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will continue to adorn the columns
of the Peoples Press whether its
editor is elected mayor or not.
Somebody once told Plato that all
the world spoke ill of him. "Let
them talk" said he, " I will live so as
to make them change their note."
The possession of a tax receipt is
no part of the qualifications of a man
to hold office in this country, but it is
evidence of the fact that its owner
is liable to be more considerate of
the rights of the man who foots the |
public bills, than the spendthrift.
And he answered and said to his
father, Lo, these many years have I
served thee, yet thou never gavestj
me a kid that I might make merry j
with my friends; but as soon as thy
son was come, which hath devoured
thy living with harlots, thou hast
killed for him the fatted calf.
"If a newspaper man knew how
many 'knocks' he received behind his
back, he would adopt another call-
ing," said a citizen the other day.
This citizen was mistaken. The
newspaper man who succeeds ex-
pects to be maligned by every law
breaker, swindler, hypocrite, and
every lover of notoriety who does not
agree with him on public or private
questions.
J\f(inv I!owes Are !\7ot os '*1 eli Lighted as
They Should be.
Many citizens are paying sufficient money each month to
obtain the satisfactory electric lighting which they do not get
The fault lies in unscientific lamps, shades, reflectors and
fixtures which they are using.
No matter how good the electric current delivered, poor
lighting appliances will blight illuminating results.
The new (Mazda) tungsten lamps give three times as much light
for the same consumption of current, as do the carbon incandes-
cent lamps.
Our experts will be glad to help solve your lighting problems
There is no charge for their service.
One of our many lady readers,
who is not up on political slang, asks
us to explain what is meant by a
"gum shoe" and "pussy foot" cam-
paign. A "gum shoe" campaign and
a "pussy foot" campaign means prac-
tically one and the same thing. It
means to slip around among the peo-
ple l;ke a cat or as if shod with gum
shoes. To make no public declara-
tion of what you stand for; but to
slip around and whisper it in the ear
of the voter. In this kind of a cam-
paign, the candidate can slip up to
a church member and whisper in his
ear a promise, of law enforcement
and then take the bootlegger off to
one side and promise him protection.
The plan has other advantages, it
enables the coward and the scandal
monger to spread false reports about
his opponents which otherwise he
would not dare to do. It is the favor-
ite campaign of the man who repre-
sents nothing; who stands for noth-
ing, and as a rule does nothing, if
elected. What moral thing can such
a candidate stand for? What does
such a candidate care for better or
worse city government. It is all the
same to them once elected. They
have been all things to all men in
promises. And they will be failures
to all men when it comes to perform-
ances.
TELEPHONE 400
El Reno Gas & Electric Co.
11)4 SOUTH U1CKFORD
ONLY THREE.
Our charter provides for a commis-
sion of three men to run the town.
It don't provide for a committee of
"five or ten men" to take care of one
of these three commissioners. The
charter presupposes that the people
will elect three men capable and
sober enough to take care of them-
selves at all times. The charter does
provide that if the mayor becomes
incapacitated to act, even if for so
short a time as twenty-four hours;
that the commissioner of public high-
ways shall become acting mayor until
the real mayor recovers. The writers
of the charter throught that this was
a better plan, than the public guar-
dian plan of an advisory committee
to watch over the mayor.
Children need somebody to watch
over tbem in an advisory capacity,
but in writing the charter the board
did not think that the taxpayers
would ever seriously consider the
proposition of electing children of
such tender age to office; hence the
absence of any provision in the char-
ter for an advisory committee of
trained nurses, to look after the oc-
cupant of the mayor's office.
Some government provide in their
constitution for a king regent or a
queen regent as the case may be, to
look after the affairs of the public
when the people are blessed with an
infant ruler.
The Ottoman empire has even gone
farther and made other provisions
for their chief executive, which was
entirely overlooked by the writers of
our city charter. Provisions that
will require a complete change in
our theory of government, if substi-
tuted at this late hour.
Our charter was written by eight
men, and it provides for an official
directorate of three men, and if it
is changed to fit the boyish whims of
some fanciful experimentalist, it will
have to be done by a majority vote
of men.
HARD LICK STORIES.
All my friends are sick and ail-
ing and they come to me a-wailing
of their woes and tribulations just
las though I was to blame; one is
| driven to a frenzy with a case of
| influenzy, and some other dire dis-
eases frolic through his weary frame.
Old man Quackenbush is havin' lots
of trouble with a spavin and his ring-
bones hurt him sorely when the
weather's cool and wet; through old
Quigway's frame meanders every
j symptom of the glanders, and it real-
ly rends by heartstrings when I see
| him fuss and fret. One has got com-
j plaint catarrhal and he buys dope by
j the barrel and he'd have one stand
and listen to the sickening details;
one's broken out in reddish patches,
| one has got the itching scratches,
one has got rheumatic jim-jams, one
has got ingrowing nails. So they
bore me with descriptions of their
spasms and conniptions, and they
] don't give me a look in when I'd
J spring a private groan; little care
1 what befell them for I'm suffering
to tell them all about the fifty-seven
rare diseases of my own.—Uncle
i Walt.
Stnccrtlu Clothe®
The Ardor of Youth—
The Dignity of
Old Age.
?ROM one extreme to
H
the other there are
"Sincerity' Styles. Tasteful
toneful, timely fabrics.
Fagged ro suit every pocket
hook. See our new Spring
Styles.
$15 to $35
"We Want Your Trade."
PENNER & DALE
106 SOUTH HICKFORD
TOWN'
Ladies white (u
boots for $3.00 at]
If it s made by (jj
Booster meetj^j
Mrs. Ida C. l|;|
today.
The Kingfisher"!
will be here next $
|
■ Or. It. c. Hunttt
view, Okla., on a bj
 1
The El Reno orci*
gaged to play tonig
, opening.
Or. Wm. B. Catt
day evening from a
in Kansas City.
A big black clou
north about 11:30
it was only a bluff
Ladies white or
buck" 1 (> button 14
Ivelsos.
Attend the Boos
tonight. Many intq
be talked about. 1
Miss Mary Lawi
ill for some time i
is reported eonvalj
The Sterling Thi
entertained this £
home of Mrs. Ros
Milas avenue.
Mrs. Henry La^
Barclay returned!
after a visit of i
i friends in this citt
The Ladies Mi(
the First Baptist]
with Mrs. N. V.)
Evans, tomorrow!
The Ladies Aid
M. E. church wi
Kraft, 4 01 South,
afternoon. Men?
to be present.
The Ladies Aid
gregational churc
row afternoon ti
Margaret Adams*
A good attendance
The Presbyteri
ciety will meet wit
309 South Williat
noon at 2:30. A
quested to be pr<
officers will be h<
The new pasto:
tional church, R<
and wife will be
tion Thursday < v
of Professor and
511 South Maco
members of the
friends are cordi
tend.
OHIO W1L
HAVE
DIRECT PRIMARIES.
Columbus, Ohio, March 2 0.—With
supporters of Governor Harmon's
presidential candidacy in complete
control, the Democratic state central
committee yesterday provided for a
presidential preference primary to
take place in Ohio on May 21. The
Republican county executive commit-
tee chairman, at a meeting here yes-
terday, adopted a resolution indors-
ing President Taft and pledged Ohio's
support to the president. At the con-
ference, sixty-two county chairman
were represented. Of the twenty-six
absentees the Taft leaders claim they
are evenly divided between Taft and
Roosevelt.
Don't delay-
today.
-start your want ad
NOTICE. S
El Reno Local,
tonight at 8 o'cloc
transact importan
SPINAL >1
Serums and a
all sorts of anti
necessary for the
dreadful disease f
Island Drug Co.
KUKPRIS
Rev. S. Emrich
dered a surprise
evening by about
friends. The part
; of a "pound" par!
The evening w
playing games an
casion very miwh
BOOSTER < !
The Booster cl
ing tonight at ti
the business men
ed to attend. ^
ant matters win
sion and the clul
representatives o
try and line of c<
ent to take part