The Hobart Republican. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1914 Page: 1 of 8
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THE HOBART REPUBLICAN.
OLUMB II.
HOBART. KIOWA COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 22. IO|4.
DEMOCRATS HUNGRY
FOR STATE OFFICE
Sixty Seven Candidates Already in
the Running—Many Have Not
Yet Announced.
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(From Friday's Daily.)
v Tho democratic primary campaign
will develop into a ve>i'.aula scramble
I :T ollloo if the entries fi.r various offices
continue to increase at the present rapid
paou, It would seem that nmrly every
democrat who is knows outside his own
county and some who are not are aspir-
ing to sacrifice some of their valuable
time in the service of the state, En-
couraged by tho "new deal" movement
a great many democrats who hereto-
fore have never had a place in the
olficial st ite family, are makinu their
announcements for state offices, some of
them doubtless hoping that the Bow-
man crowd will pick them up and put
them on the ticket which is going to
save the state from the maw of the
prosent democratic machine, according
to the dope that is being passed out by
the new dehlers.
One of the most interesting develop
meats of the past few days is that some
of the men who have been agging on
the new deal movement have revealed
an itch for public office and some have
announced. According to the tenets of
the "Out" organization these will have
to step down and out of the anti-ma-
chine organization or the rule that no
one who is a candidate for office will be
allowed to take an active part in the
movement will have to be changed or
violated.
We give below the number of candi
dates and from which part of the state:
For governor there are eight candi-
dates; three from the east aide aqd five
,-f'oiu jibe west side.
b'or lieutenant-governor there are tive
candidates and all from the east tide.
For secretary of stale; seven candi-
dates, tive from west side and two from
east side.
For state treasurer, six candidates,
three from each side.
b'or state auditor; four candidates,
two from each side.
Insurance commissioner, two candi
dates, one from eaoh side.
State superintendent, tive candidates,
three from the east side and two from
the west side.
For attorney general, four candidates,
one from the west side and the remaind-
er from the east side.
State examiner and inspector, two
candidates, one from either side.
Labor cimmissioner, one and he from
the west side. ,
Commissioner of charities and cor-
rections, one and he from the east side.
President of board of agriculture, 3
candidates, two from west side and one
from the east side.
Corporation Commissioner, four candi
dates, one from the east side and the re
mainder from the west side.
Clerk of supreme court, four candi.
dates and all from the east side.
KICKS BELT
LOSES LIFE
A. H. Smith, Oil Mill Em-
ploye, Instantly Killed
Monday Morning
SOFT TRACK CAUSES
WRECK AT MIT*
dmo;
East Bound Rock Island Train No. 712
Goes Into Ditch Fortunately No
One Was Ilurt.
FRIEND UNABLE TO LEND ASSISTANCE
Victim Hurled Headlong Into Seed
Conveyor And Is Crushed Lifeless
Before Machinery is Stopped.
SECURING RECRUITS
(From Wednesday's Daily.)
J. J. Coone of Oklahoma City, a re-
cruiting officer for the United States
army, is in the city and will open up a
recruiting station here. He has not
procured quarters as yet, but will do so
at once and will be ready to receive
applicants for service within the next
day or two.
Mr. Coone does not state how many
recruits he desires, but he will proba
bly accept all applicants who fill the re-
quirements for entering the service.
Recruits are for coas: artillery and
Sagineer corps.
HOBART ELKS' INITIATE FOUR
(From Saturday's Daily.)
J. N. Fockler, Roy and Loren Terry
and R. E. Nye were wearing horns
Saturday as a result of having become
initiated in Hobart Ladge No. 881 B. P.
O. Elks Friday night. A smoker was
tendered the new members immediately
after the initiation and twenty-odd out
of town members were in attendance.
(From Monday's Daily.)
Kicking a fast whirling beltnff, after
failing to catch a stick, with which to
change tho belt, his companion Ben Mc-
Grath, had tossed him, caused the in-
stant death of A. H. Smith, in the plant
of the Hobirt Cotton Oil Mill Co., early
this morning.
Smith and McGrath were working in
one of the seed houses and Smith had
gone up on one of the running boards to
change a belt, while McGrath remained
below to hand him a stick to use in
ohangin^ the belt. McGrath tossed the
stick to Smith, who failed to connect
with it, and instead of waiting until Mc
Grath could secure it and put him in
possession used a foot and kicked the
belt off. The rapid momentum of the
belt caught Smith and drew him around
the shafting and hurled him headlong
into the seed conveyor, where his head
was literally ground to pieces,
Smith was 40 years old, and married,
lie worked during the entire past sea-
son in the mill. It is said he was form-
erly a member of one of the Woodmen
lodges and carried a$1,000 policy, which
was recently allowed to lapse. Blanket
indemnity is carried on the employees
of the mill, so the surviving widow will
in all probably be left something.
After the accident an ambulance
from the K >up undertaking parlors se-
cured the body and prepared it for
burial.
Arrangements for the funeral had not
been announced late this afternoon.
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NEW CLUB 0R6ANIZED
(From Saturday's Daily.)
A Dumber of Hobart ladies met at
the home of Mrs. Fred T. Mann this
week and organized what is to be
known as the Lilly Bridge Whist Club.
Meetings are planned to be held two
afternoons in each month in the future.
(From Suturday's Daily.)
Owint' to the bad condition of the
track oti the Mangum Chickasha branch
of the Rock Island, passenger train No.
712. which left Hobart at 8:02 this
morning, encountered a bad spill, about
a'quartor of a mile east of the station of
Komalty, and about five miles east of
Hobart,
The engine tender jumped the rails
and tore up considerable track, tho bag-
gage car was turned completely over,
and the end of the smoker plowed into
the soft and spongy ground.
Conductor Sullivan was in charge of
the train, and walked back to Komalty
and phoned the accident to Hobart,
where it was wired into the general
offices at El Reno.
A wrecKiDg crew was sent out from
Chickasha but traffic was delayed the
greater part of the day.
Ever since the rainy weather set in
last September, the Rock Island, in
following out their general retrenchment
plans, have paid but very little attention
to their track on branch lines, keeping
just enough men at work to keep the
lines in shape to get trains over the
road, and while the speed of the trains
have been cut down, it is almost a
miracle that the trains oan be run.
Fortunately the train was moving
slowly this morning and no one was
injured.
A new schedule goes into effeot on the
Rick Island tomorrow, which will prove
more satisfactory to the traveling public,
as the schedules have been out down a
few notches more, to enable the trains
to make the time, but from the business
men's standpoint and their interests in
Hobart the new time card will not prove
a blessing. Repeated attemps have
been made to get an early morning mail
train from Oklahoma City, and one with
eastern connections, but every change
only makes it worse.
EUROPE RESTLESS OVER
NON-INTEREST PAYMENT
GOOD ROADS FUNO TACKED
ON TO EXEMPTION GILL
Democrats Striking Another Blow at
Civil Service Reform—Republicans
Uphold Merit System.
(From Monday's Daily.)
Washington, Jan. 18.—The fight over
the proposed exemption of 2,400 assist
ant postmasters from civil service, pro-
posed in the postoffice appropriation
bill, took a new turn Saturday when
Chairman Moon of the house postoffice
oommittee introduced a special rule to
include an annual $25,000,000 good
roads appropriation in the measure and
provide for the passage of the whole
bill, carrying $330,000,000, under a sus
pension of the rules. The rule is ex-
pected to be favorably reported.
Those contending for the exemption
of the assistant postmasters count on
the good roads advocates for support.
Representative Borland, democrat of
Missouri, attacked the proposed exemp
tion, declaring the plan had no purpose
in view except to provide jobs to be
tilled by political adherents. Represen
tative Willis, republican, of Ohio, also
attacked the civil service - exemption
provision of the bill, declaring the demo
crate proposed to "prostitute and de-
feat the operation of the civil service
law at a time when the government was
extending its functions and when the
merit system should be carefully
guarded."
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ri B.Or. JONES ,
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Pressing United States to Take Steps
Safeguarding Foreign Interests
in Mexico.
Unwise Speculation
yyE believe all will agree that the most uncertain of field crops for
Western Oklahoma is the oat crop. In fact, so uncertain is this
crop that the sowing of oats is little short of gambling. It is true that
once every few years oats do reach full maturity and then the yield is
so great (eighty to one hundred and twenty bushels) that men are
tempted to sow and sow again, much the same as the player, who wins
on the lucky turn of the card, tries and tries again.
But the wise and prudent farmer will not sow a crop which he
knows is hazardous and even though it chances to yield well one year
is certain in any term of five years to lose him money. Instead, he will
devote his time, labor, seed and fields to crops that are always sure to
yield some profit and which usually yield good profits, such as kafir,
maize, feterita, cane and cotton, and on the bottom land, alfalfa
and some corn.
We hope that no oats will be sown by any one this spring. If any
are sown, we hope the result will be as usual, a total less, for a good
yield would merely tempt the lucky gambler to try again and again, and
in a few short years he * cJd be sure to score a loss on this unprofit-
able crop.
SCOTT & BLACKMER
FARM LOANS
Hobart, Oklahoma
P. S.—Strong winds are pow drying out our land, making it most
important to harrow all plowed fields frequently, to fill up cracks and
crevices and keep the moisture in.
ROGK ISLAND
CHANGES SCHEDULE
WOULD PAY VETO
THREAT NO HEED
(From Thursday's Daily.)
Washington, Jan. 14.—Renewal of
pressure from Europe upon the United
States to take some immediate and de-
termined step to safeguard foreign in-
terests ia Mexico has been brought to
bear since the formal notice received
Wednesday from the City of Mexico,
through the American charge, that the
suspension of payment of the interest
on the Mexican national debt covers a
period of six months.
Mutterings of discontent are heard on
every hand where foreign nations have
interests in Mexico. At one of the em-
bassies it was said that it is out of the
question for European powers, individu-
ally or collectively, to intervene in
Mexico now that they virtually have
confided to the United States the pro-
tection of those interests but that it is
assumed the United States would take
notice of the patent distress of these
European interests.
''Suspension of interest payments on
Mexican bonds is the result of Wash-
ington's policy of refusing to recognize
Huerta, thereby ruining Mexico's cred
it,''complains an editorial in a Paris
newspaper. This publication recom
mends the United States and European
powers unite to bring peace in Mexico.
Some administration officials believe
General Huerta has deliberately held
' up these interest payments to force in-
tervention. In their view the provis-
ional president prefers to yield to the
United States government as an inter
venor and thereby martyrize himself in
the eyes of the Mexican people rather
than to surrender the reins of power to
the rebels.
Representative Moon Says Provision
Exempting Assistant Postmasters
Should Be Enacted
j The ladies of the First M. E. Church
| will have a food sale Saturday January
(t4 at Bolon's Store. I-19d4
Secretary Bryan conferred with
President Wilson Wednesday. They
discussed the situation in Mexico.
They were, however, no indications of
any change in policy as a result of this
conference.
(From Saturday's Daily.)
Washington, Jan. 16.—Defiance of Ad.
ministration disapproval of the post
office appropriation bill because the
provision exempting all the 2,400 assist-
ant postmasters in the country from civil
service, was voiced in the House debate
on that measure yesterday by Repre-
sentative Moon of Tennessee, chairman
of the Postollice Committee. He at
tacked the American Diplomatic corps
as a "superfluous appendage to the Re-
public" and "a gang of political repro
bates and society degenerates that
should be wiped out of existence."
Mr. Moon said he had received a letter
from Postmaster General Burleson say-
ing the President did not approve the
section regarding assistant postmasters.
"This committee is not here to bow to
the will of.the President or the Post-
master General on a question on which
they differ," he said. "No domination
of the Postmaster General, nor threat
of veto from the President ought to
swerve us from the course we believe to
be right. The views of the President
and the Postmaster General, however,
much as I respect them, certainly will
not control me in my vote."
Suggesting the possibility of over
riding a veto of the bill, Mr. Moon said
he would have none but Democrats on
guard ia the administration of the Gov-
ernment. "If you wanted to make a
monarchy of the Republic, ' be added,
'all you would have to do would be to
apply the civil service to Congress, the
President and his Cabinet.''
ARE THE REVENUE
LAWS ILLEGAL?
Attorney General West Gives Views Afternoon and Evening Trains To Co
-Should Have Been Passed Five Later-Not So Convenient For
Days Prior to Adjournment. General Public.
(From Saturday's Daily.)
"In view of the decision of the su-
preme court in the capitol and eleotion
law cases in fixing the dates of final ad
journment of the two branches of the
legislature, it would appear that the
general revenue laws were not legally
passed by the recent legislature," de-
clared Attorney General Weet Friday
in a communication in which he gives
the first official opinion of his office as to
the validity of the new tax laws sinoe
the supreme court holding. It has been
the general belief that the revenue laws
were void for the reason that they were
not passed tive days prior to final ad-
journment as fixed by the decision of
the court in the capitol constitution
requires that all revenue bills must be
passed by both houses it . ...• legislature
tive days prior to final adjournment.
Under the ruling of the higher court,
the house adjourned on June 30 and the
senate on July 1, instead of July 5. The
revenue bill was passed tive days prior
to July 5, but not five days before the
dates fixed in the court's opinion.
Attorney General West refers to the
statement made by Justice Robert L.
Williams in his disqualifying himself to
sit in the capitol case.
"From the announcement of Justice
Williams and in view of the decision of
the court in the capitol case it would
appear to me,"said the attorney general,
"that the new tax laws were not legally
passed."
| No other laws passed by the lastlegia-
I lature. it is stated, will be affected.
(From Friday's Daily.)
A new time table becomes effective on
this braneh of the Rock Island Satur-
day night at twelve o'clock. No change
is made in the east bound morning
train. The west bound noon train is
set back seventeen minutes. The after-
noon east bound train is set back thirty
minutes and the night west bound train
is set back one hour:
east bound.
No. Time
710 3:15 p. m.
'12 8:02 a. m.
WK8T BOUND.
709 12:30 m.
711 7:45 p. m.
FREE RULE
Oklahoma City. Jan. 20—J. M. Rule,
of Hobart, charged with grand larceny,
and making false claims in connection
with a legislative printing contract, was
found not guilty by a jury late this
afternoon. Judge Carney instructed
the jury to bring io a verdict of not
guilty this morning when the demurrer
of the defense to the introduction ot
ledgers of the printing company to
which a sub-contract was let wan
sustained.
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Pate, J. M. The Hobart Republican. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 22, 1914, newspaper, January 22, 1914; Hobart, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc236082/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.