The Wagoner Tribune (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1928 Page: 1 of 8
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OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
WAGONER WAGONER COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST 16 1928
VOLUME VIII— NUMBER SI
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HOOVER PRESENTS
ISSUES IN SPEECH
Reiterates Stand on Dry Law and
Brings Out Three-Fold Agri-
cultural Relief Program
GIVES PLEA FOR TOLERANCE
Herbert Hoover accepted the re
publican presidential nomination Sat
urday with a reiteration of his stand
against repeal of the prohibition
amendment or any modification of en-
forcement that would constitute nulli-
fication and with the exposition of a
three-folfl agricultural relief program
' The nominee repeated that he stands
for “the ( efficient enforcement' of the
laws enacted under the prohibition
amendment and added that “whoever
is chosen president has under his oath
the solemn duty to pursue this course'
For relief of the farmer he outlined
a program embracing tariff protection
and increased and cheaper transporta-
tion supported by federal financial aid
in building up farmer-owned and con-
trolled corporations to take careof the
crop surpluses
Hoover outlined His stand on prohi-
bition without making direct reference
to his democratic opponent or to his
declaration for liberaliztion of the Vol-
stead enforcement act
“Modification of the enforcement
laws which would permit that which
the constitution forbids is nullifica-
tion he' said ''This the American
people will not countenance' '
Reiterating that he did not favor re-
peal of the eighteenth amendment the
- republican nominee said no one was to
be citicised for seeking to change the
constitution by lawful means but add-
ed that the republican party denied the
right to anyone to destroy the purposes
of the constitution by indirection
Recognizing the abuses of enforce-
ment under existing enabling acts
Hoover said these must be' remedied
after “an organized searching investi-
gation of facts anjcauses had point-
ed the way to the wise method of cor-
recting them
Declaring that agriculture presented
“the most urgent economic problem in
our nation today' Hoover said the re-
publican party farm plank constituted
v “a definite plan of relief" needing only
“the detailed elaboration of legislation
and appropriat ions to put it into f
force’
Aside from federal aid to farm sta-
bilization corporations he proposed
tariff increases to give agriculture the
same protection as other industries and
the development of inland waterways
including the Mississippi and the Great
Lakes to the Atlantic systems as
means of affording cheaper transpor-
tation for farm products and a corre-
sponding shrinkage in the spread be-
tween what the farmer receives and
what the consumer pays
'An adequate tariff is the founda-
tion of farm relief" he said in put-
ting this first in his program Devel-
opment of the great water arteries
came second
“These improvements would mean
so large an increment in farmers
prices as to warrant their construction
many times over' he asserted
“There is no more vital method of
farm relief"
“The working out of agricultural re-
lief constitutes the most important ob-
ligation of the next administration" he
added “I stand pledged to these pro-
posals The object of our policies is
to establish for our larmers an income
equal to those of other occupations
for the farmer's wife the same comforts
in her home as women in other groups
for the farm boys and girls the same
opportunities in life as other boys and
girls
“So far as my own abilities may be
ofj service 1 dedicate them to help se-
- cure prosperity and contentment in
that industry where and my fore-
fathers were born and nearly all of my
family still obtain their livelihood"
Chartering the course for republi-
can speakers in this campaign which
his speech formally opened Hoover
made this declaration regarding relig-
ious tolerance:
“In this land dedicated to tol-
erance we still find outbreaks of
intolerance 1 come oi Quaker
stock My ancestors were perse-
cuted for their beliefs ’ Here they
sought and found religions free-
dom By blood and conviction 1
stand for religious tolerance both
in act and in spirit The glory of
our American ideals is the right
of every man to worship God ac-
cording to the dictates of his own
conscience”
While necessarily dealing in the
main with economic problems Hoov-
1 er’s speech was shot through with pun-
gent expressions giving voice to his
own philosophy of the relation of the
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To Be Officially Notified of
Governor Alfred E Smith of New
York and Senator Joe T Robinson
of Arkansas who will be officially no-
tified of their nominations for the pres-
idency and vice-presidency on August
22 and 29 respectively
After two weeks of almost steady
work Governor Smith Wednesday had
completed the address he will deliver
on the east steps of the New York
state capitol in formally accepting the
democratic -presidential nomination--Although
he has had much experi-
ence in writing public documents dur-
ing the eight years he has been chief
SIMPSON PRESSES PASTOR
TO DEFEND STATEMENTS
State Farm Leader Insistent That
Oklahoma City Pastor Meet
Him in Public Debate
About ten days ago John A Simp-
son state president of the Farmers
Union challenged Rev F M Ham 1
pastor of the IJ’irst Baptist church of
Oklahoma City to a debate in which !
Ham should defend the republican na- j
tional convention its platform and its j
candidate for president which Simp-
son should defend the national demo-1
cratic party’s convention platform and
candidate j
Ham answered Simpson that ar-
rangements might be made providing
Simpson wag familiar with Messianic
prophecy and it’s revelation of the
anti-Christ
Simpson has replied as follows:
August 8 1928
Rev M F Ham
Oklahoma City Okla
Oklahoma City Okla
Your reply to my challenge to
debate you on the question of the
republican and democratic nation-
al convention their platforms and
the candidates is certainly a dis-
appointment to me
In your pulpit you have be-
meaned and misrepresented the
democratic party its platform and
its candidate You have glorified
the party of Vare and Mellon
and through misrepresentation
you have endeavored to get the
- voters of this state to support the
man who robbed the wheat farm-
ers of two billion dollars during
thq war and the livestock farm-
ers of one billion dollars
In my challenge I stated that if
you still believed the charges you
had made against the democratic
platform and its candidate that 1
invited you to sustain those
charges before the public in a de-
bate You come back with an of-
fer to meet me on condition that
I am familiar with “Messianic
prophecy and its revelation of the
anti-Christ'
Mr Ham I am well enough in-
formed on “Messianic prophecy
" and its revelation of the anti-
Christ" to know that it does not
have a thing to do with the demo-
cratic party its platform or its
' candidate
Again directing your attention
to my charge that you have mis-
represented the democrat party
its platform and candidates in
your pulpit sermons and that if
you believe the statements you
j executive of New York the governor
according to his confidants has found
Ithe preparation of a presidential cam-
paign message is far different than
that of a message to the state legisla-
J vure
In his usual manner Smith has made
his position perfectly clear on every
national issue including prohibition
farm relief foreign affairs and even
he tariff close friends declare
L 'The governor want to eons length
in writing His acceptance speech it
I was learned ' on good authority to
serve notice on the big business of th
CITY TO CALL ELECTION
The board of city commissioners
met August 9 1928 at 2 o'clock by
special written' call of the mayor E N
McAllister served on Commis:3oners
Stephen D Mayes and RAV Gilmore
Members present E N McAllister
mayor Stephen D Mayes and R W
Gilmore commissioners F R Ed-
wards clerk Chas Watts and W O
Rittenhouse attorneys and Ga H
Walters and Signa Hatfield citizens
Motion by Mayor McAllister tha
the resolution as read by the citj
clerk authorizing the mayor to call 9
city election on the petition asking for
a change in the form of government
be adopted
Motion seconded by R W Gilmore
Vote: McAllister yes Mayes yes Gil-
more yes Motion declared carried
Motion by Mayor McAllister that the
clerk be directed to file a copy of the
proposed amended and substituted
charter as of this date
Motion seconded by R W Gilmore
Vote: McAllister yes Mayes no Gil-
more yes
The reason givenby Mr Mayes for
voting “no" on the above proposition
was that the petition hqd not been cer-
tified by the city clerk as to the quali-
fications of the various persons sign-
ing same whether or not they were
legal voters in the city of Wagoner or
as to whether or not the person whose
names appeared on said petition were
placed by themselves or by another
party
FARMERS' UNION TO PICNIC ‘
Saturday the members of the Farm-
ers Union of Wagoner Rogers and
Mayes counties will hold an all-day
picnic at Bull creek bridge one and
one-half miles west and five miles
north of Neodesha
' Another description of the location
is one and one-half miles south and
two and a half miles east of Inola
1 John A Simpson president -of the
state organization and Sam Morley
former state president of the State
Cotton Growers association will be
the principal speakers President
Simpson speaking at ' 1 1 o’clcok and
Mr Morley speaking in the afternoon
J W Logan is chairman of the
program and arrangements committee
with J D McDonald secretary
N V Leonard was a business visit-
or in Tulsa Tuesday
have made renew my challenge
to meet you in public discussion
- of these questions in Oklahoma
' City Durant and McAlester
Yours truly
JOHN A SIMPSON
Nomination
Rortnsoj1
country that in the event of his elec-
tion he had no intention of tinkering
with the tariff It was said he would
further emphasize this point in some
of the speeches he will make during
Ilia campaign
! As he often has done on previous
occasions Smith is understood to have
'truck out bluntly and boldly at pro-
hibition He is said to have made it
olain that he has never urged the re-
peal 'of the eighteenth amendment but
that he does believe the Volstead act
should be modified in the interest of
iemperanee
j IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS
! FROM THE DISPATCHES
Front Page Stories Boiled Down
For the Convenience of the
Busy Reader
The first bale of cotton ginned this
year was ' taken from some ' point in
Alabama by airplane to New York
City where it will he sold to the high-
est bidder and the proceeds will go
into the national democratic commit-
tee's campaign fund The grower re-
ceived forty-one cents per pound for
the bale It is expected that it will
bring a fabulous price at its final sale
A negro employed on one of Tulsa's
new sky-scrapers fell down the eleva-
tor shaft -from the twenty-third floor
Tuesday and was instantly killed In
the fall his body was badly mangled
9 9 9
Bob Graham one of the four horse-
men who tried to convene the state
legislature who was a candidate for tie-
election was nominated by a scant
vote of fifteen His opponent secur-
ed a re-count but up to Wednesday
night Graham was profiting by it as he
had gained several votes
I Road building contracts ' amounting
to more than $3000000 were let by
the state highway commission which
convened Monday Most of the con-
tracts weer roads in the western part
of the state One contract for drain-
age and grading was let for Adair and
Cherokee counties presumably for
highway 5 1 between Stilwell and El
-ston
9 9 9
During the week death has removed
two national characters from the field
of action when George Brennan dem-
ocratic leader and national committee-
man from Uinois and George Morris
chairman of the republican state com
rn’ttee of New York both died sud-
denly '
9 9 9
Republican candidate Herbert Hoo-
!ver will hold a three days session at
his old home town in Iowa next week
and will invite persons from every
walk of life to sit in -conference with
him Meanwhile his opponent Gover-
nri Smith is holding conferences daily
with repreaentativea from all over the
country His moat prominent calls?
during the week was Josephus Daniels
of Norh Carolina who assured h i m
that the south would remain solid re-
gardless of the big noise that was go-
ing on in many places
— T 1 " jf1" ’
Frank Eckrphn of Tulsa was a Sun-
day visitor at the John Ratcliff home
HENRY RATCUFF DIES AT V1NTA
The sympathy of this community
again goes to John Ratcliff and family
who were called on again this week
to give up another member of their
family by death
Henry Ratcliff died at a Vinita hos-
pital from biod poisoning resulting
from an amputation of several months
ago but which became infected re-
cently and which caused his death last
Friday
Mr Ratcliff was in his forty-seventh
years and is survived by his wife and
nine children Funeral services were
held Sunday at the home and were
conducted by the Odd Fellow fra-
ternity Those attending the services from
here other than members of the fam-
ily were Mrs H D Blake Mrs Char-
les Comstock Mrs A P Thomas and
Mr and Mrs W T Drake and chil-
dren Jack and Emma Lou
the statet senate howed majority of
County Board ta Recount in Re-
publican Sheriffs Race After
Groh Makes Application
The finals in the democratic pri-
mary between Hon W S Vernon of
Coweta and Hon Virgil Riddle of
Okmulgee in the ract for the seat in
twelve votes for the Okmulgee man
The early tide set in for Riddle but
as the counting progressed Vernon
ballots became more common and the
result was that the latter was only
twelve votes short when the final bal-
lot was counted
Friday Vernon filed a request with
the statu election boerd asking that a
recount be made
Up to Thursday morning no word
had been received her as to the de-
cision of the state board C M Bry-
ant the secreary of the county board
is out of town and will not return un-
U Friday
Jim Groh candidate for sheriff on
the republican ticket who was but a
few votes behind Charley McDonald
has filed a request for a recount with
the county election board and the
boxes will be opened Saturday
The race bteween them was very
close McDonald receiving 255 votes
as against 245 rceived by Groh
9 9 9
BRANSON IS NOMINATED FOR
JUSTICE OVER W H BROWN
Chief Justice Fred Barnson candi-
date for re-election - was nominated
over several candidates Attorney W
H Brown of Muskogee- being his
nearest opponent
The Tribune's report of last' week
gave Muskogee county t& Judge E V
Vernor and in so doing was in erroi
that county going to June Btanson
Frank C Carter candidate for re-
election as corporation commissioner
recieved more than 100000 plurality
over hie nearest competitor and a
clear majority over all
factors on which we iqust work— flood
control navigation power develop-
ment and irrigation In addition there
are half a dozen minor factors each
requiring specialized investigaion"
Congressman W W Hastings of
Tahlequah told the engineers that the
possibilities of the present undertak-
ing are too big for the average man
to comprehend at this time
“You talk of a Tulsa of 250000
population If the Arkansas river ia
made navigable with the resultant re-
duction in freights rates if floods are
controlled and the other factors car-
ried out Tulsa should expect not lees
than 1000000 people"
Mayor Dan Patton pointed out that
the real significance of the visit here
Judge Thomas Doyle was re-nomi-1 of the engineers and the impending
nated for criminal court of appeal lart of work the urvey how a
All of the congressional delegation j revolution in thought on tha part of
throughout the state including Milt the counlry t mean that at last
Garber republican were re-nominat-ed
Attorney Thomas Andrews will op-
pose Judge Fred Branson at the polls
n November he having carried the
republican nomination for the supreme
court
STATE FARM PRESIDENT HERE
John A Simpson after addressing
the Farmers Union picnic at Inola
Saturday will come to Wagoner and
speak on the streets at 8 o'clock
Upper Main street will be roped off
and a truck will be used 'to speak
from
It is not known what he will speak
about but as the information comes
from Hon Scott Ferris national dem-
ocratic committeeman for Oklahoma
it is supposed that he will speak for
Governor Smith and other democratic
bandidates
HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Cecil Williams an employee of the
city had a narrow escape Friday by
a scaffold giving away and precipitat-
ing him several feet to the bottom of
the city standpipe
The 'scaffold had been erected to
clean out the tank that holds the city’s
water supply
While badly shaken up by the fall
and severely bruised ha was able to
resvme his work Wednesday
WILL RECIEVE MASTERS DEGREE
Miss Victoria Lyles who ia attend-
ing Columbia university at New York
will receive her masters degree August
24 At tha same time she will grad
uate from the school of journalism
Following the closing exercises Miss
Lyles will go to Pottsville Pa where
he has accepted a position with the
jcity schools x - '
OFVEHDIGUEfj
BY US ENGINEERS
V
Flood Control Work in Oklahoma
To Start Soon With Complete!
Survey of Nine Streams t
HARRILL ONE OF SPEAKERS
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(From The Tulsa World)
Under the terms of the general
Hood control measure passed by tha
recent congress the engineers in
charge have full authority to develop
complete surveys and plans for aha
tremendous project covering not only
he Mississippi but its tributaries Maj
Francis B Wilby in charge of tha
United States engineering district with
headquarters at Memphis Tenn told
his hearers at the luncheon held in hia
honor in the Mayo hotel Monday
noon
At the some time he wanted them
that such a task requires years and
that the preliminary survey which is
to begin soon may aolne require two
years
“We are not omnipotent" he said
"The task is tremendous as you will
realize from the fact that in Oklahoma
alone there are nine rivers which must
be intensively studied not to mention
those in other states nor tha great -problem
presented by the Mississippi
itaolf
“If we were charged only with ' m
flood control survey the task would
not be so huge If we had only power
possibilities to determine we could ac-
complish it- much sooner But you'
must realize that there are four major
PARTY VISITS WAGONER
After viewing the river at sev-
eral pointa the party spent a few -minutes
in Wagoner enroute to
Muskogee where they remained
over night going on to Oklahoma
City Tuesday morning for a con-
ference with Governor Johnston
?7 and “other' state officials Mr
Harrill returned home Thursday
morning 4
congress has turned to the develop-
ment of our neglected inland watere
on a comprehensive scale which will
enable us to compare with European
nations in this respect" he said "
Tom Harrill chairman of the Ok-
lahoma State Conservation commis-
sion and Col C B Douglas president
of the Arkansas River Flood Control
association offered the engineers free
access to all records anf data which
their organizations have gathered
Major Wilby had emphasized the fact
that co-operation of local organiza-
tions governing authorities and indi-
viduals is needed to speed the work
Major Wilby arrived in Tulsa Mon-
day morning accompanied by his
chief aide R R Van Frank to make
a preliminary tour of this part of his
territory which includes the St Fran-
cis White and Arkansas rivers hnd
their tributaries as well as four hun-
dred and fifty miles of the Mississippi
river ’ He emphasized the fact that his
trip is not in the nature of a survey
but merely a tour for information and
to get acquainted with conditions and
sources of reliable data
The wo engineers were taken in
charge by a reception committee of
tthe Tulsa chapter of the American
Association of Engineers accompanied
by C A Border assistant secretary of
tthe Chamber of Commerce Congress-
man W W Hastings Congressman E
B Howard and others They were es-
corted to the Mayo hotel where ‘ an
informal reception was held for them
Later they were driven to the Shell
creek dam and to the refinery section
of the city After lunch in company
with the two congressman Col Clar-
ence B Douglas Tom Harrill and oth-
ers they were driven to the Verdigris
river worked down it all afternoon to i
the mouth and the junction ’ of the
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Foster, Horace S. The Wagoner Tribune (Wagoner, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1928, newspaper, August 16, 1928; Wagoner, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1814978/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.