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LEXINGTON. - OKLAHOMA.
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OLEN W. MAPES,
publisher. __
Entered at the Postoffice at Lexington,
Oklahoma, as mail matter of the second-
class.   
Published every Friday. Subscription
price One Dollar per year in advanoe.
conceded without argument, as he
points with an air of pride and con-
fidence to the fact that his party
polled 17,000 votes in the year A. D.
1894. That should be conclusive.
'FMione No. 527.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER '20, 1901.
A democratic victory in Boston is
directly traced to three Hp)it infuii
tivea it? the president's message.—
State Capital.
Recent rains and snow will be of
untold benefit to the wheat crop. It
is encouraging to the farmers of Ok-
lahoma to thus be all but assured of
a good crop next season.
We may get several railroads in
the future, but a direct piopositiou
has been made to our people by one
road, the Ozark & Cherokee Central,
and that is the road to be looked af
ter now. Let no time be lost in
placing the required bonus in the
bauds of the company and the road
is assured.
A few of the republican papers iu
the territory are bitterly condemning
the Chandler News because it advo
cates single statehood; and the way
that Gilstrap "hits back" at these
papers is a caution. The News
stands for the best interests of the
whole people on the statehood
question, and is not too weak kneed
to say so.
A number of papers have called for
a picture of the new governor, Thou.
Ferguson, but no picture yet. It's
barely possible that in Hitchcock's
"sealed instructions" he overlooked
this important matter. We would
suggest that in the event Hitchcock
witholds this privilege to the new
governor, the kodak fiends be con
suited.
John Allan, of the People's Voice,
makes haste to inform the public
that the populist party is neither
dead nor sleeping, but that that po-
litical organization is larger and more
powerful in Oklahoma than ever be-
fore. All of which may as well be
The announcement of Senator
Foraker, of Ohio, that he will "stand
for Roosevelt" in the next national
convention is considered excellent
politics on Mr. Foraker's part, as he
is placing himself on the right side
of the inevitable, and is regarded as
anything but an extension of the
olive branch to his colleague, Sena-
tor Hanna.
Another public meeting should be
held and the soliciting committee
haviug iu charge the raising of the
bonus and securing ihe right of way
for the Oz-irk & Cherokee Central
railroad should be given a chance to
report and if there i« a balance to be
raised it should be done at once.—
Shawnee Herald.
An example of the very exception
al ability which Mr. Roosevelt is dis
playing in the political field was af-
forded by the announcement that
Mr. Weneker, a gentleman who voted
for Palmer and Buckuer m 1896, is
to be appointed to the surveyorship
of the po t of St. Louis, a place
which pays $0,500 a year, and over
which both Secretary Hitchcock and
the Kerens factions have been so
long quarrelling, The announce-
ment is Dot official, but wa« made by
Wm. M. Reedy, a gentleman for
whom the presideut sent when the
Hitchcock and Kerens factions be
came a source of annoyauce.
The building of the Ozark & Chero
kee Central road to Lexington means
that we are to get a railroad in the
true sense of the term—uot a spur,
or a short Iin6, or a bob-tail concern,
but a trunk line which will give us
almost a direct line to St. Louis, It
means lower freight rates for our
merchants, as we will then have com-
petitive lines of railroad; it means
that we will have an elevator here
aud that our farmers will not have
to cross the river to mnrket their
grain or any other product; that they
will get better prices for their pro-
ducts by reason of another road; that
Lexington will have a general revi-
val of business in all lines by the
bringing of thousands of dollars here
which would uot naturally come
without such a road. In view of
these facts it behooves every proper
ty owuer to talk and work for this
road, aud, above all, to give as liber
ally as possible to insure its being
built.
Your
SANTA
Money
CLAIS
Will
Around
A vote of thanks to the members
of the committee which has, by their
untiring efforts and persistence,raised
at least a reasonable bonus for the
Ozark & Cherokee Central railroad,
should be forthcoming. These gen-
tlemen belong to that class of citi-
zens who are not afraid to give liber-
ally to bring a valuable enterprise to
their town, but they have the faith
and courage to visit their fellow busi-
ness men and urge them to do as
much in the same direction as they
feel able. That the right men are
on the soliciting committee goes
without argument.
Every uewspaper treasures up in
its memory the names of its friends
and likewise those of its enemies.
It seldom overlooks an opportunity
to assist the former, but it never goes
out of its way to help the latter. Hu
man nature is pretty much the some
everywhere. People who show the
newspaper man a kindness never
makes a better investment or one that
pays an hundred fold sooner or later
As it has been truly said there comes
a time in every man's life when he
needs his home paper and needs it
bad.—Ex.
Come and see me.—Geo. Julian,
sole agent, Parker Rye.
THE OPINION OF A FLYNN
CREATURE.
We would like to direct the atten
tion of our "single" statehood friends
to the bill introduced by Congress
man Flynn at the first session of
congress providing for the immedi-
ate admission of Oklahoma Where
do they come in? And the bill will
pass.—Mulhall Enterprise.
Tom Woosley, the editor of the
Enterprise, is one of the many repub
lican editors of the territory who
have sold their birthright of freedom
and independence of thought and ut- '
terance for a six-bit postoffice. To
this class of boot-licking, groveling
slaves it is eti 1 y necessary for Flynn
to say "thumbs up," and no matter
how thoroughly they are compelled
to betrav the best interests of the
people by so doing, up goes their
thumbs Away with the stamp-lick-
ing sycophants who dare not exprens
their honest convictions on statehood
for fear the postoffice broker, Flynn,
will take their jobs away from them
What does such a lackey kuow about
the kind of statehood for which free
and untrammeled Oklabomaus are
contending and the kind a patriotic
presideut and congress are going to
give the people of the two territories?
Our chattering friend will discover
in the sweet subsequently that Flynn
cuts a devilish sight more ice around
the Mulhall postoffice than he does
in congress when it comes to state-
hood matters.—Shawnee Herald.
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LEXINGTON, OKLAHOMA.
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