The Cordell Weekly Beacon. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CORDELL WEEKLY BEACON, THUBSDAY, JULY 5 t906.
Cordell Beacon
Official County Paper
b C. Bcknktte. Editor & Prop.
MATES : I per year; r I n*. e copy S wiu
Revolting Record.
Stanford White, an architect of
world fame is dead in New York,
paying the penalty of his licen-
tiousness. The husband of a
the meeting of the Kentuckians
who were home for "Kentucky
week" in Central Park at Louis-
ville. Col. Henry Watterson de-
livered the adddress. the conclud-
ing portion of which is char cter-
i beautifuljyoung woman who was j an<l w^ich was as follows,
i a victim of his, shot him dead in 1 "We are here. ' said Colon
°kl* ja vic*im °f sh°t him dead in 1 "We are here. ' said Colonel
____ _____——___ J full view of the audience at Watterson, "to pay fitting hom-
THURSDAY, JULY 5 Madison Square Garden. His age to a rude pile of unhewn logs.
death has brought forth a record ^ hat might have been in the
The Pennsylvania Republicans Iof ruin an l depravity seldom, if minds of those poor, honest yeo-
adopted a radical platform and i e% er" eflua"e^* Talented, highly
nominated a machine ticket, but |educated. wealthy and and well
as
blared on the statehood matter.
.Republican platforms are not
binding.
men who a hundred years ago
hewed those logs, if they had
been told that within a century
they would constitute holy
and'ground, that they would be taken
the late Senator Hanna | connected, he appeared in all the
ired on the statehood matter, j better elements of New 1 ork s
11 society. He had a wife
family of grown children who are ' throughout the country,to arouse
among the leading families of the not only the deepest enthusiasm.
Col. Henry Watner-on is to c tv* y*t he. pursued a dual: but the warmest reverence and
deliver the welcoming addrea* at j life* From the disclosures since1 love?
the Bryan reception in New | bis death he ha« wrought the ruin'' "The direst blow directed
York. It is dollar^ to doughnuts
that the Col. will make amends
for his wanderings in the past
eight years.
Those senators who assured
tanator Piatt that the express
amendment to the rate bill would
"go out" in canference have cer-
tainly misled the old man, but
not being of the strenuous type
< f statesman he has call no one a
liar.
of numberless young women. Hisiagaiust the south after Appomat-
money was used to gild the paths ' tox was the assassin's bullet
of the comely chorus girl whom which struck down Lincoln. By
he debauched. The man who
killed him is the husband of one
of these victims who fell a victim
it the whole current of its history
was changed. No custodian of
absolute power ever exercised it
to his lust. Imperious in his ex-[so benignly. He was not only
actions, he sought to lead the great in brain and greater in
girl from the virtuous back into
heart, but he possessed the genius
the slime, but *he confided to her of common sense, common sense
husband her situation and he in thought and act, enriched by a
The sundry civil appropjiation
bill contains an item of $25,000
the traveling expenses of the
president, his attendants and in-
vited guests, so the railroads will
not have to furnish free trans-
portation in future, as in the
past.
A Chicago man spoke for the
firs., time in twenty-one years the
**ther day and the words he utter-
ed were: "Is it hot enough for
you?" If he had addressed one
of the beef packers his answer
probably wa>: "None of your
d business."
Government ownership of rail-
road, telegraph and telephone
lines is demanded in a resolution
adopted at the late Democratic
State convention held at Yank-
ton, South Dakota. Who ever
heard of a Republican govern-
mene demanding any rights for
the people.
Justice Brewer, in his address
before the alumni of Harvard,
launched Secretary Taft's presi-
dential boom. In the estimation
of this eminent jurist Taft was
the reconstructer of the Philip-
pines and will be the man who
accomplishes the construction of
the Panama Canal.
Upton Sinclair won the first
round as the , boss muck-raker
when he exposed the filth of the
packing houses. President Roose-
velt has won the second round by
buMishing the report of the filth
uncovered by investigation. It
is now "horse and horse" and
the pub|ic will watch the next
muck rake performance with in-
terest.
hunted him up and killed him.
It is said that this act of Thaw's
is the only commendable act he
everdidinhis life, being him-
self a dissolute millionaire. Be
it so, and that will go a Ijng way
to redeem an otherwise misspent
life. It will add an ounce of con-
viction that there is some
manhood left in the sordid
golden metropolis, where there
is a pound of doubt.
It has become the general belief
that there is fa t becoming no
standard of virtue of any sort
except that measured by gold. It
is popularly supposed that with
unlimited money at his command
man may accomplish anything he
may desire,and it is this tendency
in the popular mind that is re-
sponsible for the ever increasing
unrest.
Such men as this, whose mis-
deeds are allowed to go unpun-
ished, lower the standards of
morality and imbues the public
with the notion that the ten com-
mandments have no place among
the rich. It is wholesome to
have a restoration of the idea that
there yet remains a spark of man-
hood among prodigals. For the
dead man there is nothing left
of his achievements, only the
memory of his crimes remain.
Joseph Boyer, who purchases
♦he coal used by the engines of
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com-
pany, admits that he accepted
money and Htock valued at more
than $57,000 in thrae years from
various coal companies who gave
lim from three to five cents a ton
on all coal purchased for the
railroad company. In accepting
this, he explains, he was simply
"following custom." And of
course the coal companies got it
back from the ordinary consumer,
while charging it up to the
■liners.
Those Panamans who Want
United States troops at the polls
jaunt be Republicans.
Senator Bailey "skinned" the
Cosmopolitan magazine in a
speech in the senate, wherein
he took the floor to except to
statements made in that publica-
tion. The Cosmopolitan has
been running a series of articles
written by David Graham Phil-
lips under the title. "The treason
of the Senate" and in these
articles republican and demo-
cratic setators were charged with
conspiring, in secret, to defeat
the railroad rate bill. Mr. Bailey
shows the reference to him to
have been entirely misstated.
He characterizes thusly:
"Hearst's magazines print slan-
der, and then Hearst's papers ad-
vise their readers to buy the
magazine." The " skin n in" is
believed to have been neatly and
completely done.
Lincoln's Log Cabin.
The "Lincoln Farm Associ-
ation," an association formed to
buy the farm on which President
Lincoln was born, and to restore
the log cabin in which he was born,
has succeeded in buying the farm
and on the 6th of June the log
cabin was brought from New
York to Louisville and set up for
broad experience.
I have always believed that,
with each of the world's immor-
tals. Lincoln was raised up by
God and inspired by God to do
the work God had appointed for
him to do. From Caesar to Bis-
marck and Gladstone the world
has seen brilliant soldiers and
statesmen rising to place and
honor step by step, following the
laws of cause and effect. Though
their lives may have been crowded
with adventure and incident,
they could not be called men of
destiny. Their lives are clear,
comprehenoive and comprehensi-
ble.
"The men of destiny rose from
shadow and went in mist. There
is no explanation for their lives.
We hear them, but we know
them not. They came with no
word upon their lips, did their
work, with God's mantle about
them, and left the world half
mortal and half mist. They were
creatures of a special providence,
and were endowed with power to
defy the wiles of the world, the
flesh and the devil, until their
work was done, then vanished as
mysteriously as they had come.
"Judged by this standard, Lin-
coln's life might have been
chanted by a Greek chorus, the
prelude and epilogue to a great
crisis. Hewasboin in a hovel,
as poor and lowly as the birth-
place of the Son of God. Yet it
was reserved for this strange be-
ing, late in life, to be snatched
from obscurity and raised to su-
preme command, and given
charge of the destinies of the
nation. Accomplished statesmen
were led to the rear, while this
fantastic : man was led to the
front and given the reins. During
four years he was given such re-
sponsibility as was never known
to the world before.
"He was inspired by God, for
nowhere else could he have ac-
quired that wisdom and virtue.
Where did Shakespeare get his
genius, Mozart his music? Who
wrote the lyre of the Scotch
peasant? As God raised up and
inspired them, bo did He Lincoln.
When a thousand years hence
the truth of history shall have
left no room to doubt, no drama
will be followed with deeper feel-
ing than that which tells the story
of his life and death. God laid
His hands upon these rough hewn
logs, and they brought forth a
nstion's hero.
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Cordell, Okla.
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Burnette, S. C. The Cordell Weekly Beacon. (Cordell, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 5, 1906, newspaper, July 5, 1906; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc183693/m1/2/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.