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THE WAPANUCKA PRESS
Published Every Friday,?
W. S. GRANT Owner and Editor
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Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter U the post office at Wapanucka, Ok-
ahoma, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
WAPAFUCKA, OKLA., FRIDAY. JUNE 25, 1920.
Our First Choice for President.
WOODROW WILSON,
Our Second Choice.
ROBERT L. OWEN.
Announcements.
RATES,
r State Offices $15.00 j casg
;SSS. "g:Ad.N,„.
ash MUST accompany all orders for'
* jnonncements or they will not be THE WOMEN
published until paid for.
other citizen. Bat a campaign
financed and managed by corpora,
tions has little cull to criticize Junge
Stuart who is supporting Scott Fer-
ris. It was a tine tribute to Judge
Stuart's argument tho'th t no ef-
fort was made to answer his argu-
ment. The opposition followed the
rule that has long prevailed in crim
inal courts: "When you nave no
abuse opposing counsel."—
DISAPPOINTED.
Mrs. George Bass, writing of the
at the j '' The women of the United States
We are authorized to announce the j c]ljc - convention
following: candidates, subject to the ac-! ^H'CagO comention _ay
tion of the Democratic Party at the
WmaryHwtw, to be held August • arp jooking wUh ^ hopeg
.' * San Francisco. Those hones will
FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR* not be betrayed as they were
HON. SCOTT FERRIS.
FOR CONGRESS
TOM D. McKEOWN
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DID IT EVER OCCUR TO YOU?
That your merchant has to guarantee and stand back of his
wares thus forcing hint to carry the better grades. Another thing
is that he never requires pay in advance, nor does he demand the
amount of the purchase price to be deposited In your home bank in
advance. We well know that you can get your goods returned to
the mail order house and your deposit and money returned after
more or less red tape to say nothing of the time consumed. We also
know some of them have said "our catalogue costs over a dollar."
And one is issued every six months or a year. Will you answer in
your own mind who has to finally pay for those thousands of cata-
logues. What is it worth to you to see, examine and compare your
own merchants goods before buyifig? And when you decide you
do not have to wait from a week to a month but can use your pur-
chase right now. We are putting these articles out in order for you
to sum up views from viewpoints perhaps that you have heretofore
overlooked. There is food for thought here. Better think ft over.
ObtorrHht ApplUd For.
Open Letter and
Challenge to Rube Geert
FOR STATE SENATOR.
J. I. HENSHAW,
Of Marshall County.
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FOR REPRESENTATIVE
G. A. MELTON, Milburn.
FOR COUNTY JUDGE.
Of Johnston County, Oklahoma.
lELMER J. SUTHERLAND-
C. M. CROWELL.
FOR SHERIFF
TOM GIBSON,
LUTHER J, HORTON
W. J. BENSON.
CRAT CALLEN
WS E. TARPLEY.
FOR COUNTY CLERK
„ROY A. HOPPER.
JESS J. ENLOE.
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.
C. W. LACY.
J. C. BENNETT.
FOR TAX ASSESSOR,
3V,W. (Uncle Pete) M.ARTIN.
A. G. WAKD.
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FOR COUNTY WEIGHER.
F. A. RINER.
OTIS W. LYNN,
of Milburn.
J; K. ALEXANDER
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COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
OSCAR H. DARTER.
MRS. T. D. L. QUAID.
FOR COURT CLERK,
V. F EUBANK,
HAYGOOD BINGHAMi
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FOR COUNTY COM?USSIONER
District No 2.
C. E. ENLOE, of Fillmore:
L R. T, (Bob) BALLARD.
JEFF CROWSON
GORE'S MANAGERS.
According to Harlow's Weekly
the Gore campaign is nnow in
charge of Aldrich Make, Dorset
Carter and lean P. Day. The
treasurer of the campaign seems to
be Tnos. LI. Owen, us he signs the
checko sent out by the Gore head-
quarters. The presence of these
men on Gore's board of strategy
throws a brilliant light on this re*
oent talk of corporation lawyers in
politics. When Judge Stuart spoke
for Ferris in Ada. Saturday. he
was criticised as a corporation law-
yer. Yet according to Harlow's,
which has been extremely friendly
to Gore throughout the campaign,
Gore's entire management consists
of men long identified with the
corporations of the state. Dorset
Carter has been the leading lobby-
is! for the interests for a dozen
years. He led the fight against the
Workman's Compensation Law
When the legislature was in session
• year tgo. He is the head of the
eoal operators of Oklahoma and eiv
gineered the fight against the coal
diggers last winter. Tom Owen is
en official of one of the biggest trust
companies in the capital city.These
men have as much right to parties
Date in a political battle as any
j Chicago.
Despite their guileness the women
believed the presidential primary
was intended to guide the decision
of the national convention in its
choice of a presidential candidate.
They took in the primaries of their
various states, tjiey supposed that
the will of the people thus ex-
pressed would be final, but at the
end of a baffling week at Chicago
they learned that tne Boies Penrose
candidate selected in a Senate con-
ference room more than six months
ago, with every detail by which his
nomination was to be effected care-
fully worked out in the meantime,
was the one finally chosen bp the
convention. All their efforts, the
expense of the primaries and con-
vention and final week of tension
and suspense were but part of a
play in which tne whole country
was the gallery. Their moral sense
was profoundly shocked an*d their
practical intelligence outraged.They
left with the conviction that the
worst they had ever heard of the
iniquitous manipulation of conven-
tions was less than the actual truth
Women are distinctively con*
structive and even the women upon
whom the republican party feels
that it has a legitimate claim have
I not be^n responsive to the savage
/criticism of the democratic admin-
I istrntion by the republican press
, and congress—criticisms unaccom-
i panied by any t-emedial suggestions.
They looked forward eagerly to
th'ir national convention to pre-
isent a platform and a leadership
which they could accept with en-
thusiasm and which th*^ could rely
upon to achieve the permanent
peace of the world, a constructive
peace in which the t'nited States
should take its full share of respon-
sibility.
What were they given?
Instead of bread they received a
stone. And so today the new elec-
torate of the ceuntry has turned ex-
pectantly toward the national con-
vention of the other great party "
Following in the same line of
thought, MiBs Alice Paul, Chair
man of National Woman's Party,
who is seeking for a pledge for the
prompt enfranchisement of women,
says:
"By Its enfranchisement of the
negroes of the sonth. tee republican
party maintained a voting ascend-
ancy for fifty years. The party
which enfranchises a sex which in-
cludes half the copulation of the
country will dominate wore than
half a century. If neither of the
old parties acts promptly a third
party WiJ arise supported by the
full strength of the enfranchised
womanhood of the country. Ihis
party will represent the progressive
and forward-looking as well as for-
ward-moving forces of both fexes
and all classes in the country- the
laboring man, the independents
and the great number of man and
women who are tired of the pro-
gram of talk without action.
"The republican party platform
on this issue is a meaningless jum-
ble of words that b/i«n '!iern i<-d
women voters. The democrats ntill, their vocal chords, following your
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the volume of soutid emanating
Tishomingo, Oklahoma.
June 17th,. 1920.
Mr. Rube Geeps, City.
Dear Sir—In your paper for the
past several issues you have been
''rarin'' for a debate. In the name
of Gore, your patron saint, and
backed by the vociferous shouts of
all the Republicans and Socialists,
you have hurled challenges and
defies, one following the other, in
rapid succession, that Hon, Scott
Ferris, running on a record unsur-
passed for consistency in support of
legislation achieved by a democratic
administration, for the benefit of
the American people and the peo-
ple of Oklahoma, abandon hie cam-
paign of facts, which he is now
making beforo the people of this
state, and meet your mud-slinging
patron in debate, under conditions
laid down by yourself.
To every "defy." to every chal
lenge to which.you have given ut-
terance; to every mean thing you
have had to say about our Demo-
cratic president; to every misstate-
ment of fact you have made, bcth
against Scott Ferris and in behalf
of Gore, a deafening chorus of
"Amen," "That's what I say,
too." "Sick 'im Rube," has gone
up from the camps of the Republi-
cans and the Socialists; every
slacker has yelled with delight; ev-
ery I. W. W. cur has yelped his
approval and all the Bolshevists
have bayed with the echo. On the
contrary, you have failed to utter
one word of approval for Democratic
achievement, so has Gore; you
have failed to speak one good utter-
ance in behalf of a Democratic
president, so ha3 Gore; you seem
to hold in contempt every policy
and printrple now advocated by the
leaders of Democracy, and to voice
a ridieule for -those splendid per-
formances of the party for the past
0ight years—performances on the
record of which the party must
make a finish fight in the coming
election. In this you are only
"Apeing'' the man for Whom you
speak. In the light of the above, I
would ask you, why Gore is run-
ning in the Democratic primaries?
You and Gore both know why. in
Mississippi he was anybody's dog
who would hunt with him; in
Texas he "treed coons" for Ihe
Populists; in Oklahoma, after giv-
ing his solemn promise in the pres-
ence of witntsscf, "to forsake all
othere and cleave unto Miss Democ-
racy for the rest of his life," she
honored him with the most precious
from the Capital-Democrat, re-
inforced by the mouthing8 of its'
Republican and Socialist "rooters"
lias pulled over many good honest
Democrats to mingle their voices
with their enomies' demand for a
debate. In view of this fact. Rube
since you and your cohorts will not
let the matter rest without some
kind of debate, and in view of the
fact that said debate between the
principals of this contest, will net
occur in this county, I venture to
suggest that you yourself do your
part to accommodate the demand,
which your genius abetted by your
Republican jjand Socialist friends,
has created. Though not a de-
bater—especially of the Gore type-
on the question of the respective
records of Scott Feiris and T. P.
Gore, made in the Congress of the
United States, in the matter of
their services, rendered to the Dem-
ocratic party, to the State of Okla-
homa, and to the government of
their country, I will challeuge YOU
to meet me in joint debate, and will
name to you the following condi-
tions: I will put up in the bank
the sum of $2o.OO, vou will not put
up one cent. We shall ehoose
judges, youtwo. and I two, these
four to select a fifth, all to be com-
petent to render a decision on the
points presented, without reference
to their personal convictions. If
Gore, through your presentation of
his record, wins, the money is
yours. If Ferris' record wins, the
money will be given to obtain the
services of an inter-denominati&ial
evangelist to hold a revival in Tish-
omingo, and yeur only obligation
will be to attend that meeting
SEVEN consecutive nights.
Now Rube, it is up to you. "Put
up or shut up." I am making this
offer in good faith. I know that in
most of the thing.1- you stand for,
you never take yourself seriously,
and most of those who know you.
do not either. But there are those
good earnest soul- who do take you
seriously— those that believe the
things you publish in your paper,
moat of fvhich you do not believe
yourself. Yes, Rube, youhave lots
of fun that way, at the expense
of those who have faith in you.
It is very amusing .to yob, no
doubt, to make fools, as you would
say, of those good people, who not
knowing what deceit is in them-
selves, so readily put their trust
and faith in the matter you place
before them in ycur paper. This
rich fun MAY last for you, but I
the finished
mystery
IN HAQAZINE FORM
JUNE 21
Every Christian and order-|oving person
should read it.
">retel,, th6 ble"i"* °< th=
dnn"!^\EUb,iCati0n 8nd CirCUlati0n Of this book
during the war many Christians suffered perse-
terred and fathered im-
prisoned and killed.—Mark 13:9.
Revised, illustrated QA
paper cover edition &UC*
c. C. WILFONG. Agt., Route I, Box 53
Wapanucka, Okla.
Adv«rtl em*nt
gift in her pos.=e«sion—the United doubt lt- And this k™"*8 me ''*bt
to the point—that if you desire to
prove yourself in earnest, you will
at o/ice accept this challenge, and
we will arrange the time and place
for the meeting. Ler me have your
acceptance.
Respectfully yours,
ALONZO MILLER.
States Senatorship. Now. almost
since the very moment of tbat
promise, what time he has not
spent flirting with "Madam G. 0.
P." he has put in hugging the
golden image of Socialism, the ille-
gitimate offspring of the Populist
paity. If Gore were in Pennsyl-
vania he would be a Republican;
if he were in Milwaukee, he would
be a Socialist. After August 3rd,
he will have opportunity to go to
both places.
And now I ooine back to the pre-
vious question—the Debate. You
haye yelled "Debate! Debate!'' so
much of late, that nearly every So-
cialist and Republican in Jahnston
County (they borrow copies of your
paper from the Democrats, who are
patronizing you in good faith) has
gorte off into some sort of "Debst-
isterics" and are about to rupture
wuivviiuis Min,tlu'ir vocal chords, following your
have an opportunity to take a wor- lead; and I must say, frankly that
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