The Shawnee News. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 217, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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Dennis Flynn Held the Large Crowd Last Evening by Telling the People of Shawnee the Real Situat._. u.t,ric„"
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SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1907
SHAWNEE NEWS 40c A MONTH
DENNIS FLYNN SPEAKS 10
GREAT CROWDS IDNESDW
Flays the Constitution Which He
Shows to be Greatly in Error-
Need of Electing the Repub=
lican Ticket to Procure
the Desired Amend-
ments
"Veni, vidl, vici" could be truly tisanshlp and one of the greatest
spoken of former delegate, Dennis T.'statesmen of the world. It mentioned
Flynn, as well as the conquerors of ^ ^ow ^ overthrew the corrupt ma-
chine of his own party In Ohio, there-
people gathered at the Old Soldiers'
reunion In Tecumseh on Wednesday
afternoon and was cheered repeatedly
by the great crowd composed of all
political beliefs. In the evening he
delivered an address to a thousand
or more Shawnee people on the cor-
ner of Union and Main, wher* the
streets were packed with vehicles
and the walks were filled to their
utmost. Owing to a misunderstand-
ing the meeting was advertised to
take place in frDnt of the Norwood,
but when it was found that the demo-
crats had advertised the speaking of
Charles West for the same place and
the same time, the republicans
ranged to have Dennis Flynn speak
in front of the Reeble. He was in-
troduced a few minutes before eight
by Harry M. Ticknor, chairman of
the county central committer.
After a. brief general talk he start-
ed in to analyze the constitution;
both the one styled by Bryan, "The
best ever written," and the one to
which the constitutional convention
later added thirty amendments. He
stated thr was still anothr one and
that no one knew what kind of a con-
stitution would be offered when the
constitutional convention reconvenes
the day before election. He also pro-
duced copies of the democratic cam-
paign text book with the picture of
"Me and the Constitution" on the
front page. His argument was most
convincing, especially on the tax
proposition, and he presented many
sound reasons why the constitution Is
an undesirable instrument and a posi-
tive injury to the state. He laid par-
ticular strees on the fact that Okla-
homa with all her improvements and
taxable wealth would be required to
bear the burden of establishing pub-
lic roads and other public improve-
ments in Indian Territory and said he
believed in protecting his klnfolks
first.
On the injunction feature of the
constitution he stated that it was the
nearest approach to anarchy ever
known to any state. He told of how
when one neighbor's may attempt to
break down one's fences and destroy
one's property a jury to be called to
decide if it was wrong or not and it
could be subject to indefinite delay
without redress from the courts. He
spoke of the initiative and the refer-
endum which he referred to as the
greatest power for good in the gov-
ernment and showed that the consti-
tution provided that the legislature
had the right to declare the vote of
the people void, and that no act of
the legislature would be effective
until nine months after the legisla-
ture had adjourned. He ridiculed the
statement of Haskell made in his Mc-
Alester speech that he had revised
the constitution to suit President
Roosevelt when Secretary Taft who
is with the president every day when
in Washington and therefore in bet-
ter position to know than Haskell
stated that he or any one else did not
know what action President Roose-
velt would take as It was strictly a
judicial matter.
DEMOCRAT8 SUPPORT TAFT.
He produced an editorial from the
Kansas City Times, a leading demo-
cratic paper, which advised the peo-
ple of Oklahoma to give the speech
ofv Taft the greatest considerations
coming from a man who has at all
times shown himself free from par-
by showing that he was for good gov-
ernment regardless of partisanship.
He also produced an article from the
Dallas News, another leading demo-
cratic paper, ^howing that the peo-
ple of that state had killed by
overwhelming popular vote , several
amendments which were to to made
to the state constitution of Texas and
mentioned it as one difficulty in pro-
curing amendments after the consti-
tution has ben adopted by Ihe stat^.
Flynn mentioned the political thun-
der being put forward by Haskell
against Frantz on the assessment of
the railroads in Oklahoma. He said
that if it were true every on-.** should
vote for Haskell, but if it were not
every one should vote for Frantz. He
then proved by statistics that the
Santa Fe is paying more taxes per
mile in Oklahoma than in Misouri or
Tekas, and that the M. K. & T. is
paying $110.00 per mile more in Okla-
homa than in Texas where the laws
are most stringent. He took up the
matter of establishing county roads
In Indian Territory which the consti-
tution provides must be purchased
from the farmer by the state. He
showed that it would cost at least
$2,900,000 of the state funds to pro-
vide for the roads that are needed
immediately in the territory. Under
territorial form of government in
Oklahoma each farmer contributed
forty acres of his farm to the county
for road purposes and conseuently
Oklahoma would have to stand the
burden under the constitution of fix-
ing teh roadways in Indian Territory
as well as other public improvements.
Oklahoma has an immense taxable
wealth when Indian Territory has
very little. He attacked the proposl
tlon to buy the coal and asphalt lands
of Indian Territory, a third of which
have never been examined, ai
scheme to take that much Inlian
Territory property out of the tax-
able wealth of the state and to put
the school lands of Oklahoma which
the constitution proposes to sell and
put under taxation.
ONLY THREE MONTHS SCHOOLS
In the school tax proposition he
showed that while democratic orators
were boasting of the six months
schooling which they provided for ev
ery child, the constitution only al
lowed for three months which it
specified in no uncertain terms. He
OUR LISTS
are (imply crowded with good and
cheap proportions. We quot Juat
Few below:
26 beautiful Ro3e Garden lots at
{BO each, on easy terms.
4 beautiful east front lots on cor-
ner of Dewey and Tuckler streets, at
$162.50 each. Half cash and balance
monthly.
Nice 5 room cottage on Draper av
enue, $1700.
Nice 5 room cottage on 10th street,
$1250.
Nice 7 room two story residence,
Including aloe 100 foot corner. Just
the place to raise chickens, have
your own horse and buggy, eac. Part
cash and balance on long and easy
terms, $16C0.
See Us for Bargains
COFFIN A LAMBARD,
J8 N. Bell 8t Phone 3«8.
1
Ream
First ACT
A
COMIC
F
1
OF STATE BILLOTS
Morning Joke Shown in True Light
as Unreliable and Promulgator
of Lies to Mislead Voters
The folowing Item on the state bal-
lots, which were awarded to the
Western Newspaper Union of Okla-
homa City, is taken from a recent 1s-
sue of the Herald when it apj -nred
as the leader and gives those con-
nected with Joke full credit for their
achievements, in lieu of the absolute
lie which they promulgated at the
time. They knew at the time as
well as C. A. Galbraith, the demo-
cratic member, that there was no foun-
dation for the story, and it was manu-
factured in line with the rest of the
Haskell rot that is being sent out «/
mislead voters. It reads:
NOW FOR THE THEATRICAL SEASON.
GAVE PRINTING TO UNFAIR
SHOP.
REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF ELEC
TION BOARD SLAPS LABOR
'IN THE FACE.
WILL HAVE SCAB BALLOTS.
Contract Awarded in Spite of the
Protest of the Democratic Mem
ber .
"The republican attitude toward
the disposition made of the state
printing by Governor Frantz and
John M. Threadgill, who as re-
publican members of the state elec-
tion board, awarded over the protest
cf C. A. Galbraith, thri democratic
member, the contract for furnishing
the election supplieH for the coming
election to the Guthrie State Capital.
"Judge Galbraith wanted the work
given to union offices and asked to
have It divided between democratic
and republican papers but the re-
publican members saiy "NO." Then
Mr. Galbraith asked that it be sub-
mitted to competitive bids, but Gov
ernor Frantz. declared that it must go
to the State Capital and sought to
justify this favoritism because the
constitutional convention printing
had been given to the Guthrie Leader.
"The State Federation of Labor in
session in Oklahoma City the past
week took prompt action on th** af-
front offered to the unions by Gover-
nor Frantz and Mr. Threadgill and
basides endorsing the constitution,
this retresentative body paid the re-
spects of organized labor to the State
i Capital in very vigorous language and
union labor is fairly illustrated by i placed it on the unfair list."
also showed that Bill Murray was' the speaker told of how one county
telling the people that the Btate tax!was named Murray, another Alfalfa,
would never exceed thirty-one and a' after his none de plume, and another
half mills while the constitution al-
lowed the legislature to provide for
any amount it wanted to. He pro-
duced a fac simile copy of a page of
the constitution showing how the
amendments wer made by scratching
out the old sections with a pen and
writing between the lines and on the
margins of the parchment. He told
of the ease with which any one could
go in and by following the same
course amend the constitution and
no one not say it wasn't as much the
constitution as the other. It is a
sacred thing and should be protected.
He mentioned the provision on wat-
ered stocks and called the audience's
attention that no provision was made
against bonds, of which doubtless the
man who made It knew more than he
did. He mentions the fact that While
the constitution names the officers of
state and fixes their salaries it does
not say one word concerning their
duties. On the provision providing
for a stamp tax on everything that
one possesses he told of how the
people had resented the stamp tax
in the days of the evolution and that
he for one was against that constitu-
tion because he did not want to
mortgage his wife and babie3 as well
as all he possessed, to the state
through a stamp tax. He read a let-
ter that Haskell wrote stating that
It was his Intention when the con-
stitutional convention met to give the
people an instrument that no one
could tell of what political faiti the
makers were by reading it. He asked
the audience if any ont could look
at the disgraceful gerrymander and
the other partisan features and then
say that Haskell had kept his word
He said that he wished that Haskell
had kept his word and that statehood
of the right kind were possible tomor-
row morning. The giving of free
homes to the people by tbe republic-
ans was memtioned as evidence of
WORK.
SAVE.
DEPOSIT WITH U8.
YOU'RE A 8UCCESS.
ONE
AN ACCOUNT.
DIME WILL START !
BUNK of COMMERCE
MONEY MAKES MONEY
Johnson in order that his kinsfolks
might be remembered by posterity.
He gave this as the true reason why
Alfalfa Bill was for the constitution
and showed numerous instances of
where he made speeches that proved
that Murray himself did not under-
stand the constitution or know what
is in it. Flynn referred to an inter-
view with President Roosevelt in
which he was asked where the consti-
tution was and all he could tell the
president was that it was some place
in the Cuckle Bur patch in Indian
Territory and that was all the people
knew of it.
He complained that the democratic
candidates and oratorsf few of whom
had evidently mastered the 150 pages
of the constitution, were not par-
ticularlzing in their stand. He said
that he hoped on the 18tb day of
September we would have statehood
and that the people would take the
precaution of electing a republican
state ticket and legislature to amend
the constitution as it should be. He
told of how much more good a repub-
lican senator could accomplish in
Washington than a democrat and
that it was policy to have men there
who were of the same political belief
as the majority and were able to do
the state some good.
Flynn spoke nearly two hours and 40 acre® fine land In a high, sight-
held his audience in a good spirit at ly and beautiful location on inter-
all times. He was cheered many urban car line, near Benson Park, is
times and grew satirical at times In a snap at $5,000.
LABEL LEFT OFF CON-
STITUTION BY "BILL"
y
Oklahoma City, Okla., Aug. 29.—I false statement so widely made and
All organised labor here and else-1 printed by Haskell, on the stump and
where is joining with the Union! his paper, that the republican mem-
prlnters In protest against the official hers of the election board had awarJ-
Put a little of it in one of our
homes or investments and see the re-
sults.
$160 cash and monthly payments
buys a neat roo mhouse, barn, well
and 60x165 foot lot, east front. No.
206 N. McKlnley St. Price only $1,-
000.
$250 cash and $15 per month will
buy a good 4 room cottage, barn,
well and 50x140 foot lot ; within two
blocks of Rock Island shops.
constitution printed by the democrat-
ic Guthrie Leader and to be paid for
by the taxpayers of the new state
being Issued without the Union label.
As President Murray, Haskell's
closest friend, had entire supervision
of the printing of the constitution and
as it does not bear the label it con-
firms the charges that Mr. Haskell is
opposed to organized labor. The mat-
ter is made more emphatic by the
fact that every particle of republican
campaign matter bears the label even
to the envelopes that carry the press
matter.
The omission of the label on the
official constitution is made still more
a matter of comment because of the
speaking of the constitution, which
he said gave everything to Indian
Territory and nothing to Oklahoma
but great taxes to pay.
TO PRACTICE BASEBALL
The business men and the bankers
of Shawnee who are to play ball the
how th7 republicanVrVhad always |'™th of September for the ben-fit
kept its word despite the cry of the
democrats, and in the securing of Im-
mediate statehood under a good con-
stitution they would do as they have
always done—keep their promise.
IN THE "CUCKLE BUR" PATCH.
Aspeech from Bill Murray in which
be states, "By the Eternals no matter
when we have statehood we will have
this constitution," was read and then flour.
Five acre block, all In cultivation
fine for truck garden and chicken
ranch, located within three blocks of
car line. Is a bragaln at (1,050 cash
$2300 will buy a neat 6 room dwell
ing, 2 closets, bath room, cistern and
75x140 foot lot. Cement walks. Lo-
cated In 6th block on North Broad
way.
Think about it. We have two brick
store rooms in Shawnee that the own-
of the advertising fund of the Cham-
ber of Commerce will get out and do
their first practicing Friday afternoon
at five o'clock at League Park. After J er requests us to sell In a hurry be-
a few work-outs the respective teams cause he needs the money. Our price
will be selected and the captains ls $6,999 for both buildings.
chosen. Every one is urged to g^t
out and take part in the practice
gamea.
Ask your grocer for "Light Bread"
22-tf
8
The Real Estate Men
Or«r Oklahoma National Bank,
phone SOS.
ed the contract for printing the bal-
lots to a nonunion shop, when the
fact is the contract has been awarded
to a Union shop and given to a dem-
ocratic firm at that. It is now up to
Mr. Haskell to call In that lie and
for him and Mr. Murray to explain
why such an important piece of print-
ing as the constitution and election
ordinance is put out by a democratic
paper without bearing the Unien
label.
Shooting the Chutes
and Trick Skating at
the Broadway Rink
Friday night.
STATEMENT.
OF THE SHAWNEE NATIONAL BANK
at the Close of Business.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1907
RESOURCES.
Loans and discounts 5573,543.86
Banking house, furniture and fixtures .. 22,000.00
United States Bonds and Premiums ... 52,500.00
CASH AND SIGH EXCHANGE 208,657.42
OVERDRAFTS 5.475.65-214,033.07
$862,076.93
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock, and Surplus funds $105,758.47
Circulation 60,000.00
DEPOSITS 706,318.46
$862,076.93
Attest:
•T. M. AYDELOTTE,
I). F. HAMILTON,
H. T. DOUGLAS,
F. V. ASKEW,
Directors.
The above statement Is correct.
JNO. W. JONES, Caahler.
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