The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 8, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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THR ARROW: TAIIl^y UAH, INDIAN TERRITORY.
THE TAHLEQUAH ARROW.
WAI1UIK HUDSON. Kdltor cd 0«i«.
One Yw ........ One UoIlM
Six Month* fifty Cents
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SATURDAY. APRIL I, 19«.
DEMOCRATIC TICKET ELECTED
Democrats Win the City Election with
Wyly at Head of Tlcket-A Tie for
Alderman—Oeneral Returns.
The Democrats elected a full ticket
Tuesday lo Tahlequah with 'he excep-
tion of one councilor, Frank Lewie,
who tied with E. D. Hicks, the Repub-
lican candidate.
Tbe campaign was a heated one
from start to finish, and the Republi-
cans made a bard struggle for recogni-
tion.
Syd Wyly, at the head of tbe Demo-
cratic ticket, won easily with a hand-
some majority.
Personal fights were made against
some of the candidates on the Demo-
cratic ticket, but the voters repudiated
such politics and rolled up a safe ma-
jority for tbe "victims."
Following is tbe vote as announced
by tbe office)a of tbe election:
Mayor.
A. S. Wyly 26*
J. L Harnage 237
Wyly'i majority 41
Recorder.
G. M. Land rum 352
H. S. Dye 246
Landrum's majority 6
Marshal.
S. L. Miller..: 256
G. W. McGregor 241
Miller's majority 15
Aldermen.
H. B. Tehee 258
Arthur Jones 250
Hugh Morris 254
C. D. Markham 252
Frank Lewis .250
E. D. Hicks '.....260
F. W. Palmtag 249
Jesse Slxkiller 243
W. W. Rose 240
M. C. Reville 287
Total number of votes cast, 500.
To All the vacancy on the board of
aldermen will require a special elec-
tion, which will be called in the usual
way by the mayor, and ten days notice
will be given tbe voters.
Returns from Other Places.
Following ie tbe vote as reported
from neighboring towns:
Democrat* Win at Muskogee.
The entire Democratic ticket was
elected at Muskogee by a good major-
ity. Dr. F B. Fite received a majority
of -<00 over Morgan Carawav, the Ue-
publlcau candidate.
Mixed at Vinita.
The election in Vinita was quite a
close one in some respects and the can-
vas engendered considerable feeling.
Most of the business men's ticket was
elected, and It was supported by the
Chieftain and Leader. The result was
as follows: Mayor, W. B. Cooley, bus-
iness men's ticket: recorder, F. B. Bar-
rett, Democrat; treasurer, E. D. Flck-
lln. Democrat; marshal, H. E. Kiden-
hour: aldermen, W. H. Deck. Harvey
Cox, Jas. C. Wilkinsou, S. E. Waller
and Fred L. Kelly, business me^'s nom-
inees.
Afton Democratic.
Afton elected part of its Democratic
ticbet as follows: J. M. Scott, mayor;
.lames Lowe, recorder, and three out of
Ave councllmen. Tueir candidate for
marshal was defeated by six votes.
They were opposed by a citizens ticket.
South McAlester Democratic.
Tbe Democrats elected the entire
ticket at South McAlester except one
alderman who got through on tbe He-
ptiblican tlcKet by a majority of four.
Chapman. Democrat, was elected mayor
by 104
Wagoner Elects all Democrats
Charles Watts was elected mayor and
all the rest of tbe Democratic ticket
won. There were about TOO votes cast.
Tbe election passed off quietly.
Mixed Ticket at Tulsa.
The Democrats of Tulsa elected tbe
mayor, two aldermen and city recorder,
while the Republicans won out on city
attorney, treasurer and marshal.
No Opposition at Eufaula.
The election passed off quietly, the
Democratic ticket being elected with-
out opposition.
All Demo-ratic at Muldrow.
The contest 'or M)or at Muldrow
was close, ^homas Watts winning by
four votes, and all tbe Democratic
ticket were elected.
Sallisaw Safe in Line.
The entire Democratic ticket was
elected at Sallisaw with tbe exception
of city treasurer. Jeff Watts was
elected mayor by a majority of five.
Saw President Roosevelt at Muskogee.
W. T. Richards, J. W.. McSpadden,
Mrs. J. W. Duncan, Mrs. W. P. Thorne,
Mrs. E. W. Gantt, Mrs. H. B. Tehee,
Misses Susie Foreman, Mamie Strat-
um, Ellen and May Hudson, Bula Ed-
mondson, Jennie Martin, Katie Six-
killer, Pearl Upton, Verna Capps,
Pearl Holderman, Loto Price. Jane
Towie, Frances Bushyhead, Dolly
West, Mrs. M. C. Reville and son, Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Dannenberg, Judge B.
C. Keenan, G. W. Stone, Horace Gray,
G. W. McGregor, J. L. Brown, E. R.
Alberty, Mrs. Julius Morgan, Earnest
Hii!, Will Chastain, John Taylor, Matt
Tuell, Mrs. E. g. Bushyhead, J. F.
Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Ross, Mr.
and Mrs. K. S. Murcblson, Austin
Murchlson, O. B. Jones, R. A. With-
erill, G. M. Hughes, H. S. Dye, J. L.
Edringtor, G. W. Hoyal, W. A Allen,
E. P. Farris. R. E. Bean, Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Manus, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Red-
man, C. M. Roberts, G. L. Reed, Mr.
and Mrs. J. L Worthington, Arch
Spears, Rev. Evans Roberson, Mr. and
Mrs. J. E Welch, Sam Latta, Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Long, John Moody, B. S.
Coppock, Louis Myers, O. N. Goddard,
O V. Luster, Roy Luster, Joe Clay-
hrooke, C D. Markham, Mrs. J A.
Hensle.v, John Reason, Oscar Ribbe-
neck. John Wilson, I. E Trent, Mr.
and Mrs. G. W. Benge, J. B. Heady.
POWER OF THE !
DAWES COMMISSION |
When shall we ever strike tbe land-
ing? Every Cherokee is a party to the
great transaction of allotting our
lands, and therefore has a right to talk
about it. So, I desire to say a few
things myself, trying to say them as
suavely as my nature will admit.
The honorable chairman of the Dawes
commission, it is reported, has said:
"There are 4,000 contest cases yet to be
heard by the Dawes commission or its
successors;" and that "after tbe deeds
are delivered there remains nothing to
be done in the Cherokee nation but tbe
hearing of contests."
Under these statements various ques
tlons present themselves. Will It not
be unbusinesslike, and unsafe, too, to
deliver deeds before tbe settlement of
contests? Before such settlement, how
can it be known as to tbe party who
may be entitled to tbe deed? Would it
not be more In rccordance with Intelll
gent business usage to find the rightful
claimant in a contest before tbe deed is
delivered? Otherwise itmlpht happen
tbat the wrong party would win tbe
property in contest.
Mr. Bixby is quoted as saying the
delivery of tbe "100,000Cherokee deeds
• * will beaccompllsbed In six months,"
and that "the allotting of land will be
finished by July 1," except that for In-
fants in tbe other tribes," and tbat tbe
bearing of contest cases "can be fin-
ished lnayear." Then what? Why,
just see this, and correct me. Tbe al-
lotment of land stopped, the deeds all
delivered, and contest cases still under
hearing, without the knowledge as to
the party who will prove to be the
owner of the property under coDtest.
Nor.la this all—nor the worst. Before
these contests are settled the allotment
of land will have been discontinued, so
that tbe defeated party In t£e contest
cannot file on other land in place of
what he had lost In the trial. Then
what? Must he submit to tbe loss and
go without his rightful share of our
lands':- I do not know. But there is
one thing I do know, namely: In
nearly a hundred years of bumming
round on this planet, and by means of
reading, discussion and observation,
watching the ways of the world, I have
never become witness of anything that,
in pointof entanglementandconfusion,
equals thatof allotting the lands of the
Cherokee nation.
Why so many thousand contests,any-
how? Is It because people did not
know their own property, or is It be
c&us* tbey want to rob one another
m
"After all, there is nothing; like
DR. PRICE'S
CREAM
BAKING POWDER
I have used it with satisfaction
for nearly forty years."
under a forced construction of law ? Let
tbem answer for themselves.
Rumor longcontlnued and of unifoi m
import, and not challenged, may be-
come sufficient ground for reasonable
belief; and, for more than a year, the
very atmosphere has been made to ring
with complaints of unfairness imposed
on bona ttde allottees by outside par-
ties, both citizens and non citizens, In
the way of encouraging to people to file
on one another for speculative pur-
poses.
Another fruitful source of these con-
test cases Is what I, old Watt Duncan,
sitting in his corner, have thought,
and still think, is a clearly fallacious
construction applied to the allotment
law, which provides that, for a specific
purpose, a 40 acre tract "may be dealt
with" as if ':ut up into 10 acre tracts;
but the construction, for the general
purpose of allotting all the lands in
tbe Cherokee nation, deals with the
whole body of these lands as if cut into
10-acre patches, allowing people to
snatch up choice scraps all over tbe
country, and often to the hurt of other
fellow citizens. But here is another
objection to this 10-acre business:
It Is generally claimed to be the rule
of tbe honorable Dawes commission
that where two persons have improve-
ments on a 10 acre square, the one hav-
ing the bigger improvement may just
take the other fellow's improvement
from him—rob bim of bis property un-
der tbe strong sanction of tbe United
States, giveii by action of tbe allotting
commission. I do not believe a bit of
it. Does not tbe United States say, In
the law, that an allottee may keep bis
Improvements? Does not tbe Cherokee
constitution say that u man's improve-
ment is his propertj? And does not
tbe constitution of the United States
say tbat no one shall be deprived of his
"property" without "due process of
law?" And no ruling of tbe Oojorable
Dawes commission can be sucb process
of law. No court in the United States
can decide such contests so as to take
the property of one man and sl."p!y
give it to another, nor can any court
sustain the alleged ruling of tbe Dawes
commission in this regard. As tbe law
secures everyone In the possession and
enjoyment of his own property, the
courts, in sucb congests, would decree
that contestant and contestee should
each keep his own improvement.
In these contestcases, where tbe hon-
orable Dawes commission has taken
the property (improvement) from ooo
person and given it to another, the
Cherokee nation, acting through its
principal chief, and the United Stales,
acting through its secretary of the in-
terior, both of them together, become
dlsempowered In the issuance of deeds
to convey to aud vest an unclouded
title Id an allottee; this as long as law
continues to be law, and the constitu-
tion of the United States shall stand
for the defense of the life, liberty and
"property" of the people.
Ah to the truth of this proposition, I
would respectfully beg of any lawyer,
or all of tbem, if I am wrong, to be
corrected.
In fact, the nature of the business
seems to have required that the quan-
| tity of laDd to be allotted, tbe number
! of the allottees, and the right of prop-
i erty In the allotments, should have
been ascertained before allotments
were mAde, and no one allowed, by the
commission, to file on another's prop-
erty. This, in tbe meaning of the law,
would have been "for the protection of
the people."—W. A.Duncan.
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Hudson, Waddie. The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Indian Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 8, 1905, newspaper, April 8, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc155831/m1/4/?q=%22m.+v.+garner%22: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.