annual
meeting of the Odd Fellows, the
Gr «td Lodge, Grand Encampment,
Patriarchs Militant and Kebekah As-
sembly.
Farmers' Co-Operative Union
===== Of America
vhi don't care much If thft me-
diant dries charge "you a good st ff
price lor prints and caltc >en and
shirts ; nd sugar and salt, provl led
you got a good fair price for your own
products, do you? That's the i 'ea.
Go. i gether and stand b> the fair
minimum price.
It takes a heap of feed to make up
for the cold weather that unprotec;-
ed horses and cattle have to bear in
the fields and lots of the mean man.
Don't wait till you are told again that
boards nre a heap cheaper than hav,
and the comfort the} >ield is an im-
portant item.
Take a hike around the place right
now and see how many more fruit
tr*-es you need than you have already
ordered. Don't be a foal and try to
pet some of ihoso new sorts of
fruits that grow both pancakes and
molasses, but buy some of the old
standards that you can depend on for
a crop. Dewberries never fail in this
section and they will grow in any sort
of soil, from the black waxy to a sand
bank, and with half a chance they
will bear big crops, (let busy in the
fruit department.
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! Oklahoma Democratic State '
' Press Bureau
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The Printers' Union is winning out
In Its light against the strongest anti-
union organization ever eectcd in this
country; and it is all because print-
eis have trustworthy officials, and the
printers trust them, and the fight goes
on from day to day, much of t!>e time
showing no progress at all on the
surface. Keeping everlastingly at 't
with one method and one final object
Is the secret of the printers'* success
Is there a lesson in this for the farm-
er? There ought t i be—CO-OPERA-
TION. CONFIDENCE, PATIENCE
nr.d PERSISTENCE!
In the writer's family the fruit bill
is considerably larger than tho meat
bill, and there is no doctor's bill. That
looks like a good text for those who
have a spr.t on which they could plant
some trees or berries. With a family
of five, we have put up as many as
2.">0 half-gallon jars of peaches and
berries year after year, and then buy
apples nil winter besides. The fruit
oat< n is about evenly divided between
raw and cooked. Or course the doctor
needs business, but the man t'.ia! gives
the doct i the largest business is the
worst off.
A livelier interest should be takoi.
In the management and provision for
public schools than the I nions have
heietofore taken. There is great need
of reform in many districts; some are
entitled to better teachers, while a'l
are entitled to better attendance. It
is true that it takes a mighty s'ight
provocation to induce a holiday, but.
it is a deuced sight easier to make pu-
pil holidays than teacher holidays. Ev-
ery parent and guardian should have
a personal acquaintance with the per-
son who is to teach their chil Iren or
wards; and, sorry to have to say it.
some parents and guardians shc.i; 1
get on better terms of acquaintance
with their children and wards them-
selves. Here is where the law of
co-opeiation comes in good and strong.
The years of time and the hundreds
of dollars spent in school effort should
generally show better results, and it
is dead easy to get better results. A
co-operation between teacher, pupil
an 1 parent will do the work.
Still the warehouses grow at-'
grow.
It Is a trilling man who worries
over trifles, but there are a lot )f
us who never see the greater things ol
this life until they have gone by.
lit all the walks of life there are
frauds and hypocrites, and if som<:
happen to get into the Union, and at
times get into prominent places, it is
only a natural occurrence. This fact
is not to be hell up against the Union
It Is a thing to be remedied by cant-
inst out the unworthy. Kill the nox-
ious wi-eds in this field just tlie same
as yo i do in your cotton patch.
Now Is the time in the year to got
busy enlarging the Union in your
neighborhood. The evenings are get-
ting long enough now to revive th::t
debating club. There is nothing like
a debating club to make fellows dig
after facts in the case. Get a good
debating club started and make these
long winter evenings a regular school
time for all tile young men of the c. m-
munitv.
The Farmers' Union doesn't shift
and vary its position to suit the plans
and schemes of speculators, 't does
not declare for eleven cents minimum
at one time only to threaten to demor-
alize (lie market by retreating t(^ ten
cents shortly thereafter, and then a
little later make another somersault
in the air and declare for fifteen cents,
it believes thai the farmer is entitle!
to at least eleven cents for his cot-
ton. Isn't that light.—Megcury Pass-
word.
The chump that is selling coiton n j
the streets at any old price somebody I
offers him deserves about what is com-
ing to him. ami if were the only suf-
ferer, all would be well. Ho isn't the
only sufferer, for his demoralisation
f the market hurts everybody. There
is hardly an act that he can perform
that has not some bearing o:i some-
body else. Good missionary work can
be (1 ne by every Union man along
I this line, and his preaching will be i
whole lot more effective if I e will fol
lov. it up with a perfect practice. 'Sti<
Union man has set the price at eleven
cents, and the man who fails to stanl
to it is not a Union man. liL'ILI1
WAREHOUSES!
Now, that the fall is fully upon u
we again ask if the tools, Implements
and vehicles of the place are all under
a protecting shed. A ten-dollar shed
will make a seventy-flve-d liar wagon ,
last three times as Ion.? as it would if j
left out of doors. There is hardy a
farmer in all the South that coal !
fairly wear out a good wagon from
usual use on the farm, but the fact !
that many farmers have to buy new
wagons every three or four years
shows that they go somewhere, and j
that somewhere Is to the tooth o!
the destroying elements. It is r.ti
honest fact that no man has a right
lo let valuable tools and vehicles
stand out in the weather till they are
ruined.
By Paul Nesbltt and Robert L. Owen.:
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REPUBLICANS NOT UNITED
to
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With the republicans split up into,
factions quarreling with each othei,
with the party disagreed upon what
measures to place in the constitu-
tion; some being for one thing and
others for another; some taking
planks from the democratic plat-
forms in order to catch cotes, the
people have but one place to go to
Insure the carrying out of a policy,
and that is to the democratic party
that is united on every measure advo-
cated for the constitution.
The leaders of the republican par-
ty have been controlling the federal
ptvtronage for years and there has
been so much fighting among them
for the control of this patronage that
naturally there is the bitterest riv-
alry for the control of the new state.
So great has this contest become that
It has resolved itself into a fight forj
party control, and principles are
thrown to the wind. The rank and
file of the republicans are honest
men the same kind of men that are
found in the rank and file of the
democratic party, it is this class that
is disgusted with conditions in the re-
publican party at this time.
These men do not want the party
to fall into the hands of the corpora-
tions and special privilege class, and
do not want Henry Asp to write the
constitution any more than do the
democrats, for they too are tired of
paying $7 and $! per ton for coal that
should be bought for $2.50 and $3 per
ton, and they are tired of having to
pay 16 etsnts more per hundred for
freight on wheat to the Southern port
than the Kansas farmers.
For these reasons and the further
reason that they want the initiative
and referendum as a guarantee that
the corporations will not be able to
control the legislatures in the future,;
they are going to vote with the party
that is pledged to these measures, and
is not controlled by men who have
been quarreling over the spoils of of-1
fice for the last sixteen years.
In Tulsa the republicans have nomi-
nated the attorney of the Standard Oil
trust, and in the Coweta district the
republicans have nominated a negro,
as they have also nominated one in
Muskogee. This is another reason
why the republicans of the rank and ,
file will not vote the republican ticket.
With Asp to represent the railroads,
Gregg of Tulsa to represent the Stan-
dard Oil and prevent measunV; to
drive that corporation out of t'ue state
being put in the constitution, and
with the negroes to insist on equality
of the races, the honest member of
the republican party looks in vain for
some reason to vote the ticket, and al-
though generally lie does not believe
in the principles of the democratic
party, he sees that the democratic
party can be trusted to write the con-
stitution for the people and that is
more than can be said in behalf of the
republican party.
The protective tariff first cut off
foreign competition, and then its ben
eficiaries organized the trusts and cut
off home competition, so that now ev-
ery article of commerce is taxed from
twenty to one hundred per cent above
a fair profit. This is true with lum-
ber. with coal, with salt, with dressed
beef, with pork, with meat products,
with all ffult products, with Quaker
oats, and other food products. It is
true with regard to all hardware, from
a pocket knife to a steam engine, and
from steel rails to a carpet tack. It
covers furniture, from the cradle that
receives a live baby to the coffin that
buries a dead one.
UNION LABOR AND DEMOCRACY.
"Where will the union labor vote
go in the election for delegates to
the constitutional convention," has
been asked many times during this
campaign. No doubt it will be divid-
ed. All men cannot see alike even,
when they are of the same order and
working for the same end. But be
that as it may, the party that should
be supported by the labor union is the
democratic party.
If the members of the unions will
take the trouble to look up the rec-
ords of the legislatures of Oklahoma,
they will find that the republican par-
ty has been against the things want-
ed by the union, and that by a straight
party vote the republicans defeated
the eight-hour law, and the bill to
compel the union label to be put on
i all the territoriay printing. Roth these
bills were introduced by democrats,
and by a party vote were supported
by democrats.
The same can be said of the fellow
servant bill introduced at the last leg-
islature. All the republicans except
one or two voted against the bill, and
all the democrats but one voted for it.
If any other proof is wanted, let the
labor union look at the record of the
last congress where the fellow ser-
vant amendment was defeated by the
republican senators, the democrats
voting for it. An employers' liability
law was passed which was oprosed by
union labor, and which is the same
thing that Henry Asp endorses in his
platform.
The democrats at South McAlester
nominated Peter Hanratv for delegate
to the constitutional convention who
is at the head of the unions of the
new state, and who will be supported
by the union labor vote of that dis-
trict. The party that is in a position
to do more for union labor in the new
state is the democratic party. It is
pledged to those things for which the
unions are demanding as just and
equitable to labor, and by aiding the
party with their votes tlie members
of the unions will be in a position to
do themselves and the cause of union-
ism great good. There is no doubt
about the new state being democratic.
The republicans will not deny that.
If there is logic in any proposi-
tion. then it is the logical thing for
the unions to allign themselves with
the democratic party and as members
of the party in power or to be in
power, help to make the laws that will
be for their benefit. Vote the demo-
crat ticket and elect democrats to the
constitutional convention. Have your
delegates there to see that the rights
of the laboring men are protected in
the oranlc laws. See that democrats
are sent to the constitutional conven-
tion to place the initiative and refer-
endum in the constitution so that the
laboring men will have the right to
petition for laws and have them pass-
ed on by the legislature or in case
they do not get their rights there, have
the bills voted on at the ballot box.
This is the greatest opportunity or-
ganized labor has bad for many years
to see that their interests are protect-
ed. and they should not fail to take
such a part in the election of demo-
cratic candidates that they will be
able to ray the delegates elected are
our delegates, and must look out for
our interests.
A country paper in Utah advertises
a pure bred Jersey calf, of the "mas-
culine gender." There are some efforts
at modesty that attract more attention
than to call things by their common
names.
The Republican party cannot con-
trol the trusts through its pariotic ele-
ments, because the trusts control that
party lirough is unpariotic element.
The trusts have bought the purchasa-
ble part of the Republican party by
campaign contributions, and by elect-
ing to office men who have sold them-
selves to these interests.
The greatest enemy of protection is
detection.
The most ipjurious trust, fixing the
prices of farm products, is the meat
trust. It absolutely fixes the prices
of cattle, hogs, and sheep. A man
who sends bis stock to Kansas City
lias but one buyer, a secret committee
meeting behind closed doors, whose
clerks in the yards merely pretend to
compete with each other. The profits
stolen from the producers are divided
by the conspirators. To destroy com-
petition should be made a felony, just
like larceny. There is no real differ-
ence between the two.
Protection protects organized greed
alone, and does not protect a free la-
bor market.
Arapahoe is now jlrv, the only re-
maining saloon in the town having
gone into bankruptcy. This is a sane
solution of the liquor question.
REPUBLICAN LEADER IN BAD.
Oklahoma City Lose* Headquarters.
WASHINGTON: The president has
decided to rearrange the military divi-
sion. making Chicago the headquar-
ters of the Northern division, under
wanniand of Major General Greeley,
and St. I-ouis headquarters ttf the
Southwestern division, under com-
mand of Brigadier Ueuerai Funs ton.
Oklahoma City thus lose* its army
divteloa
Besrrs Reeeeeekle.
"lis dreadfn! «ne*r eeiii the
tjousewlf*. "tkat tb4 a*tate*s yea
bring me skouU e ea aaiMh «#•
at the af tt e eaek rk a they are
a* lit* :
"Nat at all, m*m," eat* tfe* keseet
termar; It's this a-way P*ta
ti srewt*' «• joM a** Uet
by the tlaM 1 <Ug a eaofcfai the kael
sues due te over sa maud
■tit fwrt e«*e "—Barber a
MERCURY MUSINGS.
The men who operate large farms
and depend on hired help to do the
work are now finding It hard to get
men who will stand for the long hours
and low wages that farm hands must
receive to make such farming pay.
Now, of all times, the officers of
Local and County Unions should be
active and alert. Everything depends
an vigorous action by Union men now.
Dur eo«*iies are exerting themselves
o the utmost to dishearten and dis-
concert ns.
Do you assent to the doctrine that
the producers is entitled to the full
value of what he produces? If you do
not. then the Farmers' Union doesn't
need you.
It seems probable that the Co-open
tive Congress called to meet at To
peka. October Ig. will be well attend-
ed. and that men will he present from
almost every Stat* in th* Weat, the
i North aud the Heath
FARMERS UNION AT STATE FAIR
OF TEXAS,
President E. A. Calvin will be mas-
ter of ceremonies.
A number of distinguished speakers
have been invited to make addresses
on this occasion, as follows:
Thos. M. Campbell, of Palestine.—
"The needs of the State Board of Agri-
culture."
N. A. 3haw of Texsrkana.—"Tfce
Growth of the Cotton Industry."
Ureeu U. Patterson of Oklahon ~
"The Necessity of Organization *•* J
Co-Operaticn."
N. C. Murray, Ex-President Farrnete'
Un-o*—"The Progress of the Ka-r*
era' Union."
An immense crowd Is expected. IW
on hand. The famous aiager, Madame
3embri«&. will also glre a selected
ooncei; i* the Auditorium, and orchr*
tras juj iteuds will discourse popular
airs.
The Guthrie Register says the notui.
nation of Henry Asp by the republi-
cans has cost the party ten delegates
to the constitutional convention, and
destroyed all hopes the party had of
placing the state in the republican col-
umn. The Guthrie Register is a re-
publican paper, and is as well ac-
quainted with Asp as any man in the
state. While It is true the nomination
of Asp has had a bad effect on the par
tv, at the same time It is not lv any
, means the only thing that is contribut-
ing to the defeat of the republican par-
ty in Oklahoma.
I The fact that there are other candi-
dates of the same stripe proves the
contention of the democrats that the
republican party of Oklahoma is the
party of corporations that are looking
for special privileges. In Tills* the
republican candidate la the attorney
; for the Standard Oil and of the Frisco
j railway He w i nominated by the
men who ar* connected with these twp
powerful corporations It wm the in-
fluence of these corporations that had
j the desired effect and nominated
C.regg to represent their interests
la the Osage Nation another repre-
MftfcUv* of the (*udard Oil comesay
is the republican nominee, and as in
the other districts where these corpo-
rations have succeeded in getting their
men nominated, the honest republi-
cans are refusing to support them.
What is there to prompt a republican
to vote the ticket when the party they
would support lias as its nominee men
who are owned and controlled by the
corporations that are trying to se-
cure privileges by which they can in
the future hold up the people as they
have been doing for years under the
territorial form of government.
The men who are looking for a par-
ty that will wrile a constitution for
tlie t eople. one that will protect the
lights of the people in the future and
for nil time against the corporations
thai are looking forv special privi-
leges. will turn to th«- democratic par-
ty—the party that is a unit on the
measures that are for the tnterests of
the people. The democratic party is
the party of the people, and the peogle
will through thnt party write the con-
stitution for the new state.
Why should the Repnhlieaii party be
expected to eoutrol its trust allies,
when it relies upon iis trust allies
millions of dollars in campaign conlri-
butloas Shall It kill the snuke tftat
lays ihe golden eng7
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