The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, August 2, 1895 Page: 4 of 8
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The People's Voice.
ALLAN & RIXSE, Publishers.
BOMCBIPTION II .1X1 PER YKAR.
PUBLISH CD KVKKY KK1DAY.
Kntered in the pnatofflcu Ht Norman.
O. T. an second class matter (o>- train-
mission through all mails.
Norman, Friday, August -•
J. s ALLAN, Editor.
TIMK TAHIiE—A. T. A 8. K.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 40(1 ... .4:31 A. M.
No. 40* ..V17 I*. M.
No. 430 local, 700 A. M.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. io7 r.is P. m.
No. 405 12:2.% A. M.
N« . 42.1 local 5:15 P. M.
TRAIN SERVICE.
No. 40«, carries through chair cwiaml Pull-
until Sleepers arriving In Kansas City 5:15 p.M.,
Chicago 1° 00 A. M.
No. 4()H arrives at Wichita 10-..I0 p. in., Kama*
City 0:50 a. i. nukes clo>c connection* Nt
Wichita with frisco It. K. for St Louis ami
Point* Kast.
No. 405 and 407 make* clone connection at
Purcell for all Texas Points.
It. .1. Mono AH, Agent.
Of late the Editorial columns of
the Guthrie Leader have contained
very little else: but high sounding
terms of commendation of the Pop-
ulist commissioners of that county
for official conduct and unlimited
abuse of the Populist central com
mittee of thaf county. What does
all this mean ? Who ever heard of
an old party paper praising officials
while they were faithfully discharg-
ing their duties as Populists ? We
have known instances where Populists
that have proved recreant to the
trust imposed in them,have received
unstinted praise from the opposition
press, Ben Clover of Kansasor Can-
on of California for instance, but it
was after their party had repudiated
them and they had loaned themsel-
ves and what little influence they
might have possessed to break down
the reform party. As long as the
old party papers give a populist otli-
icial hades, we have unshaken con
fidence in him; but when they com-
mence slobbering over him with all
kinds of praise we become fearful
of the official conduct of that Pop-
ulist. They have no use for Popu-
lists unless they can use them. A
Populist has but to play traitor to
his party to secure indorsement at
the hands of the opposition parties.
The meanest Populist in our ranks,
can bv renouncing his party, secure
a full column article in any old par-
ty paper assigning him virtues he
never possessed and commendations
he never deserved.
We are personally acquainted with
both the Populist commissioners of
Logan county an have held them in
high esteem; but the praises the
Guthrie Leader is pouring on their
devoted heads makes us feel shaky.
We don't like to see it. It is not the
proper place and where it never has
appeared unless prompted by sin-
ister motives. The designation of the
Leader as the official paper of that
county by the commissioners is
doubtless, the moving cause of its
late out burst of praises for the Pop-
ulists commissioners. The central
committee of the Populist party of
that county don't seem to fare so
well in the Editoral comments of the
Leader. That great paper seems to
regard them as the dregs of creation
while the commissioners are the pure
cream.
We hear some people saying that
if the United States was to open its
mints to the free coinage of silver
that all the cheap silver bullion of
the world would be dumped on our
shores. It is truly astounding to see
the shallow patedness of some peo-
ple in the dawn of the twentieth
century. If they would only
stop to think for a minute they would
see the absurdity of such an asser-
tion. There is no one that would de-
ny for an instant that if the mints of
of the United States were thrown
open to silver that silver bullion
would immediately rise in value the
world over just as wheat in Chicago
rises when a Cable dispatch is re-
ceived from Liverpool stating an ad-
vance. As soon as a Cable dispatch
reached London announcing the
advance in the price of silver in the
United States the silver bullion in
England would immediately advance
in price just as wheat advances in
THE
PRESR
CLERK
Ho* to keep hia witaabout Him,
remember a thousand and one
thing*; iiiunl be error-proof,
careful and painstaking. If he
does not possess all these vir-
tues and numerous other*. He
ha s missed hia avocation. And
tliit* is ha 1t should be, aa he of-
timed balance*.
in hio Hand*. We employ no
incompetent, carelesss clerks;
but attend to the Prescription
Department ourselves, thus in-
suring accuracy. Then aa we
use the only the highest grade
of Drugs, we feel justifiable in
soliciting your patronnge. We
make only a reasonable charge.
DO NOT PAY
COMMISSIONS
And Have no Fancy Fricei.
J. WEEKs,
itie leobing Dnmgist.
If you get your Prescriptions filled
at WEEKS' They're filled right.
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Chicago on a like dispatch from
Liverpool. If the mints of the Un-
ited States were thrown open to sil-
ver and silver restored to its former
place in our currency silver bullion
in this country would advance in
price to about $1.29 per oz. and
silver bullion in Europe would be
worth $1.29 per oz. less the trans-
portation charges to this country.
As the United States is the great sil-
ver producing country of the world
would it not reap the greatest bene
fit from the rise in the price of sil-
ver? Certainly.
BASE BALL
TO-MORROW,
AT 3 O'CLOCK.
YUKON,
VS.
NORMAN!
BULWARKS OF PLUTOCRACY.
Prediction Made m Hundred Year* Ago
ll ve Itoru Fulfilled.
A correspondent >f The Cotton Plant,
writingnf the constitutional oouveution
of May, 1787, says:
There were •ceral men in the conven-
tion that had 110idea of a representative
government by representative democ-
racies of sovereign states. They were
born and reared under a monarchy, anil
their only conception of a government
wan one having u monarchical form.
Hamilton, Adams and some others wish-
ed to establish a centralized government,
modeled on the British system, while
the Republicans stood for the represent-
ative Democracy of sovereign states.
In the end a constitution was framed
that was supposed to seenro the sover-
eignty of the states, as was shown by
article 10, which reads, "The powers
not delegated to the United States by
the constitution, nor prohibited by it to
the stares, are reserved by the states re-
spectively or to the people."
The constitution, as finally submitted
to the states for ratification, was ve-
hemently opposed by many of the most
patriotic citizens of the various states on
the ground that it contained the ele-
ments of centralization in some of its
articles or sections. It wns defended by
Washington and Hamilton, both central•
izationisis, on the ground that there was
no centralization in it. Every one of the
Federalists denied its leaning toward
centralization.
Jefferson denounced itVm account of
its establishing a federal judiciary with
co-ordinate powers with the legislative
and executive branches of the govern-
ment nnd said it would prove to be the
miners and sappers of the liberties of
the people. Aaron Burr, though uot a
member of the convention, opposed it
because it established the senate, which
he thought would finally prove itself
the enemy of repnhliciui freedom.
Both were right. The greatest menace
now to the liberties of the people is to
be found today in those two co-ordinate
branches of our government.
The centralists of that day left de-
scendants, and they are today to be
found in the leaders of both the old par-
ties. Their intention is to establish a
centralized plutocracy—to obliterate
state lines and have a grand central gov-
ernment at Washington, -which will be
controlled by the plutocracy of Lombard
and Wall streets ill the interest of the
money power of the commercial world,
and they expect to accomplish this by
the aid of the federal courts, through
their interpretations of the constitution,
which always has been and always will
be in harmony with the wishes of the
plutocracy of Wall and Lombard streets,
and also with the aid of the United
States senate, which, as now constitut-
ed, is simply the bulwark of the plutoc-
racy, as the federal courts are its sheet
anchor.
AND WITNESS
THE - GAME.
What the Money Tower In.
Money has 110 patriotism. It has no
moral principles. If the life of the gov-
ernment were iu danger tomorrow tin it
was in 1861-5, the money power would
hold it up by the throat. In fact, it is
now strangling the government. It
■miles on you when you recognize its
power, but will crush yon if you antag-
onize it, just as it induced Pontius Pilate
and the officials of that government to
kill Jesus Christ and scatter his follow-
ers. It is now only partially aroused. If
the danger to it continues to rise in this
couutry, it will exhibit all its strength,
and it will be terrible. It will seize the
government. Official despotism will fol-
low. Men whose characters lwive been
molded and made by conditions leading
up to the present situation when elected
to office become servants of this power.
Their salaiias are not reduced. If
changed at all, tho salaries are raised.
The purchasing power of their dollars is
increased by the system they defend.
Their self interest goes with the money
power, and they court its favors and
look for a soft spot, financially, on
which to land at the end of their term
of office. They seemingly become heart-
less concerning the common masses, the
plain people; hence official despotism.
These are the conditions that come with
the breaking down of a government as
a natural result of the money power ab-
sorbing the wealth of the people. I do
not mean any man individually or any
number of men collectively when I speak
of the money power. It is a thing im-
personal. It is a grasping, perverse na-
ture cultivated in man that seizes upon
the use of money to accomplish its evil
purpose. It is most dangerous because it
gives strength and prominence to those
who advocate its cause and has the ap-
pearance of being a just and reasonable
right under the laws of man for the dis-
posal of property.
It is not so easy for men to see that
its tendency is evil and its victims mil-
lions when their eyes are blinded by the
dazzling blaze of possibilities of wealth
for themselves. The right to accumulate
unnecessary property and to produce dis-
tress among the people is not a divine
right and should not be guaranteed by
human laws.—W. H. Harvey ("Coin")
in North American Review.
Kentucky Populists.
The Kentucky Populist state conven-
tion at Louisville adopted a platform
reaffirming the Omaha platform and
making the following demand: Free and
unlimited coinage of silver 011 a 10 to 1
ratio without asking the assistance of
Great Britain; that national banks be
abolished and the government issue legal
tender notes for silver; that it l>e unlaw-
ful for congress to stipulate any one kind
of money in payment of debts ; that the
constitution l>e so amended as to provide
for an income tax. The recent bond con-
tract is characterized as an infamy.
The following ticket was nominated:
Governor, T. S. Pettit, Owensboro;
lieutenant governor, .T. C. Blair, Nicho-
las; treasurer, R. Gardner, Hardin; au-
ditor, ('. H. Deane; secretary of state,
Benjamin C. Keys; superintendent of
public instruction, H. H. Farmer; com-
missioner of agriculture, \V. T. Scott;
United States senator, C. S. Bate.
Be American*!.
The final outcome of tho struggle for
honest money will demand an honest
volume of money, without which an hon-
est relation between debtor and creditor
cannot be maintained. And an honest
volume of money is an increasing vol
ume, because population and industries
are increasing and each dollar has more
power than it should have unless the
ratio be maintained.
The ideal end of the battle will be na-
tional paper money and both gold and
silver demonetized.
Let Americans be Americans. If they
have earned their independence, let
them use it. If they ask England's con
sent to make money, they have surren-
dered everything to England.
Let all Europe and all Asia and the
Indias "dump" their silver here at "50
cents" if they choose to. They must take
our products for it. And if they take
our gold we can buy it back much
more easily with free coinage of silver
than we can hold what we have without
it. But, as a matter of course, the very
moment we declare independently for
the restoration of silver, all the world
will hold it tight and follow our exam-
ple. The natural effect would be to
raise the world's market up to the point
of legal tender.—A. J. Chittenden in
Chicago Express.
Just m Reminder.
Deprive the old parties of the power
to aid corporations, and the Populists
would win the uext presidential race iu
a canter. The politicians nre beginning
to trim their sails to catch the free sil-
ver breeze. We wish to remind our free
silver brethren that silver was demone-
tized by scheming politicians, and the
sooner this gentry are asked to take a
backseat the better it will be for the
cause of uot only silver, but every other
meritorious measure which is at this
time attracting public attention.—In-
dustrial Herald.
AN INSTRUCTIVE CONTRAST.
Jut Tali. Not. of th« KrapMllt. Support-
rri of UoldUm and HiinrUllUat.
The Atlanta Constitution prints the
j following editorial, showing that the
! single gold standard is backed by the j
classes which reap wealth from the toil j
j of the people, while the opposition to j
| the single standard depends for its j
j strength upon the plain and industrious
people. The Constitution should have
also stated that the goldbngs contrast
the machinery of both the old jiarties,
j and that there is not sufficient honesty
j and courage iu those jiarties to furuish
leadership for a silver party. Conse-
quently the true friends of the people's
j mouey must rally to the support of the
: People's Party. However, here is The
Coustitutiou's article:
The difference between the cause of
American bimetallism and that of tho
British gold standard is clearly illus-
trated by the methods which are em-
ployed in presenting them before tho
couutry. The cause of American bimet-
allism in entirely in the bauds of the
people. It has behind it no purchased
or purchasable newspapers. It has be-
hind it no combination of bankers, no
mouey clique, no gold ring, no horde of
Shylocks and money lenders. In every
state, district and county it has been
taken up by the people. In every case
where the politicians display doubt or
hesitation the cause of American bimet-
allism has been taken out of their hands
by the plain and honest voters of the
country.
TKus'we see tho movement taking
shape iu tho west and in the south, hav-
ing behind it the patriotic purpose of
the people.
On the other hand, the movement in
behalf of the British gold standard has
behind it every selfish interest that de
pel ids on the contraction of the people's
money supply and the enhancement of
tho purchasing power of the dollar. It
has behind it all the wealth and power
of tho British banks; all the wealth and
power of the banks of this couutry; all
the political influence that money can
buy; all tho machinery of the adminis-
tration ; all the office holding class that
can be whipped into line; all tho news-
papers that can be influenced with mon-
ey or patrouage, aud all the business-
men who are compelled to depend on the
banks for accommodation. It hits behind
it all the power of Wall street and all
tho secret influences that flow out from
that corrupt and reckless money ceuter
to all quarters of the republic, and it
has working in its behalf a central cam-
paign committee which holds its meet-
ings nmler the shadow of Wall street.
That under all these adverse influ-
ences the cause of American bimetal-
lism should display any vitality at all
would be surprising under ordinary cir-
cumstances, but the fact that it has de-
veloped u vitality that is more than ex-
traordinary shows that the people are
at last arousing themselves to tho neces-
sity of defending their dearest rights
and interests.
And that is true. The people in all
parts of the couutry are beginning t<;
agitate this great question with the
force and fervor that they threw into the
political campaigns that took place in
tho better days of the republic—the days
when the will of the people recorded at
tho ballot box was regarded as a thing
too sacred to bo tampered with.
And the people will win this time as
they have always won when engaged in
defending their rights and liberties.
They will overthrow the British gold
standard even as they overthrew the less
intolerable political conditions imposed
on them by the aggressive and selfish pol-
icy of Great Britain. They will win,
and woe to the time serving politicians
who stand in their way or strive to
thwart them.
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6 CKRIES than any Firm in the City. We carry one offfc
4$f the Largest and best assorted Stocks and sell on a very4jt
& close margin. *
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Our motto is to give satisfaction to our Customers,
both in Price and Quality of Goods.
M. McGINLEY.
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For Your
School 13oolts
and
Stationery.
Everything in Jewelrg
AT REASONABLE PRICES.
Repairing a Specialty
See Us.
W, A, Rutledge & Co.
Only First-lass Jewelers in Norman
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B. E. KITTREDGE,
WEST SIDE DRUG STORE,
Pure Drugs a Specialty -
NORMAN, OK I. A.
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SlieriiTs Sale.
In tlie District Court of tin* Third .Judicial
District in and tor the County ot Cleve-
land, Territory of Oklahoma.
The Norman state Bank, a corporation,
Plaintiff.
vs.
Kiclutrd L. I'owers,
Defendant.
Notice 18 hereby given that I will offer for
sale nnd Mill to the highest and best bidder tor
cash in band ut the South front door of tin*
court house in Norman, Cleveland County,
Territory of Oklahoma, on tin* 2 Ith day of Au-
gust, I*95, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. in.
and4 o'clock p. in. of said day, the following
described real estate situated in said county to-
wit: Lots, No. eight (8J; nine(0); ten (10);
eleven (II) and Twelve (12) in Block, No. eighty
>ix (80) in T. H. Waggoner's first addition to
tin* village of Norman, Cleveland County,<)kln-
hoina Territory, Also Lots No.one (l); two (2);
three (:!); four (4); live [ft]; six [71; seven [7];
eight j s|; fifteen li" and sixteen [hi; in Block,
No. two 1*2J, in Colley's second addition to said
town of Norman. Also a piece of land begin-
ning at a point sixty feet North of the North-
west corner of Block, No. three |:t| of Colley's
second addition to the said town of Norman;
thence North three hundred feet; 1 hence Kum
four hundred and forty-eight feet: thence South
three hand red feet; thenc west four hundred
and forty-eight feet to the place of beginning.
Also a piece or parcel of land described as fol-
lows: Beginning at a point sixty feet, North
of the North west corner of Block, No. two of
Colley's second addition to said town of'Nor-
man; thence North three bundled feet; thence
East four hundred and forty-eight feet: thence
south three hundred feet; thence west four hun-
dred and forty-eight feet to the place of begin-
ning.
Said property was taken and will be sold as
the property ot the above named defendant,
Kichard I.. Powers, under and by virtue of an
order of sale issued out of the District Court of
said county in the above entitled action to me
directed and delivered on the 18th day of July,
1805 in favor of the above plaintiff for the sum
of $140:1.(15 with interest thereon at the rate of
7 per cent per annum from the *2lst day of No-
vember, 1804, and the costs in said cuso and
said property will be sold to satisfy said judg-
ment and costs.
Dated 22nd day of .Inly, 1805.
ll. F. New block.
Sheriff.
By .1. II. Mynikk.
52—4t. Deputy.
Get H r from the
Your 1L flntiueser-i
Pure I [
Lake \J L
One car load of the famous Udall
flour just received by Famous Grocery.
S. J. SMYTH,
Dealer in
ORGANS
AN" SEWING
MACHINES.
Office in Turner Building,East Main St.
Estray Notice,
Notice is hereby given that .1. <>. Mann, who
resides on the south-west ' , of section :fci, T.O,
It. I K. did on the Pith day of June, 1805, take
up the following described est rays: one bay
horse mule, about 15 years old, 15' ., hands nigh,
harness marks detective in both lore feet,
branded on left snoulder thus X. Also one
brown mare mule, 10 years old, 1 :Pu hands
high, harness marks, branded on light thigh
with the figure 4 with 5 across it. salt I est rays
are valued at #40.00. Witness my hand and
seal this 20th day of July, 1805.
r,2—lit. * D. B. Wynne, County Clerk.
But They Are There.
Over in Pennsylvania, the tail end of
the universe, in which monopoly and
pauperism, Republican majorities and
ignorance abound, the Popnlists are get-
ting active again, and many couuty con-
ventions have been called. 11 costs some-
thing to be a reformer in that state.—
Cleveland Citizen.
Estray Notice.
Notice Is hereby given that K. M. Lewis, re-
siding on the N. K. 1 , of section 15, T. 7, B. \V.
tlid on the 21st day of June, 1805, take up the
following described est my, one chestnut sor-
rel 1 mare pony about li hands high, :i white
feet, brant let I "sole" on left shoulder about 0
years old, saddle aud harness marks. Snides-
imy Is valued at $10.00. Witness my hand and
seal this 20th day of July, 1895.
52—' 1). B. Wynnk, County Clerk.
Notice to Contractors.
At the adjourned meeting of the county com-
missioners, of Cleveland county, on August,Oth
1805, bitls will be received for the construction
and erection of a tire proof vault. Plans and
spec ideations can be s< en at tho county clerk's
ofllce. For further information call on him.
The right is reserved to reject any and all bids.
Attest:
D. B. Wynne, L. P. Barker,
Comity Clerk. Chairman.
Association.
HEADQUARTERS, DALLAS, TEX,
BRANCH OFFICE:
Atoka, I. T., Ft. Smith, Ark., Parsons,
Kans., Denver. Col.
Look out for C on Left Jaw,
Have your horses branded and thus
secure their safety.
Responsible agents wanted in every section
of the Indian Territory. Apply to Protective
and Detective Association. Atoka, 1. T., lor
terms to agents.
W. 11. Coles, agent, Norman, Oklahoma.
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J. B. BARIANI,
Practical
PLUMBER
& Steamfittcr
I'umpand Windmill Department one door
south of Norman state Bunk,
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