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PAGE FOUR
THE LEADER. GUTHRIE. OELA., THURSDAY, JULY 2X 15*V<
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Tnt LEADER
BY LESLIE G. NIBLACK
Fktabliahed 1§?3. Published every
'ihuiMirfy ffttfu Haf
rteon avenue and entered in the Post-
office at Guthrie Oklahoma, as second
class mail mattfr
The last time Americana were fool
in around Quebec the reception was
warm but not so effusive as this an
uiversary see ma to promise.
Harry Thaw has reduced his per-
sonal expenses by agreeing to have
9820 sl>eur fof #tufaiag *-MCh qua*
wf TWill thaf womave Enough for
his present location.
Subscription: $1.00 the yeaT, in-
rarlably in advance.
INCREASE IN PRICE
Owing to the rapid advance In the
price of printing material The Leader
la common with many weekly papers
Is forced to raise its yearly subscrip-
tion rate.
The price hereafter will bo $1.00
per year.
big enough for all.
Illessed be those who are weary and
broken In spirit wnen they cheer the
unfortunate of other lands.
The above Is neither biblical or
atheistic, but springs forth in an ef-
fort to make allowance for asking
what the other states mean by forcing
the baby commonwealth to bear all
the burdens.
Last Jpeek we had acme sunburned
Itctureja telling us bow to become
ChristlSis. and we welcomed them
althoun we were already better than
they sJlg.it to teach us how to be.
Then, they threatened us w ith Car-
rie Nation, but sent "Mother" Junes
In lieu, and wound up by having John
Wesley] Gaines, of Nashville. Tonnes
see visit the metropolis.
Hotapn has already neon with us
and John Distempered Graves has a
date of two to 1111 somewheiv below
the Choctaw railroad.
And they said of Gaines "He Is
one of the Southern Big Four." Per-
haps he is or was; nt least wo hope
so. for 'tis our blessed privilege to
agree when It Is too hot To,- discus-
* sion. but for the sake of Oklahoma
and the charity due to the meanest
of men, let some or th*' border states
hold a slight load of these eroat
agents of dlscHsslon and bad tempers
for at least a few woeka.
Let the light of their genius pene
irate through Kansas to Wyoming
where the tall mountain peaks need
adorniiw with the blessed rays of
that «S)ectlon charged against the
account of Oklahoma Or. better still.
Alaska 'needs somf light and should
have it before the season closes
Anyhow. Bpaiv* jis until we are bet
ter ab% to assimilate the great Ideas
being catapulted toward us by our
friends.
VAN RENSELER
The Honorable John Van Renseler.
son of Mrs. John King Van Renseler
(both of New York City) is in trouble.
It seen* the Hon. John needed a lit-
tle rash and sent his mother word to
give hftn $5,000 The mother was
-•' endiu* the summer at Newport and
had not the change to spare, and
John threatened to blow up Newjiort
.and, of course, his mother might have
to make the aerial ascent with the
city, if she happened to be present
when the ascension was commenced.
When arrested the Hon. John ex
plained that he had staked his moth
er some little time before, and had a
fellow who would allow him a loan
of as much as $200,000 at a shot, if
<tjve mother would take the wife of
the lmiAer into society, but t'.ie "blue
hlood' balked at this one person, al-
though that is the way she makes her
living. It seems this one aspirant for
eocial honors had clumsy f«*et and a
bad habit of using the napkin for n
handkerchief, and such awful habits
grated on the sensitive Van Renseler
nerves.
The Hon. John will be detained un-
til he can bilk some person other
than his mother, and the mother will
at once write a book. telling how the
Van Renselers arc an old established
family, .with a right to drink ale out
of an earthen mue
C.reat is the culture of Now York
unless It be handv to the dynamite
plug then it Is bad. and full of dang
er. Away from the dvnamlte plug. It
U either tulf of stale boor or prunes
Oklahomans should never forget
their more unfortunate neighbors.
When we lie d \wi at night, pull the
cover over us and '!<>t to Slumber
land, we pna<* that tho heat sufferers
the Eawt« rn and Northern re
torts may Itve to ©o and know that
the only all the year climate para
disc is in and near -about the beau
tlful eli' of Guthrie the capital
oi the great state of Oklahoma.
Organizing school laud sale op
posing parti* has commenced and
there will be plenty of thunder along
both sides between this and election
day. Lack of understanding may
feat th^ ale of the state lands, but
p i ner o. later these )p|o>ir^ will
F v the error of their ways and be
glad> enough to have tho 5ale. Each
year the lessee will have to allow
that land to keep getting behind and
i unties like Llacoln will suffer at
the lack of wisdom in holding.
Cougresinau OUie James is to be the
great orator of this presidential cam
paign. and the great, huge Kentucklan
can make the welkin ring with glorious
praises of bis ei< queue.
One of the best ways to treat graft-
ers nowadays is to send them to Kan
sas where, if the reports of each
other by the other be true, graft-
ers are in demand lor campaign pur-
ls ses.
Th" statement by a Taft manager
that Georgia, Virginia, Tennessee and
North Carolina can be carried for Mr.
Taft reads like some manager had un-
dertaken to stow away more tangle-
foot than his hold would MM t« r
and caused statements to be made
whilst iu physical distress und mental
aberration
The effort to ascertain "what is a
democrat?" upon the part of the Den-
ver Post, Baltimore American and New
York Sun has at last been answered,
and. to our manner of thinking. satis*
actoiily. The Boston Globe made but
one advertising quest for the answer,
and this is the discovery: "An honest
man who asks no more for himself
than his neighbor, and who is opposed
to anything on earth tho newspaper
managements of the Post. American
and Sun are being sold to favor." The
answer is pointed and joyful gladness
must be marked down for the sturdy
Vermont er who gave the required def
inition.
spread the doctrine.
The anouncement of the republican
press that the dem cracy is practical
ly without support in the states east
if the Mississippi and north of the
Ohio is not wholly true. Of the met-
ropolitan newspa|>ers we have the
Philadelphia Record and Boston Globe.
In addition we have the NVatteraon
paper, the greatest of them all Also
have now listed twenty four other
dailies with circulations aoove S000,
.lence we can accomplish much if the
-ampaign is systematized and the
loctrine of tho party gotten to the
ueoplr fast enough. We need special
rnuMiilUcrs q! <iuipaign documents
it (t|e*clw d. Milwaukee, Chicago,
luffalo. Pittsburg and possibly Colum
lus. Ohio.
Whoever is chairman of the demo
ratic national committe must listen
o these matters this time The re
tublican party spent five million dol
ars in 1900 in getting their docu-
nents before the people, spent it le-
gitimately. too. There can be no ex
•use for the attempt to make a feu
?ood papers carry the burden—they
a'111 do so as cheerfully as one can
•xpect—but the people of each slate
nust have the doctrines, items and
dedges made by the party at the earl-
est possible moment That should be
:ept up until after the election. We
iavo the platform, the candidates and
he opportunity, and no niggardly pol-
cy should be maintained in this fight.
The Leader agrees that not a dol-
ar should be expended for corruption
mrposes, but the people of the l'n-
ted States have a right to know what
s before them, and that can be relied
in in some certain places by the old
ashioned method, and It must be
lone.
Not a dollar for corruption, but all:
equlred f r proper publicity. That
hould be the aim and it will save us
housands of votes in the large cities.
all for oklahoma.
Here is to Muskogee, the second
*i|y of the new state; the home of
nen who do; the place where obstac
es are brusned aside and where the
plrit of civic pride rides high enough
o own steamboats and sail them up
tid down the Arkansas; hold conven
ions big enough for cities ten times
lie size of Muskogee—the city
hat deserves to win and is winning
iml we hope always will achieve that
vhich she tights for! The bringing of
hat steamboat to the landing of Mus-
ogee ends all argument as to the
\rkansas oeing navigable to that city,
t is a lesson illustrated and made so
•asy all can see and understand. If
he Tulsa people can now take up the
•vork and get the steamer that far.
ve can trust the congress to do the
est when in session. It Is for the
;neater glory of the river cities, hut
t is also for Oklahoma, and what-
ever is for Oklahoma is for all of us
<nd The Leader wishes enrollment
s a newspaper for the whole state
md tile enterprises crowded into the
outheast, tho northwest, the west,
outh, north or east will have the sup
•ort of The I.eader. It Is all for one
'nd one for all that will crown the
tate the monarch of the Southwest
lore steamboats, more steam engines,
nore electric motors, more factories
no re farmers, more merchants, more
aborers, skilled and unskilled, more
•very-thing which goes into the mak-
| ng of a commonwealth, and a united
tress leading united commercial or
I lanizations representing a united peo
Iv All the time everywhere and
•very way—it is whoop for Oklahoma
ind every blessed corner of the state!
ft
dollar
amusing o read in the repnb
t>ers of this state the criticisn j
Bryan'., committee asking fori
ontributions It is of course!
Hot any different from the apiteal of I
Mr. Taft and is not of wide interest i
c . importance but the local republi J
c-'-.n papers of Oklahoma are so accus i
tomed to holding up s ane Interest or
r.an for a complete campaign fund j
they cannot understand an appeal to
th" people as a whole. The contribu-
tions being asked for by the Oklaho-
ma City newspaper has not met with
as strong resj>ouse as might have been
expected by some, for the reason that j
the plan is the same and many are,
sending direct to Lincoln. Guthrie
will take this step and send direct to
the committee, believing that which
Is first sent to aid the commencing I
of the campaign is of more importance
than when all are aroused to the need
of the cause There will be sufficient
money raised for a legitimate cam
paign expense, and no one will bo
called for any great amount.
STRANGE PATRIOTISM
After deploring the fact that be-
cause Washington, Creek, Tulsa. No-
wata, Okmulgee counties have oil and
gaa und the rest of the state is being
aught to believe the wealth of those
-ouutles will be sufficient to support
a late, the Tulsa World actually
rloats over the situation, shouting
that all of these things will contribute
the defeat of democracy. Is it then
he desire of the World to sacrifice
he great wealth of that section for
•he attainment of some political de-
There is really no occasion To
♦artisan newspaper to so far forget
its duties to the home as to wish to
destroy the greatest industry in the
state, and the World will find these
matters can be settled and settled
ight; that the people of the counties
mentioned a bow are not so lost to
the interests of the sfate and them-
selves as to follow a newspaper that
boasts of its insincerity.
sunday affairs.
One of the outgrowths of the fren
zied magazine and yellow press re-
form propaganda ig that to force peo-
ple to stay at home on the Sabbath
day. it was not popular until the ac
tual seekers for reform were ridden
(**r. UJ the fteopatiOOat m-Wbgather-
ers. and then the craze against Sun-
day baseball, theatres ami what not
was commenced. There was never
reason or attempt at virtu* in the
movement. It embraced not a single
approving line from any religion of
civilized man, but satisfied the spleen
of some overly foolish "deacons" who
seem to think religion is a funeral
march and whoso smiles a candidate
for the domain of Lucifer.
Imagine, If you can. a great, beau
tiful city like Topeka. Kansas, forbid- j
ding a ball game In tiiat town on Sun-
day! Add to that the silly Idea of al
lowing only eating houses and drug ,
stores to oe open on Sunday. If the |
healthy thinking apparatus of mar; j
can survive that shock, think of Kan-
sas City, one of the twenty large citie>
in the United States, and behold ac-
tors in jail for attempt to fill their
engagements at the theatres, made
months before and subjecting the
companies to financial ruin if the
dates be broken.
One agitator claims the churches ,
would have more people in attendance
if amusements are not allowed. God
pitv the bouse of worship that can oe j
filled only by those who are unable to
go any other place without violatioL
of the law*-
The man who is confined at his
desk or works in the shop six days of
the week requires an occasional ou*
tug. hours few enough, at least, can t e
utilized for him to get out and enjo>
life. The person making a protest
against the wellbeing of his fellow ,
under the name of religion but dh
graces that great boon to the human
family and in no sense lias he th> i
poise to make self guardian over th^ j
affairs of his fellowbeings
No legislative act should receive ap
proval that has the least intimation of
curbing the opportunity of the poor to ,
enjoy the fresh air of heaven or allow
the mind to dwell upon those thing^
opposite his daily toil. No man ever
had the right to restrict his fellow
man unless that liberty might do in
jury to society. The man who is di |
reeled to the church door by enact
tnent of law is a rebel at heart and
ungovernable in spirit. Like all men
the visitor at the ball game or the
thentre is there for the purpose of re
citation and to see -something not
visible in tho usual daily grind. If'
orderly, no one has the right to in-
terfere with his presence nor can the i
right be acquired by the ruling of a
judge, the passing oi a city ordinance
or the spiritual effort to manufacture
a change in being by process of law
The old olue laws made the six New I
England states an object of reproach
and caused a migration that is felt j
even unto this good hour.
Traverse the hills adjacent to the j
rivers of the New England states, and
one deserted farm after another tell.*
the story plainer than words Those |
rebels against blue laws sought other
olaces of abode. They got to the fertile j
fields beyond the Adirondack* and Al-
leghenies. and they told those back
home of states where the soil produc
ed four or five times as much and a'
so there was to be had that freedom
of action so sought by all as to mak"
thought of return to the blue-law land i
if their ancestors repugnant in the
fullest sense.
And the enforcement of blue laws is 1
an advertising of communities going j
into commercial and intellectual de .
cay.
This, however, does not mean that!
violation of any ordinance that inter-
feres with the regulations of society ,
should be permitted. The happy plac
where all are privileged to devotion to
honest method of pleasure or recrea-
tion is that which has prevailed in all
Central and Western states, save
where the pendulum was allowed to
sway from the one extreme to the
other.
out of Oklahoma, and by so loing less than fifty trained men shonl.
affiliated with a political part) that commence not later than Augwtt
turns not to the paths of experiment ami cease when the poll* ate ♦ o>*\.
for the sake of expediency, but keeps in November. And ui on Mich org*:.!
steadfast in the road which leads to j zation does the sucees> of nr.* aa
prosperity permanent atf 1 happiness tlonal movement hlng< in a cour.tn
undisguised and unrestricted. so great and diversified as these I m
The new alignments being predlc ted State*.
ted can not come to pass. The oil
party spirit of the Hamilton advo
cates breeds more and more those who
dislike the Idea of popular rule, whilst
ihe hordes for free government in the
broadest sense will stand as true tml
loyal under a thousand defeat* as un-
der as many victories.
In being able to meet every new
issue with the great bill of rights that
forms the basic stone of our faith, the
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THE TOLSSTOI PROTEST
Toletoi has once m^ri* exposed th
'p - ?n government to the curse oi
j11 men of all creeds and reUsrions.
This mighty warrior Lv th* advance
meat f humanity has. in the ago
when most men are rhlld'.sh. flared ti?
.y the tru.Ii And the '-nth n Hun
sia is generally foil. «ed by death
democracy has been able to weather This <4.1 warrior of the pttn. however
all storms and is as robust, able and has dar Russian a toci ao und em
true to tne faith this day as when r. an judgment so often and * openl>
Jeffe-son and Paine hurled their that the g venanient acknowledge* it
thunderbolts acain« the creating of a > p. wv, e>-* agatr-: hi> , n an.. ihi
branch K>f government not directly
elected by tl\e people.
The people of the ttilted States
have wandered far afield with the for
ces of Hamilton. The president today
has gone so far from the faith of his *Quarel> against w
party that his popularity comes from *ronc He dr
the masses, and many misguided peo
pie will wish to voTe for "Mr Taft un-
der the error that he will like-wise ad
voeate democratic doctrines. That
how ever, is an error most grievous and
the continuation ot the principVos of
government as per wish of rhe pen
pie can be fibt*4i>ed only through the
success of the democratic party.
lightv pnoduTct of his brain.
An th:s Tolstoi, how simply he
tales facts, how softly he approaches
climax No spattering or traveling
i circuits He strikes bold ly and
hatevf
he
AS TO CHIEF.
Who ts chairman of the nai tonal
committee of either party is of lH&e
consequence so t"he ctoicf of the eve
cutive oommiiiee is « man of action
and understands ft.™ v> crmiiuct h
campaign The average man. betone
given the benefit of evpermnoe. woifld
be nnable to understand the magm
tude of making a CAmpiuign for the
pu-pose ol arousing the masses It
is the work of a giant., and that mar
must have the courage and fcnos ledge
to proceed w:th the details, regardless
of how many oppose.
There should be no shortsighted
comtes? upon the pan of onr lead
ers in this matter The man w be can
lead the democracy to a perfect or-
ganization and have the weak places
eared for in other manner rhari h>
trusting the sore places to heal who.
in short, will a^lj the surgeou
r>lj*ie to bad sores, and piace a mill
ant corps commander to each corps
may or may uyt be som* one's pa'
ticular friend, Jh>: '■* is the man to
nave at the head of o-ur national com
mfttee, no matter where he resides
jt who disiikef: "him.
The Leader realizes the difficulties
that must be overcome to gain stie^ them according t
anging
• t Russian peasants or their execu-
tion for wrongs real and imaginary is
the crime ot all ages and *111 blacken
the Slav race for al! ages to come
thunders rhe <lo«riine or right
against the Russian propaganda of
v rong Mid wrerepoffness and the
Csar. commanding s.-e-aw.ooi* fighting
men has io give Kpecja] :*flers to
lew no harm to tvwne to Tolstai, lest
the government of jRussta. r e torn
asunder ami rovaU> thrown into the
Si as
Was there ever greater pro T erf the
right ov.'r wrong ?
This fjreai scholar, one of Ihe sa
vents of all a^res, in his rustic
cottage and thinks nun thinks as the
wngonette of the executioner drives
b\ each day Days grow Into weeks
v oek* into months tfhd mdimfcs into
yoars before be has sufficiently
rhoijfrht out the details of what
should be said He well knows the
authorities will not comply with his
request for cessation of the trage
dies' How llftt^ g.'od for the fam
i!ie* to hog for mercy! And knowing
and seeing, when finalh the test hour
comes he tells Russia what It will
be Already, he says ".we have be
come by practice, the worst nation
ot all ages and have no right to ask
of any common request to be heard.
That ik b truth not denied.
He goes quietly to the prophesy
There is no lament over the souls
sent to eternity! Even intimates a
man dead is happier than any man
nan be in Russia. He ealmlv tells
what to expect H« paints the hel!
on earth as bad, and the one pre-
dicted by other prophets he admits,
it exist, is also bad. but neither of
his faith could be
considered other than a paradise com
pared with the murderous Russia of
£h< furnre.
Rrasian authority shudders while
the ta<e is being read. Russian ah
1 • that it cit f ay T..ls
:- I but knowt also, that his slaying
w :* e a«!'Ji reieu of tc£
ror :.£• nor For years wf
t'. ei reading f the crimes com
: .er aathvrtty
"t^e •it-t *r if We hare grown
s:j aetrajf.cto it ti i to speai
2 'Z ' r " 'r ^vs he-
w® CBUJfei earns little to exces?
A MILITANT DEMOCRACY
The democracy of this state is a
militant organization. It leads and de
fines its position clearly an! without
semblance of equivocation. It was the
militant aPirit under tue militant Has
kell. that made the democracy master
at the Denver convention. That spirit
took a position on the irrigation of
lands, the direct election of United
States senators, the safety of the bank
eposits, and numerous other great
eaturea on which the republicans at
'hlcago dared not speak.
The party that serves best the peo
de Is that one which allows the peo-
ple to not only Inspect but actually
form the management prior to each
campaign. The democratic party, ag
^ressive once It has received Its com
misson from the rank and file, propos-
es to make this government as fir
from paternal as possible for tue ;afe
iy ,,f the Republic. It would rather
spen 1 its money for the devel'.ptr.ent
of our Innumerable reaou.c.^s than
for the bull ling of ateel battleships,
which at best will be worthless with
n ten years time. The faith of our
icople is based upon patriotism and
each time the citizen soldier has been
•ailed to the front, he responded with
such valor and skill as to^be a mar-
vel to the civilized world.
The valleys or the Rio Grande
Jreen. Big Horn, Yellowstone. Snake
( olumbla. Platte. Rod. Texas-Colora
do. Pecos and many smaller rivers
can be made to rival that of the Tro-
pics by irrigation, and the present
manner of allowing the government
to lend to the builder has proven ol
great value to the creation of wealth
homes and happiness. The democracy
approves of that and requests that the
money being squandered for show
and pomp of the most vulgar kind
utilized for the irrigating plants rath
er than to make some few officials
look more like dummies.
We favor the inter state commerce
commission having till ami more pow-
ers than now ^ranted by congress, to
the end that the commission may act
In conjunction with, not in opposition
to «ur state commission of like nature
The citizen who wishes to see an
hundred millions of people between
the Mississippi river and the peaks of
Colorado should join this militant
throng that has but recently come up
cess, and it well realises met. w ho j
have never raseu above state politics
and that in states where discipline
was not requlr^J. must have the ser-
vices of a general who knows the Uni-
ted State> as ti^ boss knows the vot-
ers of his preefnet anJ just that sort
jf man can achieve success.
Twenty-two million letters must b-:
mailed. Millions of qu*%stions nus:
be answered; thousands of pui/;ica
Sons must be supplied: a literary bu-
reau must be kept grinding rwenty-
four hours per day; an historical poL
neal library must be at hand, an
skilled men there to examine an
quote the records. and the traine.
telegrapb operators must be ready a
of the time to controvert the great
untruths already .started by the oppo- . n rfi.
shfon to Mr Ifryan. Each lepart- ^
mem must be manned by a tried mar ternat: •
He has to have self-confidence suffi The tk*j
cient for immediate action, an! also' topped tfc
must know how to report to his chief aionth*. and then :t was r ^*^ned -
Already the opposition is trying the mor*- atrocities -\an * V. a*r
plan of making the wires send th*- Time* more fiendish, mo re nnprint
foolish statements. Before the con- able worse than murders were place
vention democratic papers which > the lis- against the Czar
should have known betrer we e pub Accursed of the wot ; he and his
lishlng a wire report to effect that Mr. oowardl.v assistants do r. t dare stop
'hrough fear of the wrath swelling
tn the P nt of exterminating their
KuMv> Hiewnlec ot l\ou;
^vngn ssienaT disfncl ;issMil g Semi
and
\i m his canvass to; tho rv
unmatum for etmgrer Th.
siAtrtisatu known. >
et and sixteen inches In stu
ha? been long on th>
prairies ot Western Oklalmma thai the
ioeeM* or tho Thlnl district j
kept him admiring the scenery
Hut it was when Stanford took him
to Muskogee to open headquarters
that Mr. Hrownlee gave evidence of be
(ng frightened ami threatened to run
aw a* When the Kingfisher statesmen
would pass the Iowa or Canadian
buildings, he iiersisttsl in walking In
the middle of the street, fearing the
skyscrapers might fall and injure him
>o he would not be able for the hot
chase for the senate this fall.
The Okmulgee man had to have his
official headquarters on the second
floor, because Mr Brownlee is unable
io muster sufficient courage to ride
in an elevator, and Mr. Stanford hates
to climb stairs.
When Clifford Jackson and Fred
Gulick tried to get from Hrownlee Ills
method ol campaigning, they had t 1
piomise him he might go home for
Sunday, and, by that time, perhaps,
he will become assured one will uot be
lost in a city.
Mi Hrownlee "viewed with alarm"
the . ffices once occupied by Ooyernoi
Haskell, and declares he saw not in
around or about them to make a man
think he should be governor of so
large a state as Oklahoma.
Tue senator invited Colonel Douglas
fcr«d Pliny Soper to go to church with
him and he would remain in Muskogee
Sunday, hut Soper was not cer-
tain whether or not they have churcli-
s in the eastern metropolis, and Sen
atot Brownlee came t Guthrie where
Divine services are attended by all
people, regardless of age or |>olltics
Monday evening Senator Brownl
had not returned to Musk gee, and
Stanford fears he will not return to
brave the dangers of a modern city
he daI3y
Bryan's daughter was to place his
name before the convention. The
answer to that lie was just being
printed, when some other equally
baseless tale was at work. That will
>e one thing to head off. but only one
if many thousands, and the men who
must bear the brunt of this fieht can
en'v be those wV> have been tried In
the school of exj erienc"e.
Any man w'th reasonably good ap-
pea"ances can act as chairman of a
national committee, providing he]
•<groes to one for boa I of the exeeu
'hVork "W7 T, j '-"tchPred sires,
rk, hy the way. that wouH | A kj h
bo too hard for the average man. In
the collecting of funds, that can be
left to those who have the time, as
the funds are to come from the rank
and file of the party, and should be
turned over to the treasurer, all dis-
bursements being through that office
name and family*
Though these atrocltjeB nihilism
nil anarchy were bora t>. curse all
T.ankinil. The first soInK as don'
on fertile soils, and the curse or the
world for allowing brutal atrocities
has 1,..^ st.Dt to nil—Bent t, :<lav ti,,,
priests at t ho altars, the Protostant
ministers in the performance of thojr
i lutie-, the presidents whil« prea.-h
I tng for pface, and whatever author
Hies may have attracted the atten-
board for ,hpuwo^k of.J_".e.„^J | 'l)utcheredh^resrna'l'J°n''d ,,,rE"ring
king here, a prince there, naw
a savent. then a president, tomorrow
io one knows whom, but all fhe time
n authority by
in b« th <lemocratlc and republican na-
tional committees.
T 1 tremendous responsiblllth's of
the executive commitee can not be
enumerated in a newspaper article.
Suffice it to say they are of such na
ture only experience. | olltical sagaci-
ty and shrewd power to lead are ele-
nental requirements for that place.
Already the statement that the
smaller newspaper and periodickia
can promulgate the doctrine of the
narty has been resurrected from the
'ames K Jones school of isilitlcs and
started down the line. It should be
derailed at the first switch. The
newspapers are a necessity, but they
• re. as a rule conducted by men who
will, with or without authority of the
national committee, keep the issues
before their readers. Where we have
no daiWes of general circulation the
executive committee must take hold
nd keep the press bureau matter go-
ing direct to the voters of that locali-
ty all of the time and oftener than
once each week.
The chairman of the national com-
mittee. his treasurer and executive
should be at hand for tne executive
council and there should never be a
delay of action. The false stories
must be shot as they ascend, not as
they may descend. The fabrications
it what some party has done or in-
tendq to do, must be shelled from the
walls they leave, not as they come
over bulwarks of democracy having
already done their harm and fall
spent, unable to do more injury.
A sub-executive committee of not
the slaying
organized madmen.
Why?
oiSlf"7® a rentl,rv or more the
civilized. Christian nations of the.
world have closed their ears to avoiu
learlng the cry for aid from the mar
,s I" rhsbii : have closed their eyes
'hat the wagonette ol Russian of-
flclal butcheries ma\ not he seen
Our Sllencp was Ihe silence of cow
ardlce; our Inactl n the slothfulne-s
>1 fartci >d security . And the dagger
and the lonib, only weapons the po r
misguide,| can control o>- conceil
sent the missile of death
have
the Innocent ones, because the blight
humanity fell on the Russian sent
'h an avenger, too ignorant to under
stand all are not alike aiut that lib
erty of person and action are to he
had on this earth away from the sjn-
cursed soils of the Volga and the
Dnieper.
When, oh when, will the avenging
Tolstois and others have learned that
a blow at other nations d es but in
jure their ca se at home?
And when, oh when, will it end"
Is there not a God of Israel to Shane
estlnhs to a better and more peace
ul purpose than this story of blood
and shame of Russia.
The 1 >nger
bryan, the more
think of that man
. v. are we convlnvcecf
'hat gentleman from Cincinnati can
to with Mr Roosevelt around about
thi African jungle vlthout worry over
Peanuts grown in Oklahoma are so
much nicer than those of Alabama
and F1 rida the growers of the last
tw mentioned states order boxes
with 'Oklahoma" printed In large
black letters ?.o all may see it.
After all it looks like a stray tabby
eat housed at Blackthcrne Tlmuglng
tons place will prove worthy of the
time and care given by Timugington
who. by the way. is a member of that
thousand-times blessed organization
Society to Prevent those animals with
feeling from Being Neglected and al
lowed to SliAk Back int a Wild and
Undesirable State."
Mr. Timugington recently drove his
fiue "span of gray mules out to the river
the family convenience being fastened
to the tugs and the entire family ex-
pected to spend two days at the river,
ramping and fishing and recreating
They <iid not have to return home un-
til Wednesday evening service of
prayer meeting, and Vr .and Mrs. Tim-
figtagltin were very tiajipy. Well, t< o.
they might be, with their eight sturdy
boys and six lovely dimpling daught
•r« to gladden their hearts and make
them feel cheerful over the great hard
Thi; Mr. T gauging ton had when the
family was jftit cropping and none old
r-n.ught to be of any more serlve to
heir mother than to wheel ilie washing
from house to house and run to the
grocery after a bar of soap when
The tab < at was along and th^
girls were glad of it. as she is a pow-
erful bird catcher and they needed
|«ome new plumage (or their hats, and
•rows and buzzards are plentiful in
I 'he Johnoak ah ng the winding, sil-
I very, romantic stream that has sc
ong made the Bowwow country fam
us.
Mr Timugington ascertained the
has- ware in bad humor and the rivei
most too high for g o<l fishing
He was getting petulant when he shot
a robin for bait, and w^s on the oppo
Bite side of the stream from the
wagon and family. The tab cat had
been sitting on a plank near the "nd
if the conveyance, where three lines
that had been o n he trot lines all af
ternoon still baited were yet fastened
o the hoop.
Tab saw the dead robin being dls
soct'-d and plunged fr m the wagon
*r> the stream, twelve feet and eleven
inches down, knowing the animal c uld
iwim the family paid no attention un
11 they ascertaind the animal had
jerked loose the three baited lines and
was crossing the river with them at
tached. When fifty feet from short
a giant mudcat struck one of tin
io k« and started down with the line
Tab rose from the unasked for sousi
and tried to head back toward th
wagon, but the fish had made other
irrangemepts and started in the other
direction. The cat was getting th
worst of the strain and the blest Tim
ugington lad bravely attempted r<
cue, but just before he got hold of fhe
line a huge bass hit another hook
and started up stream, the catfish
the cat protesting and contesting each
inch. The game fish, however, was
getting away with tho outfit when ;
trout took the last line and made ;
desperate effort to go down stream.
The tension was so strong that th
different animals all started the cir
cle swing at the same time, ami the
family had to stand aside, as the now-
improvised wheel was spinning
around and around in the water worse
than an electric fan over a soda foun
tain.
Mow long this would have lasted
in the water can never be told, but
the spinning wheel finally acquln
such momentum the water was
driven to the sides, and the
tab cat bravely marched th
three fish to the wagon wheel
and held tls body in such simp
as to plainly show it desired to fish no
more that day.
The catfish weighed 51 pounds; the
bass was a fourteen pounder, Whit
the trout pulled the scales at 8 pounds
and three and a half ounces.
In the manner of getting the prlz<
to the bank, it can now be reasoned
out how Moses got the dry lunds for
th" Israelites to get over the Red sen
with, and to that oxvent the inclden
may, when onec the blight of preju
dice is allowed to fall from the eye
of mankind, be of extraordinary sclen
tiflc value.
Several farmers witnessed the oc-
currence, but their testimony was not
required as the Timugington word Is
ime as a bond In the Bowwow
The Huzer luis ordered pic-
of ih. prizes along with Tab,
line fish catcher.
Tie escapade of the good old house
,diow* that ib.. fishing In this sec-
tion surpasses that ot any other dis-
til, i In the state.—n wwow Buzzer.
i* mure catarrh In this sec-
tion of the country than all other dl-
soascs put together, and until the last
few years was supposed to be incur-
able. Tor a great many years doctors
pronounced It a local disease and pre-
scribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly falling to cure with local treat-
ment. pronounced It Incurable. Sci-
ence has proven catarrh to be a con-
stitutional disease and, therefore, re-
quires constitutional treatment Hall's
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the
only constitutional cure on the mar-
ket. It Is taken internally in doses
from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It
ts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of tho system. They offer
ono hundred dollars for any case it
fails to cure. Send for circulars and
testimonials.
Address: F. J. Cheney & Co., To-
ledo. Ohio.
Sold by nugglfts, 76c.
Take Hall's Fumil) l'illa for conatl-
gallon
Star Explains fo Oklahoma.
I'he Kansas' City Star answers the
Eastern reactionary organ, the New
Vork Suii. also takes jl sldetwist at
Oklahoma in thc foluwing disserta-
tion:
The esteemed New York Sun ap-
pears to be unduly exercised over the
prominence given to or rather taken
by -Oklahoma in the Denver conven-
tion. Can it be possible that Wall
is already alarmed over the
prospect that the "Oklahoma idea"
may supplant what the national plat-
form terms "the principles of the
party," 'and that Colonel Haskell,
Alfalfa Bill Murray and Colonel
Ham Bee may displace in tho councils
if the organization such men as Mur-
i'ingy" Conners and McCar-
ren:
The democratic party today is
Western," says the Sun, and Oklaho-
ma's little finger in it is bigger than
the lions oi the East and the South."
You can bet that Oklahoma, single
handed, In any contest with the con-
servative Kast and the even more
tive South where vocal aud
physical energy might figure—as It
lid at Denver would walk away
with the prize for the big noise. But
a^ide from that particular accom-
plishment, whicn happens to be Okla-
homa's "long suit," why shouldn't
that splendid young state have out-
stripped New Y rk, Pennsylvania and
all the "conesrvativo group" iu the
matter of what the politicians term
utting ice?" Whatever modern dem-
ocracy stands for, aside from Mr.
Bryan himself, Oklahoma represents
It, sum and substance. The Sun ia
correct when it declares that "tho
iemocratic party today is Western."
It migiit even have more appropriate-
ly expressed It by saying that the
democratic party today is "Oklali
man." And the youngster Is the finest
product of the party in its last half
century of existence and wholly
worthy of every exhibition made by
it at Denver.
With its proverbial tendency to
"view with alarm" the democracy is
at last offered ample opportunity to
"point with pride" to this one work
of its own hand.
All Accounted For.
There are 57 candidates for office
in Greeley county. The other three
residents of Greeley county should
get iu and make the thing unani
mous.—Topeka Capital.
Rubtdng Salt in the Sore.
Kvery time a prominent capitalist
of Oklahoma City comes to Muskogee
and Invests a few thousand dollars
another straw is in evidence showing
which way the wind blows.—Musko-
gee Phoenix.
UNKISSED.
Twas in a fhdd of waving corn
I met fair Winifred.
I begged a kiss, in secret sworn.
But this was what she i.aid:
l cannot cine: 1 niy frantic f«*ars
That in my lie -.r, are looked.
For every stalk of corn has ears
And corn is often shocked!"
The dim conservatory next.
I asked her with a sigh.
She did not seem a wee bit vexed,
Buf this was her reply;'./'
"I really cannot kisg you, dear,
I
Sonv
And s«'
cannot take thaycjiaihpp,
le one is Iistcnluff.•-1
Tho
fear,
rubber plants!
At dusk I met her in the hall;
Again I begged a kiss.
She shuddered at the clock go tall
I in so afraid s< me one will know
My fears I can't dispel,
I only wish the clock would go
For even time wi!l tell!"
James Mahan. a resident. near
Spaulding, has been arrested, charged
with being n accomplice In a murder
nine years ago in Henderson county,
Texas.
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