The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1894 Page: 4 of 8
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THE EL RENO DEMOCRAT.
T K. HKNSLKY. KlUTOR.
Editorial Not.os.
This dminUtr;(tioii i~ keeping every
thing off tho grafts, exeeptinjf the eat-
tlemen. _
It stand* a candidate in hand to be a the world m- a village of not
There are -on;<' people in El Heno
who on 11 alway- be relied iip >n to make
the town apjK-ar t f little or no impor-
trace to people abroad, every time the\
get a ehanee. Kor Instance. tlii> name
cla:-s of people are not only at this
time permitting, but aiding, a news-
pitjier in a competing town in it* efforts
to I* .ttle El Heno by advertising it to
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fur Register «f Deeds.
We art HUtlmrl/eU to aiuwunv John L,
M,-Malum "f futon i ty towuolilp a«a eandt
date for tlir oflleenf •• ul-ier of Ji iik >ut>-
i.-et to ili-.'l lou of ll" ill n..K t .11.- primary
or uiiinlnatliu: eonvmlIkii
Kerfoot Bros.
The Old Reliable
little bit in
keep*. Th<
ireful of the
voter has evi
company
>uyli dm« f<
I thiMlei
newspaper.
For Count) Clerk.
authorize*! t«• Hiiiioutii'1
iv, «>f F.I Keno precinct
oinify « rk > , • ■ i t-
t lie name«
.1- . CMKi
a <UvMon i
rut ion.
Are now on hands with a
I'at Naglt - ■< tter to the Kit -h* t
Times of last week sounds like a bid
for the nomination of ia iegate.
The state of Oregon has
ubliean officer* from governor down,
including a majority in the — nate and
house of rouresi iitatives.
The president of the rep
of Maryland claims that t
be carried by his party
democrats this fail.
iblican club?
lie state will
aga:n*t the
The El Heno t xuh'Rat is stirring
the animal- down in Oklahoma, and
the more it stirs them the more they
■link.—8t. JtMpb Mo R#pttblkw.
itujK : tame to maintain
and hence, to till a want in this direc-
tion. t has rented one or two columns
of this Ok'abonia City paper in order
to supply it with newspa)>er facilities.
The effect of this scheme is not only to
lrep- hui'.u up Oklahoma t'lty ami an HKla-
hotlut t'lty enterprise at the expense
of 1- . lleno. .t it adver::si > Mi 1 ieno
to the woriil a* a litt.e. insignificant,
suburban villagcof Oklahoma City, un-
able to support a news|Mi|k--r. It - not
only an irjury to us by reason of the
f;,ise impr. --ion it gives out. but it is a
disgrace to our business interests,
which are see, n 1 to none in the terri-
Itoi'v. not i mii Oklahoma ti ty and her
cuckoo daily. If the cuckoo wants
i stab -li a daily paper in El Keno. our
For Uuintv Ilet k.
New - Spring - Stock !
\V< il-« autlf •! t«
,,f V W Ki.-y of I lit*-'
date for t In oltt.•• . f i
1«• a ,.f tlu ilt
'on\ fiitIon. « r primary
anii«*n •*«* I lu- nun.i
tiw u*,liip. u* a cuiltli-
• lllit) « it rk. -llhjeel
inN'ruUi* nominating !
Of Goods Complete in every Department
They Bought Heavy for SPOT CASH
and were never in better shape to quote
SUSPEND THEM.
In Heaver eounty last week the grand
jury returned ar. accusation against the
board of eounty commissioner- charg-
ing them simply with a violation of
the law in funding the floating indebt-
ediu >> of the eounty. aud immediately
upon the returning into eourt of the
accusation, Judge Me A tee suspended
the eounty commissioners and request-
ed Governor Renfrow to appoint a
10 t>oard of commissioners to act. pending
the investigation.
gate are open to them, but we want
Tn this connection \vt wish to ask
.1, re simpson, who has u-t r. danger* them to distinctly understand wi are Judge Burford why some similar tc*
ouslv ill at Washington for the past opposed to any attempt at making us a tj0n is not taken in this county'^ The
few weeks, will soon be able to resume videshow for Oklahoma i'ity. It i? an commissioners have not only had an ae-
his duties in the House of Rcpre-cnta- admission upon the part of the cuckoo
sioners
cusa tion returned against them
lives.
Governor l\?nnoyer of Oregon fa led
to elect enough of members to the leg-
islature to hold the balance of power,
hence his hopes for the United Stat< s
senate, as a pop. i?t* have gone gl. tu-
rner ing.
to people acquainted with both towns,
that Oklahoma City is not large enough t^ev julv
harg
them with a violation of law. but
had an accusation returned I
against them charging them with!
criminal malfeasance and gross mis-
conduct in office. It is not only one
aot of the count] commissioners com-
plained of. as in the ciiv of Heaver
county, but they are charged with
to maintain its newspapers, and that
this one. presuming either upon our
patience or the ignorance of our jh?o-
ple. is attempting to steal a few dol-
lars in patronage to keep the thing
alive, for the time being, and our j>eo-
>says to give landlords pie w ho are the most gullab.e of an\ on inanv acts of wilful and criminal mis- j
n the matter of rents. ,-aj-th. without stopping to consider condut-t in offiee. In addition to thi-
the consequences, have patronized the there is a univ. rsal demand for their
scheme libera.ly. But they can rest resignations: petiftons have been nv.-
assured that such encouragement wi merously signed, and the tax payers. :
be of short duration. 1 he leaven is at with hardly a dissenting voice, de-1
work and the jKH>ple who are 1 nding niand their suspension: in fact the pe<-
the Ok la heman encouragement in its ple are shocked at the idea that this
scheme to fleece our people and belit- , hoard is permitted to discharge the I
tie the town will soon realize that i: duties of their office after they have j
doesn't pay. We have already noticed been indicted by two grand juries in!
we are talking about another issue of a good deal of newspaper comment oou- succession for the same offences. If
bonds bv the Government. What hi - cerning the verdency of hi Rtno i>ec- they were < ndo*ved with common de-
produced this change in the policy of Pl* in ****** to matter and have cency they would resign, pending an j
A large invoice of patterns in carpets
BRUSSELS, TAPESTRIES and INGRAINS
Just received.
f\LSO f\ N&W LINE. OF RUGS.
A Sulky Plow at Cost!
WHITSITT <fc THORNHILL
The Globe
some advice
The Democrat favor# a lower rate of
rei t. notwithstanding we have a few
buildings to r\ nt ourselves. The peo-
ple. however, will be slow to five
much attention to the vaporinfs of a
concern that neither pay* rent nor
has anything to rent.
Four years atfo the Government was
bu) inc up I'niteii States bond*. Now
. . . They liandle a full line of . . .
OILS FOR MACHINERY, RUBBER BELTING, ENGINE GOODS
OF ALL KINDS.
Their Prices are as Low as the Lowest.
Three Doors North of Postoffice, - - EL RENO, 0. T.
Mr. Carlisle and the
at Washington?
democratic yarty
It is no wondvr the Sleeping Beauty
of the Globe complains that no farmer
will take the concern. The farmer
that will take it out of the office, know-
ing' that it is owned and eontroled by a
gang of boodlers who are at this hour
lying under indictment for crimes
against the tax payers, ought to be
robbed.
t>eon asked by scores of people from
abroad what was the matter with El
Reno that she ha. to rent a column in
an Oklahoma pa]>cr.
investigation, but on the contrary they I
have continued to hold office for si.\
months since the first accusation was
returned, and in order that they might
the j
There are. perhaps, some
who would announce in the ti lobe if it
had any character or circulation. But
knowing that it has neither they don't
care to throw away their money and
jeapordize their reputation by so doing.
Because they kt . w fall well the mo-
ment they touch the concern that the
voters, like the lepers of old. would
crv out. "unclean, unclean, unclean."
A tax payor dropped in ore day this
week, paid us two years subscription
tn advance and remarked that the
Democrat had saved him
money to pay for it one hundred yeais.
and that he intended to keep it paid
two years in advance as long as he
lived, and then make suitable pro-
visions for its continuance .11 Ms ast
wi'l and testament.
Farmers did it ever occur to you
that it is due to your efforts that Cana-
dian county has been made to blossom
like the rose'r Did it ever occur to
you that you furnish the money to pay c.isatton
all the salaries of your county officers?
Did it < ver occur to you that you keep
up the towns and sustain every enter-
prise to bo found in them.' That if
andidates you should get up and move out of the
ct u Ury that the towns would become
depopulated and the country go back
to its native wi id n- --- This being true
and no one can deny it, do you not see
how important it is for you to take the
reins of your county government into
your hands and to direct the managi •
Hi nt of public affairs - IX. you lit - re
to stand hack and ailou the saloons,
the gamblers and the tin hivn poli-
ticians in the tow 11s who do net |>ay ..
cents worth of taxes to name a set of
candidates for you to vote for this fa!'.-
If you do not. then you must get to-
gether. at your school houses, and or-
ganize and inform yourselves as to the
enough qualifications ana character of the men
likely to come before the people at the
coming election. You have the power
in your o-vn hands to bring about a
change for the better in the manage-
ment of our county affairs You can
name and elect honest, competent
men for every place to be tilled this
continue for another six month
accusation was lost or disposed of in |
some unexplaint d manner, and the
probabilities are that the present ac-;
will be lost or stolen ;
so that after they haw served 011
their terms and done the county a i
the harm that they can they will _o,
scot free. In the name and at the n -
quest of more than five hundred tax,
payers in this county, we demand the.:-
suspension from office until they ha\e
had a trial and their guilt or inno-
cencc tins been established, providing!
there is any law or authority for -uch
proceeding, ami that there is such a
law. we have every reason to believe,
judging from .l\:iig< McAte. act.. '. 11
Beaver countv.
The democratic party in Oklahoma,
and in fact in every state and territory
in the south and west, is in favor of the
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The mavor of South Enid has ab- dutv to do it. It is a duu that you ,
. , ' ... i.wav s l.o.J as a
sconded. so sav the local papers, and ''*e 10 yourse.M- and fair ies. We . ,. ,
do not desire to dictate to vou whom ao man who is habitually under the in- anu
\Yt >o> it anooum <.d that 1. N. Tei -
rel, the murderer of old man Embree.
will become a candidate for oftkv in
Oklahoma. Thi? announcement >. :o
doubt, intended a? a burfocque on the
character of th>
up for office in thi? new country, a? it
i- r.o unfrequen: thin£ for men ^ y
of i? heinous a crime a> murder, siv
nothing of lesMroffemes, to aspire to
office, and in many instances t«> he
Tht DkMlXRaT :.;i>
ardinal doctrine that
j free and unlimited coinage of silvt r in
>ame ratio with gold, and a majority of
them favor a ratio of sixteen to one.
This policy in effect repudiates the sil-
ver policy of President Cleveland and
hi? administration, and it is our firm
belief that if this policy Is purs k d I j
Mr. liev- ami mu the goldbup? of the
east, that the party will nnd it?v.'
without supjx : '. in the we?t and
at the next prudential election. The
rank and file of the democratic part}
will demand a return to the principles
and traditions : the father- in th- mat-
ter of the currency of the e untry. and
unless the) can hav< some assuraAceol
an observance of these time-honored
principles they wiil ally themselves to
some other organization.
The Globe begin? to k ck because
candidates for office this fail are not
announcing in that sheet. A candidate
who ha? any sense will shun that sheet
as he would a pestilence. If his an-
nouncement should appear ir t. the
farmers would not te v'h him with a
ten foot pole. They would • rand him.
and rightly, too. as being either a
member of the Robber's Roost, or one of
theiv st< •< • * ! to uveivt*
the people. The people know that
this lirty she< * was orgai ed by the
court house (rang to work them back
office.
Thi
va.
to
-
concern in an\ ?hape.
because if h* Jot.? i
death. Farmer Edj.
not or.iy • -t Lim ..i?
he wa? robbed of •
iag? besides. The?
reasons whi ai
-e n > man who
,i'W would allow
nected with the
manner or
eans his political
.:• • -ied it and it
The Oklahoman makes the following
sensible observation concerning the
offiee of th« legitimate new?paper of a
country:
44A legitimate newspaper i? th
of the people: their representative, ai d
therefore must keep careful surveii-
iiance over the offiee holdt-rs. either in
or out of the party, and chastise them
if they swerve one jot from the iine
laid down by their masters. In this
sense a newspaper is an office holder,
receiving its remuneration from the
people whose rights it protect? and
whose servants it is elected to ov r-ee.
By no pos?ible process of reasoning can
this position be overturned, and it-
antithesis of official domination sub-
orm. -tituted. To do so would be ?ettinj r i;i>
1
his father has attached all hi? city
property. The mayor wa? a hivrh flier
at Enid for a little season, but like all
high-fliers, flew to high to last. Okla-
homa i? full of high-fliers. ar.«l you can
generally find them in seme appointive
or local office, flying at the expense « '
the public.
The democratic central committee,
which meets here in a few days, should
arrange f* r a primary election. The
men who often come people in the country have faith in this
system of selecting candidates. They
have been a-King for it from every part
of the county, and much depend- at
this election upon the united country
vote. The town? have run the politic?
of the county ever since its organiza-
tion. The country people now think,
rightly too. that their wishes
ing forward
Globe.
poi
r* hi.- hard
are ?ome of ttie
>- are : < t rush-
their i.arne? in the
the few to rule the many, denying the
liberty which should only end where
it encroaches on other liberty, and cut-
ting off the chief function of the only
. oa: j - intermediary between the people and
official corruption—the press."
The policy ontlined by the Oklaho-
man is the policy that has been follow-
ed by the Dkmocrat to the letter ever
since we took control of it. It ha? been
a rocky road to travel, but we haw pur-
sued it just the same, and hare i o
cause for regrets, and we can unhesi-
tatingly say that it is the only course
a newspaper can pursue and maintain
the respect and confidence of the
pie long.
peo-
whi?r>
fluenee of
quenter of place? i
whose escutcheon ha?
Waldrcn, when he thought he had
unloaded the Globe or, Farmer Edgar,
told a business man thi- town : hat
they did not have twenty - hers
all told, to the G - . anu ti t • y
could not get them: that * e poo}
would not even take it out of the office.
Yet we notice that the «. not mi- -"
obtaining money from the merchaut?
under the false pretense of hat -
circulation. But then a v . rb steoe
land shark who ha? workt-d the relin-
quishment racket n home?teadtr>.
you shall nominate, but we do desire t ^
suggest to you that you should demand
that the offices be distributed among
the various townships in the county.
and we would advise you to select just
as few men from the towns a? i? jx'--i-
ble. Center upon ?*une honest com-
petent farmer who has not become en-
tangled with any of the corrupt politi-
cal rings that have been formed in thi
town? for the \ urpo?t of preying pen
the unsophisticated v •.•anger. Vou
have the votes. y« i have the men to j courteous d— a'. _ of k ty i- t
fill the ofRces,and you"pay the freight." . rect policy for the commun ity to
a gamb.t r. - should be consulted, and in this con-
bad repute, c r neetion we * state that the voters in
H-en stained with the county i recincts arc not a ti - • I •
crime or acts of dishonesty, should be
elected to public office. And there
can be no palliation or excuse {o*: r.< ru-
inating such men in a country where
there an -o many hone-*. eotr.iv: . nt
and good men as we have he re. v .n
men, clean record.-. > lean. } ivmj *
in harmony with the central commit-
teeman. The central committeemen
in a majority of precincts were selected
at the organization of the county and
ha? general > - er -.-.dered a? stand-
With the cour.tv attorney and hi?
deputy indicted for a penitentiary
i :Ten?e. the ' .-.nl : > t. unty
commissione: ? for ma.feasance in
office: the probate judge for criminal
libel, and a number of other orders for
permitting gambling house- to run.
the people may expect that some vig-
orous work will be done in the way of
prosecuting each other. We feel quite
s ire that the «>. ur.ty attorney would
almost lo?e his right arm to convict
the county comm.??.oner? .o*. issuing by issuing intcrcst-lvaring bonds. The
illegal warrants upon his advice to his democratic party until this admin.-•
deputy and other member- of the Jen-
! nings* familv, and r. the other hand
The demcK'ratic party of the south
and west are opposed to a financial
policy that destroys silver by demone-
tization, and then attempts to supply
the deficit in our circulating medium
All that yc
eea to uv
i m « -t. nt
in order to be
, nail a i:g
,ger of the
iv i
T':.v i... . .i-: Sa: . ;t\
article scorching the man
honk-a-tonk. The reason is very appar- [ rijThts
ent. The - • t
given oompe. Of OOttrn it did not mean —
to cast ar.y reject.or.s ujH^n the Sachem j The tirand
Lit. Then there
v.. t very man reve.
and evervlxxl v -a t. s rl
makes i
-
, but we know t i
voters have tht
■
e committee
the majority
>nai
el iuite sure that the commis-
« are m re t:.ar. ar.xious to set
juntv attorney ard his deputy
ted and ?t r.t to the w r.itentiarv
;er to prevent the v :vus and
- •
tration has always been opposed to a
bonded indebtedness. Even Mr. Car-
lisle, who now favors another i-?uc ■>(
bonds, has led the party in many a
crusade against the national bank- and
a system of government bonds upon
which they are based. The demo-
cratic party niu?t either r, verso itself
-
required to make room for a more pro-
ssi\ .
ury in its .te i>-o
ever since he has been in the town, wi.il of the honk-a-V • k. r to imply that he . r.^ a *
do anything, even to beating a Yahoo had withdrawn hi? presence and en- Y< - they :nd ted h.m for
like Edgar out of evervthing he has. rouragement from the concern. lentary cfTence
votes. In fact we believe that the
are more than one precinct that wi
fuse t« . . . •
ioned delegated convention. W e hoj
the committee w . 1 ma^e r mi-take
, this matter.
The opinions concerning Jud^t ott.
formed by newsj>aiH>r accounts of i. im
during the past few months, both by
the bar and the people of this citv.
were soon dissipated when they were
brought in personal contact with him
than a year and a half two- The Democrat will repeat what it has
•" the gang have bt- n indicted said heretofore, vi. . that the time was
charge of their public affairs. And
thev now begin to see that what the
Democrat to:d them a year ago would
come true, has been more than verified.
In le?
third?
You can vote as m&cy time* a? ycu
^an get ballots.
for crimes: nearly IhX>.000 indebted- not a year distant when the men who
ness piled up on the people: one-half were criticizing him for his action in the
the tax payer- jv c-ec. anc the .ther McMasters-Burke %V llwwn cmbroglio
half allowed to go scott free. would be commending him for it.
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Hensley, T. F. The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1894, newspaper, June 14, 1894; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc159878/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.