The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 18, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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The El Reno Democrat
Y THE DEMOCRAT PUBLItHING COMPANY
THK DEMOCRAT 18 THE OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER.
svst.ru K uirnt it *uih the vcr? 1" i r c«t on tlui capital stock and 1 >,v tb« tame methods now um>lk'd by
. ti «l
lil i « f llb«rt
iu« aiis the <legra<Iatioi
Thomas Jefferson. t?i«
of democracy. an-l the
of the American ! ■« i l
"banks are more ilani
continuance
of the nation,
great apostle
genuine rrlen«!
. declared that
Krous to a re-
J. W. MAHER, r*tf -•
V. B. aLLEE, Vlct-Prssldsni.
P. P. DUFFY, Secretary.
T. W. MAHER, Treaturer.
jwiowfa^utBfr> 6S4
.mi Mmi> il l* iii the surplus. Mt. Ilooe«v«lt, controlled the repub-
I lit- Kirst national Is tin- largest as iti.au uat.uaal convention al Miune-
to dejiosits In the United Slates. Its apoiis lu 1S92. Mr. Harrison had the
statement* show that lis surplus convention, he had the office holders
fund, plus he dividends paid to (tie who sat in it. be had the committee
stockholders during the lust five aud he had the distinguished honor
years, would amount to owr $3,000,- f when the election came on of being
(Mici <>r 100 per cent 011 the capital ( beaten by one of the largest majorl-
in*, with private individuals issuing stock. A bank that earns for its ties ever given against a republican
their notes as money, and with a re- stockholders an average of 20 perj candidate. It seems possible that
cent is certainly doing well." |-.Mr. Roosevelt who ig an historian
With such a system organized and and who must at least know the his-
creat .1 l>> the party of great moral tory of bis own time, might find In
public than standing armies." What
would Jefferson say now, were he 11 v-
DAILY EDITION
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NOTICE TO CANDIDATE#.
Under the Oklahoma pri-
mary election law all petition*
for candidates who wish to get
on th« ticket must be filed not
later than Juns 25, for the
primary election which will be
held August 4,
Announcement
(Political Advertisement.)
1 take this method of announcing
my caudldacy for the office of state
senator for the 14th senatorial dis-
trict
This Is the first time I have offer-
ed myself as a candidate for a local
or state office, though for a period
of 15 years 1 have labored In the
interest of and supported the democ-
racy of Canadian county.
To have my name on the legal
primary election ballot It Is neces-
sary that my petition contain the
names of 100 voters. No voter can
■lien but one petition for the same
stiles.
R. B. FORREST. *
♦♦ twilight zone between the nation and
I, the state in which exploiting Inter-
T | ests can take refuge from both." He
bad in mind the constant attempts
publican president raving like a ma-
niac for a standing army. In time 01
peace, and a $1.000,0u0.000 navy? He
would undoubtedly denounce the
whole aims and actions of the party
•f hypocrisy as un American anil an-
ti-republican. The keeping of stand
Ing arniieR In time oT peace ami the
floating of an enormous navy, when
not necessary, was always coudemn-
f«l by every administration from
Washington ilown to Lincoln. John
Randolph said:
"A national bank will overawe con-
gress and laugh at lis laws." Is not
that the im cut con.I t >11? What do
the national banks, trusts ami com-
bines care for the laws of congress
or for any other laws? They say
with Vanderbilt: "The people be
damned."
ideas, is it any wonder that million this casual reminiscence something
suggestive of his present
position.
aires and robbinx trusts have sprang
up on every hand, and that labor is
starving in many parts of the nnion?
In tlie New York Herald said,
'The p -1|ile are paying the national
banks about -.'1 per cent int-rest oa
the circulation they furnish. In all
seriousness, any king In or out of
Cnnst ndoin who would inflict such
a burden as our national bank sys- committee, are "desperate."
teni. would forfeit his head on the
scaffold." I
It is no wonder that Al>e Lincoln (
while discussing this question, a
short time before his untimely death,
said "I see a crisis arising in the
mar future w hich unn< rves me and
political
DESPERATE CONDITIONS.
In the army the pull is might! r
than the sword by all odds, it Is
no wondtr that conditions In the
military service, as described by
Chairman Hull, of the house military
After Independence had been causes me to tremble for the safety
achieved by our noble American pa 1 of my count")-." Poor eld A*ie. He
triots, Sir William Pitt, England's didn't live to see the worst of it!
of predatory corporations to avoid gt,le statesman, prophetically declar- J
national laws by an appeal to states the Americans adopt If.o CURRENT TOPIC8 CP
ENVOY SENT TO WASHINGTON
TO SECURE LARGE TRACT.
Yaquis at Last Surrender to Mexican
Government at Will Formally
Lay Aside Arms.
EI Paso. Texas. June 15.—After a
warfare which has extended over
120 years, cost thousands of lives
and a property loss estimates at
$50,1100.000 anil which has been mark-
ed by excessive cruelty and b-utality
on both sides, the Yaqui nation of
Indians has at last hoisted the white
flag of surrender. Terms of settle-
ment have been agreed upon by rep-
resentatives of the Mexican army and
Chief Brule of the Yaquis. and today
has been set for a gathering of the
Indian tribes to ratify the treaty of
peace. Many doubt that the Indians
are acting in good faith, and that
the Mexican army officers share this
misgiving is evidenced by the fact
that troops In large numbers have
been massed in the district, prepare.I
for a possible uprising today.
The Yaqui tribe claims ownership
rights and to vaoid state laws by an funding system and go into the bank
appeal to national supremacy. Ev-
ery one who his tried to protect the
public from the plundering that has
been carried on by monopolies knows
how the big corporations have played
| fast and loose with both nation and
| state. It was to- this reason that
| the phrase "twilight zou>," struck
| such a responsive chord. The presi-
dent Immediately seized upon It and
used It to explain his position. The
president sa'd: "Just a word of what
has been called the 'twilight land'
Mr. Hull's son was made a major
nn.l soon afterwards, lieutenant col
onei In violation of the rule of pro-
mot.on by seniority and merit. The
son in law of Senator Warren, chair- of a large tract of land in Arizona,
man of the senate military commit- and an envoy was recently sent to
tee, was promoted from the rank of Washington to lay the matter before
captain to that of brigadier general the department of the interior. It
at one bound, In violation of the is unlikely that the Washington an
same rule. General Wrood, for being thorities will be in any haste to in-
a chum of the president, was raised 1 vite the "scourges of Mexico" to the
from the rank of colonel to that of United Stales.
major general. Political pull and The terms of settlement between
personal favoritism have filled the the Mexican government and the In-
tiigher ranks of the army with in- dlans provide unconditional submis-
competents; and this has disgusted sion of the Yaquis to the authority of
ing strength of John Mitchell as a the trained officers who have been the government; that the lives and
possible vice presidential candidate! kept down by that vicious policy. property of the Indians be respected,
commands the attention of all men J It is now proponed to conciliate and they be protected in all the
Interested in politics. Mr. Mitchell, those professional military men by rights and privileges accorded to
himself has never said a word on raising their pay; or in other words, Mexican citizens under existing laws,
the subject. From what I know of by bribery. But the panic brought prov:ded. however, that for the time
THE NATION'S CAPITAL
(Willis J. Abbott.)
Washington, June 13—The grow-
ing institution, ami their boasted in-
dependence will be a mere phantom."
What more Is it today? Pitt was
right. The party of hypocrisy hav-
ing full control of the government
for 47 years, less eight years ol Mr.
Cleveland's administration, lias wov-
en a web of conspiracy, crime and
outlawry against the masses of the
people, to such an extent, that I con ! him I am Inclined to believe that he' on by the extravagance and vicious being they must not go north of
sider the people absolutely powerless
to resist successfully. The people
may elect Bryan, Johnson or some
between the powers of the federal other great man. whose soul is not
and state governments. My primary
aim in the legislation that I have
advocated for the regulation of the
great corporations has been to pro-
vide some effective popular sovereign
for each corporation. I do not wish
to keep this twilight land one of
imbued with the spirit of graft, and
what then? When in 1876 Samuel .1.
Tllden was elected president by a
quarter million majority of the pop-
ular vote, and by 200 electoral votes
against 169. did not a military des-
potism declare he should never be
large and vague boundaries, by Judic- President, and virtually stole the of
lal decision that in a given case the
state cannot act, and then a few
years later by other decisions that
in practically similar cases the na-
tion cannot act either. I am trying
to find out where one or the other
can act, so there shnll always be
some sovereign power that on be-
half of the people can hold every
big corporation, every big individual,
flee from him? is not the party of
hypocrisy more unscrupulous, mors
criminal, and more desperate in its
methods now than in 1ST*?
Even should an upright man be
elected and permitted to take his
seat, should there be a house and
««">3tc of the old "$tandpatter$." who
like our present congress, would
spend a billion dollars and do ab-
ANNOUNCEMENT.
(Political Advertisement.)
The Democrat is authorized to an-
nounce the name cf T. F. Hensley
aa a candidate for the office of rep-
resentative from Canadian county, '° an accountability so that Its or his solutely noting during a whole ses
aubject to the action of the demo- ac,B sha11 be beneficial to the peo- flon- what could a president do more
cratic voters at the primary election, P,e as a whole."
August 4. j However people may d'ffer about
. [ the methods employed by the chief
** ' I e!tPfU"ve—an>' ^'r- I'ryan has dis-
where? ; sente.l from some of them—no one
' ran dispute the president's statement
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican that every corporation must t e
prints this significant editorial: ' Un amenable to some sovereign. It Is
which side is the heart 01 the pre"'. , absurd to say that the law s can ere
dent in the party struggle iri tha ate n fictitious person, called a cor
bouse of representatives'.' Duc.i ho poratlon, and that the 1 feature can
was rather more surprised at the tariff and financial legislation of the I res; that all arms an.i munitions-
suggestion of his name than any of! republicans is likely to make the of war in the hands of the Indians
those who read the newspaper sto-! bribery scheme impossible, and many he delivered to the military anthon
rles. Mr. Mitchell is a singularly young officers will abandon the army ties, that emissaries shoul I be s< nt
quiet man. Also he is a remarkably j for civil life. The private soldiers 'o the different Yaqui bands, advis-
able man. Mr. Mitchell's personal; are already deserting by scores. !ng them to cease hostilities and de-
liver up their arnn; and that the
THE COAL TRUST. government provide all necessaries
The coal trust publicly Informs for the submitting Indians until such
us that the wage scale will remain time as work can be provided for
than recommend and be laughed at
by the purchased knaves in both
houses?
beliefs closely parallel Chose of Mr.
Bryan. His strength is with the
working people of the nation, and
his nomination, should it be made,
would do away with the old, old sto-
ry that the vice president on the
democratic ticket was always chosen
with a view to the amount of money
he might contribute to the campaign
fund. In this letter I do not desire
to urge or to detract from the mer-
its of John Mitchell as a possible'
vice presidential candidate. Hie mer-
its are many, probably no labor lead-
er In the United States unless It be
Samuel Gompers has so large a per-
sonal following. He has fought for
the cause of labor without incurring
the personal antagonism of the men
against whom he was fighting. He
the same as now until April 1, 1909, them.
and although the cost of mining has Although christianized by the Span-
greatly increased, the price of coal Ishfathers, the Raquis steadfastly r.
will be the same. There seems to ' fused to accept the dominion of
be something out of gear In this in- Spain, and as soldiers, in the revo-
formation, for if the labor scale Is t lutionar.v army, materially aided in
the Si.me the cost of mining coal j driving the Spaniards from the cotin-
can hardly be greatly increased. Then try. and in laier years, against the
there is the automatic increase in the armies of the republic, they stubborn-
price of coal of ten cents a ton a maintained their freedom. When
month until September, which hardly 1 at peace, they enjoyed all the rights
agrees with the statement that the and privileges accorded to other cftl-
price will not be added to. We wish zens of Mexico, but their fealty to
the God-fearing brother Baer would tribal relations was never broken,
explain these paradoxes. But one 1 —
thing is certain, the republican con-
gress has been standing pat on the
tariff to the evident advantage of
has maintained himself with dignity
During the past quarter of a een ] and with self-respect, and should he
tury many leading democrats and 1 be nominated there would be noth-j "'e coa' and other trusts.
some few honest republicans warned I lng that wou)d be sald aga)nst hlra
the public against the power and in- which to thinking men would carry' MILKING THE CORPORATIONS.
Alienee of the national bank system weight. He Is not a radical any|
and of the blasting Influfnce of the nlore than Mr. Bryan Is a radical.I An esteemed contemporary gives
tariff made trusts, y t how many o J Both have been working along par- vent to this chunk of wisdom:
our so eailnl statesmen have made | a]]e] lines, an(j neither one has gone) "With a special committee of a re-
sympathibe with the opposition fill-j then defy its creator and oppress at ' effort to do away with those ' beyond the limit of reasonable con ! publican congress Investigating the
busterlug to force action 011 nis fa will the people of the entire counrty.
vorite measures, or with the :epub- These corporations have controlled
Jican majority fightin gto dump tlieni national politic for years and resent
under a trapdoor until the next ses any interference with their plans.
#Iou? Which Is the president's pur ; They control politics in several stnt s
^y, anyhow?" ; and are reaching out for more. They
ylf* or it may be— j per defame every servant of the
a magazine writer who Reenis to 1 pPGpl ■ and eulogize every official who
be "groping blindly In the darkness," betrays his constituents. The.v coil
Bays!
worse than nuisances that is, how j servatlsm. | currency problem, and the ways and
many of the party In power, .lin-Ms j yet ]t is to be questioned whether means committee of a republican
those years, notwithstanding theii- j J0hn Mitchell will have much of a, house of representatives studying tha
pretense of being the party who al | following at the Denver convention. | ,uriff schedules during the presiden
wavs stood by the people's rights, , One reason is the very modesty I tfal campaign, it seems unlikely that
In the September number of the| which I have already referred to. lie
; subsidize newspapers aud these pa- ■ North American Review. 1885, F. J. I )s constitutionally unfit to organize
Scott, a writer of ability, set forth , a boorn He lg emphatically urttie
In Plain IrtrtgUAge the power of the j to g„t out ln the campalgB elth.
banking system, against which , er speak or "mix." A silent man who
people were then protesting, as fol 1 )<reps his own counsel; a man who
I does things rather than says things,
One might as well Inveigh naainst r John MitcheJI has conquered the ad-
team engines, markets and '\uiratfon and respect of those who
tribute to the campaign funds to de-
"Thfe thing which has made Bryan- baue.h politics; they corrupt business
1sm again possible may be a mere methods and when these coi'rui t
spinning ecstasy in t.ie nerves of an methods are attacked they hide be-, roads
post offices as against those banks, j have observed his career. But if he
' The unity of the national banking | ,-s a positive candidate for the
interests threaten* the corruption ami Vjce presidential nomination other
control of the machinery of political , lneI1 than he will have to press hfs
parties Its power is omnipotent. It |candidacy. And if he should be nom-
inated for the position the vote up-
overwrought people; it may be a slow hind honest wealth and denounce all
moral revolution, swinging tidelike reform as an attack on legitimate ac-
from party to party; it may be a cumulation.
•recognition of the enduring power of It is time to eliminate the "twi-
an unsullied manhood, coupled with light zone" and hold to strict ac-
an Incomparable tongue; it may be countability all the agencies created
a mere habit, or it may be a mood of hy the people. The game of hide
despair in which all candidates re- ani1 seek must stop, and the nation
tire in favor of the one man who ll"d the slate, each In its respective
has learned how to make defeat sphere, must exercise its power to trolling with uriSeen hand the gov
pay." I the full, first, to make 1 private mo ernments under whic they lived. Be
Or It may be that the American nopoly impossible, and second, to so
■people have grown weary of the im- regulate quasi public corporations . s
jiositions put upon thtm by trust to make them subserve the purp is: having $100,000 of its own money 10 ,ls t0 be reckoned with seriously, not
magnates posing as "defenders of for which they were created —The
Ihe national iionor."—Commoner. Commoner.
is subtle and strong to maintain laws
for its own private profft. The Jes-
uits of two Centuries ago had no
more efficient organisation for con-
hold our banking association changed
in the twinkling of an eye from 01.e
MASSACHUSETTS DELEGATES IN
FAVOR THEIR GOVERNOR.
Boston, June 13.—MapsicMusett!-
ilelegates to the republican national
convention, -is well as parties of del-
egates >'rom the other N'ew England
states, left today for Cliicij,}, fonii-
dent of securing for the Buy state
the second place on the national tick
et. "We are all for Guild for vice
president," declared one of the del-
gates who is in a position to know
the sentiment of his fellows, and it
is likely that a hot fight will i>e
made for fthe Massachusetts cl'vi■ ■ t
the nefUblican camjjaisn fund will be , executive. * „
"Ai'all or hard to gather. Tlu report that John Mays Ham-
"Besides, there is the "practical *mond would be the thoice of the
man" who knows when to shoot and
how to milk the corporations."
In view of tfre story of Roosevelt's
deal with the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad, this seems to
tie personal
COTTON ACREAGE
AND CONDITION.
itie crop reporting board of the
bureau of statistics of the depart-
on which he could count would have! n^nt of agriculture finds, from re-
to be that of the hundreds of thou-
sands of labor men who know his rec-
ord, rather than the votes of any
American citizen whom he might stir
with speeches during the campaign.
Nevertheless the Mitchell candidacy
Wil
HOW LONG?
Publ'c Service Commlss'oner
liams of New York recently sa'd:
"The day of perpetual franchises is
past. The public Insists, and will In-
sist. that franchises, whether in the
streits or under the streets, shall
"either remain in the city or within
the city's control under sueh con !!•
THE PARTY OF HYPOCRISY.
(Chapter 16)
(By B. P. Duffy, Cottonwood, Idaho.)
1 have asserted in a former chap-
ter that the establishment of the na-
tional banking system was unneeea
sary and uncalled for, and further,
that it was established for the es
tions that they may be retaken after pecial use and benefit of the tisur
a given period." ers. gold gamblers and money sharks
Mr. Williams is hardly in line with of Wall street, and was, and is a
Secretary Taft, who admitted lhat. detriment and a curse to the wealth
.he favored the perpetual franchise <n producers and toilers of America,
ihe Philippines.—Commoner. | Instead of giving special prlviKges
| to individuals to issue a circulating
THE TWILIGHT ZONE. medium, all monies whether gold.
1 silver, paper, nickels or even coppers.
At the governors' conference, 1 of right ou;:ht to be issued by the
ealled by the president, Mr. Bryan ; United States government. The pow
invest, to one with that amount se-
eurelv invested and JflO.OOO more in
band to lend. Was ever $90,000 more
deftly taken In? Were this pretty
Subsidy the only objection to the
system, it mlgth be let alone: but
because Mitchell is pushing it. but
because he has back of him a voting
strength which any party might be
glad to acquire.
p principle upon wlili
founded is dangeroi:
'1" .f busitn ss and
the
til.
^ t"11
sta-'
niaj
e in
be modi
3f 111
ml.
this
both
Thiers
houses are off'cers and s
of the national banks, and have not
iet been known, from any delicate
appreciation of their public duties,
to refrain from voting on questions
concerning the banks op account of
having private interests therein.'
Three years later, .1 Chicago p -
The Deserted Capital.
Washington is about singing its
swan song for this summer. With
the exception of the president and
two or three of the less prominent
members of the cabinet, there is not
a republican statesman left in the
town. All are either in Chicago or
tin their way there, breathing threats
of war and retaliation. The presi-
dent remains at the white house
working the long distance telephone
and ruling the republican national
committee with a rod of iron. Never
in the history of American politics
per, the Tribune, in discussing this has a committee been so thoroughly
banking system, said:
referred to the discussion about the | er and right to issue ought never "It is conducted w ith great profit
vdative spheres of the nation and be delegated to any man or assoei-1 In this city. TU.> national banks of
dominated from the white house.
Once a convention was dominated by
a republican president in the white
•tate and said that there is "no ation of men. The national bank Chicago are averaging not tar from bouse, One Benjmmtn Harrison, who prage .85 per ceflL
Massachusetts delegation for the
, vice presidential domination is au-
thoritatively denial, it is alleged
that when Mr. Hammond made his
announcement, be had been misin-
formed as to 'ihe state of Governor
Guild's health, and was under the
erroneous impression that the gover-
nor iiad not sufficiently recovered
from his recent serious illness to
make the race. Mr. Hammond and
Governor Guild are personal friends
and, since the latter is to be a can-
didate, Hammond is not likely to
permit the use of his name.
Interviews with leaders in the vn-
rious delegations from the New Eng-
land states Indicate that this section
of the union will eome solidly to
the support of Secretary Taft when
the roll is called to choose a candi-
date for the presidency. Possibility
pf a coalition with one of the allies,
in return for support for Governor
Guild, ha sheen mentioned, but is
not seriously considered.
Socialists Hopeful.
Milwaukee. Wis.. June 12.—Dele-
gates from all the social democratic
locals of Wisconsin ,-vvill assemble
in state convention tomorrow to
to name a state ticket. The candi-
dates named will be ratified by a ref-
erendum vote of the socialists
throughout the state. Socialist lead-
ers declare that the party, which Is
strongly organized in Wisconsin,
1907 and 1906, and the average of will i>oll a larger vote this year than
the past ten years: ever before and that there is mor
Oklahoma: Area compared with than a possibility that some of their
1907 planted area, 102; area planted candidate.* may be elected. It is al-
and to be planted 1908, 2,309,000 leged that the recent hard times and
acres; condition on May 25, 1908, financial stringency have added to
.80; 1907, 79; 1906, 8«; ten year at-1 the voting strength of the socialist
ports of correspoudents and agents
of the bureau, that the area planted
to cotton in the United States his
season (1908), includiug that already
planted and expected to be planted,
Is about one tenth of one per cent
greater than the area planted to cot-
ton last year (1907), thus indicating
an area of 32,081,000 acres as com-
pared with 32,060,000 acres planted
last year, an increase of 21,000 acres.
The condition of the growing crop
on May 25 was 79.7 per cent of a nor-
mal, as compared with 70.5 and S4.C
per cent at corresponding dates in
1907 and 1906, respectively, and 82.3
per cent, the average of the condi-
tion on May 25 of the past ten years.
The following shows, for Oklaho-
ma, the estimated area iu cotton in
1908, as compared with the area
planted in 1907 in per cents, the to-
tal area planted and to be planted in
190S in acres, aud the condition o.
the growing crop on May 25 of 1908,
party.
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