Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 2 Saturday, October 31, 1896 Page: 4 of 8
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I=>a,y Your Money/Take Your Clioice
THINK PAST AND ACT QUICK.
K'KIILET
BRIM
Will certainly be elected President of these United States on November 3, 1896. We willgi\e you an
opportunity to vote your choice for President, and the candidate
receiving the most votes will receive
Elegant Gold Headed^ Cane, Valued at $15.00!
_______
Each purchase of 25 cents entitles the purchaser
to one vote for your choice of the names mentioned.
The winner will get a beatiful gold headed cane
valued at $15.00, which will be forwarded to him by
us as coming from the people of Logan county.
No votes will be solicited and none accepted
unless made at time of purchase. The ballot will be
furnished upon request should you not have one,
and only one vote will be counted for each ballot.
At Lillie's Drug Store you can buy Drugs of all
kinds.
Books, School Supplies, Stationery, Toys. Dolls Paints Wall
Paper Oils Varnishes Perfumes Tobacco Cigars Etc,
WE ARE AGENTS FOR COLUMBIA BICYCLES, THE BEST IN THE WORLD.
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The State Capital.
By the State Capital Printing Co.
FRANK H. GREER, Editor.
SATI KDAY, OCT. 31, 1S99.
THE HOBBS-VINCEST ROW.
The Leader takes delight in jump-
ing onto Virgil M. Hobbs for the pusil-
animous action of the popocratic man-
agers at Mulhall. The truth is. Mr.
Vincent and Mr. Callahan were into
that cowardly action just as much
as Hobbs Vincent made a great guf-
faw about it. He came home appar-
ently sweating under the collar, im-
mediately called the executive com-
mittee of the popocrats together and
demanded the resignation of Hobbs as
chairman of the no-principle commit-
tee. Hobbs came before the commit-
tee, told them to go to hades, as he
would not resign, and explained to
them that Vincent was really the man
—~™"——""""I who caused the failure of Callahan to
It is to be hoped that Hryan does ^ ^ Mulha„ Hobbg
Whkn a man shows such bankruptcy
■of name as Leo \incent. he should
iiave a receiver appointed.
slioui.I" the people elect a populist
legislature they would set the terri-
tory ten years back in its progress.
(>ook at Kansas.
not think he is going to be elected.
The country does not desire a funeral
from disappointment.
Ai.thouoh it is cruel to say so. there
s perhaps one man in Georgia who is
dot isorry Crisp is dead, and that man
is the late politician, Hoke Smith
It is almost superfluous to print
letters of commendation on Flynn
from I nited Slates senators ana con-
gressmen. Kvcryone in congress was
Vlynn's friend.
Siimc of the fellows are iuclined to
make fun of Her. Callahan because
declared that he was always in favor
of the debate; that he urged to in King
fisher the Rev. Callahan to go Mulhall
ana when he got there urged him in
every way possible to make the de
bate. He said Callahan was fearful
and needed but little encouragement
to back down. Vincent gave him this
encouragement.
Those who know Vincent will read-
ily believe what ilobbs says about that
meeting, and that is. that Vincent and
Callahan themselves got the "trem-
bles"—their knees knocked together—
and they made an abject and cowardly
back-down from the challenge of Mr.
lie makes the free silver question the , Callahan to Mr. Flynn to debate the
only issue on which he expects to get | {r(te homesquestion, though Mr. Flynn
«ie> Uh! to congress. They need not
Isugli He has perhaps a serious idea
of presenting a free coinage bill in
congress should he get elected.
HoRACK Haoan is spreading him
self over so much territory as a great
champion of free silver that the peo-
ple ian'1 get their fingers on the cuti-
cle of his ponderous idea. Thee
should not liy so lightly before the
wind,iliagan.lest thou'll be likened un-
to a feather tufted from some gosling.
Rkv. Cai.i.ahan loses votes where-
ever be speaks. There is a sort of
I«.teut desire in men to vote for their
iiartv nominees, and many democrats
a.ud populists think they will vote for
Jiitn until they see and hear him speak,
then they go away and tear their hair
in self depreciation for ever having
y.ufrtained such a thought
11 would take Rev. Callahan ten
veat-s his life to make such a prac-
tical and well informed man as would
,na.ke a good congressman, and then
he is perhaps too old to change him-
self. There is such a thing as a man
being by nature unfit for certain
Callahan was never cut out
things.
for a congressman,
i'. normal malformation.
As a uiau he is an
offered Callahan two hours in which
to debate anything from infant bap-
tism to the Darwinian theory.
Vincent is a child in politics. Were
he to live a thousand years he would
know no more about politics than he
does now. His schemes are all vision-
ary and his theories impracticable.
He is as jealous at an imp and it is his
jealousy which inspired the onslaughts
on Hobbs in the Daily Leader. Vin-
cent went straight to the Leader office
when he got off the train on returning
from Mulhall, and there pouved into
the cars of Nlblaek the charges against
Hobbs, well knowing that himself and
Callahan, and not llobbs, were to
blame. Niblack readily took up Vin-
cent's side, for they are in the hugging
business now in an attempt to elect
the no principle ticket on the fusion
plan in Logan county, the success of
which, they have agreed, shall b *
divided as to spoils between the Leader
and Vincent. They are "cheek-by-jole"'
in an attempt to amalgamate in the
Logan county campaign.
The Leader continues to jump on
Hobbs. but it will never convince any-
body who knows the disposition of
Callahan and Vincent that Hobbs was
responsible for" that fiasco. If Calla-
han had wanted to debate, his man-
agers could not have kept him from it;
they would naturally have deferred to
his wishes. Callahan did not want to
debate. Hobbs draged him to Mulhal
against his will, and when they got
there Vincent's agreement with Calla-
han, that Callahan should not debate,
clinched the matter and caused the
disastrous and fatal back-out.
JEALOUSY AND SUSPICION.
The jealousy and suspicion existing
between Leo Vincent and L. G. Nib-
lack of the Guthrie Leader is indeed
amusing. Vincent declares he repre-
sent the populist end. Now liuchcan-
non and his crowd declare Vincent a
traitor to populism and unworthy to
represent the populist party. Niblack
represents the democratic end. Ity
amalgamation, these two great mar-
plots are seeking to get their arms in-
to the county treasury. They succeed-
ed in getting a fusion deal, in eliminat-
ing democratic and populist principles
from the so-called free silver ticket in
their favor in Logan county; but they
are not happy yet. Though there is
not the ghost of a show for the elec-
tion of their ticket, they are already
fighting about who shall have the
spoils if their crowd gets in. Niblack
knows Vincent is a hog. and Vincent
needs no evidence to show him that
Niblack and the Daily Leader are
hogs Of course they hail an agree-
ment to divide the spoils equally. Now
each is afraid the other will not carry
out the contract. Two of the commis-
sioners will be populists if the fusinn
deal is ratified by the people, and of
course Vincent will very naturally
come in for all the pie, as the board of
commissioners are the disbursers of
the patronage. This will leave Nib-
lack and the Leader out in the cold.
You will see by the columns of that
paper that it is feeling a January
freeze—that it is mad about some-
OOOlt AS ELECTED.
The people in New York now nat-
urally regard the election of McKin- ]
ley as won. and they have simply en- |
entered upon a two weeks' wait for j
the announcement of the result They I
express surprise that anyone should j
be willing to pay the premium that is |
being charged for gold, seeing how j
easily it can be imported now. En- j
gagementsof gold for import were;
reported aggregating $5,025,000.
Some curiosity was exhibited by the
uninitiated as to where the gold is go-
ing that is arriving and thaHs to ar-
rive next week, liusiness men who
know said that it was mostly going in-
to hoarding, and they were not at all
concerned thereat. They say the
time has passed for any damage to be
done now to the financial situation:
I the treasury's gold reserve can not be
appreciatively decreased between now
and the election, or ilrawn even to the
$100,000,000 mark. The character of
the hoarders they consider as a rather
healthy sign than otherwise, and as
indicating that the very people who
might perhaps be supposed to be in
favor of Hryan and free silver are
really opposed to his doctrine and
mean to take no chances. These peo-
ple, they says, will certainly not vote
for Hryan,
when warrants were worth but fifty
cents on the dollar and an immense
increased county indebtedness being
piled up on the county.
thing. This is what it is mad about.
You can see from the Representative
that there is a coldness in its columns,
caused by fear that Niblack may work
some scheme to hog all the patronage.
Verily, these statesmen are in sore
straights, as is every buccaneer who
starts out upon the piratical plan to
bilk a public treasury for private gain.
TaB Leauer auil the Representative
are silent as clams about the splendid
record made by the republicans in the
management o? Logan county in the
last five years. They realize that this
is a wonderful record, saving to the
people more than $40,000 a year, put-
ting the county upon a cash basis, and
getting better government for one-
third the money than the people got
under popocratic rule. It is strati ire
that tne Leader and Representative
are keeping very still'.'
SOME ECONOMIC FIGURES.
The bonded indebtedness of Logan Co.
is $76,200 of the old issue, and $40,000
of the new issue, a total of $110,000.
The floating indebtedness is $41,478.71
—old general fund warrnts not bond-
ed: total indebtedness $157,478.71. The
general bonded and floating indebted-
ness when the present board of com-
missioners went into office was $104,
815.22. showing that $37,336.52 of old
general fund has been paid off by
the present board in the last two
years, besides paying every dollar of
expenditures of the county during this
time: in other words, the board has
paid cash for everything in the last
two jjears. and besides paid off more
j than $37,000 of the old fund debt. Is
, not this a remarkable record? Does
this not show that the right kind of
business men are at the head of coun-
ty affairs? And do the people
want to change these conditions
and go back where they were
when the popocrats had charge
of this country, and go where
the public debt, instead of being paid
off, was being increased $60,000 a
year'.'
And notice the taxes have been
doft n even under the present republi-
can board while paying cash or prac-
tically cash for all current expendi-
tures and reducing the public debt
$37,000, that under popocratic rule
Thk man MeConnehey, who wanted
a thousand dollars an acre from the
county for land condemned for a coun
ty road, and the jury of the district
court said the land was worth but eight
dollars an acre, will not succeed over
"Barefoot" John Nelson. Nelson is
poor, MeConnehey is rich. Nelson has
the sympathy of the people as well as
their respect and good will. Person-
ally he is a much better man in every
way than MeConnehey. He will get
hundreds of democratic and populist
votss for register of deeds.
HISTORY IK RHYME.
June,
Bryan.
July,
Tryin'.
August,
Sighin'.
September,
Cryin'.
October,
Lyin'.
November,
Dyin'.
—New York Press.
A double wedding occurred at New-
kirk yesterday. Delia and Artie Lock-
wood ran away from home in Norton,
Kas, and after traveling alone 200
miles in a buggy they met W. II. Rob-
inson and S. L Hampton and were
married by Judge Brown.
CAPTURING ALL
Flynn Given a Big Ovation in Lincoln
County,
THEY HAD A REGULAR PICNIC
Demoi riit* Flocking to the Delegate and
Promising ihelr \ fite*-Sever.il
Town* Touched Yesterday
and Today.
Chaxiii.eu. 0. T., Oct. 21.—f By Tele-
phone]. The Flynn meeting this af-
ternoon drew the greatest crowd ever
gathered in Lincoln county. The
speaking took place at 2 o'clock on the
court house square, and it was liter-
ally jammed.
Yesterday afternoon he spoke at
Cliffton and in the evening at the Sac
and Fox agepcy. At all these places,
after each speakine. democoats be-
sieged the candidate to shake his hand
and promise to vote for him.
Today'* nent«nc«n,
Judge Dale made the following sen-
tences today:
Territory v. He'tor Henderson, as-
sault with a knife on one Alfred Mc-
Clain, at colored church. He was
given two years in the penitentiary.
Territory v Tlios. Sheldon, obtain-
ing money under false pretense from
Frank DeLay Sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary at Lansing. Kan-
sas.
Territory v. A. .!. Hutchinson, as-
sault and battery: :iu days in jail and
lined and costs.
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Greer, Frank H. Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 27, Ed. 2 Saturday, October 31, 1896, newspaper, October 31, 1896; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc275367/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed July 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.