The Peoples' Voice (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, December 31, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 18.
THE PEOPLES' VOICE
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NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909.
Hack of Mr. Hearst's declaration
that both the old parties have served
their day and purpose is said to be
a scheme to organize a People's party
with Mr. Roosevelt as its first nomi-
nee for the presidency. The story,
which, let us say is interesting in any
event, and highly important if true,
does not emanate from the fancy of
a yellow journalist, but from a writ-
er in the Wall Street Pournal, who
long ago established a reputation as
one having entree into the secrets of
high finance. According to him, the
project of organizing this new party
and giving it all the advantage of Mr.
Roosevelt's popularity, was conceiv-
ed shortly after the special session of
congress adjourned. It was suggest-
ed by the course of the president in
aligning himself with the reactionary '
rather than with the progressive fac- ^
tion of the republican party during
and after the tariff contest. It was felt
that since the existence of a pro-
gressive faction in the republican
party was about the most tangible
product of Mr. Roosevelt's seven
years in the White House, the action
of President Taft in repudiating and
rebuking that faction, both by word
and deed, amounted practically to a
nullification of Rooseveltism by the
one man most bounden to foster and
encourage it. In the minds of these
men, the need of a new party, in other
words, that while President Taft was
sincerely an adherent of those ideas
which have come to be known as the
Roosevelt policies, he had forfeited
all chance of getting them enacted
by the mistake of throwing himself
on the tender mercies of men who,
however fair their words, have shown
in the surer way of conduct that they
are irreconcilably hostile to those
policies. It was thought, in fine, that
Aldrich and Cannon were not proper
champons of an administration pledg-
ed to progress and reform. So much
for the etiology of this reported
movement.
As to its progress, it is said to have
been the subject of several conferen- I
ces, at the last of which the decison |
was made to launch the party, prefer- I
ably with Mr* Roosevelt as its first
leader, but, in case he should decline |
with some one else clearly identified
with the so-called Roosevelt policies.
Mr. Hearst, it is explained, is by no
means the protagonist of this new
ment. He was merely invited to the
party, nor even a leader in the move-
councils of others—democrats and
republicans—who had previously
come to the conclusion that there was
need .of some independent action if
the advance made toward reform dur- i
ing Mr Roosevelt's administration I
was to be held and secured. It is by
no means a Hearst movement, we are
assured; it is declared, on the con-
trary, that one of the minor consider1
atons that prompted Mr. Hearst to
join the movement was a desire to -
confute those who, to disparage him, I
have said that his policy in politics !
has been to rule or ruin. Mr. Hearst j
is credited with an ambition to prove '
it is patriotism, not vanity, that in- j
spres his political activities; and it is I
not to be denied that his support of
one who has denounced him so un-
sparingly as Mr. Roosevelt did would
be at least pretty persuasive evidence
by that lofty
that he is animated
sentiment.
As we have already remarked, the
story is interesting in any event, and
highly important if true, without re-
gard to what Mr. Roosevelt's attitude
may be. For the story itself, which, j
to repeat, comes from a creditable !
source, shows that the disappoint-j
ment with President Taft's adminis- 1
tration is widespread. It serves also
to accentuate the critical state of af- j
fairs by which he finds himself con- 1
fronted, and it suggests that it would
perhaps be no exaggeration to say
that the political situation in this !
country, though less acute than that {
in England, is potential of possibili- I
ties scarcely less far-reaching.—Dal '
las News. 1
tions endorse the administration of
I resident Taft and if as concerns na-
tional politics the resolutions had
stopped there, they might not have
been so bad; but when they went on
to endorse the tariff bill passed by
congress and the republicans
who supported it, they in
directly raised an issue that repub
licans are badly divided upon. In fact
the vast majority of the republicans
in Oklahoma do not endorse the
I ayne tariff or the republican mem
bers in congress who supported
Speaker Cannon. The republicans in
(oklahoma know it is a tariff measure
favored by the trusts and made in the
interests of the trusts, almost exclu-
sively, as shown by the "insurgent"
republicans in congress who faught
the measure and who fought Speaker
Cannon. Should the republicans take
such a stand in the state as outlined
on the tariff, the independent vote of
the state will not stand for it and the
I democrats who will under no condi-
I tions vote to continue democrats in
power in this state, will remain at
j home on election day or become too
hike warm to make good fighting men
in the coming campaign. The farmers
and laboring men in Oklahoma can
hardly be expected to support a tar-
iff measure enthusiastically that leav-
es a tax of 165 per cent on the poor
man s wool blanket, 168 per cent on
common clothing, and 200 per cent
on cheap over coats, and many other
such abominations. The third, fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh articles of the
resolutions, will meet with approval
I>y a large majority of the people in
the state. They concern the Taylor
election law, extravagance in our
present state government, corruption
in our state government, the Haskell
West row, and the army of unneces-
sary state employees supported at
Guthrie to make our taxes what they
are.
THOSE REPUBLICAN
RESOLUTIONS.
CRIMINALS OUT OF
BOYS.
The republican editors of the state
held a meeting at Shawnee on Mon-
day to organize for the coming state
campaign and to get their direction
from the political bosses as to the
position they should take in the line
of battle. The position that they are
to take was outlined in the resolutions
prepared before editors met and at
the opportune time introduced and as
a matter of fact adopted. The resolu-
"Over one hundred boys and girls
under fourteen years of age forced
into regular schools of crime, herd-
ed as they now are in Oklahoma jails
with hardened criminals of all races
and both sexes, where they learn by
personal contact to be safe blower-
murderers, pickpockets and cutthroat
and the juvenile court law complete
ly paralyzed and rendered inoperativ
all owing to a factional fight between
two enterprising towns for the loca
tion of the state training school," are
SIobe-V<
The Big Chair Furniture Co.
Joins with many customers in a welcome
greeting to the New Year of 1910. May it
prove to all a more prosperous year than
the past.
&
some of the conditions found by
State Commissioner of Charities and
j Corrections Kate Barnard in her an-
nual report to the governor and leg-
islature, the preliminary sheets of
which are now in course of comple-
tion.
Miss Barnard refers to the juvenile
training school authorized by the last
legislature to be built between Pauls
Valley and Wynnewood, but which
has not begun building due to the
fact that a site has never been select-
ed.
My office has been receiving a
flood of letters from county judges
and sheriffs asking what disposition
could be made of juvenile delinquents
then in their hands. The Juvenile
court law had gone into effect June
11 and as this law forbids the im-
prisonment of boys and girls in the
jails the officers did not know what
to do with those in custody. After
considerable correspondence the at-
torney general's office handed down
an opinion that the law establishing
the training school was not in ef-
fect until the state had formally re-
ceived deeds for the four hundred
acres of land specified in the bill. This
Opinion, of course, crushed every hope
and chance for the state to take im-
mediate charge of the boys and girls
needing correction. Since then other
complications have come up. The land
finally agreed upon by the two towns
and selected by the board of control
for the school site was Indian land—
360 acres was allotted land and 40
acres unallotted. Restrictions had to
be removed from the Indian owning
the allotted land. After some delay
this was done and the title was pass-
ed to the state, but because Ihe whole
400 acres had not been secured, as
stipulated in the act, progress has
been as completely blocked as it was '
before any land was secured. It was
thought that this unallotted 40 acres
could easily be secured from the fed-
eral government, but days, weeks and
months have passed and still this land
is not secured, and consequently the
training school and the juvenile court
law exist—nine months after the law
was passed and the school establish-
ed—on paper only, the one not in
operation and the other not built."
Norman has four or five boys, we
are ashamed to say, need some school
of correction; boys whose presence
in the company of good boys ruins
them also. They are boys who have
been caught in Sunday and various
law violations, but who thu mercy
of their ages have been let run rath-
er than confine them in jails with
criminals.
We presume that every city in the
state has just such a set or boys, boys
who, placed in a decent state indus-
trial reformatory, would out grow
their habits of immorality and in-
decency, and become in time valuable
and useful citizens.
But the state has no such reforma-
tory, owing mostly to the inefficiency
of peety party government and so
society and the decent living public
must suffer, either to have their wor-
thless class among them, or confine
them in jails with sure-enough cri-
minals, at the thought of which the
enlightened age rebels.
l'or God's sake! give us more pro-
tection for the well-behaved youths
of our state and some means of cor
reeling the habits of those not wel
behaved, and a little less petty poli
SANTA FES NEW TRAIN.
The new time card for the new-
Kansas City train becomes effective
January 8th. It will leave here about
6:40 p. ni. instead of 9:00 p. m. at
present. South of Guthrie it will run
as a local, while north it will be a
Kansas City flyer. This is practically
not a new train from here to Guth-
rie, but becomes a new train between
Guthrie and Kansas City The ere-
will probably run from here to Ne\
on Kansas, instead of stopping at
juthrie as at present.
It will be a splendid inovation foi
°se who desire to attend the good
shows which come to Oklahoma City
and will help some in local traffic
and we believe be an incentive for a
larger through traffic, at least the
latter will increase from Oklahoma
City.
NUMBER 25
Guthrie, Okla , Dec. 26.—Rev C C
Bra,mo,l, Methodist preacher, for,,,
"ly active in Oklahoma politics and
at the present time a special officer
umlr' the interior department at
Vashington, recently in county court
at lass I.ake, Minn., took a drink
from a bottle alleged to be rat poison
to prove that it was just plain booze.
lor several years Brannon has
been engaged in the prohibition en
forceinent business on the Indian res !
ervations of the United States He i-.
under Special Agent W. E. Johnson !
"f Washington, D. C, who is known 1
so well throughout the southwest as '
"Pussyfoot," because of the success-
ful raids that he made in old Indian
j territory prior to statehood. At the'
present time Johnson, Brannon, C. T
REPUBLICAN CON-
GRESSMAN IN RAD.
Oklahoma republican congressmen
are in bad" with the voters because
of their friendly attitude toward
Speaker Cannon, according to the
"straw jote" taken by "Success" mag-
azine. "Success" maintains an auxili-
ary editorial board of life subscribers
and it was through a vote on the part
of the members of this board, that
Success was enabled to forecast the
electoral vote in the last presidential
campaign.
Straw votes were cast upon three
questions;
Question No. you approve of'
the position of ,;i representative of
your district in the speakership con-
test last spring?
McGuire received 3 republican af '
firmative answers, and 14 republican
and 10 democratic negative answers. |
Morgan received one affirmative re-
publican answer and 16 republican
| and 10 democratic negative answers. I
l reager received 4 republican affir
! "native answers and 9 republican and
10 democratic negative answers
Question No. 2-Would you vote]
for linn if there should be another
election this month, provided that he
were opposed by a reputable man of
the opposition party?
McGuire: Yes, 4 republicans; no
10 republicans and 10 democrats.
Morgan: Yes, 4 republicans; no, 10
republicans and 11 democrats.
Creager: Yes, 7 republicans; no, 5
republicans and 12 democrats
Question No. 3—Is it your desire
that he support the administration
and policies of Speaker Cannon, or
would you prefer that he oppose
them?
I j>,*l.,e"' 0 K- Brents of A,la, and H.
I 1 ' "ggeschel of Elmira, N Y are
j Cleaning up the |ndians jn Minne'iola
I was during the trial of a
| >y the name of Richie, an agent for
j • ass I.ake Drug company , that
| Brannon made certain the conviction
; °f Richie by drinking from a bottle
said to contain rat poison. The charge
Luen made against Richie of sell-
ing whiskey to a Chippewa Indian,
if" ; defense was that he had not
sold whiskey to the Indian, but rat
POISO". Rev. Brain,O" had a "hunch"
what the bottle contained was
lc ' v whiskey, and to convince the
jurors he took a drink of the liquid,
resulting no bad effects whatever
VCrd'ct of conviction was at once
returned against the prisoner.
McGuire Yes, 1 republican; no, 18
republicans and 10 democrats.
Morgan: Yes, none; no, 19 repub-
licans and 10 democrats.
Creager: Yes, 1 republican; no, 10
republicans and 12 democrats
The editor of the Oklahoma City
>mes has been frantically trying for
some time to get a state conference
of the republican leaders; but for
some reason the party leaders fear a
state conference. It begins to look as
though the leaders fear that a state
conference would be likely to pass
some resolutions and that said reso-
lutions would in all probability be
I anti-Cannon and such would be like-
ly to play sad havoc with the fellows
< csiring reappointment to federal
positions and to the postoffices It is
not generally known; but a truth
nevertheless, that the republican par-
ty in this state is in about as wretch-
ed a conditon as the democratic par-
ty and the republican leaders know
>t, hence want no early conventions
o conferences. They want to wait
until tune to organize an opposition
mlovement is passed and the voters
will be forced to accept.
SURETy COMPANY SETTLES
Guthrie, Okla Dee ?K t .
p A • ■ Secretary
• Cassidy, of the school land
commission, yesterday received a
•raft lor $25,000 from the Southern
Surety company of Muskogee inpay-
ment for the bond given the state as
surely on the deposit in the defunct
banners and Merchant, National
'-auk ol I ulsa. The commit,,, Sat-
urday filed suit at Muskogee to re-
cover on similar bond given by the
company to the state on the deposit
the Columbia Bank and Trust
company of Oklahoma City.
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The story of the Old Year ha's been told, and
we say "FAREWELL" to 1909.
1910 ushers in an era ot peace, happiness
and prosperity. It brines good times for
one and all.
sL all hail ro the new year."
Mrs. R. B. Martin arrived home on
I hursday afternoon from a short visit
with her daughter, Mrs. A. Kingkade
of Oklahoma City.
HOGS HIGHEST IN THIRTY
TEARS.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 29-Hogs
brought the unusual ' price of $8.80
m the local market yesterday, the
highest price since 1882. The receipts
ere heavy.
The
Ephraim Clothing
Company
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