The Hobart Weekly Chief. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 16, 1902 Page: 4 of 8
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HOBART WEEKLY CHIEF.
By The Chief Publishing Company.
P. Y. HKINTON, - EDITOR AND MANAGRK.
ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Subscription, per year (in advance) flDO.
Advertising rate® on application. Sworn circulation of over 2.2UO.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1902
Delegate to Congress
BILL CROSS.
County Ticket.
Sheriff ..T Ne®1 Morrison.
Probate Judge P K. Morrill.
County Attorney J. E. Terral.
County Clerk W. L. Robbine.
Register of Deeds.
\V. K. Livermure
County Treasurer T. B. Finley
County Assessor I. L- Ennia.
Coroner L Burke-
County Superintendent of
8ch. ola W. P. Stewart.
County Sunreyor. .J. H. D. Terral.
McGuire has proven a frost
so far on the republican ticket.
Now that King Eddie is
out of danger the earth may
agaiu begin revolving.
For Sale—A political cen-
sus of Kiowa county. Apply
to the county commissioners.
Wanted—At 4east one re-
publican commissioner dis-
trict in Kiowa county. See
commissioners at court house.
The republican managers
have become disgusted with
some of McGuire's antics and
are threatening to lay down
on their nominee.
It is generally considered
that McGuire'Secured a gold
brick when lie landed Double
E. Brown, the famous grarter,
a his campaign manager.
Republicans are now beg
ging the democrats to vote for
McGuire just for the sake of
obtaining statehood. They
have conceded that McGuire
cannot be elected unless he
gets democratic votes.
Wanted — Two or three
good republicans to accept the
nomination on the republican
ticket for two or three good
offices. Only experienced
piemen need apply. Address
the boys at the court house.
The Wichita Eagle says
that i,500people came to Ho-
bart July 4th to see Byrd
McGuire. If they did, they
wanted to see the color of the
mau's hair who had the nerve
to run against Bill Cross.
It is said that only two
Birds will associate with Dou-
ble E. Brown. One is Byrd
McGuire, of the republican
family, the other is the Buz
zard of the carrion family—
"birds of a feather flock to-
gether." piB1_
The republicans are in des-
perate straits. The bosses
have oue or two men run-
ning for nominations without
opposition. These men are
not acceptable, and they are
unable to secure any willing
victim to down them with.
Capitalist Pierpont Mor-
gan, of America, and Em-
peror Billy, of Germany, held
a protracted confab of three
days on the former's yacht in
German waters. Pierpon t
must be trying to manufac-
ture a rulers' trust in order to
save expenses and cheapen
the cost of production.
When a republican con-
gress is compelled to choose
between the interests of the
people and the interests of one
trust it has little difficulty in
making a decision. Wheu it
confronts the necessity of
choosing between the interests
of two trusts its embarrass-
ment is supreme; it cannot
decide; it is practically help-
less. The attempt to modify
the sugar tariff a little in the
interest of the Cubans has
demonstrated this fact pretty
thoroughly. — [Chicago
Chronicle.
SAVE MON EY -B y your
Hardware and Lmlwr
From LYON AND MATTHEWS,
0
LARGEST STOCK IN HOBART. Also the leading lines of
Implements, Wagons, Carriages, Hand-made Harness. Also do
repair work. Try us and you will find that we mean what we
say. We are the
Hardware and Lumbar Dealers of Hobart.
It is quite to be expected
that a statesman so pure-
minded and ethical as Mr.
Hanna should repel with
grief and indignation the in-
sinuation of Senator Morgan
tliat "boodle" was employed
in deciding the selection of
the Panama route lor the isth-
mian caual. It is to be feared,
indeed, that Mr. Hanna is too
pure and good to miugle with
the wicked world of politics.
We may expect to hear at
any time that he has renounc-
ed the pomps and vanities and
become a hermit or Trappist
monk.— [Chicago Chronicle.
with a helpless and impoteut
graft without the assistance
of the deputy assistant United
States district attorney. This
trinity of brush hunters at
every stage of Oklahoma's
history have furnished most
of the scandals connected with
the administration of the law
in the territory. Baiting an
Indian bootlegger and binding
him over in a court whose
fees are contingent on finding
the accused guilty or hound-
ing a homesteader into a fed-
eral jail for gathering up a
little firewood on an Indian
reservation may properly
equip a man for the republi
can nomination for delegate to
congress, but we believe the
majority of Oklahomaus will
prefer generous, big-hearted
Bill Cross, even if he does
draw his pay from a Kansas
City firm instead of a govern-
ment appropriation.— [Shaw
nee Herald.
DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM.
THEIR WORK COM-
PARED.
What a silly childish cam-
paign the republican papers
are putting up against Cross!
That gentlemen is an honored
member of tli® most energetic
and enterpisring guild known
to history. The generous
whole-souled, hustling wertern
traveling man! The finished
and perfect product of the
greatest commercial system
the world lias ever known.
It takes brains, energy, iutui-
tion, judgment and self-pos-
session and accomplishment of
a gentleman for a mau to suc-
ceed as a commercial traveler
or a drummer. Bill Cross is
one of the most capable and
highly respected of this class
of splendid Americans. By
comparison, what is his oppo-
nent? An appointed prose-
cutor of petty violators of the
federal law, who got his posi-
tion by reason of a political
pull. He is, by virtue of his
offical, one of a trio of petty
federal officials who have done
more to call down maledic-
tions on a territorial form of
government than all the other
causes, lumped together. The
fee hungry United States
commissioner and his fellow
cormoraut, the mileage-grab-
bitig deputy Uuited States
marshal, would be strauded
A BARNES VICTORY.
Cash Cade, the Shawnee and
Weatherford banker, has been
chosen chairman of the repub-
lican territorial committee.
Cade is an old friend and
lieutenant of ex-Governor
Barnes, and was appointed by
Barnes on the committee to lo-
cate the Southwestern Nor-
mal School, but before he had
time to act Governor Jenkins,
who had been appointed to
relieve Governor Barnes of
the arduous duties of distrib-
uting pie, removed Cade's
yellow jacket. Cade, how-
ever, proceeded to locate the
said normal school, and chose
Weatherford as the most de-
sirable point in the south-
west. As a result the South*
western Normal School is
now tied up in litigation, and
from present indications no
town will get it.
But Cade has a sore spot
as large as a west Texas
county. He believes that the
fine Italian hand of Flynn
was shown in his attempted
elimination from the normal
school committee, and he car-
ries a knife as long as an Ar-
kansas fence rail up his sleeve
for the wily little Irishman.
It now looks as though Den-
nis will be given a long, 1110-
notouous vacation, and will
be permitted to rest up a bit.
On this anniversary of the open,
ing of the territory, the democracy
of Oklahoma taken pleasure in re-
cording its genuine pride in the
marvelous development and splen-
did achievement which has charac-
terized the first thirteen years of
the history of the greatest terri-
tory this nation has ever created.
In this short period the territory
has been transformed from the
home of the cow and the coyote
into the free homes of a half mil-
lion sturdy, intelligent and progrcs
sive American citizens, owning
1300.000,000 worth of available
assets. Surely such people a™ en-
titled to the American heritage of
self-government. And we here and
now declare our firm conviction
that we are entitled to the rights,
privileges and responsibilities of
American statehood.
Nor are we unmindful of < ur
brethren of the Indian territory.
Appreciating their splendid ca
parity and wonderful resources and
achievements, we desire anion with
them in order that jointly we may
build up the greatest of the western
states.
We therefore favor the admis-
sion into the federal union of Okla
homa and the Indian territories as
a single state. And in view of the
fact that Oklahoma has a splendid
land endow inert for the schools, we
favor an adequate provision lor the
people of the Indian territory,
either in land or other resources, so
that both territories may be placed
upon terms of equality in the main-
tenance and support of theii com-
mon schools.
Resolved, That we are unalter-
ably opposed to any encroachment
upon the magnificent endowment of
our public schools and colleges,
and we recommend that the final
disposition of the school and other
lands of the territory be left to the
people of the sovereign state in con
stitutional convention assembled.
Resolved, that we condemn the
present school land board of the
territory for its harsh, unjust and
oppressive administration of the
school land office, and we pledge
our party to pass a fair and equit-
able school land law, just alike to
the lessees and to the people of the
territory.
We favor the early enactment of
A General Stock Reduction
In Stationary and Books!
We realize times are hard, but we are going to price
our goods for a limited time so you will be compelled to
buy. When a merchant has a particular good bargain
offered him for n limited time, and knows it, lie at once
places his order; so it should be with the retail buyer.
Even if you do not just now need these articles it will
save you money to buy them while the price is put beyond
competition-
A Few Leaders in Stationeryl
Fine Box Paper, new stock, was £1.25, now 65C
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An assortment of Box Papers, varying in price from JOc to
60c for |5c<ach.
Bargains in Books.
Clothbound copyright Books, reg. price *1.50, now $1.05
Clothbound Books for boys and girls, were 75c, now 45C
Clothbound Books for boys and girls, were 35c, now 2$C
Other* from 2S to 40 per cant reduction.
All Paper bound Booka, were 50c, now.. 35c
All Paper bound Books, were 25c, now.. | 5c
33 1-3 per cent off on Tery other article In Statloney and Book Lines.
Remember, these prices are made irrespective of cost or
profit, and can only be run for a limited time. w
THE NEWS STAND,
VV. W. Bowman, Prop.
a law by the federal congress grant-
ing free homes to the residents of
the new country, and we denounce
the aetion of Delegate Flynn in ex-
cluding that country from the pro-
visions of the Vecent free homes
act.
We favor immediate statehood
along the lines laid down in this
platform, in order that we may es-
cape the curse of carpet-bag govern-
ment and in order that the people
may substitute honesty, economy
and efficiency for extravagance, dis
honesty and spoliation of the pub-
lic, under which the territoiy has
been robbed and the unfortunate in
sane mistreated in order to benefit a
few favored republican grafters and
under which the people of the new
country have been burdened with
extravagance and extortion in the
administration of their local affairs.
We condemn the unpatriotic and
unjust attempt of Delegate Flynn to
deprive the new counties of Caddo,
Comanche and Kiowa from partici-
pation in the constitutional conven-
tion of Oklahoma in the event of
its admission to statehood.
We favor an organized county
government for the people of the
Osage nation.
We indorse the separate school
law enacted by the last legislative
assembly, in so far as it covers the
ground, and upon the creation of a
new state we demand that the peo.
pie thereof shall be permitted to de.
vise and fashion their own edQcao
tional system without federal Inter-
ference ; and although we favor
equal educational privileges and fa-
cilities for white and colored chil-
dren, wc are opposed to mixed
schools.
We demand a just and equitable
legislative apportionment measure
at the hands of the present congress,
to the end that the thousands of
voters in the western and south,
western counties of the territorj
may have proper and adequate
representation in the coming legis-
lative session.
The democratic party pledges it-
self to promote in every way the
applicaticn of the system of primary
election tor the nomination of can-
didates and the settling of party
principle, and we favor the passage
of a' suitable primary election law
for the legal introduction of such a
system into this territory.
Believing as we do that the legit-
imate aim of government is to pro-
mote the greatest good of the peo-
ple, we favor the public ownership
of municipal utilities.
We renew our allegiance to the
principles of the democratfc party
as enunciated in its national plat,
form adopted at Kan ai City in
1900,
And upon the foregoing declara.
tion of principles, we invite the sup-
port of all good citizens ami sen
sible business men in the approach-
ing election, .
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Brinton, P. Y. The Hobart Weekly Chief. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 49, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 16, 1902, newspaper, July 16, 1902; Hobart, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc186453/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.