The Chandler News (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1904 Page: 3 of 16
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THE CHANDLER NEWS: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1904.
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Statehood and the Lessee.
Every lessee in Oklahoma knows
that a disposition of the school lands
in any mar.ner whatever cannot be
made until we get statehood. The
lands do not belong to the territory,
bat are held in trust as an endow-
ment for school purposes. By the
provisions of the Hamilton bill th?y
became a gift to the new state, after
which they are to be disposed of in
such manner as the legislature may
elect. It would seem, then, that the
first thing the lessee should.be inter-
ested in is statehood and the quick-
est and surest means of obtaining it.
If Mr. McGuire is returned, to con-
gress by a respectable majority state-
hood is as sure to come as the stars
are to shine. The bill has almost \
run its course, and every republican
senator expects Oklahoma's endorse-
ment of it and final action will be
taken upon it during the short ses-
sion.
The democrats are not in sym-
pathy with this bill. They have
grown so bold as to say so. The
democrats in congress are not i i
favor of the bill. They said so in
caucus and by a united vote against
it in the house. They represent a
minority and have said they wanted
a different bill entirely from th it
passed by the majority. How are
th:-y going to get it? "Did you ever
h ar ot a minority passing a bill
over tie h;acs of the majority in
both branches of congress? Di 1
you ever hear of a democrat from
anywhere passing a statehood bill?
Such an act is not in history since
th - ds' s of Abrah im Lincoln. Then
how can the lessees figure them-
selves out of their present condition
by the elevation of Mathews? He
prove l himself their enemy ia the
legislature. His party shifted the
responsibility of the lessee's interest
in its nominating-convention. By a
plank which means nothing, as its
author, Mr. Iiassingale, stated p i-
vately, leaves a disposition of the;
lands to a vote of the people, bat
that vote cannot be 'taken until we
become a state. Then Indian terri-
tory, which has no#school lands, will
vote on the proposition the same as
you and your neighbor. Will those
people vote for you, Mr. Lessee?
Not much. Then the popular vote
scheme of the democrats falls flat,
as they intended it to do. Your
only hope is in the legislature. You
can control that. But you- cannot
control anything until the Hamilton
bill becomes a law. Aside from
these features directly in your in-
terest, the bill is a good one for you
to support. It will give us liberty
from rate-extortion, from unsettled
conditions, from high taxes and ex-
torticnite rates of interest.
But Mr. Mathews says the Hamil-
ton bill is partisan and unfair. Sen-
ator Bailey, whose puppet he is and
whose dictates he will obey, says it
does not meet the southern demo-
cratic demand of two states They
mu5t have another bill, which means
unlimited delay and finally failure
entirely. Meantime the lessee must
squat upon his rights and wonder
when deliverance will come.
Mr. Mathews is inconsistent in
other ways; so inconsistent, in fact,
as to make him untrustworthy, es-
pecially as affects the interests of
. the lessees. In a speech at Lawton
a few days ago, in a county contain-
ing 700 lessees, the Daily Democrat,
his own organ, quotes him as saying :
"My friends, the statehood bill that
I champion will have in it a clause
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provi ling that the'school lands must
.be sold at a uniform and reasonable
appraised value and the lessee be
given the preference right of pur-
chase." Here, .let it be noticed,
Mathews repudiate? his platform,
which says the sale of school lands
shall be left to a vote of the people.
When he talks in the localities where
there are no lessees he stands pat on
his platform ; when he is among the
lessees he repudiates his platform
and says in effect that he will make
it obligatory on the congress of the
United States to sell the lands. Was
duplicity ever more apparent?
The lessee, simply because he is a
lessee and more or less subject, as
Mr. Mathews evidently believes, to
the blandishments of a political
schemer, is not an ignoramus to be
caught by the duplicity of a candi-
date. He is not so narrow as to be
unpatriotic. He wants statehood
and he wants a home. In face of
these uncontrovertible facts can. the
lessee afford to.waste, his time fight-
ing and ■ delaying the very measure
that will help him to a place where
he can help himself? And just be-
cause he is not in sympathy with the
national tenets of the republican
party? If so, he is a man blind to
the interests of his fellow men, and
more especially of his home and
family.
I Rev. F. R."Farrand of El Reno,
who had been assisting Rev. Cravens
in conducting the meetings at the
Presbyterian church, left Saturday
for home.
A territorial charter has been is-
sued to the Farmers' and Merphants'
Gas and Oil company of Chandler..
Four of the incorporators reside in
Kansas and three are Oklahomans.
i They are: W. • Johnson of Peru,
Kan. ; J. W. Minney of Caney, Kan. ;
j W. W. McKe.nzie of Chautauqua,
Kan. ; Henrietta Vickers of Neode-
sha, Kan. ; Robert Weaver of Sibo-
ney, Okla. ; M. A. Mayfield of Scho-
field, Okla., and D. L. Rya^ of Man-
itou, Okla. Some of these gentle-
men have looked over the field near
Chandler and are satisfied that we
are in the oil belt. The time and
place for putting down the first hole
has not yet been determined.
Attorney John Enbry transacted
! legal business at Guthrie Tuesday.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 27, 1904, newspaper, October 27, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc160292/m1/3/?q=wichita+falls: accessed May 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.