El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1898 Page: 4 of 8
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EL RENO DEMOCRAT.
T. P. HENSLEY. EDITOR.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
\
I'OH SHKIUPF.
I hereby announce myself us a candi-
date f< r sheriff of Canadian county, rtib-
jiM-t to the action of a democratic nom-
inating convention or primary election.
John Fox.
Hobson in Cuba lias laid Dewey in
the -hade at Manila.
The United States navy still con-
tinues to turn out heroes.
Virgil llobbs liiih lot t hecatout of the
wallet at last, lie wants to run for con-
gress himself.
Hi Reno lias never hud a delegate to
congress. Oklahoma City, < iulhrie and
Kingfisher have each hud their inning.
The News squeezed six hundred dol-
lars out of tin? Republican last week:
but then since we come to think about
it, that is what Lemons are made for.
The delegate's seat in the house of
representatives for Okluhomu is empty,
ami lias been for several weeks Its
occupant, by the grace of fusion, is at
home looking after his craps.
The local leaders of democracy are
willing to give up the honor and integ-
rity of the party: but tlicy tire unwilling
to give up fusion, although sat down on
by a majority of the committee.
We understand that the tint lias gone
forth; "fusion or no fusion," "no Cath-
olic need apply." Here is additional
proof that the world still moves; but
that the damphools on it are not ull
dead.
We told Lemon, of the Republican,
two months ago that he had better
stop monkeying with the News. That
the editor was loaded. For giving this
advice, he called us names, by not tak-
ing it, he is not near so juicy as he was.
There would be ,less objection to fu-
s.on in this county, if it wus not for tlie
would-be leaders of the pop and demo-
cratic party, if the rank and Hie of the
two parties would come together with
elm clubs and resolve, tirst to kill their
leaders and then fuse afterwards, the
thing could be accomplished with very
little friction.
The fusionists of the democratic party
are not satisfied with the action of the
central committee at its last meeting,
and have called them from their har-
vest fields to meet again in El Ueno
next Saturday. It is believed that fu-
sion will go this time. If it fails the El
Reno crowd will hang their harps on a
willow tree and all get drunk in the
morning.
The El Heno contingent of the demo-
cratic party, served notice on us imme-
diately on our return that they in-
tended to force fusion on the party,
notwithstanding the action of the cen-
tral committee and the position of the
F.t. Reno Democrat. So far as this
paper is concerned it would rather fuse
with the fiops. than the El Heno con-
tingent of the democratic party. We
believe them to be less dangerous to
the best interests of the county.
Since our return from Washington
we have listened to several days of
straignt talk on fusion. We have been
told that all of the people, regardless
of age, sex or previous condition of ser-
vitude. want it. That it is the only
way to down the republicans, and that
unless the republicans are downed the
country is gone to the devil and Cuba
will not be free. That Dan Feery will
not get an office. That Jerry O'Rourk
will die of a broken heart. That Bill
Riley will loose his mental eqnalibrium
and resign. That C. W. Gould will
eschew politics and go to writing po-
etry, and that Pat Duffy will resign his
commission as correspondent of the
Wichita F.agle. Rather than have all
of these afflictions come upon the coun-
try at once, perhaps it would be better
to yield.
WOODSON TO THE FRONT.
Major Woodson, our warlike (?) In-
dian agent through the misguided
grace of a republican administration,
pulled off his war dance, us advertised,
on schedule time. It was a regular
Urudley-Martin ulTalr. A Seely supper
in miniature, in which the Major, like
little Egypt In her "altogether" was the
cyiiosiro of every eye. The ladies
viewed him with an admiration born of
vanity and the men with a look akin to
I
pity. It was a glorious turnout, da/.zling-
ly spectacular. The Major was rigged
out from stem to stern in full regalia,
with cavalry boots and spurs and bis pic
lure hung painfully low over the en-
trance, draped and festooned with llags
land parti-colored bunting. Across bis
brave and manly breast, (in the picture)
luyian unsheathed sword and hanging
pendant was the sacred legend, "Re.
member the Maine," while the off eye
of the picture seemed to wink, "Hut
think of me,"
Tis a pity, but it is true, that all
these trappings and tinsel of grim vis-
age war, never was and never will be
seen by a Spanish Don. They were
made for the sensuous eyes of Oklahoma
senoretas, Indian reeoncentrados and
harmless pacificos, Not but that the
Major is panting, snorting, and champ-
ing the bits in his anxiety to break in-
to the tiiiekest of the tight: but that the
civil arm of the government will not
allow him to leave for a single moment
its half-eivili/.ed wards at Darlington,
for fear they might get up a Ward-Mc-
Alister dance of their own which would
lay the Major's in the shnfle.
It is "stoobad" that a hero of a thous-
and bloody battles, yet to be fought,
who is longing with a ten-horse might
to rush into the very jaws of death and
gouge out the rod eye of battle and
lling it to the winds, should be anchor-
ed to a little country Indian agency and
compelled to nurse sore-eyed pappooses,
feed blanketed squaws and fellowship
gut-eating bucks. But such seems to
be the unhappy fate of the hero of our
story.
The editor of the El Reno Republican
has our deepest sympathy for the sad
and irreparable loss he sustained last
week. We know that words of conso-
lation can no more assuage the tortures
of a sad and stricken heart, than can
"llattery sooth the dull, cold ear of
death." Brother Lemons' grief is be-
yond the power of words to heal. It
is a sadDess deeper than lead or plum-
met ever fell. Time and 'boodle alone
an sooth a sorrow such as his. God
alone can give him the necessary time.
The boodle is beyond the power of
earth, and heaven or hell to give.
His name is Iehabod. As for the News
we embrace this opportunity to con-
gratulate it. Not that we are in the
habit of congratulating a newspaper
for successfully robbing the taxpayers
of six hundred dollars. But we con-
gratulate the News for taking the re-
publican party into the courts, while
fighting for the plunder, where their
dirty linen received a much needed air-
ing. It will do the taxpayers good. It
will not only endear the republican
party to the honest voter: but it will
enhance Commissioner Vasey and
Hutchision's chances for re-election.
They will doubtless insist on reforming
the county printing which has cost the
people from twelve to fifteen hundred
dollars a year more than when Os-
born was chairman of the board of
commissioners.
THE BUTCHERING OF BRANN
An exchange took us to task for say-
ing that Dan Peery. of the Globe,
rarely ever pointed with pride to his
legislative record. It says that Dan
was above the approach of a bribe.
Certainly, who ever thought of buying
a good simple-hearted soul like Dan?
he is one of those fellows that can al-
ways be settled with by the promise of
an office. It requires no cash in hand
in dealing with Dan He is not only
dead easy: but dirt cheap.
This paper does not feed upon the
misfortunes, nor the weaknesses of oth-
ers. For all such its charity if un-
bounded.
J wltlt'ttcn kok THK liatmn liUN-l
Now let there be rejoicing in the realm
of the sluts and slaves.
And let there bo hozannahs from the
nabobs and the knaves,
And let the bowling hypocrites of every
creed und elan
Exalt their Ebenezers for the butcher-
ing of Brann!
This is the hour when every dog and
dastard in the world
Should hoist his hullejahs and should
have his tlag unfurled;
For, <•' the brave Iconoclast—Apostle
of the Truth—
Lies slain within the splendor of his
strong and stormful youth;
And they can lie and cheat and do
damned deeds without a name,
And never fear that he will tear the
mask from off their shame.
"We'll mob him, und we'll rob him of
his life!" these cur-rlstians cried—
These ruffians posing in the robes of
Christ the Crucified
These holy hoodlums of the church who
snort "Good will to man"—
These sweet, religious rake-hells all
who hissed und hounded Brann!
So, scores and scores surrounded him,
with rope, und ready made
To swing him high 'twixt sod and sky
—then slunk away, afraid!
They did not dare to touch a hair of
this one Man of Men,
But sneaked back to their Baylor lair
with threats to call tigain.
Then one, a little bolder than the
balance of the crowd—
A coward of the saintly stripe of whom
they are all pround—
Swore that he would himself indict the
last, infandous blow;
And he it was, without a cause, who
laid our Hero low.
He did not meet his Victim valiantly
and face to face,
He did not give his Victim e'en a vital
moment's grace:
But stealing up behind him like a Gui-
teau long ago
Stole up behind a Garfield—ah, |ye all
that story know!— x
With a brutal Baptist bullet, boys, lie
laid our Chieftain low!
Hut thank the God in Israel!—if such a
God there be—
Just as the Baptist butcher thence for
safety sought to llee,
The dying Man returned the shot: his
slayer reeled and fell—
Fell from his carrion carcass to the
deepest depths of Hell!
* * *
Brann!
Brann!
O, most magnetic Teacher of the Truth
since Time began!
O, fearless one!
O, fearless one!
Humanity hath known
No spirit of chivalric mold as matchless
as thine own!
O. great heart! Oh, gentle heart! Thy
influence will hold
Immortal power from hour to hour
through centuries untold:
And though the Texas roses blossom
o'er thy dust today,
Thy works and words will live, and
light our race upon its way—
Our race upon its way, until it stands
redeemed at last
From the swords and superstitions
that oppressed it in its past:
From the shoddyites and the snob-
blihgs: from the patriots for pay:
From the money-bugs and monarchs
who upon the people prey:
From the Prohibition Pecksniffs: from
the Praise-God-Barebones breed:
From all despotic isms springing from
the Devil s seed:
From all the wrongs and wretched-
ness Humanity may know;
From all thy pen contended in thy
knighthood to o'erthrow!
Brann!
Brann!
On the shrines of Ispahan
There burneth lamps that never have
been quench through countless yrs,
But steadily have shown through all
the tumults and the tears
Of the passing generations, with a pure
and perfect glow:
And they will shine through cycles still,
for it is ordered so.
And tfius thy name illumining the ages
♦et to be
Will bring full many a pilgrim yet un-
born to honor thee,
Jutt as 1 honor thee today, while laying
on thy shrine
This laurel of undying love, O, dear,
dear friend of mine!
Will H. Keanan.
Hammond. La.
In the last issue of the Guthrie Reg- j
ister we notice that C. C. Hudson steps .
down and out and that L. F. Laverty i
has taken charge of the paper. Hudson j
is a good, strong writer, but has met j
the usual fate of populists who monkey !
with the fusion buzz-saw. The new edi-,
tor of the Register starts out by deliv- j
ering a curtain lecture to democrats
who are disposed to run a democratic
candidate for congress this fall. Of j
course we arc aware that the lecture
will have about as much effect en the
democrats us a lecture on sociology
would have on a mule. In the editorial
he also reaches out to rap a very few
pops whom he terms bot-heuds, who
have had the hardihood to censure the
territorial chairman for his inactivity
in behalf of the pop party, the party he
wus supposed to serve, and his inde-
fatigable work in the interest of the
democratic party, one of the old parties
the pop party was organized to destroy.
In the same article he seems to be won-
derfully afraid that the democrats will
nominate a man for congress this fall,
but warns them to remember that lie
has information in his possession show-
ing that a number of democratic politi-
cians in the territory had written let-
ters to congressmen and worked in op-
position to the free homes bills, and
will also show up certain democrats
who voted against that bill and why
they did it. Why he holds such infor-
mation as a threat we can't quite un-
derstand. Give us the information,
and we'll use it as a gatlin gun, just as
the democratic and1 republican' papers
are using the Dyeus and Pe-ru-na mat-
ters.in the interest of their political or-
ganizations. We may be a "hot-head,"
but we never miss an opportunity to
hurl javelins into the old organizations
and we find they do the same thing and
have steadily adhered to this practice
since the organization of the populist
party. It may not be diplomacy—but
we don't pretend to be a diplomat, any-
how, we are just a common gunner, us-
ing all the ammunition we can rake and
scrape together to drive both of the old
parties out of power in this country.—
Norman Voice.
It pains us to announce that the Hon.
| A. J. Jennings, the erstwhile leader of
' the local democracy of this.county, was
j convicted last week at Muskogee of a
i felony, of attempting to kill a public
j officer, and that he is being tried this
j week for robbing a postoffice and will
again shortly be tried for train robbery.
A ti ipple calamity of this kind is not
only hard on Al: but is having a telling
effect on the El Reno branch of the lo-
cal democracy. Many of them are in
the saddle again for office. A nominat-
ing convention is in sight. An election
approaches and this little incident at
Muskogee brings up unpleasant remi-
niscences. Oh! memory, thou accursed
receptacle of the .evil acts of men as
well as the good, why dost thou intrude
upon us at this unseemly hour? If you
were not dead to pity, and unknown to
charity you would go back into the
womb of time and disturb no more our
vaulting ambition. We long for
the blessed opportunity of again
I communing with script-raisers, tax-eat-
i ers and bung-starters at the pie-coun-
ter, and if it were not for thy accursed
suggestions of the past, that fond hope
might yet be realized. Oh. if we could
but find some kind Nepentha, in which
to drown these memories, and could
snuff out that damned Democrat, it
might all be well with us yet.
During the last five years the popu-
lation of Germany has increased U,000,-
000, while that of France has increased
only 17"),000. This only goes toconfirm
the statement frequently made that
France is a nation without homes. As
a rule, the Parisian is averse to hav-
ing children, and the result is a small
family or none. It will not be many
generations until France will lose its
identity as a people, and the same will
be true of the Anglo-Saxon nations if a
similar course is pursued. It should be
remembered that the family is the unit
%
Of the nation. St- Louis Republic.
The taxpayers no doubt have noticed
that Mr. Peery, of the Globe, not only
aspires to be a leader of the fusion
forces in this county; but is anxious to
make the "El Giobo" the official organ
of the new born party. We also notice
that Mr. T. B. Rice, a populist leader
of the double barrel kind, advises popu-
lists to look to Mr. Peery as their Moses.
This advice of Mr. Rice struck us a>
peculiarly unfitting for more reasons
than one. At first biush we were of the
opinion that Mr. Rice intended to de-
nominate Mr. Peery the "Judas" of the
fusion forces instead of the "Moses.''
He insists, however, that he knew what
he was talking about, and when he said
Moses he meant Moses and not Judas.
Very well, if we remembtr Moses cor-
rectly there is a similarity between
Dan and Mose as well as Dan and Judas.
Moses was a man that weighed aiiout
180 pounds and he was a good feeder.
He was actuated by passions very sim-
ilar to the average pop and democratic
leader. He was warm-hearted and cold-
brained. He promulgated the edict
"thou shalt not kill," yet he slev/ an
Egyptian and hid him in the sand. He
proclaimed "thou shall not steal,'' yet
he plundered the Egyptians even as
mercilessly as Dan has plundered the
taxpayers of Canadian county through
printing office steals. He was a civil
service reformer, yet lie saved the best
offices of his theocracy for his brother
Aaron and his sister Miriam. Do you
see any chance of the characteristics of
Dan in this action? Mose?, like Dan.
was a mild mannered kindof a cuss, yet
in his anger at the perversity of his
henchmen, he threw down the tables of
law and broke one of the command-
ments smack irntwo right where it read
"tliou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
wife." Moses never got further as a
leader to the promised land than Mount
Pisgah when he gave up the ghost.
Dan will never reach the Pisgah of his
political ambition.
Fusion
There would be less objection to fu-
sion in this county than there is, were
it not for the self-constituted leaders
and abettors of the scheme. The peo-
ple have learned to have but very little
confidence in them as men. In fact
they look upon everything they are
connected with as a job of some kind.
Their past lives have demonstrated to
the people, time and again, that it is al-
ways safe to go in exactly the opposite
direction from which they attempt to
lead. It is our candid opinion that if
these two sets of self-constituted lead-
ers had commenced two months ago to
advocate a straight-out middle-of-the-
road ticket for both the democratic
and populist party, that by this time
the people of the county would be clam-
oring for fusion.
The people do not need to be deceived
in candidates for office, if they will ex-
ercise>common grey-horse sense. Vou
can always tell a man by the company
he keeps. There is nothing truer than
the old saying, that 'birds of a feather
Hock together." If you see a man al-
ways with a gang of "bung starters"
when he comes to town you had better
let him alone. If he prefers to "Hock"
with the old court house gang that
robbed this county of nearly $200,000
instead of honest men, you had better
let him severely alone. A man that
will consult with, much less associate
with this gang, cannot be trusted with
a public office, if the taxpayers will
just keep their eyes open for one more
election we will be rid of the last rem-
nant of this old gang.
The United States imports from Cuba
sugar, leaf tobacco, cigars, cigarettes
and cheroots, molasses, fruits nuts, iron
ore, tropical woods and manufactures
of hides and .skins, chemicals, drugs
and dyes.
It is conceded by everyone that the
race for the democratic nomination to
congress is between R. B. Forrest of El
Reno, an 1 Judge Keating of Oklahoma
City, for judicial purposes.
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Hensley, T. F. El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1898, newspaper, June 9, 1898; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139931/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 8, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.