The Hobart Weekly Chief. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 3, 1902 Page: 4 of 8
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:
=
* I
<1
I
I
I
E 1
HOBART WEEKLY CHIEF.
By The Chief Publishing Company.
p. Y. BHINTON. - KD1TOB AND MANAOKH.
ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENJNG.
Subscription, |)or year (in advance) $1.00.
Advertising
rate# on application. Sworn circulation of over 2,200.
WE HAVE IT.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1902.
Delegate to Congress
BILL CROSS.
County Ticket.
For Representitive
J. W. Harrison.
Sheriff ... N0a! Monism.
Probate Judge P- K.Morrill.
Couuty Attorney .J. E. Terral.
County Clerk W. L. Robbins,
Iteuister of Deeds.
\V. R. Liverinore
County Treasurer • T. B. tin ley
County Assessor. .1 H. Obowniug.
Curoner J. L. Burke.
Couutv Superintendent of
fcU.hi ol« W P. Htewart.
C5oo ty Su/veyor ..1.11 1). Terral.
Oontnissiouer, 1st District.
S. A Holcond).
Ooxmaistiioner, 2nd District,
J. J. McMillen
Commissioner, 3d District,
M. K Iripp
Weigher A. L Kirpatrick
A vote for Bill Cross means
the beginning of the end ol
riug rule in Oklahoma.
The heavy rain did not
seem to have the effect of
dampening the ardor of the
delegates to the convention
last Monday.
Your Uncle Bill can and
will attend to the statehood
matter in a more satisfactory
manlier than his predecessor
has ever done.
Another glorious rain fell
throughout the country last
Monday. Aud still there are
croakers who persist in call-
ing this a semi-arid region.
The nerve of the republi-
can officers of Kiowa couuty is
without parallel in raising the
population 9,000 more in or-
der to prevent their salaries
from being cut.
The mud-slinging campaign
inaugurated by the republican
sheet published in this city is
making votes for the demo-
cratic nominees every day.
The decent element of the re-
publican party will repudiate
such methods and do not in-
dorse a campaign of slander
and falsehood.
A GOOD SELECTION.
The nomination of Judge
Harrison by the couuty con-
vention Monday is eminently
satisfactory to the entire de-
mocracy of Kiowa county.
While the contest was spirited
at time* the best of feeling
prevailed throughout, and
when the convention adjourn-
ed all joined in the renewal of
t heir faith in democracy and
a pledge of their hearty sti|>-
port of Judge Harrison.
Judge Harrison is a man of
ripe experience in public af-
fairs and will carefully pro-
tect the interest ol Kiowa
county in the legislature of
Oklahoma.
r ini«(irinr^MriMr ?BnnBnr.nrnrriniwrinnr*i.ir.i
n
fctU
rn
L.U
r -1
u
r i
LJ
ri
LJ
r 1
LJ
r i
LJ
r
LJ
n
L J
ri
LJ
r-i
kJ
n
u
ri
L.J
r 1
Li
r 1
L J
r -1
L J
ri
L J
n
LJ
f 1
L J
n
uu
r i
lj
r i
1 1
r~i
LJ
-1
> j
r 1
L. J
IESC52SS113C3E32SE2E3g3E3C3CX25SE3ES|3
Judging from the editorials
on Bill Cross appearing iu
the columns of the News-Re-
publican it is plainly evident
that some one in that office is
playing hooky from the bug
house.
The stalwart democrats
from all over the couuty were
in Hobart Monday to attend
the nominating convention,
and all were enthusiastic over
the prospect of democratic
success.
Who says the Indians of
the territory are not good citi-
zens and do not understand
the pxoblems of local self-
government? Have not the
police been called out to pre-
vent trouble iu au election
contest?
That the spirit of wiue is
stronger than the spirit of
mau has been amply demon-
strated again iu the case of
Sam Small, the well-known
temperance advocate, who fell
by the wayside in Vermont
last week.
ATTACKING A POLICY,
NOT THE ARMY.
It is evident that the re-
publicans in the pending cam-
paign intend to answer all
references to atrocities in the
Philippines by the counter
charge that the democrats are
abusing the army. Is is not
the army as an organization
that is attacked, but certain
officers who have issued ille-
gal orders and men who have
committed crimcs without or-
ders. But iu addition to this,
and of more importance, is the
general policy pursued by the
administration ill regard to
the Philippines, which was
felt to be so inexcusable that
desperate efforts were made
to keep the facts from the
American people. The army
is only an incident. It is the
policy pursued at Washing-
ton that is really up for re-
view by the American people.
— [Louisville Courier - Jour-
nal.
THE EVERLASTING
• FIGHT.
In nearly every state in the
union where the republican
party is in power there is a
fight in progress for equal tax-
ation — for "equal rights to
all and special privileges to
none." The taxpayers are de-
manding that trusts and rail-
road corporations pay taxes
011 their property at the same
rate as the individual tax-
payer does. Iu some states,
notably in Wisconsin, the re-
publican machine has been
overthrown and a reform ele-
ment of the party given a
chance to bring about re-
forms. Nominating candi-
dates for state offices and
adopting a platform pledged
to reform tax and other abuses,
is a good step 111 the right di-
rection but will be worthless
uuless followed up by the
r -1
u J
r i
1 J
1 i
r *
L.J
r -o
LJl
kaj
The Only Successful Dry Land Plow on the on the market, p
0 12 LI
Guaranteed to plow the hardest stubble or other old land n
there is. Will turn the same amount of land with less ti
draft than any mould board plow. [3
We fllso Have life Fatijous m
Hoosier Grain Drill
rn
and everything else in Up-to-date Farm Implements. «
LYON & MATTHEWS.!
nn
-r t ir • r-inr - r inrinnrirjnnnrir -<r tr mnnnrirMrarnr, innnnnB>Hnr innnnr,'nnrir,.ii!inn
JL J l. Jfc L-l. A 'JL ;ULJt.AJL -<L J L t Jk.l t- J L J k. JL. JLJk. U JW Jt. iW JL JC JL! JfJk. JUJC JLiJL. JL JL JL JC JW
nomination aud election of
members of the legislature
that are also of the same
mind.
This is where the demo-
cratie voters in republican
states can make their powet
felt, by nominating their men
who aire known to stand for
equal rights to all and who
have 110 complicating alliance
with the railroads and who are
not under obligations to them
for favors received. It is
rare to find a republican poli-
tician of any note who is not
tied to the railroads or other
corporations, and if elected
would legislate in their inter-
est instead of that of the peo-
ple.
It is encouraging to note
that in nearly all the states
controlled by the democratic
party a more equitable state
of affairs exists. It only re-
quires that eternal vigilance
for which democrats since the
days of Jefferson and Jackson
have been noted to preserve
the good reputation and pro-
tect their interests, by enforc-
ing that good old adage of
equal rights to all and special
privileges to none.— [Ex.
WHAT A CRIMINAL
COSTS. ,
In a statement in the inter-
est of the work of the Kansas
Society for the Friendless, the
general superintendent there-
of, Rev Edward A. Freden-
hageti, says: "Every criminal
tried in Oklahoma costs on an
average over $1,000, and those
imprisoned at the rate of $146
per year for boarding iu our
Kansas state penitentiary.
The 283 Oklahoma prisoners
represent an aggregate sen-
tence of 1964 years, au earn-
ing loss of $1,157,400, cost for
conviction over $283,000, and
cost for boarding $286,744,
making a total loss of $1,727,-
444, or more. They cost Ok-
lahoma $113.20 a day for
board. As nearly as we can
estimate the cost of saving a
worthy ex-prisoner from relap-
sing into crime is $50."
LET EVERY DEMOCRAT
HUSTLE.
The campaign is now open
in Kiowa county, and the
democratic party is liued up
and fully prepared for action.
They have put up a clean
ticket troni top to bottom, and
110 democrat need be ashamed
to lend it his support.
There can be 110 question
but that the democratic party
is iu the majority iu Kiowa
county, the poll shows it aud
the republican leaders admit
it. Now there is only one
thing necessary for the demo-
crats to do aud victory is ours,
and that is for every democrat
in Kiowa county to get to
work and leave 110 stone un-
turned to insure success.
The county is new and the
actiou of every democrat will
be watched by the entire
party and he will in the future
be rewarded in accordance to
his support of his party.
HOMICIDE IN AMERICA.
Comparative statistics of
murder should teach us some
lessons of national humility,
because, blink it as we may,
crime, and especially that of
homicide, is a pretty accurate
measure of the attainment of
civilization. There are about
10,000 murders a year in the
United States. Robert An-
derson, of London, has lately
astonished liis readers by stat-
ing that in the 6,000,000 in-
habitants of London there are
annually on an average only
about eighteen murders. In
a sermon on crime a clergy-
man of one of our smaller
American cities recently stat-
ed that in his city (of about
200,000 inhabitants) there
were in the last five years an
average of nearly thirty homi-
cides a year. Supposing there-
fore that these people would
not become far more criminal
when massed together by mil-
lions, it follows that if the
clergyman's city were as large
as Londou there would be
nearly 900 murders a year in
it, instead of eighteen. But
worse is yet to come: Out of
the 145 murders iu five years
there were only tweuty-tliree
convictions, and the very
worst is the fact that not one
of these convicted murderers
suffered the death penalty!
Upon one side, surely, the re-
tort 110 longer holds that the
doctors put their bad work
beueath the ground aud the
lawyers hang up above it: So
much hemp grown, so little
used, may be pertinently
quoted. — [American Medi-
cine.
A FEW STATEHOOD FACTS.
Unkept Pledges on Statehood.
Every Territorial Republican platform since 1892 has
declared for statehood.
Republicans Responsible.
On June 25th, 1902, on the motion to order immediate
consideration of the statehood bill in the senate, after the bill
had passed the house, the Republican members 011 Terri-
tories refused to allow the consideration of the bill. Every
Democrat and Populist voted for the bill iu the house, and
were solidly for the bill in the seuate. The Republicans are
thus absolutely responsible for the defeat of the statehood
bill.
The Republicans have had the president, both houses of
congress, and the delegate from Oklahoma for four years.
Their National Platform of 1896 and rgoo declared for state-
hood. If they meant what they said why did they not keep
their promise? Such leaders as Grosvenor, Payne and others,
fought statehood in the house, and Beveridge and the Re-
publican members of his committee fought the bill in the
senate, aud refused to allow its passage.
Quay Exposes Republican Trickery.
(Quay before the seuate, speakiug of their 1900 platform
made the following admissions:) "Two years have passed
since the adjournment of these conventions, and the deliver-
ance of these solemn pledges to the people of the United
States, and we have already failed to redeem our promises
for immediate statehood." (He also said at the conclusion
of his speech:) "Here and now, it is declared that if the
consideration of this bill is portponed until December next,
it will not pass this congress, and an appeal to the ruture is
entered to verify this prediction."
Where the Democrats Stand.
(Democrat National platform of 1900 declares.) "We
denounce the failure of the Republican party to carry out
its pledges to grant statehood to the Territories of Arizona,
New Mexico and Oklahoma, and we promise to the people
of these territories Immediate Statehood, aud Home Rule
during their condition as territories."
Insincerity of the Republican Leaders.
Are the Republican Leaders iu this Territory for imme-
diate statehood? What do you say?
Statehood vs Salary Grabbing.
It would lose them the following Fat Positions: Seven
Members of the Supreme Court, who draw $28,000 per year.
Seven clerks and their deputies, who draw about $50,000; also
Governor, Secretary, Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney, Superin-
tendent of the Board of Education, Livestock Board, Bank
Examiner, Coal Oil Inspector, School Land Board, Adjutant
General and other territorial officers drawing about $100,000
per year, iucludiug Educational Institutions salaries amount-
ing to about $175,000. This makes a total of approximately
about $35,000. In addition there is the Insane Asylum
Graft of $30,000, and the Printing Grafts of $45,000 per year.
Will a Republicau delegate to congress take this out of
the hauds of his friends and supporters, and save it to the
people by giving us immediate statehood? Quay says not in
his predictions. What do you say? With this record con-
fronting the Republican ring they will attempt to organize
statehood clubs throughout this territory. Their insincerity
is a matter of public record and the people should not again
be deceived.
Dr. A. R. FRIEDMAN, • •
DENTIST.
I am permanently locatedami respectful-
ly invite you to call when in need of Dental
Work. Grown and Bridoe Worka special-
ty.
— Office over City Drug Store.—
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.
Brinton, P. Y. The Hobart Weekly Chief. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 3, 1902, newspaper, September 3, 1902; Hobart, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc186379/m1/4/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.