The Stroud Democrat (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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the stroud democrat
G. C. Burton
the stroud democrat Representative Murray's Career
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Contributing Editor Began as a Chore Boy on Farm
J. H. Ragland, Managing-Editor
Published every Friday in the interest of Stroud and Lincoln county
One Year
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under the Act of March 3, 1897.
1910, at Stroud, Oklahoma
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Subject to Democratic Primary
FOR COMMISSIONER
W« lit authomed totnnounce the name
David I, Gillaspie as a candidate for the
•ficc of County Commissioner of the First
Commissioner District of Lincoln county,
Mr Gillaspie was formerly a resident of
«be vicinity of Stroud, but now resides
•«ar Agra
We are authorized to announce the name
•IC. I'. DOHM of Agra. Ohla., Route 1,
and o< Oi fe Township, a« a candidate for
C««nty Commissioner of he First Com-
■liasioners district of Lrncoln county, sub-
j cct to Democratic primary.
We are airthonied to announce the can-
Jacy of Walter Shi'nn of Cimaron township
for County Commissioner oi tfce Fir*t dis-
toict, rubjoct to tie primary, August.1st. _
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
We are autkoriied to announce *h« name
of R. A. MORROW as candidate ier the
office of Kepresentive for the First repre-
sentative district, subject to the Democratic
frinury Aug. i«t.
FOR SHERIFF
W G. HALL
The Stroud Democrat is authorized to
announce that W. G. Hall of North Wich-
ita township is a candidate for the nomina-
tion for sheriff of Lincoln county, subject
to the Democratic primaries to be held in
August.
We are authorized to unnounce
W. S. Davis, (Kickapoo Bill) for the Dem
ocratic nomination for Sheriff, subject to
the will of t'ue Democratic Primary. Mr.
Davis resides in North Township.
Stroud's progressive city coun-
cil continue to keep the wheels of
progress on the move. The city
hall is being treated to a new
coat of, paint, a new small steel
building has been constructed on
the corner of the lot, opposite the
opera house, for housing the fire
hose and cart. New cement cros-
sings, are being installed, they are
also co-operating with Keokuk
township in building a bridge at
the northwest corner of town,
near the school building. The
council are also putting forth
strong efforts to have the weeds
cut and a general clean up of the
city in trim shape to greet the
la lige crowd coming to attend
Stroud's 4th of July celebration.
Most Tireless Man in Congress Revels in Undertaking
and Accomplishing Impossible
Special Dispatch to The Morning Telegraph
the national house of representa-
We are authorized to announce the can
didacy of U. S. Grant for the nomination
for the Sheriff's office, subject to the Dem- they claim it, then why should we
. While Mr. Murray, who repre-
sent", the Fourth Congressional
District of Oklahoma at Washing-
ton. is devoting his time strictly
in the interests of his constitu-
ency and the welfare of the na-
tion at large, an effort is being
made by others who aspire to the
honors of the office to wrest his
position away from him, We
have nothing to say detrimental
to either of his opponents, as far
as their character or citizenship
is concerned, but neither of them
as our representative in Congress
would be able to give us better
service than we now have, nor do
change, turn down four years of
active experience to give place
to a new man? Experience
counts in Congress as elsewhere,
and no business man would ex-
change an employee with exper-
ience for one who had none, and
selecting a man to represent a
Stroud offers a hearty welcome, community of people in our great
ocratic primary in August.
I'OR COUNTY rt>T<>RNi,>r
We are authorUed tP announce the
name of ROSCOE CO*, of Tryon, for the
office of county att«rqry, subject to the
August primary.
Washington, D. C., June 3.
The door of 547 of the House
Office building stood wide open
yesterday morning at an hour
long before the house convened.
The outer room was empty; but
at a desk in the inner office sat a
man correcting a typed sheet
held down from the breeze by a
large pot of library paste. He
wore tortoise-rimmed spectacles
and had not taken off his soft
navy blue felt hat.
"Oh, I never get through," he
said, when his caller suggested
waiting until he had finished.
"One time's as free from some-
thing to do as another."
Unconsciously the Honorable
William Henry Murray, repre-
sentative from the Fourth dis-
trict of Oklahoma, had struck
the keynote of his life, for his
earliest recollections are stamped
with the precept of his father,
which was: "Always keep busy
—there is always something to
do!"
"We lived in one of those little
places," Mr. Murray said,
"where one man is justice of the
peace, liveryman, butcher and
general factotum, and in that
town that man was my father.
As a consequence, if I were not
busy at one thing it was the eas-
iest thing in the world for him to
find another for me to do. 1 was
'chore boy' for any old chore
waiting, and so I was never idle.
"Why, there's an old stone
fence in Montague county, Tex.,
that I built. My father used to
say, 'If you aren't doing any-
thing else, build a stone fence.'
So, I remember one day when I
was filling in a few spare mo-
ments piling stones a man drove
up and watched me. Finally, he
said: 'Son, when you're 50
years old you'll point to that
fence with pride.' Well, that old
fence is still there I'm told—but
I'm not yet 50!
"Really, though"—here Mr.
Murray took off his glasses, put
his feet up on his desk, pushed
his hat to the back, of his head
and lighted a cigar—"really, I'm
60 years old, although I've only
been in the world forty-six! But
you know the actual number of
years a man lives does not count
tives!"
Mr. Murray was president of I
the Oklahoma constitutional j
convention and proposed so
many of its provisions as to earn j
for himself the name of "Father :
of the Constitution."
"I've had so many nicknames |
attached to me at one time and
another," he explained, "that I
had to select one myself, one that
I preferred to be known by gen-
erally. So I took 'Alfalfa Bill'—
given me because I delivered so
many speeches on how to grow
alfalfa, and, incidentally, I've
made a lot more
speeches than I ever have made
of political speeches. There's a
county called for me—Alfalafa
—in which is the Piatt National
Park, another named Murray—
there's a Murray Creey and
Murray State School of Agricul-
ture—and I don't know how
many babies called Murray. You
see, the people out there have
been good about publishing the
"Murray" of my identity, al-
High's Market and Grocery
Fresh and Staple line of Groceries
FresH Fruit - Game in Season
Phone No. 2
4 !
"As a result his brain, fed
with such weak stuff, cannot
manage the solid philosophy or
history—the history that tells
the whole truth—that he ought
to study; he cannot get the men-
tal muscular grasp on the signif-
agricultural jcant biography and lives of men
who figure in the world's prog-
ress—his mind is too flabby. Of
course I know there's many a
good moral contained in fiction,
but why not the statement of the
moral without all the sugar-coat-
ing? There's many a lesson
taught in a long-drawn-out pop-
ular novel, but I believe its force
is terribly diminished by its en-
vironment. No, if I had my
way, the youngsters wouldn't
though I'm pretty generally ad- i read novels."
vertised as 'Alfalfa Bill. That Mr. Murray himself has
"Did I ever make a special rea(j extensively of history and
study of oratory?" Mr. MurrayJphilosophy is apparent. It is
ion he was ev;deiit from his personal talk
repeated the question he was
asked, when some one comment-
ed on the fluency of his speech
and the unusual carrying quality
of his voice in the house. For
and from his speeches and his
easy familiarity with the teach-
ings of the sages of all ages. It
was in the way of a surprise,
Mr. Murray's voice is full with-[then, to find in one of his
out being sonorous, and loud Speeches a thing so modern as
with no indistinctness of enun-
ciation.
"Yes, years ago I devoted a
little time to elocution when I
was in college. But I soon found
when I got out in the open and
began to talk to people to whom
I had a whole lot to say—things
I wanted to convince them of—
my well-studied rules and meth-
ods of speechmaking didn't go
far. A man loses sight of all
that in the enthusiasm and earn-
estness of what he is saying, in
the conditions of hall or street
or country where he may be
speaking. I know when 1 have
only five minutes in the house I
speak too fast, and no one in the
gallery could possibly under-
stand. When I have a longer
time I can make mvself clear to
for so much as what those years the galleries. You have to let
have been filled with. And as I sound waves do part of the car-
told you, I haven't had a chance
to loaf much."
to everyone looking for a good
live placptp enjoy a big, old time
HthofJuJy celebration. Stroud
is prepared to entertain you and
invites you gn that gala day.
Stroud hap subscribed liberally in
arranging a program of enter-
law making body is a business
proposition pure and simple. Mr.
Murray is a man of remarkable
ability, a tireless worker, knows,
what he wants and furthermore
knows how to go after and get
what he wants. Asourrepresen-
"The first time I really went
to school," he said in answer to
a question, "was when I was
about 13 years old, and I began
my regular, so-called education
with Swinton's Second reader, in
a double log house, a school
house called Friendship. Of
course, the 'grades' were limited.
Indeed there were no grades.
We were just taught according
to our needs and the teacher's
ability. Afterwards I went to
College Hill Institute, a private
college in Texas, and have taken
scientific courses in agriculture
and horticulture, read law, been
admitted to the bar and prac-
ticed law for years. Why"—
has seven million dollars to ihas experience, and is render-! hfre ^,r- Murray laughed at the
has seven million dollars to valuable service to hi, I K,ea my education was very
tainment, and m*ny prizes and tative in congress, he has made
premiums. Meet your friends in j g00(] an(j people of this dis-
Stroud July
Here comes Old Prosperity.
(ieo. A. Smith, Secretary of the
School Land Department announ-
ces that the School Land depart- |the head. Congressman Murray
ment
loan on farm land at
trict have no reason for making a
change, nor do we anticipate that
they will.—Prague News.
The News hit the nail square on
5 per cent
interest on five years time. The
bulk of this money accumulated
from the recent sales of school
, . , | comprehensive. It included all
stituents and the nfttion and s01^s things not in the usual
more—he was an original N\ ilson j curriculum — punching cattle,
man, and rendered valiant service : chopping wood, farming, brick-
land on the west side of the state in making our President the party making, teaching school, report-
standard-bearer, that swept to |injf antlediting newspapers.
victory in 1912. President Wilson j
appreciates Bill Murray and will j congressman.
be greatly pleased to haye himj congress," he added, laughing, I premier, said that language was
returned to Congress by the peo- j "because my enemies put me | made to conceal thought as well
and will be loaned back to the
farmers for improving and stock-
ing up theJr farms with livestock.
If you desire a farm loan, now is
the time tu be writing the Secre-
tary at Oklahoma City.
— —
"And now
"And now I'm a planter and a
I happen to be in
rying—go slowly enough to give
them a chance to carry your
words out of reach of the next
thing you're going to say. In
that way you make a clear
point." (
Mr. Murray, a Scotchman, was
born in Texas, but he was adopt-
ed by the Chickasaw tribe and
married into the nation. Mrs.
Murray having been Miss Alice
Hearrell, niece of Governor
Johnston, of the Chickasaw Na-
tion. "The Chickasaw is a na-
tion," said Mr. Murray, "noted
for the most wonderful compul-
sory school system in the world,
and, as a result, noted as one of
the most generally well-educated
of nations. Their system not
only provided free instruction
with school buildings, books and
necessary accessories, but they
paid the pupils $10 a month to
attend. Of course, everybody
went.
"That much for making your-
self heard. As for what I say—
and I've done a lot of talking in
the forty-six years of my life—I
have a fundamental principle
which I think is a faithful one to
hold to. Talleyrand, Napoleon's
something from Kipling.
"Oh, that?" Mr. Murray
laughed. "There's nothing bet-
ter than that in all literature, no
better philosophy in all time."
And he repeated fragments of
Kipling's "If":
If you ran keep your head when all
about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on
you;
If you can trust yourself when all men
doubt you.
But make allowance for their doubt-
ing too • • •
If you can bear to hear the truth you've
spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap
for fools,
• watch the things you gav.
to, broken,
And stoop and build them up with
worn-out tools • * *
"I tell you," Mr. Murray
brought his feet down from his
desk with a thud and swung
around in his chair, "there's
nothing in the world truer than
that and all the rest of those
wonderful verses!"
sons who became president, such
as Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Buchanan, Lincoln, Hayes,
Cleveland, Taft and Wilson; of
their parliamentary leaders like
Joe Cannon and old Champ
Clark. I love to read the teach-
ings of their ministers, like Liv-
ingstone and Dixon, Rutherford,
Melville, Alexander Campbell,
John Knox and Thomas Chal-
mers. I love to read their poets,
their philosophers, their states-
men, their jurists. I love to re-
member their patriots—Wallace
and Bruce—and their fleet-foot-
ed messengers who kindled Ar-
gyle's fires on Scotia's highland
peaks to call their clans to bat-
tle.
"But, above and beyond all
this, I am an American; and in
every conflict where the United
States is involved I am against
her enemies, though they include
all of the Scotch of the High-
lands. Yea, even the Murray
clan, and if any foreigner who
comes to our shores who, seeking
naturalization citizenship, takes
the oath of allegiance to the old
flag and does not feel that way,
he is at heart a traitor!"
Personally, Mr. Murray has an
informality of manner and an in-
difference to the conventional de-
tails of dress that mark him as
one of the picturesque figures of
the house. It makes not the least
difference to Mr. Murray, one
way or the other, if he is aware
of the personal distinction, be-
cause he would regard it with the
same equanimity which charac-
terizes his view of his career gen-
erally.
"I was cradled in the lap of
Yet, from the roadside where,
your life as a boy running away from
home, hungry, penniless and
without work, he finally flung
himself down and cried—it is a
long way to the office, where as
a member of congress he sat yes-
terday, dressed to suit himself,
but well-clothed, his tie stuck
with a handsome pin and his fin-
jger wearing a diamond ! But Mr.
Not very long ago Mr. Mur- «wer?f the Stance,
ray made a speech in Oklahoma5fiV„T^L„,he_.S.aid_™ceA
on preparedness. It was a long
speech, delivered with his usual
force and directness of expres-
sion, but marked with an unusual
tribute to his Scotch ancestry, a
tribute which was called forth
by his expression of love for the
land of his forefathers, a loyalty
fine and true, but second to his
loyalty as an American.
"I am Scotch. I suppose I
have all the faults and all the vir-
tues with which God made a
Highlander. The prettiest story
to me in all history is that of the
kilt and plaid, the clan and its
tartan. I love to read of the bat-
tles in which they participated,
of the battle of Culloden and the
sad memory of the fall of my
own clan following the cause of
Prince Charles. I love to re-
member the achievements of the
sons of Scotchmen in our own
country, among them generals
like Grant and Lee, Hood,
Hooker, McDowell, Longstreet,
Sheridan and Sherman; of their
tened by poverty and hardships,
but never permitted myself to be-
come overelated by victory or
unduly depressed by defeat."
State of Ohio, City of Toledo, i ...
Lucas County. * BB*
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he In
eenlor partner of the firm of P. J. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City of To-
ledo, County and State afcrr«ald. an*
that said Arm will pay th« ium of ONB
HUNDRED DOLLARS for roh and e--
ery case of Catarrh that cannot be rurei
by the use of HALL'S CAT A UUH CURE
FRANK J CHENEY.
Sworn to before m«; and tiubseribed in
my presence, this 6th day of December,
A D. 1886.
(Seal) A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally
and acts directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system. Sf-nd for
testimonials, free.
F. J. CHENEY * CO.. Toledo. O.
Sold by all Druggists. 7Rc.
Take Hall's Family Pllla for constipation
Auctioneer
S. B. POWELL
would like to cry your sale.
Terms Reasonable
Make Dates at this Office
| pie of this district.
F. N. JONDAHL
Furniture and Undertaker
Licensed Embalmer
Robes, Vaults and
there."
' "An unusual generosity to be
displayed by enemies," some one
suggested.
"Oh no," Murray responded,
"it was to keep me from being
governor—and I like it here!"
as to express it. * * * I do
not follow Talleyrand's, but rath-
er the old English rule that lan-
guage is made only to express
thought and that words are the
signs of ideas!"
Mr. Murray has very pro-
"Does Mrs. Murray and all of I lrounced convictions of the influ-
your family like living in Wash-jence on the child's mind of the
I books he reads, and would pro-
hibit the novel and all light read-
ington?
"1 don't know," Mr. Murray
laughed. "What's the use of jing as injurious to tht bestdevel-[
talking about whether you like a J opment of t hi child's lit el i -
thing or not? There's an awful gence, whether he - in schc
lot of comfort or discomfort in i not.
ilife arising from the imagins-1 "I k:i v t! extreme
tion.
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