The El Reno Democrat. (El Reno, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 5, No. 24, Ed. 2 Thursday, July 12, 1894 Page: 3 of 10
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The Official Organ of the War Department and the Taxpayers of Canadian County.
T. F. HEXSLEY, Proprietor.
PUBLISHED EI 'EE Y THURSDAY.
$ 1.2r> PER YEAR
Volume fci-
HI Li KH1NO. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. THURSDAY. JULY jUl, 1S94.
N ti m ber
the middle <>k ihi: roaii.
l'o|iiilistv NuminaU Ralph Beaumont
For Congress. \o Fusion.
The populist territorial convention
met on Tuesday at the opera house in
thiscily, pursuant to previousarrange-
ment*. to nominate a candidate for del-
egate to conxit'i'K from this territory.
(;,,-al preparations bad been made by
the local organization of this county,
as thin un i ting had not only liecn pre-
dicted, but advertised to the world as
one of the most important in the histo-
ry of populism in this territory. A*
early as noon the day before, delocates
fKmi :i distanee began to gather. and
by ten o'clock of the day of the conven-
tion every county in the. territory ex-
cept Day was fully represented, and be
it :-aid to the credit of the "pops. the
majority of the delegates were iner.
above the average in intelligence.
At ten o'clock the convention was
called to order by the temporary chair-
man, when Mayor Hobart
where the property of a eorjioration
has been pla«*ed in the hands of a re-
iver Unit tlie wa^es of the employes
shall be u lii-t-it item on its carningsand
assets, and we denounce the appoint-
K. K. Hennett. of Kl Heno. makes h a judicial farce.
good presiding ofticer. One of tne most faivical judicial in- fol. Work in indexing the record*
Some fellow with a voice like a fog; vest igat ions that ever amused a jury I jfl the proliate court, left uncompleted
1 or chagrined a court,came up last. Kri- l > ludge Fox?
day (hangman's day,) liefore .Hidge | A They did.
; liurford in the district court. It was . llidyoudivide this ♦l.'Hi with the
uc a warrant to you for *1,70 in pay- might he able to pull through it.
They were whitewashed. The jury
horn recited a |KH'in entitled "Shylock."
A Miss Walling, from "L" county.
mentof any official or part ion Interested uiade the best sjieechof the con vent ion.
as receivers of any corporation. The if elected, all agreed to ,
7. We believe Unit there is lio differ- heale down their salaries exeept Heau-jthe nll,, <"'d trUI of the etninty eoiiniii- ' eouut.y eonnnUsioners. or any one of J renenttttive of this |h.|hm' lhat he
eneo tietween the republican and demo- j IIHint • sioners eliaryv.l with eriminal malfeaw- thorny never «een suoh a finite enacted on the
low who Woniil stajje let alone in a court of justice.
adding lliut the John Hall obm- was
eonld not do otherwise. The prosecu-
tion failed wholly to establish a -inyU;
material allegation.
< >no of the attorneys stated to a rep-
hail
e rat ie party. That the lenders of both j ( ol. fiwker tried to work in a wnui-| iui''e in ofllec. Tim wateh dog of thi A. I K I look like a ft
are the ugunts of the monej powei in |„ns HUffiiig,> plank in tin- platform, but j treasury prusoeuting <?s. Henderson V divide'
1 fell down on it.
Warren and I'ol. Hush defending. The
the enactment of laws thai make tin
rich l ioeiTHnd the ikmu' lxiorer. ...... ,
idenced bj post legislation and current j l . '1.','1.7 lnlblU' wil1 'onioml>ei' that the -rand
events. Therefore we are opposed to
fusion with either of the old parties,
and pledge ourselves asa party to make
the light for home and native land on
principle alone.
8. Whereas our fair territory con-
a resolution calling for immediate
jury returned an indictment, or ateu-
statehood. The east side jumped on
it and so modified it as to prevent it | «*>• > "trainst the board of county com
j from being tortured into favoring missionersat the October term, charg-
j statehood for Oklahoma alone. juo them with criminal malfeasance in
During a temporary suspension of
f /MU. , , | business some one called on all the old
tains a population of 2. 0.000 and tax-
able wealth aggregating $100,000,000. j
.... , .tl hind be counted. rorty -four who
and whereas wo have an abiding faith | t i 1 t x x
in tlx* eapa
government, therefore we the repre-
north and south, to stand up
wore
. . ,, ! blue, and twelve who wore the grey,
ItV of our people lor sell- .
arose to their feet
shaking across th
followed.
sentati ve of the peoples' party demand
immediate statehood, including Okla-
homa and the entire Indian territory.
!>. We favor the sealing of all sal-
aries of county, state ami national otti-
he who had cials in proportion to the reduction in , , ,
. the major to mal:e them a speet
his cuticle perforated by the Right Kev. prices for products and the wages of |, , 4l
laborers.
t t INVENTION I.Xl'KKSSION.
That we extend a hearty in vital-foil
to our honest democratic-aud republi-
can friends to come and joiu us in the
great struggle against corporate greed
office They will also remember that
at said October term the county attor-
ney requested Judge Rur ford to appoint
an attorney to handle the ease against
A general hand- the commissioner* liefore the grand ju-
•• bloody chasm ; ,.y f,„. |jM. reason that he had advised
t hem concerning ;i number of matters
Several of the delegations claim that !
Major Simpson resembled <Jen. ('oxey
more than any other man in the torri-
territtiry. They «?ndea vored to induce
h. but
e and you will and monopolistic coiiBWiraeie
fellows. I am The following is a list of
gates as neaH\
them:
HI .AIN K COUNTY.
\V. K. Taylor. A. H. ( raven. U.
SinedU'N. A. Speer and (i. I'oston.
I' WN'K COUNTY.
F. < arpenter. i'. W. Dutton. K.
( oats, iI). Teter. H. Vanardsdale.
(Jranville Jones, in a sermon to men
only, was called for and delivered the
following address of welcome:
•Mr. Chairman, as mayor of Kl Reno,
I bid you welcome: a hearty welcome.
(Jo out among our peoj
find t hem pretty good
not a speech maker. I will stop."
At the close of Mayor Hobart's nd-
dre-s there was singing by the populist
glee club, instrumental music by the
colored banjo picker, employed by the
campaign committc during the coming
<'ampaign. Tht; usual committees were
appointed and the meeting adjourned
for dinner.
\ t the afternoon session, pending t lie
work of the committee, a half a -core
of short speeches were made by candi-
date- and ot hers.
The committee on permanent orga-
nization and order of business recom-
mended the election of K. K. Dennett.
of Canadian county, permanent chair-
man, and J. L. Allen, of Cleveland
count\ permanent secretary. The com-
mittee on platform reported a platform
which was taken up section by section
and vigorously discussed by the con-
vention. The labor of the convention
was in evolving a platform. In matter H. H. Walling,
of construction it was fearfullv and I "k" county.
he declined, stating than lie intended to
make no more speeches until Septem-
tember first.
The candidates for delegate were
called out by n written informal ballot.
There were six in number. Deaumont.
CunditY. Saunders, lMnkham. L. R
Walling and Vanarsdale. Ralph Deau-
dele- inont. of the Oklahoma State. Okla-
•rcct as we could "et 'loma City, was nominated on the first
liallot. The v te blood C 4l for Deau-
mont. 10 for CunditT. l." for Saunders,
ti for Pinkham, t for Walling and 2 for
Vanarsdale.
| which the grand jury proposed to in-
dict them for and in that sense it made
him a party to the transaction. He
therefore asked to be relieved from the
unpleasant duty of indicting them anil
perhaps himself. The judge excused
him and appointed Attorney Forrest
who prepared an indictment which was
returned as before stated. The case
ty commissioners, or any one of them
to induce them to issue this warrant of
♦ 1,'iOy
objected toon the ground that the
answer might criminate the witness).
The witness notwithstanding the ob-
jection answered with an emphatic
"no." The county attorney passed tin;
witness to the defense for cross-examj-
nation. but the direct examination had
been so vigorous that the defense did
not care to cross examine.
The second witness we failed to get
his name. He was examined b\ the
county attorney as follows:
<v . Were you liefore the grand j«i'*y
\. What grand jury'."
Q. The last urand jury.
A. 1 was.
(). t)o you know anything about the
corruption complained of
was cont inued
tot he present
reached on tin
term, lo, and
from the October term nicut against
term. When it wa-
calendar at t lie present
behold, no indictment
ENDORSE THE ADMINISTRATION.
, The nearer we approach the con-
gressional convention the more a cer-
tain class of disappointed democratic
could be found. The
-bowed that t lie county
1 taken it from the tilt's,
attorney said that sin-h
ord
clerk's r
attorney had
The county
was t lie case
<%>. Did you bribe or corrupt the conn- not u shadow or circumstance compared
with it.
In justice, however, to the two grand
juriesuwho returned the bill we will
state that the attorneys for the defense
filed an answer to each ami every alle-
gation in the indictment, admitting
that the lioard of county commission-
ers had committed each and every act
complained of. had issued each and
every warrant mentioned in the accu-
sation, but that they had done it in
good faith and with good intentions,
believing that they had a right to do
what they had done and if they
had violated the law they had
done it ignorantly not being law-
yers. and as the county was with-
out a lawyer competent and able
to ad\ ise them, they Were compellod to
be guided by their own instincts, and
the indict- that if it had lod tlieni into forbidden
(immission- paths, they were sorry for it: that it
\\:is an error of t heir brain pan and not
a fault of tin cardie machinery of their
aiiatom\.
connt\
iieiinent that was lost or
-lev. John Arnold aud A. Neher.
CL K V KliA Nil cor NT Y.
Fail«-d to i -el the names of the de
I lUNW'Y.
S. (". Dn
l ( ITT A \V ATT< 1.M1K
J« K. Doom. (I. Pine
and K. Diddle.
WASHITA COUNTY.
K. S. Wilcox and J. C. Hatch
••<j" « OUNTY.
.1. A. ( oalburg. C. M. How
Witt en and K. S. Soule.
• I." COUNTY.
K. \i. Summers. O. .M. Howard and
Win
William Tannerhill, J. c. Columbia
and J. H. Smith.
Web-
wonderfully made, each delegate en-
deavoring to leave his impress upon it.
Kaeli had some pet scheme that he de-
sired to see in print and labeled a plat-
form. The discussion covered the af-
ternoon and a part of the night. It was
sometimes eloquent, often ludicrous.
seldom logical, always long.••loud and
explosive. In some respects the plat-
form i^ good. Here it is.
THE PLATFORM.
1. We endorse the platform and
principles of the peoples' party adopted Altzer.
at Omaha, Nebraska. July 4th. 1S92. Lincoln county.
'1. Jn view of the fact that the con- A. it. Rhodes. Jamas A. Taggnrt,
dition under which the Cherokee Strip. W. Haglo, T. Arnold and A. J. Mo-
tile Cheyenne and Arapahoe, the Sac
OK LAHOM A COUNTY.
Col. Crocker. D'* Furlang,
ber and R. ( 'liner.
0 COUNTY.
R. K. Hrny. O. W. Cromwell. J.
Piggott. P. Oeonnor, O. W. Jones. J.
\*. Itakestriiw. I. L. McCarvie. A. H.
Fisher. .1. W. Sheanwood. I). K. LeBtiw
and I!. I). ! -acy.
P. COUNTY.
.1 I). (ioodhue, (Jarrison,
\V.
M HilATY.
[anison. an
proxiv -.
Leo Vine*
tative. J.
,<H.\N COUNTY,
nt editor of the
>. Soule editor
•nne and
and Fox, the Pottawatomie and Iowa
countries were opened, amounts to a
hopeless mortgage over the free home-
steader. We favor congress passing a
law permitting of free homes to actual
settlers on the same basis as the set-
tlers of Old Oklahoma. Further that
we favor commutation of homesteads at Forum* K. Katon. S. I
the expiration of 14 months in the ( 'her- Moris. U. Craig <
okee Strip.
.'I. We favor the free and unlimit-
ed coinage of yold and silver, at the
ratio of Hi to one. and the issue of suf-
ficient full legal tender treasury notes
to transact the business of the country
without resorting to credit.
4. We favor the passage of a law by
Congress insuring better and the ut-
most protection to lessees of school
lands in <)klahoiua.
We dctnand a graduated service
ill usion so that the man who carried
the musket shall rec-ive the same pay
as the man who wore the epaulet.* and
the passage of such laws so framed as
to forever prevent any unfriendly offic-
ial from changing, altering, suspend-
ing. or .depriving in any way the sol-
dier from dues which bis service enti-
tles him to.
We demand national and state
boards of arbitration to be elected by
the people, to settle and adjust the dif- ey,
ferences between the employer and the Soi
W. Yayer. T. (i. Weeks. D. R. Tank -1 soreheads talk against the i|iie tion of
endorsing the federal and territorial
administration. There never lias been
a time in tliis territory, or anywhere
else, perhaps, when carpers would not i
carp and soreheads growl because they
could not bav« all they waited, or!
would not lie permitted to rnu the
affairs of state to suit their ow n s veet
will. The democratic part\ is greater
than any one man or any one faction of >
men in this territory who happens to
be displeased with some act of the
president, the governor or members of
the supreme court. The democratic
party is greater than Cleveland, great-
er than Hill, greater than any one
man ever honored with office by it.
The convention which meets in this
town soon is in duty bound to endorse
the administration at Washington and
in Oklahoma, from a standpoint of
practical politics if nothing else. The
democracy of Oklahoma may. and no
doubt does disagree with M r. ('loveland
upon his silver policy, bis civil service
and bis Hawaian jiolicy. Rut demo-
cracy means more than this and nobody
will gainsay, but that \\« have a demo-
cratic administration in every other
sense of the word, and as such it is our
duty, howevi r independent we may lie
in our views upon these questions, to •
-land by the organization because w i th-
ou t organization we can accomplish
nothing. \nd what is said of the fed-
eral administration i> true of the terri-
n_ torial administration. The Dkmockat
claims to be inde|>endent enough to-
comment upon or even condemn an\
acts of either the federal or territorial
administrations, which in their nature
drifts away from tie mooring of the
historic and traditional principle- of
the party, and at the -ame time it ba-
the fairness to approve all that - ither
admistration dot'- that i- democratic
and right, and to encourage the rank
and file, to stand firmly and loyally In
the party. Looking at the question
from a standpoint of principle and
right, there is no reason why the eon-
vention ought not to . n<i« r-« ti- at
ministration, but then* • very reason
that it should do so. We want tie
friendship of tin governmental Wash-
ington and all of the departments: we
need the co-opt ration and encoura^- -
nicut of the territorial administration
but that lie had loaned it to one Parks
of t he < I lobe. Parks -aid that he re-
turned it to the county attornev'-de-k.
It never was seen afterwards, and the
case was dismissed for want of the in-
dictment. The pre-eut grand jury,
however, look the case up again and
examined a score or more of witnesses,
on the same charges for which they
were indicted before, but strange as it
A. Th
stolen r
(%>. This indictment the now one.
\ I know nothing alniut this indict
nicut. I never saw it. or heard i' read.
o. Do you know anything about a
warrant that was issued to K. Jennings
for -t2.V for -erv
attorney?
A. The\ issue!
him he sold it t
er and t hen vou
cs as deputy county
such a warrant to
an innocentpurehas
mjoini'd the county
treasurer from paying it. after lie had
got the money on it from said innocent
purchaser.
Q. Do you know of your own person-
I may seem, tht
: to allow Mr.
disinterested
county attorney declined al knowledge that the county eommis-
Forrest, or some other • sinners, or any one of them received
attorney to handle the any part of the proceeds of this warrant
•ase before the grand jury, and insisted I as a bribe?
on examining the witnesses himself,
doubtless with the view of preventing
an indictment being found. The grand
jury however, indicted them the. second
time. Jennings wrote the accusation
and it was on this indictment that they
were pretended to have been tried last
Friday. When tlie jury was impan-
neled Mr. Warren objected to the in-
troduction of testimony on tic ground
of any
sioners.
Laugl i ii.
.1 with tw
Reprei
Field and
Atherton, I). .1.
M. Alfred,
I .awhead.
Brothers and Dr.
KlXC FISHER COUNTY
J. .1. Haymaker, T. J. Flickinger,
J. C. Tows ley. <1. W. Willson, Ren
States. Dr. 13. Sherrod. A. R. Camp-
bell. K. F. Could and W. X. Wright.
CANADIAN county.
J. A. Oslnirn. <). 1). Kuggs, T. .!.
Richie. J. 1). Hurst. Trotter and
T. J. Donaldson.
NOTKS OV THE CON\"KN I'K)N.
••()" rminty i*arri 'd oil' the banner
on oratory.
One of tiie d' legat- - reminded oin-
very toreiblv of Marks, the lawyer, in
Uncle Tom "s < 'abin.
Col. Crocker was armed with about
twenty resolutions, all of which were
promptly sal down on by the conven-
t ion.
that the indictment did not show that i 1 \ satisfactory that the defense did not
the commissioners who were charged
with malfeasance in office w -re now in
| office. The judge sustained the ob-
jection stating that the accusation was
bad. Redid not say it was intention-
ally ba«l. but the disgusted look which human being
his eountenane. bore indicated that he
thought it. Tin defense, after getting
an expression from the court, that the
indictment was bad, then withdrew
their obj ction and insisted upon going
on with the case. The judge -aid that
he failed to see tlie use in jjoingon with
the trial when, if they were convicted,
the judgment could not be enforced by
reason of the defect in the indictment.
The commissioners were anxious to
have a coat af whitewash appli* d. ami
they much preferred to have it while
standing upon a bad indictment, than
a good one. it was safer, in ca.- of
any slip or miscarriage, they eo'To not
lie convicted if foun ] ^i.i'ty. so the
•d them t<
employed, and we further demand that Store man was tiproarously adopted.
A resolut ion sympathizing with Cox- down even to the humble-tofticer hold-
Debs, Gen. Kelly, Round Pond, ing a commission under it. Let us he
South Enid. Mayor Hobart and Lou governed in this matter by reason aid
not by passion and prejudice
judge JK3I*
tho faiw.
To give the peop.e in idea
or which the County at tori <
the case, we give in fui i the
tien of some of the witne-.-. -
The first witne-- examim >!
John Pit /er. !!• v,-as inlro<
■ xamined by the county at
the purpose of convict inj.' '
missioners.
<v). What ofti<-' do you in •
A. Probate judge..
Are you aetjuain' d
county commissioner-?
A. I am.
o. Did the en I ' <• !•!-
with
chin MUSIC FROM MATTHEWSON.
In this article we propose to handle
the Robber's Roost without gloves.
They certainly have more impudence
ami gall than any set of dunghills we
ever heard of. We will first notice the
coal hill for the lirsl quarter of this
year, as given by the rnghahy or Globe,
of March-llh, "Allowed C. II. Hobart,
for .'IN.700 pounds of coal." hi
the next issue 'he little 2x4 editor
claims to have made a typographical
error of nearly MOO. We are ol the
opinioif if the editor was to undertake
to correct all the mistakes of the com-
missioners ami this gang he would
have an endless job on bis hands. Xow
there is one thing I would like for
some of this gang to tell me. and that
is this: After making all the allow-
ances claimed, there is still $232 paid
for IN tons of coal. Why is it that the
Uix payers of < anadian county have to
pay double the amount for a ton of coal
that t he school trustees of Matthewson
district do for the same coal at the
same market? The school trustees paid
just $." a ton at Fl Reno for the same
coal and at the same time the county
care to disturb the symetry of his evi-
was paying this enormous coal bill at
double or more than double the price.
Twoor tin-, .all. .' w.-r- ,M. x..USl-for this. That
question.'.1 in th. sam.* manner l .v U>.- ,.olllll httV). boutfhtand deliv-
oonnt.v attorney upon points that m-:,at tbe conn house after making
'''n' inf.'i ni.iti.Ki necessary allowanoes for discount
nnon except the guilty parlies to the , .(1 , . ,
1 on warrants for >( ..i0 per ton, but 111-
transaction. aud nested bis case. , , f .... ... ,
st«*ad < I pa;, uijj per ton the tax
I he defense jnit tots. I In ian and the payers of the county have to pay $12
Sachem of the honk-a-tonk on the jM>I. ^nn f01. (,oaj })n,.n<3tj the Robber's
stand in their own defense. They tes- | 00ht< |f Durford had a speck
tified that they iuul never stolen any- 0f iv^pret for the good people of < ana-
thing off the county: that they had al'jdian county he would have removed
ways been pa-tie nt, sel t-saerifieing ami , (.y oni. t)f | j ^ crowd now under in-
obedient public servants: had nc\er ^ uictment long ago. For Clod's sake
done any harm and had no desire to do us a s<.t nf officers this fall that
any barm. have some little respect for decency.
John Mcf.ean was called for, but he honesty and integrity. Ta x pa\«-rs of
was either too si<*k or too honest to tes- ('anadian county, how long are vou
tify iu his own behalf in the ease. H i- going to submit to this wholesale rob-
attorneys. however, said that he was bery of which this bill is only a sample
really sick, and being doctors as well of hundreds of others? Do you know
i — a wyei - they ou;j lit to know John that it cost the tax payers of this count v
A. I do not personally.
i4). Do you know personally
bribe received by the cum mi
or any one of tlieiu?
A. 1 know nothing about their prac-
tices personally.
The witness like the first, was turned
over to the defense for cross-examina-
tion. but the maimer of the examina-
tion by the prosecution wasso emineiit-
u-t be fort
was there
hale and hearty
; racti <i hi- ickn
rr looking
h ut \ con-
during til*
i bat tin -mall boys an
!ji and ua,Iked out in
the court room blank ■
the attorney- engage
'he bench and his cle
MOt
. the judge oi
•k. The judg
was so complete!^ disgusted that lie
se«>med hardly able to contain himself
until some tine, observing his condition,
handed him a newspaper in order to
d'wrt mind from tbe fare*; that be
$.'>17 tt have tie three bridges suiear-
etI w ith something resembling black
paint, tin tbe North I'anadian river,
and that neither the people nor the
bridge- were benefitted one dollar -
worth by the smearing? That it cost
the county YOU.n'.i to const t let that
little 2x4 walk in front of the aii
I am not yet done with thecommi —
sioners and their extravagant allow-
ance of claims. And I also expect to
give the democratic central committee
a passing notice before I'm through.
Uncle Billy.
The women <
i: at wagon.
an vote for th- Dkmo-
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