The Durant Statesman. (Durant, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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Schrapnel from the Artillery
W S Sterett Editor
A VERY WONDERFUL LOCAL NEWSPAPER
intimates on every occasion that The
Statesman is the spokesman for the re-
A WORD PUDcan P&rty And then
in PASsmr when the writer has t0
m rAssinu stopiongenoUgh to sharpen
his pencil he forgets and writes in the
same article that most all of the republi-
cans are very much in favor of the iniqui-
tous Guthrie frame-up This is some
alleged democratic consistency but the
author cannot of course detect it It may
percolate through his garret along about
election time
The Statesman has been opposed to
certain clauses in the constitution ever
since its original publication although of
course Burr Bill may have an entirely dif-
ferent thing in his cellar at home or up his
sleeve The Statesman knows also that
nine of every ten republicans in Durant
Blue county and the state at large bitterly
oppose the instrument for one reason or
another and The Statesman knows also
that it will never become the law of this
state But The Statesman is not the
spokesman of any man nor set of men and
no man is the spokesman of The States-
man We are always subject to correction
but are never at any time subject to dicta-
tion and during the nine happy months of
the existence of this newspaper we can say
truthfully and with no small amount of
pride that no republican high or low has
ever sought to offer a word of dictation—
every one of them knowing full well that
it would not be tolerated for a moment
The Statesman stands in the open field
on the highest stump of intelligence prints
only the truth always and for all political
organizations It was founded in Durant
as a strictly business proposition and has
no principle to sell or barter The paper
as a business venture was established just
as were the local banks and it is about as
strong It stands upon that great organic
principle of the "survival of the fittest"
at the very top in its line seeking no es-
pecial favors evading no enemies and it
shall ever go forward triumphantly ignor-
ing the snapping canines at its heels— or at
pleasure using its rapier upon them where
its edge will be felt the keener
5 The republican state convention which
assembles at Tulsa next Friday will clearly
outline the republican policy and the dem-
ocratic obstructionists will not have to do
any more guessing The state builders
have merely been waiting for Chief Warden
Haskell to give the word that his lunatic
asylum at Guthrie was finally closed for
the season
Article ix Section 44 of the Mur-
ray constitution provides: "No for-
eign corporation shall be authorized to
THE RED carry on m tms state any
nrn ' business which a domestic
RED FLAG Li-ia j
corporation is prohibited
from doing or be relieved from a compli-
ance with any of the requirements made of
a similar domestic corporation by the con-
stitution or laws of the state"
That reads very well but right in the
next sentence we find the following:
"Nothing in this article however shall
restrict the power of the legislature to dis-
criminate against any foreign corporation
whenever and in whatever respect it may
deem wise and expedient "
Would a single dollar of outside capital
come into the new state under those condi-
tions or under the following provision of
Section 45?
"No foreign corporation licensed to do
business in this state shall without the
consent of the other party to any suit or
proceeding brought by or against it in any
court of the state remove the same to any
federal court without forfeiting its license
to do business in the state "
This is only one of the scores of reasons
for rejecting this unfair and unbusinesslike
constitution —From the Oklahoma State
Capital
Last week when James Bryce Great
Britain's ambassador to the United States
made his tour through Oklahoma he was
INVESTIGATION ue(?
mmmmmmi pUDllClV that the
COMMENCED constjtut io n as
framed at Guthrie was a superior docu-
ment The Statesman said at the time
that it did not believe Mr Bryce said any
such thing but if he did say it he should
be given his passports and sent out of the
country We knew that such a statement
would be in violation of the strictest rule
of diplomacy
The Statesman even went further than
to criticise Mr Bryce's remarks because
the democratic press repeatedly stated that
he was praising the constitution and such
seemed to be the case We therefore wrote
to the department of state at Washington
and asked for an investigation The Globe-
Democrat of Sunday last contains a first
page account sent out from Washington to
the effect that Mr Bryce's remarks on the
Oklahoma constitution are being investi-
gated by the state department If the
British diplomat is guilty as charged he
will be given his passports just as stated
in this paper last week and Great Britain
will be asked to send another representa-
tive If Bryce has taken no part in the
Oklahoma controversy nothing will be
heard of the investigation
But the frightened democratic press has
taken advantage of the visitor's good
intentions or flattering remarks and has
therefore placed him in a very awkward
position
If the people of Oklahoma deem it
better to defer statehood indefinitely than
to have it under the terms of the proposed
A VERY LATE constitution then
MR riittinski they ought to reject
MR BUTTINSKI jt The Newg en
tertains nothing like unconditional admira-
tion for the ordinance made at Guthrie
but the people ought not only to have the
right to pass judgment on it but they
ought to be allowed to consider it uninflu-
enced by promises which even if they are
honest are delusive — From the Dallas
News
The News is a year and a day late
Just at the time when it should not butt
into the affairs of this country its horns
are seen behind the wood pile If the News
had desired to assist the people of greater
Oklahoma in their hour of troubles it
should have taken up their fight when it
well knew that a brutal democratic major-
ity was busy ravishing all that was good
in an American commonwealth At that
time the Dallas newspaper could have been
of inestimable service
But at the last hour when its advice is
neither asked for nor wanted it comes to
the fore with a criticism of the republican
party The private opinion of the News is
well known on the subject of the proposed
constitution and it openly admits in the
above paragraph that the instrument is a
most dangerous one The News is smart
enough to know and does know that the
democrats are standing between the people
and statehood— not the republicans
THE BIG STICK
"Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far"
T ROOSEVELT Editor
BILL TAFT Local Editor
VOLUME 1
OYSTER BAY NEW YORK JULY 5 1907
NUMBER 1
John Temple Graves is unfor-
tunate in having his home in the
wrong state That's all
Judge Landis of Chicago is
trying to get John Rockefeller
into his court The judge is shy
on experience
Major Goethals is about to quit
his job on the canal The major
seems to be built for leading a
german instead of an army
Charlie Fairbanks is visiting
relatives at Waukesha Charlie
has so many kinfolks scattered
about that he never has to pay
any hotel bills any time Lucky
Charles!
We want them Oklahoma fe1-
lows to know that the opinion of
the Big Stick is worth something
and therefore we always keep
it with us until we get ready to
throw the bomb
Judge Loving of Virginia has
been acquitted for killing a
young man who loved his daugh-
ter too much We hear that his
daughter is now sitting up late
of nights waiting for another
beaux
Joe Blackburn of Kentucky is
sweating his life away on the
Panama canal We are thinking
of sending him some mint seed
so that he can grow his own mint
He can use bamboo for straws
We ought to have enough! Bill Taft the local editor of
battleships in every mill pond to ! this paper is on the docks for
whip any or all other countries repairs at Murray Bay on the St
on earth at one time And by i Lawrence river Don't rock the
golly we aregoingto have them boat Bill
Joe Cannon of Danville Illi-
nois was a caller at this office
yesterday He brought the ed-
itor some ripe plums Call again
Joe
We have been asked 10000000
times to give our opinion as to
the merits of the Oklahoma con-
stitution Of course it hasn't
j got any merits But we never
cross a bridge until the bridge is
brought to us and one end plac-
I ed under our Trilbys
When the Texas courts try
Senator Bailey for criminal prac-
: tice they make out a strong case
against the oil company And
when they try the oil company
they make out a stronger case
against Senator Bailey Looks
like they will have to catch 'em
together
A new Texas law has arranged
things so that the saloons must
close for twenty days while wait-
ing for new licenses If the re-
publicans could manage to hold
an election during that time they
would of course carry the big
state The democrats would all
be over in Mexico and Oklahoma
If we have that trouble with
Japan we must get in it some-
how We are now looking for a
! good man to hold our horse for a
j few days
Henry Clay Pierce has post-
i poned his summer outing in Tex
as until the saloons are closed
Henry's company got an outing
there recently and he is a trifle
shy on vacatic ns just now
The czar of Russia makes us
sick the way he tries to run his
country If we were over there
and had Bill Taft with us that
darned douma wouldn't last till
it was all gone
Governor Vardaman of Jack-
son got religion the same
day that the city water system
was paid out of debt It won't
be needed if the governor goes
to the right place when he cashes
Texas cattle raisers are going
to build some packing houses
and fight the trusts About the
time the packing houses are com
pleted the trusts will need some
j more room anyway and will
I have no trouble in making a deal
THE COYOTE
AND BILL
The whole blamed thing is natch-
ULLY GITTIN WUSS EN WUSS We wish
pore Bill Murray cud find
out iist exactly w h u t
Buckeye Haskell wants
Pore Bill has got ter be the wust jumpin jack
in this here ken try One day he says he
calls a lection an the next day he takes hit
back that evenin he hollers fer the fellers
to go back to Guthrie an make the thing
suit everbody an that nite he says he'll be
jiggered ef there is goin to be enny
changes what soever then he writes a
piece fer the paper an says the republi-
cans helped make the rag an next morning
says the blame republicans shant be con-
sulted nohow an noway afore dinner time
he squeals fer munny for to pay delegates
an before bed time he yells fer the repub-
licans to cum an help him find his lantern
Pore Bill! He is jist a cold deck an hold-
out man fer Haskell and he has mitey nigh
lost his load stone He'll be in a padded
cell long afore any dimocrat 'gits any pay
fer holding office under this here constitu-
tion— Red River Coyote
$ The coming census will show the whole
world iust what is wrong with Oklahoma
And the democratic pinheads are already
hunting for the storm cellars
Sec 14 Until otherwise provide
by law all dental surgeons licensed t
practice in the territory of Oklahoma an
NO PROTECTION aU dental SU1
mo nrMTfcTc geons who wer
FOR DENTISTS residents of th
Indian Territory on the sixteenth day c
June nineteen hundred and six and wh
are graduates of some reputable school o
college of dental surgery shall be eligibl
and be licensed to practice in the stat
without examination
Section 14 of the proposed constitutior
as given above is a serious injustice to th
established dentists now in Oklahoma
Indeed it is so serious that the Oklahom
dental association which recently assem
bled in Oklahoma City passed resolution
for the purpose of getting some relief fror
the clause in the instrument The dentist
claim that the constitution shows a dig
crimination against the privileges held b
dentists of other states In other words
every dentist that was practicing in Okla
homa prior to the passing of the enablinj
act of June 10 has the right under th
proposed constitution to continue as
qualified dentist without any examination
and this clause includes dentists cominj
into Oklahoma after June 10 1906 with
diploma from a qualified dental school
The injustice is apparent It in no wa
protects the regularly qualified and license
dentist who has spent years of time an
much money in educating himself to th
highest point of the profession Any jack
leg who may have a ten-dollar sheepskin
no matter how questionable the manner h
which it was secured can come to towi
and set up against the men who hav
labored night and day for years to qualify
themselves and establish a practice In n
other state is this the case and those peo
pie who have suffered the agonies o
torment at the hands of butchers will be a
quick to see the injustice as will the bes
class of dental surgeons themselves
There are many other serious defects ir
the constitution except what may be founc
in the realm of politics
Q Jake Hampn should have appointed T
Roosevelt on that committee to meet anc
advise with the constitutional convention
Cf Bill Murray asked the republicans to ap-
point a committee to suggest some changes
in his constitutional rag The committet
was duly appointed and at once addressed
a letter to Mr Murray which will hold hirr
awhile
Mr Bryan's Chautauqua service
this year would indicate that he has
been paid by different men to say different
THE PASSING tJ?ins in Ad W r e n 1
mi? rbyan Places- Andtheora-
MR BRYAN doeg geem g
bit particular what he says just so he gets
the money at the end of the day In
Durant and in other places in Oklahoma
Mr Bryan was paid to say that the pro-
posed constitution was the best one ever
written and far better than the constitution
of the United States
No one has ever thought Mr Bryan
a fool But when he makes such an idiotic
statement as this he at once puts himself
in a class of demagogues or worse and
cannot long hold the respect of his former
friends
To say that the proposed constitution
of Oklahoma is better than that of the
United States is to say that C N Haskell
is a greater man than George Washington
it is to say that W H Murray is greater
than Thomas Jefferson it is to say that
the gang of wind-jammers that disgusted
the people of the country in an awkward
attempt to frame a state paper is greater
than the wonderful assembly of great men
who formed the greatest document ever
created by human heads and hearts
In fact it is to say that W J Bryan's
utterances are for sale at cross-roads towns
and that he does not believe them himself
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