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he Enid Events.
Vol 18
ENID, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JANUARY, 6, 1910
No. 12
Our Great Clothing Sale is Going Merrily Along
Everything for Men at Cost and Less
HARRY B. WOOLF >:
THE NANANDBOYSTORE
PERSONNEL OF THE CAUCUS
Hiat "Great Popular Clamor" Report
Dissected nnd tlic N'lgcer Smoked
from the Woodpile.
Two weeks ago the Enid Eagle, the
fflcial "insurgent" and party bolting
rgan of the present campaign which
i being waged against Congressman
JcGulre, contained two or three col-
imns of diatribe, abuse, and fabrica-
lons concerning this writer. We paid
lo attention to the local sheet's
creed but on last Sunday we find the
ame article appearing in the Wich-
a Eagle unde. an Enid date line, and
re informed that the same was sent
ut from here by the Garber cam-
aign correspondent. Therefore, the
creed having come to our notice as
campaign document, we will take
me to answer to this extent:
The article states the laughable lie
ed one vote in Haw City, all of which
exhibits that Spencer was indeed able
to rohtrol his own vote, in spite of
(lie contrary apprehensions of those
who know him best. After McGuire's
nomination S eucer bolted the nom-
inee and supported Johnson, the dem-
ocratic candidate, in the election. He
also supported the entire democratic
ticket and so powerful was his in-
fluence that McGuire and the repub-
lican Ucket received a largely in-
creased vote in that vicinity.
A. H. Boles of Gtuhrie was the^only
Logan county man who attended the
caucus, and he is against McGuire be-
cause McGuire displaced his brother
as register of the Guthrie laud office
appointing L. N. Houston of Tnid, to
suceeed Jhim. And because McGuire
appointed an Enid man to the succes-
sion he had the gall to come pver
here and ask Enid people to Join
hands against McGuire—and it ap-
pears, he was actually tolerated, smil-
ed upon an dlistened to—in Enid.
Johnny Hinkle was the only man
hat the editor of the Events was op-
posed to the nomination of Mr. Taft!
lid espoused that of Mr. Fairbanks, j w
nn^rarlc nf nonn blip an R in thi8 COUIl"
The fi les of cause he was unable to land the Still-
who attended the caucus from Payne
undreds of republicans in this coun-«, county. Johnny berates McGuire be-
position represents his principles the
duty of all republicans is clearly out-
lined.
As a matter of fact Judge Garber
hasn't even a fjghting chance of car-
rying a single county in the district
with the possible exception of Gar-
field county and McGuire would beat
him two to one on the issues in this
county were it not for the fact that
hundreds of republicans will be in-
fluenced here on the "home man"
proposition. Judge Garber has sim-
ply been the victim of bad advisors.
He has listened to juvenile enthusi-
asts and to the quackings of disap-
pointed office-seekers from over the
district. He has mistaken the wall
of political hatred and despair for
a call from the people. He has been
led into opposing republican policies
by the plng-whinging of clap-trap.
And if he persists in th e race and
attempts to maintain the issues that
he has raised he will find himself
fighting outside the republican party
and not inside. President Taft and
Chairman Hitchcock have both made
this point decidedly clear.
TAFT TO WAGE WAR.
'Insurgents" Must Either Come Into
the Party or Oo with the Demo-
crats—Administration Withholds
Patronage from "Enemies"
of the Party and Will Eight
Them at the Polls
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kn aw t he f acts.
ie Events show that it was for Taft
nstructions while the files of the
Snid Eagle show that it advocated the
sending of an uninsructed delegation
to the convention at Chicago, and the
editor of the Eagle appeared on the
floor of the county convention which
endorsed Whiting for delegate and
moved as a substitute for the resolu-
tions endorsing Taft that the choice
of the convention be uninstructed. It
is a matter o fcommon knowledge
that Purcell induced Henry Sturgis
to become a candidate for delegate
I.Mr. Sturgis having no ambition to
■V ;o Chicago) fo.- the sole pvrpose
" forcing It u i'uit iss'i' The ">
JA ijsomeut was brought about in an
{vecment wherein Sturgis was to
/ withdraw and be the chairman of the
convention and Purcell should write
the resolutions. Joe Dodson and Pur-
cell wrote 'the resolution* Purcell
writing the Taft plank which bound
the choice of the convention first, last
and all th> time for Taft.
So much for that. The remainder
of the fabrication which the Wichita
Eagle published Sunday was unwor-
thy of even a fence corner sheet, the
publication of which shows the Wich-
it l paper as having woefully degen-
erated and unworthy of credence in
chronicling political facts
But to the point:
Inasmuch as the opposition seems
to have turned the fight upon this
writer, is making a whining noise
against postmasters for the purpose
of creating prejudice and is resorting
to senile tricks which would shame
the palmy days of ward-heel ry, it
ii ight not he amiss to delve into the
facts with relation to that much talk-
ed of "popular uprising" which cul-
minated in a meeting nnd "forcibly
dragged'' Judge G. -bcr into the race.
What are the facts?
Let's hear them.
The caucus was a duplication of
the Hainer caucus of a year and a
half ago. Like the Hainer caucus it
was the results of the work of our
friend Matt Disney, of Billings. Prior
to the recent meeting,just as before the
Hainer meeting, Matt made a trip
over the district, held ocnferenc.es
with the malcontents, arranged with
them to come over to Enid and set
Ithe date. Then he invited such men
in Enid and over Garfield county that
he wanted, told them when and where
the meeting was to be held and the
great "spontaneous gathering'' was
pulled off. Matt makes no secret of
his grievance against McGuire. He had
the same grievance two years ago.
Matt wanted a certain person ap-
pointed post master at Billings. Mc-
Guire appointed somebody else—
therefore Matt is out for revenge. He
Was out for reven e last time and,
notwithstanding Matt's opposition.
M6Guire Increased his maorlty 17 in
Billings over the time before. Matt
claimed to represent Noble county in
the caucus although his leRal resi-
dence is Grant township, this county.
Kay county was represented by
Young Headley and Frank Lambert.
Headley is the son of the Ponca City
(Courier and Lambert is the son-in-
law o fthe Courier. Mrs. Baker, a cul-
tured and refined woman, is postmas-
t i- at Ponca City. Their idea of poli-
tics vyas that Mrs. Baker be fired and
•hat they be given the post office,
ut the Postmaster General tihought
that so long as Mrs. Baker was giv-
ng satisfaction it would be contrary
to policy to fire her. So the Headleys
and the LambertB are ribbing up a
actional fight against McGuire.
Spencer, of Kaw City, was another
preventative of Kay county to at-
water post office. And it was not
McGuire's faul' either that Johnny
did not land. McGuire was for him,
but certain affidavits were filed
against Johnny alleging certain facts
tihat he probably does not desire us
to here recite.
Emory Brownlee was the only rep-
resentative from Kingfisher county.
And Emory was ashamed that he at-
tended, going back to Kingfisher and
denying that he took any part in the
meeting. But Emory did take a part.
He made a speech at the meeting. In
that speech he berated republican
leaders, abused McGuire and finally
dd- "I *siv« teen arMnst McGuire
for years, and if I am permitted to
live until next winter and the state
legislature convenes 1 will give the
assurance that Pawnee and Osage
counies will be tied onto the the
strongest democratic congressional
district that it is possible to form.
I have been at work on democratic
members already and am in a posi-
tion to state that I have support
enough now pledged to accomplish
that purpose." In other words, Mr.
Brownlee is that kind of a republican
that he would enter into a deal with
a democratic legislature to disfran-
chise the republicans of counties of
the state just in order to secure poli-
tical revenge. It is not necessary to
dilate further upon the motives which
actuated the one representative of
Kingfisher couny.
O. J. Bradfield of Lamont, was the
only man who attended the caucus
from Grant county and he made a
speech at the caucus stating that it
would be a inisake for Garber o an-
nounce for congress and that he
would not support him and he return-
ed home and has been supporting Mc-
Guire in his paper ever since.
There was no representative at the
caucus from Lincoln county.
There was no representative at the
caucus from Pawnee county.
There was no representative at the
caucus from Noble county.
■Where was no representative at the
caucus from Osage county.
And the Grant county representa-
tive was against the proposed candi-
dacy.
Thus we have five counties out of
the ten in the district in which even
the diligent searching of Mr. Disney
was unable to discover any malcon-
tent who was sore enough to accept
the invitation extended o attend.
There were 42 men in the caucus
all told, all except a very few residing
in Garfield county.
Some of the local men who had
been invited to attend were of the
opinion that it was ill-advised for
Judge Garber to become a candidate.
Others advised that he become a can-
didate because they desired to make
way for a successor as district judge.
Others, such as the Enid Eagle rep-
resentatives, desired him to become a
candidate, believing that by support-
ing him, in the event of his success,
he wolud t ry to ap point one of them
postmaster of Enid. Others desired
him to become a candidate from sin-
cere motives, but the sincere motives
were confined to less than seven.
It is therefore evident that the
much heralded popular meeting, n-
stead of being an "uprising of the
people," was merely a star chamber
proceeding participated in mainly by
malcontents and Insurgents who de-
sired to undermine McGuire and fo-
ment a big factional fight in the re-
publican imrty. And In becoming a
candidate for the nomination as an
"Insurgent," and as an enemy of
BOOSTING ROBBERTS FOR JIDGE
Petition Gotten Out and Signed En-
dorsing Rim to Succeed
Judge Garber.
A petition was gotten out last
week and numerously signed by the
members of the Garfield County Bar
Association and others, requesting
Judge J. C. Robberts of tiiiV city, to
become a candidate fcr UVi'rict
Juftg > t-1 -s Koeeed i dee Gi< >
We ui:: *i"«tt th; >n
has been' filed v!tU Judge Kjrt "in
and that he has taken the rnatidr of
his candidacy under consideration.
He was absent from the city during
the first of the week, and we were
unable to secure any expression
from him regarding his Intentions.
Washington, Jan. 4.—War without
quarter will be waged between the
Taft administration and such repub-
lican "insurgents" in congress as are
now opposing and who will oppose in
the future the Taft legislative pro-
gram. The battle is not with those
tariff insurgents who quietly sheath-
ed thefr blades after defeat, but with
those who have nursed their disap-
pointment and are whetting their
knives publicly in anticipation of a
continued conflict.
The battle broke out suddenly today
and the substance of the movement
is that senators and congressmen,
who have taken a stand against the
stimulate opposition to the renomina-
tion of these congressmen by diverse
local activities.
It was pointed out that in Congress-
man Cooper's district in Wisconsin,
already a rival republican candidate
was in the field although the primar-
ies do not occur until September.
Speaker Cannon said tonight if he
were to express his own views on the
situation they would sound "chestnut-
ty." He denied knowledge of any spe-
cific determination to crush the Insur-:
gents. But, he turned to a copy of a I ... .
s peech which he delivered in Kansas I were transacted at the meeting Wed-
WILL BEGIN WORK ON
PACKING PLANT AT ONCE
The regular quarterly meeting of
the board of directors of the Peo-
ple's Packing Company, was held in
the offices of the Chamber of Com
merce building, all the directors be-
ing present excepting Fulkerson and
French, the latter being in Illinois.
A number of important matters
opposition to the president's uolicies,
are to receive no oensideration in
matters of patronage.
Utterances such as that made by
Senator Cummins at a recent dinner
in Des Moines by Bristow, in previ-
ous speeches, anti-Taft articles in
LaFollette's Magazine and a recent
interview by Senator Clapp on the
price of food stuffs, are said to have
stirred the president to action. It
has been reported further that some
of the republican insurgents in the
City on December 7 last and quoted
from it the following paragraph as
expressing his opinion on the course
that ought to be pursued against the
insurgents. The paragraph read:
"When Lincoln found an army
marching on the national capital from
the south and - body of sympathiz-
ers in the north encouraging that,
army, he said it was difficult to tell. has already been made
which was the most threatening to'by the railroad conr;'
the welfare of the nation. History will be commence"*!^ excuse our
itself, and when Senators, ,Mer by .
ummlns, I^aFolMte, BiUstow andj^J™'ou/snon i
join hands with Mr. Bryan in waging] was the " ■ J'acts do not appear
war upon the republican members l0ca.ti0n r''l assumption. in
nesday.
"The construction of the People's
Packing Plant will be begun as soon
as the weather permits and the
switch Is installed," said W.. 4 Bel
ton, chairman of the execiv^^aVam-
mitt'ee. "The survey for
present administration and who will, re.)eatB
continue to align themselves with the' Qumrnj,
their so-called 'progressive' following
congress who passed the tariff bill
and upon President Taft who signed
it in that contest I ! now of but one
way to treat them, and that is to
fight them just as we fight Mr. Bryan
and his followers."
RET MILLIARD TALKS.
this
Mr. Be' c'alist vote was 9,423
supp'; ° il was 21,134 an increase '
faci ''Ve ,uoutlls "f 11,711 or
,r 1 1 •" 100 per cent.
In the past
Socialists have conducted a
it. and aggressive campaign
"e '""Ported their best talent
row other states. From this time on
house have tried to secure the ap- >ot a Candidate for Congress, luitte j'ress bureau will send you mat
Is for McGuire and Regularity combatting Socialism and we
d the meeting. Spencer runs a "Cannon. Aldrlch and the governmen-
le jerkwater sheet at Kaw City. tal true " as Judge Garber defines It
Ich V- Bays Is an "Independent pa-I—really meaning the republican na-
" He supported Hainer against tlonal organiation as at present con-
Gulrr last campaign and so effec- stlluted. Judge Garber made a decld- ■
e was ..is work liiut llulnar secur- ed and unqualified mistake. If tola, Going wel
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.
The school board met in regular
session Monday night with eleven of
the mem'bers present. They were
Messrs. Randolph, Bradfield, Feath-
erston Whybro, Hills, Nolan, Baker,
Lewis, Sawyer, Pinkley and Smith.
The minutes of several meetings
were read and approved after which
there was an exteuded discussion
on the sub'ect of filling the vacancy
caused by the change of residence
on the part of J. F. Butts, ona of
the members. The place was de-
clared vacant on motion of Mr. Hills
and Mr. Lewis of the Fourth Ward
was asked to name a suitable man
to fill the vacancy. He placed in
nomination Mr. Fred McClane who
was then elected., The election of
Mr. Bmrich at the last meeting of
the board as treasurer was then rat
i&ed.
A number of bills were then al-
lowed Including one from Block and
Evans for $116 on account of plumb-
ing and another for $39 from the
Publishers Printing Company.
The renting of the old opera hoijBe
to be used for basket ball was au
thorized at an expense of $115.
Mr. Whybro was directed to in-
spect the heating apparatus of the
schools with a view to Improvements.
Mr. Overton submitted his final re-
port as treasurer showing the bond-
ed indebtedness to be $55,650; legal
warrants not paid $64 070- cash on
hand $23,122.80; judgment $2,560.
The bond and securities of Mr.
Emerick as treasurer were approved.
A discussion of the location of the
new high school developed that the
government tract in the northeast
part of the city was favored.
YOl'NG MISS FEILD.
Tuesday morning Dr. Julian Felld
was the happleBt fellow in the city,
while Grandpa Dr. R. A. Feild has a
smile as broad as a wash bowl and
even Mrs. Nannie J. Field, one of
the best grandmothers to whom
comes a child in swaddling clothes
is wreathed In smiles, just because
a tiny girl made its appearance at
the Felld residence at 11 o'clock
Monday night. Mother and child are
pointment under the administration
of men more or less openly out of
httrmony with the Taft regime.
Taft's closes}, friends advised that
it v-mM. be j;:;' for him to afford
si- . ^ ,:f those who might
even co-opei iu& K?th the democrats Jn
congress against the Taft legislative
program, anu in the country at large
hy creating anti-Taft sentiment in
advance of the 1912 convention
of Party Action.
>e you will co-operate In eliminat-
thls danger which threatens the
Ret Millard, formerly of this Coun-
ty, but now of Pawhuska was hr
7..-.!d Tue.;da> and in conversation
with a reporter of The Events said:
"I am not a candidate for Con -
gress. The men who sprung the
It is stated without reserve tonight rep0rt that I was evidently desired , c0ln jf
that the president lias listened to such j tQ spring ^n^t^ng for the purpose | e ' We eX,pect to maintain
advice and has decided o follow it. .. I -ratlc
of ribbing against Congressman Mc- i. |aj3
I Jocratic party."
j'* Democratic state com^ilf
i sent out a to ■■
rpv l,uarda and oth\
.1 which this appear3: v tin,
I ' hand when we must be up
In support of the position taken by
certain leaders of the administration
that the battle is not with the tariff
insurgents, it was pointed out tonight
that Senators Nelson, Brown and
Burkett, all of whom voted against
the Payne-Aldrlch tariff bill, are per-
sona grata at the White house, post
office department, land office and in-
ternal revenue bureau, where federal
"pie" is served.
No politician who would Idiscuss
the situation at all tonight dared haz-
ard an opinion as to the political out-
come of the contest. Some insisted it
would arouse bitter opposition to
President Taft, while others declared
the effect would be to make all re-
publicans line up for or against the
president and "smoke out" those who
have carefully kept up a neutral po-
sition.
Representative Miller of the Eighth
Minnesota district was the man chief-
ly Instrumental in "blowing the lid
off" the situation today. He did it
in a statement to the effect that Post-
master General Hitchcock had in-
formed him yesterday ti at his (Mill-
er's) recommendation for presidential
postmasterships were being held up
because of his insurgent activities in
the house. He quoted the postmaster
general as saying, in substance:
"A great deal of pressure is being
brought to bear upon me to withhold
from insurgent republican congress
men patronage in their districts. I
am very loath to do tills, and the mat-
ter Is still under consideration."
Miller said he told the post master
general he Intended to carry the
thing to the open floor of the house;
but that Hitchcock urged him to de-
fer arjy such action until the subject
could be further considered. Where-
upon Miller agreed to wait full de-
velopments before opening fight.
As soon as the congressman's state-
ment became known the postmaster
general called him on the telephone
and took him to task for not having
regarded the conversation as confi-
dential; to which Miller replied that
he had not so understood it and he
felt that he had violated no confid-
ence.
Postmaster General Hitchcock was
silent on the whole subject tonight
nor would any other official repre
sentlng the administration say a word
about It.
Another feature of the attitude o'
the party leaders toward the Insur
gent members of the horse was hint
ed at in disclosures today. It wa
currently reported that "rebellious
republican members of congros
were made to feel that the hand o'
the national organization was aealnst
them in their home districts. Th>
plan according to the statemeir- o
one of the Insurgents, wkn >■> - '•
said to be marked as a victim, was
for an organization ut Washington t
Guire. We are all for McGuire ove-
in Osage County, and don't intend
to split our votes. We are wit'i the
administration and no insurgent will
get a dozen votes in Osage County.
I don't for a fact believe that there
will be 25 votes for Garber ir. Osage
County.
"Garber made a mistake when he
announced for Congress on an
insurgent platform. We are all re-
publicans over there and we refuse
to he led off on any schism. Watch
Osage County and pay no attention
to misrepresentations sprung such
as they sprung about me being a
candidate. We will vote in bulk. By
the way, that dispatch from Wash-
ington which said that the adminis-
tration would show no quarter to
insurgents, is the best thing I ever
saws. It tickles every republican
who believes in his party."
SOI VENIlt CHINA
Dainty Plates, Mugs,
Salad Bowls,
Cups and Saucers,
Cream Jugs,
Toothpick holders.
Salts and Peppers, etc.
Imported China decorated to our or-
der In Austria with Enid street scenes
buildings, etc.
ONE-HALF PRICE
Oklahoma Christian University
Plates, showing main buildings as
completed, 9V4 inches diameter, each,
15c.
Picturesque Plates, imported ware
with splendid pictures of six promin-
ent buildlugs on each plate, 10c.
Idaho Sweet Clover Honey, only
twelve cases left of this splendid pro-
duct. Hurry!
Those pure fruit and sugar pre-
serves are absolutely fine—like moth-
er used to make—pear, peach, blaoV
berry, pineapple, buy 'em onae.f
25c. Th.
state government. The
are making such inroads
cf! rJnks, especially in the
c rn and central counties, that
fj take hard and persistent work
^interact this enemy that is
B at our vtitals."
Ik N'agle of Kingfisher, for-
^ member of the T)emocratic
an ™mittee, has gone over to
adr' Ia 3 recent speech ue
bel 'mocracy is digging Its own
rlg fParatory to political sui-
fin( lat the Democrats consider
vict1'6 of statesn'anshlp their
^ ^ heritance from Jefferson
new U ls lnstea^ a shroud to
"Inti over a corl)ae wboae
Whe unrealized.''
Reptii
press' FIETi YJ-"
elect! —
Ism es, of V a ia)t • _,f
Moin ial me:: V ..ir, .■ don.
_ "le rt fr d. -Ompm-
'■ ■: i .fc.', of1 Richmond,
Tu ■ 3 . .s annjal \islt
Our 3 on:e. Bv.rs?fs and
nearly 'd t.me friends as can
about i t'l? fj.ct that on Sun-
Ue
' liina
Grocer
Man
and si. * -"• ri:d Mrs. Burgess
of intir C !Jen Wedding an-
meersc h was attended by
cobs, ( : ears ago when Mr.
and 6 "gess were married
straighnne of the guests at
etc., mi This Is indeed a re-
or nicl vlogy of family af-
Let us 'a rely be duplicated,
only oi. sddlng of young peo-
price—\ 0 years later at their
tlclpate. ry.
They are 71 years of age and
in Sm C^" W"' He
Missouri and never
Llsdr8, tate.
One assu „
2 years of age, and
steran, but he was
and raised In MIs-
Flnest 'ss 18 66 years old
gallon b raised in Missouri.
Our ei ere horn to Mr.
.ry Food -ven of which are
offered at
3 hale and hearty
A Bur*eaa 's Quite
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