The West Side Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 16, 1894 Page: 1 of 4
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TARIFF DEBATE
Chairman Wilson Opens the
Fight Burrows Replies
Washington, Jan. 9.—This was a
Held duy in the house for the tariff.
The galleries wen; thronged all day
and the floor was crowed. Pach side
put forth its most brilliant orators for
the day's session Mr. Wilson, the
chairman of t h<- ways and means com-
mittee, completed his speech begun
yesterday, and Mr. Burrows opened the
debate for the republicans with a three
hour's reply. Gen. Black and Mr Bop-
kins, of Illinois, followed. The good
points of all speakers were liberally ap-
plauded by their respective partisans.
At the evening session, Mr. Baines, a
democrat from New York, in the niun-
of the collar and cuff industry fired the
first shot into the Wilson bill. lie dis-
played a gigantic petition, signed by
<17,000 persons, protesting against the
collar and cuff schedule, declui ing
that if it was to become a law it would
ruin this great industry.
At 11:15 the house resolved itself in-
to a committee of the whole for the
consideration of the tariff, and Wilson
resumed his speech of yesterday. lie
continued the thread of his arguments,
presenting his side of the case in
forceful language.
Statehood-
Actuated by a sense of duty to our-
selves and the people of Oklahoma gen-
erally. the tax payers of township 10
met at Springer Valley school house,
on the lith inst, .mil unanimously passed
resolutions against immediate state-
hood. feeling that we are not yet able
to stand alone, owing to the onerous
burdens of taxation already upon us
which will be materially increased by
statehood. We, therefore respectfully
request the people all over Oklahoma
to assemble, at the earliest practicable
time, in their respective townships and
take such action as \ . reflect the pop-
ular will and promptly advise our rep-
resentatives in congress of such action.
I {espect fully requested that the press
throughout the territory publish the
above. P. W. Kkay, Chairman.
L. L. Maples, Secretary.
January 8, 1894.
The Kansas City Times has done it-
self great injury trying to cover up the
investigation of the diabolical attempt
of some dastardly curs to rob our settlers
with impunity. No homstead settler
in "Q"' county who reads the"Times' "
villilicatlon of Chief Justice Bale and
his associates for their efforts to pun-
ish criminals withoni "fear or favor"
will ever esteem that paper above the
Police Gazette for its civilizing influ-
ences . The frequent articles appear-
ing of late In the "Times" serve only
as extreme illustrations of newspaper
imbecility, dishonesty and cowardice.
The Times has heretofore been high-
ly esteemed by our people for the inter-
est it seemingly took in their behalf:
butits present attempts, upon villainous-
ly false statements, to create public sen-
timent In behalf of selfconfessed crimi-
nals has destroyed its future influence
with our people. Why at one stroke
it seeks its own eertaiu destruction wo
can't nderstand, unless that the man-
agement thereof has allowed itself to
be hoodwinked by some designing cor-
respondent.—Pawnee Democrat.
Bang! That is the way the old year
slid off into the tongueless past. The
noise that came at midnight showed
that no one was really sorry to part
with '93. No one seemed to weep any
tears of regret over its departure. As
soon as the echoes of the parting shots
died away, there was a queer sound to
be distinguished above the din, grow-
ing louder and louder as the new year
grew older, adding another volume, as
the minutes sped Into hours, to the
records of the post. It was the flutter-
ing of the new leaves that wero being
turned over. Resolutions were being
made by the thousands, some to be
kept for an hour, some for a day, some
for a month, and a few for the year.
Hero and there was one destined to be
observed for all time, but it seemed
abashed among so many that were not
at all serious. How few, alas, ever
think of the good resolutions made at
the inhering in of the new year, but go
on down through life resolving and re-
solving, yet die the same.
" The appointment of A. G. C. Bierer
of Guthrie", as associate justice of Ok-
lahoma, will meet the approval of the
people of this territory. lie is a young
man of splendid ability, learned in the
law. and his integrity is unquestioned.
The Kansas City Times seems to
havo abandoned its fight upon Chief
Justice Dale. Perhaps tho Times
found out that it was tho genoral im-
pression in Oklahoma that it was rank,
ing an ass of itself.
By Henry Howard. Truth Told
to Territorial Teachers.
An Able Address Before the Ter-
ritorial Teachers' Association
at Oklahoma City.
You folks think you amount to some-
thing; but you don't. You think the
intelligence and prosperity of the
country depend upon you: but they
don't. You think that hut for you the
light of the world would go out: but it
wouldn't. You think you are the cap-
tain of the hosts in their march tow-
ard light; but you ar'n't.
You've been told that yon are the
staff and stay of the American repub-
lic. You believe it. You'd believe it
whether told it or not: but you ar'n't.
If the youth of the country could be
but what you are, know only what you
know and be taught only what you can
teach them, this countrj would go to
smash in the next generation. There
would not be ii man in it who knew
whether lie was old enough to be pres-
ident or what the job is worth if lie
should get it. You don't like this but
you know it is so. You don't know
half as much about the Federal Blue
Book as you do about the constellatii n
of heaven: and that aint much.
You don't know the names of the
territorial officers and the designations
of their ottices and their salaries. If
one of your pupils wanted to be gover-
nor you could not tell him what the
job would be worth to him.
Say, you can't name the officers of
your county and tell how long they
serve and what their fees and salaries
are. And are you the staff and stay of
the American republic? Yon do know
the county superintendent and your
school board.
In examination I once asked who was
governor. There were twenty an-
swers. One fellow, nearly grown, an-
swered, ' My Uncle Al." Bis uncle A1
was county superintendent of schools.
You will find that dignitarj the big-
gest man your pupils know anything
about except you and George Washing-
ton.
Speaking about George Washington,
when you are teaching history and
come to hiin, you never go beyond the
few lines in the book to tell your pu-
pils sit length the part he played in
the early days of this repblic and how
he played it, do you? But you never
fail to tell tnem that fool lie about the
hatchet, do you?
You can teach a barefoot boy how to
solve u problem in algebra, but you
never tried to learn him how to solve
the problem of obtaining a pair of
shoes, did you?
You can teach a hungry child how to
parse "bread" all right enough, but
you can't tell it how to earn any. You
can tell your children'that they must
love their country, but you make a poor
start in telling them what it if- you
want them to love. These days folks
want to know something of the object
of their love before thc\ will love it
very hard.
You teach book keeping some of
you, don't you? How long do you sup-
pose you could hold a iirst class posi-
oion as u book-keeper? Did you ever
try it? You teach composition, and
you couldn't write an article of five
hundred words on any subject that a
country editor wouldn't throw in the
waste basket, and you know it too well
to try it. You teach elocution, and you
can't imitate the erowingof a cock, the
bay of a dog or the bleat of a sheep,
and would punish the child that could
make a face, wouldn't you?
You think it smart to criticise the
language of the people, and make sport
of them because they don't conform to
tho rules of your grammar. You for-
get that they, made tlie rules of that
book, made your vocabulary, and, in
spite of your conservative nonsense,
are simplifying them every day.
If you were to lose your job, what
would you do? How many of you could
make a living at anythingelse? What
do you know of anything else? What
do you know of practical life? If all at
once the people should conclude that
they wanted a completely new lot of
j teachers, wouldn't you present a sorry
sight looking for something to do?
The old confirmed teacher answers:
j "Our calling is so grand and so noble
that we expeot to make It our life long
business. We are proud of it and it, is
not necessary that we should know how
to do anything else.'' I've heard this
statemont in teachers' normal schools
a hundred times and used to cheer it.
I'd like for somo old time-worn and
weather beaten teacher to explain how-
he expects to make practical men and
women of our boys and girls when he
has no practical sense himself, when
he would starve to death in any practi-
cal avocation of life.
Now . lets make up and be friends.
No man appreciates the importance of
your work and the responsibility of
your position more than I. You are
not well paid. You are much abused
and your work is not properly re-
garded. But no teacher need tell me
that he or she is inculcating practical
lessons without knowing something of
practical life, for it is not tr
GREEDY GUTHRIE
Ever since t lie open-
ing of Oklahoma in 1889, Guthrie has
been the official hend center of the
territory, Under Harrison's admin-
istration everything possible was done
to foster Guthrie and inflate its aspir-
ants mid the city and county well re-
paid the confidence reposed in tlieni,
by rolling up more than 2000 republi-
can majority whenever needed. It
did s.i in November of'92, while the
counties of Oklahoma and Canadian
responded with democratic majorities.
Chairman Ross and Secretary
Dunn Hand in Their Resig-
nations
Hon. C. W. Gould, of El Reno,
Elelected Chairman, and
John R. ClarU, of Still,
water. Secretary.
A- soon as you gel a teacher s eertifi- Suro,-v wi,h sm''1 11 t'ie
eate you think you know something,
don't you? But you don't. You think
> ou are too much of somebody to cook
and wash dishes, milk the cows and
churn the butter, or plow the corn and
hoe the potatoes. You think you
ought to fix up and strut around and
I make a mash on somebody, or some-
thing of that sort. You learn to make
a kind of harmonious sound on an or-
gan or piano or to daub w ith a paint
brush and imagine you are a musician
or an artist. The kind of artists the
stalwart young men of this country are
looking for are such as can make bread
and cook meat, or darn a sock and
patch a | air of pantaloons. You don't
want t-1 be that kind, eh? Well, one of
t lies,■ days you will wish you were, and
so will s nie good, but sadly imposed
upon, inn ii.
You think all women ought to be ed-
ucated. don't you? And you think that
when a woman gets a little education
he ought to teach school, daub paint
and thump the piano, but by no
means to cook or do housework. We
men have caught onto this, and we are
against this thing, this kind of univer-
sal education for women, for when they
' get too fly to do these things, we are
1 afraid of the1 consequences.
ocratio counties hud a right to expect
some favors at the hands of a dem-
ocratic administration; but wofully
have great expectations been rudely
blasted,
For the benefit of the readers of
the Democrat, we list the Appoint-
ments thus far made by Mr. Cleve-
land and Mr. Renfrow:
Governer Renfrow, Cleveland Co.
Secretary Lowe, Logan.
Territorial Librarian, Logan.
Marshal Nix, Logan.
Territorial Printer, Logan.
Governor's Secretary, Logan.
Clerk Supreme Court, Logan.
Register Land Office, Logan.
Two District Judges, Logan.
One District Judge, Oklahoma.
Allotting Agent, <Iklalioma.
Register Land Office, Cleveland
Register Land Office, Kingfisher.
This list docs not embrace the lady
appointees from the east side—the
Eden of politics. The list furnishes
pleasant reading for democrats in
democratic counties, more than pleas-
ant for the west side democrats and
most pleasant for those living along
the line of the Rock Island railway.
The democratic territorial commit-
tee met in the Grand Avenue hotel at
Oklahoma City, yesterday, January 10.
There was a large attendance, every
county in the territory being repre-
sented.
The afternoon session wus taken up
in the discussion of statehood resolu-
tions. The resolutions adopted strong-
ly oppose statehood for Oklahoma
alone, and indorse the bill recently in-
troduced by McHea, of Arkansas. At
the evening session quite a number of
resolution of more or less importance
were offered and adopted.
lion. L. (i. Pitman introduced a res-
olution culling for tho resignation of
both Chairman Boss and Secretary
Dunn. A motion was made to lay Pit-
man's motion on tho table, which was
j carried by a vote of 21 to 19. Then
the chairman and secretary resigned
and the committee accepted their res-
ignations by a vote of 20 to 18. A re-
cess was then taken for half hour. Af-
ter considerable skirmishing C. A.
Gould, of El Ileno, was elected chair-
man, and John It. Clark, of Stillwater,
secretary. The committee adjourned
at .'t o'clock a. m.
After the adjournment of the commit-
tee. the chairman and secretary made
settling in El Beno. Bis first business
adventure here was toestablish a dem-
ocratic paper. He put in a plant and
started this paper under the name of
t he Oklahoma Democrat which was
changed to the El Reno DEMOCRAT a
year or two later by the present pro-
prietor. He was soon after elected by
the democracy of this county as tho
chairman of the democratic central
committee in which capacity lie was
serving when promoted to the chair-
manship of the territorial central com-
mittee. After disposing of his news-
paper, lie engaged in merchandizing
and continued until the opening of the
Cheyenne and Arapahoe .country when
ho made the race and procured a tine
claim five miles west of El Beno, where
he has since resided enjoying the
quietude of farm life. Mr. Gould is a
ripe scholar, a good lawyer, although
not engaged in the practice at this
time, and an untiring worker, and has
been all his life in the interest of tho
democratic party. A better selection
could not have been made by the dem-
ocracy of the territory.—El Reno
Democrat.
The pio bestowed on Guthrie
Formerly men lived for glorv and fori K,'ic'1 look "li(,e in tlie legislative j the following call for n statehood con-
• lernity. The served God and achieved liK,,t nf 1S!)0 ' marching undei ban vention:
glory by plundering and killing each "(,|s inscribed as follows: "A vote The Democracy of the Territory are
other. Then servants and slaves did 'ol Colston, (republican), is a Note hereby called to meet in deiegAte con-
the work and did it poorly. Now. thel'or Guthrie,' and in the enpito! vention at Perry, Oklahoma on Jauu-
j highc i the man rises the more work he j Fights parading with mutton, "Steele ury 24th at 1, p. ni. to give such ex-
must do himself. Without work he i '8 our Idol, and "Geo \V. Steele for prcssion upon the Statehood bills now
cannot rise. Greatness is no gift, I Senator
knowledge is not an heritable thin
We are fladged by nature.
\\Y have not whips, we cannot soar,
Hut we have feet, to scale and climb,
By slow degrees, by more and more,
The cloudy summits of our time.
The heights by great men and kept
Arc not attained by sudden fllfrht:
Hut they while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
pending before Congress lelativc to
Cleveland gets some costard, Okla- the admission of Oklahoma and the
lioma a little crust, Canadian soup Indian Tjrritories, as may be deemed
and ihe west side—hell.
Does tho Santa Fc control every-
thing?
Township 10, O. T.. January ti, 181)4.
The tax payers of the above town-
ship of ('aniidian county, met at Spring-
er Valley, in mass meeting, to consider
the question of immediate statehood
for Oklahoma Territory and had the j
1 following proceedings:
FlKBT. Called to order by F. I). All-
for the best interest of the Democrat-
ic party.
Each county will be entitled reprc
scntiition as follows:
If the teachers in this country will
learn their pupils to work, or be over
busy, they will do more for society and
the country than it is possible by teach-
ing astronomj and grammar. And.
teachers, you are deceived. You think l,l'i^ht' wll° Hils subsequently elected
you know a great deal about children temporary chairman.
Skconi). T. W. Kmv j>ornmnent
chairman and L. L. Maple* secretary,
after which speeches wore made by
F. 1). Allbright and T. W. Kra.v
against immediate statehood, during
which the whole audience was clial-
their traits habits, etc. You do know i
something, but you see them on their j
best behavior and the bent of them, j
There are some you do not come in I
contact with. And those you know are
not always as they seem or as you know j
towns. I "am" somewhatacquainted ! immediate statehood, without response,
with these urchins of the allevs. and! THIRD.-On mot% it was unanimous-
you may take ,m word for it that your b' U,Rt w" a,1nl>1 the ,"llowi"*
task would be much easier if vou could "'solution-.
make their friendship and get their j whereas certain self-constituted
confidence. Thev undo of evenings ,leleKates favoring immediate state-
and Saturday s much of what vou do at llood' have failed lo reflect the l'°!mlu1'
other times will, and have thus misled the press on
the matter of statehood, therefore
'I hey understand the real it-1 of l!h: 1T UESOI,VEn. That „s farmers
teaching. One of then, can teach a ,md t„x HVm))athy H.ith om.
boy or girl younger than himself more
Pottawatomie County, Id
Lincoln
10
Payne
10
Logan
10
Oklahoma "
10
Cleveland
10
Canadian "
10
Kingfisher "
10
Beaver
8
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Blaine
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Washita "
6
Roger Mills
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Bay
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The democrats
";,1 meet at the
county seat of their respective coun-
,. , . , 1 he meeting closed after electinc
tics on Saturday, Jiinuary20th . . ,, , .. ... . ,
i the following officers for the ensuing
Sheriffs Caucus
In response to u call for that purpose
the sheriff's of Oklahoma on January 8,
1804, met in convention at the office of
\V. W. Painter, sheriff'of Logan coun-
ty, in Guthrie, O. T. and after due de-
liberation and discussion united in the
following preamble and resolutions:
Whereas, The several boards of
county commissioners of all the coun-
ties of Oklahoma territory have gener-
ally failed and refused to audit and
j order paid the salaries of the under
j sheriffs of such counties, and.
Whereas, The statutes of the ter-
| ritory makes it obligatory on the sher-
iff's to appoint under sheriffs, regardless
of the fact that tho fees and emolu-
ments of their offices are insufficient to
pay such under sheriffs, and,.
Whereas, We believe that, as the
law forces the sheriff to appoint an
under sheriff regardless of his inabibi-
*y to pay such under sheriff, it is the
duty of the county to pay such under
sheriffs' salary.
Therefore, be it resolved, That each
and every sheriff throughout the terri-
tory is alike interested in the result of
the suit above referred to and that
they severally pledge themselves to
each contribute such sum of money
toward deferring the expenses of said
j suit as he may be able to spare.
Whereas, Recognizing tho fact that
j1 'klahoma territory in its present state
is a refuge for many escaped prisoners,
who through the aid of friends, and
j the natural recesses by which prison-
ers escape justice, be it
| Resolved, That the sheriffs of Ok-
lahoma territory use every justifiable
I means towards co-operation in the care
of fugitives from justice, and that in
ease a prisoner escapes from the sher-
iff of one county, nnd due notice of
such escape is given, the sheriff so no-
titied will bend their energies toward
effecting the recapture of said prisoner.
'■ lie it further #
' Resolved, That this association be
ing organized for united protection
that the sheriffs so organized, will co-
operate as zealously as possible to
bring about the arrest of any escaped
prisoner, thereby working a benefit,
not only to ourselves, but to the terri-
tory and the people whom we serve.
The meeting closed after
at 2 o'clock p. m. and select tho del-
egates above indicated, By order of
moeratie territorial central
oppressed and tax-ridden people, we 8
of his kind of learning in an hour than I 1() „t,v protest against the pass- t,ie (l('
you can of yours in a week. And when ^ ()f Uu. polldlnK l(ill now before committe. C. W. GOULD, Chairman,
you try to counteract the power of this J C()n(f,.e8), pmpoBlni
class by exhorting your pupils to avoid j f(„ ,)Ulahomu
their company you only show your ig-
norance.
You tell your boys that in a particu-
lar part of town there lives a big, bad
boy whom they must avoid, and they
will go to see him before supper. And
in three cases out of four this same big
i bad boy is better than half your petted
chaps at heart, lie issorter soured on
the situation and does not see much
chance to better his condition. If you
, would but make a friend of him and
give him a little encouragement, and
, spend as much in supplying him us you
spend in time In trying to discover
how to control your children, you
would soon see him at the head of your
classes. I thank you for your atten-
tion. Forglvo me if you will. Good
Speaker I 'risp would do well to apply
Tom Reed's rules to the house of
represen tatlvos.
immediate state-
We do insist that
in a question so vital, the utmost care
should be taken to obtain a fair and
full expression of the homesteaders
throughout the entire territory, and
believing that more county mass meet-
ings havo failed to do this, we insist
that township mass meetings be held
in each township, so that the people
remote from county seats shall have a
fair chain
John k. Ci.ahk Secretary.
Democratic papers please copy,
Cleveland county, as
Blaine county, as
Goo. Smith, of
president.
W. Wilson, of
first vice-president.
T. J. Jackson, of Canadian county,
second vice-president.
W. 15. Johnson, of ''O" county,
as
The Mew Chairman-
C.W.Gould, the new chairman of | third vice-president,
the democratic territorial central com- Fightmaster
mlttee, was liorn in Boone county, Illi- ' • sccietarj.
tiois, moved to Louisiana in 1854, took
part in the memorable campaign of
Lincoln and Douglass in 1860, stumped
to express themselves on his parish for the latter and cast his
of Oklahoma
such an important mutter. We there-
fore unqualifiedly condemn the action
of those politicians and lawyers who
j have tried to precipitate statehood
without due regard to tho voice of the
people.
Fourth.—On motion, uppointed F.
D. Allbright nnd T. W. Kray to assist
tho secretary in preparing these pro-
ceedings for publication in every news-
paper in the county.
The courageous and fearless course
pursued by Chief Justice Dalo in the
I Investigation of the Perry land office
frauds have won for him the heartiest
'admiration of our people.—Pnwneo
Democrat.
Fifth.—Elected the four following raci' county for
first vote for the "little giant" of Illi-
nois, for president of the United States.
Ho was elected county superintendent
of public instruction in Louisiana and
served in that capacity a number years.
After the close of the war he immi-
grated to Jowa and settled down in
Fremont county, was soon afterwards
elected chairman of the democratic
county central committee and was con-
tinued in that capacity by tho democ-
twelve years.
delegates to attend a county conven-
tion ut K1 Reno, on the 20 inst., at 1
o'clock, p. in.: P. W. Kray, F. I). All-
bright, P. I) Paulter and J. H. New-
man, and that we respectfully request
each township in the county to hold
meetings and meet us at that time
through delegates duly appointed.
P. W. KRAY, Chairmnn.
T„ T,. MaPJ.F.R. Secretary.
He was also elected mayor of Hamburg
Iowa, the city in which ho lived, for
three successive terms. From Iowa lie
moved to Nebraska, where he served
his party as their chairman of tho
county central committoo for four
years. Soon after tho opening of Ok-
lahoma he cast his fortune with tho
democratic party of the new territory.
W. W. Painter, of Logan county, as
treasurer.
Meeting adjourned to meet at El
Reno, Fobrurary 12, 1804.
In an editorial in the Republic of
last Saturday upon Oklahoma affairs,
it refers to the opening of the Chero-
kee outlet and says that it was the last
of thfe land remaining in the territory
outside of the lands belonging to the
five civilized tribes. The Republic
would do well to study tho situation a
little more carefully. It has over-
looked tho beautiful Kickapoo country
that will open some time next summer.
There must bo something wrong with
the Republic's map or it would have
noticed tho Wichita, Kiowa and Com-
anche reservations that are soon to bo
opened to settlement and will form u
part of Oklahoma territory. These
reservations constitute the entire
southwest part of the old Indian terri-
tory and contain more square miles of
territory than some of tho eastern
states and will furnHh homes for thiYij.
salfds of p'cWple,
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