Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 209, Ed. 4 Saturday, December 29, 1923 Page: 5 of 12
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OKLAHOMA CITY TIMES, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928.
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And yet, with nineteen twenty-four
Now smiling, just within the door
Thoughts of the barbeque and Jark
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In gallons twenty thousand strong
The soup was made, and coffee long
To be remembered, piping hot
Sat bubbling in one monster pot.
His first official call was when
He ordered out militia men
For his parnde; the guard soon grow
To now its master's voice; and who
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He didn't travel half as fast ns on the
journey back!
And stil the rain continued in a de-
luge every day;
Dennis' search thus far had led four
thousand bucks astray.
The city buzzed with politics and can-
didates did race
And scramble madly for a chance to
fill Jack's empty place;
Although we welcomed "Big Boy."
When at length he won the prize.
We bade goodby to Mayor Mike with
tenr-drops in our eyes.
Of Labor League." cried Jack;
The flood kept on doing its terrible
best,
Bridges and houses from mooring
were wrest;
Martial law came to Okmulgee. I'm
blest!
Probes threatened ca t, mob attack.
"Why hasn't Dennis bond been pnld?"
investigators cried;
Another slayer Jack paroled: and then
with zest he tried
To cut a county straight across and
lend undying fame
By tacking on the other half of his
own Ilustruous name!
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For text books free the old ninth stood
• In passing let mo mention;
And pretty school maams chattered in
To meet in state convention.
The coldest snap for many moons
Came blustering into sigh
And nipped a million dollars worth
Of fruit buds over night.
The fegislators tried to cut
Our splendid state in two
And spent our money lavishly
Before they cried, "We're through!"
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About this time newspnper men
Were boldly shown the gate;
From parleys legislative
They were sent outside to wait!
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February
IKyHAT became of Xenophan Jones?
W Who told him he could go?
■What became of Xenophan Jones,
The people want to know?
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ABOUT this time old Fred walked
H in with Jaunty air and free,"
And queried what is this I hear, is
someone wanting me?"
The legislature sought to meet, but
Walton sald, "Not yet,"
And turned the solons back again nt
point of bayonet.
The state held an election for the spe-
cial session meet
And that was when our governor his
Waterloo did greet.
Did anyone spy Dennis on his back-
trail through the state?
A second floor came hurling down,
disastarous to relate.
When Walton kindly lifted the rule
of sword and spur,
Impeachment trial was started and
from that we would infer
When Trapp as acting governor took
up affairs of state,
TI e pardons ceased to issue and parol-
ing had to wait.
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March
THE banking bill adopted was;
I All institutions then
Had their appropriations cut.
Some sixty from the pen
Were given leave of absence.
Oh, can we e'er forget
The virtue of the solons who
Snuffed out the clgaret?
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May
rpHE rain began to drizzle and the
I skies were overcast;
The plain man got a mansion and pa-
roles came thick and fast;
The union station order was upheld by
courts on high;
He looked in vain for Noah and his
ark to keep us dry.
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April
rNHE state became the center of a
L mighty Ku Klux row;
An lo, the 6. U. regents and the prexy
had to bow
To Walton’s ultimatum, as in power
he dally grew
And vetoed many of the bills that he
had fathered through.
morn to find the lid on tight.
Waltons troopers clamping it
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July
COULD there ever have been a
• flood in our town?
'Twas so dry in July, with the sun
blazing down
And living a bore. Cam Russell was
greeting
The public with pleas for special
house meeting.
Jack’s policies queer were in need of
revising.
So senators felt when they met for
advising.
January
HAT feast waa well a tale to tell
1 For years to come, such eats’! Ah
well.
Just nineteen cars of meat, that stew
That went Into the barbeque.
Xeviewof 1923
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But vislots yet inaugural day.
With one vast crowd in dis array?
Came then Jack's first kind par-
doning;
Bob Owen did his praises sing.
Five thousand In reward "quoth Jack
For one who brings Fred Dennis
back!"
And then he paronded thirteen more;
on January close the door.
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TN looking back o'er twenty-three,
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to me.
That happened to this state, that still
with gloom our gayest hours can fill.
June
«AH, what is so taro as a day in
• June."
When it rains. rains, rains?
The spring Roods came washing the
lowlands from view,
So. many were homeless and heartsick
and blue;
Sixty six prisoners were transported
through
To beautify capitol lanes.
By Oxen team and new town car.
They came from near, they came
from far;
They came to mock mayhap, but
stayed.
To dance while old time fiddlers
played.
No pomp, nor power, but one grand
riot.
-And none to say, "Hi there, be
quletr
For Jack so loved the common folk.
He'd give them joy though he go
broke.
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August
LOR traffic laws new commission-
r era were pleading
And meanwhile the speedsters kept on
madly speeding. .
Then guardsmen wet ordered to Tul-
so, thus winning
Much censure for Jack and the Kluz
war beginning.
He added more troops for the oilmen's
consoling,
And hastened the pardons without
thought of doleing.
The first bale of cotton came in and
the dry
Hot winds brought discomfort worse
than July.
A woman F. M. then the government
sent
And men politicians felt much dis-
content.
November
“H the toll of desolation
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That followed where the raging flood
Had swept in widening scope.
When Trapp became the governor
And Walton quit his trial,
The people drew a mighty breath
And smiled a happy smile.
The floral show was opened,
And the state became sixteen:
High school chaps as city dads
Slid, "Kcep the old jall clean."
Trapp saved the state two millions
On the payrolls and he then
Put all the convict workers
Back in the pen again.
Impeached by legislature,
Leo the lion met
Indictment by the jury
And 111 bet he's fussing yet.
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I Though Walton was sore and some
I hot words were said
I He ousted George Wilson as A. end
I M. head.
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Appropriations for the schools
Were knifed unto the core,
And then the solons glared about
in hopes of slashing more.
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with all their lusty might.
Next cam an extra saying, "The
state fair cannot be,
The governor will close it with his
infantree:’
But soon he had a change of hert
and let the show progress.
While censoring all war news from
the Tulsa front; and yes.
The union station plans were up; we
gave to Japanese;
And Walton’s search for Dennis did
our sense of fun appease.
And while the hunt for Fred went on
there in Mexico,
Our ramping, fighting Indians into
honor place did go!
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Filled with Christmas giving and kind-
pass and good cheer.
The biggest drive for charity went
through with colors flying.
To tour the state for anil klan waa
Blake and Walton trying;
in looking back o er twenty-three. Just
here within the door.
We're proud we won the pennant and
we’re game for twenty-four.
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Gaylord, E. K. Oklahoma City Times (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 34, No. 209, Ed. 4 Saturday, December 29, 1923, newspaper, December 29, 1923; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1951911/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.