The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 84, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 28, 1904 Page: 2 of 6
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THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAPITAL, TITTHSPAV MORXIN'O, .TT'I.T stk, I?"*
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The Oklahoma Slate Capital
•y the Stato Capital Company.
FRANK H GREER, EDITOR.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DEMOCRATS DECLARE
AGAINST STATEHOOD
Oklahoma democrats have solemn-
ly declared4 that they oppose the Ha nu-
ll ton statehood bill ami are in favor at
no statehood at all. That Is the plaiSi
Dally by Carrier In City. . ,. W1
©ne vreek f"5| tatemont of the proposition tht;J
On* month ^-®0| soen In the platform adopted h
" DaTl^ by niail—StNc't'ly in' Aflfranea. democrat* at Oklahoma City. TI h|
""li tl,ai hnsu"''" rou«hi >>
Six month# 8-00' which the democrats are placer41'
^•^•ubacVlptlon will be* aani by mail in record as opposing th
the city of Guthrie.
Sunday Edition.
On* yaar by mall
Weakly.
rix months
One yaar
wlshe
•ypn of democracy that has flourished | merit of brief authority wan n iuru "■« •
In the south. He is the type of man some men's heads were abusive to the ; nu.'wi<•'
who has had his best development In | strikers when they presented them- >
a land of hospitality and high IdeaU j selves for re-inntatement. This is do- J hand, ti
The nomination of Mr. Mathews by nied by the packers. It would seem "h,. , 0: r< r,......... - - .
democrats makes tho issue the para-j to havo been wisdom on their part to : 'j'1;*',®,offHnot^onTv Vrom laat^year'when
mount question in the campaign. Aside have repudiated such actions by dls- th. rush «<r iinmlgration was at Its height,
from being young and lacking in ex-1 charging the- foremen guilty of the of- "ti,',? am-hio <-ompanl s have been the
perlence in legislative affairs there id lence as there must have been some \ 1|nS^^*,nt*ehavStb2«n^,th« galy-
110 argument to make against M . ground for the complaint of the men A .1 to an equally *r<- t extent, and tne
I tnfnl Immigration of the ena of me yrai
Mathews' candidacy sjive that which is , tyrunnical, insolent foreman cannot ( wl„ ,„n.,nhiv t.«- neither gr.-ater nor le«*
In4iaiv.nl in hia nni< i/«ai hniipfw imri in b(_. accused of working for his employ- than it would have been without the pe
nod 01 choap rates.
er's interest. | n
„h„ h turns i li". II"' «dmis.k.n of «H«n wer. full)' OB8CMCK8S aSS®I3C8SKK8 SISSeK J0OO«OO«a OOC>OaO^^
The former fear now prove*
1.. .m.o been groundles
mouth of June and the Hrnt
Julv. for which tlgurea are «t
c numlior of Immigritnt* admKte.i
ort of New York was 54.368. In
i Pt ondliiK of 1903 Jhe flfUW WttH
, .90.2S
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
KAIUIIANK8.
To Hon. Bill Cross: Ooodbye, Bill;
tako care of yourself.
What is the difference between ven-
detta nnd a democratic convention?
Steady, democrats; steady. Don't
Shoot Don't Jump up and down. Keep
your collars on.
By tho way, what has become of tho
civic league. Convention meets todfiM
-.and now Is the time to get busy.
By the way, what has become of the
boom that Jndge Marum was to havo
bad from the short grass country?
To bo «nr the populists have be>
double-crossed. But they ought to ho
getting to used to that, by this time.
Tho best way out of a promise is by
breaking It. That Is tho cold-blooded
method of tlie democrats of Okla-
homa.
A Outbrlo man has decided that a
beautiful complexion in a man is too
often connected with red whiskers to
be desirable.
Knew something was doing. While
Doyle worked the press Bowles was
discreetly silent. And the Bowles dele-
gation won out.
Colonel ICdgar W. Jones did not re-
turn a conquering hero. But he has
tome consolation. The dark horse
was not entered.
peopio of Oklahoma grew out of ,
desire of the people on the resolut{|\
committee to condemn things. In 1 ^
neal to "view wltli alarm" ami
nouncs. they havo been led to opjk
Ing the thing upon which the peoft
of Oklahoma nre almost unanlin
agreed.
Tho Keaton resolution which was
adopted by a vote of 284 to 214 pro-
vides for nothJng. It Is the statehood
plank of the platform. It was pass
ed over the opposition of Judge Blerer
and other sano democrats of Oklahoma
who advocated endorsement of tip-
Hamilton statehood bill, waiving any-
thing that seemed undemocratic In
the interest of the people of Oklahoma
who desire statehood. Tho Keaton
resolution was as follows. It repre-
sents tho democratic position on state-
hood:
Wo approve of the boundarp pro-
vipir.n.-i of tho Hamilton staiohood
till, but condemn the partisan fea-
tures thereof, which, for th*1 Hr t.
Hint, in our history, have crept into
the enabling act for the creation of
n great state; and we respectfully
request the senate of the I'nited
States, before passing said bill, to
eliminate the ontrageoua gerry-
mander of the congressional dis-
tricts, the partisan election ma-
chinery for the constltutioual con-
vention anu the provision depriv-
ing the people of the state of the
right to locate its capital wherever
and whenever they choose.
The condemnation of the bill Is
sweeping. It embraces everything save
the ono matter of exterior limits. It
was the flght of petty policies against
broad minds. It was the Jealousies of
the home town of Judge Keaton against
the rest of the territory. It was th«
sentiment of one town against all of
the other towns. But more than all
the rest it was a narrow view that dis-
closed the lack of logic of the demo-
crats In the convention who would sac-
rifice the desires of the people rsthur
than endorse a republican measure.
The only hope of the people for state-
I hood Is In the passage of the Hamilton
by bill. Judgn Blerer recognised this In
is therefore assumed that the
Technically, therefore, reaponilbll-
A Memorial Hall.
campaign now begun In Oklahoma witl it> for the present strike resin with j MT^°^re(^h^"opi'1. n ra(,p- ,n r?.
ba n clean flght on prinelplat and is I the strike leaders. .The agreement Imen with
Indian Territory tribes
, ar« x.hiu to become extinct through ab-
It will be the contest of 1mm -| reached last week ought to have been j sorption by n more progressive race. For
carried out In good fa'.th by both
tides. In any event there was no rea-
son for such an abrupt termination of
i's lifo.
suss.
dlate single statehood against Indef-
inite delay bb declared for In tho re-
publican nnd democratic platforms re-
poctlvely.
It is pleasing to the flthte Capital to
ive a clean man nominated by tin
democrats. It Is pleasing to note that
the campaign—which Is not going to
lack In interest for that reason—is to
be jnade solely upon issues and upon
policies.
,>.■ . . nturlea they have withstood the on-
lauglits of Civilization and resisted tribal
llnlntegratlon though they have long "In?*
Grissom & Smith
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DIRECTORS
Frank Dale. A. J. Seay, Henry E. A«p, A. O. C. Blerer, J. R. Cottingham,
W. H. Coyle. Robt. Sohltoern, U. C. Gu««, J. W. Perry.
OFFICERS:
U. C. GUSS. Prealdent; FRANK DALE and J. W PERRY, Vice Prealdentaj
ROBT. SOHLBERO. Cashiar.
Kenton Is the platform maker. Let
It be remembered by the democratic
voters who will this fall have to vote
xpect an Indefinite
eon ti nuniVee of * that life which their pro-
hlntnrv Is <i trHlnKly
assnciated with the Houth
Of whose wrecked p«
1 new
state hn
HBB and out!
•nmnnt Is to grow
; with our scheme
fittingly remem-
of civil rule should b
An opportunity to establish and maln-
against their statehood sentiments or I tain n aultaM
against their party nomin
declaration was made through Jeal- i ypar*n?g^rffor Hn'
ousy and that Greer county, the home j a
of the democratic nominee, voted to
declare against statehood.
Observe with regret that the Vlad
CURRCNT COMMENT
of his
Ituthi
DEMOCRATS WHRE
AGAINST FUSION
Opposition to fusion was the senti-
ment that dominated the democratic
territorial convention, it was the sen- for several days. Must be something in
tlment that placed at the head of the j privity between rival news features
ticket Frank Mathews who has been (hat keeps them from conflicting. Now
all along the most rabid of anti-fusion for several days the world has been
democrats. The a«reement that was b isy with the Oklahoma convention,
made two years ago between the demo-
crats and the populists was ruthlessly
broken by the democrats. The domi-
nating note of discord in the conven-
tion was the sentiment against the
populists.
Tho southern democrats were the
convention. The southern democrat
hates a populist "like the devil is
alleged to hate holy water." That is
what one of tho leaders in the Mathews
band wagon said Tuesday. And the
result has been the double cross. The
populists of' Oklahoma in good faith
at tempted to agree with the democrats.
They were willing for the democrats
to select their nominee with the simple
reservation that the latter be some-
thing of a populist
In the disruption that has been
brought about by the democrats refus-
ing to stay put the fusion proposition
in Oklahoma has again been shown to
be a delusion and
weaker part of the combination.
And the populists, for their part,
a"re not In any way in accord with tlv
principles of the democrats as an-
nounced at St. Louis. Tho position of
the ponulists shows that insofar as
memorial Is now open.
To the west of th-> city Muakngee a short
that the 1 rii«t;.nce stand* 'Old Agency, a atone
the Rovernment mnny
8«eney. It was built
nd occupies a site un-
surpassed for the beauty of the "cenery
which It commands When he property
htc.-ime no longer available for the tines
of tli'1 government. It reverted to the
k notion lint little legislation wni.lcl
ded to effect the plan pro- |
mapnratlvely small approorl-
part of the Creek nation
ie grounds and building In
lr nnd add such features as
ralll.t "br .l-i.i...1 nee, «rv lo r>"'«Ct he
'.mtMlne Within It" w.K "J""™,
ho 11 >--c. tnbled cv.«ry article of historical
character available. ?uch as tribal rec-
or,I. and statute lm„k« am and all books
representing the nrlnted language of tne
now be
J. C. FOSTER & CO.,
Transfer and Storage
PHONE 601
We move everything. We have storage rooms to atl un-
limited capacity. We store your household goods, pianos,
stoves, and every other article at the most reasonable rates.
Call up phone 601 and we guarantee satisfaction.
J. C. FOSTER & CO.
eks.
•tide
•orative art and the
f war. trade nnd da-
ere characteristic of
various Implement
meatlc life which
the people. .
Such n memorial standing upon an eml-
•-.•nce alreadv historical and overlooking
th.' M-cn« Of the early struggles of the
("r-ck* In the west, would be worthy of
the porphse which it
Folk 1 tjK, growing city of Muskogee.
OKLAHOMA PARAGRAPHS
n has been struck at Henryetta.
Collided with His Own Speech.
St. Louis (ilobe-Democrat.
One of the moat temurkabla circum-
stances In the recent demiH-ratle stat>
convention was the driving
forces Imo surrender by tli
put an extract from one
speeches Into the plutfor...
than have tlmt done the Folk
up the white IhiK and allowed the ma-
chine to name Its own term*. Including „
Cook and Allen on tho ticket, and ^
striking from the platform the part ro- n Krcen c
fleeting on Cook as accessory In bribing . . - , _ ...
a state senator. In January hut Folk ! t i^hjKh to get
made u speech at Mexico. Mo.. In which I ,n Mother Cnrth at 1^1nign
he said: ' The doctrine of home rule is S°9 or •irtr',an _•
a cardinal principle of democracy. The! , ,, . . _
right of the people In each locality to The grocery store <>, 1 airlck C ua>e
select their own offlelsls is democratic, at Muskogee, was burned Hnturd.ij, loss
It In not in accord with true democracy $jj0 on stock and J400 on Dunning.
' " large cities In th
aslppl
will have
tomorrow.
hole bored
J. 3. Fairfield
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Phone No. 20. * 407-409 West Harrison Ave. J
o c*o o*o*o<>o«o*o«o*cn
that
a s hf
moved Its nuar-
1 : new building.1
■ted for a homo
a brld>?
That note of alarm aounded
Frank Mathews and published In tho j his plank submitted flrat In the Logan
State Capital ten days beforo tho con- county democratic convention and
vention was a true note. there rejected. The same plank was
- submitted to the territorial convention j oklahoma contingent is concerned
The Enid man who la now working and by that body rejected for the Kea tliey are still In favor of the soft
on a flying machine is just about to ton piank quoted above. The Bieror i monoy proposition and are unaltera-
dlscover that the earth la tho hardest resolution was a sane declaration of | Wy opposed to any endorsement of the
proposition he ever struck. (principles in the int
——: — ; pie of Oklahoma. It was a declaration
Anyway it seems likely that a caso jor immediate single statehood. It
against the average Oklahoma baseball wag a declaration for what the people
team for playing baseball on bunday ■
nut the democrats did not want ii
Their action can be construed to mean
nothing else than a declaration ngainst
governed like subject provinces." Folk I The Durant
nas had much to say of home rule In ter« to make
other speeches. His sincerity was put 1 which Is now
to a speedier tqat than he expected. I for the paper
In the platform committee of the
Jefferson Ctty convention the machine The Fort Glh
managers took the gist of Folk's speech built
of lnst January and proposed 10 Insert j tract! ..
It in the resolutions, with the reconi- nnd Krebs and Alderson.
mendation for "the speedy enactmnet , .
of laws whereby the citlsens of the i Muskogee complains that eonn®£P®'
various cities "f Missouri may choose men ar- working overtime <here. 'hat
snare for tho j their own Officers, who will enforce the is ,• t ! wholly bad sIrh - confluence men
election laws and nave control of the never work in a dead town.
various police departments." It was j ——
understood that If this resolution had \ man who recently cam'
gone into the platform Gov. Dockery I jv0„i8 was arrested ai
would have called an extra session oft thefts committed In the tow
the legislature to enact a home rule seemed to be taking drugs.
law at once. Itut the immediate pass- j
age of suoh a law would have cut the inves
Folk men out of the state board pat- j,om
Through Pullman to St. Louis
Every Day on
declaration of
of the peo-1 gDj,j standard or any of the other prop-
ositions made by the democrats in
Folk forces laid down" and yie
tmpletely to the machine. Months
awes and Folk would never agre«* J<
home rule for 81 Louis when It cam.
:o the point. How quickly the asser
lion was verified by playing on Folk
lersonal ambition and thirst him inti
lubmlsslon with otic of his own honv
could not be made to stick.
To Pruk <Mathewi: There arc oth
ed thing, than verbal bouquet.. You I J™ hood K„r „ op.K1>ltlu„ tJ,
Will >«<■ <0 l™rn 10 "P,aln ,h0 |,os '1 th.. Hamilton bill. Attempt lo amen 1!
tlon of your party on the .tatehoo I lh(, bm a8 peni,|nR m(,„ns ,(s d(,fea,
question. For the short session of congress ha-
"1"""". . ;r no time to make amendments. The a'-
TMh Sunday baseball situation seems ln bm or
r b" "" • th" eT,J* to substitute other ro f ,r ..
^rrong then It s wront; o si. n i wjjj any stitehooil legislation at
,uy «t home vote aometlme. chang-, |h# c>>m Bf He9J|on of
election re«nlt.. Th)> bu, „pr(.srnI8
To Colonel Edgar Jones: Bemombcr stantially wlia. the people of Okln
that you are coming out of this In ho ma desire. It is the sort of a mra
good shape compared to what would "ro the party in congress is willing to
have been the case had you been noml- enact into a law. It has been accept-
nated. The agony for Mathews is go- <*d and endorsed by the republicans of
lug to be longer. That is all. Oklahoma for the reason that it Is a
■ . ■1 - j present possibility and Is practically
Frank Mathews is a bachelor, lie is ( people desire.
handsome and popular. He was a fav- ^ n.^ublleans will endeavor to s
orlte ^rlth the girls of Guthrie socle- passage at the short session of
tjr the last time he was here ss a congress.
member of the legislature. Good thin.; ln the condemnation of the bill by
for the republicans that the women can (jje democrats is a declaration agalus.
pot rote. : immediate single statehood. It can be
WfcM 1. the use of holding conven-' '
tlons, anyhow? There are thousands' 8Sn® s •' <i«een
of people ln Oklahoma today who knew pu 'nnR
all the time that Mathews would be hewd quer* •
nominated. If they had just told
the convention about It It might have
prevented the night session.
President Roosevelt Is to be person-
ally credited with doing more than
anybody to promote the "open shop"
principle. He has placed the govern-
nieut Itself firmly on the right side,
which Is encouragement to all employ-
era to get there likewise. The other
day a good story OUH from.New fork
of the way the government meets the
Issue. A strike occurred on a govern-
ment building going up lu Washington
flarracks. Union brick layers laii
down their trowels and went to the
superintendent. Capt. Sewall. and noti-
fied him that non-unloyn men were
being employed, and that the rulea of
the union forbade them from work-
ing with non-union men. Capt. gewall's
reply had the right ring. "1 would ad-
▼iae you then." he (sald. "to change
your rules; It Is easier than chang-
ing the constitution of the United
6tatea." That is the position the pres-
ident took more than a year ago in th->
Miller case, and it is going to be main-
tained.
Joined. The -
The republ
pending bill
for immedlat
The demo
have declare*
The Issue I
emocrats on the stat<-
i It has not been* before
hoc rat 8 made the issu *
ns In endorsing tht
*ve declared definitely
their convention at St. l.ouis.
The populists of Oklahoma can no
more be drawn into the gold camp of
the democrats than the democrats can
be Induced to make concessions or even
tt) keep promises made to tho pop.illsU.
Aside front the br a« h of faith that
Is Involved ln the nomination of
Mathews by the democrats is the
greater difference that would prevent
the uniting of the two parties In a
cause that could in no way be made
a common cause.
The populist party Is a populist party
•till. It stands today for the things j r.'
for which it stood when it had its in
ceptlon In the parched fields of Kan-1 ins
sas. It has not been captured by Wall , n,', tr
street, nor fallen a victim to the wiles j ^
of the plutocrats whom It has ever fathe
fought. With this difference between , !'>nse
the democrats and the populists the j {J^,J
divergence of this week is not to be want
wondered at. On the contrary It was tlons
' "OTctert. |
The reformed democracy Is In the
gold camp. It stands for boodle and
I fcosslsm.
The populists never had anything In
, common with the democrats save Bry-
an aloae The democrats have shelved
Bryan and the things that Bryau stood
The re
Its evident mal fi le
simply that
bilits
is patent and that
o end
an lm
from
for m:«n>
Ills hobby
rninc ef th
or Menry M Forman of Ardmore
----- robbed ana
the crime
uoner are prcpar
that place
making
d tim
Fast Mail—No. 116.
East of Kansas City this through sloop-
er will run over tho M issouri Pacific Uy
Iramatl
the World s Fair
For further particulars and literature
apply io
T. E. PURDY, Agent, Guthrie, Okla
Hoeh to Young Men.
Marl.>n (Kai
ling men will
their nrst vote n«*t Nevomber
first vote 1* a very Import
matter In the life of a young man
rluht to participate In government I
feared of all human !
rlKhtn. Seroml only to the right it
Importance Is the proper and
xerelac of the right
died
I In and tiled In hi
m
RatU
tine at
Initial
Frid
to keep him
hough
ration the wt*d.
Men dlsltk
tanth
Km*!*
1 In Jill
art ing
Imtxirtai
\ nf tn
poll 11
Hon t
mlcabl
t that no negro i
me
st imino- i
pirlt I
WISE
scaped
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of course you are going i
richt
it hai
Let as furnish you with literature relative to the bulldlne-a, fcotola, low
rau«i, trato- service, etc. Ask your local aureus or address
C. W. STRAIN, division Pag*kn&ch Amnt,
WICHITA. RAN.
IlKht
to" the
THE NOMINEE
AND THE IS^UE
Tlie nomination of Hon. Frank
Mathews, of Mangum, by the demo-
crats of Oklahoma as their candidate
for delegate to congress completes the
declaration of policies by that party
Mr. Mathews Is a democrat. He is an
uncompromising democrat of th.
southern school. He is alleged to be
eo democratic ns to have said that h >
"loves a republican better than he likes
a pop." Which is not meant to indicate
that he has any political affection for
either a republican or a populist but
that he hates not the ono less but the
other more.
Mr. Mathews Is a v lean man. Person-
ally he is a gentleman nf high ideal-
and the chivalry of the Old Souta.
Nothing can nor should be said against
the world rather
which the democi
>d. The
the will
else in j
right' Th
natlonnl d,
ngs for 1
1 . ll-'ro
' ?•
bee ti bltt
Swinging on the Gate.
',rtght4'ftr,1Th"
•ial policv ha
MERITS OF THE
PACKERS' STRIKE
An anxious inquirer desires to know
the mfrits of tbe packing house strike.
He even asks to bt> Informed as to
which side of the controversy is right.
At this stage of the struggle pack-
ers are technically right. A strike set-
tlement was made last week which
allowed 45 day* for reinstatement of
the strikers. Alleging discrimination | P
strike leader Donnelly repudiated thit
which party
ron* on the i
>«t forty yea
agr
ement before
t had
?rs now
the tei
een in ef-!
avow a de- i
as of that
imption that
nd quarter to
him as a man and cltlten. lie is tbe Ingtown, clothed m that *ia*u vmx-
rIth an endorsement"
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