The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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The El Reno Democrat
by the democrat publishing company
JHC DEMOCRAT IS THE OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY PAPER.
J. W. MAHER, President
V. B. ALLEE, Vice President.
P. P. DUFFY, Secretary.
T. W. MAHER, Treasurer.
Ods year, delivered In city ....
•Ik months, delivered in city ..
months, delivered In city
i month, delivered in city ..
week, delivered in city ...
$4.00
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WEEKLY EDITION
Om Year
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91.25
.75
.50
OUR TICKET
For President—
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
For Vice President—
JOHN WORTH KERN.
For U. S. Senator—
THOMAS P. GORE.
For Corporation Commissioner—
, A. P. WATSON.
For Chief Justice Supreme Court—
ROBERT L. WILLIAMS,
■"or Associate Justice Supreme Court—
SAMUEL L. HAYES.
For Congress, 2nd District—
ELMER L. FULTON.
For State Senator 14th District—
W. H. JOHNSON,
•tor Representative—
MILTON B. COPE.
For Flotorin! Representative, Caddo,
Canadian and Cleveland Counties—
BEN T. WILSON.
THi: lil!VAN FUND
Joseph P. Butli r
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r. N. Howell
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O. W. Hill
.. 1.001
Jacob J. Ellison
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J. W. liaydon
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James Roberson
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Dr. Rob rt Mare R
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J. F. Nlghswandi r
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A. J. Kelly. St Leu Mi
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Captain Luther .1 nl>. i -
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W. 11 l.aincar
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C. A. Reams
J. W. Mahcr
... 1.00
E. J. Godfrey
... 1.00
Sydney E. Clute
... l.oo
W. H. Riley
... 1.00
President Roosevelt denied him. The
president admitted the falsity of the
accusation by his subsequent silence,
but did not have the manliness or fair
ness to admit his error, if error In-
deed It was.
The only other charge worth notice
that the president lias made In tills
connection is that Governor Haskell
was Inffuenced by the Standard Oil
company to stand In the way of an
attempt to prevent the Prairie Oil and
(las company, a Standard subsidiary
company, from laying a pipe line out
of Oklahoma.
As fair minded men, willing to do
justice to all parties, let's look the
matter Bquarely in the face and de-
termine who is culpable, If guilt there
be.
What are the facts?
In Oklahoma there were millions
upon millions of gallons of oil that
could not be shipped out without the
establishment of a pipe line. It could
not bo transported by rail, for t e
added charges would not permit it
to compete with oil from other fields
enjoying pipe line facilities. Kansas
and other Acids were in direct compe-
tition with Oklahoma oil, and it had to
be handled as cheaply as the same
product was handled elsewhere or find
Itself without a market. The process
and development of the new stat'
hung i'i the balance,
A franchise for this pipe line had
been granted by the secretary of the
interior, Roosevelt's appointee, but
Governor Haskell is not endeavoring
to shield his action by exploiting that
permission. A serious question was
up to liim for decision, and this qnes-
tion was, "Will you Join In a dema-
gogic, corporation-baiting move on tile
part of the attorney e. nernl of vour
state and close the markets of the
United States to Oklahoma oil. or will
you. at the risb of suspicion, do the
right and ninuly tiiia:-' and trind by
f,e property < wn ''"s : • i 1 p'. due
of your :■' it? Will • u he a man
and play a man's part, t ,■ will \ u
throat and
THE HASKELL CHARGES.
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma ha
n right to a hearing before the Ameri-
can people on tii'1 charges brought
against him by Theodore Roosevelt,
president of the 1'nltcd States, His
resignation as treasurer of the na-
tional Democratic committee, instead
of ending the controversy, onlv opens
the way for a fair light on the merits
of the case, on the truth or falsity
of the charges made by Mr. Roose
elt.
The president Is now endeavoring
(it drop this controversy, brought on
and instituted by himself, and en*
gage In a wordy war with Mr. Bryan.
]f Mr. Haskell is the man the Post
thinks lie Is, he will not permit this
digression. He should know no rest
until his accuser stands convicted of
juaking charges that he failed to sus
tain, of wantonly maligning an upright
citizen and an innocent man.
Thus far Governor Haskell has by
far the better of the argument.
He stands acquitted of the original
accusation made by the President,
that he attempted to influence Attor
Hey General Monnett of Ohio to drop
certain proceedings against the Stan
«iard Oil company. The statement of
Mr. Monnett proves his innocence, but,
"this was not necessary. No sooner
tiad he denied the charge or demand-
proof than Mr. Roosevelt began to
accuse him of other and different
•Wags, never again mentioning the
Ohio matter. By this course the
jjresidett did a great Injustice to Mr.
Haskell and a no lesser one to the
manlier part of his own nature.
Rovernor Haskell had a right to lie
4>card in his own defense. That right
ua oil is flowing out
of tir1 land, a tiling
li en Impossible but
■ 'I
id Kb
manner of conduct of the two cam I an and Kern and the labor platform
pal ens. The Democratic battle is lie | ■ n v hleh they stand
Ing waged honestly and fairly, wit;
clean principles anil clean men h
hind every mov«. The contribution
that defray the expenses of the cam
pulgn come from the hearts of Demo-| o tV
crats. Independents and sincere Re-| Hon by
publicans who want to see the gov | !"' its
ernmeiit return to sanity and safe' w hich make a labor union
dealing. The hooks are open to the | combination in the I'nited States, the
spies of Roosevelt w henever they care J committee on resolutions of the Re-
to Inspect them. William J. Bryan is' publican national convention dellber-
out in the open, making a manly fight I ately refused to grant even a small
anil unhesitatingly announcing the degree of what Mr. Gompers and his
had
the federal < nut
attention drawn t<
i.l the plat
irties. The>
of Injunc
after hav
the laws
an illegal
ply to the apology of James 8. Sher-
man. he would have no need to ask
"Who Is John W. Kern?"
TAFT'S ANANIAS CLUB.
CatP
to
throttled him.
Today Oklaho
to the mnrkets
that would linvi
for the act of this hone it and courage-
ous man.
The best way to test a man's ac-
tions, whether he be an official or a
private citizen, is to learn how they
are taken by his own people, by those
who are affected by his actions.
This act, for which he has been
censured by Mr Roosevelt, was not
only approved, but applauded, by the
people of Oklahoma, just as such acts
are always applauded by honest and
fair-minded men.
The Post regrets that Governor Has
kell resigned as treasurer of the llem
oeratic national committee. This is
the only sign of weakness he has
show ii throughout the controversy
While this action was excusable, tak
ing into consideration the reason lit
gives, that he was unwilling to take
any chance of hurting the cause of
his party, stiil, in our opinion, it was
a mistake of judgment. He could not
have injured his party by bis act of
which Mr. Roosevelt complained.
As for the Post. It has never yet
trimmed its sails to catch a passing
breeze, and will not do so now. The
Post believes that the act of Governor
Haskell was right and righteous.
When revelations almost destroyed
the Republican national committee.
Haskell heard the crash, saw men who
were once noted, but now notorious
falling on every hand, it may be that
fear for bis party's safety seized up-
on him. and under this influence he
resigned. The Post regrets that he
did not permit his party to become
codefendant and thereby be a sharer
in his vindication.
This case brings again to notice th<
source of every dollar received or'
expended in the name of Democracy.
On the other hand, Sherman anil Shel
don art ''"ing up a slush fund with
the promise that the American people
shall know the source of it "after the
election."
This contrast between the methods
of the two parties stamps the differ-
ence between tile parties themselves,
one In the open, lighting the people's
battle with tin- people's money, con-
cealing nothing from anybody- and
the other milking the trusts and mon-
opolies, working always In the dark,
levying tribute where It can and
trusting nobody, promising that the
truth shall lie known when it Is too
late for the American people to prollt
by the knowledge.—Kansas City Post.
LABOR STANDS WITH
SAMUEL GOMPERS.
The situation with regard to nation
al politics this year has no parallel
in the history of the American repub-
lic.
Up to the present campaign the de-
termining factor in voting has been
the PARTI SI ANSI! IP of the voter.
He may have got his politics from bis
father or lie ma> have settled the
question for himself—but however his
choice was determined, it was fixed
for years to come, for men like to
wear tile jewel of consistency.
But politics, like many other things,
is a matter of evolution.
The best legacy in the world is
not money. Far better than material
wealth Is the power to think, coupled
with the ii. lie to serve the best
Interests of ones fellows. And so it
conies about that men ultimately
come to the conclusion that partisan-
ship—fixed loyalty to some organiza-
tion—is not the mai l consideration
after all Tin y finally see that, In
certain political emergencies, they
can serve the interests of the great
social body best by casting loose the
political ties which have heretofore
controlled their action and by oxer- I
clslng their influence and their ballot
hub penilentiy.
The situation is national politics
today is the one w have indicated.
The laboring men of the country
have come to the conclusion that their
duty to themselves and to one another
plainly directs them to cast aside at
lea .t fi••!- the fine being the part"
associates of the executive council
asked for.
And these men of the various
unions also knew that the Democratic
party In the Denver convention grant-
ed all that the representatives of the
American Federation of Labor re-
quested.
They also know, these men of the
various trades, that Mr. Taft, in his
speech of acceptance, made it very
clear that he was as muchiln favor
of government by Injunction then as
lie ns when he established the repu-
tation of being tile "lather of Injunc-
tions" when he was a I'nited States
judge in Ohio.
Ami these men of the various eram
also said that Samuel Gompers, pres-
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, and the executive council, had
made wise and courageous us,, of their
positions of leadership i > advising tii ■
worklngmrn of the I'ait.d States to
cast aside ihelr party t'e-; and to vot •
for tlie national candidates of that
party which has shown the courage
to stand I y the wage workers in their
effoits to obtain that legislation which
they are obviously entitled to.
Therefore It Is that the Buffalo Re-
public unreservedly declares for Bry-
an—not because lie is a Democrat,
but because he and the party which
stands behind him have shown the
disposition to do the fair and square
thing by Labor in this country.
The union men of western New-
York stand with Bryan and with Gom-
pers and we stand with the union
men.
(The above is taken from the Buf-
falo, N. Y. Republic, an independent
and non-partisan newspaper publish-
ed for the past seventeen years in
the interest of union labor and is
recognized as one of the leading ex-
ponents of the great cause of labor.
You union men please read this, then
sit, up and take notice. IM. Demo-
crat).
which havi
n and to e
lieti.'.intly.
1>e <
habitual with
iel'- franchises
aipport.
Ti ' y have done so. They have
houghtfully studied the official utter-
ances of all the parlies and they havi
studied the records of all the national
candidates And the very great ma-
jority of them have reached a con-
clusion as to the direction in which
their public duty lies.
In order that the attitude of the
workingnien of this part of the state
might learn, the Buffalo Republic sent
Its representatives into every city and
large village in the Eighth judicial dis-
trict. There was no picking and
choosing. Men were interviewed as
they were met. The officers and the
members of the various locals were
asked to express their views.
The result of our Inquiries speaks
for itself. In the local columns of
the present issue w ill be found a fair
and frank expression of the views
of the hundreds of men who were in
terviewed by our staff representa-
tives.
The men whom our representatives
saw* were Republicans. Democrats, In-
dependence Leaguers and Socialists.
Better still, they are good American
citizens, ^vlio ask for no special priv-
ileges and no unfair advantages over
their fellow citizens.
The unanimity of their expression
was remarkable. They did not de-
clare for the Democratic party, but
they did declare themselves for Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan for president and
for the Gompers program. In 99 cases
out of every 100 they declared their
conviction that President Samuel Gom-
pers and the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor did
the consistent thing, did the logical
thing and DID THE RIGHT THING
when the advised the workingnien of
the United States to give their suff
"Who is John W. Kern?" asks Wil
liam 10. Corey, Ihe multimillionaire
3teel magnate who gained notoriety
by marrying Mabelie Gilman, the ac
tresit.
In t' e first V'ace John W Kern Is
an old foggy. He has such old fash-
ioned notions that he despises a ma i
who would divorce his wife and the
mother of hi
gratify an ins
ross. John V
back n um
above doll
children In
no passion f"
rs
rder
those
honor
soul
offer
ron a'
all hi
eitln
dow (
rii:
his
old.
been Inoculated with some of tlei
Roosevelt virus. In one of his
: peeclies in Colorado yesterday he
charged Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
with being guilty of "circulating
lies" about him.
This is the equivalent of calling
Mr. Gompers a liar, and If pressed.
Mr. Taft doubtless will be willing to
use the "shorter and uglier" word.
Had this charge been made by Mr.
Roosevelt, it would have occasioned
but slight surprise. The president
already has n long list of charter mem-
bers in his Ananias club and addi-
tions are expected at any time. Noi-
ls he choice ill his verbiage ill refer-
ring to those whom he cannot cajola
to his support or bluff into silence.
The man whose views of governmen-
tal policies differ from his own is an
"undesirable citizen," while he who
falls to recall a conversation or
event in exactly the same manner
as the arbiter of destiny Is just a
plain, every-day "liar."
It is surprising, however, that Mr.
Taft, whose utterances heretoio,.
have been fairly well held within t if
liounds of decorum and good taste,
should descend to the patois of the
pave, the epithet of the guttersnipe.
The dispatches fall to state what are
the "lies" Mr. Gompers stands charg-
ed with circulating, and for the pres
• at purpose it is Immaterial what
tin v were. Mr Gompers Is an honest
and an honorable man. Behind hint
Is a record of half a century of clean
deeds nnd pure purposes. His word
Is held to lie as sacred as his bond
by two millions of America's best cit-
izens. He lias been honored repeat-
edly bv the organized labor of Ameri-
ca. a distinction Hint could not have
been gained by a liar or a poltroon,
however versed in deceit and cun-
ning.
Mr. Gompers needs no defense at
our hands. The splendid reputation
he has builded is a living refutation
to the chrrge that he would go about
maliciously peddling lies concerning
Mr. Taft or anyone else. Nor will
the accusation of Mr, Taft go unre-
buked by the thousands of American
workingnien who honor and respect
their veteran leader.—Kansas City
Post.
In Wichita a brludle cow was tied
beneath the apple tree, and there she
crtiached decaying fruit until as drunk
as drunk coi
came and g
Keeley cure;
laid eggs at
aperture. Tli
with her pal
e the cow
shelled a
pound thel:
down her
came It.e milkmaid
extricate the evtn-
ing brew, and from eld boss a buc'n t
full of steaming fggnog quickly drew.
—Walt .Mason in the Emporia Gazetti
After the directoire gown, comes
the directoire stocking! The gar
nient is really better imagined than
described, perhaps better seen than
either. It starts with a foot, as stock
ings have done since the days our
grandmothers knitted them from
heavy gray wool, and is quite conven
tional until it reaches the nnkle. Then
it splits, unobtrusively at first, a mere
hint of a slit. As It goes up it widens
and widens and widens until the gay
little lacing that holds it together is
spanning a space of three Inches, and
the wide finishing bow is—well, in-
dependent.
The Kansas City Star, discussing
Mr Bryan's argument in favor of
larger participation in government by
fanners truly says: "If the farmers
had had their share in the making of
the laws in the last half century there
would be a more equitable economic
system In this country. The tariff
qm stion would have been solved lang
ago, for t'.'e f.rnitrs, bciiur both pro-
ducers an i consumers, have a very
- i d point of view—or shoitM have—
■ n t'1 i abject. They had a c i -
trolling voice in the making of th"
The Chicago Inter Ocean, a leading
Republican paper, says:
"Illinois has been placed in the
• loul tful column by the Democratic
can-pnHn managers, but they are not
altogether responsible for it."
Roosevelt's unscrupulous personal
attack upon Governor Haskell has
made a whole lot bigger man of Has
kell ami a blamed sight smaller in-
dividual of Roosevelt, and added many
votes to the Democratic national
it.
It is a farce to have a hide bound
Republican candidate like Dick T
Morgan go about proclaiming that the
Initiative and referendum are Repub
Ilean doctrines. He takes the state
of Oregon as his shining example, hut
falls to recall the wild attacks on
the Oklahoma constitution made by
himself and his pie counter br them
last year, when these propositions-
were ridiculed by them.
S. Douglas, editor of the Western
Age published at Langston. Okla., and
one of the brainiest negro writers ef
the south admonishes his people to
vote lor Bryan and Kern and says n
his appeal:
"Lit the intelligent and educated
negro make it plain to their white
neiglilKirs, that our race have no
special desire for social equality. We
want a chance to earn ail lion st liv-
ing, educate our children nnd fit them
for honorable citizenship ia this com-
monwealth, and wo want a square
deal in the courts of justice. When
these things are ours: we will prove
our real worth to civilization. W
will help build up t'.'e i rleultii'" 1,
and mat• rii I ■ ■ .■.-?
ndusti
this o
mil
it. whole
never f(
cessity of apologizing to his maker or
offering penance in the form of Inn
for his sins.
William E. Corey is about as sharp
a contrast to John W. Kern as could
be found within the boundaries of the
United States, with the possible ex-
ception of James S. Sherman, the
other candidate for vice president. Xo
man who holds dear the honor of
this country can contemplate the pos-
sibility of James S. Sherman becom-
ing, through an act of Providence,
the president of the United States
without shuddering: whereas if John
W. Kern should be called upon to
step into the highest office he wouii
grace it.
"Who is John W. Kern?" asks the
faithless nabob who cast off his faith-
ful wife, the woman wilo bad bravely
shared his days of poverty anil had
struggled with him to build up Ills for-
tunes, as a man throws away a lemon
after he has squeezed all of the good
out of it. Such impertinence de-
serves no answer, were it not for the
sake of calling attention to the brazen
effrontery of men of Corey's stamp
who had. through the medium of pro-
tected monopoly, grown to be the
greatest menace that confronts this
nation today. Anarchy can be stamp-
ed out by force, but the insidious
evil imposed upon this long suffering
people by men whom President Roose-
velt designates very forcibly as "male-
factors of great wealth,' is even more
to be dreaded than anarchy.
"Who Is John W. Kern?" Why, a
plain, honest American citizen of the
highest type, an unpretentious, clean
living man, yet of scholarly attain-
ments and commanding intellect. Had
that purse proud Pittsburg million-
rages and their moral support to Bry-j aire read John W. Kern's masterly re.
they
hardest light of their lives. Even
Iowa, that lias never given Its eye-
tors up for a Democrat, is now a
doubtful state. The lies Moines ll-g-
ister. a Republican paper, says:
"Union labor will be for Bryan. Bry-
an is personally popular at this time.
It is idle to claim Iowa Republican by
more than a comfortably margin. If
there is an open split over Allison
succession Iowa may be classed among
the doubtful states which the Demo-
crats will put up a strong fight for."
What is the Republican party go-
ing to do with its A Id riches, its
Paynes, its Dalzells, its Pen roses and
its Jim Shermans? Even if Foraker Is
guilty of everything that has been
charged against him. lie is the merest
"pikei" compared to those greater
enemies of the people. Still, while
Foraker is discredited, these occupy
the highest seats in the councils and
the foremost places at the feasts.
That was an awful lie peddled by-
Jim Duffy ill the Oklahoma City Times
of Monday anent the Democratic meet-
ing here last Friday stating that the
meeting was one to beguile Democrats
and that T. F. Hensley would not
"swallow the canned resolutions."
T. F. Hensley was on the resolutions
committee and the only objection he
made to them was that they were not
strong enough in the denunciation of
Roosevelt's unscrupulous attack upon
Haskell. Furthermore the insiduous
article said that George Bellamy and
Bob Forrest left the meeting when
neither of them were in the city, and
the meeting was one of harmony
throughout. Jim, wouldn't the trutn
fit just as well occasionally. And
still Jim claims to be a Democrat.
v 1
111 r
nn.l
aker who made a loyal fiui:t for I
discharged colored soldiers Is nov.
kicked from tile Roosevi t-T :t ranks
as was the colored soldiers kicked
from the army. Foraker was always
our friend and we will stand by hi n
to aid in the rebuke, of the Republican
nominee for president."
Jim Duffy lias a card from Secre-
tary Bill Cross from Ireland which
reads "I have traveled all over Kng-
land and Scotland and you will see
1 am iu dear old Ireland I visited
St Patrick's cathedral today and
thought I would send you a postnl
card. Was in Cork and kissed the
Blarney Stone." The card was posted
at Dublin. September 22nd. Col. Jin
never kissed thp Blarney Stone: t
wasn't necessary, and the big genial
secretary. Bill Cross doesn't need to
either to add to his affability.
Once upon a time a man got mad
at the editor and stopped his paper.
The next week this man sold his corn
four cents below the market price.
Then his property was sold for taxe*
because he didn't read the treasurer's
sale. He was next arrested and fiiu 1
$8.00 for going hunting on Sunday,
and paid $300 for a lot of forged
notes that had been advertized two
weeks and the public warned not to
negotiate them. He then paid a big
Irishman with a foot like a forge ham
mer to kick him all the way back to
the newspaper office, when he paid
four years in advance, and made the
editor sign an agreement to knock
him down and rob him if he ever or-
dered his paper discontinued again.—
Western Publisher.
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