The Lawton Constitution. (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1904 Page: 2 of 4
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Lawton Constitution crmt)ctjcket
(Successor to the Elgin Eagle)
PUBLISHED.BY^THE constitution co.
b. k. rush AND h. m. tilici*.
J. Hoy Williams. >:<li'"r-
karl knkkd, cio* k,,"or'
lie is
The republican campaign
abroad in the land.
The -enthusiasm for the democratic
county ticket is growing at a two
miuute clip.
There will be very little scratching
done in Comanche county this year.
Tho democratic ticket is satisfactory.
There is no question about demo-
cratic success in Comanche - ti
The man who bucks any part ot tin
ticket is doing him -elf mot harm t
any one else.
The voters must not loose sight of
the fact that every man on the demo-
cratic ticket lias a clean record and
that the ticket is superior to that of the
opposition, personally as well as
politically.
The statute relating to election
qualifications in Oklahoma, say- all
male persons of the age of 21 }ears or
upwards, who have resided in tbi
territory for a period of six ti' n lis, in
the township sixty day .inc! tin \ot g
precinct thirty days, next prece. ing
anv electi 'i shall be e tit led to >te.
the situation in a nut shell: Mc-
Guire and no statehood; Mathews and
immediate single statehood.
Tm News K publican cannot think
of a member ot any ehuroh occupying
a public position if there is a possible
chance of a frequenter of honk-a-tonks
getting In. Fortunately for the tax-
p iyors the average voter has the same
a v. rsion to the honk*a_tonk that the
(I tor of the News-Republican bears
to the church.
Comanche county is paying for the
space that the C avenue mud mill .
devoting to the Constiiution. Jake
Hamon's man, Friday, put in a bill to
the board of commissioners the other
day for $9f>. Talk about yourgrafiers,
but that fellow has reduced it to a
science.
Caddo county has a republican
sheriff who has cost the county
$16,159.04 up to date, exclusive of his
fees in civil cases and in the collection
of delinquent taxes. Thi
ous. Republicanism stands for high
taxes, big fees and enormous salaries.
In other words the average republican
politician in this territory is out for
what there is in it.
The people interested in the opening
of the big pasture south of Lawton feel
like swearing at McGuire, but what
is the use. Go and vote for Frank
Mathews and leave the present repub-
lican delegate wedded to his idols. The
interest of the cattle men is one of
them.
The records of tho democratic
fficials standing for re-election are
good records and they will be endorsed
by the p iple at the polls. In this new
country where people are comparative-
ly unacquainted with each other it is
difficult to get good officials Comanche
county voters realize this fact and
further that they will taV. no chance
in supporting the democratic ticket.
PoLlTi al parties are not unlike the
men who compose them. They look
very largely to their welfare. There
is nothing in statehood for the republi-
iii party, but to loose the fat positions
they now hold, while the democratic
I irtv realize that all of the new state
officials will be democratic. From a
party standpoint the republicans have
everything to loose and the democrats
have everything to gain by the passage
of a stab hood bill. It stands to reason
that the man who is in favor of state-
hood without any more filibusting
should vote for Frank Mathews,
There is little question but t bat all j
of the democratic nominees for com-*
missioners will be elected, but if one
district should happen to be lacking in
its loyalty to the democratic ticket
and through some spite or prejudice or
neighborhood row or because of the
republican candidate residing in a
particular locality should happen to
elect him that district will not be in as
fortunate a position as the districts
that stand true to the democratic
ticket. The democratic nominees will
be the commissioners of all of the
people after they are elected and will
not distinguish between democrats and
republicans in the discharge of their A coid wave swept down from the
duties, but in the event only two demo-, I'o/en north la-t e it: ;
cratic commissioners are elected and i "le Cunningham-Il •!• it« w m to
republics . conceded that two will b
it stands to reason that those i.vo will ■
.li" discussion in the opera house.
not put a premium upon party I Every Mat in the house wmoccupied
treachery by permitting the repul when Dr. A. X. Campbell, who hid
lican who may worm his way into g; i l)een otloson to preside, rapped for
tunningham=
Hook Debate
| refused to answer.
Mr. Cunningham referred to tb«t
pi k i the republican platform thai
prop. <es to reduce the representation
■if the sou h because the negroes were
not push ■ i ut to vote the republican
ii. ) t a '1 he severely arraigned the
1 -id ; rop ning up the old sores
thai Pr ride t MoKlnley had done so
i nuii !i to heal and scored him for his
' ii rt to force nfgro equality upon the
i[i f the south. Some good old
a in the audience shouted,
1 in democrat here who won't
was
Not One Charge Stands Against the County
Attorney-Hook Completely Routed.
j i>e pulled oil on the court house square
' , nd the elements nec -stated holding
is to uo in tn
by roferene
iuf urination
improvements for his district which
they could just as well locate in their
own districts. The three candidates fc
been
order.
Mr. Hook lead off with a denial that
he had been making addresses casting ,
: insinuations and inundoes against !r. . n
A office i!
i court 377 criminal cas >s, £
i ils arid of the latter c
he offenders have been held
tin! ury and 6'J cases have b(
.s term
| hai
commissioners whom the democrats I Cunningham's record and In . h
have nominated are working in har- "lcntly denied that he was the tool i t
mony. Each desires to see two oth-
democratic commissioners elected a
lako Hamon as had been charged
gainst him.
In the language of Shakespeare "1:
well us himself in order that a policy doth protest too much."'Mr. Cunning-
of genuine democracy and econou y 1,!,m demanded of Mr Hook that in
may be carried out in the adminis ra- make direct lnii specif-
• i „ in.. « • ... . . i gainst his ofll ial r -cord and era
tion of the affairs of tne county. Ail
from re-itcrating insinuations and ii
of the democratic candidates for com- UI, ioes. Mr. Hook c: urged that ti,
missioners arc men of irreproachable doors of a private attorney's
character. There are democratic votes opened into that of the county •
in each district suffiaient to elect them ' ^ lii'^li ..axe- and extravagei. i:
... . . . the administration nf the affairs of t he
and the district that fails in its duty . ... M ,
' county. He failed to show wherein
Mr. Cunningham or any other county >
been !
air
him witJn tr
isdem anor eases j
court there hav< l
tismiss lis.
Mr. Ver
■ on:
the
county a
will be "cutting the nose off to spite
the face." There can possibly be no
advantage to any district or any par-
ticular locality from the election of a
A correspondent of the Okiahoman
says the appearance of Gov. Ferguson
on the stump to the school land lessees
is liko flashing a red rag' in the face of
a red bull. The governor has done
plenty to the lessees and they don't
like that red head of his a little bit. II
is saving ' the announcement of the
raise in rentals in the new country tin
til after thi Ice tion, Nov. 15th.
Jake Hamon has' promised F. V.
Wright, who is becoming familiarly
known as "his man,'Friday," that he
shall have more'space to devote to that
hole in front of the C avenue mud mill
after the election. It make such inter-
esting reading. Friday had better lot
the hole alone. He will need it to
crawl into after the big democrat!
majorities arc registered Nov. 8th.
The fact that Oklahoma has received
first prize in the agriculture exhibit at
the Worlds Fair is certainly a source
of gratification to every man and wo-
man who have identified themselves
with the rich alluvial soil and beau1 iful
Italian skies of this, "the land of the
fair God." Oklahoma is unrivaled in
the bouuty and diversification of its
crops. It produces wheat surpassing
that cf the frozen north and cotton
superior to that of the sunny south, to-
gether with most every other product
that the warmth of tho sun and the
sh wers and dews of heaven will bring
forth. This is certainly a great country
and not the least among its advantages'
is the enterprising people who have
settled here and mado the plains to
bloom as the rose. As soon as it was
known"that there would be a Louisiana
Purchase Exposition Oklahoma took
hold of the enterprise anil contributed
its portion to the i-uccess of the great
movement. There is not a not he" such
i land upon which dwells such a people
is those of Oklahoma. The advant-
iges of this country are trickling
through the skulls to the brains of the
best people of the older communities
of the United Stales and Oklahoma is
daily drawing from the cream of their
society to add to its splendid popula-
tion.
official other than the commi ner-
who failed of renomination are in any
way responsible. He was not hone
, enough in the discussion of tin -ubicct
republican commissioner and the re-1 of taxation to read from the colum
publican partisans who are appealing of the republican organ wherein tin
to democratic voters to sacriffcc their two men are held upas model officials
principles and vote for some particu- il,u''beir records endorsed by thi ,e
lar interest are attempting to hood- publican org.m
wink them. The man who votes his Mr-Hook held up an um .-ti
ticket has his principles left in eve:,' 1 ' eases in the di-t.. ■; i-ourt
of defeat and is glorified in the case of ,in(* cliarBfi(l many dismissals that had
victory, while the man who sacrifices ^ made by order of the couri and
by failure of witnesses to apnea' t
the county attorney. He mentione i
■ ad wit!
be. In
subject to its ore:
sion he and his
cnt
his ticket for a mess of pottage and
then gets cheated out of the pottage is
a miserable wretch indeed.
Cunningham propounds
< i ol;e ail hour and
i : i and the democrats in
i ii prouder of him than
. : wi.i . i-o had finished,
id lilteen minutes to close.
I' u, ;. i - did not care much
1 h li undered all over
11 ins sted that it was not
nim to take a position oti
,i ' >.-1 i ii l clearly that he
iple that would be allowed
in -y of his getting a
I rge i that Mr. Cunning-
n i; mli-ig Sunday school
. ■ i--beetles, as though
ing in a public official
with G 1's people or to eat'
i to -::ii br id with his con-
■ I . Hook closed by declar-
\. ui i make a better county
v ■! ii. ii,iigliani. If he
w n ted the voters to get a
p:> to hang him and the
the brightest idea
d i the discussion.
... iinoolhly ; dem-
ibiieans co-mingled in
nner and there was no
i- i '.urbaiice in the hall,
idoiib.'t dly made vote9
in and tli -remainder
tic ;ii ket. There is
.i[> -:i in the personal
The audience was
ed t Mr. Ci .ingham is an
d < imu 'llcial and that
. iit, nilc hisoppon-
attoraey with no
.is willing to do most
lg t ■ make votes.
ORA.
fill in this part of
The republicans of Dr. Elliott's
stripe can't distinguish the difference
between a negro for utility and (he
negro for his socialjqualities. The local
democratic committee employed a
negro boy one day.to distribute some
bills and you 'could see republicans
going.from one to the other whispering
in each others' ears as though tliej
had a good one on the democrats, flic
negro is all right in a negro's place
and those accustomed to mm get much
usefulness out,.of him. But it is the
Kooseveltian idea of social equalitN
that is ■ polling.the negro and low. rinj
the man who considers him his social
equal. Tlic.Temple/l'ribune apologies
for Dr. Elliott; entertaining'.the negro
representative of the school land de-
partment'at Guthrie on the ground that
the negro was.hungry: If the doctor
had fed him and, stopped . there he
would have been doing a humane act,
but when he dinned him he. was doing
the negro a wronjf as well as his own
racc. l>r. Elliott is a free man. He
can eat with as many negroes as he
chooses, but he has his gaul to enter,
tain them as "company" and then ask
for a high office in Comanche county
In the estimate of the maj rity that
Frank Mathews will receive in Co-
manche county the Okiahoman is to
conservative. It places the number at
eight hundred, ile it would be more
accurate if ti. :ires were double.
Mr. Mathews < . .ign is in splendid
shape. There i iot a ripple and the
democracy of the county wants the
honor of having the largest delegation
in the next democratic territorial con-
vention. It will win this honor by roil-
ing up a big majority for Mathews.
In company with Col J. C. Tousley
the editor of the Constitution drove
out yo.-terday to the farm of Mr.
Roberts, four miles up the Medicine
from Meers mining camp. It is simply
a revelation to get out into the country
at this season of the year and see how
nature has smiled upon th, hills and
valleys of this great country. The
grass is green as can be and cattle out
on the open range are fat enough f r
beef. The farmers have raised abund-
ant crops of cotton, corn and all kinds
of feed, and prosperity is certainly
abroad throughout tho land. Many of
the farmers and stockmen who reside
in the mountains are in good circum-
stances. It is a fine stock country and
the little valleys that lie betwv en the
hills and mountains here ami there arc
literal garden spots. Cat'lc and horses
run through the winter without feed-
ing on anything other than buffalo
grass. Tho mountains and timber
afford them fine shelter and there is an
abundance ■ 1 fine spring water. Mr.
Roberts is running a hundred bead of
cattle and has a fine lot of uules,
horses and hogs and three big, strong
young men who vote the democratic
ticket. It seems that there is little to
b; desired to make his life happy when
you take into Consideration tlje fact
that lie reads the Constitution, Co-
manche counties big weekly purveyor
of the neW3 and the gospel according
as it is written by^Jefferson, Jackson,
1'arker, Bryan and all of the prophets.
REPUBLICAN GROAN vs. THE RECORll.
The News-Kepublican would be
pleased to have the democratic press
explain why Mr. Weaver, on the liist
day of Ms service as trustee of Rich-
ards township voted himself over $60
as pay for road work. The reason for
so doing was because the work was
ordered done by S. J. Martin, trnstee,
his predecessor, and L. F. Boyce, re-
publican treasurer of Richards town-
ship, and the claim was honestly
carned£by hard labor with team and
wholly unpaid. The claim, a few
weeks later when he made final settle-
ment as road overseer, was for order-
ing out the hands and overaeein • the
work done by them uuring the year
and other special bridge work ordered
done by the township board As S. J.
Martin, trustee, resigned before his
term expired W. 0. Weaver was ap-
pointed to fill the vacancy and he was
obliged to make final settlement of his
accounts with the e'.erk and treasurer.
The charge that Mr. Weaver voted
himself $2 per diem and continued to
do so until stopped by a republican
treasurer is a falsehood and when the
News-Republican printed such a
statement it simply lied as shown by
the records of the republican treasurer
of Richards township. The first town-
ship board, which .was composed of
republican appointees, allowed them-
selves 82 per day. The sccond town-
ship board was composed of a demo-
cratic trustee, a democratic clerk and
a republican treasurer and laboring
under a misapprehension as to the law
they allowed themselves 82 per dicin.
When Mr. Weaver went on the board
lie took the po ition that the law only
allowed $1.50 per day and no member
of the board has drawn more or claim-
ed more than that amount .since Mr.
Weaver has been on the board.
Mr. Weaver'* friends and neighbors
in particular one case against 22 farm
ers near Richards who had been in-
dicted charged with rioting about! .
time that the oil derrick was burr 1
in that vicinity.
He charged that the county attorney |
had advisxl the city assessor wrong a;
, . . ' ' com- !
to the manner of assessing the capita! i
stock of the banks and ho tc k th
advi-ed th
other nin
manner of
of the ban!
thar he bad
)r any of the
down by t
1 that the
the individu -.1
ban -1
sed to
side of the bank rs in the controversy
and went on record as of the opinion
that the county could not colleel one
dollar of the seven thousand d ilars
taxes against the banks' He furtlu ,j
charged that the county alt irney ha : '
been negligent in failing to file an an-
swt to the injunction the banks ha-. ,
obtained against the collection of the
taxes, that the time for tiling it li id ex-
pired and that the county attorne.. is
now out of court.
Walker who was indicted for embez/- ' "• c ' ' I ; ■'
ling from the Rock Island railroa ! 'l
company at Faxon a year ago andread ' by the (list. . ■ i nvn vi
a statement from him of a transaction tion vviin -o: :-i - cou
Walker had with Bill Irwin in which j Attorney. Mr. C i ; ad
Walker had been harpooned out of I #®davit of Harpoon r Bills in which
$295.00. He also read a letter from I 8V ,jr that he ii 1 n i i the
"Bill, the harpooner," to Walker in of the in'y a 1 n . or
which the latter was told to "come on one con en ! h
that things looked good." Mr. Hooklcure the money Jrorn Walker.
J. vv Mod
Hedriek, lo\
week.
J. T. Yean
Lawton M"
Miss Ann
or ot Rush Springs
'fiie Yeaman.
bought the McFar-
"ation, $2,600.
lis building a new
ister and family frun
, visiting him this
in Caycc and the
m u-koted t.itton in
...id h ird the debate
ham and Hook.
Tall. ;, and brother,
.ii the si. ,t list. Dr.
! -nding them.
■1 ■ trict Xo. 12 are
'• to hange the date of
i school on ac-
tton being late.
■ 'I o, . luck to the
Farmer.
the lust day voters can
■ siding in the city
t i . ti r cannot vote.
to locate
failed to show thatthe conntyattorney Cunning1 am t .i !
had anything to do with Irwin and 1'" was liable to I
Walker's transactions. He said that lne ram*. "'2
he did not charge that Mr. Cunning - "who is g
ham or his assistant had anything to will nev
do with the deal. But he did charge
that in exorting the money from'gencd
Walker Bill, the harpooner, was guilty Ui '
of a felony and that Mr. Cunningham !-,ir
had fallen short of his duty in failing i v. . i
to prosecute Irwin.
Hook's reference to the fact that
Mr. Cunniftgnam purchased a r. si-
dence from Charley Rardwell, former
proprietor of tho Cabinet theatre, was
so thin th.tt Mr. Cunningham apolo-
gized to the audience for replying to
it. Hook's argument was that Bard
well was a bad man and that tho
comity attorney had brought reproach
upon his office by purchasing a house
and lot from him whon he might have
purchased another from a hotter citi-
zen. Mr. Hook closed his oponing
speech of an hour by an appeal to jfor t'.at
those present to vote as citizens and j,mVl il «nd I will take th mon« y an 1
not as p irtisians and said there was | K° t0 tlu> jewelry store and boy two
not a particle of political principle in-i more j like it." Jake's Friday as
- - says that Dr.
•od strong out*
t r jus can't get rid of
f that coon.
If I:
ice
pros e
subjee
grand
ningha
Wal
Reput
and th
Ilamoi
organ.
.it II
ivhen it
popu
has b
he co
secute me Wal f -i
c.1 Mr. C'unningJ
d ii ed due dui-
ker, but uad be. n
1 lie demanded f
1 him of Walke.'s
ok failed to do - .
: inds ready ui
his case wil bo
- igatlon of t ii o
>nvene8. Cun-
k was with the
case very much like the News-
n with his - > K) diamond stud,
1; - ored a good one on Jake
in in, Friday, who edits that
1 he: is n tldng mail about
Mr. Cunningh ;; i a « , "Sow
I want to g'\. t e Ne.-.- Hopubl - an
mail a chance to . ial .iT.fi j. It he,
will come up here and give mo 32.50 j
, a . isi payment, alleging that
he
TH, the democratic liomi-
li • ■: mil to the office of
ti mi l', is one of the most
m< n on the ti.-ket. Mr. Smith
sick .i- vi ral weeks so that
take an active part in the
■ lit the voters will remem-
j blm all the same. He is an efficient
i officer.—Frederick
j I.' idi i.
Ml
can
$214,
the
.'-ii letter to the republi-
t in this city relative to
t iritorin I funds deposited in
et Capital National bank
plain that the surety com-
volved in the county attorney's ra
Mr. Cunningham indicated th h
was in excollent sjnrits by teili i
go d story in opening his rem ks.
Mr. Hook's address was proof of thi
fact that ho was guilty a3 charged Of
making a campaign or mean insinua-
tions and inundoes. Mr. Ho ik ha I
called upon a friend of Mr. Cunning-
ham's at Sterling and announced his
candidacy. The lady remarked "Mr.
Cunningham was here the other day
and he spoke very well of you." "I
am sorry that I cannot return the
compliment," was Mr. Hook's vitrolic
reply
Mr. Cunningham showed theameuut
■in . i s di..nmnd stud
p to accept tho propoi
i : did not exercise due dilli-
t tin fund. It fails to
: ; when the governor was
ti I.... k was broke he re-
much
didn't
tion.*
After having answered every charge
against him in a manly frank open
way Mr ('iHmingham pealed Hook for
the pi-.;, . . he had taken that there is
no political principle yivohod in the
race for county attorney aria stated
that a man cannot vote for a constable
in the county Without endorsing Mr. I administration contract for keeping the
Hitehco s action in withholding the insane people of Oklahoma.
funds from our people, and Roosevelt's
in gro e iity Me li demand-<1 ' t*•• a••••••••• 9• c••••••• ••
of Mr* Hook 11 .at hi >t.ite to the audi- I tTTTT ^1?MTH A T ' C
- n m en er or . ol he was for B ox - r llshw inAL o
\elt and Uitchcock, but Uo k tlatly ReillOVal Sale
ilt I in s nothing more than
h . . I rxpectcd. It fails to explain
lOul tin only show the territory
. f ree \ ring thd money is to wait
until tho r elver can make it out of
the profits of the stock in the Norman
amitarium, which has the republican
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