The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 1, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 6, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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THE PEOPLES PRESS
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NOTICE DEMOCRATS.
A copy of the roll of the Champ
Clark club can be found at Hen-
sley's book store. All persons who
favor the nomination of Clark for
president are requested to drop In and
sign the same.
Tammany Hall favors two states
made out of New York.
Candidates for county offices are
announcing in some counties of the
state.
The new Celestial republic will
please take notice that South Caro-
lina produces tea and has but few
pig tails either.
Snow fell to a depth of six inches
at Loredo and on down as far as
Monterey recently. It is no wonder
Mexicans are rebellious.
It is claimed that the Roosevelt
boom hit a snag in Oklahoma in
which most of the stuffing ran out.
They say the rent is ten times the
diameter of Jones' auger. Large
enough to lose the El Reno postoflice
to the original Roosevelt man.
We would suggest 101 Reno write
the sport loving boys and girls who
are being harrassed by the courts
and officers of the law at the capital,
that here is an ideal place for them
to come, the water is warm and the
fishing is fine. No license, no fines,
no molestation.
$600 a month is "cork-screwed" out
of the people simply to build up a
political machine to perpetuate a
gang of impecunious taxeaters in of-
fice. In this showing Mr. Phelps does
not make his figures large enough.
We have shown on numerous deci-
sions that over $750 a month is
squandered on hired help which the
charter does not authorize. Mr.
Phelps says nothing about the in-
crease in the salary list nor the in-
ciease in the price paid. However
we apprehend that he will add other
planks to his platform as the cam-
paign advances. He has opened it
with a bomb attached to a live wire,
which created consternation when the
fuse took fire, it startled the cor-
poration girls as will be seen in the
picture out of their pink slippeis.
Honest John's hat went skurrying
with the wind as he claps his hand
on an aching void in his bread-basket.
Pete shows a clean pair of heels,
and "Noodles" the executive mascot,
only needs a tin can to complete a
picture of consternation and dispair.
ALL COULD VOTE.
Universal suffrage for citizens of
the District of Columbia was pro-
posed in a bill introduced yesterday
by Representative Berger of Wiscon-
sin.
Berger is a Socialist and has for-
gotten, if he ever knew, that the
people of the District of Columbia,
of their own volition disfranchised
themselves in order to keep from
being controlled by free niggers of
the "Smart Alex" type which flocked
to Washington after the war, until
they were as thick as lice in Egypt.
Universal suffrage would turn the
District of Columbia now over to a
negro population, the most insolent
in the world. It would revive the
Ku Klux Klan. It would revive the
of the capitol.
THE GIANTS OF THE PAST.
people now on
or care much
whose Gargan-
The politicians of New York city
want to divide the state of New York
so as to make two states of it. The
city of greater New York to com-
prise one and rural New York the
other. A splendid scheme to in-
crease waning legislative power of
the plutocrats.
Jesse Tomerlin drew a $1,00 0 fine
and four months in jail for operating
and maintaining a gambling hell in
Oklahoma City last Saturday. The
trial was had in the county court.
Jesse should have come to El Reno,
where gamblers are treated like
gentlemen and not like criminals. It'
Jesse should come to El Reno the
city administration would meet him
with a glad hand and some other offi-
cers of the law would give him the
knowing look and the encouraging!
smile, and if he desires to bring
Jezebels along with him all the bet-
ter. The more the merrier. Head-
quarters can be secured up stairs in
almost any business block. Rents'
are cheap and political candidates i
are ripe for anything sporty if up to j
snuff.
There is nothing wrong with B. P.
Phelps' platform for mayor, only it j
does not go far enough, lie is emi-
nently right in declaring that the
taxpayers are tired of having their
hard earned pennies "cork-screwed"
out of them by "roustabouts" in the
water office and "sleeping beauties"
in the executive department of the
city. The people voted to adopt the
charter because it required four men,
three commissioners and the clerk to
do all the work of the city. They
voted to make the salaries of the
three commissioners high enough so
that they could lay aside all private
business and devote their entire time
to the city's business. They voted
for the present bunch of "cork-screw"
artists to do the work of the city
themselves and not to hire it done.
The charter makes hired men of
them, not bosses. No where in the
charter can you find authority for the
employment, of the army of clerks,
superintendents, inspectors and other
paid helpers to run the city. Four
men can run it and run it better and
cheaper than it has been run in the
last eight or ten years. And they
should be made to run it and run it
in accordance with the law and the
charter or made to step down and out.
Phelps' platform shows where nearly
WHERE DOES HE STAND NOW?
On the 4th of March next I shall
have served three and a half years,
and this three and a half years con-
stitute my first term. The wise cus-
tom which limits the president to two
terms regards the substance and not
the form, and under no circumstances
will 1 be a candidate for or ac-
cept another nomination.—Theodore
Roosevelt, November 8, 1904.
SO ISSO RETT EI > PARAGRAPHS.
It begins to appear that Woodrow
Wilson would make Marse Henry
Watterson a charter member of the
Annanias club.—Lawton News and
Star.
There will be more independent
votes cast in Oklahoma this fall than
ever before, and the people will vote
for lower taxes.—Chandler Tribune.
But if Colonel Roosevelt should be
nominated on June 18, wouldn't Mr.
Haskell drop his senatorial boom and
take the Democratic nomination for
president?—McAlester News-Capital.
It is natural perhaps for the editor
of a country weekly to imagine every-
thing that appears in a metropolitan
paper is written by its editor, or at
least that he reads it.—Oklahoma
City Times.
We have never known what mater-
ial was intended for use on the pro-
posed state highways in Oklahoma
but would judge that they are to be
constructed of rock and rye.—Chero-
kee Republican.
Since it has been proved that Sir
Prancis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's
works and re-wrote the Bible, the
McAlester News-Capital thinks it
would be well to have an expert ex-
amine those mysterious Roosevelt
resolutions which were sprung at the
Coalgate convention and see whether
Sir Francis didn't have a hand in
them.
A Hardin county farmer has dug
up a skeleton which measures twelve
feet. The find was made at the foot
of a cliff which evidently had been
the burial ground of a prehistoric
race, as numerous other skeletons
were found, most of them being of
gigantic proportions. Such places of
sepulchre are not uncommon in Ken-
tucky and they are supposed to date
back a matter of 2,000 years. It is
' evident that "there were giants in
those days," but the
i earth do not know
about them.
Our predecessors
tuan frames have been sleeping the
; sleep of centuries did not leave us
any history of themselves. Facilities
for making records of current events
were not good in this country a cou-
; pie of thousand years ago. If the
giants left any notations on the cliffs
or elsewhere they have been obliter-
ated by "Time in his flight." More
I than likely they didn't leave any.
They led the simple life and probably
knew no'reason why any one should
bother himself about reading and
writing or encumber himself with a
surplusage of clothing. They had no
telephones, telegraphs or rural free
delivery routes. When they had
messages to exchange they sent word.
Lacking so many of the modern con-
veniences it was fortunate that folks
grew tall. They were built for long
stepping and must have been able to
cover territory at an amazing rate;
but life was not the fevered rush in
that far-away time that it is at pres-
ent and probably the only occasions
that called for hurry, were when the
family larder was empty and it was
| necessary to run down an elephant to
secure a steak for breakfast or when
it was prudent to put on a little speed
to escape from an angry mastodon or
something of that sort.
In the days when men were twelve
feet tall "and built according," there
must have been fish in Salt river as
large as whales and serpents in the
Ohio long enough to reach from
Louisville to West Point. Probably
the geologists would not concede the
existence of the dioproduccus at so
recent a period, but there must have
been many strange and immense ani-
mals to make it interesting and amus-
ing and, at times exciting for our
large and lofty predecessors. Also
these prehistoric Kentuckians had to
eat, and, knowing nothing about
scientific farming, they were essen-
tially carnivorous and, of course, big
game was in demand. They had few-
cooking vessels and in all ways lived
close to nature. Whether they dwelt
in caves or roosted in trees is not
material. We may well imagine they
believed in and practiced the fresh
air theory, since they lacked means
and ways of polluting the ozone or of
steaming up their crude domiciles.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons
why they grew tall and sun-crowned
and were able to leap across Rolling
Fork without taking a running start.
Kentucky soil has always produc-
ed a superior class of citizens. The
discoveries of the Hardin county
farmer supply valuable evidence to
i the effect that the soil acquired the
habit early and never has gotten out
of it. Whatever the present genera-
tions may lack in length, breadth and
thickness is well compensated for in
the quality of fiber. In the read-
justment of things that has taken
I place in the past 2,000 years the
giants had to go—along with the
j mammoth and the mastodon—simply
! because the world no longer needs
them in its business. At present a
12-foot individual would be hopeless-
ly out of place and in the way.—
Louisville Courier-Journal.
A VALENTINE DANCE.
Ed Perry has swooped down upon
Oklahoma City with his Roosevelt.-
for-president propaganda and is mak-
ing things merry around his head-
quarters in the Skirvin hotel, says
the Lawton News and Star. Perry is
a militant fighter who knows no such
word as fail, not even when he is
whipped, and he proposes to keep up
the fight until the last delegate to the
national convention has been chosen.
The world owes every man a liv-
ing, but he must hustle to collect it.
The men of the Episcopal church
will issue invitations tomorrow for
a dance to be given on Valentines
day—February 14.
SHADE TREES.
I will prune, spray or whitewash
your trees or reset what was burned
out during last season's drouth and
excessive heat at most reasonable
rates. Get your orders in before the
sap raises to Insure a growth. S. A.
Stream, 515 North Choctaw avenue.
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THOS. BENSON
Funeral Director and Embalmer.
Lady Assistant. Picture l earning.
PRU ATE AMIJI'LA\CE
Phone PJO El Reno,
105 X. Bickford Oklahoma
E. P. Barker Realty Co.
We try to please. Call and see
Rooms O and 7 Lanibe Bldg.
WE DON'T SUBSTITUTE
You get the grade of coal you
buy when you get it from the
lolinson Coal Company.
Phone 1 <
CAMERON
For Groceries and Feed. We
redeem "Yours Truly" coupons.
Watch the Daily Oklahoinan for
tllClll.
5<r West Wade Phone 500
OXFORD LUNCH ROOM
Gene lloadley. Prop.
A Good Place to Eat
SANITARY HAIR DRESSING
PARLORS
We positively guarantee to grow
hair on bald heads. A trial will
convince you of the efficiency of
our treatments. Phone 7TS, Room
5, 1 1! \2 North Itickfonl
STOVE WOOD
Delivered in half cord and cord
lots anywhere in the city.
$o.OO for chunk wood
$0.00 for cook stove wood
Call Phone K.X-51
Mr. & Mrs.
J. B. KERRICK
FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND
EMBALM ERS
Telephone 177
108 North Rock Island Avenue
CUT FLOWERS AND PICTURE
FRAMING
INDEFINITE PAROLE.
An indefinite parole was granted
to G. W. Classen of El Reno, Cana-
dian county, Monday. Classen was
convicted of violation of the prohibi-
tory law in several cases. He was
paroled for five months in August,
and his parole later was extended an-
other month. A parole was granted
to Atchley L. Nemecek of Cleveland
county, whc.se total fines in liquor
cases amounted to $025, and whose
jail sentence was 210 days. He has
paid all costs in the case and served
out the sentence, only the fines being
suspended by the parole.—Oklaho-
m an.
WE'RE TO HAVE OPERA?
It is reported that the Sheehan
Opera company has been booked to
sing "Bohemian Girl" in the El Reno
theater on February 1G for the bene-
fit of the stockholders of the house,
but none of the advertising is out as
yet.
Misplaced confidence always loses
out In the end.—Ex.
NOTICE M. W. A.
On Thursday night, the delegates
who attended the head encampment
adjourned session, will make a report
in regard to New Rates.
T. S. JACKSON, Counsel.
C. M. TERHUNE, Clerk.
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