El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1898 Page: 4 of 8
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FORREST ON FUSION.
EL RENO DEMOCRAT.
T. F. HENSLKY, EDITOR
Col. H. B. Forrest just before stait-
out west to try'a murder case,
ing
Fusion meanB political bankruptcy.
John G. Boles hits been appointed re-
ceiver of the land office at Guthrie.
Blaine ooanty will bond hor outstand-
ing indebtedness, amounting to$22,000.
No man wan ever elected president of
the United Slates on a mongrel ticket.
The democratic and populist leaders
favor fusion. They are also in favor of
pie.
Scratch a fusionist. with a pin and a
case of official itch will develop before
nightfall.
Logan county claim.*0 have OD* hun-
dred and thirteen school teachers em-
ployed at this time.
Put the pie-counter out of sight,, and
how many pops and democrats do you
suppose would favor fusion?
There will bo two democratic candi-
dates for president in the Held in liKX),
if you call Bryan a democratic candi-
date. —
It is claimed that congress will bo
ready to adjourn in four weeks unless
the Spanish war scare makes it neces-
sary for a longer term-
Will some one please point out to tho
democracy of this territory a single
bonelit to them as an organization that
has resulted from fusion last year.-'
The house of representatives elimi-
nated from tho civil appropriation bill
tho Hem appropriating money for rep-
resentation at tho Paris exposition in
1!K)0.
Chairman O'Kourk cannot raise above
the fact that J. Y. Callahan appointed
his son to the Naval Academy at Ad-
apolis. And it is also true of a member
of populists throughout the territory
Willing Willie Bush, after beating
us out of the DEMOCRAT from Nov. 1st,
1893, to the present, refuses to take the
paper out of the office and neglects to
pay for it also. Willing Willie is from
Kentucky, sah! and has a chronic appt-
tit 3 for office. •
dropped in to see u on business and
we embraced the opportunity to ^cer-
tain what he thought of fusion, as pro-
posed by the populist central commit-
tee of Canadian county. Mr. Fori est
in substance, said:
"While there are many democrats
who approve fusion in the territory,
particularly the Texas democrats, it
now appears that fusion is inevitable
in the coming election. The loyio of
tho situation points directly to that
end. It was a success in the lust elec-
tion, and why should it be abandoned?
This is the question which is presented
concede it. They could do nothing
without our help, nor we nolhiug with-
out theirs. We have shown our faith
in tho utility of fusion by helping them.
'1 hey should be as patriotic and cheer-
ful! \ respond. Aud this is the feeling
of the democrats in the territory.
No. 1 am not a candidate for cougi ess,
nor for any official po -ition, but no one
is more anxious for democratic victory
than myself.
COMMITTEES CALLED
A LITTLE FLY SPECK.
There is no doubt but that the pops
of this territory have in hand a scheme
to call an early congressional conven-
tion and nominate a candidate and
then attempt to force him on the do-
mociacy, pretty much in the same
fashion they did Callahan a year ana a
to every practical democrat aud popu- half ago. And it is just as certain that
L is it not better, being in accord j a fow self-constltutcd, pie-huntlog lea -
upon the great nationul issues of finance on. of t he democrat u |u> J , >■> 1
and revenue, that, we should stand I only given their consent
The Cuban insurgents havejbeen win-
ning a series of victories over the Span-
ish in tho past few week of which they
may justly feel proud. If thfs thing
continues, Cuba will have Spain whip-
ped aud run out of the country before
Uncle Sam gets his coat off.
The DEMOCRAT wants an expression
on fusion from every democrat in Cana
clian county. Write out your views and
sign it and send it in. If you can't write
a communication or do not desire to do
so, send us a postal card stat'ng wheth-
er you are in favor of or opposed to
fusion.
united against a common, as well as a
dangerous opposition upon both of these
momentuous questions? Necessarily,
those who agree upon great national
issues, naturally stand upon parallel
lines in their views of local government.
This condition gave fusion the undis-
puted control of the last general assem-
bly of the territory.
A muc'u graver matter than the adop-
tion of local statutes to meet existing
conditions confronts the people of Ok-
lahoma. At most, it will be but a short
time until they will bo called upon to
formulate a constitutiou upon which a
state government shall be required to
rest.
It is most important of all else that
in the performance of that greatest re-
sponsibility resting upon the present
generation of Oklahoma, that those
united in opposition to government
for trusts and corporate greed should
stand as or.o man until that great task
is ended. The matters of individual
preferences, personal ambitions, local
pride, weigh but slightly in the bal-
ance when poised with the questions
connected with the formation of a state
constitution.
The trend of republican power in na-
tional government has constantly been
to build and uphold a few institutions
at the expense of the people, and to the
restriction of individual opportunity.
That party has always aligned itself as
the particular friend of the manufac-
turing class, and has finally saerified
its patriotic pretentions in favor of bi-
metalism to {the Ijaugenaut of gold.
Those interested in manufacturing and
in financial institutions may easily com-
bine for personal interest, because of
limited numbers, while the masses can
combine only on their principles. Man-
ufacturers have combined; the rich
bankers have combined, and those of
the two classes have combined. 1 he
republican party is the medium of
power through which these combines
obtain their aim.
While people who live in the repub-
lican house will not permit tliemse
but are
i conniving with tho pops, undei
Clark Celluloid Hudson who is per-
mitted to edit the Guthrie Representa-
tive through the grace of a receiver,
owing to his failure in attempting to
rattle around in tho chair of a manlike
Leo. Vincent, seems to have accumu-
lated a very bud sort of a sour mash
taste in his mouth which developes in-
to claptraptrophobiaof the brain when
he pushes his bruising (?) pen on the
Wave man. Just after the Kingfisher
statehood convention this piece of cel-
luloid, Hudson, accused Victor Mur-
dock, of the Wichita Eagle, of being
beastly drunk at said convention. The
Wave, knowing the accusation to be
positively untrue, said so in these col-
umns. Now, theonly evidence Hudson
presented to prove his bitter accusation
was a reference to tho write-up which
appeared in tho Eagle the next morn
lng. The write-up was horribly "mo
. thn fiWa ' if the mieked" for some reason or other, but
promise of a share o the g I ^ hol wa8 the facl
n|..i< works out. If tho plfto was mic i
oessful, and Mr. Bryan or some other that Victor or the machine placed a
t ,l m-p-ident then hyphen where Hudson s name should
democrat ..... .Itdrf p. .*.«.. ,he lecrM„,.le ,
what? The oops and a little nngoi "■ if
dickering leaders of the democracy, hence, the trouble, hence all this rage
would be in the saddle and a reign of A write-up of the Kingfisher convert-
•it.ie wild-cat of- tion without Hudson s name in Has sec-
irn'omnetont, irresponsible, WUQ tai 01
Incompetent!, , tarv, was as fatal as a map of New
tieialism would be established in thiE * ... i „n,winn
\ ♦ m nut tn blush Ren- York without sho wing tho river Hudson
torritorv that would put to Diusn ivcu
trowtam in it. - "*>■ W>
two years ago along these lines cost the on this young man some
democratic party in this territory its night time withou knowing U^ as he
organization. It cost it what little self- has written several im.g nary sketches
respect that was left, which was preci- on his life and its adventures. He re-
ous little, after it had passed through minds us of a well-dressed fly speck in
the hands of a receiver, appointed from fine collar and cuffs, and during the
\ l ft cost it one-fourth of its season of the year his race flourishes
Arkansas. It cost . We have probably siton him somewhere.
nominal voting strength oy Ul1 " Howe
ver, let the young man's mind ex
them into the republican party, and a pftn(j. harmless.—Enid Wave
repitition of it will seal the doom of de-
moeracy in this territory for the next The El Ueno Star seems solely to exist
If the rink and fileof theparty for the purpose of making statements
Territorial Central and Executive Commit-
tees to Meet at Kingfisher.
To the Peoples Party Central Commit-
tee of Oklahoma territory:
The time is now at hand for the
closer organization of the peoples party
in Oklahoma for an aggressive cam-
paign. More than a year of political
dormacy has succeeded the memorabla
canvass of 1S90, during which time the
party machinery lias been permitted to
lie idle and subject to the corroding in-
fluences that are the usual corollaries
of inactivity. The dawn of another
ampaign, scarcely second in import-
ance to the conflict of '96, is now rising
upon our political horizon; and to the
end that effective work may be done it
is important that the wheels of organi-
zation be sot in motion at once.
With the view to considering this
and other matters of vital interest to
the party, I hereby call a meeting of
the territorial and executive commit-
tees of the peoples party to assemble at
the city of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, on
Friday, the 4th day of March, 1898, at
10 o'clock a. m. The attendance of
every member is especially urged.
rL. F. Laverty, Chairman.
John J. Boles, the man just appointed
register of the land office at Guthrie, is (t0 se0 this glaring truth; both demo
from Arkansas. His brother was ap- ; c,-ats and populists alike, know it
pointed in the Perry land office a short
time ago. It is very evident that the
Arkansas contingent, headed by Powell
Clayton, dictates the major portion of
the Oklahoma appointments.
Kepresentative Brownwell, of Ohio,
introduced a resolution in the house
last Tuesday, authorizing the secretary
of the navy to secure options upon and
consummate the purchase of such battle
ships, cruisers and torpedo boats as may
be necessary for the best interests of
the country. The resolution asks for an
appropriation of $20,000.0(H) to be made
available at once.
years.
ver hope for a reorgani
party and the rehabilament of the prin-
ciples of Jefferson and the fathers,
they must look well to their leadership.
For they are political huxters ready to
sell out for a mess of pottage. If not,
why is every step.they take in the di-
rection of the populist camp?
Mr. Commissioner Vasey's attempt
to rob judgment creditors, who live
his own county and pay taxes, to ac
commodate transient, non-taxpaying
bond-holders, was the meanest and least
excusable act yet attempted by any
board of commissioners in the territory
Not a cent would have been saved by it
Not a single benefit could possibly ac
crue to the county. The judgments
were drawing six per cent and were
due. The bonds were drawing six per
cent and were not due for eighteen
months. Tho tax was le\ied to pay the
judgments, and not the bonds, because
the bonds were not c ue. But Vasey
had a brilliant idea, and he wanted to
be seen. He' thought he could take
j this money and pay off a few bonds, and
I the fact would be heralded all over the
j country, and this fact would take the
wind out of the tax-leaguers' sails.
When they howled about high taxes he
could point to the fact that we were
paying off our bonded indebtedness be-
fore it was due. When, in fact, he was
simply taking money out of one fund
; where it was needed and paying it out
i to another before it was due. He did
j not think anyone would catch onto the
j-trick: but in this he was mistaken.
The best laid plans o'men and mice
Arapahoe Bee.
This is the first time we ever heard
it accused of saying anything.
Dickson to the Front
A few months ago, tho* Reverend
Dickson wrote Adjutant General Los-
enbaum, while the latter was trying to
induce him to play tin soldier, that in
case the country was invaded by grass,
hoppers or some other foreign enemj,
that a draft on his time, properly coun-
tersigned, would be promptly honored"
Otherwise he had no time to waste.
The grasshoppers threaten us, gen-
eral! Make out your sight draft, and
let us see if the reverend gentleman
will stand pat!
Isenberg, of the Enid Wave, says
Hhdson, of the Guthrie Representative,
reminds him of a fly speck on a cellu-
loid collar. Ob, —!
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Nothing but unanimity of action
among those who do see and realize
these conditions can break the power
that has upheld them, and upholds
them now. Nothing but such unanimity
of action can secure a constitution for
Oklahoma which will be free from the
pestilential germs of corporate greed.
If the territory was eutitled to two aft gaD& aglee."
representatives in congress. I would I - ~■ ^ I
favor one populist and one democrat, ( i his papei u
la\oi ,,„l.nv lines It believes that one good
for these reasons: I would much prefer an) line.. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ j
We have just opened our new store and will aim to carry the largest and
most complete line of Farm Machinery, Wagons, Carriages and Harness eve.
brought to El Reno. Come and examine stock, we will gladly welcome you.
nvuocr.vr nlock. q. KIMMELL. Mgr.
w. E. HUMPHREY, Pres. E. D. HUMPHREY, Sec'y and Treas.
fnr thP«*A reasons. I Wuuiu uuuii
some good than all evil. I would rather' turn deserves another, but in t e c pp
prevent much harm than to fail to do site direction. Let the populisU now
great good. I would rather see one turn in and help elect a democrat, then
democrat in office than two republi- honors wUl be about even. oweN
cans. Between populists and democrats if Mr. Callahan should^
there are but slight differences. The ting the free home bill through, we
principal difference is in the name, would not object to a joint congressional
The national platform of the par ties j convention with
differ more in phraseology than in prin- according to the vo in s ^ ^ ^
ciples. Both should be working as one two parties an am •
party and I think in a short time they ail who may desire to enter. Then
P „ the longest pole knock the persimmon.
* Hut as the territory has but one dele-1 but when it come, to
death some other free silver democrat gate to congress, I favor a democrat | trying U> eorre t e
will be elected. ! "ink - ^
If the United States declares war
with Spain, there is no power in this
country that can prevent MeKinley's
re-election, if he lives, and in case of
his death some other republican will
succeed hiin. In case the difficulties
between the two countries is settled
without war, Bryan will be the next
president if he lives, and in case of his
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Hensley, T. F. El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 3, 1898, newspaper, March 3, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139917/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.