The Claremore Messenger. (Claremore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1906 Page: 2 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
CLAREMORE MESSENGER.
Issued Every Thursday.
K. E. WILLIAMSON.
Editor and Publisher.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
I. T., as second class mall matter.
. mic
One Year ti.00! would not conflict with party
Si* Months 50 | beliefs It would simply give
|M1 Opportfttttty of bringing party
Kntered at the l'oatolflce inClaremore, [ mPa^u up for discussion and
settlement. There could then
be no juggling with principles
or measures There would be
continuous progress.
Very seldom where the initi-
ative is in force is a mutter put.
to a vote of the people, but the
expense of such an election is
more th;tn repaid by informa
tioninself government obtained
by the people in the discussion
of real live subjects. Suppose
the state of Oklahoma should
adopt the optional Swiss initi
ative and referendum Many
subjects would come before tht
advertisino rates
Display First Patre. per Inon per month, lo
take run nf pane.
Full position
.•nd 3rd 4nd 4tb patfes
Single Insertion, per Inch. ... ,BC
(Coat of composition added)
Nodiscount foraunnUtyof space..r tlme.
Headers or Locals per line, each Insertion. 5C
In hold face or large type
Obituary cards of thanks, resolutions of
condolence, etc . half of regular rates
TheVlgh^reserved to reject questionable
advertlsments.
the acceptance or rejection of All eyes on the Senate.
such bills. This provision ab 1 "
solutely stopped boodling in Republicans throughout the
Switzerland. Measures under i territory will do well to cele-
such a scheme became subjects brate Lincoln's birthday, Pebru-
of discussion and not men. ary 12. It is always in order
The initiative and referendum j to celebrate the memory of the
greatest American and at this
particular time the party needs
a waking up to conditions so that
ihe celebration this year will
have a double significance —
Indian Citizen. (Atoka )
Phone 4t>.
A Model Constitution.
The people will, before long
possibly, be called on to form
a constitution and they should
prepare to study this question
with a view to influencing the
work of the convention. If the
discussion of what should and
should not go into a constitution
could be made general the men
who will be chosen to attend the
constitutional convention will be
much better prepared for their
work than they would otherwise
be It would be a good thinir if
literary societies, mock legisla
tures. debating societies, clubs
and every possible kind of a
sociation should discuss this
subject. Oklahoma should do
more than just copy the con
stltution of Ohio or Alabama
New problems have corne up
for which the framers of the
constitutions of a hundred years
ago could not provide.
Kansas passed a law last
winter for the purpose of pro
viding a means of fighting the
Standard Oil trust, but the
courts.>f the state declared the
law unconstitutional. Will the
people of Oklahoma deliberately
abridge their rights to manage
hurtful trusts by a constitu
tional provision? Will the peo
pl.« of Oklahoma give awav pow
ors which are inhereht in them
as member* *lf n s,afp? Almost
pverv year some legislature, at
the d-mand of a vast majority
of the people. ]«sses laws which
the courts promptly declare are
in opposition to a constitution
made hv the people. Will the
people of Oklahoma allow them-
selves to be caueht in the same
wav as these other states?
The people should make a
study of the thincrs which have
heen decreed unconstitutional,
and then avoid walking into the
same kind of a trap If the con
vention insists on doinsr very
much law making in the consti
tution. then provision should be
made for calling a new consti
tutional convention every
twenty vears "or the purpose of
making a new constitution or
bringing the old one up to date
We believe the constitution
should place verv few restric
tions on the legislatures It
should not. be the province of
courts to pass on the constitu
tional ity of laws hut to interpret
them in the meaning of the leg
islators In such a case the
Swiss optional initiative and
referendum should be adopted.
If this we re done there would
be no need for oonstitutional
restrictions. When the legisla
turedid that which the people
did not want the people would
veto the measure, and when the
legislature refused to enact such
laws as the people demanded
the people would call an election
to vote on the passage of such
a law
Under such a system the
laws would grow under the di
rec.t demand of the people
Statesmen would seek the hon
or of being sent o the l«gisla
tures Boo Hers would not want
positions as legislators, as no
one would buy them No trust
would buy certain legislation
when the people could by . peti
"We publish an article, this
week, from the Times-Journal,
entitled Model Constitution,
which we commend to ihe care
ful rending of our people Shall
we profit by the mistakes and
experience of other states in the
framing of our fundamental
law? It is becoming a common
thing for the courts io declare
a law unconstitutional, which
has been enacted for the pro-
tection of the people against the
legislature in which the people | greed of wealth. Shall weguard
are very deeply interested. We
will suppose the school land
question were up and the legis
lature should pass a bill provid
ing for the sale of all the school
land If people believed a ma
jority of the people were op
posed to the sale, petitions
would he circulated asking to
have the law referred to the
people. If the required number
of voters signed such a petition,
an election would be called and
a discussion of the subject, en
tirely aside from |>olitieal con
siderations. would be opened.
Both sides would make use of
speakers, newspapers, circulars,
and i very jnissible means would
be resorted to to inform the
voters. The people would be
voting on measures, ami not for
men who promise lo do certain
things and then forget their
promises
Legislators would have better
memories, as they could be
brought to terms for unredeem-
ed pledges
The people of no stale ever
had any such an opportunity lo
make an up to date constit utiou.
and the people should see that
they have an equal show with
trusts in the fundamental law of
the state
against this obstruction to jus.
tic^and make the interests of
the people our first object?
The center of attraction for
Indian and Oklahoma territories,
has shifted from the House to
the Senate. Our rights as
American citizens are at stake,
and we have a right to be#inter-
ested
Marshall b'ield achieved dis
tinction. not by being the richest
merchant in the world, but by
being its greatest tax payer, a
distinction which tells of HONOR
as well as wealth The world
needs more of such men.
Senator Beveridge.
Now Senator Beveridge. it's
up to -you! Your enemies say
you can't pass the hill in the
Senate and your friends say you
can and will. You have a mag-
I uifleent audience watching the
| drama of Statehood as played
'on the national stage, and in that
| drama you are the bright and
shining star A million and a
| half American citizens in Okla
bom a and Indian Territory are
looking to you for political
freedom. On your efforts de
pend their re'ease from a desk-
ocratic misrule, and their eman-
cipation from the serfdom of
government by clerkships ad
ministered from a distance of
thirteen hundred miles via tel
egraph lines and the postal ser
vice. More than three quarters
of a million of these people are
governed as though they were
blanket Indians living on an
Indian reservation, by obsolete
rules and regulations prepared
hv anaemic and youthful clerks,
whose only knowledge of an In
dian is based on their familiarity
with the wooden cigar sign
where they buy their cigarettes
We look to you Senator Beve-
ridge to break the chains which
gall us. to wipe out the brAnd
••incompetents" and cut the red
tape with which we are hound
to department desks at Wash,
ington. To yon we have pinned
our faith and from this day
I until the
majority
7200 BOTTLES IN 4 MONTHS.
"Dr. Mendenhall's Chill and Kever
Cure has gained favor with the trade
more rapidly than any other Chill
Tonic. We have sold nearly 50 gross
in four months." —Schuh llrug Co., I
Wholesale Druggists. Cairo, 111.
Sold on a signed guaranty by W. D. 1
McClure.
▲ Triumph for Experimental
Religion.
This is what happened recently in
Schenectadv, N. Y.: Edward Everett J
Hale, Jr.. President of Union College,
arose in his place ut a revival service,
gave testimony to hi* conversion and
confes-ed his wonderment that lie, the
scion of a long line of Unitarians,
should l>e brought to a saving knowl-
edge of the truth in a Methodist meet-
ing. This ought to settle for all time
the verity of what is called experimen-
tal religion. It should lend new neal
to the Wesleyan faith. It can scarce
ly fail to inspire fresh confidence
among the followers of Methodism in
the ability of their evangelists and
inUters to reach, by the aid of the
Spirit, not only the desperate sinner,
but what they have always accounted
much more difficult, to also carry con-
viction to the shriveled hearts of mor
alists who are pro Be to trust to their
own feeble works for justification
It would, wo may assume, have been
rated rather an Inconsequental matter,
had some drunkard or outcast in
Schenectady been snatched as a brand
from the burning. It Is not such a
difficult matter to make abandoned
creatures feel their need of a Savior.
Hut to humble the pride of- vaunting
morality; to sweep away the pretext of
Ighteousness that is worse than filthv
rags' that Is, Indeed, something for the
faithful who believe in the witness of
the Spirit to exult ove1^
Whoahall say in the light of the con-
version of any Edward Everett Hal'-
that the arm of the Lord is short, that
It cannot reach: that His ear is heavy,
that it cannot hear, and that he is not
able to "turn and overturn?" K. C
Star.
ITCH—HINO WORM.
E. T. Lucas, Wingo, K.v., writes.
April 2f>. I i2: "For 10 to 12 years I
had been afflicted with a malady known
as the "itch.' The Itching was most
unliearable: I had tried for years t<
find relief, having tried all remedies
I could hoar of, besides a number of
doctors. I wish to state that one sin-
gle application of Ballard's SnowLin
iment cured ine completely and |>erma-
tiently Since then I have uaed the
liniment on two separate occasions for
ring worm and it cured completely.
25c, 50c and ti.00. Sold by Opera
House Drug Store.
I
THE MESSENGER
AND THE
KANSAS CITY
JOURNAL
One Year
FOR
§
$1.00.
\Y" nmkc tho nbove offer for a slhort time.
Act promptly .1 wiu want the benefit of.ilt.
THK Mkssknokr gives the local ne.WB.
I'll.- Ji.niiiul gives the general news.
BOTH FOB SI.OO.
Lot Rates to California !
VIA THE
Daily. Feb. 15th lo April 7th. $25. To California points and relative
ly as low rates to points In the Northwest.
Maps, schedules and other information will be cheerfully auid „.pruuipUy.
furnished on application to
F. G. ORI&WOLI), Agent. Cla remote,. I, T,-
D. C. FARRINC1TON, T. P. A.. Oklahoma City, Okla.
F. E. CLARK. D. P. A.. Wichita. Kan&as.
HUGH BREWSTER
A,
• ■ ,• r K
WANTED!
By a man in badMieMlVi. "Vh^ ohiktnti'* ftftlfft'instfram'e
that will offer protection to his family after his death, which
m ust occur s<x n.
Address, "The man who is not able to pay just now.1'
STATEHOOD IS SURE TO COME
Judge Hainer Talks of Trip to
Washington.
Bayard T. Hainer. associate justice
of the Oklahoma supreme court, was
in Wichita Saturday afternoon on his
way home from Washington, D. C.
With Chief Justice John H Burford
and Associate Justice B. F. Burwell,
Judge Hainer was called to the nation
al capital by President Roosevelt, who
roll is called and the I desired to consult the members of the
answers ave, and for supreme bench as to certain political
... matter* to th* territory. < >r all
many years to come, you will a(Ulrg Jnd(re Hii,nt.(. ,u ttn
be to ns the man who for our interview with the Eagle he is not at
wrote their second dec liberty to s|H ak.
Security Mutual Life Itaance Company.
' i ^ 'I I
SEE Brewster & Moore,
DISTRICT MANAGERS,
Claremore, I. T.
We are Permanently boeated With You.
Should senators he chosen by
a direct vote of the people? Tl.is
is one of the questions which
our constitution should settle,
as far as our state is concerned.
The manner in which the Senate
has blocked our road to the
rights of American citizens,
should help u* to answer the
question in our own interests.
Let us have senators who get
their rights direct from the
peopl- ; and must therefore an
swer to the people for their con
duct. Let us make the price as
high as possible to those who
buy their way in
peopl
laration of independence—Mus
kogee Phoenix.
F. F. I'arsons, Pastor Wild Rose,
Wis.) Baptist Church The Hrst
numlier of the course was given
Saturday evening, Nov. 8th, by the
Chicago Lady (Quartette. It Is not
within my power to express ade-
quately the praise which the commu-
nity is attempting to give to last
Saturday's evening program On
is on tin- every corner I hear such statements
bad "
Wasn't It grandy" "If they were
^ here again tonight the hall would lie
e su-r- •• o| )lope t|,e rejl, Qf tj1(,
gest that the council take tin- course Is as good." "I got my mon-
matter up at once, and provide |eys worth." "It was worth the
some remedy. Let the marshal j Price of the season ticket to hear
be authorized to furnish wl,r|, I'bose ladle. .Ing." At Windsor Op
rni House, Wedneanay evening, Fei>-
ruary 1.
Oive Tramps Work
The tramp nuisanc*
increase, and has reached propor j as these: "The liest we ever
tions which demand t he attention
of the city authorities
Talking of statehood prospects the
associate justice said:
"There is no longer any doubt about
Oklahoma's gelling statehood thl*
winter. Statehood lias htvome of
national Importance- it is one of the
three great measure* of this session.
The Hamilton omnibus bill was passed
the house a* you know. It will ls> re-
i ported favorably h, the senate co*n
burns, bruises, etc. It has on Monday ami within probably
almost lmmedi- thirty day.-sixty days al the longest
—the bill will heconi" a law.
"The Hamilton bill is the most coin
plete and satisfactory statehood bill
thai has ever lieen presented in con-
gress. It Includes practically alltlv
provisions of Delegate McGulre's bill
and no two u «n have had tnor« to do
with framing it than Mr McGulrc and
Henry Asp. Oklahoma'* delegate has
been untiring In his work and efforts
to give Oklahoma what she is justly
entitled to, at his task night and day
Mr. Asp has rendered Invaluable ser
vices to the territory in molding the
bill in the very best legal phases.
However, neither of these gentlemen
are more earnest In their desire for
statehood than the president himself "
ROUGH HANDS MADE SMOOTH.
\ man who once had rough horny-
hands made them soft and smooth with
Witch Hazel Salve, hut he used the
genuine that hearing the name "E.C.
DeWilt A Co.. Chicago." For sores
bolls.
no equal, and afford
ate relief fromhllnd, bleeding, Itching
and protrudlflgplles Soldhv Hiding's
Pharmacv
T°Aid the Southwest
Hits you teen the new magaxiae, Southwest?
It Is published in St. Louis (formerly the Frisco Magazine).
It is published by s Southwest mm, contains stories of the {Southwest and ar-
ticles ot interest to Southwest people, contributed by Southwest wrUets. It circulates
In the Southwest, and contsins the advertisements ol Southwest (firms. It will aid
Ihe Southwest in all her sims-for more people, for more factories, for advantageous
legislation—for investment, immigration and irrigation.
Aid the work and benefit yourself by subscribing. Send SOc. for
a year, 2Sc. for six months, or s postal for s sample copy FREE.
We alto answer free of charge, inquiries from persons interested In
fettling or investing in the Southwest and furnish advertising rattt on
application. Address
S0Uth\Ve&, 1021 Frisco Building. St Louis
I DR. HENDERSON.
101 ft lot V. 9TN ST., KANSAS CITY,
Thrn Old H«l labia liwtor Olilnt la an in a UumI Lw
rt|al r Ut ilo n !■ Mi.di. lu*. Otw Ss twri' SpMtol 9
OT.r 7 Y«tr« In Kuw I Ity MTABLI.HBD INT.
men employment, ut fair wage,
or compel them lo "move on "
Then, if our people will keep the
marshal posted, the nuisance will
be quickly abated, for the aver
aire irampdoea not want work,
and when he finds it is either
that or • move," he "moves."
■f up|M>s« we try it, before the
ii,.ii call an election lo vote nn coition becomes more serious. Pharmacy.
They n«ver gripe or sicken, but
cleanse and strengthen the stomach,
liver and bowels. This Is the univer-
sal verdict of the many thousands
who use DeWltt'a Little Early Risers.
These famous little pills relieve head-
ache. constipation, bllllousness, jaun-
dice, torpid liver, sallow complexion,
etc. Try Little Early Risers. Roling's
HEALTH
Meansthe ability to do a good day's
work, wllhort undue fatigue and to!
lind life worth living. You cannot I
have indigestion or constipation with- |
outlta upsetting the liver and polluting I
the blood. S ich a condition may lie I
Is-st and quickest relieved by Herbine,
Chronic, Nervous and Spicial Dltmii
Cures guaranteed or mossy refunded. All medicines furnished resdy far a#-tra
I mercury or lnjuri.>un medlciaei used No detaatSon from baatasia. Patleats at a (Haft live
1 untied l>y mall sud < xpreu. Medictbes *«al every where, free fraa ease or hswhacr
• Uii'gus low. Over flO.isw esses cured. Afi suit eijierlenoe are liywrtaal; SlMfeyouV
. . snd < nd for terms. Coosullailoe free sad <
Seminal Weakness
the beat liver regulator that the world
hitN ever known Mrs. D. W. Smith. | I for free book sou tut ot question*
i Stricture •
_ . of youthful
follies and axcenstri,—causing nlcbt lost**
and loss of sexual power, pimples sad
iiUiK-bes on Ihs face, confused tdess aud
iir,/ ifulness, be hfiilne and aversion to
Sisoeiety, etc , eured for llfa I stop night
mi" en, restore scxusl power, nerve sad
nit sirensihefi weak
writea, April 3, '02: "I use llerblne,
and Hnd It the best medicine for con-
stipation and regulating the liver I , .d..ln>ltlon fr<llll llllB,0i..r curaiiaria,^
eter usod. Mr. Hold by Opera I Hoak saJ tui of qaeeilu— woo ■—I —aiei.
'and Gleet &.£;
House Drug Htorc.
i la
Hydrooele and E5TT-1
Phimosis "wf «*/•
Varloooele SZXSZZSg
vous debility, weakness of tha saaaal *ya-
Wiu uU>.. permaaeuUy auiad ~'1hia> l>ls
la dlaaaa'. la
liiliial^^C*S
private Ataaaaaa permaaenUy 4mm<
Syphilis, Jffitsr
cured far life Blood polsoall
•SBtil
nsrJSRJk
pietarea, with
'fiirWS
eaxa MuaaiM «a
1
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Williamson, F. E. The Claremore Messenger. (Claremore, Indian Terr.), Vol. 12, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 2, 1906, newspaper, February 2, 1906; Claremore, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc178089/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.