The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, May 29, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PEOPLES' VOICE
VOLUME 10.
NORMAN, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1908.
NUMBER 40
NEVER CHANGE THEIR
MIND—BO AST OF SOME MEN
| und use it, whether it happens to be
ti_ in; ■ 1 • republican or democratic.
They are the Weaklings j H
Rather Than
What chance do you suppose the
j people have, what is their prospect
of gettin their fair share of the na-
tion's wealth and prosperity, when
they divide into camps on election
day, democracy in one camp, republi-
canism in the other, with the abso-
lute certainty that the big exploiters
at the top will control, no matter
which side wins'?
The Strong and Stal-
wart Men of the
Nation.
The above is the heading of an ex-
cellent editorial appearing in last
Sunday's Chicago Examiner. The
cartoon illustrating editoral is a large
Donkey head and on either side a
man with Donkey ears and all three
bearing the placard, "I never change
my mind." It surprises no one to see
such a placard on a donkey; but to
see such a placard on a man excites
some surprise and calls for an ex-
planation.
The editor states that the picture is
dedicated to the narrow minded, con-
ceited, obstinata voter whose proud
boast is, "I never change my mind."
Tht following are some extracts
from this most excellent editorial:
The people of America are the
playthings of politicians. Politicians
are the tools of bosses, and the bosses
are the most valuable assets of the
dishonest corporations.
The marvelous resources of the
country have permitted the individ-
ual to get rich in spite of bad gov-
ernment, and, with his mind fixed on
getting rich, he has simply drifted
politically, voted mechanically, dwin-
dled into a party hack, the voting
tool of bigger and more cunning men.
w + *
The hide-bound political voter not
only lives and dies a donkey, but he
is proud of it. He is proud to call
himself a democrat without asking
himself why, or a republican without
questioning the acts of the trust
owned party that owns him.
A man belongs to the republican
party, that gained its strength and
its just claim to public gratitude
when it elected such a man as Lincoln,
listened to such a man as Greeley
Bad politics brings on bad times, j
Thoughtless voters, dishonest leaders and worked honstly for the right and
and scheming trusts breed panics. j equality of all men
This country started out to be a' Now this party is the working tool
nation of intelligent men ruled bv of plutocracy. It is busily engaged
the majority. in getting rid of Roosevelt, whose
And today the majority does not election was due to an accident, and
rule; neither does the minority so far it is determined to put in Roosevelt's
as the voters po. plzice 2 poodj reliable trust id tin
Above the voters, above the poll- F.yery Republican, if he thinks
ticians and above the bosses stand a about it sincerely, must realize that
group of intelligent, closely united this Republican party will not put in
big men, and it is their business to office, if it can possibly help It,
keep in their own hands the majority honest, simpleminded American of
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You take no chances in buy-
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Coat-and-Trousers Suits
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If we offered these vestless Suits
at $15, $18 and $20 you would con-
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money, for they are really worth
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the Lincoln type believing in gov-
ernment by the people.
Every Republican knows perfectly
well that the party in which he was
j born, or which he joined years ago,
is the main reliance of every dishon-
est big man in the United States.
How is it possible for him, if he thinks
at all, to stick to such a party in-
stead of getting out of it.
And with the party-owned demo-
crat It is the same. He sees the party
that inherits the traditions of Jeffer-
son nominating such a man as Parker,
under the dictation of a man like
August Belmont. He sees that party
most energetic in ballot box frauds
and utterly indifferent to high poli-
tical ideals and fundamental Ameri-
can principles.
He knows perfectly well that, as the
republican party is the right hand of
the trusts, the democratic party is the
trusts' left hand, to be used in an
emergenncy when the right hand
fails.
How is it possible for a thinking
democrat to stick to a party that has
promised and promised and done no-
thing, to give his yote into the hands
of dishonest bosses, to be turned over
to the corporations that pay and
prey?
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This donkey and his friends are the
main asset of plutocratic government
in America. If they are to remain a
majority, then government is to go
on as at present, with the people get
ting in good times just about enough
to keep tbem going, and in bad times,
resulting from corporation misman-
agement, the anxiety and worried
life of today.
The people of the United States
need a party of independence. It is
for American voters to think about
their government, to think for them-
selves what they want done, to pick
candidates for themselves, refusing
to have candidates without sincerity
and platforms without meaning forced
upon them.
For over fifteen years the Peoples
Voice has been trying to drive home
to its readers the facts set forth ir
the Chicago Examiner's Editorial
The Democratic Donkey has saved the
G.O.P. Elephant from aunihilation
for the past ten years.
By mounting Bryan on the Demo-
cratic Donkey in 1896 the political
bosses saved their masters the Trust
and Corporation managers. With a
man like Bryan on the Donkey the
Democratic party is stated to win no
races. With a rider like Cleveland
the chances for the Donkey winning
are better and particulary is this true
if rider on elephants is not solid wit h
the trusts magnates.
Stale Bank of Coalgate that failed
last week with liabilities $20,000
greater than assets. This bank a-
yailed itself of the provisions of
the guarantee law as is likely ever
bank in the state feeling a little
shat: y on its pins, will do, or attempt
to do. The depositors in the bank
were saved trora lose.
Team Drowned.
Last Saturday E. Frangue the Postal
Telegraph Line man hired a team at
Gibbs" barn, in this city, and had Earl
Gilib drive him to Moore. Along the
telephone line 2i miles south ot Moore
in crossing a stream, after crossing
briilgi- they ran into a current so
strong as to wash team and buggy in-
to the stream where horses were lost
and but for fact that Earl Gibbs was
a good swimmer E. Frangue would also
have been drowned. He was In the
water loaded down with his wrenches
and pole climbers and almost goue
when Mr. Gibbs succeed in reaching
hiui and pulling him to a tree and
enabled him to pull out.
FLOODS IN OKLAHOMA
MUCH DAMAGE TO CROPS
MICHAELS-STERN
FINE CLOTHING
nmicmacls, stcbn 4 co.
^ nochkbtkr, n. v.
Stylish Straw Hats for Men at $2.00.
Plain and fancy Half Hose. Great assortment, per pair 25c.
Ephraim
And Railroad Traffic Al-
most
Suspended by bij* Wash-
outs and Bridges
Swept Away.
High School
Commencement To-Night.
The High School Commencement
exercises which were to have been
held last B'riday night on account of
the rain were put off until tonight
State Superintendent Cameron will
deliver the address to the class at
the Opera House tonight.
Second Anti-Trust
Bill Passed
The Oklahoma Legislature after
Governor's veto of the Anti-Trust
Bill, in gre at haste framed another
Anti-Trust Bill and passed it in about
two days time. The legislature aimed
to meet some of the Governor's ob-
jections to first bill. What the Gov-
ernor will do with second bill is not
known.
The Men's Outfitter.
Cyclone in Woods County.
Tuesday night Alfalfa and Woods
counties were traversed by a cyclone.
Ten people are known to have been
killed and several injured:
The dead:
Peter Rudy, aged 53.
Mrs. Peter Rudy, aged 52.
Son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Rudy, aged 16 and 14 respectively.
Mrs. Guy Hutchison and baby.
Mrs. Elliott.
Mrs. Parker and baby.
E. C. Atchison.
The injured:
Mrs. Frank Ice and little daughter,
near Ashley.
Fred Parker, fatally.
Mr. Wares, fatally.
Daniel Deals, fatally.
Rev. R. D. Cox fatally.
William S. McDonald.
Delia V. McDonald.
Mrs. Waters.
Edith Cox, age 7.
Ethel Cox, age ft.
Ada Cox, age 17.
The cyclone struck about 25 miles
southwest of Alva killing much stock
and injuring crops and wrecking
farm residence property. The towns
of Avard, Ingersoll and Ashly were
in the path of the storm and were
badly wrecked. It is also reported
that thirteen sight-seers from Pre-
ston Bend on Red River while watch-
ing the dividing Hoods of the river
from an island in the vicinity of
Colbert, were swept into the stream
by an advance of water engulling
the island and all lost. The loss of
life and property has been heavy in
Oklahoma during the past week and
the end is not in sight.
Marriage Licences
issued this week by Probate Judge
Sharp:
(J. W. Davis 65
} Maggie Johnson 40
j Henry Hackel 23
| Annie Ludwik 20
j Oscar Carr 21
j Aua I. Boatwright 16
The Price of Cotton
Goes Soaring.
Last Monday the price of cotton
soared up wards about $2.00 per bale
and bids fair to soar some more.
Market Report.
Corn old 60c
% Hay prairie, per ton $6.50
X Hay alfalfa, per ton $i0.00
X Seed cotton
X Lint cotton $10.00 to $10.50
Hogs per cwt $4.25 to 4.50
J! Country butter per lb 15c to 25c
* Eggs per doz 15c
$ New Potatoes, per bu . . .$1.00
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rent ran across the fields the heaviest
loss of crops resulted. Where fields
were simply flooded by still or slow
running water it looks like much of
crop on such land would be saved.
Last Friday evening about six
o'clock rain began to fall and with
only brief intermissions continued to
fall for thirty-six hours and all day
Saturday everything was flooded and
Sunday morning all of the streams
were raging torrents and the bottom
land mostly under water and the rol-
ling land badly washed Many of the
bridges and culverts were washed out
and the roads almost impassable. It
was the heaviest rain tall ever ex-
perienced in this county and rain
seemed to be general throughout the
state. Railroad traffic was suspended
on all lines and no mail trains reach-
ed Norman for two days.
The crops, corn and cotton, which
the farmers, had in fine condition,
were badly washed out and buried
and much will be to plant over. The
full extent of damage to crops would
be hard to estimate. The South Can-
adian River did not over How but
Little River was highest ever known.
It was from hill to hill and all of
the bottom under several feet of
water. At Denver it was from 5 to
feet deep in the road and the Runy-
an store that was built upon po^ts
about four feet above the ground was
floated off and wrecked. In Norman
there was about an 8-inch rainfall
and from other parts in the county
they estimate from 9 to 12 inches.
Many of the bridges on Little River
went out and the ones standing the
flood were badly washed around and
need repairing. The two weeks of
fine weather preceding rain enabled
farmers to get most of the crops
planted and corn and cotton worked
over and same began to promise a fine
crop; but Monday morning the farm-
er could see a big question mark
standing in field where crop had
looked so promising the Friday pre
ceding. The crop mortgages, cer-
tainly were badly impaired.
The reports which are coming in
from all over the State and from
Northern Texas indicate that rain
was even more destructive than in
Cleveland county. All of the streams
in the state save the South Canadian
river seems to have overflowed badly
and in Oklahoma City and Guthrie
portions of the city badly flooded and
quite a few lives lost In Oklahoma
and Texas. In Cleveland county
after farmers had time to view the
scene they do not feel quite so bad
while fields in many places have been
badly damaged yet they hope to be
able to save much of their crops
While the rainfall was heavy it was
pretty evenly distributed over 3(
hours of time and did not wash and
cover up crops as badly as was though
at first and water drained off pretty
well. Along Little River bottom and
other small streams where the cur-
University Appropriation
Bill Passes.
Last Tuesday about noon news came
to Norman that tho House had passed
the Senate Bill appropriating $200,
000.00 for the erection of a new build-
ing to take the place of University
building recently destroyed by lire.
The building destroyed cost in the
neighborhood of $80,000.00. The new
building planued will be a fire proof
building and one of the finest Uni-
versity buildings in the country. While
Norman people confidently believed
that bill would pass for practically
sum asked by Board of llegei ts yet all
felt better on receiving news that the
bill had indeed passed and all that re-
mained to be done was for the Gov-
ernor to attach his signature to the
bill to make it a law. The Gover-
nor has always been favorable but
the Speaker of the House was not
friendly and continued to oppose its
passage in the house up to the last.
The University has never been hog-
gish in seeking appropriations .but it
has experienced two disastrous fires
that has rendered it necessary for it
to seek more than otherwise would
have been needed. By reason of the
fires the room at the University has
always been crowded and the work of
the University retarded. A lire proof
building in the first place would have
been the cheapest and best in the
cage of the University for it has lo9t
by fire two buildings that cost in the
neighborhood of $150,000.00 besides
much valuable furnishings, appara-
tus and historical matter stored in
the buildings.
Death of Mrs. C. M. Barnes
Died at her home in Guthrie last
Wednesday of cancer of the face
Mrs. Mary E. Barnes, wife of Ex-
Governor C. M. Barnes.
Bank at Coalgate Fails.
The first bank in the state to go to
the wall after the passage of the
Guarantee law was the International
WE ARE LONG ON
Dried Fruit
We will make you a cose price
3 lbs of Raisins 10c. lb or 3 lbs for, 25c
Package of Currants 10c or 3 packages for..25c
Home dried Peaches and Apples 10c lb 3 lbs. .25c
Fine Prunes 3 pounds for 25c
We Are Selling
25c oil for per gallon 20c
!0c oil for per gallon 15c
Gasoline per gallon 25c
Gold Dollar Flour
is getting to be the leading flour
in town; come In and get a sack
2sT ID TRY IT
Farmers
Co-Operative Company
J. B. Dickerson, Mg'r.
University Commencement.
The following is the program for
the sixteenth annual University Com-
mencement exercises to be held be-
ginning Saturday, June 6th.
Saturday June 0 8:30 p. m.—Joint
Exercises Literary Societies.
Sunday, June 7, 11 a. m.—Baccalau-
reate Sermon. Guy Potter Benton
Ph. D. President Miami University
Oxford Ohio.
Monday, June 8, 8:30 p, in.—Senior
Recital School of Music.
Tuesday, June 9, 8:30 p. m.—Senior
Class Play.
Wednesday, June 10, 9:00 a. m.—
Annual Meeting Board of Regents.
8:30 p. m.—Concert Commencement
Exercises School of Music.
Thursday, June 11, 10:30a. m.—Com-
mencement Exercises—Conferring of
Degrees—Addresses by Members of
Board of Regents and distinguished
visitors. Annual address—Doctor Le
Roy Long, McAlester, Oklahoma.
•1:00 p. mMeeting of Alumni Asso-
ciation.
District Court.
Last Monday the Grand Jurors re-
turned to Norman to finish up work
for the term: but when they reached
Norman they discovered that Jude
McMillian was in contempt and cer-
tainly would have fined him but for
fact that Judge telephoned from
Pauls Valley that he was water bound
and would not be able to reach Nor-
man until trains run. He instructed
Grand Jurors that he thought he
would reach Norman in time to open
Court Tuesday morning But he failed
to come in Tuesday—no trains out of
Pauls Valley.
In the John Bohanan case the Court
granted a new trial to plaintiff.
Fined for Kicking
Wife Out of Bed.
Things have certainly come to a
pretty pass in Oklahoma City when a
man can't kick his ' wife out of bed
without being fined in the police court
of that city. The Police Judge must
certainly not experience the difficulty
most husbands do in getting wife to
start the tires in the morning. When
the Judge's wife mads account of his
ruling he may have many good and
sufficient reasons for desiring a re-
versal of such a ruling.
Rev. Quayle Chosen a Bishop
Rev. W. A. Quayle known to many
Norman people having lectured in
this city and some years ago deliver-
ed the Baccalaureate sermon at Uni-
versity has been chosen one of the
Methodist Episcopal Bishops. His
frieuds in Norman will be pleased to
learn of his good fortune and pro-
motion.
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