The Hugo Husonian (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL XI.
The Hugo Husonian
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DEMOCRATS HOPEFUL
OF GREAT VICTORY
CHICAGO WILL NOW SEND OUT
LITERATURE AND WESTERN
CAMPAIGN IS ON
Democrats Have a Big Handbook
And Same Is Ready for Evan-
gelists
HUOO. OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 29, 1912
r August 24.—Mare than 10,000 let-
era have been received at democratic
headquarters in th Fifth Avenue
building, New York, within the past
week from every state in the union,
, dealing with the political condition
throughout the country.
These letters have been examined
with care by the various bureaus,
and the majority of them contained
information of the most encouraging
nature, as well as valuable sugges-
tions to the democratic leaders.
Never in the history of the party
have the chances been so bright for
a democratic victory. Betting is a
mater of opinion, but the odds as i
quoted in New York, mave gone to
2 1-2 on Wilson. At the opening
of the campaign the odds were from
1 1-2 to 2. During the past few days
there were many wagers being offer-
ed at 2 1-2 to 1 on the success of the
democratic ticket.
So far there have been but few
wagers recorded, the majority of
the Wall street sharks declaring that
the odds will go to 3 and possibly 4
to one on Wilson.
With the opening of the democrat-
ic headquarters in Chicago this week
the Western campaign will be in full
swing.
The notification ceremonies to
Governor Marshall took many of the
active leaders to Indianapolis, and
they went on to Chicago, where Sec-
retary Joseph E. Davies of the nat-
ional committee will be in charge.
The national headquarters in New
York will contlue to cover the entire
country, but the Chicago headquar-
ters will pay special attenMon to all
the statsa west of Illinois. The lit-
erature will be mailed from Chicago
headquarters and a corps of speakers
will stump the various districts.
Norris Insistent
Governor Norris of Montaua is in-
sistent that Wilson and Marshall
will gain the electoral vote in Mon-
tana next November.
In a telegram to
quarters he wires:
"Every indication Is that Monta-
na's electoral vote will be for Gover-
nor Wilson".
The democratic hand book for 1912
will be off the press by the first of
September. This book is by all odds
the most pretentious, complete, ac-
curate and interesting book that has
been turned out by a national •com-
mittee in more than a score of years.
It has been edited by more than 200
democratic editors, some of whom are
from southeastern Oklahoma.
The first issue will number 50,000
books, each copy containing
than 300 pages.
Robert W. Wooley, who was in
charge of the gathering of evidence
for the Stanley Steel committee, and
who is one of the best known Wash-
ington newspaper men in the country
has been devoting all his , .me to the
preparation of the hand i,jok, assist-
ed by an able corps of o iier Wash-
ington correspondents and members
of congress.
The book is being printed on good
paper, well bound, and th lemocrat-
ic arguments are so ma .-lulled that
the book is sure to provr a valuable
document to the friends of democra-
cy.
ARDMORE DEBATES
COMMISSION CHANGE
HAS TRIED COMMISSION FORM
OF GOVERNMENT AND FINDS IT
TOO EXPENSIVE
Probably a Change Back To O'd Al-
dermanic Form May Be Made Next
Spring
ME IHO
national head-
Question of commission form of
government is of interest here. The
following from Sunday's Ardmoreite
concerning the situation there, is
worthy "of reflection:
For the past month in this city the
question or returning to the old al-
dermanic form of government has
been discussed in Ardmore and the
lack of opposition to such a change
is remarkable. Almost every citizen
of the town favors such a change.
The largest taxpayers as well as the
smallest seem to desire to see the
charter changed so that each ward
will have two representatives in the
city council and to limit their sala-
ries to $50 a year and to have a may-
or with a salary of *100 a month who
will have his office at the city hall
and remain there all the time, giving
his exclusive time to the city.
The arguments advanced are that
Ardmore is not large enough to pro-
fit by the commission form of gov-
ernment. The aldermanlc form can
b* conducted with less expense. Sal-
aries that cannot be more than *50
a year are not attractive and only
those who are inspired with the wel-
fare of the city will offer for alder-
manic places and the friends of the
change believe that less friction and
more harmony will be the result by
such a change.
It Is expected that a mass meeting
will be called within a short time
for the selection of freeholders whose
duties it shall be to draft a charter
which may be submitted to the peo-
ple for their adoption and should the
change-meet with the choice of the
voters of the city the new plan could
be inaugurated next April at the time
when Mayor Dawson's term of office
expires.
The movement for a change in the
charter is so well established in the
minds of the people that it will be
agitated until a new charter is sub-
mitted to the people.
GEORGE PERKINS' 8TORY ABOUT
THIS COUNTRY FOR CHILD-
REN'S GOOD EXP08ED
Mistreatment of Women and Children
Is The Rule in Harvester Trust
Plant
IS. G. L HARRIS
DIED III H MEIIGO
WIFE OF PROMINENT SOPER
MERCHANT DIED WHILE VISI-
TING AT BIRTHPLACE.
Death Followed an Operation at a
Denver Hospital Which Failed to
Relieve.
DISTRICT EPWORTH LEAGUE.
The Choctaw-Chickasha Conference
Closed at Yellow Spring.
The district conference of the
Choctaw-Chickasaw Epworth League,
which was held at Yellow Spring, six
miles north of Tupelo, has closed and
the Indians have been passing
through Hugo on their return home.
The conference is for full bloods, and
900 were in attendance during the
meeting, from the 22nd to the 25th
The presiding elder was Orlando
Shay, aud H. J. Hayes was president
of the conference. Hundreds of In-
dians passed through Hugo for the
past two days, en route home from
the conference.
Mrs. C. L. Harris, formerly Miss
Betty Garnett, died at Las Vegas
New Mexico, Monday, following an
operation which occurred at a Den-
ver hospital last Thursday. Deceased
was taken ill Just a month ago. at
the same time that her father pass-
ed beyond.
Mrs. Harris was a native of Las
Vegas, but was known to many resi
dents of Choctaw county, and all of
the people of Soper, her husband, C
L. Harris, being connected with the
big Harris stores at Soper. The hus-
band had been in the West for some
time, it being known that Mrs. Har-
ris was critically ill.
Q. Y. Harris, the brother at Soper,
received word Monday night of Mrs.
Harris' death and that interment
would be made in East Las Vegas,
near where the deceased spent all of
her girlhood.
Friends of the family in Choctaw
county extend their condolence to
those doubly bereaved in the past
month.
ELECTION BILL DIED
Republicans Abandoned Their Ef-
forts to Initiate
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok., Aug. 28 —
Time for gathering signatures to pe-
titions initiating what republicans
termed "a fair election law," expired
yeeterday. The proposition was
abandoned by the state committee at
IU meeting in Outhrie last Saturday
NEW YORK, August 26.—Geerg*
W. Perkins has thrown h's lot with
Roosevelt, because he. Perkins, has
children, he says.
He says he wants to remedy all hu-
man ailments, and especially care for
the women toilers.
In the mills of the Osborne Twine
company No. 3, at Auburn, N. Y.,
which is owned by the International
Harvester company, of which George
W. Perkins is a director and leading
light, an investigation on the part of
Senator Robert F. Wagner of the state
factory investigating committee dis-
closes the most inhuman and brutal
treatment of women.
The investigation started about a
week ago, and in these few days the
inconsistency of the third term can
didate's principal financial backer has
been fully sworn.
Women are made to toil all night
long in the Perkins directed harvest-
er trust factory.
Some of these women receive
high as *7 a week, but many of them
only $5. They are given fifteen min-
utes for their lunch.
And they work in dust laden
rooms from twelve to fourteen hours
a day.
On August 17 Roosevelt said:
"Mr. Perkins is a rich man. He
came into my movement of his own
initiative. I have known him for
fourteen years, and when he joined
me I asked him, Why are you snp-
porting me?
"He said the primary reason was
because he had children. He had all
the money he wanted, he said, and
had come to the conclusion that this
country won't be a good place to live
in when his children become the age
we are unless business and govern
ment are brought into proper rela-
tions, unless the relations of capital
and the wage earner are placed on
better basis."
In his speech delivered on the same
day at Revere Beach, Mass., Roose-
velt said:
"I wish an eight hour day for wo-
men of industry, I wish safety appli-
ances. and I wish to secure healthful
conditions for the wageworkers."
(.porge \\. Perkins in lus confes-
sion of faith on August 20—and this
date is Important—said:
"Money is not all in this life. The
mere accumulation of wealth will not
bring an honorable heritage to my
only son. Is there not something
more than the incentive to make
money which I can leave him?"
Four days before these statements
were made by Roosevelt and Perkins
the New York state factor}- investiga-
ting committee visited the Interna-
tional Harvester company's plant and
there examined working girls and
married women, and their testimony
is a long recital of tears and misery
and enforced slavery, insanitary con-
ditions and starvation wages.
The pathetic story of the girls and
women, as officially reported, shows
the monumental double dealing and
heartlessness of Perkins, the financial
backer of the third term party.
Read what Senator Wagner says:
"The appearance of the women
workers in this plant was very dis-
heartening. They were worn' and
pale, and their clothes, faces and
hands were covered with oil and
hemp cloth. Many of these women,
so called, are only children in age.
and they have to lug huge piles of
hemp, weighing 150 pounds each
across the floor, the load in some
cases being bigger than the women
themselves.
"In the spinuing room, where worn
en are employed alone, to the exclu-
sion of men, who would have to re-
ceive higher wages, the clatter of ma
chinery is so frightful that a voice
below a shriek cannot be heard. The
rooms are dark, though for no neces-
sary cause, and no attempt is made
to remove the dust, which ig kept in
constant motion by the line shaftings
despite the requirement of the law.
This dust is breathed continuously by
the women, many of whom complain
(Continued on Page Five)
MUDS WELD
Huron Hum
ALL CHARGED WITH LIQUOR
LAW VIOLATIONS MUST AN-
SWER IN FEDERAL COURT8
Ford and Nance Held to Tell Court
and Jury How Booze Happened
Around
With the examining trial in Unit-
ed States Commissioner Richards'
court Tuesday afternoon, closed one
season of raids made by the sher-
iff's department on alleged bootleg-
gers. The testimony to hold R. E.
Ford was all advanced by Deputy
Sheriffs Birchfield, McDaniels and
Larry Langen, who had arrested him
at Shoals, late Sunday afternoon, the
arrest also including Hiki Foshee, but
the latter being too slick to accom-
pany the officers te Hugo.
The 20 quarts of Hill & Hill whisky
Sound was discovered beneath the
soil and R. E. Ford made a strong
witness in his own behalf, swearing
that he knew nothing of the liquor,
bad never heard of it and never had
dared presume the wicked stuif was
beneath the tent in which he hap-
pened to be residing at the time the
officers made the raid.
Deputy Marshal Early made a strong
effort to get the defendant hung for
trial in the court next October, stat-
ing that the county officials and the
United States government would be
willing U) go into a hard trial to
close all of the liquor points in Choc-
taw county, if there were hope of re-
turns.
Commissioner Richards took a type-
written statement of the testimony,
and, after each of the prosecuting
witnesses failed to show that there
was evidence against Ford, still held
Mm to the United 8tates d>jRtl-ict
court, on a bond of *500.
The question of conviction is now
one between the courts and the raid-
ing squadrons—the sheriff and the
deputy marshal at a splendid under-
standing regarding arrests, but the
federal officers only asking for evi-
dence that will convict before a Jury.
In the cases before the commissioner
of late, the testimony has been of
a nature which would possibly bring
conviction in local courts, but the
situation is different in the federal
courts.
Lum Nance, arrested as he was
transporting whiskey to this city,
was held by Commissioner Richards
to the federal courts next October,
and bond given by that worthy in
general trouble affairs.
The Ford-Foshee arrest at Shoals
was one of the hardest cases that
has been worked out of the sheriffs
office, but the liquor was buried be-
neath a tent, and ownership of the
tent has been hard to prove and no
one has come forward to claim the
confiscated whiskey which was un-
earthed at the side of the tent.
SIM! OEM
HJWKI
UNDER NEW LAW NO ONE GETS
MAIL AT POSTOFFICE DURING
8ABBATH DAY.
This Provision Is Effective Now and
Will Be the Rule in Hugo at Once.
Nto more mail delivery on Sunday.
This applies to the general deliv-
ery and all boxes; in fact everything
but special delivery mail, and the
postmaster will not keep a force in
the office, save for the collecting of
outgoing mails to their points.
The law was passed to be effective
July first, but because it road with
the appropriation act, was not made
a law until the last day of the con-
gress.
The section of law authorizing this
decree comes with the appropriation
act ending the postal appropriation
for June, 1913 and reads as follows:
"That hereafter postoffices of first
and second class shall not be open
on Sundays for the purpose of deliv-
ering mail to the general public, but
this provision shall not prevent
HELR SIMM
RESOLUTIONS SHOW FAITH IN
PARTY ANO SUCCESS
ASSURED
Delegates Selected to Attend State
Convention August SNth at Ok-
lahoma City
prompt delivery of special dellverv
matl."
Under this new provision all pat-
rons of the Hugo poatoffice will be
unable to get mail on Sundays, save
by special delivery. This will pre-
vent the patrons of metropolitan
newspapers getting their papers on
the Sabbath, save those which come
through news agencies, and all let-
ter mail will be held in the office un-
til Monday morning.
In the past year that rule has been
in effect in severed localities, but
largely left to the will of the people.
In the present appropriation act the
cut was made in order to cheapen
the cost of the postoffice department
and Jihewi^ i.,™ -:- *n Kr- th->>
postofice employes might wish one
day of rest.
While it affects the business in
terests of the larger cities in s
greater degree than is true of in-
land points, it will prove of greater
inconvenience in the latter mention-
ed placffi, as the securing of Sun-
day mail is important.
tiOt*
sta-
LONG SESSION
SESSION CLOSED AT HALF PAST
FOUR MONDAY AFTERNOON IN
PLEASANT MANNER.
>me Good Appropriation Plans
Were Knocked From List by the
Stingy House.
STONE PREDICTS
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
NEW YORK. August 27.—Senator
Stone of Missouri is entirely opti-
mistic over the success of the demo-
cratic ticket in November. In a sign-
ed interview the senator savs:
"I have the greatest confidence of
the election of Wilson and Marshall.
They would have a good percentage
of advantage even if the republicans
were harmonious and united. With
the republicans divided into two war-
ring factions and with the democrats
more thoroughly united than they
have been for years, I do not see
how the democratic ticket can suffer
defeat.
All needed is a thorough, effective
organization, and the exercise of san-
ity and good Judgment to the end of
the campaign.
"Our candidates are strong men of
the progressive thought of the Amer-
ican people i am thjU
thousands of progressive voters here-
tofore acted with the republican par-
ty win support Wilson and Marshall.
"A number of Missouri republicans
have told me that they intend to vote
the democratic ticket this year, and
like news comes to me from numer-
ous other states.
"I am confident Governor Wilson
will be elected, and I believe him to
be superbly equipped to carry for-
ward on the most intelligent lines the
*r«at work of industrial and govern-
mental reform it will become his
duty to undertake."
WASHINGTON. August ^.-So-
bered by the embarrassment of Sat-
urday's all night session, filibusters
and disagreements, congress adjust-
ed its differences Monday, invited
President Taft up to the capital once
more, and at 4.30 o'clock in the af-
ternoon wrote "finish" after the pro-
ceedings of the second session of the
sixty-second congress.
The end was marked with a return
of harmony. Senator La Follette
demanding action on the Penrose
campaign resolution found all oppo-
sition smothered away in front of
him and the resolution passed almost
without discussion.
Senators CulberBon. Chamberlain.
Bristow and Martin, after fighting'
bitterly for the payment of the "state
claims" embodied in the general de-
ficiency bill, yielded to the urging of
their colleagues and permitted the
senator to yield to the demands of
the house, and strike these claims
from the bill. In return for this con-
cession, however, they received the
promise of support next winter when
the claims again will be pressed for
payment.
With these old claims, amounting
to *600,000 went the "extra month's"
Pay for congressional employes,
which the senate demanded and the
house refused to give. In the last
hour of the session, while President
Taft waited in his special room to
sign the measures of the dying con-
an attempt was made to rush
through a special resolution giving
such extra months pay but the house
again blocked it
The democratic couaty convention
for the empire of Choctaw was held
In the district court room Saturday
afternoon, being called te order by
County Chairman A. A. McDonald at
1:40 o'clock.
After Secretary Dickson read the
call, election of officers was called
for, and Ed Adams of Hamden, and
M. Leard of this city were placed
in nomination for chairman. Adams
winning by a majority of three votes.
Attorney J. L. Dickson was chosen
temporary secretary and on motion
the temporary organization was made
permanent.
The resolutions committee report-
ed as follows, same being adopted:
Report of the Committee on Resolu-
tion
To the Democratic County Conven-
tion of Choctaw County:
Your committee on resolutions begs
leave to report as follows:
The democracy of Choctaw county
in convention assembled in this dem-
ocratic year of 1912, hereby renews
its allegiance to the eternal princi-
ples of democracy enunciated by
Thomas Jefferson and carried out by
the long line of democratic success-
ors from Madison to Wilson. We
most heartily commend to the coun-
ts -egard!>s? of past party affilia-
matchless
thinker,
ee who
ty pi lieu the Lest thought of this na-
tion that |s endeavoring to restore
this goverameni to the people. We
congratulate the country that the re-
publican party Is so spilt 'Hat the
prcdatefy interest* with all their cor-
ruption fund will be unable to this
year elect their candidate. We en-
dorse every plank of the Baltimore
platform as a sane program to admin-
ister the affairs of this great govern-
ment.
W e endorse the omiaations of the
democratic party f jr ail state, county
and township officers and urge their
election. In county affairs we pledge
our nominees tq a most rigid econo-
my to the end that our taxes may
be reduced to the lowest minimum
conducive to good government.
We are in ravr of winding up the
affairs of the Five Civilized Tribes at
the earliest moment and as a step
in that direction favor the aboliUon
of the district Indian agencies. And
we commend the action of the demo-
cratic members of congress for their
efforts on that line. We demand the
government land suits be terminated
without further delay as they are
hindering the development of our
country and doing the Indians no
good.
We invite all voters to this year
unite with us and aid in overthrow-
ing the republican party from na-
tional control that the government
may be administered for the people
and not the trusts.
WM. ARMSTRONG. Chairman.
Delegates to the state convention
August 28 were selected as follows:
J. R. Armstrong, W. J. Armstrong,
H. C. King, W. L. Garner, W. P
Stewart, M. L. Webb, W. C. McAliater.
J- J Barrett. Claude P. Spriggs. W.
E. Schooler. W. T. Glenn. E. P. Ans-
ley. T. W. Hunter, E. B. Adams, Z. T.
Petty, W. N. Greene and C.^C. Lewter.
WILL RECOGNIZE GUTHRIE
Republican Fight will be Conducted
From There
GUTHRIE, Ok.. August 28.—Jas. A.
Harris, of Wagoner, chairman of the
republican state committee, announc-
es that headquarters for the ensu-
ing campaign will be opened in this
city in the near future. He is al-
ready completing arrangements to
come to Guthrie and remain during
the campaign, plans for which were
discussed at the meeting of the state
committee.
A committee was named by the
•tate committee to audit the books
and accounts—WUUam H. Hart, of
Ada, Fred L. Wenner, of Guthrie.
Joseph Knox of Claremore, V. C
WWch of Perry, and John Appleby of
Hobart.
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