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ANNOUNCEMENT
FOR THE LEGISLATURE.
REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT NO. 2.
I hereby announce myself as h candidate for re-election to
the office of representative of tfie Se < i ,| 1 • istj :c-1 .1 L.'gan
County, subject to the will of the republicans of said district
al' the ; imary election. J. s. SHKAKEH.
ANiNOUN CEMENTS LOuAN COUKTY
REGISTER OF DEEDS.
^ E- M> Kean, Register > f Deeds, ot -v rshall, announces
for renomlnatlon for the of:°ke of Register of Deeds In Logan
county, subject to the will of the republican party at the
primaries, August 2.
I i-treby announce myself as a candidate for the office of
Register of Deeds of Logan county, subject to the will of the
republican voters at the primaries, August 2. 11*10.
ELMORE E. McGINLEY.
I am a candidate for Register of Deeds of Logan county,
• uoject to the w of the repuoii. ans at the August primaries.
C. R. TO UNO, Rear Creek Township.
1 am a candidate for Register of Deeds of Logan county on
thj republican ticket, and ask t o r-j ubllc&ns ol the count)
to support me nt trie primaries, if af.-r Investigation, they
find n e worthy, c. H. ANDERSON.
FOR CLERK OF SUPERIOR COURT-
i ain d candidate for Clerk of the Superior Court of Logan
County, subject, to the action of the republicans at the Aug':,,
primaries. WALTER T. WARREN-
FOR COUNTY ATTORMEY.
1 here y announce my>t,df as a candidate for re-election to
the of lice of County Attorney of Loga> County, subject to the
w..; of the repuiilcans of this county at He pr.uiary election.
JAMES HEPBURN.
I hereoy announce i . elf as a epu llcan candidate for the
offl 'c of C-unty Attorney if Logan ounty, subject to th will
of the republican voteia at the primary election. August 2,
a91l)- JOHN ADAMS.
FOR COUNTY JUDOS.
Ld State Capital—You are hereby authorised to an-
nou.i t me as a candidate for nomination u County Judge ol
Logai County, subject to the republican primary. August 2,
181°- T. H. HOWARD.
FOR SUPLRIOfl JUDGE.
Ju 'ge S. S Lawrar <; requests The State capital to an-
nounce his candidacy f Judge of the* superior Court of i.ogan
County, subject to the decision of the republicans at the prim-
aries.
1 announce myself a candidate for Judge of the Superloi
Court, Logan count . subject to the will of the republican.-, a:
< 'ctistd at the August 2 primaries.
\V. If. CHAPPKLL.
FOR SHERIFF.
John Mahoney hereby an iounc« it • candida.-y for reuoml-
nation on the republican ticket for Sheriff of Logan County,
subject to the decision f the August prnnaria..
JOHN MAHONEY.
1 hereby announce myself as a candidate fur the office ot
sheriff of Login County, ^uojwct to tt.t repuolh-an primary to
be held August 2 W. 11. MITCHELL.
1 am a candidate for sheriff of Logan county on the re-
publican ticket, subject to tiie dc islon of the primaries.
FRED MADDEN.
FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
Arthur it. Swank hereby announces his candidacy for the
oflice of County Superintendent cf S i. ;Cls, subject to t..e de-
cision of the republican voters at the primaries, August 2.
1910.
By My Vote!
Hy Your vote!
BY OUR VOTES!
I he hnabl'ing Act in .Section 2 ha. the following
provisions:
1 he Capital of said State shall temporarily
be at th- ( ify of Guthrie in the present terri-
tory of Oklahoma and shall not be changed
tlu'ivfrom previous to Anno Duiniiii 1913, but
said ( apital shall, after said year be located by
the Legislature."
.Section Lfii ol the Enabling Act provides:
1 hat the Constitutional Convention provided
ior herein shall, by ordinance irrevocable ae-
« ' pt the terms and conditions of this act.*'
The Constitutional Convention on the 22nd day of
April l!)di accepted the Enabling Act and in doing
so, used the following' language:
"Accepting Enabling Act. He it Ordained by
the < onstitutional'Convention for the proposed
State of Oklahoma, that said Constitutional Con-
vention do, by this ordinance irrevocable- accept
tin* terms and conditions* of an act of Congress
of tin* Cnited States, entitled. 'An Act to Enable
the People of the State of Oklahoma and the In-
dian Territory to form a Constitution and State
Government. * # •" '
On these propositions the electors of the
voted.
Then.- can be 110 half way grounds iu the mnttc
It is either a brand of—
Repudiation!
Dishonor!
Disloyalty!
Or an assertion of—
Honor!
Principal!
Manhood!
\\ hieli horn of the dilemma will vou take?
roaming around
Jack he nimble, Jack be fleet.
Jack jump clean across the street,
For if the auto you don't hear.
They !i be weeping 'round your bier.
Some people's ldta of liberty i«
bother others.
LIVE TOFICS.
Mark Twain died
pays to be cheerful.
millionaire. It
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
I hereby announce as a candidate on the republican ticket lor
•ounty clerk, subject to the action of the republican voters at
tii«' primaries FRED R. MORGAN.
Chaa. jj, Olson, of Coyle, oklu., announces himself as a
publican candidate for ounty clerk, subject t the decision ol
the primaries on August 2. 1910.
I announce myself, herewith, for the office of County Clerk
of Locan County, on t..e republican ticket, subject to the will
of the republicans at the primaries.
. FAHRNEY FOLTZ.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
I hereby announce myself a candidate for re-nominatlon for
the office of County Commissioner of the First District, Lo-
gan county, si^Ju-i to tli>- determination of the repi.idn ans at
tli« primaries. ED. J. OBEKHuUSKK.
1 am a candidate on the republican ticket for County Com-
missioner for the First District of Logan County, subject to the
will of the primaries O- P. COOPER.
state
THE DSVIL A MONK WOULD BF,
THE DEVIL A MONK WAS HE.
Mil! Murray, democratic candidate for governor,
is out with a statement that he is for prohibition,
which is the best joke yet. But better yet, a whole
lot of prohibitionists will believe him, just like
ill'1; did Haskell and vote tor him, too.—Musko-
gee Phoenix.
Ye-; Phoenix! Queer, isn't it!
V bat won't the political demagogue do anyway?
Some people hold the opinion that politics is demor-
alizing;—
And it is with some, and seldom is it really elevating.
Iloweur. it most invariably has the effect of making
one "smooth"—
Smooth on the surface as well as in words;—
Smooth in person;—
Smooth in dictum:—
Smooth ill tippling;—
Smooth in demagoguery;—■
Bat seldom, if ever, docs it really reform one.
The "professional"' politician takes all manner of ad-
vantage of the popular trend of affairs and sails with
it as steadily as he can.
lake, lor instance, the personnel of the I'lioenix
mention—
Gov. Haskell and Bill Murray;
We who were familiar with their ways, acts and habit?
during their reign over our people, through their Con-
stitutional Convention, would have credited them at
that time with anything other than future advocates of
prohibition, much k -■
Prohibition lecturers and stump speakers.
However, the voice of the people, as tliev interpreted
So many candidates and jet but one
eighth day of November.
—o—
The banana belt appears to have
moved up into the Mnnitobia country.
All's quiet along the Potomac—the
Daughters of the Revolution having ad-
journed.
Oh, you horrid man, you! Just wait
until suffragetism reigns and you'll pay
for this.
—o- •
Butter has declined In price and egtrs
are looking down from the cold storage
buildings.
It Is the Albany stables and not the
Augean stables that Gov. Hughes de-
sires to elean.
'The republican party never was in
healthier condition than now,"' avers the
New York Tribune.
If Teddy does sail in an airship we ex-
pect him to go up higher and stay
longer than any one else.
Don't be suspicious of the do. tor be-
cause he takes your temperature. W'a.i
'till he takes your money.
That cold weather of last week par-
alyzed the hook worms that have been
gnawing the Guthrie ball team.
—o—
Let Wall street beware. Colonel Roos-
evelt dodge,i the lions and the sleeping
sickness, and wasn't mummified.
Rutter has fallen In price over the
country, and yet some one told us that
the frost killed «11 the buttercups.
If Roosevelt could g I sleepy old
Egypt so thoroughly stirred up, what I!
happen when he strikes America?
The Mad Mulljih is probably madder
than ever to realize that these days he
Isn't worth more than a paragraph.
The Parisians think they see bristles
growing on the end of T. R.'s big stick
They say It is a broom, not a club.
"The Virtue of Pittsburg"' is the title
of an editorial in the Florida Times
Union. As one might say, the whiteness
of black.
That old Connecticut
complained of a pain
leg was probably after
pension.
veteran who
l his wooden
n increase of
The anti-saloon leaguer* say liquor should not be
a party affair. Parties ai much attached to
beverage, however. .
"The present high prices of l'ooj." saitl ai. oi
derly man. "remind me ol the agitation over th
introduction of harvesting machinery. l'eopl
thought it would throw a great many farm labor,vs
Mil of work and ruin the industry generullv. So
Was for prohibition.
And they wisely figured that the popular thing for
them to advocate, was—
Prohibition;—
lo "Assume a \irtue though you have it not."
And Haskell and Murray became,—
Not prohibitionists,—
Hut advocates of prohibition.
And, bless you, one makes prohibition the leading
theme of liis campaign talk, while the other actually
aspires- to the call of delivering temperance lectures—
where not very well known.
As fitting a simile for either would be the appearance
of the devil in the pulpit preaching Christianity.
True reform is a grand, a noble thing in man;
But it is not true reform where man is a saint at
meeting and a sinner in the bywavs.
And the sooner the people place such demagogues
to the rear the sooner will—
True, earnest active, effective reform rule over
the people,
the "J called the devil, and he came,
And with wonder his form did I close!v scan
He is not ugly, and is not lame.
Hut really a handsome and ehaVming man.'
A man in the prime of ! t> • the devil,
Obliging, as man of the world and civil;
\ diplomatist too, well skilled with debate,
lie talks ijuite glibly of ehniVli and state."
"Why sacrifice automobile speed for
human life," appears to be the watch-
word of many of the chauffeurs ot
Guthrie.
There are still to be seen here and
there outcropplngs of a desire to make
the democratic party a tail to the L«
Follette kite.
—o—
It Js said that Bryan has no ambition
to be president. It is better thus. L'n-
gratilied ambitions often make peopU
sour and dissatisfied with life.
A Michigan clergyman declares sing
ing makes the devil mad. Some of us
who have heard "volunteer choirs'' aro
disposed to give the devil his due.
One of the Parisian journalists say*
Roosevelt is planning to be a Caesar
and a Napoleon combined. \\ hy leave
out Alexander and Charlemange?
—o—
Nebuchadnezzar built the hanging gar-
dens of Hahylon to please his wife, hut
these days the nearest men come to this
sort of thing is to buy them a mod-
ern hat.
—o—
They have located a "man higher up"
In the Pittsburg scandal. It would hi
almost impossible to discover one lower
down than most of those fellows whj
have confessed.
TAX PAYING ALL THE TIME.
A man's pockethook comes pre ti?
near to being the tenderest portion of
his anatomy, and It iu therefore not so
very surprising that a number of tlio
leading democrat papers of the stat*
ones tried and true in the faith, should
be found kicking loud, long and ofteu
at the enormous tax burdens now in-
flicted upon the people of this state
Listen to this de-sparing wall from tile
Muskogee Times-Democrat, concerning
the purity of whose democracy there 11
none who has the temerity to question;
"The state legislature, both at the
recent special session and at previous
regular sessions, judging from the mul-
tiplicity of Its enactments relating to
the payment of taxes and fixing tax col-
lection periods, appears to have had ifc
mind the Impression of needless troubi*
upon the taxpayers and the addition jf
much ;.i!-<> • to be performed by the taj
colli * i -it. In the municipalities of th*.-
stute tin re are now eight separate and
distinct dates, not later than which tax-
one character or another .must
be paid in order that the taxpayers may
be subjected to penalties. Together with
purpose for which the taxes are
levied the delinquent dates are as fol-
lows:
"First: Street assessments under the
Curtis act must be paid annually, on or
before February 15.
Second: Street assessments undet
the Oklahoma law must be paid on or
before September 15.
"Third: Sewer assessments must be
paid on or before December 13.
"Fourth: The license tax upon for-
eign and domestic corporations must be
raid on or before the first day of Au-
gust.
"Fifth:? Gross revenue corporation tax
must be paid on or before September .10.
"Sixth: Taxes levied upon the prop-
erty, franchise and .business of railroad
companies for state, county, municipal,
township and school district purposes
must be paid on or before November 30.
"Seventh: One-half of all taxes levied
upon an ad valorem basis upon all prop-
erty listed and assessed against thj
general taxpayers must be paid on or
before December 31.
"Eighth: The remaining half of all
such taxes must be paid on or before
June 15.
"From the foregoing It would appear
that the members of the legislature de-
signed to make the duty of tax-paying
one continu abound of pleasure for the
citizens of Oklahoma. Perhaps it was
the purpose of the legislature to teacfc
Its constituents that It is their patriotic
duty to contribute early and often, In
season and out of season, to the support
of government. Under the laws as they
now exist, a tax payer who resides In
a remote section of the country and
who comes to the city to pay his taxes
for one period, may expect, on his re-
return journey home, to meet himself
coming hack to pay his taxes for an-
oth«T period In his wild race to escape
becoming delinquent and to escape pen-
alization. In order to conform to the
to tho law and avoid the penalty, thft
taxpayers must pay a visit to the tax
collector's office in each of the fol-
lowing months: February, June, July,
September, November and twice in D -
cember, unless they should make on*.
Visit suffice for the payment of tv.-
kinds of tax In the month last named,
further comment is unntc ssary."
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.
The past two w'eeks has been a period
of rather unseasonable weather through-
out the country, which, while it may not
have done any considerable harm, has
certainly done no good.
It Is true that In many sections of th«
cotton belt the crop has not yet been
planted, but not only has the seed been
put in tiie ground in the greater part
of the belt, but in many districts th ■
plants are already above ground.
The growing cotton has certainly not
been benefited by tho cold, while In
many eases it has been damaged, but to
what extent remains to be seen.
The cold spell swept across Oklahoma,
Texas and Arkansas and extended
through the entire central belt and into
ie eastern or Atlantic states.
The cold was prec ded by some rain,
and except in localities there has been
no reason to complain or lack of moist
the great happelngs of the future.
But we may be sure that his choice
iias be. n made sincerely, with no seltlsn
considerations beyond those which an
ho, i a aide man owes to himself and to
his family.
Warrant for this belief we find in
every act of Governor Hughes' public
life as well as in these fine words from
his New York address of Oct. 18. 190«:
"Tp me public office means a bur-
den of responsibility—a burden of in-
cessant toil, at times ulmost intoler-
able—which, under honorable conditions
and at the command of the people, it
may be a duty and even a pleasure to
assume, but which is far from being an
object of ambition."
HOW CLEMENS GOT HIS PEN
NAME, "MARK TWAIN."
The story of the manner In which
Samuel Lnnghome Clemens got his pen
name is well known but It may not be
inappropriate at this time to give it as
the famous humorist tells It himself in
his narrative of "Life on the Mississippi.'
As a boy at Hannibal, Mo., he devel-
oped a longing to be a steamboat man,
and in fulfillment of this ambition he se-
cured a position as "cub pilot" on a small
and somewhat rickety boat that bore the
name of Paul Jones.
After a brief apprenticeship on
Paul Junes young Clem ns found a berth
on a larger boat and began his real work
as a pilot.
liis first experience at the wheel, at-
ter the boat had swung into the great
river, he describes ad follows:
"My imagination began to construct
dangers out of nothing, and they multi-
plied faster than 1 could keep run ol
them. All at once I imagined 1 saw shoal
water ahead. The wave of coward agony
that then surged through me came nearly
dislocating every Joint In me. . . . Cap-
tain and mate sang out Instantly and
both together:
"Starnoard lead there! An1 quick
about It!'*
This was another enock. I oegan to
limb the wheel like a squirrel; but J
would liardly get the boat started to port
before 1 would see new dangers on that
■side. . . . Then came the leadman's
sepulchral cry:
"D-e-e-p four!''
Deep four In a bottomless crossing:
Tho terror of It took ray breath away.
"M-a-r-k three! M-a-r-k three! Quar-
ter-less-three: Half twain:"
This was frightful! I seized the bell
ropes and stopped the engines.
"Quarter twain! Quarter twain! Mark
twain!"
My hands were in a nerveless flutter.
I could not ring a bell intelligently with
them. I flew to the speuking tube and
shouted to the engineer:
"Oh, Ben, if you love me, back her!
Quick, Ben: Oh, back the Immortal soul
out of her!"
And then he turned to find the captain
and other members .if the crew laughing
at him. They had played a joke- on him,
and it was with the memory of this In-
itiation ns a river pilot fresh in his mind
that he signed "Mark Twain'1 to his first
written articles. "Mark Twain" meant
fathoms, a dangerously small depth
of water fir.- the boat on which the young
pilot was steering.
CURRENT COMMENTS
THE CRIBBER.
people think they're good
they've done no crime;
people think they've won
who merely didn't fail
While corn has not suffered to the
•ame extent as cotton, it has been r -
tarded in growth, and now needs this
warm weather, with ocaslonal show,
to make the progress that it sh >uld.
While It would be premature to
the policy take home anybody they fin.l. lhilt tllo cr0p ,m3 be,,„ materially dam-
aged, it is certain that there will
Not so sure about the d< suability ol
the movement In communities to hav<
How many
becausi
How man:
success
How many who're untempted think their
virtue is sublime—
And that they II land in heaven because
they didn't land In jail!
Black I buy all of my wife's dresses.
Brown—So do I, but I never pick them
"Smith's ill in bed, I hear.''
"Yes Smoked a cigar from the wrong
Willie ("who has just caught It)—Gee.
mow, it's a shame you don't play base-
ball- I bet you could bat .300!
"Some one always profits by our mis-
takes." "Yes; tli minister got $.".00
when I was married."
None are so bllnl as th
lot see a soda water sign
i hot and tired.
se who will
vhen a ghl
intoxicated. Lois of the men may hav
waiting for them at home.
biller was the feeling that sewi-al faetorii-.s fur tin
in liking ..I" these implements «, re burne.l .low., 1. r„ a little „,„v ll.an fliree waf. Gov. l'attergon of
ineinihanen. Now machinery .« employed on tho Tonnece, ha?pa 965 criminal., including 15«
"! ''V'*1':'" never l,rearaed °S a*ri There , re ., leu left in the penitentiary, of
cultural labor . scarce, even a. high wagea, and , but the gnverDor itiU ,„ls NTtrtl
tin products bring better prices than ever belore/'j-erve.
Mr. Gaynor's presidential boom seems
to rest on the theory that a man who
can hold down Iniquity in New York
City, even temporarily, is competent to
grapple with the affairs of a hemisphere.
—o—
Fine trees mHy not make fine streets,
but they add immensely to their beauty
and add comfort to those who use them.
Usually, however, it is only after they
have been destroyed that their value
is. appreciated.
-o- j
it would be interesting to know Just
hat sort of government would pieas-
some of those Cubans.—Shawnee News.
If you really want to know we will en-
lighten you. /he "u -agaln-off-again
gone-again" sort.
—o—
Candidate—If elected I shall cany on
the policies of trie present adininistra
lion.
A Voire from the Hear—"Don't take
the trouble to carry them out. Thro
'em out!
Chairman Davie* of tie democrat]"*
sta central committee of Wisconsin in-
sists the party shall take the middle
the road and pay no attention to repub-
lican quarrels. That Is the only way to
build up a party organization, but it
will meet the opposition of those dem-
its who are more interested in Sen-' takes his plae
ator l,a Follette than they arc in their
own party.
A dentist never has any trouMe op-
erating on a Woman's tooth, for she
keeps her mouth open all tho time.—
Phil Armstrong, in Montgomery Adver-
tiser.
The nipping frost whl, h fell upon the
Ozark fruit belt teaeh-s us to appreci-
ate our home grown fruit all the more.
N Hindi. > uid'OMr. liall's straw b e-
lle H, U1 iu.Uhnw.
some necessity fis* replanting.
As there Is still plenty of time for
this, there is no reason why, with good
weather, the cotton crop inaj not re-
gain everything lost by the recent set-
back.
While seed is undoubtedly scarce. It
Is hardly possible that it Is so scarce as
to leave not sufflci nt t<i replant areas
that need going over, hence there is
no occasion to attach too much Import-
ance to the rc; ><ris of seed scarcity.
THE CHOICE OF
CHARLES E. HUGHES
An American citizen reverses the mo-
mentous deeisi n once made by William
Howard Taft and gives up his chance
for tiie prcsiden. y of the Cnited Status
to accept an appointment that may make
him its Chief Justice.
The career of a great administrator
ends; and there opens the career of a
jurist which may be greater or legs
great according as the abllith s of the
administrator stand transmutation into
tho qualities of an enlightened judge.
The supremely efficient champion of
the dignity and power of the state as
contrasted with t i. nation is trans-
formed into a magistrate of tiie central
government.
An apostle of progress, a respecter of
conservatism, a believer in democracy
and the whole American experiment 1
among the nine i
—o—
"Have you noticed, my friend, how
many fools tlifere are on this earth?"
"\es, and there's always one more
than you think."
—o—
Mistress—Bridget, it always seems to
me that tho crankier mistresses get the
best cooks.
Cook- Ah! Go on id yer blarney'
IWiss Antique: poor
looking for work?
Dusty Dave: Yessum;
way de pilot looks for rock:
THE COMET.
E. E. Barnhard, of Yerkes Observa-
tory. was ono of tho first to photo-
graph the celestial wanderer. Halley 3
comet, on Its reappearance last fall.
"Now," he says, "the observation.*
which have been made up to date show
that it is diminishing in substance and
luminosity. It probably was a great
comet when It shown down on thy
boats of William the Conquerer as they
crossed the English channel, but sin n
then it has been losing power. We ha.n
learned that as the mass of such a body
grows smaller its surface relatively In-
creases; hence the growth of the tad
of a comet indicates the dissipation nf
Its solid substance. The days of the sun
a 1 on the diaphonous tail with disin-
tegrating force, actually seeming to
ar It apart.
Photographs taken a few hours a pa t
show fragments of the tall torn off and
floating away. Thus the tall of a comet
is constantly changing. It Is never twi .j
the same and indicates that the body
is wasting away into space Finally it
becomes merely a pack of meterorj
after all the gaseous matter is forced
out of It. We know that a pack of
meteors was swinging around the sua
In a regulr orbit in 1833 and In 18G6
when showers of meteors fell on th"
earth* In 1899, however, when they '
were again due, only a few fell, showing
that the pack had been swereved from
its course. These meteors are suppose 1
to be the solid nucleus of the comet.
Some persons seem to think that noth-
ing would happen if the nucleus of .1
comet struck, the earth. I am of ti e
opinion that a good deal would happen
if a body of meteors as hard us iron
should collide with this plain t. ®T 1 •
Is no danger of tills from Halley's come ,
however. Its tall is likely to sweep, r.
but the head will pass millions of milj3
beneath the earth."
PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS.
(Lawton News-Republican.)
The Durant News of recent date con-
tained an editorial telling why all the
immigration was pouring into Texas in-
stead of Oklahoma, and offering sugges-
tions to change It.
Mr. Powers has confessed all his
party's sins and admitted the reasons %
way men came through Oklahoma
without looking out the ear window>.
the following lines:
In Oklahoma corporations can ri"i
own land and no private individual tan
profitably own a large tract. As lands
are consequently held in small holding*,
no one can afford to do any extensl >■
advertising.''
Just another case of constitutionltls
disease that is sapping the life out
of this state and building up the cheap
states around us.
That is what we have claimed from •'
the first; that is the matter with Okla-
homa. That Is a grand clause In an in-
sane basic law.
The boodlerg and the idlols are in tho
saddle!
Railroads only try to get Immigra-
tion to states that have statesmen in-
stead of criminals in charge of their
laws.
Capital, in the broad sense, can 00
more operate in Oklahorra today ti.an 1
steamboat can navigate h uorn field
We like our friend Powe down in
Durant, and he deserves a better run
for his money and his talents than he Is
ever going to get down in tliit section. ®
He is a democrat, and although he is in
the midst of a terrific majority, It is a
one-man majority, and will so continue
until that day when the immigration
Powers speaks of breaks It up.
The democratic political grafters who
made the constitution and later laws do
not want Immigration; they are simply
afraid to allow an unhitched man to go
to the polls and take a shot at th ir
Jobs.
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THE EAST IS WATCHING.
The eastern press is taking note >f
Oklahoma's effort to amend the* slat
constitution. This from the Baltimore
American is a sample;
"Oklahoma came in <, the union -is 1
flull-fledged state less than three years
ago with a constitution which demo-
crats of the William Jennings Bryan
school regarded as a prototype of want
a stale constitution should be.
"The organic law of Oklahoma w is
shaped* with the intention of curbing
the monarch of soulless corporations, and
In less than two years and six months
it has been demonstrated to the satis-
faction of every citizen within the state
that in effecting this particular purpo e
the constitution has been a howling
Ludv of til
Ho
Bridget he
If you are going to do my f
eare-
•our-
Ne
Servant; Now
see hero, hegor-
nnt Bridget, It's
poem
endolyn.
—o—
riend: Vhy don't you write
011 the water wr on?
Poet: pni never up there long enough.
—o—
Sniff The barbarism nf it r nkos my
blood hoi!' Just look at tills picture of
a strike riot.
Shank—IIa! ha. That's the comic sup-
plement you're looking at. Those boys
are simply putting their grandmother hi
the cistern.
In the t ,
of ln-
lf T think we'll
earth again and
whose judgment must finally determine
our progress, our conservatism, our
democracy and our Anieri inistn.
These are some of the thoughts that
rush In with the news that Governor
Charles Evans Hughes of New York haa
accepted President Taft's appointment t'i
the supreme bench's1
Whether Charles Evans Hughes haa
doni well or 1H In turning from™he pn -i
that stem d marked for him to high
service In another sphere of action n
too large a question to be answered now.
It lianas u^ou the hidden course of
"Do you belie
carna tlon?"
"You mean to ask
keep coming back to
again?''
'*1 have no rl" Ms about it. Th.' ercd-
itorfe may all come back, but we debtors
are more likely to find our way to other
planets, If we can possibly arrange It."
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rhe Perry Republish Is going some to! 4
•IK'- """ ' < |.r>, ts it has Just installed ] -f*
Walter Scott news press and a' £
•'But all the same there is an ener-
getic movement now in progress, hacke 1
by all tho commercial clubs In the slate,
which seeks to have the model constitu-
tion so amended that the grasping e.ip-
italists from outside the borders will be
encouraged to come- In and do things.
"In an argument recently filed with
tho Oklahoma secretary of state advo-
cating the calling of a special election at
which proposed amendments to the state
constitution may be submitted it is s<-t
forth;
"Before statehood we had an activo
period of railroad building, which has
now ceased. The cause Is apparent.
There Is 110 money In Oklahoma to bull 1
them, and outside capital cannot he In-
duced to invt st because when built, the
railroads cannot bo sold."
"That model constitution seems ;
have worked In a boomerang way whtc 1
the individuals who drafted It should
.,,ive !"i.secii. Tii.r are at this tlmu 1
o.OUO miles of staked out railroad lines
in Oklahoma awaiting outside capitalisti -
enterprise.
"Cnless the constitution Is so amended
as to encourage some soulless corpora-
tion to take hold, it seems likely that
those roads will bo a long time in ma-
terializing.
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TAXPAYERS WILL VOTE NO.
Meritges folder.
.1. J. Burke, of the Norman Transcript,
f 'vs; "if you vote tho democratic ticket
this fall, don't howl afterwards when af-
!' ! ions comes upon you. You'll do it
with your eyes open. 'He that knoweth
the richt and dot-tli It not shall he beat-
en with many stripes'—and ought to be.'
(From Vinita Leader.) -i
To vote "yes" June 11 on the fc
location matter will be to vote £
for the expenditure of $o00,000 for *
capltol Bite and buildings. It *
w. .id in. an additional giute taxes. *
1 nk l#lc b fore we t e- *
come too enthusiastic over the J;
location at any of the three towns -£
named iu the referendum. *
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