El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898 Page: 4 of 8
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!A NEW DRY GOODS
G. I. HUIME
of Bowie, Texas, has opened out a NEW
ONE PRICE STORE in the Democrat blk.
: He has the largest and finest stock
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of Dry Goods ever brought to El Reno, and is selling at prices never
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before heard of. We've come to stay. Watch for prices next week. Democrat block.
EL RENO DEMOCRAT.
T. P. HENSLEY, Editor.
MASS CONVENTION.
THE CURRENCY REFORM.
A mass meeting is horeby called to
meet at the probate court room in El
Reno, at threo o'clock, p. m., Saturday,
January 8th. 1898. for the purpose of
selecting delegates to the statehood
convention to be held at Kingfisher, on
Tnursday, Jauuary 13th, 1898. All
democrats, populists aud free silver
voters are earnestly requested to be
present and participate in the selection
of delegates. Wm. H. RlLEY,
Ch'm Dem. Cen. Com.
\V. J. MONTJUEF,
Ch'm Pop. Cen. Com.
Vote right and it will reduce taxes.
dupe who voted with them because he
thought they were thn true friends of
silver and the poor man's cause, has
but to look to the above declarations on
the currency question and to the legis-
lation in favor of trusts and monopolies
during the special session of congress,
to see his hopes shattered and we might
add the shackles of industrial slavery
more securely riveted upon himself and
children.
The people won't do a thing to the
republican party next fall on account
of the high taxes.
It is autboritively stated that Com-
missioner Wilson will not be a candi-
date for re-election.
We have heard more men kicking on
the high taxes than we ever did before,
at any time or in any country.
If Henry Vasey wants to be sheriff of
this county, he had better get in line
with his party, or join the pops.
Will the taxpayers forget all about
their high taxes by voting time next
fall? The republican politicians of El
Reno say they will; but we do not be-
lieve it.
Taxpayers, you htve no one to blame
for high taxes but yourselves. If you
had done your duty at the poles at every
election since you came to Oklahoma,
it would be different.
The currency reform promised by the
republican party at the last election
has at last been announced. Its pre-
tended friendship for silver and our pa-
per currency is now known to be a false
pretense and a sham. The party now
lays off its sheep's clothing in which it
has been masquerading, and stalks
forth in all its wolfish greed. The plan
formnlated by the Monetary commis-
sion and Secretary Gage for reforming
the currency, is enough to convince the
most stupid member of the republican
party that the organization and its
leaders, are not only owned and con-
troled by the syndicates and trusts of
the country, but are in league with the
gold barrons of Europe, to strike down
the money of the people.
The republican party instead of at-
tempting to carry out their pledges to
the people, and restore silver to the
place that it occupied for the first one
hundred years of our government's ex-
istence: now say that "gold is the pres-
ent standard and to change would cause
mischief to all vestid interests. That
a paper currency issued by the govern-
ment is no longer suited to the business
needs of the country, and that the bur- Pat Cassidy's roast of the banquet
den of maintaining the parity of silver committee of the Bar Association, anent
is too great, and that hereafter silver \ their invitation to respond to the toast
should not be coined." ("Brian Boru" at the banquet given
These three propositions embrace the 1 on January the ."> th, was as neat as it
attitude of the republican party today J was complete. Old Pat Cassidy is a
on the currency question. If they had j singe cat when you stir him up.
stoo'l on such a platform at the last j
election, Bryan would have been elect- j
ed by the biggest majority of any man j
that ever stood for the presidency.
Gus Thelan, president of the Stock
Exchange bank, has at last devised a
plan of relief for the depositors of that
concern. Out of the greatness ? and
goodness ? of his heart he offers to give
a second mortgage on the forty acres of
growing wheat, which now stands as
security for $7,000 of the bank's funds,
and prorate the proceeds among them.
Gus is a Napoleon of finance, as every
taxpayer in Canadian county will cheer-
fully uttest.
The taxpayers of this county are in-
vited to call at the treasurer's office
and surrender about one-third of all
they have, in the way of taxes, for the
support of public officers, two worthless
but heavily mortgaged newspapers, a
district court and a few busted banks.
ANOTHER DEADLY PARALEL.
A farmer living south of town offered
to bet us $50 that all our county officers
from the highest to the lowest did not
They made a campaign, by claiming to J P*-v an average tax of ten dollars a
be the friend of the working man and
the poor; by promising to protect the J
! head. We did not call him.
The Globe and the Republican will
starve to death in thirty days after
they loose the county printing. The
editors of these two papers are like dog
ticks, scrape them loose from the body
of the dog, and they die.
If the chairman of a statehood con-
greenback dollar, and to give the peo- j veDjjon desires to die a natural death
pie bimet&lism, by inter-national agree-1 he should exercise his duties from an
ment if possible; but if impossible, then ' unknown room, on an unnumbered tele-
by direct governmental action. Now 1 phone. MeMaster s Globe.
feeling safely intrenched in power and
office the c.oven foot of fraud and de-
j The politicians are pretty well satis-
,
Fhe Oklahoman accuses Governor
Barnes with borrowing the major por-
tion of his speech delivered before the
Teachers' Association here last week,
from Chancey Depew. The Oklahoman
publishes the following special, pur-
porting to come from an interviewer of
Depew last Saturday upon ithe subject:
"When Chancey M. Depew was in-
formed Saturday that the governor
of Oklahoma had used part of his De-
cember 22 speech before an assemblage
of teachers, he showed no little inter-
est and in the course of his observations
remarked: 'Why, 1 didn't put much
time on that speech. Had I known it
was going to be used before teachers I
would have made a better speech. If
the governor can stand it I can, but
how about the teachers?'"
Governor Barnes should not let a lit-
tle thing like this disturb his equanim-
ity. Great men in every age have been
confronted with charges of this kind.
Shakespear plagerized Lord Bacon ac-
cording to Ignatius Donnelly, Jefferson
stole the Declaration of Independence
says an able critic, Bob Ingersoll pil-
fered from Dr. Gunn, John J. Ingalls
copied from the dead priest, Massillon,
the governor of Missouri, and the gover-
nor of Michigan both stole their last
Thanksgivsng proclamations from the
same Knickenbocker governo>, aud the
editor of the El Reno Democrat was
accused of stealing the most felicitous
effort of his life from a South Sea Is-
lander, by Dan Peery of the Globe, a
man who stole the capitol bill from the
first legislature and would have stolen
the Guthrie townsite and all that was
in it, if congress in its wisdom had not
limited the days of the session.
Gov. Barnes has committed worse
mistakes, than the borrowing of wind
from Chancey Depew, His appoint-
ment of Pugh and Rosenbaum were al-
most as bad: and his attack on Frame
MeMaster was a thousand times more
hazardous.
ceit is exhibited and the cause of the ! lhat the Democrat wil 1 have some-
common people is defied. The poor j thing to say in local politics next fall.
Will Write in French.
It is bad to want, but oh, how bitter,
to want an office and fail to ,get'er.
Says Scott to Don, and Murphy too,
"the clouds are dark and the sky is
blue; I'll write a letter," says Scott to
Don, "to your Uncle Sam, in Washing-
ton, and let him know the fight i^ on."
With pen in hand and one fell stroke,
he wrote the message and his back it
broke. Like the Siamese twins, he
wrote for two, and the letter miscarried,
and broke Don's too. Now Sam, he at-
tempts his skirts to clear, by saying he
never received it, and has nothing now
to fear. He swears he'll get it—the
letter he never knew—that pretty little
missive, which broke the backs of two.
So Scott is off the roster, he'll never
reach the bench; he'll never write an-
other letter, unless he writes in French.
—Perry Sentinel.
The Democrat returns thanks to
Governor Barnes for a printed and
bound copy of his late report to the
Secretary of the Interior. It is a com-
prehensive an valuable documont.
News comes from Washington that
Beidler, of Oklahoma City, will not be
confirmed by the senate as postmaster,
and that J. H. Miller will likely be ap-
pointed in his stead.
Good bye Hanna!
The anti-Hanna forces in the Ohio
legislature are in full control of the
house and senate. This defeats Mark.
Chairman Riley and Montrief have
fused on a call for a mass meeting to
meet in El Reno to select delegates to
the statehood convention.
Pops, demo's, and sixteen to • "oners"
are invited to meet at El Reno next
Saturday and help elect delegates to
the statehood convention.
Representative Lacy says the free
home bill will not pass the senate.
Editors should be on their guard,
$100counterfeit bills are in circulation.
About all the Oklahoma militia is lit
for is to rotten egg each other.
Come to El Reno next Saturday and
help elect statehood delegates.
1898
JANUARY SALE
GEO. M. CROWE.
1898
Will during the month of
January give SPECIAL in
inducements to all who are desir-
ous of purchasing anything in
Heavy, Strictly Winter Goods.
These will consist of:—
OVERCOATS.
BLANKETS.
CLOTHING.
HEAVY DRESS GOODS
If you are in need of any-
thing in these lines it will pay
you to come in and see what we
can do for you. Remember we
carry Strictly First-class Goods.
bj^-no
OLD STUFF
IN OUR
ESTABLISHMENT.
We sell Groceries <fc Queens-
ware cheaper than any house in
the west, and handle only the
well known standard brands. The
people know they can get
Bj^-GOOD
ARTICLES
BY COMING
TO G. M. CROWE S.
Come in and see us, and we
want you to feel perfectly at
home, for we are your friends,
and we are anxious to please
one and all.
BUTRICKS
PATTERNS and
PERFUME
SACHETS FREE.
BICKFORD AVE.
GEO. M. CROWE.
EL RENO. OKLA.
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Hensley, T. F. El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 8, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1898, newspaper, January 6, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139910/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.