The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 23, No. 224, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1910 Page: 2 of 16
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THE TAHLEQUAH AKKOW, TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA
THE TAHLEQUAH ARROW system uod.r republican rule the mo j John W. Kern, a democrat will in all
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THURSDAY. MAY 12,1910
MAKING FALSE CLAIMS
For forty five years the republican
party has lived npon the reputation,
which it claimed to have made during
the war between the states. It has
charged the democratic |*rty with
being opposed to the Union, but history
shown the doctrine of secession was
actively discussed and endorsed by
prominent statesmen in N'ew England
fifty years before it was presented in
defiinite form by the states that joined
the confederacy. Not onlv did the doc
trine of sec ession have many support-
ers in the north but the democratic
part? furnished one of the earliest
"hamoions for the Union Andrew Jack
son when president denounced the doc-
trine .• nullification and denied the
right of a state to secede. In the war
for the maintenance of the uuiou dern-
mocrats fought side by side with repub-
licans and it ought not to lie forgotten
that Douglas, whom Lincoln defeated
for the presidency in 1880, was prompt
in announcing his support of Lincoln
when war was threatened. The republi-
cans have not done justice to the union
democrats, but h ave made on the con-
trary political capital out of the fact
that the republican party was in pow
er and claim to have conducted the
war to a successful termination.
The republican party has also made
poiitical capital out of the emancipation
of the slaves and yet no intelligent
reader can be ignorant of the fact that
the freeing of the negroes had no part
in the plans of the republican leaders
when the war began and the fact will
not down, that the republican war
leaders after the progress of t he war
had raised the question of emancipation
offered to permit the south to retain her
slaves, if she would lay down her arms,
which proposition the south promptly
refused, which act aloue made emancipa-
tion possible, thus demonstrating the
fact, that the south as the south didnot
bear arm* to maintain and con tinue
slavery.
It must most certainly be remember-
ed that the north profited by the
slave trade, and while the north thus
prohibited the defense of slavsay was
not confined to the south. Slavery
was defended in the New England
States for years after the revolutionary
war, in fact as long as the trade was
profitable to the yaukee. Not only was
slavery advocated and defended in the
north but there were opponents of
slavery in the south. Thos. Jefferson
was opposed to slavery and believed
that emancipation must ultimately
come. Abraham Lincoln often quoted
Andrew Jackson as opposed to secces-
iou and Thos. Jefferson on his oppo-
sition to slavery. Here we have the
great founder of the republican party,
quoting the language of and relying
upon the positions of the two greatest
democrats of the nation, yet republi-
can leaders ignore the service*) rendered
by these democrats an * multitude of
democrats who follow Jefferson and
Jarksou and seek to claim eutire credit
for freeing the slaves and the saving
of the union- Even if they could justly
claim such credit itfc past would not be
a sufficient answer to the indictment
that can be brought against it at this
time. A new slavery is upon the peo-
ple, —the slavery ;of special privileges
and plutocracy. The owner of the
black slave bad a peuaiary interest in
the negro and his welifare—he could
not allow tb slave to suffer for want
itl shelter, clothes, food and medical
attention, bat under the plutocratic
nopolist gets the benefit of labor witn
•at responsibility for it or accounta
lality to it. Under present conditions
the laborer* the producers of wealth
are being deprived of the greater part
of their earnings The patriotism of
the republican leaders today is a pa
triotisxn of pelf. The questions of
secession and nullification have been
settled and can never rise again The
sin of slavery, let us remember was a
national sin not a sectional one and
that it was recognized by the con-t;tn
ti< n and had consicentons .-upjiorter-
north and south. But slavery has le-en
abolished an l abolished forever
Neither the question of national
unity nor the slavery question can again
disturb the nation.
It cannot be denied that on the
sues now before the country, ;he demo-
probability be the next
s-nat.<r from Indiana
Ui.ittd States
Is any iuu fit for public i-ffice that
will trv to create a racial prejudice be j
tween the full-blood and the whit* man> |
"A deficit in the U S. Treasurv of'
more than eighteen million dollars so
far tlii.-i £-;al rear ~>me more republi j
can progre?-.
A deficit in the U. S. Treasurv of one
hundred uinety million fifty-seven dol-
lars and eighty-six cents since Juue HO,
llKr9 Whole heap big republican pro
; gress
j Dr. Drrineut will give a house aud
lot to any man of Indian or White '■
; Wood that th< grandfather clause ex- I
I eludes from voting by reason of his not
cratic party is on the people's side
The democratic party is the effective
instrument for the advancement of
public good The people will rally to
its support.
I being able to read and write.
The republican office seekers of Cher-
okee county have only one plank in
their platform, viz * We want the
offices so bad."
Marble baths for senators, automo-
biles for senators, touring cars for
Taft, touring cars for Sherman, touring
car? for Cannon, dazzling White House
receptions, $2,500 for appolinaries water
for senators. Thousands of dollars for
vasaline, castor oil, olive oil. biotno
quinine, hair tonic, costly perfumes,
burgamont, nail brushes, clothes brush*
es, glycerine, travling expenses etc., for
nators. An increase in the last eight
years of 99,22A federal office holders,
making an increase of expenses borne
by the common people of over seventy-
million dollars. This is progress with
a vengeance.
Meet a stranger in the city, make him 1
feel at home . This is the best town on !
earth and there is no excuse for a [>er !
son knocking.
When it comes to
Groceries
COME TO US
Choicest lines of staple and fancy
groceries carried in the city.
Prompt Delivery
R. C. FULLER
206 S. Muskogee Ave.
Phone 2 DOUBLE, 2
This week's Tallow Dip exhibits a
cartoon which represents the taxpayer
as upholding the various county officers.
His explanation below seems to be
mainly leveled at County Judge J. T.
Parks. Of course the explanation is
one of the Tallow Dip's usual vicious
lies, as the County Judge's office not
only pays its own expenses but puts a
surplus each quarter in the county-
treasury. If that taxpayer should be
loaded with the hungry, crying snivel-
ing horde of republican leaders who
are seeking office he would be mashed
to the ground and his life crushed out.
Every Indian or White man in the
state of Oklahoma, grandfather clause,
or no grandfather clause, will be enti-
tled to vote at elections.
Before you vote, think of that one
hundred and ninety million dollar
deficit in the United States treasury
which the tux payers, will have to
make good, after yoti think, then vote.
An increase of seventy million dollars
of salaries of republican office holders
in eight years. Sounds like the tax pay-
er will have to dig some.
Fifty-one percent increase in the cost
of living, coupled with tha sixty-three
per cent increase in the expenses of the
government in eight years, makes a
noise like the tax payer will have to
dig, dig and th"U dig sonae more.
The leaders of the republican party
of Oklahoma have given no reason what
ever why they should be trusted with
the offices. On the other hand they
have by slander and vilification shown
that they are utterly unfit to hold any
position of public trust. Any set of
men that traduced other men and by
innuendoes and insinuations attempt to
destroy their neighbor's reputations are
a menance to good government, and
the peace of the commonwealth
It' the republican leaders Cherokee
county wished to do justice, they
would insist npon the negro having
three or four places on the couuty tick-
et
I idea for the Commercial club to incnl-
j cate this spirit, train it into themselves
by trying to impress it upon their
neighbors for when a strang ?r has been
here and received that kind of reception
he cannot forget it and though he him-
self may never arrange to move- to the
town where all are sociable he will be
thinking of it and mentioning it and
by his talking will be the cause of per-
haps more than one who are looking
for locations coming here, while lie is
not talking for that particular purpose
~| but just giving his experience, which
A city, town or village is just what | t')e W!l.v is the most impressive
its citizens make it. A stranger may method of communicating these mat-
come to town, strike the sidewalk and ters. Always live in the healthiest
wend his way to a hotel, meeting many town any where not barring Halley s
l>eople on the street, none seeming to cornet. Let people know that we hive
realize his presence. . He reaches the the purest and best water that flows,
BE A CITY
JOOSTER
A Welcome Hand to a
Stranger Frequently
Does Good
brightest sunshine in the day and
grandest moonlight of nights, that the
air we breathe is light, pure and sweet-
ly perfumed from the flowers growing
hotel registers, is assigned a room, oc-
cupies it, pays his bill, is gone. He
knows nothing of the town except that
it is a cold lonesome place He per
haps came with a view of investing in on the hillsides, that the birds sing
properties and becoming a citizen but later in the eveuings and earlier in the
the chill of his entrance into the city, mornings, that we have plenty but
froze his asperations and quite likely never too much rain, that our climate
the city fails to procure a valuable is adapted to any and all kinds of crops
But the republican leaders of this citizen. We like the way they do things that all kinds of fruits do well her*
county neither want justcie meted out
to them nor give it to others, not even
to their negro henchmen.
It is only a matter of time till the
fullblqod will know that the grand-
father clause will not interfere with
his vote. When he does learn the
truth it is dollars to doughnuts he will
fail to trust the republican leaders who
have been deceiving him.
Charles Buford, member of the Board
of County Commissioners, of McIntosh
county, is in the city today transacting
business with the county court. Mr.
Buford states there has been an im-
fbe Sun is of the opinion 'that the mense influx of negro voters into Mc-
grandfather clause gives the opportun- Intosh county from the southern states
ity for an unscrupulous election officer
to deny any man, without regard to
vote, which is untrue, but any way the
voters have their eyes on the people
whom the Sun is urging for places
where they might seek to exercise tin-
scrupulousness and will see that they
are headed off when election time comes
in the past two years. His belief is
that the only safe-guard from negro
domination in his home county is an
adoption of the grandfather clause and
a democratic victory
C. B. Whiteside, Insurance.
in the growing town of Rogers, Ark., and that whether they are looking for
a place in which to educate their chil-
dren or install a manufacturing plant
that will einplov from 100 to 800 labor-
ers, they are iu the right place, the
place where everybody extends the
glad hand, the place for them to stay
and help us in our town building while
we are helping them in their efforts to
boom a business. If there were more
of this and less looking the other way
while passing a stranger on our streets
our town would take on a faster
growth than now, and even now it is
growing rapidly. Be a booster.
Blue Springs Decoration.
The people in the vicinity of Blue
springs, near Gideon, have set apart
Saturday, May 14, as a day to decorate
the cemetery near that place It is de-
sired and every body in that vicinity is
expected to turn out.
when alighting from the train some
citiz.?n has you by the hand, and is not
backward in inquiring what you are
looking for and before you heve finished
your answer you are informed that
there is plenty of it to be found in Rog-
ers, before yon have digested his last
remark he is pointing to the beauties
of the lay of the town, which by the
way, is somewhat similar to Tahlequah,
pointing to the place from whence
comes the town's unlimited supply of
spring water, next, to the big vinegar
factory, the largest in the world. He
will direct you to the place you wish
to reach and on your way you may
meet a youth of 10 or 12 who will per.
haps ask if you are thinking or coming
there to live and if you are not they
will advise that yon better as that i s
the nicest and best place in the world
and that town is outclassing all of its
neighbors.. We are sorry to say that
this spirit does not exist in Tahlequah
to the extent that it should for the
Denefit of the city. It would be a good
For quick action on farm loans see—
Worthington & Pearson.
With the exception of what country
correspondence it has, its contributions
come from the owners of the Sun and
not the laity as they would have it un-
derstood. Naturally not much of it
will be laid to the person seemingly in
control. The laity however, should
cot be accused of the sins of that pa-
per's owners
The republican leaders of Cherokee
county have proved themselves charac-
ter assassins and slanderers. Are they
morally fit to be trusted with the pub-
lic offices?
"A deficit in the U. S. Treasury of
nearly two million dollars for the first
twenty-one days of April. This is re-
publican progress.
Mayor Gaynor, of New York City,
says Hearst is guilty of two fslonies.
Fifty Years
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