The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1901 Page: 1 of 14
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The Chandler New,
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FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY. H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
ELEVENTH YEAR
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, NOVEMBER 21, 1901
^ 4BER 9.
The Tide of Homeseekers Has Already Turned Toward Lincoln County
♦ BOYS' DORMITORY, SAC AND FOX SCHOOL.
This is the oldest of the buildings at the government school at Sac .and Fox
Agency, and for many years was the only building.
About Governor JenKins.
The Muskogee Convention.
I "HE Muskogee convention was
*■ certainly a disappointmnet—to
its enemies. They had predicted
that very little interest would be
shown in its proceedings and that it
would not be a representative gather-"
ing. On the contrary, no conven-
tion ever held in the two territories
has excited so much interest, and
the delegates in attendance exceeded
three hundred. Last year, when
the first single statehood convention
was held at South McAlester, there
were probably not over one hundred
delegates present, and more than
half of those had come' from Oklaho-
ma. This time the conditions were
changed, and the Indian territory
furnished about two-thirds of the
delegates who sat in the convention.
Almost every town in the territory
was represented, and, instead of
of being lukewarm on the subject, *the B. I. T.
"men were the most enthusiastic of all for immed- j
iate^single statehood. Fifteen counties in Okla- ]\wj
homa were represented. .Several other counties^ Oklahoma recently as the consideration of
elected delegates but owing to the great distance the charges against# Governor Jenkins and the
to be travefed, none of their delegates were pjes- rumors that he was to be removed and the discus-
ent. One of the best things about the convention sions as to whom the president might select as
was the fact that the delegates from each terri- successor. There has been a very strong
tory went away with a better understanding of feelipg among the people of the territory that
the conditions in regard to the other. The Governor Jenkins has been guilty of no intention-
speeches were sensible and to the point, and the wrong; that the territory has not suffered even
memorial adopted dealt in facts and figures. The through any act of indiscretion on his part; and
proceedings were harmonious and, ordeVly. . Mus- that even the transactions that have been called
kogee was hospitable, and while some of her citi-" 'n question may have been the result of a scheme
zens made themselves ridiculous in their opposi- on the Pai"t of some unscrupulous persons to en-
tion to the purpose of the convention^ the dele- trap the governor. It is hard ^o believe that Mr.
gates had no,complaint to make. The general Jenkins would have pursued the course ^he did
results of the convention are bound to be good, had he felt the slightest doubt that his course
though much more would doubtless have been was perfectly fair and honorable, for he did not
accomplised had it not been for a mistake in the at any time make any effort to conceal what he
selection of delegates to go to Washington, had done nor to get rid of any evidence as to con-
There was, apparently, a little desire on the part nection with the sanitarium contract. Conflicting
of a few men to make some politics in the con- reports come from Washington, and is difficult to
vention, and the chief manifestation of this de- saY what the outcome wih be. The public, of
sire was in an effort by the enemies of Flynn to courses is not fully informed as to the nature of
p|ace him in a false light before the single state- the charges or the character of the evidence sup-
hopd men and to embarrass him by the action of porting them, and so it is a little difficult to pass
the convention. Governor Barnes, with the aid judgment^ in the matter. .Governoi Jenkins is
of a few democratic friends, managed to get a now '"n Washington, and it .is hoped by his many
place on the delegation selected to goto Washing- iriends that he will be able to present a satisfac-
ton, and with him are Tom Doyle, of Perry, and tory explanation of all charges against him. In
Charley "Barrett, of Shawnee. The folly of put- the.meantime one cannot help feeling an interest
ting fiarnes on the delegation is at once apparent, as to who will succeed Jenkins if there is to be
while those who know the chief failing of Doyle a change made. It seems to be a general belief
will readily understand that he is not a proper that if Goveroor Jenkins is «*iemoved Horace
man to segd to Washington. Barrett, is unob- Speed, now United States attorney will be the
jectionable, so far as we are aware. The con- next governor. Speed would certainly be an ideal
vention should have realized that in order to se- executive. I hough he is now serving his second
cure assistance from the various courties in pay- term in a responsible federal office he has not
ing the expenses of the delegation it would be encountered the criticism nor the charges that
necessary to have a delegation in whom the peo- usually fail to the lot of an appointive official,
pie have confidence. It is not very likely that His clean record, his ability and experience, his
Lincoln county people will care to contribute, honesty and courage, all commend him highly.
Who are Flynn's Friends?
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WO or three papers which have
never in the past been very con-
spiciuous in their friendship for Del-
egate Flynn but which are willing to
assume any attitude for the sake of
creating prejudice against the single
statehood movement are just now
shedding a great many tears over
the alleged discovery that the
Barnes-Flynn factional fight has
been reopened by the action of the
Muskogee convention in putting the
ex-governor on the delegation to go
to Washington and lobby for single
statehood. These self-constituted
guardians of the interests of the Ok-
lahoma delegate charge that^ those
republicans who attended the Musko-
gee convention were merely helping
the democrats in an effort to misrep-
resent and injure Flynn. Ignoring
the past record of thes'e critics, ad-
mitting that their pretended regrets over the
action are genuine, and granting that the error is
as serious as they picture, the question still re-
mains as to whose the fault is. It "is the same
old problem as to who is to blame for defeat in
battle—the man who go^fc to the fight and does
his best and gets licked or the coward who stays
at home and finds fault and tells how it should
have been done. It involves, perhaps, the ques-
tion as to what constitutes a friend in politics.
If a friend is one who is merely with you iy pros-
perity and success and who is always hid out
when your enemies get after you, then the El
Reno American and South McAlester Capital,
et al, may be friends of Dennis Flynn. If friend-
ship consists merely in maintaining a mutual ad-
miration society for the mechanical repetition of
every personal opinion a man may express,
whether the opinion refers to dress reform or
infant baptism, then the papers that are sne'ering
at the republicanism of those who are working
for single statehood may possibly be friends of
Flynn. If Flynn's friends were all of this type,
howeve, he might well ask that God* save him
from his friends. But Flynn has another kind of
friends—some who do not expect him to do all
their thinking for them cfr who do not try to echo
every sentiment he may utter on matters non-
political and who do not wait for official orders
before they will champion his interests when his
enemies are trying to get in their work. They
th'ink that where his enemies gather his friends
should not hesitate to go—even if it be a state-
hood convention. Flynn's real friends do not
need any credentials, for he knows them. He
has not forgotten that there are some who are now
profes'sing great friendship for him who were con-
spicuous tor their absence a few years ago when
his political fortunes were temporar reversed.
It will be hard to make Flynn doi ' loyalty
of those who stood by him in dr well as in
victory. It is also reason n t t Mr.
some c mies.
Flynn remembers
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1901, newspaper, November 21, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117486/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.