The Chandler Publicist (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, July 24, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CHANDLER
VOL. 15.
CHANDLER, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1908.
NO. 13
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From a Republican Standpoint.
The following memorial was pre-
pared by the republican members ot
the committee appointed at the
school land meeting; last Thursday,
but was not presented at the com-
mittee meeting for the reason the
other members of the committee
understood that the committee was
to act as a unit and non-partisan.
The republican members believe
that the resolution is good and
■worth publishing:
For a number of years the ques-
tion of the policy of the state of Ok-
lahoma in regard to the disposition
of the school and public building
lAnds belonging to the state has
been one of the most important pre-
sented for the consideration of citi-
zens of Oklahoma, and the prevail-
ing sentiment among those best in-
formed upon this subject has been
that the interests of the state and
the lessees alike would be best con-
served by the early sale of these
lands under such terms and condi-
tions as would fully protect the
rights of the lessees of the lands
and give them adequate reward for
the years of patient toil and endur-
ance of hardships by which they
have increased the value of these
lands and the wealth of the state.
It has repeatedly been affirmed by
the conventions of the political
parties that proper provision should
be made for assuring the lessees
compensation for their improve-
ments and a preference right of
purchase. In the statehood en-
abling act Delegate McGuire se-
cured the insertion of a provision
which would enable the state legis-
lature to carry out such a policy.
The leading political parties last
year assured the lessees on these
lands of their friendship and de-
clared their intention of enacting
favorable laws if entrusted with the
power. The candidates of these
parties made their appeal for sup-
port upon such promises. At the
first state election held in Septem-
ber, 1907, democratic state officials
were chosen and the legislature
in the people any feeling of confi-
dence that such a legislature and
such a state administration are fit
to be trusted with the handling of
the millions of dollars that would
be derived from the sale of these
pnblic lands, and thus there has
been raised in the minds of many
people what appears to them to be
a valid objection to the sale of
these lands—a belief that the pro-
ceeds might be squandered or de-
voted to political use. The failure
to pass the promised legislation has
placed upon the lessees the necess-
ity of undertaking the difficult task
of securing more than 20,000 signa-
tures to the petition for the sub-
mission of the initiated school land
bill and the still greater and more
expensive undertaking of making a
state-wide compaign of education
for the purpose of presenting to
claimed a holiday for the celebra- For Sale of School Lands
tion of the passage ot the bill re- The meeti held at the court
m°v7n5Jrest/Actl°ns from ^certain of house ,ast Thursdavafternoon, pur-
a piece surant to a cau jssuec] by the board
the lands of the five tribes
of legislation of far-reaching im-
portance to the state which was ac-
complished by a republican con-
gress under the leadership of Okla-
hona's republican congressman,
Hon. B. S. McGuire. Would it not
be appropriate while celebrating
this republican fulfillment of prom-
ises to also deplore the democratic
failures to do justice to 8,000 or
more families living on these state
lands? We heartily favor the sale
of all the school and public build-
ing lands of the state at the earli-
est possible date. We earnestly
commend the untiring and efficient
work of Representative J as. H.
Lockwood, of this county, for the
passage of appropriate legislation
the voters of the whole state, who 1 in this regard. He was at all times
must pass upon this question j on the alert in the discharge ot his
either favorably or unfavorably, the
facts and arguments which prove
the requests of the lessees to be
just and reasonable and for the
duties and rendered faithful service
to the cause of the lessees. We
call upon every citizen of Lincoln
county to assist in the cause of jus
best interests of the state. We tice and to promote his own welfare
by diligently working for the suc-
cess of ;he pending school land law
by assisting in the securing of sig-
natures to the petitions, by assist-
ing in the creatingof sentiment fav-
orable to the bill, and by securing
realize that should the voters of
the state through ignorance of the
facts or through the influence of
designing politicians, fail to give a
majority for the initiated school
land bill, its defeat in the coming
election would still further em-
barrass the lessees and their friends
in their fight for their rights, and
thus would additional emphasis be
given to the wrong perpetrated up- Jurors For the County Court,
on the lessees and the state by the ! The following residents of Lin-
legislature in failing to pass the ■ coin county have been sworn in-as
the law which had been promised. ] jurors for the July term of the
There seems to be an effort being | county court: Howard Fortner,
the school lands and it is assured
they will do all in their power to in-
sure the passage of the bill.
of county commissioners, for the
purpose of perfecting a county or-
ganization having as its object the
successful passage of the school
land bill, was a pronounced suc-
cess, though the attendance was
not as large as desired. Several
addresses were made by those pres-
ent and committees were appointed
to carry on the work.
Upon motion it was decided that
the chairman appoint a committee
consisting of the board ot
county commissioners, three repre-
sentative democrats and three rep-
resentative republicans with in-
structions to meet and frame a
memorial, or address, treating of
the reasons why the school land
should be sold. This memorial to
be printed and distributed among ■
the voters of the county. The
chairman appointed on this com-
mittee, as democrats. Judge Fallis,
of Fallis; J. C. Burton, of Stroud
and G. A. Smith, of Chandler: and
as republicans, J. W. Stonebreaker,
of Wellston and H. B. Gilstrap and
L. B. Nichols, of Chandler.
This committee met at the court
house last Tuesday afternoon with
j the intention of framing the resolu-
in which the crop of many countries
can be checked up at all. Here is
the table of the sources of supply
for the cotton mills of the world:
Per cent
of total
Bales
production.
United States
.. 10,882.385
65.9
British India
.. IMMW
11.4
Kjrypt
i.jm.oo)
7.8
Russia
620,0)0
3.8
China
IS. MM
2.6
Brazil
.. 370,000
2.2
Mexico
H5.000
0.5
Peru
55,000
0.3
Turkey
80,000
0.5
Persia
... 51,000
0.3
Other countries
... 20 J,000
1.3
Oklahoma Sixth as n Cotton State.
Few people living outside Oklaho-
ma are an-are that we stand sixth
in the cotton-growing states of!
America, but it is a fact.
Kansas and Kentucky are just en-
tering the cotton-growing states. [
Who would have dreamed a few]
; years ago that Oklahoma would
! have stood sixth, and who would
have dreamed that a pound of cot- jjy tabie it will be seen that
| ton would ever be raised in the Jay- j the United States produces more
hawker state. i than twice as much as all of the
'I he total crop of the I nited J rest 0f tj,e worid pUt together.
States last year was worth the tidy , fn t|ie table India is credited with
sum of $700,000,000. 1 he total pro- ;i ]ararer production than Egypt,
duction was 11,325,882 bales, and This is true, yet the crop of Egypt
averaged 500 pounds each. js Worth much more than the crop
These- figures are sufficiently 0f India.. Indian cotton has a short
startling in size, yet neither for | tiber, which works up into very
amount nor for value was the crop poor cloth, while the fiber of Egyp-
of 1907 equal to what some other tian cotton is the longest and best
years can show. In 190f> the pro- jn the world, save a very little of
made to confuse the minds of the
people as to the responsibility for
the existing condition in regard to
the school land legislation. Webe-
believe that this responsibility
should be squarely placed where it
fairly belongs—upon the majority
party in the late legislature. The
governor of the state has pro-
the active support of the friends of j tion but it becoming known that
the bill, before election day as well j t[,e S[ate committee were soon to
as at the polls. issue a memorial along the same
lines led them to postpone action
until a copy of this memorial could
be secured. Then the committee
will "get busy" and do something.
However, the school land question
was discussed and steps taken by
the committee looking toward a
North Fox; R. A. Roberson, North
Keokuk; W. L. Reed, Prague; R. thorough oiganization in this coun-
Mayfleld, North Iowa; Nobe Stanly, j ty. Men are to be interested in
North Osage; G. W. Swigart, South
Osage; A. H. R. Calvin, North Eox;
B. Lester, East North Choctaw;
Dell Long, McKinley; H. L. Mascho
Chandler; O. E. Hallbeck, Sonth
Seminole; B. F. Ogg, Chandler.
every school district in the county;
meetings held and delegates
chosen to the next county meeting,
which will be held about August 18.
Every member of the committee is
an earnest advocate for the sale of
duction was nearly 2,000,000 higher,
and the value more than $21,000,000
greater, and in 1904 the crop was
still larger, though the market value
was less. Sixteen states contrib-
uted to the growth of this crop, be-
ginning with Texas, whose crop of
cotton for years has varied between
2,500,000 and 4,000,000 bales, and
ranging down to Kansas, which
raised thirty-five bales last year.
The order of productiveness is:
Texas, Georgia, Mississippi, South
Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Ar-
kansas, Louisiana, NOrth .Carolina,
Tennessee, Florida, Missouri, Vir-
ginia, Kentucky, New Mexico and
Kansas.
Perhaps a more interesting com-
parison than that between the vari-
ous states is that between the
1'nited States and the rest of the
world. The figures given in the
census bureau report are based on
the cotton which finds its way to
the mills, that being the only way
cratic in both branches. The dem-1
ocratic party was thus empowered
to carry out its pledges to the les-'
sees, and its sincerity of purpose
was put to the test. After more
than five months' session, much of
the time having been spent in un- j
profitable wrangling over unim- j
portant matters, the legislature ad-
journed without having enacted any j
laws providing for the sale of these i
public lands on any terms. Num-j
erous measures had been presented !
and considered. Delegations of
elected was overwhelmingly demo- ^
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a very
that grown on the islands along our
Atlantic seaboard. Egyptian cot-
ton commands a price from 2 to 6
cents higher than American cotton,
simply because of this length of
fiber. There is little doubt that we
could improve the quality of out-
cotton if we tried. But so far we
have not tried, and the top of the
market is paid to our growers.
This is a fault which will prob-
ably be remedied in time. But even
without such a remedy, the suprem-
acy of America as a cotton produc-
ing country is secure. Only one-
fourteenth of the land adapted to
to cotton culture in this country is
now planted to that crop. Texas
could, if the market demanded,
raise three times as much cotton as
the whole country raises now. With
a lead like this in present produc-
tion, available area, experience,
capital and the benefits to be gained
some day from labor-saving ma-
chinery, the United States will re-
main the chief source of the world's
i cotton supply so long as that fabric
remains in use.—Oklahoma City
I Times.
capital and had been heard by the
legislative committee upon the j
question of desired legislation. As- j
surances were freely given the les-
sees that speedy and satisfactory
action would be taken upon the I
disposition of these lands. During!
the time that these promises were
being given, however, the school
land board attempted a horizontal1
increase of rentals amounting to 25 I
per cent, which was later with-1
drawn, in the face of a storm of pro-
tests from the lessees. Leading
members of the majority party in
the legislature urged and insisted
upon some arrangement whereby
the disposition of the lands would
finally be determined by popular
vote. This was evidently a plan
which in their judgment would de-
feat the sale of these lands and at
the same time relieve the demo-
cratic administration of the re-
sponsibility for such defeat. The
final failure of the legislature to en-
act any law upon the subject indi-
cates a lack of courage to face the
issue and a desire to evade respons-
ibility. Immediately after the ad-
journment of the legislature, the
governor, realizing the dissatisfac-
tion among the lessees with the
record of faithfulness made by the
legislature, called a conference of
lessees to be held at Guthrie with a
view of preparing a measure to be
submitted to the people of the state
under the initiative provision of the
•constitution. The result of this
conference was the selection of a
committee to prepare a bill. In
less than three days' time a measure
"was prepared which, while not
wholly satisfactory, is, at this time,
the only means of relief and pro-
tection offered to the lessees. The
action of the legislature and the
state administration in the hand-
ling of the five million dollar
school fund secured to the state
from the national government
through the efforts of Hon. B. S.
McGuire has not tended to inspire
SMIHL HIE SALE
Remember our Big Semi-Annual Clearance Sale
is on. Every dollar's worth of spring and summer
goods must go no matter how much we have to
sacrifice.
Clothing
Shirt Waists
All Spring and.Summer Clothing
All Shirt Waists at a Discount of
al
A H0!
ocn oi
«J j0 •
OO 3 0
Discount
All Wash Goods at big cut prices
Swore the Judge 0ft the Bench.
i In the case of the state vs Sam
Evans, who is charged with abus-
ing and mistreating an old man
| who was found on the streets of
Chandler some time since in a
drunken condition, which caine on
for trial before County Judge F. A.
Wagoner last Tuesday, the defense,
after a jury had been empanneled,
proceeded to swear Judge Wagoner
off the bench. The affidavits,
signed by Revs. Barker and Taylor
of the M. E. church, were presented.
These gentlemen of the cloth swore
that it was their belief that Evans,
who is a member of their church,
could not secure a fair and impar-
tial trial at the hands of Judge
Wagoner. In retiring from the
case the judge spoke plainly of the
matter, stating that neither of the
reverend gentlemen had ever heard
him make any statement regarding
this case, that their information
£ could only be from hearsay. The
^ case was then adjourned until after
We buy and sell
more merchan-
dise than any firm
in Oklahoma.
Stores:
Chandler, Okla.
Shawnee, Okla.
Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
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noon when the members of the bar
met and selected Atty. Willis.
to try the case, as is the method of
procedure in cases where the regu-
lar judge is sworn off the bench.
Further proceedings were post-
poned until Wednesday morning
when a jury was secured and the
taking of testimony begun. The
prosecution introduced a number of
witnesses who swore that they saw
Evans kick the helpless man
several times. Evans in behalf of
himself swore that he only "pushed"
the man with his foot. Many lively
tilts occured between opposing
counsel and at aix o'clock all evi-
dence was not in so an adjourn-
ment was taken until Thursday
morning.
The trial was resumed yesterday
morning and given to the jury at
about noon. The jury was out but
ten minutes and returned a verdict
of guilty as charged in the com-
plaint. Atty. Rittenhouse
notice that a petition for
trial would be filed. This
presented to Judge Willis
Evans is under bond.
se rvad
new
will be
today.
A young man from near Stroud
got drunk and disorderly at that
town the latter part of last week,
was brought before County Judge
Wagoner and sentenced to pay a
$50 tine and to work on the county
roads for a period of five days.
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