The Wilburton News. (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 28, 1912 Page: 4 of 10
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RIK8S OF J S
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’ WIPUBLICAN ' ORGANIZATION IN
THK SOUTH WILL DIFINIO
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Influence In th Party Council Al-
together t Beyond Proportion—
Loader Fsar to Fee the Slt-
uatlon on Its Merits
t
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- - TIi moral degeneration of Repub-
lic nlim baa two major causes On
la tb tariff wltb It long train of at-
’ ’ tandant corruptions and vil — extrav-
agance trust protaction cantraUia-
- tion of th money power the control
of congre by clique " "
Tb second causa is tb alleged Re-
publican organisation in the south
Tb chief interest of the contests
' before tbe National committee In Cbl-
cago is not after all in the light they
cast on tb relation of tb followers
of Mr Taft to tb followers of bis
sponsor predecessor and dearest ene-
my Theodore Roosevelt It is In tb
picture they give of the’ so-called Re-
publican party of tb south
This ia merely an organisation for
plunder and spoil It has neither
standing nor principles It Is an or-
ganised appetite The most sordid
motives Influence it For esample:
The three states of South Carolina
Mississippi and Louisiana cast in tb
presidential election of 190S exactly
17284 Republican votes Since that
time Louisiana Republicans bavs lost
legal recognition as a party the vote
two years ago having fallen below the
legal minimum Tet these three states
in tbe Chicago convention cast forty-
eight votes It so happens that this
is exactly tbe number of votes cast
by Illinois wbose vote for Taft in
1808 was 628829
Three little rings of spoilsmen In
three states which have been over
wbelmlngly Democratic alnce th car
pet-bag day control a many votes
in the Republican convention as
state containing more than thirty-six
times ss msny Republicans as the
ithree a state which now has in Wash
Ington two Republican senators snd
fourteen 'Republican congressmen!
Why has not this state of things
long ago been remedied T Because the
southern delegates have been th
chief asset of successive Republican
administrations
If ever there was a political "rotten
borough" it is this Republican "Solid
South” There ready to th hand of
every Republican president has been
a compact mass of delegates without
Independence without opinions with-
out personal force owned body and
soul by the dispensers of patronage
standing as a unit and voting as a
unit for the distributers of loaves and
Ashes by whose grace they have fed
No Republican president has ever
dared utter a word against an abuse
to which he owed so much No set
of party leaders has ever had confi-
dence enough in -the party's moral in-
tegrity to risk the danger of a com-
bination of southern delegates with
an opposing faction And with certain
exceptions so rare as to be conspicu-
ous southern federal appointees have
been such men as were willing to be
political chattels— for a price Many
honest and high-minded Republicans
bav wondered at the moral weakness
of the party as revealed In this year
of chaos and collapse They might
with profit meditate on the necessary
effect upon a party of such an alliance
- has existed between each succes-
sive administration and the polltlos)
parasites of southern Republicanism
— St Louis Republic
Fines and Dividends
Ton remember of course that
twenty-nlne-mllllon dollar line Judge
Landis assessed against the Standard'
Oil company of Indiana
But dost remember oh forgetful
citlien why Judge Grosscup set tb
fine aside on a technicality 7
It was because tb corporation was
capitalised for only on million dol-
lars and It was absurd and wrong and
illegal to fine It so big a sum that the
parent trust of New Jersey would
have to pay it— th Innocent parent
not being a party to the prosecution
And now that samj little one-mlll-lon-dollar
Standard Oil company of In-
diana has just recently declared a
dividend
Guess what tbe dividend was
Twenty-nine million dollars!— Kan-
sas City Times
Country Has Taken His Measure
The New York World calls atten-
tion to the remark of ex-PresIdent
Roosevelt at Canton "I am only
preaching the doctrine that Lincoln
preached" and observes that the doo
trines of popular sovereignty insisted
npon In the aspect iq which Roosevelt
presents it was not the doctrine of
Lincoln but of Lincoln's opponent
Stephen A Dduglas Douglas was
nominated but pot elected In spite'
of all that has happened during his
pyrotechnic canvas and in spite of
his confident claims the prospects of
Roosevelt’s nomination are not alarm-
ingly bright
' Impossible Admission
-:'lf they acted honestly there wouM
be ne occasion for any on to bolt—
'Mr Roosevelt -
-- But would Mr Roosevelt be capable
of admitting that th Republican Na-
tional committee or th Republican
National convention eould havo noted
honestly f
The Glooer Resemblance V
Incidentally our own opinion Is that
' Rooeevslt resembles P-T Barnum
l i : much oloaer than ho doeeLlnool—
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TARIFF AND AGAIN TARIFF
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That Is the Issue Upon' Which IN
-Great Political Organisations
Must Give Battle
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The Democrats will not be fright-
ened away from the tariff issue by the
old cry about th disturbance of busi-
ness by the "agitation" of tariff re-
duction Four years ago th Repub-
lican party recognised In the plainest
way the need of a -substantial reduc-
tion of the tariff and promised it on
th basis of the difference of cost
at home and abroad— a principle that
would have at least cut the tariff
rates In two This need thus clearly
admitted not only persists but has
been made Incalculably greater by th
treachery of the Republicans in tb
enactment of th Payns-Aldrlcb law
With an unsatisfied need affecting
the dally life of th great mass of tbe
people agitation Is Inevitable and it
is intensified by tb bad faith of the
Republican party - Th only way in
which it can be allayed is by an hon
eat reduction of the tariff- The plea
that such a reduction would disturb
business is insincere and absurd
would give security to business secur-
ity that can ' never be had without
such reduction
It Is bard to see how any candid
and well-informed man in these days
can still nurse the ancient delusion
that practical tariff reduction would
hurt even those who are now enjoying
the unfair advantages of high pro-
tection In the discussion before tbe
committees of Congress In the Tariff
board and in the press that has been
carried on for the past few years the
testimony of the actual beneficiaries
of the tariff has been conclusive that
they do not need the favors lavished
on them From the time when Mr
Carnegie startled the ways and means'
committee with his lively testimony
to the time that Mr Schwab express-
ly confirmed it and the present when
a: manufacturer of the standing of
Mr Redfleld proves the same asser-
tion by overwhelming facts the con-
viction hae steadily been spreading
that business would be helped non
hindered by tariff reduction The
feeling very generally prevails that
it would be immensely better for the
country to enter on tbe process
promptly and vigorously so that busi-
ness men shall know definitely what
they have to expect
We do not know whether the tariff
can be mad the controlling issue in
the approaching campaign or not' It
depends on the action of the Repub-
lican convention and the way in which
that action is met by tbe Democrats
We are deeply convinced that if the
tariff can be made the main issue it
will be settled rightly and that would
be the best possible thing for the na-
tion and especially for Its business
and Industry So far from upsetting
the calculations of business men it
would put the enterprise of the coun-
try upon a k basis -of Independence
vigor and freedom that would give it
the post It merits In international
commerce— New York Times
FIND BLAME IN HIGH TARIFF
General Unrest at Increased Pries
of Living Goss Back to th
On Source
The one point that Thomas W Law-
son emphasised above all others in
recent interview is Indisputable —
'Today the greateat question before
us Americans is the high cost of liv-
ing" To this pressing problem the peo-
ple are everywhere alive Who can
doubt itT Th evidence is to be seen
on every side The war of the women
in Brooklyn against tbe meat shops
is nothing but a protest against the
high cost of living So is the House-
wives' League movement to secure
cheaper retail prices So Is the agi-
tation for more public markets and co-
operative buying by consumers -
At the bottom of the general unrest
of labor throughout the country is th
high cost of food The same causes
of discontent were to be seen in the
Lawrence strike la the mine workers'
strike in the anthracite region of
Pennsylvania In the demand of the
railroad engineers and firemen for
more pay It Is admitted to be so by
every small employer and every big
corporation that has been compelled
to raise wages
The Insistent demand both in the
great industrial centers and in the
farming districts that the tariff be re-
vised downward is only another form
of complaint against the excessive
cost of living Local causes of dis-
satisfaction add force to the universal
grievance that the powers of govern-
ment are misused to make heavier
the burdens' of the people for the ben-
efit of a privileged class of tariff bene-
ficiaries Yet with all this turmoil and all this
agitation organised and sometimes
merely local what has actually been
don to lower jhe cost of living?
What Is being done? The general run
of prices of the necessaries was never
higher than today— New York World
’ Th Real Nssd
"Just wait till the Democrats get a
tariff working” say a Republican con-
temporary Tb Republicans have had
It working for them for some time
What th Democrats want Is to see It
work for tbe consumer— Louisville
CourlsisJottrnal
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‘ Well well and how two more rail-
roads bav been fined for rebating!
It's queer bow a thing that never ex-
isted eontlnse to persist In the way
tbe eourtg seem to be convinced that
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PARTICULARLY SWEET ON SYIVANIA GHEGG
Veen Gregg Cleveland’s Star Southpaw
Connie Mack manager of tbe Ath-
letics and a championship specialist
declares be would part with a Mar-
quard or O'Toole and a big sum of
money for a certain player if It were
possible to land that individual a mem-
ber of the Cleveland team
The head of the Athletic school has
warm spot in his heart for Syl-
van! Gregg the Naps’ star offside
pitcher Connie la of the opinion that
with Gregg on his pitching staff
American league pennants and world
STARS AS A FIRST BASEMAN
Jake Daubert I Considered by Base-
ball Crltlea to b Cleverest Man
on Initial Sack
Jake Daubert the great first bus-
man of tb Brooklyn team is consid-
ered by most experts the cleverest
' Jake ' Daubert ' V
- - -
man In that position In either of tb
two big leagues Jake Is on slugger
besidee being finished fielder -
' Niles Is Run Getter '
Harry Nils of Toledo leads tb hut
getters of tb American association
wltb an average of a little more than
run per game fibeltoo tb Colum-
bus star Is soooad v y
championship would some to Phil
dolphin as often as the fall rolls
around
A pitcher of Gregg's ability could
work wonder pltcMng for Connle'i
crew this season The pitching prob-
lem Is worrying Mack not s little and
that’s why he passed tb remark that
tb Sbibee would part with much our
rency If It were only posilble to make
Cbarley Somera see eucb a deal The
Naps need Gregg as much sa they do
Lajole and Jackaon
STORIE!
AMO
Philadelphia has unconditionally re-
leased Pitcher Masters and Outfielder
Hart
Block the young catcher sent to
SL Paul by th fit Loula Cardinal
la hitting 346
Pitcher Jim McGInley ha reported
to Toronto and will ha given a chance
to como back
Chick Brandon returned by New
Orleans to Kansas City has been sold
to Grand Rapids
Cleveland has sent the towering
James to Toledo Ho had the speed
but licked th control
Jack Kelly after a long bold out
signed his Newark contract He may
be traded to Jeraey City
Newark made the season's record
when It ecored 11 run In one Inning
off Jersey City on May 28
Jake Daubert on May 23 In the CM-cago-Brooklyn
game got In the five
hits In five time up claia
The benefit game played at Bt Paul
for the widow ahd child of Hank
Gehrlng netted about flBOO
Cleveland ia said to have made en
offer for Outfielder Luyster of th
Lawrence New England team
Jack Massing a former Southern
league catcher le managing th Dan-
ville team of th Three-I league
Columbus had booked Glenn Lleb-
hardt for Nashville when Minneapolis
refused to waive and claimed him
Report of the kind of hall BIU
Bergen le catching at Baltimore Would
Indicate that Brooklyn could us him
Ad Brennan of the Phillies la now
a' free agent Ho was granted a di-
vorce t7 the court in Iola Kan last
week
Hddl Phelps hae been hitting th
ball for Brooklyn but that slow throw
of hie has been tb delight of base
stealers -v
Catcher Peach Graham of tbs
Phillies has been at bis boms in Min-
nesota attending tb bedside of bis
mother-’"
On of Charley - O’Leary’s first
moves wbsn be took ebsrgs of tbe
Indiana was to Issue a recall for
WeetersiL the Inflelder turned loom
by Burk
Hein! Zimmerman of the Cuba la
nuking n specialty this season of
knobbing the ball to all corners of tb
aid la rapidly getting Into tb
Wagner-Mayirg slags an better v-
STOVALL IS MANAGER
Seleoted as Leader of St Louis
' American League Team
Bobble Wallace Will Remain ss Short
stop Without Any Cut In HI Bek
' ery — Hedges Has CenfMsno ‘
- In New Man ' s
George BtovaU I tb new manager
of tbe 8t Louie Browne— Bobbie Wal-
lace return to the field ns an ordinary
plsysr ngsln- It’s s heartless thing
this baseball But sven SL Louie —
accustomed as fans there are ot see-
ing their teams trailing tbe procesb—
are demanding n winner' Bobble Wal-
lace oouMn’t produce it— can BtovaU?
' This isn't Stovall’s first experience
as 'a manager Last season h led
the Cleveland Nap tbe latter part
of tbe schedule and mads a good job
of it In fact ha put such life and
ginger Into the Nap that they looked
better than they bav at any time in
years Thefe was a Mg bowl when
Harry Dsvls assumed th managerial
duties at Cleveland - Fans wanted
BtovaU to stick but Owner Charles
Bomsrs couldn’t ss It that way
This move put Stovallon tbe mar-
ket' because it’s pretty hard tor one
to play as a private where be once
wee master Chicago wanted him but
refused to swap Rollo Zeider for him-
8t Louis finally laaded and Georg
hae been a powet in tbe infield there
thie spring He 'has batted among
tbe league leader and his fielding
baa been neuiatlonal In feet be hae
made the whole ehort garden look
good Now he I manager Can be
Gecrp Stoval
bold the place? Many men have brok-
en down under tbe atraln of bolding
two job at tb same time
President Hedges of tbo Browns
believe BtovaU will make good Mr
Hedge lsiued thli etatement on tb
eltuatlon: “In deposing Mr Wallace
at manager of tbe St Louie Browne
we deposed one of the grandest and
most genUemanly ball players that
baseball baa ever known He ha
been connected with this club since
Its start and in all tbo laat ten year
he has been loyal and faithful In every
possible way However wo feel that
tbe beat Interest of tbe club demand
th appointment of a new manager
Greatly as w regret deposing Mr
Wallace as manager th welfare of
th ball club la paramount to tb In-
dividual We want and must have
a winning ball club Expense snd ef-
fort will not bo spared to get one For
that reaion wo make th change'
It le some consolation however to
know tlfat Wallace will drag down the
same salary he received as manager
and that he wlU play shortstop under
BtovaU Wallace started playing ball
Bobby Wallace '-V
way beak In 1MI and has oompetsd
ever sine ' HU flret job was as a
semtpro around Pittsburg! than he
landed wltb Cleveland Tbs franchise
was trenaferred t BL Louis and Bob
by wont-along with 1L -
SAW FALL 0FJF0RT SUMTER
Gapk John A Bunker While Aboard
Coasting Schooner off Charleston
Witnessed Battle
' On an April day In 1J8L whU tb
guns of Moultrie and Castle Pinckney
were thundering against tb walls of
Fort fiumtar there lay at anchor out-
side tb harbor at Charleston 8 C a
coasting schooner From it low-lying -deck
Its olfioera and crew of half a
dosen aallora watched the v artillery
duel that proved to be the opening
scene In tbe ClvU War ‘
Tbe schooner was th Pennsylvania
chartered by : Boston shippers and
freighted with lc for Charleston One
of the crew that was thus privileged
to be eyewitnesses ot the first overt
act of rebellion against the United
States government was John Allen
Bunker then aged 23 of Edgartown
Mass
"I was 28 years of age at tbe time
serving before the mast In the coast-
ing trade Our craft which was
schooner-rigged we owned in Rock-
land Me Early in April 1861 we
called out of Boston carrying 250 tona
of Ice consigned to parties In Charles-
ton 8 C Of course wo had heard for
several months muttering of impend-
ing trouble and we knew that Maj
Anderson had traneferred his com-
mand from th shore fortifications to
Fort Sumter and was bolding (or
Undo Bam but I think not a soul on
board the Pennsylvania onr schooner
realised the seriousness of the situa-
tion t know I felt no hesitation about
making the trip '
"After rounding Cape Cod we ran
down the coast without special de-
lay so far I can remember and
in about five day I should say we
were off Charleston and headed for
the channel leading to the city
'Fort Sumter was being bomberd-
ed We were four mile away but we
could see the flash ot tbe guns In
Moultrie and other shore fortification!
Over all hung a great volume of
moke
'What did w do? Why there was
but oue thing for the captain to do—
drop th anchor and await the out-
come It would have been suicidal to
have attempted to run the gauntlet
oft that heavy crossfire Tea we were
held np all right and so through the
afternoon we swung at anchor and
“W Swung at Anchor and Watched
th Battle"
watched the battle too far away to
Judge whether one side or the other
was gaining an advantage
There was ' mighty little sleep on '
the Pennsylvania that night and when
the morning broke every eye was
trained harborwarda to see whether
the old flag waa atill flying over Sum-
ter We could not make It out and
our fears were realized when later a
harbor pilot boarded us and told ua
Sumter bad (alien
Under his guidance we worked our
way up the channel past the now il-
lent forts of the city There all was
excitement Nothing but the victory
gained by the South Carolina soldiers
was talked about and a Yankee sailor
was not enthusiastically welcomed
"That port officers advised our cap-
tain to discharge his cargo without de- '
lay 'and get away while there waa a
chance We took the hint snd lost no
time In acting upon It In consider
able leu than forty-eight hours our
cargd was hoisted out and we bad said
goodby’ to Charleston
“Tbe next time 1 sailed to that port
was about one year later I should say
and tben we carried stone Instead of
Ice You see It was this way: : The'
government did not have enough
armed vessels to maintain an effec-
tive blockade of the long-etretchlng
Atlantic seaboard and it was decided!
to obstruct the channels’ leading to
certain ports of which Charleston waa
one with sunken vessel The govern-
ment purchased sixteen ahlpa that had
been formerly employed In th whal-
ing business picking them up In New
London Bag Harbor Nantucket and
New Bedford--'
These sunken hutla formed only a
temporary obstruction of couria for
th constant shitting of the und on
tbo bar and tbs action of tb wavs
would eventually cause them to break '
up and wash away but T reckon they
served th purpose intended at tb
time"
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Avery, A. B. The Wilburton News. (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, June 28, 1912, newspaper, June 28, 1912; Wilburton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2045809/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 21, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.