The Hugo Husonian (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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The Hugo Husonian
Published by
Htooonian PtaMfchfhg Co.
M. P. McDONALD Gen'l Mgr.
C. W. B. HINDS Editor
ONE
DOLLAR PER YEAR
It Pkld In Advance
tnrj Tbamdiy, too entendu ft*
Po#t ffioe at Hugo, Oklahoma, aa Second Claaa
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Congress
Fourth District
R. H. STANLEY
For Congressman-at-Large
PAT. J. GOULDING
FRED P. BRANSON
For State Senate
A. M. WORKS
For Representative
DR. HERBERT L. WRIGHT
TOM W. HUNTER
For County Judge
W. E. SCHOOLER
D A. STOVALL
W. T. GLENN
For County Attorney
B. D. JORDAN
GAYLORD R. WILCOX
F. K. WARREN
THOS. S. HARDISON
M. W. GROSS
For Sheriff.
W. L. LOFTIN
R. M. CONNELL
E. L. COOPER
R. L. CARTER
For District Clerk
E. A. BURKE
R. L. JONES
For County Clerk
J. W. MILAM
FRANK W. WAGGENER
W. J. MARSHALL
T. J. (BUCK) OAKES
For County Treasurer
HUGH J. DAVIS
ED LINTHICIUM
For Tax Assessor
A. R. ROLAND
J. W. WILSON
J. L. GILES
H. (CYCLONE) JOHNSON
For Register of Deeds
.W. L. (LEE) STUBBS
\lv GORDON WILKINS
*LEE W. RATLIFF
W. D. STEEX
tal $6. People laughed when they
read the statement, still, for ' less
money, the government coulij afford
to run a speciaj train (^ownlto the
great ocean resorts, hate -th£- sena-
tors cleaned up, and take them back
to Washington. Of course, the aver-
age man looks upon that one Item aB
somewhat trivial, and of Itself it Is,
but when we reflect that there are
ten thousand other leaks equally
worthless, one can begin to grasp
some idea of the extravagance at
Washington. The recent democratic
Investigation disclosed that there
were hundreds oi names on the
pay rolls as government employes
who were in reality acting as ser-
vants to public officials, the case of
Secretary Knox having his valet on
the federal pay roll being one in
point. These outlays reach into the
hundreds of thousands each quarter,
and when we add the useless expen-
ditures for streams which are not
and never were navigable, we begin
to appreciate the reason why our
government is expensive. With a
standing army of less than 80,000
men, we pay nut approximately as
much as some nations wi^h four
times that sized arntf, and our ap
propriations for th'<jr navy that has
its headquarters in Washington
drawing room circles is tremendous.
Our people must learn that when
we pay out a certain sum of money
for an official, that it is not proper
allow a contingent fund that
will keep five or six families, the du-
ty of said employes being largely to
maintain the official in dignity and
idleness.
Many people smile at attempts to
cut off these useless expenditures
still, they are ready to join low tax
leagues and shout their heads sore
trying to reduce the number of of-
ficers. The same is true in state
affairs. Salaries of a few thousands
are allowed a department, and then
a legislature comes along and ap-
propriates money so long as there is
left a man with sufficient nerve to
ask for an appropriation, the ever
useful contingent fund being named
as the hopper to pour the cash into
and contingent funds have a way of
becoming exhausted, no matter how
much is placed therein.
More attention given to the direc-
tion of our appropriations and less
to protesting after it is spent, will
bring about a lessening of the cost
of government. iyid will not take
from the power of those governing
the least efficiency. This applies to
tend whatever condolence is- needed
to either of the parties injured. The
right to get crippled In political con-
tests is guaranteed to all republicans
in the democratic constitution and
no one wishes to abridge those
rights. And to be still- more mind,
ful of good fellowship, the republi-
cans are warned that they will have
to keep a party of several thousand
voting strength in Oklahoma, or they
will be like the party Is now in Loui-
siana, without the right to go on the
ballot. A few republicans are also
necessary in every county as long as
the national administration is repub-
lican, in order to hold down the fed-
eral jobs. Aside from that,! there is
no excuse for a man being a republi-
can in Oklahoma.
THAT FAIR ELECTION MAFIA
nation and states alike.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
J. T. REED
For County Weigher
J. A. WILLIAMS
S. C. EARLY
For County Commissioner
Second District
W. J. OAKES
C. P. HENRY
Justice of the Peace, Hugo Tewnship
L. W. OAKES
J. T. DeWEESE
BILLY BOYETT
For Constable (Everidge Township)
HENRY MORRIS
J. H. McDANIELS
LON KEEL
BUSINESS IN POLITICS
That too many people undertake
to make politics something separate
from other affairs, is well known.
The fact that is that the student of
economics well understands that he
who studies how to apply business
sense to his politics, generally has a
message of importance to the people.
The greatest problem of our govern-
ment system, is taxation, and it is
the least understood of all of them.
When we pay indirect taxes, we al-
low enormous extravagances, and we
protest only at the high cost of liv-
ing, grumbling wonderfully at direct
taxes, no matter whether they be
small or large.
The United States government ex-
penditures at the present time have
reached a sum go large ag to be next
to incomprehensible. AVe pay tre-
mendous sums for things which are
worthless—our appropriations are
often for the things next to silly. Be-
cause we derive our governmental
revenues fay indirect taxation there
is not so much protest against our
national extravagance as is neces-
sary to holdsa balance wheel against
those who do the appropriating.
Recentiy there was a humorist and
iconoclast at Washington, and he
took up the trouble to ascertain
what it cost to maintain the bath
tubs for the senators, ascertaining
that each batb of a senator would to-
FLYNN STANDING PAT
Dennis Flynn, erstwhile represen-
tative of Oklahoma Territory in the
congress, and later owner of gas
companies and having a tail hold on
a lucrative law practise, has been
down to Chicago, where he stood pat
with standpatters of the nationaC re-
publican committee. It is said of
Mr. Flynn that he sort of threatened j
to draw one card, but that after his
old friend Frank Greer was promised
the United States marshalship to
succeed Grant Victor in the Eastern
Oklahoma district,' that Flynn stood
pat gracefully and stood so pat that
his standing brogans hurt the Roose
velt folks from this' state. Conse
quently, the Rooseveltian liowl. The
Husonian is at a loss to understand
the cause of so much Roosevelt pain
and expressed surprise. Mr- Roose-
velt manufactured sentiment for Mr.
Taft in 1908 and whoso was not for
Taft was kicked into tl^e middle of
week-after-next. Lately Mr. Taft has
had to manufacture his own senti
ment, and he was unable to do it in
the republican primaries. Naturally,
he went to the republican national
committee, composed of men who
believe in getting what you go after.
As Mr. Taft was unable to get votes
enough to nominate him at the pri-
maries, he naturally had to get them
in the national committee session
devoted to the elimination of Roose-
velt delegates. Mr. Flynn, proxy for
Brother Cassius Mephlstopheles Cade
the national committeeman from this
state, voted to aid Mr. Taft. As the
president needed the vote and the
delegates, it was only natural that
Mr. Flynn should be with the goods
present and willing to deliver.
In these piping times some folks
are never satisfied. They get some-
thing and straightway manage to
lose it. It was certainly work well
done when Mr. Roosevelt's friends
carried the primaries, and there
ought to be magnaminity enough to
allow Taft to now proceed with his
nomination by the national commit-
tee. But some of the Roosevelt re-
formers of this state are angry with
Mr. Flynn. They protest and threat-
en, they cry and lament most un-
seemly. Of course It is a shame for
political tricksters like Flynn to push
the spear through such reformers as
Disney, Bill Cochran, Ed Perry and
George Priestly, but not everyone
speared dies of his wounds, and let
us hope that none of those Roosevelt
reformers will be unable to get back
from Chicago.
Democrats in Oklahoma will ex-
Isn't this same State Chairman Jim
Harris and Joe McNeal and Cassius
Cade and Dennis Flynn, now down
at Chicago helping to steal a repub-
lican presidential nomination for
Taft, the same outfit that is trying
to initiate a fair election law in this
state?
Your questioner is not trying to be
unfair, just wants to keep the record
straight. If those same men who
are constrained to. think that the el-
ection laws of Oklahoma are unfair
and are so determined on a free bal-'
lot and a fair count, why their vote
to seat Taft delegates from Arizona
when the Roosevelt delegates had
been chosen in a primary by a ma-
jority of 23 to one?
You, Mr. Citizen, have a right to
demand an answer of the men who
are behind this so called fair election
law.
The Husonian believes in a fair
election and a fair count. It be-
lieves that the election law of this
state is on a parity with the laws
of any state. It would not oppose a
fairer law, were one proposed, but
it does look with suspicion on a set
of men who are always shouting for
fair elections at home, and parties in
crime to stealing states abroad! Is
there any reason why fair minded
men' should accept the republican
state committee as being more hon-
est at home than it has been away
from the state?
You, Mr. Voter, have a right to
know.
It is not the policy of this journal
to proclaim all that is proposed by
republicans as bad. Far from it. But
one who knows the men at the head
of the republican party in this state
and is conscious of their many vio-
lations from good purposes of state,
must be forgiven for being suspicious
of any "fair" laws that aggregation
stands sponsor for. Statehood is not
so old but many of us can remember
the dark'hour of departmental rule—
the times when we were citizens only
by the grace of the interior depart
ment. That same old outfit of re
publicans were masters over us
Their rule was one of ruin. Then w<
were assailed with evil and made ti
pay double and quadruple burden of
government and had no government
sa^e through the interior depart
ment. When those days were sent
to the^ast, the people of this state
decided that they had no further use
for the republican masters. That de
cision still stands. Many may have
been the errors of the Oklahoma
democrats—God knows that what
was done was with, the republican
wolves yelping at our heels and striv-
ing ever to hinder, hamper and dig
credit.
The people have those old veter-
ans of the federal pie counter mark-
ed and each of them who has put
his fingers on the fence to scale tlje
wall around officialdom has had his
fingers chopped off. That election
law may start somewhere, but the
people of this state will see that it
does not reaeh the place it was di-
rected for. Not yet, or later. Mr.
Harris et al will have to wait many
decades before their past deeds will
have been forgotten. Let us hope the
people will never forget that those
now yelping for fairness were, when
in power, never fair with any man,
not even to themselves.
o .
ATTACKS POPULAR GOVERN-
MENT
The Taft-Roosevelt controversy
hurts no one so lon^ as the back
yard tactics refer to each other, but
to override th6 will of tbei people in
any state, is a crime against govern-
ment, and the men who would stoop
to that tn'ime would destroy life for
power.
The tactics of the republican na-
tional committee were too radical
and too cruelly wrong to invite dis-
passionate criticism. The Ydtihger
and James brothers were not that
unfair.
Americans who are patriotic will
not endure the strong hand power
and there is a time to halt such pro-
ceedings. Whether the one man or
the other would be a weaker nomi-
nee for democracy, makes no differ-
ence to real democrats. The crime
of destroying the popular verdict is
a heinous one, and is one which but
hastens the day when man will se-
verely punish such wrongs.
The United States is secure only
when the people are given the right
to speak. The people are seldom
long in error. They are never in-
tentionally so. If the republican na-
tional committee believes that the
old regime can hold itself in power
by the tactics it has pursued at Chi-
cago, then that committee is more
foolish than it has been heretofore
given credit for.
The voice of the people is supreme
in any and all parties. That re-
publican national committee will
hear again from the people, and the
tones will be true and certain.
The republican national committee
at Chicago did more to invite revo-
lution in this country than anything
which has occurred in three decades.
The election of delegates to the na-
tional convention from California is
by a state law which provides that
delegates must be elected by the
state at large—that no district dele-
gates can be elected.
Under that law Roosevelt carried
the state by about three to one. Later
a San Francisco standpat convention
was held, and two delegates elected
to Chicago, pledged to Taft.
The Taft impostors were declared
elected and made a part of the con-
vention by the Taft machine
That is an invitation to ruin.
The will of the people is the law
of this country, and upon the popular
will is the hope of perpetuity.
CASSIUS DOTH PREVARICATE
Now comes Cassius Cade, of Shaw-
nee, republican national committee-
man, and deposes and says that he,
Mr. Cade, would have voted for the
seating of the Roosevelt delegates
from the Third Oklahoma district had
he been given a vote, but that there
was no use to call for same, as it
would not have been granted.
Cassius, £e it known, is not a wild
man nor a foolish person. He wants
the Roosevelt followers to think tha^
he means well, but he stands pat
with a vengeance, for in the early
days at Kingfisher, men had to
stand pat and stay pat, or go down,
and Cassius doth not downard go
when he can help it.
The Husonian fears that Cassius
has been too handy with his tongue
over that Third district contest. He
was handy staying with the Taftites
and handy telling how he would not
have done it.
But Mr. Cade need not be concern-
ed. The standpatters have done all
that they can do. The effort to wipe
out a vote of the people by a vote of
the committee was a strong-arm
movement, and those like Mr. Cade,
who was with the effort, will not long
remain in public place in either
party.
Mr. Cade should come nome and
be quiet. Rest and peace will bring
him better judgment and make him
push less conversation to the fort*.
ABOUT CROPS.
The Husonian is mindful of the
fact that a newspaper article giving
advice to farmers may appear hu-
morous. but the fact remains that
those on the outside can often give
valuable stjKice, and It is a fact that
the farmer of Eastern Oklahoma too
often depends upon the great cereal
crops, neglecting to plant those
which will insure food for live stock,
no matter what the season. The peo-
ple of this section know not the
meaning of a crop failure'with their
great money crops. Last year the
farmers of Choctaw and Bryan were
short on corn, and the rough food
crop was not planted, with the re-
sult that outside of McCurtain coun-
ty this section of Oklahoma was
short on food for live stock, much
suffering resulted, and a tremen-
deous sum has been expended this
spring for food for the live stock.
Present crop conditions indicate
that both corn and cotton will do
well this year—yet a shortage of Ju-
ly rain will do great harm to the
corn. Kafir corn planted within the
next twenty days is sure to yield a
big return, the uses to which it can
be put being innumerable. There is
much land not under plow. Put it
in Kafir corn. It will prove a dol-
lar maker and dollar saver at the
same time. Let us not forget the
lesson of the last season. Prevent
the great outlay for stock food, and
this section of the state will be most
abundantly rewarded for the fore-
sight.
great Bchool. Five of the first ten
graduates of 1912 are from the
South.
The rank taken in themmnixy
The rank taken by Southerners in
Annapolis caus'ed the New York
World to say this:
"Are Southern boys better stu-
dents or do they pursue their old-
fashioned Ideals? The theory that
in the North and West the best un-
dergraduate talent af the universi-
ties is destined for business or pro-
fessional careers does not hold In
the case of the Naval Academy,
where all students are fitting them-
selves for the same lifework. And
certainly the test of scholarship and
discipline is as severe there as in any
academic course. The fact that the
naval tradition has always been
strong at the South may have some-
thing to do with it, though that as-
sumption does not explain why Ala-
bama's relatively small contingent
should contribute two honor men
while many of the great states of
the North and" West have none.
"Whatever the cause, the South
has reason to plume itself on the
fine showing made by its young offi-
cers and gentlemen to be in the
first grade of naval service."
We believe there are schools in the
South where one can get better men-
tal training than in many places in
the North. The South still holds to
many old and useful things in educa-
tion. The North is quick in the seiz-
ing upon the new.
Teaching in the North has been
revolutionized within the last twenty
five years; it has been so thorough-
ly systemized that there is a com-,
mon measure for all minds. Educa-
tion in the North has become fad-
dish; and, while the Northern
schools may turn out a great num-
ber of young men of average attain-
ments, tljey do not train many of
them in the fundamentals that make
for solid reasoning and leadership.
In the North a young man is edir-
cated either for a business career,
shop work, a certain line of engin-
eering, chemistry, for the ministry,
or the law. He begins to specialize
as soon as he learns to read. There
is no period in the training of the
young men in the North where at-
tention is given to general culture,
to general mental development, and
to general mental training.
In the desire for uniformity and
in order to make teaching easy,
and in order to make studying easy,
the difficult things have been taken
out of the curriculum. The study
of Greek has been practically aban-
doned; Latin is purely elective. In
the teaching of mathematics there is
little theory. Everything is reduced
to numerals or dollars and cents.
The A B Cs of. geometry are quick-
ly discarded for numbers. In alge-
bra. fractions or favtoring of letters
and equations in which the values
of X Y and Z are fixed in A B C are
not given rtluch attention. What is
known as the graph system has been
worked into algebra. This is to al-
or the North, but the advantage Is
not In the education! but it) associa-
tion. It sometlanes sharpens the
minds of the youn£to pirc them in
contcat with strang people. But,
for education itself, there' Is no reas-
on why the young men today, des-
sirlng to study ^Tw, medicine, engin-
eering, agriculture, chemistry or
electricity should go north of the
Mason and Difton line.
This Is not'written In any boast-
ing spirt, but we hope that our South-
ern teachers and educators will stand
fast for the order of teaching thilt is
now in vogue and will never be
content to give up a system of train-
ing that has for its highest purpose
the training of the human mind into
a correct thinking force.
Nor do we mean to say that all
Northern institutions of learning
have gone into the business of mak-
ing education easy. Such schools as
Princeton and Dartmouth are types
of the best in solid teaching, just as
Johns Hopkins is the last word in
thorough work in the higher branch-
FRED BRANSON'S POSITION
Muskogee Man Has Views On
Questions Of State.
Fred P. Bronson, Of Muskogee,
Chairman of the State Democratic
Committee, 1910 to1912; ij-it'otor
of the Grandfather Clause; Candi-
date for Congress at Large.
To the Democrats of Oklahoma:
I served you as a member of your
First state legislature, from Mus-
kogee county, 1907 and 1908:
I served you as chairman of your
state democratic committee from
1910 to 1912. At the inception of
this last service I initiated and cam-
paigned to adoption the grandfather
clause, by working night and day,
within a time so limited for its ac-
complishment that many of the
deomcrats of the state despaired of
the success of the undertaking.
In both of these capacities my rec-
ord is a matter of public information
to the democracy of Oklahoma. My
services are entitled to your investi-
gation before casting your ballot,
and if I have made them true to
your interest and to the people of
the state, whioh I have tried to do,
I am entitled to your favorable con-
sideration. If the democrats of the
state want the same vigorous work
In effecting the demands of Oklaho-
ma before the national congress, I
pledge you, as a citizen of Oklaho-
ma, the same character of service
that I rendered you as a member of
your legislature and as chairman of
your state ylemocratic committee.
I shall demand at the hands of
congress concerted action for irri-
gation in Oklahoma, and a >10,000,-
000.00 appropriation for its accomp-
lishment;
I shall demand settlement of the
Indian estates and an immediate de-
„ . . . j Hvery of the money and property to
gebra about what an Interest book thP individual In,Jians (lf Oklallonjai
is to a bank clerk. In a word, those j which belong to them, that they may
ZZ Z u° * Wh'Ch lmHKtand «« same footing as anj
hard thinking upon the student, other persons in the state-
h£h !Slnhlm,'aH0r I'? mind ! ' FhaM tlcmiind that '«' " "an be
which stiffen and sharpen bis reas- „ald ft„. their lan(|!J a,lo,ed tQ ^
arp net favored. men, which I did by resolution In
being taught how to the First legislature-
think, the student's mind is filttHl
oning facultie
Instead of
AMONG EXCHANGES *
************
Education in the South and North.
'Memphis Commercial Appeal)
The Nnshville Democrat comment-
ing upon the Nfew York World story
of the fine showing made by the
Southern graduats at Annapolis,
says that the South has reason to
plume Itself because of the high
standing of Southerners at that
with an undigested lot of facts. The
graduate student of some of the Nor
thern institutions, have forgotten the
rule for solvipg a problem, cannot
go back to the fundamentals of the
science and evolve the rule. He is
taught to know a thing, but the
teaching stops before he learns the
reason of things. -
The modern system of education
turns loose upon the world every
year young men and young women
who can do only certain things. If
they do not find an opportunity for
the exercising of their special
knowledge they are helpless.
The older system of education
which has for its object the develop-
ment of the reasoning powers, the
the training of the mind so as to
make it able to get a correct sense
of proportions, is much in vogue yet
in the South. And that sysem has
given hostage to civilization as a
reason for its existence since Plato
began to influence the thought of
the world, and since Euclid began
to steady the brain with heavy math-
ematical ballast.
These were great men before Age-
raemnon, and there were great teach-
ers even before our modern short
cut advocates, who are content to
send a young man from college
quickly, though half baked.
In the South the student Is taught
the why and the wherefores of a
thing. In the North the student may
learn a factj but the law controlling
that fact, or the cause of that fact,
is of little consideration.
This brings us to a practical sug-
gestion. The young man, educated
in the South, stands up anywhere a
peer of his fellows.
There may be an advantage in
sending the young men to the East
I shall demand that there be no
intimidation of Section officers in
the strict enfor ment of all the
laws of- this st«.:and that the
grandfather claus" be enforced in
by aid of an
federal statute if
every communis
amendment to tli
necessary;
I shall demand an amendment to
the patent laws, to prevent their be-
ing used to foster trusts and monop-
olies, which they have done Tor
years;
I shall demand that the resources _ t
of this country be turned to intei*#<(
nal improvements, such as building
our highways, making navigable
streams, encouraging agriculture by
experimental farms and irrigation,
and conservlhg our natural resour-
ces; and that the democratic princi-
ples of economy be placed in actual
practice of all branches of the gov-
ernment.
These, with the support of the
prolonged efforts and policies of the
Democratic party for popular con-
trol of governmental powers, guard-
ed against abuse; recognition of la-
bor by fair and wholesome laws; the
destruction of the policy of imper-
ialism, shall be given my continued
attention, with the Hame energy that
I have tried heretofore to serve th<i
democracy of this state.
Do no vote by guesa or accident %
If you want men In congress whiv'
are able to "beat the Iron when hot"
to the Bervlce of Oklahoma select
your candidate.
Yours for service,
FRED P. BRANSON
The court bouse dome Is beyond
the danger of being destroyed i>y
stormB. much to the annoyance of
those who have seen the waste ban-
ket appearance of the affair.
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