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Peoples Voice
VOLUME 12.
NORMAN OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1904
NUMBER 39
Last Saturday at 10 o'clock the
delegates chosen to attend the Re-
publican county convention, held for
the purpose of electing a Territorial
Committeeman and to select dele-
gates to attend the congressional
convention to be held in Guthrie on
Thursday April 7th met in the Pro-
bate Court room in this city, and
was called to order by county chair-
man John A. McCartney. On motion
of Ed F. Shinn, J. B. Dudley was
chosen Temporary Chairman who up
on taking the chair delivered the
customary harmony speech and
pleading for "harmony when there is
no harmony nor can there be unless
the anti Flynn forces in the territory
subtn it peacefully to the Flynn dicta-
torship—a thing they will no longer
do even at the expense of harmony.
Ed F. Shinn -was chosen temporary
secretary with Will Partridge and
J. Walker Field as assistants. The
usual • committees on credentials,
order of business and resolutions
were appointed and a recess taken
until 1 o'clock. The report of all
the committees were unanimously
adopted aud temporary organization
was made permanent. The commit-
tee on rules and order of business, in
their report cut out every one who
was not a delegate in the county
convention from serving as a dele-
gate to the congressional convention
thus following up the time honored
ideas of the republican party of fav-
oring the creation of "Trusts" on
every possible occasion. For men
chosen as delegates to arrogate to
themselves such unwarranted author-
ity as to say "we only" are eligible,
recalls to mind some of the exactions
laid on the Colonists by King George
the III. and which brought on the
"Boston T£a Party." To our knowl-
edge some of the republicans in' this
county who labored hardest to bring
about the great Anti Flynn victory
scored by the convention were denied
even an opportunity to stand as cand-
idates for election as delegates to
the congressional convention. The
committee of seven to be appointed
by the chair to select the fourteen
delegates to the congressional con- j O J Smith
vention is also a very mean advan-1 G W Cross
tage to take of delegates who come j ■! B Dudley
to a convention to assist in choosing
delegates to another convention.
The report of the committee on
resolutions was as follows:
Resolved, that we reaffirm that we
reaffirm our allegiance to the princi-
ples of the republican party and
most heartily indorse the administra-
tion of Pres. Roosevelt as being one
of the most active, brilliant and
honest in the history of our country.
That we commend to the people of
Oklahoma the honest business-like
and impartial administration of the
affairs of this territory by Gov. Fer-
guson, and most neartily endorse the
firm stand taken by him for civic
righteousness. We also approve of
his acts in the promoting of the
general harmony of the party.
That we, recognize in Bird S.
Maguire the qualities of honesty, in-
tegrity and patriotism and point
with pride to the able and efficient
manner in which he has represented
this territory in congress and his tire-
less efforts to secure statehood.
That we are in favor of the re-
tention of the school land of Oklaho-
ma under proper restrictions for the
I protection of both the lessee and
| educational interests of the territory
| and urge that the territorial conven-
| tion at Guthrie on April 7 declare for
the same. That the delegates elect-
I ed by this convention to the Terri-
torial Convention a"t Guthrie are
hereby instructed to cast the entire
vote of Cleveland county as follows:
For Hon. B. S. McGuire as nominee
for Congress.
For Cash Cade for National Com-
mitteeman for Oklahoma.
For Hon. J. B. Dudley of Norman as
delegate to the National Republican
Convention.
The first thing after the adoption
of the reports of the committees was
the election of a territorial commit-
teeman and this is where the real
battle of the convention was fought
although a lively skirmish had been
fought in the room of the resolution
committee over the resolution in-
structing delegates to Territorial
Convention to vote for Cash Cade for
National Committeeman. J. J.
Burke wanted delegates instructed
to vote for Dennis Flynn and failing
in this he fought for an uninstructed
delegation again failing and he did
not carry fight to floor of the con-
vention, doubtless for the reason he
saw that it would be no use. The
fight for the position of territorial
committeeman has been carried on
■with more or less vigor since the
election of Hon. Jay Sherman two
years ago and about six weeks ago
the Flynn forces centered on J. J.
Burke as their cnndidate while the
anti-Flynn, or Cash Cade forces cen-
tered on the re-election of Hon. Jay
Sherman. Jno. A. McCartney of
Moore looked after Sherman's inter-
ests in the north part of the county
bringing in a solid Sherman delega-
tion from the ten's (26 votes). In
Norman J. B. Williams, B. F. Wil-
liams and Judge Botsford were the
most active Sherman men succeeding
in giving Sherman 11 of the 23 dele-
gates in Burke's own home city.
On roll call Sherman secured 88 votes
to Burke's 36. Before vote was an-
nounced Burke moved to make Sher-
man's election unanimous and it
was carried, Sherman making a short
speech of thanks to the convention
came in later with credentials and
Love and his list of delegates were
thrown through the transom; the
committee on credentials being
rather inclined to think that Love
had made out his credentials after
reaching Norman and finding Brom-
ley and none of the regularly elected
delegates present.
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*
After the convention it was an easy
matter to pick out the Flynn and
anti-Flynn fellows on the street by
the expression they wore on their
faces.
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*
For the last twelve years an ele-
ment in the Republican party;' in
this county has been secretly fusing
with the democrats to defeat the
populists and seeure votes for Flynn
and in last campaign going even to
the extent of fusing to defeat repub
lican as well as peoples party candi-
dates; but this year we notice Burke
says that they have had enough of
cCall
Has it for
Less,
HERMAN BRUNING CHARGED
With the Killing of Fred Grossnecklause
Acquitted by the Jury.
The case of the Territory vs Her-
man Bruning indicted for the killing
of Fred Grossnecklause was called by
Judge Irwin last Monday afternoon
and the work of empanelling a jury
began. The regular venire was ex-
hausted and a special venire of six
jurors issued and Tuesday morning
the jury was completed and sworn to
try the case. Judge Wolf assisted by
A. W. Fisher represented the Terri-
tory and Ben Williams and Judge
Bigger appeared for the defendant.
All day Tuesday the jury listened to
the introduction of the evidence and
the fusing business. If this be true Tuesday evening to the summing up
the democratic county ticket will
suffer a loss of something like 300
republican votes this fall and also the
democratic candidate for delegate to
congress.
of the evidence in the case being
finally submitted to them at 9 o'clock
Tuesday night and at 3 o'olock in the
morning the jury had agreed on a
verdict which they sealed and return-
ed into court Wednesday morning.
The verdict when read by the Clerk
in open court was an "acquittal of
the defendant." This yerdict seam-
ed to surprise the court and Judge
Irwin before discharging the jury
administered to them a seveie lec-
ture which the jurymen will not soon
forget. The court seemed to he of
the opinion that this verdict returned
The Santa Fe's Special Train to the
World's Fair.
The Editor of this paper is in re-
ceipt of an invitation from the Santa
Fe Railroad Company to go on the
Santa Fe's special train to the
World's Fair on May 14th. This
train will convey the Editors of Ok-
lahoma, Gov. Ferguson and bis staff! ,
and Women's Clubs of Oklahoma to by the jury was not warranted by the
the World's Fair. The rate for the evidence in the case. We under-
women will be one fare plus $2 00 and | stand that first ballot taken by the
the same rate is open to the general j jury stood eight for accquittal and
public and they are invited to go to four for a conviction for manslaugh-
the World's Fair with this party on j ter. The remarks of Judge Irwin
May 14th. Palace and tourist sleep- j stung the jurors to the quick and they
ers will be on this train. Double ^ believe in the light of the evidence
berths in the former will cost $4 00 in ; they had done their duty faithfully
the latter $2 00. If you contemplate I and they went home feeling sore to-
going to the World's Fair this will be j Wards the court.
a good time of the year and the Wednesday morning Judge Irwin
Santa Fe has presented you with a j discharged the jury for the term and
good opportunity. the remainder of the day was spent
— — ; j in trying court cases and passing on
? Election. motions and demurrers the most
Lrst Tuesday the Norman City | noted of the cases being the Jack
election was held for the election of | Goodin case for divorce and custody
an alderman from each ward and a of the children one of which was in
member of the school board. There ! possession of his wife who refused to
was only one ticket in the field and [ jrive it up.
no interest manifested in the electi . In this case the Court granted Jack
Out of over 400 registered voters less | Goodin a divorce and the custody of
than 100 went to the polls. The 20 the two eldest children to him, he be-
-r - - -- judges and clerks of the election cast j ing required to keep them in the
Burke was called for; but thought it about one fourth of the votes polled. Sacred Heart School. The care and
should hardly be expected that he | In the country district attached to
Norman for school purposes two tick-
should be called upon to deliver a
speech at his own funeral. The next
was the appointing of of a committee
by the chair to select the names of
fourteen men to serve as delegates to
the congressional convention. After
appointment the committee with-
drew aud shortly returned the follow-
ing names as delegates to the con-
gressional convention and county
convention approved the same:
Jno A McCartney D L Larsh
Ed F Shinn
Fred James
J Walker Field
C G Ambrister
J B Williams
Geo C Bolend
Chas Hobaugh
J J Burke
Dr F Bentz
We learn that belore committee
would consent to put the name of J.
J. Burke on the list that he was re-
quired to pledge himself to abide by
the resolutions adopted by the con.
vention, the adoption of which he
had opposed in room with committee
on resolutions.
CONVENTION NOTES.
Flynn's star in Cleveland county is
set to rise no more it would seem.
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Hon. Jas. D, Maguire, Flynn's first
lieutenant in Cleveland county was
over from Lawton, but did not at-
tend the convention. He was over to
attend Easter services and look after
business interests and not to have
anything to do with the ' convention
so he stated.
ets were in the field and more inter-
est taken. Henry Miller's candidates
polled 2 [and 6 votes respectively
while Leach polled 15 and C F. Cox
over 20. The cigar merchants, ban-
ner painters, liverystables and even
the saloon suffered in the loss of busi-
ness by reason of the very tame
character of the election this year.
custody of the youngest child was
given by the court to the mother.
J. H. Love of 10-1 w attended the
convention aud served as a delegate
long enough to hand in credentials
for a list of delegates from that
township: but Henry Bromley the
committeeman from that township
Socialist National Convention.
The national Socialist convention
is to meet in Chicago May 1, 1904.
In that convention according to the
number of delegates allotted to each
state we arrive at a knowledge of the
strength of socialism in the United
States. The convention will be com-
posed of 234 delegates. Each state
and territory is entitled to one dele-
gate at large and one additional dele-
gate for every one hundred dues pay-
ing members in each state. There
are 47 states which are entitled to 47
delegates at large out of the 234 in
all which leaves 187 delegates that
the dues paying members are
entitled to hence we find there are
18,700 dues paying Socialists in the
United States and from the fuss they
are making they must be a noisy
crowd.—Cleburne Watchman.
The celebrated Miller divorce case
was up again and dismissed again by
the Court because grounds shown by
the evidence were not sufficient to
warrant the granting of a divorce.
J- H, Puthuff Acquitted.
Last Friday John H. Puthuff was
put on trial charged with the murder
of his wife and all day Friday was
spent in hearing evidence in the
ca3e on the part of the the territory
and also the defense. After the
evidence was all in the court in-
formed the county attorney that it
was useless to go farther as he could
not sustain a verdict of guilty on the
evidence should same be returned by
the jury and he instruced the jury to
return a verdict of "not guilty"
without leaving the jury box and
Puthuff was released from custody.
On Saturday morning court was ad-
journed until Monday. On the re-
turn of the court Monday the report
of the grand jury was received after
which the case of the territory vs
Herman Brunning for the murder of
his father-in-law Fred Grossnicklaus
was taken up and a jury empanelled.
Last
Shot in Lawton.
Monday Col. Hawkins,
position to granting of the injunction
the attorney's after arguing the case
at length submitted the matter to
the court, who in reaching his de-
cision took up and argued the fine
points of law raised by the attorneys
reaching the conclusion that the
County Commissioners were acting
wholly within the scope of their
authority in securing a court house
and jail for the county and refused to
grant the prayer of the petitioners
for an injunction.
The grand jury made its final re-
port to Judge Irwin last Wednesday
at 12 o clock and was discharged.
The work of the grand jury during
this term of court was unusually
heavy. Eleven territorial indictments
were found and one Federal making
in all 12 true bills found.
Barker Wins Contest-
Last Wednesday morning the
contest of Smith vs Barker was
called up ou a motion to anstaiu
the findings of the referee and
Smith's attorney s offering no ob-
jection Judge Irwiu sustained the
fiudiugs of the referee which were
that L, P, Barker had secured
a pluralty of 75 votes over Smith
in the race for office of Sheriff of
this county at the fall election
held in 11102, i'he returns of the
election only gave Barker a plur-
ality of 01 votes but a recanvass
of the vote increased his plurali-
ty 8 votes.
National Bank Closed
Last Tuesday about 2 o'clock the
Capitol National Bank of Guthrie,
one of the largest banking institu-
tion in the Territory, closed its doors
and its business placed in the hands
of National Bank Examiner Sturte-
vant. The financial statement of
the bank made on March 28 showed
$1,033,389.15 on deposit with nearly
$30,000. in cash and exchange. The
immediate cause of the collapse of
the bank was a run on it by deposi-
tors caused by a suit for about $34,000.
brought against President Biiljng-
sley by a St. Louis bank. This claim
grew out of the failure of the First
National Bank at Holdenville, 1. T.,
which occurred about one week ago,
and of which bank Billingsley was
also president. The Territory had
about $250,000 dollars deposit in the
Capitol National but the same was
protected by Fidelity insurance and
it is though territory will lose no-
thing. It is also thought that de-
positors will all be paid in full as
stockhblders of the bank are abund-
antly able to take care of them one
of the principal stockholders being
Dr. grower, of Utica, N. Y. and rated
in Bradstreet at over five million.
The Republicans of Lincoln county
will present the name of a colored
man at the territorial convention as
a delegate to the national convention;
but he will hardly be elected. In this
ccunty Republican county conven-
tions have always here-to-fore con-
tained some colored delegates but in
the last election the colored voters
for the most part, voted the demo-
cratic ticket and for this reason, no
doubt, failed to be sent as delegates
to the Republican connty convention.
If proper steps are taken, no doubt,
most of them can be induced to help
the democrats out in their county
primary this year.
INJUNCTION AGAINST BUILDING 01
COURT HOUSE DENIED.
who j Wednesday evening the Court lis
was auctioneer at the Anadarko lot tened to arguments of attorneys ir. ,
sale and who served as sergeant-at-1 the case of Ellinger, Wantland et al J tory. In Cleveland county the dowi,
arms in the last legislature was shot I brought to enjoin the County Com-1 pour was light, only the northern
three times and mortally wounded on missioners from entering into con- j part of the county receiving enough
the streets of Lawton last Monday | tract for the erection of a County | to make the branches run.
A General Rain
Last Monday afternoon and night
a general|rain fell throughout Oklaho-
ma being quite heavy in the north-
ern and western part of the terri-
at noon by Editor Russell. Hawkins
returned the lire but without effect.
The shooi ing is thought to be there-
suit of a feud which has existed be-
tween the two men.
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Court House building and jail. The vicinity of Norman not over half
firm of Ames and Flynn of Oklahoma 1 inch of rain fell. It will however be
City argued the case for the Noble j of immense benefit to the wheat and
parties and Judge Wolf, Botsford, j oat crops which were beginning to
Mosier, and Fishers appeared in op-1 suffer badly.
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