The El Reno Democrat. And Courier-Tribune. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 8, 1894 Page: 4 of 8
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THE EL RENO DEMOCRAT.
And
Courier-Tribune
T. F. HENSLEY 1). W. PEERY
Editors.
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With this issue, the democrat be-
gins the fifth year of its history, in
other words it is u four-year-old today.
During the two years just passed in
which we have had control of the paper,
wo have met with a liberal share of
patronage from the people, for which
we feel deeply tkankful as it has en-
abled us to make many needed im-
provements and to establish a perma-
nent enterprise in El Reno, second to
none in the territory or the new south-
west. When we took control of the
Democrat we found it with less than
.'500 actual subscribers, a cheap hand
press and a pocket full of worn out type;
today it has a circulation of over -.0( 0
actual subscribers, and is equipped
with three new power presses of the
latest paterns, a complete stereotyping
outfit and with new type and new
material throughout, making it the
newest and most complete office in the
territory.
We Bhall endeavor to greetour read-
ers at the beginning of this, our new
tisoal year, with a better and more in-
teresting paper than they have receiv-
ed in the past, as we are better ac-
quainted with the country and people
and have better facilities for carrying
out this desire than at any time here-
tofore. As to the policy of the paper,
it will be devoted first to the best finan-
cial interests of its publisher, secondly
to the local needs of the town, county
and territory in which our lot is cast.
This phase of the financial question,
as intimated above, shall receive our
first attention, after which, if the gov-
ernment stands in need of any advice,
we are at her service.
The Democrat don't care a conti-
nental for the party lash, especially if
it happens to bo in tho hands of the
most venal element of the party. When
it has opinions of its own, it will express
them. We do not believe that it isone
tho organization, especially in this
territory, has allowed many improper
characters to creep into places of trust
and honor; that some of our great
leaders have gone ofT after strange
finanelnl gods, yet for all that wo be-
lieve it to be the grandest political or-
ganization that ever marked an exis-
tence in this or any other country, and
notwithstanding its mistakes, it still
stands above all other political orftini-
zations and is the only hope of the
struggling thousands against class
legislation and corporate greed. Like
the ocean it will purify itself by
its own volition and correct the
errors it has been led into by ill-advis«d
friends and traitors to its traditions.
It offers to the toiling masses relief
from war taxes by the repeal of high
tariff laws and an equalization of the
burdens of the government by leveying
an income tax unon the earn-
ings of the rich. In Ibis it proposes to
go even further than the populist in its
efforts to ameliorate the condition of
the toilers of the west and south.
A few months time, in our opinion,
will demonstrate to the country that
tho federal administration has been
brought in touch with the masses and
that the democrats of Oklahoma will
all be pulling toward one common end.
Insane Asylum.
The principle opposition to immedi-
ate statehood is based upon tho grounds
that it would incur an additional ex-
pense upon the taxpayers of Oklahoma.
While this is true in regard to the ex-
pense of supporting a State govern-
ment, yet if Oklahoma was given the
right of a sovereign state it would
make several funds available for the
the support of our public institutions,
from which the territory now derives
but littlo revenue.
Tho care and treatment of the in-
sane is now one of the greatest bur-
den that the taxpayers under our ter-
ritorial government have to carry and
we have no funds for that purpose
except those that are raised from di-
rect taxation.
Having no asylum of its own and no
of the functions of a political party to | funds available to establish such an in-
dc> the thinking for the people and stitutlon, Oklahoma has been oom-
especially the newspapers. Democracy polled to contract for the care and
travelling expenses alone $12,80f>.63
and at the present rate of increase
will make a total expense of over
$110,000 by January 1, 1!>!>5.
The territory has also paid to l>r. f
(leorge ( McKarland, who lias charge
of the institution, up to January 1,
1K1I4, for the care and treatment
of such patients, and to add ti) it the
increased number of patients occa-
sioned by the rapid increase in our
population will make tho expense of
maintaining not less than ,,000 at
the end of the year. Making a total
expense to the territory up to January
1, 180"), of not less than $45,000 for tho
transportation, care anil treatment of
the insane.
of course the territorial legislature
could have located such an institution,
lint there was no funds available for
such purpo.-o without contracting a
debt upon the pi ople.
The bill opening the Cherokee Strip
sets apart section Kl and in each
township for the public institutions,
but no funds can be derived from them
until Oklahoma becomes a State, then
the legislature of the State will be
authorized to use these lands for the
benefit of our public institutions. It
tho funds derived from the sale of
these lands is Invested rightly it will
furnish a revenue sufficient to estab-
lish and maintain a penitentiary and
an insane asylum for the territory
without levying one cent of tax for
that purpose.
Parks-Merritt "Bum" Edition.
The public now realize that they
were took in and done for by the Her-
ald outfit in the bogus write up of the
town. They were promised 20,000
copies and were given 55 quires, or 1320
copies. It was a disgrace to the town,
not only in point of workmanship, but
in the llatulent, insipid write up of the
few business interests that did patron-
ize it. Such gushing rot is neausia-
ting to intelligent people and is every-
thing else but pleasing to our business
people of sense and good taste. Hut
the worst feature about tho whole
bogus affair was tho false pretenses of
the publishers, so-called, in telling our
people that they were getting up the
scheme when in reality two drunken
bums were at the head of it and got
the lion's share of the money our peo-
ple threw away. These two bums,
Lewis and Townsend by name, fell out
in one of the,dives of El Reno a day or
two before they left, and one of them
carved the other with a knife, and was
put in jail until his pal collected
enough of money from the merchants
of El Reno who were taken in by these
dead beats and their ''big Herald
edition?" A newspaper that will
lend itself to such scoundrels
to rob the people of its own town, who
have stood by it and kept its worthless
carcass out of the gutter and from the
hands of the sheriff, ought tobedrumed
out of town to the music of the rogues
march.
Later—Since putting the above in
type one of tho foreign gentlemen re-
ferred to came into the Democrat of-
fice and said that he had been swin-
dled out of his share of the swag, and
asked us for space to expose the whole
steal. He said that they never in-
tended to get out 20.0(H) copies and that
he advised Merritt and Parks not to
so advertise it, but that they were so
intent on swindling somebody that
they would not heed his advice. He
said that the whole thing was the bas-
est kind of a steal and swindle upon
the people, and that the whole outfit
ought to be prosecuted for obtaining
money under false pretenses. We
have talked with a score of merchants
and business men about the brazen-
faced steal and they are all unanimous
in saying that no one except two rene-
gades like Parks and Merritt could be
found with gall sufficient to attempt a
swindle of this kind upon merchants
chants and business men who have
kept their worthless carcasses out of
the gutter by feeding and supporting
their little, dirty, blackmailing sheet,
with its half a hundred circulation.
advocates and demands the fullest de-
gree of personal liberty as regards the
person and stomachs of the people and
we believe that the thinking apparatus
should be accorded just as much liberty
as the digestive apparatus, and we are
of the further opinion that a great deal
of the Inharmony found in both parties
in this territory is due to the fact that
too much rope is given to the stomach
and not enough to the mind. We have
too many sycophants and not enough
men. Too many demogogues for the
amount of votes the parties are able to
cast. We need fewer field marshals
and more soldiers willing to bear the
party cross. The Democrat, as its
name indicates, believes in the prin-
ciples and teachings of the fathers of
'the party. It is forced to admit that
treatment of all its insane persons out-
side of the territory, as there was no
institution here that was prepared to
oare for them.
In making the contract it was found
impossible to mako one with the au-
thorities of any State west of the
Mississippi, as all of the public ele-
mosenary institutions were crowded
and it was found necessary to make a
contract with a private asylum at Jack-
sonnille, 111. This contract was made
by Gov. Steel in 1890 and since that
time the territory has paid out enough
money in transporting patients to the
asylum to build an asylum that would
meet all the requirements of the ter-
ritory for several years.
From January 1, 1801, until January
1, 1894, there has been expended for
ew York Life Ins. Co.
ti oil ii A. McCall. Prosidont.
Purely Mutual, All Profits Go To Policy Holders.
SUMMARY OF THE
FORTY-NINTH f\NNUf\L REPORT
00 BUSINESS OF 1893.00
Total Income. - $33,863,646.95
Total to Policy Holders.
Amount of Insurance Written.
$15,038,450.27
$228,417,114.00
Assets,
Surplus,
Condition January 1, 1894.
$148,700,781.20
$ 17.025.630.18
company in
Largest Surplus oi flny Purely Mutua
The world.
RECORD BREf\K&R.
THREE NEW INSURANGE RECORDS,
FIRST—Amount of new Insurance issued in 1893, not including re-
vived policies or additions from dividends,
SECOND—Net gain in new business over the previous year,
THIRD—Net gain in insurance in force,
$'223,800,000
$ 54,812,000
$ 89,908,047
SPECIAL FEATURES NEW YORK LIFE.
No restrictions as to residence, travel, occupation, suicide, dueling, military ser
vice or violation of law.
Non-forfeitable after 3 annual premiums liave been paid.
Incontestible after one year.
Thirty days grace in payment of premiums and policy remains in full force during
same.
Reinstatement allowed within six months. Loans money after Five annual premi
urns have been paid at 5 per cent, interest.
The New York Life issues a complete contract as good as a Government Bond
and pays the insured better interest in addition to protection in event of death
during the accumulation period. For estimate on policy send your address and
date of birth to
Johnson & Cannaway, Gen'l Agts.,
KI. RENO, O. T.
Liberal contracts will be given to reliable Agents.
$100 REWARD. $ IOO
The reader of this paper will be
pleased to learn there is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been I
able to cure in all its stages, and that
is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires a con-
stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting direct-
ly on the blood and mucus surfaces [
of the system, thereby destroying the i
foundation of the disease, unci giving
the patient strength by building up
the constitution and assisting nature
in doing its work. The proprietors ;
have so much faith in its curative |
powers, that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address, P. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, Ohio.
(KgrSold by Druggists, 75c. Feb.
YUKO]\r
THE
GEM CITY OF THE SOUTHWEST
0 0©
George W. Childs, the editor and
proprietor of the Philadelphia Ledger,
died last Saturday morning. The im-
mediate cause of his death was paraly-
sis. The great editor and philanthro-
pist was stricken down in his office,
literally dying in the harness. He was
born in Baltimore, May 12. 18211, of
humble parentage. Like Franklin he
commenced life a ]>oor and friendless
boy, learned the printer's trade and
became Philadelphia's greatest printer
and publisher. He was General Grant's
truest friend in the darkest hour of his
adversity and in 1888 made a gift of
110,000 to the Typographical Union
for the benefit of that organization.
In the death of Mr. Childs humanity
has lost a friened and the newspaper
world one of its brightest lights.
Waldron, Parks & Merritt, three
Stal—wart democrats for revenue onlv.
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and we will send you "WOMAN* two months on
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This offer is for immediate acceptance. Don't
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L- nvc. spencer.
Yukon
Okla.
Cotton at 16 cts Per Lb.
SEED FOR TRIAL PURPOSES ONLY.
We Have Every Seed In Existence.
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SOilRARrS
DRUG STORE.
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and so on.
Inland Sea Island is a long staple cotton in which .-ill objection* are re-
moved. It is enormously productive, easily ginned and no trouble to pick out.
You can make it with no extra expense or trouble. See what Mr. Jeff Wel-
born has to say :
New Boston, Tkx., Dec 5
RICHMOND SEICD CO . Richmond, Va.:
This is to certify that I had "Inland Sea Island" cotton planted in alternate
plots with Sea Island, Allison's Silk, Allen's latest improved long staple, Ozier
Silk, Southern Hope and some other varieties of long lint. The Inland Sea
Island was a great deal earlier than any of them and made one-third more lint
per plot (of same size) than any, and double as much as any same one variety
Ozier Silk. While the lint was no longer than the Allen, it was much finer
JEFF WELBORN.
No seed for sale until next season save a limited number of Duckets which w,>
for trial purjx.se,. Will positively refuse to sell seed any other way ti.?; seali.n Su " ' t"r-
bids our saying more here, but write us for full Information. Packets ilcts hvmii ill,,,
60, 6 for a *1.00. " """• '' lor
R-icstimond Seed Oo ,"Richmond, Va.
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