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VOL. 4.
NORMAN. CLEVELAND COUNTY OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, Jl"NE2<>, |8Q< .
NO 48.
Tlie Party* Aban-
donment of American
Principles.
The Republican convention is of
the past. Marked by a general list-
less-ness and an utter want of enthu-
siasm, the St. Louis convention, as-
sembled, registered the will of the
bosses, and has gone Contests
over the political supremacy of this
boss and that, and the bickerings
over the phraseology of the finan-
cial plank of the platform were
fought out between the old bosses
and the new. The convention rati-
fied their conclusions ami carried
out without hitch or turmoil the cut
and dried program laid before them.
Yet the adoption of the platform,
with its financial plank pledging the
Republican party to the mainte-
nance of the appreciating gold stan-
dard, marked an epoch in the his-
tory of the party. Indeed, it marked
the disruption of the Republican
party as such. Only eight years
ago the Republican party, by its
representatives in national conven-
tion assembled, pledged itself to bi-
metallism, the Republican platform
of 1888 declaring that "The Repub-
lican party is in favor of the use of
both gold and silver, and condemns
the policy of the Democratic (Cleve-
land) administration in its efforts to
demonetize silver." But on this
and all similar declarations pledg-
ing the party to bimetallism, the
Republican party has turned its
back and at the behest of the mon-
ey cliques it has taken up the advo-
cacy of gold monometallism and
pledged itself to maintain the pres-
ent gold standard of value to the in-
finite injury of the producing class-
es. but to the great profit of the
money-lending and credit-lending
cliques.
The Republican party having thus
become subservient to the dictation
of foreign money cliques and their
American allies, can no longer re
ceive the support of conscientious
bimetallists. The bolt of the silver
Republicans from the convention,
though small in itself, presages the
defeat of the Republican party at
the polls, for the great numbers of
bimetallic Republicans who have
hitherto acted with that party, but
who are resolved to free our people
from a financial policy dictated in
the interests of the creditor classes,
and that, unperceived, is through
gradual steps of poverty, suffering,
degradation and despair, reducing
our producing classes to abject de-
pendence on the money cliques,
cannot support the candidate of the
Republican party.
The platform adopted by the Re-
publican convention can command
little respect. The arraignment
the Democratic administration is
drawn up with little regard to facts.
We are ostentatiously told that inca-
pacity in the administration of our
finances has led to a deficit in rev-
enue and the piling up of an indebt-
edness of $262,000,000 in time of
peace, forced an adverse balance of
trade and kept a perpetual menace
hanging over the redemption fund.
>Ve are left to understand that the
drain on our gold for export leading
to a constant menace to the gold re-
serve arose out of the prospective
and actual cutting down of tariff
duties and a resulting adverse bal-
ance of trade. As a matter of fact,
such adverse balance of trade has
not existed. During the fiscal year
1893—nine months of which was un-
der the wise and beneficent fiscal
administration of President Harri-
son—there was an adverse balance
of trade amounting to 118,737,728.
Since then the balance of trade has
been much in our favor, $237,145,-
950 for the fiscal year 1894, $75,568,-
200 for '95, and over $90,000,000 for
the first eleven months of the pres-
ent fiscal year.
The drain on our gold reserve
cannot, therefore, be attributed to
an adverse balance of trade result-
ing from the repeal of the McKinley
law, for such adverse balance did
not exist. It is true that an inbebt-
edness of $262,000,000 has been
piled tip by the present administra-
tion, but such increase of our in-
debtedness is the result of a fiscal
policy inaugurated by Mr. Harrison
and bis secretary, Mr. Foster, not
by Mr. Cleveland. In 1889, when
Mr. Harrison was inaugurated, the
gold reserve in the treasury stood
at neaily $190,000,000. When he
turned the administration over to
Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Carlisle found
but little more than the traditional
$100,000,000 of gold in the treasury
and available for redemptions. The
Republican party was only saved
from inaugurating the policy of re-
plenishing the gold reserve by bor-
rowing by the opportune ending of
the administration of Mr. Harrison,
which enabled Mr. Foster to shift
the responsibilities that confronted
him on to the shoulders of Mr. Car-
lisle. It was Mr. Foster, not Mr.
Carlisle, who sowed the seeds of fi-
nancial chaos. It was the policy
inaugurated by Mr. Foster of paying
treasury notes in gold, and discard-
ing the silver in the treasury as an
available asset, that made our cur-
rency system top heavy—left our
narrow gold reserve quite inadequate
to support the increased burdens
thrown upon it, and led to the drain
on our gold reserve. Mr. Carlisle
merely followed in the steps of Mr.
Foster. One step more, a few weeks
more in office and Mr. Foster would
have issued bonds. That it was his
intention to do so is proven by the
preparation of plates by his order
in anticipation of an early bond is-
sue. Yet now the Republican con-
vention condemns Mr. Carlisle for
following in the footsteps of Mr.
Harrison and Mr. Foster.
Declaring unreservedly for sound
money—which has come to mean
the dearest money and a 200-cent
dollar—the Republican convention
has earned the plaudits of the mon-
ey cliques; for it has declared its
policy to be to enrich the few at the
expense of the many. The refer-
ence to international bimetallism is
puerile. We are under tribute to
the creditor classes of Europe; we
are greatly their debtors. The fur-
ther gold appreciates, the more cot-
ton and wheat and other produce
will they get in payment of interest
and principal, and the heavier will
be our tribute. To free ourselves
from such tribute we must do noth-
ing—nothing save wait for the na-
tions enjoying such tribute and
profiting by our impoverishment to
voluntarily relinquish such tribute.
Such is the meaning of the declara-
tion of the Republican convention
that "we are opposed to the free
coinage of silver except by interna-
tional agreement with the leading
commercial nations of the world,
which we pledge ourselves to pro-
mote, and, until such agreement can
be obtained, the existing gold stan-
dard must be maintained."—Phila-
delphia American (Rep.)
McKinley'm Nomination.
The nomination of William Mc
Kinley of Ohio as the republican
candidate for the presidency is not a
matter of surprise. It has been evi-
dent for weeks that he had a major-
ity of the delegates, and that his
friends, as they have done, would
sweep down all opposition before
them on the first ballot. The can-
didacy of Reed and Morton and Al-
lison was only maintained in the
hope that some concessions might
be obtained in the way of patronage
or appointments at the hands of the
successful nominee.
As to the personal character of ex-
Governor McKinley, his qualifica-
tions for the high position for which
he has been named by his party, or
his past public career. It is not
necessary in this connection to speak.
It is what his nomination means,
what influences have brought it
about, what policy will control his
administration—should he unfortu-
nately be elected—what principles
of finance will rule his conduct of
public affairs, that now concern the
people and demands the most ser-
ious consideration at the hands of
American voters.
Fortunately none of these things
are ina'ters of doubt or uncertainty.
Mr. Mckinley's nomination lias been
brought about by the most perfect
piece of machine work ever done in
the political history of the countny.
At the head of this organization was
a man noted for his wealth, his ex-
ecutive skill and his undying oppo-
sition to organized labor. Himself
an autocrat and a monopolist, he
drew about him these interests, com-
pelled them to contribute the funds
needed and thus secured the success
of the candidate they had determin-
ed upon' The great trusts and mo-
nopolies and protected corporations
knew that in McKinley they had a
willing servant, and hence their de-
sire to make him the president of
the United States.
But there was another class which
was not quite satisfied—or at least
pretends not to be—with McKinley's
loyality and that was the money in-
terests, the bond buyers and bond
holders and brokers who deal in se-
curities and who are determined to
fasten the single gold standard on
the country in order that money may
be made scarce and their own hold-
ings correspondingly more valuable.
The represen'atives of the gold pow-
er dictated the financial plank of
the platform on which McKinley has
been placed, and thus secured a
pledge for their interests as well as
for the trusts and monopolies.
The nomination of McKinley and
the platform on which he stands has
been brought about by the represen-
tatives of protected wealth ?nd the
money power. His election would
mean that he would be subservient
to these interests. Standing upon a
gold platform, opposed to the resto-
ration of silver to the coinage. Mr.
McKinley comes fairly before the
country as the representative of sor-
did wealth, as the opponent of the
rights and interests of the great pro-
ducing classes, and as the exponent
of a policy that has already driven
hundreds of people from their homes
and turned them into the highways
as tramps.
We do not believe that a man
whose nomination has been forced
by these interests, and who if elected
would be controlled by such policies,
can be chosen president of the Unit-
ed States. His triumph in the con-
vention has been achieved by the
disruption of the party. His elec-
tion would be equivalent to a nation-
al disaster. It needs only wisdom
and discretion and unity on the part
of the opponents of the principles
and interests for which McKinley
stands to secure his defeat.— News,
Denver.
Tlie McKinley Deficit Ac*.
In view of the claim of Senator
Sherman and Governor McKinley
that the cause of the country's pres-
ent depression is the government rev-
enue deficit, it is interesting to note
that the McKinley act itself was the
prime occasion of the deficit. The
McKinley tariff was in force during
the fiscal years 1890-94 inclusive.
The depression and the deficit oc-
curred under the operations of the
McKinley act. The following re-
cord of the surplus and deficits from
1889 down shows the deficit making
tendencies of the McKinley act of
1890:
'888 $111,341,274 surplus
'889 87,701,081 surplus
189 0 85,040,272 surplus
189 1 26,858,542 surplus
'892 9,904,454 surplus
'*>93 2,341,674 surplus
•894 32,805,213 deficit
i&95 69,803,260 deficit
The McKinley bill was in force in
the fiscal years, 1890, '91, 92, ,93
and '94. Prior to the panic, and
even during the "boom" times, the
surplus dwindled down, under the
operations of the McKinley act,
from $85,000,000 in '90 to $9,000,-
000 in '92. In 1893 the surplus
dropped still further to $2,000,000,
and in '94, after the panic, but still
under the McKinley act, there was
a deficit of $32,000,000.
The tariff has exceedingly little to dates, Saturday, was as follows:
do, in fact, with the present condi- For sheriff—Downing, 496; Jar-
tions. The gold scrambling in Eu-, b°e, 172 Siler, 46; Dyer, 150; Run-
ropc. to make up gold hoards in 0
, v p For probate judge—\\ illiams, 840;
Russia and Austria-Hungary, started 1 Orifisby, 447.
the gold exports in 18889, before For county attorney—Brewer 584;
both the silver coinage act and tar-, Nicodemus, 681.
iff act of 1890 were laws, and four ^or co""1)' clerk Wynne, 755;
years before the Democratic victory
of 1892. These gold exports, caused
by the single gold standard and the
gold scramble, precipitated the pan-
ic, with the co operation of the
eastern money |power, and led to
the depression.
But if Messrs. Sherman and Mc-
Kinley wish to attribute the panic
and depression to a tariff deficit,
they are welcome to the application
of that theory, for it implicates their
own tariff creation. — Represent-
ee (Minneapolis.)
Since the late St. Louis conven-
tion we notice that the Republican
papers of this territory are beginning
to hedge on the silver question. The
Times Journal, heretofore outspoken
in favor of free silver, is now play-
ing cr«A .r;«h on the question.
To show yoa that the backbone of
its editor—if he ever had one, and
we believe he did—has become a
gelatinous column, we will quote you
what he has to say now:
"Undoubtedly tlie Republican convention,
from a political standpoint, acted wisely in
declaring fort lie gold bimia.
"Upon tile question of the benefits likely to
accrue from a gold or bimetallic currency ba-
sta, there U an lioiiest difference of opinion.
The extremists on each *hle are Inclined to
ocofl at the views oi their opponents, ami to
qacMtinon their honesty. Hut many who xtudy
the question closely and carefully, without
bias, are sorely puzzled over It, ami are unable
to decide what would lie best for the country.
"But the Intelligent and unbiased advocates
concede that Ih.i question i a close one, and
that nothing hut actual experiment will ever
fully demonstrate the soundness or fallacy of
the arguments now adduced by the advocates
of gold or silver."
How long, oh, how long must a
suffering people be expected to ex-
periment with a gold standard pol-
icy, in order to be able to form a ra-
tional conclusion as to its merits ?
Since 1873 they have been experi-
menting with this quack nostrum,
prepared and put up by the banking
syndicate of Rothschild and com-
pany, and it is a crime—nothing
short if premeditated murder, figur-
uratively speaking--to ask the toil-
ing millions of this country to "ex-
periment" with this nostrum any
longer. To assert that the return of
this country to a bimetallic standard,
the policy of this government from
its earliest history down to 1873,
would be a questionable experiment,
is boldness approaching reckless-
ness with a tendency to-
ward insanity or hypocrisy. Men
with convictions, the lusts and spoils
of office doth not corrupt, are the
crying need of the hour in this coun-
try today. The editor of the De-
troit Tribune, one of the leading
Republican papers of the East, fa-
vored bimetallism, and when the St.
Louis convention declared for gold,
like Senator Teller, he bolted the
Republican party. He had convic-
tions and he stood by them, and if
all the Republican newspaper editors
of this country would do likewise it
would be equivalent to serving no-
tice on eastern plutocrats that the
will of the people could not
be forever thwarted. One of the
favorite campaign songs of the Pro-
hibitionists was "The brewer's big
horses can't ride over me," but a
very becoming title to a new song
that should be sung by those men
with silver convictions who surren
der them at the behests of the gold-
bugs' would be, "The goldbug's big
horses can ride over me, if they
want to."
The total vote cast in the Demo-
cratic primaries last Saturday was
about 1,250. Four years ago there
were about 1,150 votes cast in the
primaries; but on election day that
year the vote cast for the Democrat-
ic candidates was about 700. Dem-
ocratic candidates always run well
in Democratic primary elections.
At least one-third of the vote cast
last Saturday was by other than I none have arisen to take their places.
Democratic residents of the county. The party being in existence for a
The vote cast for the various candi- single purpose has also gone and
Goode, 551.
For treasurer—Durkee, 534; Trim-
ble, 348; Davis, 383.
For register of deeds—Keller, 643;
Graham, 615.
For superintendent—Cralle, 756;
McDonald, 466.
For coroner — Owsley, 790;
Thacker, 383.
For surveyor—Jones, 1,153.
For commissioner, 1st district—
Boyer, 117; Daniels, 137. 2d dis-
trict— Blackwell, 205; Cobb, 269;
Mitchell, 124.
In the last general election the
highest vote cast for a Democratic
candidate was 990. D. B. Wynne
received 954. In last Saturday,s
primary Wynne received 755, or 199
votes less than he received at the
general election two years ago.
Goode, who was a candidate against
Wynne last Saturday, received 551
votes. From this you will discover
that about 350 votes were cast that
were not Democratic, or were cast
by Democratic non-residents, or by
new converts (!) to Democracy. An
analysis of the vote will show that
they were not cast by new converts.
In Norman 259 votes were cast in
the primary. A strict party vote in
the spring election revealed the fact
that not to exceed 135 Democratic
voters live in Norman.
This leaves in Norman 124 votes
cast by other than Democrats.
Goode received 115 votes in Nor-
man, or 20 less than the entire
Democratic strength. Wynne re-
ceived 144 votes. 144—20=124.
This would look as though Wynne
made a clear toboggan slide on the
124 votes cast by other than Demo-
crats living in Norman.
In Lexington, 236 votes were cast
in Saturday's primary. The Demo-
cratic candidate for congress two
years ago polled 111 votes in that
city. 236—111 = 125, the number
of votes cast in Lexington by other
than resident Democratic voters.
Goode received 93 votes. 111—93
= 18, the number he fell short of
carrying the total Democratic
strength. Wynne's vote was 143.
143—18=125, like another tobog-
gan slide in favor of Wynne. What
is true of the voting boxes in Nor-
man and Lexington is also true of
all the other voting boxes in the
county. In Norman and Lexington
the vote cast in the primary last
Saturday was 100 more than double
the entire Democratic votingstrength
of the two cities. This would indi-
cate that the actual Democratic
vote in the county is not to exceed
700. or a loss of over 100 votes
within the past two years.
There are Populists in this county
who favor a primary election to se-
lect candidates, and we hope they
will read this article carefully. A
primary, without law a governing
primaries, is one of the best devices
ever hatched to defeat the wish of
the people.
The defeated Democratic candi-
dates can sit down and reflect why
it was they were not called upon to
make the race this fall. Had only
Democratic voters participated in
the primary, the complexion of the
Democratic ticket might have been
quite different.
The Passing of the Republican
Party.
Ex-Senator Ingalls who is writing
up convention notes for the New
York Journal devotes a column to
prove that the end and mission of
the republican party is finished. He
says that the party was ushered into
existence to free the negro and save
the union and that being long since
accomplished that party will neces-
sarily quit business or adopt new is-
sues.
The old time leaders are gone and
has been succeeded by plutocrats
and protectionists who know only
the interests of a single class. 1'his
combination has now adopted gold
monometalism and continues to pose
under the old name and itihabit the
same charnel houses.
The republican party as the abol-
tionists and unionists is dead, no
more do the cties of the oppressed
receive a sympathetic ear in that
party. No longer do patriotic im-
pulses move their successors. The
party is gone, its heroes are buried,
its mission is ended, its traditions
are fast being forgotten save b they
student of archaeology. The repub-
lican party of yore taught the doc-
trine of ample currency to do the
business of the country, its succes-
sors holds that smaller the amount
of the circulating medium the more
prosperous the people. To the old
party requiescat in pace. To the
imposter be contumely and con-
tempt.
Culled to Meet in (jiutlnie, Au-
gust 4th and 5th, 1 MINI.
To the Populist Committeemen
and voteksof oklahoma.
By the authority of the Territorial
Central Committee, I hereby call a
convention of delegates from the sev-
eral counties of Oklahoma to meet in
tile McKennon Opera House in
j GUTHRIE, AUGUST 4th AND 5th.
I For the purpose of selecting a Terri-
torial Committee consisting of one (1)
' member from eaeh county in Oklaho-
' ma.
| For the purpose of nominating a
I i'opulist Candidate for Delegate to
! Congress, and for the organizing and
establishing of all necessary commit-
tees for the vigorous prosecution of a
congressional campaign.
The apportionment a* tixed by the
committee is one (1) delegate from
eaoh county and one (1) delegate for
every 75 votes and major fraction of 75
votes cast for Hon, Ralph Beaumont
for Congress at the general election of
1894.
it appearing that the congressional
vote of Washita County did not fairly
reflect the strength of the party in
that county as shown by the election
j of several county officers, 1 delegate is
added making live (5) delegates to bo
elected from Washita county, subject
to the action of Territory convention.
On this basis the representation will
stand as follow*:
NO. DELEGATES
12
14
3
3
15
15
12
14
20
10
20
o
8
17
8
18
15
5
20
3
Totals 10,774 251
In harmony with the above, the
Chairman of the County Central Coin*
i raittee of each and every county will
proceed to cause their respective coun-
ties to select the apportioned number
of delegates and an equal number of
alternates at such times and places a&
in their judgment seems beet suited to
their convenience, allowing for suffi-
cient time for such delegates so elected
to arrange for attending the Territor-
ial Convention.
It is further recommended that each
County Central Committee as newly
organized, or that the above mention-
ed County Conventions, do select a
member of the Territorial Central
Committee who shall embody a good
degree of activity political sagacity
and moral and social standing, which
name shall be reported to the Terri-
tory convention in the making up the
working committee for the next two
years.
Leo Vincent
John R. Furlong, Ter. CVrm'u,
Secretary.
Cuthrie, June 13, 1806.
COUNTY. VOTK *04
Beaver
73
Blaine
474
Canadian
832
Cleveland
951!
Day
27
D
168
G
llil
Garfield
1014
Grant
102.")
Greer
SIW
Kay
076
Kingfisher
144.!
Lincoln
1137
Logan
1400
Mills
17
Noble
•54S
Oklahoma
1204
Pawnee
.523
Payne
1237
Pottawatomie
litis
Washita
I
Woods
1415
Woodward
140
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