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Oklahoma State Register
TWfSTl'-SE(OM) YEAR
No. 46
GUTHRIE, OILA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1314
$1.00 PER TEAR
LAND LESSEES IN OKLAHOMA
ENTER STATE CAMPAIGN
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Well Organized Body of 40,000 of the State I-and Office. Each cora- j
Voter* SnmmrtPri hv on Fnnol ! missiouer "nd a majority of the can-
voiera, supported by an Equal Uidates elected-to the legislature re-
Number of Union Labor Elec-' l'Hod satisfactorily to the lessees. The
t„_, ■ Dvannnti mi. j . 1 lands have been sold slowly, however,
tors, Is Presenting Pledge to. an(j numerous valuations detrimental
TO DIVORCE LUCILE
MULHALL.
Suit Brought By Martin Van
Bergen, Vaudeville Singer
Against His Wife.
All State Office and Legisla-
tive Candidates.
WORKING FOR HOMES
OF QUARTER CENTURY.
Demands for Share in Value of j
to the lessees have arisen. The latter
are raising a campaign fund by assess
ment that may reach the sum of $25,-
000 or $.10,000. The lessees will not
hesitate to oppose all unfriendly in-
terests and their attitude is affecting
politics in many counties.
Four years ago the lessees asked
that the appraisement of improvments
should not be based upon the cost of
I the improvements, but upon the iu-
Improvenients and for Protec- creased vaiue that the improvements
tion from Damages by Oil and faJ.e jand £ further request was
^ J | that the lessee be allowed to partlci-
Mineral Prospectors are Stumb-
ling Blocks.
pate in whatever amount the State
might receiver for a tract of leased
land above the appraised value fixed
by the State. Thus, if the lessee's im-
provements were rated at $1,000 and
.More than 9.000 members of the Ok- the land appraised at $2,000, the lessee
lahoma Suite I .and lessees' Union j asked for his proportion of the ad-
with au affiliated voting strength of j vance, or $333.33 if the land should
probably 40,000 are making a united I seil for $3,000.
attempt to pledge candidates for nom- Protest Improvements Valuation,
ination t.o state and legislative offices , i„ the last five months land hSs been
at the August primaries to specific, appraised for sale purposes in the
promises that would be helpful to the' four counties of Custer, Washita, Cad-
lessees in the appraisement and sale 1 do and Canadian. .More than half the
of the lands now held by the lessees, j lessees have tiled protest, against the
In this-they are supported by an addi- , appraisement of their improvements,
tional 40,000 votes of organized labor, complaining that the improvements
This movement of the lessees, who should be rated at more than thei;
are powerfully organized and have'mere original cost.
been for eight or nine years, will be I The lessees, through their organiza-
an important feature in the slate cam- . tion, are categorically asking all can-
puign The lessees, regardless ol'-po- | didates for suite and legislative of-
litical affiliation, will work and vote ; Sees to pledge themselves to these re-
against any candidate who opposes I quests and will be guided in the ap-
their plans or who fails to answer j proaching campaign in accordance
their questions. ] with the answers received.
These lessees occupy about 1,500,000 1. We demand that in the leasing
acres of land in the western half of °r the land for oil and gas that the
Oklahoma with a present actual mar- • state notity the lessee of the date
ket value of considerably more than ! that bids will be received and give
S"5 000 000 in most instances these , the preference to elase the oil and
lands have been the homes of the les- deposits at the highest and best
see occur.ants for a period of years and that on all oil and gas leases
the loss by sale to other persons' the *tate require from the oil and gas
would be a calamity to hundreds of lessce a bond that he will pay the
families i damaBe done to the agricultural les-
siatns \,„r legally Fixed. j see's improvements and growing crops.
f„urtJhf? « fheleases have I 1 That the Sch°o1 ^n(1 Commis-
j.ever Seen fixed by the /.""d "l^ees^'l'nion with'a
government. They were set aside for | , That w„ ^ „ di3agree.
mat purpose a a much earlier date, menf ^ the , „ d b
and during territorial days were leas- | Htut(t as t£) the ,UQatian of lsw upon
.•d tor grazing and agn^ltura pu- t the request of the lesecc the state a«-
tH>aes Milder rules and regulations nx-
■il by tae Secretary of the Interior, the
li aee in each instance being given the
preference right to re-lease over the
bid of any other person.
The revenue from leasing was used
for the support of common schools.
i he Slate I niversity, the State Normal
school? and for public buildings to be
erected by the State—sections 16 and
:!t> being for common schools, 13 for
unievrsities and normal schools, and33
tor public buildings.
The leasing of public domain for
srazing and agricultural purposes in
Oklahoma was the iirat occurence of
the kind in the history of the United
States Government
For years there has been a bitter
light in Oklahoma over the question
of whether these lands should be sold
or held indefinitely by the State, the
latter thereby to enjoy such increases
in value as might ensue. The lessees
have favored the sale of the lands
and have (been a formidable factor in
every political campaign.
Terms In Statehood Enactment.
Anticipating that the lands might
be gold, the leBsees were able to ob-
tain in the statehood enabling act a
provision that when the lands were
sold the lessee should be allowed to
lake the land at the highest bid made
b.v nny other person and that until
the lands were sold, the lessee should
;iave the preference right in releasing
at the end of each lease period.
Another provision was that before
the lands were offered for sale they
should be appraised by three disinter-
ested appraisers, non-residents of the
county in which the lands were situ-
ated. and that the lands should be ap-
praised at their actual cash value
exclusive of all improvements and
that the improvements should be ap-
praised at a fair and reasonable value.
The lessees have encountered many*
obstacles and met much disappoint-
ment in their efforts to bring about
the literal enforcement of these pro-
visions. Every sort of scheme has
been practiced by adventurers and
land sharks to disposses the lessees
of what the latter sometimes called
their "vested rights."
Intended the) Should he Owners.
The lessees insist that it was always
intended that they should become own-
• rs of the lands. The latter were
leased and occupied nfter all the
homesteads or at least the better
homesteads, had been exhausted. Tiiey
point to a proclamation issued by
C.ov, George Steele the first governor
of Oklahoma Territory, in which he
asked all persons who had not ob-
tained land to "settle upon the reser-
ed land; to make it their homes, just
the same as if they owned it, and the
future state of Oklahoma would sell it
to them at a nominal price."
Four years ago the Lessees' Union
submitted a list of questions to the
several candidates on each ticket for
the legislature and to those persons
>vho If elected would be commissioners
the
Martin Van Bergen, vaudeville sing-
er, brought suit for divorce today
against his wife, who was formerly
l.ucile .Mulhall, a daughter of Zack
.Mulhall, Oklahoma ranchman. The
suit was filed in Olathe, Kans.
As l.ucile Mulhall, Mrs. Van Ber-
gen was well known on the vaudeville
stage as a rider of bucking bronchos
and a roper of ateers. She was rear-
ed on her father's ranch in Oklahoma
and as a youug girl she learned to ride
wild steers and perform cowboy feats.
Van Uergen, a Kansas City boy met
her while they were in vaudeville and
they were married several years ago.
They combined their acts, Van Uer-
gen singing cowboy songs while, she
gave Wild West performances. They
were seen at the Orphemn here a few
seasons ago in "Cheyenne Days."
Earij' this season Van Bergen ap-
peared here at the Oiobe Theater as
a singer.
The two have been separated about
a year. A child is with the father.—
Kansas City Star.
OWEN SPEAKS IN BOSTON.
Oklahoma Senator Criticises
Makers of Constitution.
Boston, Mass. March 18.—Senator
Robert U Owen of Oklahoma last
night criticised the framers of the
Constitution of the United States and
denounced stock exchanges. Address-
ing the Irish Charitable Society, he
emphasized the danger the danger of
intrusting the rule of many to a few
persons, which, he said, was the prob-
lem now confronting Ireland, and'
gave as an instance the framing of the
Constitution.
"The makers of the Constitution
made it in secret conferences," he
said. "They omitted from that Con-
stitution the great safeguards of hu-
man liberty, freedom of speech, free-
dom of religion, freedom of the press
and the right of trial by jury. Kxcept
for tariff amendments, which were
necessary to secure ratification of
the oCnstitution, these great safe-
guards would have been omitted."
Senator Owen who visited the New
York Stock Exchange yesterday and
the exchange in this city today, char-
acterized the stock exchange as
gambling institution.
"The panic of 1907," he said, "was
caused by a few men for their own
selfish interests."
sist in getting without delay
court's decision of the question.
4 That in the appraisement of the
land and improvements for sale pur-
poses that the lessee be consulted by
the appraisers as to the value of the
la nadnd improvements and on the
date of the appraisement be furnish-
ed a copy of the same.
5. That improvements on State
lands be appraised at such sum as may
add to the value of the land, and that
anything that adds to the value of the
land-should be considered an improve-
ment '
6. That all land be sold as soon as
possible.
The fifth stipulation is one that will
raise opposition against the lessees.
In asking that he be given his share
of whatever the land brings above its
appraised value, the lessee will con-
tend that he helped create this "im-
provement" while other citizens will
assert that the difference, of $1000 due
t othe appraisement of land at $2,000
and its sale at $3,000 was caused by
the natural increase in land values in
the Southwest. At this time and dur-
ing the past, the State has never di-
vided this difference with the lessee.
C. II. Hyde, secretary of the lessees
organization, a serious and capable
man, said of this feature:
"A man may have a tree whose first
cost, including cultivation, did not ex-
ceed •$!, yet that three may produce
five or six b.'shels of peaches., worth
Si r< b"shel. It should be u>i"eo<son
able to appraise that tree at first cost.
As a general thing, improvements add
more than their cost to the value of
the land. Anything that adds value to
the land is an improvement. We do
not. and have never, contended that
land should be appraised at its origi-
nal value- as raw land. The state is
entitled to whatever has come from
the development of the country, but
the lessee is entitled to all the value
he has added to his particular tract
of land.
Alfalfa's worth as an Improvement.
"The appraisement of alfalfa as an
improvement has proved unsatisfac-
tory. The highest the State has ever
allowed has been $15 an acre. I have
letters from experimental stations in
which the average cost of getting a
good stand of alfalfa was fixed at from
$15 to $30 an acre. A good stand of
alfalfa on alfalfa land will add more
than $35 an acre to the value of the
land, because a prospective purchas-
er will figure that one crop, if he fjfets
a good seed crop will more than pay
for the alfalfa.
"The lessees have found that if their
improvements are appraised at less
than their value, a competitor will bid
more than the land is worth, exclusive
of improvements, and recover the ad-
ditional value from the improvements
Of the lessee. For example, if the
farm as a whole is worth $4.000—the
Improvements actually being worth
and the land $2,000, but the im-
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IXSURAlfCK (OHJ'.iMK.S LOST.
Utile Bock, Ai'k., March l .—The
61 lire insurance companies doing
business in Arkansas -lost a total or
$2,304,154 during the year ending Dec.
31, 1913, according to a report of in-
surance commissioner Cunningham
issued today. Tbi sdoes not include
tbe losses of four companies which
withdrew from the state during the
year.
The companies loses by tires to-
toaled $3,066,288 and operating expen-
ses increased tbeir expenditures to
$5,370,382 while the premiums they
received totaled hut $3,066,228 leaving
a deficit ot $2,304,104 according tu
the report. The conflagation at Hot
Springs of September 6, 1913, is large
ly responsible says tbe report.
| BELIEVES T. R COULD SET-
TLE MEXICAN ROW.
Pennsylvania Representative Says
It Needs Strong Man Sup
erior to Factions.
Washington, March 20.—"War with '
Mexico means a war of exhaustion; the |
moment our troops pass the fron-l
tier the Mexicans will drop their quar-
rel and make common cause against
the hated 'gringoes,'" declared Rep-
resentative Hillings of Pennsylvania, a
progressive in the House.
Sir. llulings declared it was the
duty of congressmen to stand shoul-
der to shoulder in the Mexican situ-
ation and that he believed order nev-
er would be restored in Mexico save
by a strong man, supported by a force
superior to the factions now harrying
the country and that three was no
siv?h force in Mexico.
"I believe the time must tome, if
it has not already arrived." he added
"when it will be the imperative duty
of this government to announce to the
world that present conditions in Mex-
ico must cease and that unless by a
given time the Mexicans thcmBelves
shall have made pacific arrangements
and cease hostilities the United Stales,
in the interest of humanity, will under
take to rfestore peace and good or-
der.
"A strong man like Theodore
Roosevelt." Representative 1 luting
declared, "would have settled the dif-
ficulty and there would have been
no war. President Wilson followed
in Taft's foosteps and instead of tak-
ing firm positive steps, adopted what
he called the watchful waiting policy."
A REAL FOEMAN FOR JEN
NLNGS.
Republican, Who Beat Oltla-
homan in One Race, a
Candidate.
I!
BIT.fiARIA'S QUEEOf TO U. S.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Mch. 18.—It has
been definitely decided that Queen
fileonora of Bulgaria .accompanied by
su extensive suite, wilt visit the Un-
ited States in May. The trip probably
will bo begun about the middlu of
May and will last si1? or eight weeks.
The visit is the result of the deep in-
terest in the United States which King
Ferdinand and Queen Eleonora have
long held and which has been strength
tned by the close association of the
king and queen with the American
surgeons who were In charge of the
Bulgarian hospitals in the recent war.
It was at first reported that King
Ferdinand himself would visit the
United States in 1915, but the queen s
intense desire to make the trip,
coupled with the fact that her visit
will relieve the United States of the
diplomatic embarrassments o( a state
visit from an actual reigning monarch,
resulted in her wish being granted.
Queen Eleonora was a Princess of
Reuss. She is about 54 years old and
was married to King Ferdinand in
1898.
WASTE OF NATURAL GAS
IS TREMENDOUS
The loss of gas from flowing oil
< ells in one district in Oklahoma, ac-
cording to government statistics,
equals in value the oil that Is secured.
Millions of dollars worth of thi„ al-
(nost perfect fuel is wasted each year
'hrough negligence and indifference.
A hundred million cubic feet of gas
'scapes into the air every day in Ok
lahoma alone worth $20,000 a day or
$7,300,000 a year. This equals in
heating power one and a quarter mil-
lion tons of the best bituminous coal.
The loss of gas in California and
Ixmisiana is no less extensive, and
practically all of It unnecessary. Mod-
ern methods of drilling make such
tremendous drains upon natural re-
sources avoidable, and gas wells may
be closed by proper precautions. The
gasoline content in the wasted natur-
al gas would go a Ion gway toward
keeping the cost of motor fuel down.—
Populal Mechanics.
Oklahoma City, March 18.—An-
nouncement was made toy close poli-
tical t'riend3 of D. K. Pope an Oklaho-
ma County attorney that he will be a
candidate for governor on the Repub-
lican ticket. Pone's belief that A1
Jennings will be the democratic nomi-
nee is the chief reason for his enter-
ing the race, it is said. Pope is of the
opinion that many democrats will de-
sert. Jennings at the general election,
as they did in the last county election,
and that a republican governor will be
the result. Pope and Jennings faced
each other In the last Oklahoma coun-
ty attorney race and Pope was elected.
"If Pope has the same success with
the election machinery as he did in
the racc against me before he ought to
win," Jennings jjijd regarding the re-
port of Pope' candidacy.
PROGRESSIVES KEEP FAITH
ON PANAMA TOLLS.
Washington, March 20.—Represen-
tative Murdoek, in a statement today
announced that the Progressives in
congress are substantially united
against President Wilson's plan of re
pealing the exemption of coastwise
shipping from Panama Canal tolls.
UoU OcuiocnitB and republicans
are hopelessly divided on the ques-
tion." said Mr. Murdoek. "A little ov-
er r year ago all three parties cov
enanted with the people to exempt
coastwise traffic. Republicans aud
democrats as parties are breaking
their pledges.
The Progressive party, free from
the influence of sectional or selfish
interest, is standing by the contract.
"Thirteen million voters in 1912
charged the American congress with
carrying out their will in this mat-
ter. To scorn that mandate of the
people now is to violate the principle
of representative government."
BIGGEST AMERICAN SEA
FIGHTER, OKLAHOMA,
LAUNCHED
Philadelphia, Pa.. March 22. The
superdreadnought Oklahoma, one of
the largest and most powerful Ameri-
can battleships afloat was lauched to-
day from the yard of the New York
Shipbuilding Company of Camden, N.
J., in the presence ot a large number
uf iuviled guests.
The giant sea lighter was given her
name by Miss Lorena Jane Cruce,
daughter ot the governor of Oklaho-
ma, who crashed a ibottlc of cham-
and most powerfully built ships that
lias yet been iloated for the American
Navy. A sister ship, the Nevada, has
been under construction at Quincy,
Mass. only the Pennsylvania, buiid-
ilig at Newport News, and the still
nameless battleship No. 39, the keel
of which was laid last week at the
-New York Yard, will outstrip the Ok-
lahoma in tonnage, displacement,
U'ngtii or the power of her great gun*.
Ihe length of the giant sea fighter
KILLED WITH STALK CUT
TER WHEN MULES ARE
FRIGHTENED
m -
liristow Record.
Allen Millhouse, 10-year-old son of
Irwin Millhouse who resides ten miles
north of Rristow, was run over by a
stalk cutter and instantly killed Tues-
day in a field of the Millhouse farm.
The boy was driving a team of mues
to the cutter, and the animals became
frightened and ran away. The boy
was thrown under the knives and the
head was nearly severed by the blad-
The victim of the accident had
just returned from school and had
asked to drive the mules. In some
manner the animals were scared and
dashed down the field. The boy was
pulled forward under the cutter
knives and his hoad and neok badly
lacerated.
HI K\i:i> 11V fiASOLINE EXPLOSION
At Stillwater while Mrs. James P.
Dent was cleaning clothes on her
porch with a pan of gasoline, the
fluid ignited in some way and ex-
ploded. burning her very badly. Her
husband was also severely burned
while trying to extinguish the flames
about his wife. The house was en-
tirely destroyed.
LOGAN COUNTY COTTON.
Drecor Harris of the census depart-
ment of Commerce. Washington, I). C.,
gives T/>gan County's cotton crop up
to March 20th, to be: For the vear
1912—13,477; for 1914—14.440. This
is inrunning bales, counting round
bnles as half bales, linters not in elud-
ed.
pagne against the great prow of the is 533 feet, aud her displacement will
ship as the hull began to glide into the ue 27,500 tons, or 500 tons greater
Delaware River. Miss Cruce carrying than the largest American fighting
a large bunch ol American beauty ship now afloat. In both armament
roses, was surrounded by a dozen girl and armor the Oklahoma will be far
tri- nds Iroin Oklahoma and there was ahead of present American ships Her
much enthusiasm as the ship took the principal weapons will be ten 14-inek
w"ler' .. , . guns, capable of firing a shell weigh-
Surroundmg the christening party ing 1400 pounds
were the secretary or the navy and A feature of the armament will be
Mrs. Daniels. Assistant Secretary the placing of three of these ' great
Roosevelt, members ol the congres- guns iu one turret. One of the three
sional naval committees. United States mill turrets wil lbe one the torcastle
Senators Owen and Gore of Oklahoma deck, along with a turret or two biif
members from tb:it state in the Na- guns. Another two-gun turret will
lional House of Representatives, state be on the quarter deck and astern of
officials aud other Oklahouians. Na- this will be another turret with the re-
al ofticers and invited guests from a maining three 14-inch guns
number of Eastern cities made up the About the big warship will also be
remainder of the party. distributed twenty-one 5-inch guns
liov. (.ruce of Oklahoma was ex- and some minor armament, consist-
peeted but he was detained at home on ing or 3-pounders 1- pounders "
account of political conditions in his inch fleldpieces and machine guns'
suite. Tugs warped the great hull The armor belt is especially heavy
into a dock near the Argentine battle It is 13 1-2 inches thick and will ex-
ship Moreno aud tbe Chinese cruiser tend 400 feet along each side or the
Fie Hung. The former of these is hull from 9 1-2 feet below the water
neaib. ready for a trial trip. line to 9 reet above the water. There
O.liters of the Argentine and Chinese are two protective decks to guard
navies were interested spectators at agaiust plunging tire, one 3 inches
the laucliing of the Oklahoma. In thick and the other 1 1-2 inches
honor of the event tbe flag of Okla- The Oklahoma burn oil' and
homa waved today over historic in- her engines will have 24,800 indicated
dependence llall. The emblem wus, horse-power, sulllcieat to develop a
presented to the city of Philadelphia speed of twenty ond one-half knots
some years ago by an Oklahoma dele- au hour. The supply of oil will he
gatiou then on a tour of the East carried iu the double bottom of the
studying municipal conditions. ship which eliminates the necessity of
The dreadnought Oklahoma, launch- coal bunkers.
ed today from the yard or the New The gift or the state of Oklahoma to
' ork Ship Building Company at Cam- her fighting namesake is a solendid
den, N. will be one of the largest silver service.
iFFliirralE
THE NATION'S PRESIDENT
- lly Woodrow Wilson.
Old Custom of Everybody Rising express it than to say passionate sense
and Sitting when he does Un- ?,!; co,unecUj'1 wiU) my teiiow men
. 1,1 peculiar rclauouHhiij of reapon-
nerves Him and he Feels like ability. i\ot merely the responsibility
Winkinc and Savino "It's of offioe- but ^ knows there are
mKing- ana Baying, it s ( enough things in this world that need
Only Me"—Reads "Rattling" , to corrected.
Detective StoriM tn Rpla* ' bu*P mi)wd' and last, with
1J exec live stones to Keiax ( all sorts and conditions of men—there
His Fear of Blundering. a re mighty few Kinds of men that have
f to be described to me. and there ar
Washington, March 20.—Woodrow ({O^ty few kinds of experience that
Wilson unbosomed bimself to the mem ! , 7e to described to me—and when
bers of the National Press club of ' k'n't ^ nutn'}er of men who are
Washington today, telling them in a 1 l°oking at me as the representative of
frank, conversational way how he felt | a Pufty with the hope for all vari-
as president of the United States, how 1 salvation from the things they
difficult it was fro him to imagine . are struggling in the midst of, it mak-
himself as the chief executive with the i es me tremble. It makes me tremble
formal amenities of the position and n?t' °"'y with a sense of my own in-
how he had struggled to be as free a<*equacy and weakness, but as if ' 1
as the ordinary individual without the w,'re shaken by the very things that
restraints of his office. . are shaking them, and if I seem cir-
It was an intimate picture of Wood- cumspect, it is because i am so dili-
row Wilson the man drawn by him- KCnt'y trying not to make any colos-
self on the occasion of the "house
warming" at. the press club's uew
quarters. The president did not in-
tend to have his remarks reported,
but later at the request of the club
the unusual speech was made public.
It was as follows:
"I was just thinking of my sense of
confusion of identity sometimes when
1 read articles about myself, i have
never read an article about myself in
which I recognized myself, and 1 have
come to have the impression that I
sal blunders. If you just calculated
the numher of blunders a fellow can
make In twenty-four hours if he is noi
careful, and if he does not listen more
than he talks, you would see some-
thing o fthe feeling that I have.
"Ilorrow all the Itraias 1 ran."
"1 was amused the other day at a
remark that Senator Newlands made.
I had read him the trust message that
I was to deliver to congress some ten
days before I delivered it and 1 never
stop doctoring' things of that kind
until the day I have to deliver them.
must be some kind of a fraud, because ,
I think a great many of these articles ,.,'iD., «v. ?f'! res<l to congress he
are w ritten in absolute good faith. I 8alt': think it was better than it was
tremble to think of the variety and w"pn ^ou read it to me. I said Sena-
falseness in the impressions I make there is one thing which I think
—and it is being borne in on me so ? understand. I not only use
that it. may change my very disposi- braT ,8 ' llave but al1 ' can bor-
tion—that I am a cold and removed row'.e borrowed a lot since
person who has a thinking machine rea(* . y?u rhat. I dare
inside which lie adjusts to the cir- Ia what *lves ,the impression of
cumatances. which he does not allow circumspectne8s. I am listening; I
to be moved by any winds of affec- ?m.d'llKontly trying to collect all the
tion or emotion of any kind but turns b" n8 that ar,e borrowable in order
like a cold searchlight on any thing ,l'lat } not mike more blunders
that is presented to his attention and | tha,n " inevitable that a man should
makes it work. 1 make who haa &reat limitations of
"I am not aware of having any de-' knowledge and capacity.
tachable apparatus inside of me. On I om°tion of the tiling is so great that I
the contrary, if I were to interpret my- I ® PPPse I must be some kind of a
self, I would say that my constant em-1 n?8"!' to conceal it. I really feel some-
barrassment Is to restrain the emo- t'?les a8 ' were masquerading
tions that are inside of me. You may I whcn 1 ,oatch ,a Plftore of_ myself in
not believe it, but 1 sometimes feel 80me printed description.
like a fire from an extinct volcano and
if the lava does not seem to Bpill over
ft is because you are not high enough
to see in the basin and see the caldron
burn. The cause, truly gentlemen, is
that In the position I occupy there is
sort of—I do not know how else to
In between
things that I have to do as a public
officer. I never think of myself as the
president of the Uqited States, because
I never have had any sense of being
identified with that office. I feel like
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1914, newspaper, March 26, 1914; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc169361/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.