The Reporter. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL. IX.
CHELSEA, CHKROKBB NATION, INDIAN TERRITORY, FttlDAY, MARCH 4. .90,.
i J- ^ncSPADDBN. W O MILAM.
Preal^t ■, VlccPrwldont
CH^S. WINDHAM, AMUUnt Cubler
JOHN D, aCOTT'i
LaihUr
Bank of Chelsea,
1896 che,5ea. Indian Territory IQ03
DOES A GENERAL BANKING BUSlNESsj
«n^ Respectfully Solicit* Your Account
1 V . ' L? , * ' \ '
DIRECTORS:
J. T. ncSvUim. C. U. Uu. w. P. Mc5p«dd«,
4, M. Sharp. W. J. Strang*,
John D. Scott
W. 0. nilaa,
! Any valuable papera you d«aire to protect will be abaolutely safe with u.'
a# mf have thepeat protection for them that can be had in Indian Terrilorv I
and no charge for their care. Any collectiotfa you denire made we desire!
you^wiH leave with We reU for all coflectiSSKhe d!J J?i£K
I* THE BOSSES REIGN SUPREME IN NEW YORK ife"* Medi'crrane"
An Interesting letter on the Possibility of Democratic
Cmdi<toN(s in New York and the East
No, Westerners Need Apply.
Col. W. O. SUrrett in O^llaa News. t . ..
In this pprt of (lie world the
question with the ambitious man
is not "how stands the people?"
but4'how stands th« ty s?" The
people are thick here -thick to
J. G. MEHUN,
PRESIDENT
M. W. COUCH.
VIOE PRESIDENT
VIOE PRESIDENT
CHELSEA MILLING
—COMPANY.—
U. S. JEFFERIES. MANAGER.
- - - BRANDS
American Patent,
0. K. Straight Patent,
' 1 ' * * • ' •
Gold Barrel,
Lily of Egypt.
You will find our Flour in all of the principal stores of our
neighboring towns. Call for and try it, and if it does not
give satisfaction, take it back where you got it aud get your
money back or another sack in its place. It will not cost you
anything as we fu ly guarantee our flour to give satisfaction
We also do a regular exchange ani deposite business with
the farmers. Bring me your wheat and corn and I will
guarantee we will send you home perfectly satisfied with both
the quamty ard quality you receive. Yours for business
Chelsea Milling Goippai)i}
Seen It
lamentable thickness. They are
not wholly disinterested |n pubic
affairs. But thjjjr are very busy
keeping body and soul together,
and beside^ they are so thick that
they can not see far beyond the
mass which they themselve* create
Their immediate couocrn is that
which pertains to t% square foot
of land cn which th y" stand.
China is of all localities on this
earth the most congested with
mankind. It is said that this is
the reason that the greater part of
China can not be aroused to an in-
terest in what a smaller part is do
ing, though the matter may be of
vital interest to a^ |n congested
communities the raj£eries of com-
munication so., long "that they
become sl^gtsL"^l^d' in such
communities ihjfumiable rule is
finally ho give ever to some indi-
vidual or some indiyiduals the
business of looking <fyt for the
mass and representing it iu public
expression or affairs.
New York has its iaillions of
people each in his own way 'fight-
ing for life, or fighting to accumu-
late wealth. Ona man is striving
to get out of the gutter and another
is striving to get iato a brown-
We,go npt niean the
owl, though we have
one In our window, but the elegant stock
of fresh groceries that we have. Come in
and see the owl and the red fox, and then
let us show you how we can rave you money
on your groceries. Come in any time, you
will find us at the store nearly all the time,
BILL'S STORE
W. S. Sutherland, Prop.
stone mansion of his ow And ffl- f < eni"Ions* 11 " about him to know that the people
the population being thus divided 'n^ ii n! T °f peo" were for hin*or would be for him
and what it do,* P T'1'T«~- «"T k~ W* *
dehu.d.ab abo\e, pling would be beard and Govern-! I was somewhat impressed with
mental fabric* would fall. How this, but when I spoke to another
long does any man think order Lne of the people of this compli.
would be preserved among these ment being paid to Hearst by one
four millions of people, crowded of the working classes this > second
out on a neck of land with a river | workingman said that the first
pn both sides of them, if the lead- uieutio,ned was a "bloke" who
ers aud bosses were not there? had beer, shaving n!wspaper men
Suppose a universal hunopr xj„—* __j .. . .
it naturally becomes*'the place
where it is proper to ask "how
stand the bosses?" and not "how
stands the people?" Thoae men
have forced themselves to a leader-
ship by attention {o the adminis-
tration of public affairs and are
wholly the people who cai answer <5.i 6 DOt there-[had beeq shaving njwspaper men
inquiries as to political prosper in f s Jf an * wh°. thou«ht
The
Right Sitfn
jftgpSWSBMw
ROGERS*
"m.wontyonrtable ailvrrto look
*5" "M^wonable
SOLD BY
BISHOP, The Jeweler, Chelsea, I. T.
iuquiries as to political prqspcrts in
this State.
When the leaders have come to
a conclusion as to what <wiU Cr
ought to be done—a conclusion ar
rived at invariably alter vicious
fights carried on without much re
gard tp ordinary proprieties—the
people line t:p. That is what they
think they are born for. That i*
what the leaders are positive they
are born for. After Candidates-
and policies are agreed on b> the
leaders then they get on the street
corners to iuform the herd whs tit
ought to do, just as if the herd,
complaisant and docile, did not
have to do what it is told to do
This is respectable. This is grac
ious. For by it the leaders com-
pliment the herd' in the way of
telling it that it can do as^t p.eases
and is really what causes nomina-
tions and policies.
The leaders, by certain asses
ments laid on the public and whicL
are lai 1 iu that deliberate mauuei
which causcs nO disturbances, an
enable to get up torchlight proces
sions, displays of fireworks and
even sometimes excursions and
meals lor the public, to its great
d-light and to its gratitude for the
generosity of the givers of all tbest
good things. That pnblic little
. - ia'" m""1* wno rnougnt he
e * ®H at once, how much respect | could see all the working classes
would the hungry feci for the gov- from behind his chai> in a barber
eruinent? shop. "Don't ye pay any attien-
It could not happen? Why shut tioti to what any qf em tells y-eez
your eyes aud see ths fauxburg until tht distri.t leaders -pake"
of St. Antoine roll toward the he advised me.
Palace of toUis XVI? Hear the This reminds me that the last
tocsin ring out that the people speaker was an Irishman, aud re-
were up in Pans and the Capets calls what a Democratic politician
ru,ed for centuries-*u!ed from Boston said to me today: I'll
vyitha £troug hand and crushed tell you how it is. The ranera
t ie individuality in man? Pshaw; s^y We can't get together becanse
men have arisen in gods and forms, of our differences as to the tariff
even if the forms are Government land the currency qnestion. That's
mads to protect them and enable not true. We can't get together
era to be happy. And as long because the Irish belong to the
as this old world shall la t they Democratic party. I'm one of
aricc, particularly if but thim (and he was), and We must
hunger once kmdles the furnace (scrap;bad'cess to us." He was
which is natural in man. Lincere in what he said( ^ .f he
New York is foreign. The to-e was not an Irishmen, and a hi*
of conversation shows it. It is .be one at that in politics, I would not
brogue of one nationality here; it quote him.
■s the lisp of another nationality As for Parker, the common peo-
there; i is the gutteral of another pie do not know him. He has not
nationality there. Gibberish nuets Lads a mark as a fighter and he
Towe/Tp ^r^ Ar°UUd the has not ken on the board* prom-
Tower ot Babel there was not any inently in any way. Of Hearst
Vnn „e _ .r 7" . c,rcle. wnere people do not open
thousand dollars has been their mouths becouse of cold, is
more strange language when the
proud were stricken in that day
than can be heard dn the streets
and in ths hotels of New York
every hour in the blessed year.
The hissed word from the artic
circle, where people do not open
they do know, and undoubtedly
feel kindly toward him, since he
has been furnishing them a great
deal of reading matter and that
dished up to suit their taste. They
like Mr. Bryan because of his
name, because he is an active
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These people know nothing cf
government as we utuler.
stand it. As tb^y formerly
'ooIced to the head men, war men,
or to the castle in the hill for
.orders, so they do now Icolr to
Uk. fjotu it through couiract.frauiiu.ny Halforiouw other hall
andotberthiug.. ^ the ,ig„' when they .h.,,^
BW It is useless to complain. It tdown and when they shall act up
i« igootaace to criticise with an Leaders!; taes? Why |be, art
dn that t-e criticism will amount as absolute!, n.c.ary here
change. Ho who tcad.k,BwL properly move and control
that masses of nieu are unable to (the population as i. the electr:*
coutrol themselves. It is only [current to in\pel the car and the
when they are in a country or vil* I stop it.
lage state that thoy are capable of [, y*1 il is toP early to get the
intelligent ac.tiou in povernment.l J* °
affairs. ^r m„,ioDS of people Tor T,
■scattered through Texas make the leaders are consulting and have
population intelligent, patriotic and [,K:t yet determined. I^ere and
capable of sel^ go;-ern^ent. Four fthere one oi the People may express
millions of people crowded into a PT* «V , bat he clpes ^ ^
county i„ Tea, would make them wi^'T '
obh VI0J1S to all except that which I organ discusses a man s hosel^
immediately affected them in the is mentioned in connection with a
*roumi on which tfaey nomination before^ the convention
stoo^ Four millions scattered meets, that is in a v?ay whsch maj
needa man fT W9U"1 k"°1 UOt embarr"!'11 > convention*
need a man or a fe^ men to boss I ^et one of the people of New.
them cr tell them about public af- York a few days ago~o>ie of the
woalJ r IU,ll.10a;: in a ccunty working people-a^d open?d up on
tvrant V* v In- * ^ 0r " the of th< candidacy of Mr^
tyrant New York City, with its Hearst. He was shaving me
population requires men to had, He was a friend of the gentleman
t may be deplored, but it is i.eces- mentioned, a«d told rce that he
Sa«" . . . was the barber of Mr. Hearst and"
Texas m her time will need a often went to his house to out hia
boss^ We should fce thankful that hair and shave hin*. He said ttet
the day is distant, because of her [Mr. Hearst was a good man and-a
gfeat territory. But that time will [generous one; that * he treated aU
come. If digress should afflict men without reference to their cal*
thron^ T08 p upe°ple scattered ^K iu a polite and gentlemanly
filial ^ T' a'r ra'8ht be way' and that he enough
filled with lamentations. If it about him to know that the people
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