Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1904 Page: 2 of 10
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Tbe iatu|Mlgn I* Hearing the
cIomt Only one week remain*
Tbr iMUm have hern pretty thor
oughly gone over, ami (be puMikm
i*f the republican* at least ha* hero
made Tbe democratic |mi*i
I Hon l* about a* plaiu a* usual.
One Ifcdlar Statehood i* (he all uuportaut t%-
Fifty Cent* *ue in tbe cougrewuonal campaign
Statehood will bring ,au inflow of
| capital from tbe north and east iu
"" TV >/'•>-MoMK'K »» ttati • i> h v.»«.t quuiitiiu* It will bring m
metk bjf Five TkoutanJ ptoplr in great increase in desirable popula-
Grter county. lion. It will place Oklahoma on a
m ———— Jltr wj,j, imUmi, |„ a thousand
A LKii.il. voter is one who ha* way* it ia better to I* a sovereign
resided in Oklahoma »ix ruouth*, iu j state than a political province,
the county aixty days and in the The air for tbe next week will
voting precinct thirty day*. If lie |>rot>at>|y be heated with argument
wove* from one waul to another a|Jtj puilc|urcj with speeches that
within thirty day* prior to the arc |JO| argument. lCxclamatiou
election, he di«qu alifiea himself to points and question marka will be
'tione No. R.
vote.
A SYSTEMATIC effort is being
made by the democrats ia many
counties in the territory to dis-
credit the republican administration
by charging that tbe .small appor-
tionment of school land money
made to the various counties in
July of this year was due to the
mismanagement of the present re-
publican administration. There is
a certain definite amount of school
land money due the territory each
year. Twice during the year the
amount on hand is distributed, and
there is, of course, only one way
to judge as to whether the distri-
butiou is large or small, and that is
by taking the total for the year.
In spite of the enormous increase
in the school population in the past
two years tbe distribution made in
January last was $1.08 per capita,
the largest distribution iu the his-
tory of the territory. The rentals
were paid very promptly last fall
and a special effort was made to
collect everything possible up to
the distribution iu January, and
the money was all sent out to the
counties at that time. As there
was very little left to collect be*-
tweeu January and July there
would not, of course, be very much
of an opportionment in July. Un-
der the old democratic methods a
large portion of the January distri-
bution would have been kept on
hand until July, and the schools
would have been paying interest on
their warrants from January to July
instead of getting the money in
January and paying them off.
ANOTHER CANARD SPIKED.
"Another McGuire gun" was
spiked last week. The spiking
consists of a "news item" manu-
factured by Boss Anderson at Ok-
lahoma City, and published by the
Oklahoman and other papers, stat-
ing that it would be impossible for
the Dawes commission to finish
work in the Indian Territory by
1905, Tbe "news item" bad a
Washington date line upon it, and
a long editorial was written deser-
flating upon the matter. The edi-
torial was sent around for publica-
tion to the various fence corner pa-
pers. Democrats are so amusin'.
And they would spring such fabri-
cations when they know that con-
gress can make the Indian Territo-
ry ready for statehood iu fifteen
minutes if it wants to, and the pre-
liminary steps have already been
taken. So much tor that canard.
Enid Events.
The above from the Events is
true. No sooner had the canard
got cold thau Tams Bixby of the
Dawes commission gave out an in-
terview saying the commission
would be able to wind up affairs by
next July. The Indian lands are
fast being allotted and sold, and by
1906 nothing will remain of the
Dawes commission, and Indian
Territory will be ready to come
into tbe benefits and enjoyments of
statehood with Oklahoma, on equal
terms, and be able to bear its share
of the taxes The democrats who
place hon »r above party prejudice
will resent the Oklahoman's lies
in matter* «iT -cling the welfare of
the people in this matter of state-
hood
used extensively. But the plain
common citizen, the farmer and the
business man, should and probably
will use their reasoning jxiwers,
and consult their own interests iu
the matter.
The question is not wholly a
political one. It is a business
proposition largely. The only
question to settle is whether Mc-
Guire or Mathews can do most to-
ward securing statehood.
Mathews' campaign is made
wholly upon charges of duplicity
and incompetency ou the part of
Delegate McGuire, and on promises
of what he, Mathews, can and will
do if elected
Mathews says McGuire has doue
nothing in congress, and modestly
asks the voters to "put in a man
who will do something." Ma-
thews knows, and every democratic
campaigner knows that McGuire
made a record to be proud of
They give him no credit for passing
tbe Hamilton bill through the
house, when in reality he is entitled
to all credit. They say further
that the bill will never pass the
senate. How do they know? If
memory serves us right, some of
these same fellows said the free
homes bill would never pass the
senate, but it did. They were
false prophets then, and they are
false prophets now. The election
of Dennis Flynn in 1898 by an
overwhelming majority was follow-
ed by the passage of the free homes
bill by a republican congress, and
the election of Bird McGuire by a
like majority this year will be fol-
lowed by the passage of the state-
hood bill by a republican congress.
The size of McGuire's majority
will have something to do with tbe
question, for the reason that the
republicans in the senate, consti-
tuting a majority of that body, are
human beings, and are influenced
by human reasoning, likes and dis-
likes. This was proven when the
free homes bill was up, and it can
be proven again.
They say McGuire has changed
his position—that he was for dou-
ble statehood two years ago, and
single statehood now. McGuire
has not changed his position, and
the republican party of Oklahoma
has never changed its positiou.
Go back through the history of the
statehood question and you cannot
find a single instance wherein tbe
party has gone on record as opposed
to statehood of any kind. It is
true that a preference was expressed
at different times for statehood for
Oklahoma alone, but it was always
with tbe understanding that Indian
Territory could be attached latter,
at any time and in any manner con-
gress thought best. Isolated and
individual republicans may have
stated at different times that they
would rather
addition of Indian Territory later
but 11 t» alao true that the aron
nicut of 1 he republican majority in
cungirs*. which had never bcru
clearly «xpre**cd before, wan
•how n to be uncquivocably fixed
in favor of continuing both tern
tortea into one atate, and admitting
all at once. In the face of tin*
fact it would have been worae thau
Uaeleaa to have |irr»i*ted in the
cour*« originally intended.
McGuire did just what any other;
aenaible uiau would have doue. ,,
111* party iu Oklahoma had dc {{
elated repeatedly iu favor of atate- j ifl
hood, but in no tu*tance had it pre
sumed to dictate to congreaa ju*t
how the bouudariea ahould run
He consulted older member* of
congreaa, nieti with years of expc
rieuce iu the legislative hall* of the
nation. He »*ked fur and oh
tMined their, views, and pressed
the claim* of Oklahoma at every
point. The Hamiltou bill was tbe
result, and it ia as favorable a nica
sure for Oklahoma as it is possible
to pass at this time.
Vlathews, as well as every other
speaker and writer who is at this
time abusiug McGuire, kuows iu
bis heart that McGuire has doue
well, and that nothiug tuore could
be reasonably asked. And ouly
political prejudice and the pros-
pect of individual and party suc-
cess are responsible for tbe false
accusations made.
There has never been a campaign
in Oklahoma iu which the issues
were so clear, and never a time
when the opportunity to further
the cause of statehood was more
plain. To send Mathews to con-
gress would be the utmost folly.
The satisfaction which any demo-
crat might extract out of contem-
plating a party \ictory would be
small, compared to the set-back the
territory would receive industrial-
ly-
Statehood, then, is the real and
only issue, and each voter owes it
to himself to cast his ballot for the
man whom he honestly believes
will be more likely to attain that
object. McGuire has acted the
man all the way through, and pre
sents a man's reasons for being re
turned to congress.
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1
OUR
Genuine Bargain dale
IS STILL ON
And wc arc proving to hundreds of satisfied
customers that they are purchasing honest, high
grade,
Watches, Jewelry Sil-
verware, Clocks, and
Fine China
AT ACTUAL COST
We have no cheap shoddy plated goods nor old stock to sell our
friends and customers. We are legitimate and reliable jewelers
and are here to stay, and we can stand back of our guarantee on
Watches. Jewelry and Watch Repairing.
THE NEORO QUESTION.
In a speech delivered Wednesday
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, in
denouncing President Roosevelt,
said:
'Here, 39 years after the con
flict ended, comes one Theodore
Roosevelt to re-open the old
wounds and threaten a people who
have greater burdens to bear than
any other people on earth, with
negro domination, which means
threatening their homes."
It is patently an appeal to the il-
literate and prejudiced. That this
is true is seen in an account in the
Louisville, Ky,, Herald, of the re-
ception in that city of W. H. Shep-
pard, the negro missionary to the
Congo heathen, and of his negro
wife. Tbe meeting at which Sbep-
pard was the center of the solici-
tous attention of the ministers of
Louisville's swellest churches was
held in the old church of Dr. Stu-
art Robinson, tbe most scholarly
and dignified Presbyterian minister
the state of Kentucky has had. It
is recited that eight ministers of
well known churches in Louisville
"filed up to the pulpit steps of the
swell old Presbyterian church fol-
lowing the consecrated and respect-
ed negro minister." And for more
than an hour the negro missionary
told those Keutucky people, who
were superior to the thought of so-
cial equity that might be imported
have no statehood by one who would appeal to the
WARNER & CO.,
Old Reliable Jewelers and Opticians,
SOIJTI1 SIDE SQUARE MANGUM
thau be tied to Indian Territory, ' prejudices of the people, the story
but the party has never said so. | of his work among tbe Congo peo-
McGuire never said so, neither did pie—the phenomenal mission of
Flynn, while he was a delegate to the Southern Presbyterian church.
cougress or at any other time. The Herald tells of the audience
Statehood either with or without that filled the pews and aisles and | The doctur pronouo<xs his
Indian Territory would have been listened with wrapt attention to CiLse a ?ev*r, an<] ftars the typhoid.
fact, that the question of negro
equality is not a question at all but
a bugaboo to scare the ignorant
whites.
And this Kentucky incident re
calls the Booker Washington epi-
sode. No friend of the president,
no respectable newspaper has tak-
en the trouble to deny the silly
proposition that Mr. Roosevelt had
Booker Washington to dinner in
the white house. And in some
sections the story has gone on un-
til there are those who really be-
lieve it. Tbe fact of the white
house incident is that Mr. Wash-
ington called at luncheon time
while the president was busy and
was invited by the president to step"
into the little buffet adjoining the
president's office and help himself
to the luncheon that is prepared
there every day for such contin-
gencies.
The Presbyterian church of the
south in Louisville is made up of
the best people in the city. If
there be exclusiveness and wealth
in any church it is in that church
where the %egro missionary was re-
ceived with such marked distinc-
tion. And if there be a people
who are averse to social equality
it is the people who constituted the
congregation who heard the negro
missionary or the congregation who
listened to and admired the sing-
ing of his wife.—Guthrie Capital.
The Rackct Store,
ELLIOTT * lUGBY,
Northwest Corner Square, - - Mkngirn, Okla.
Perry & Smith,
City Meat
Market
FRESI1 and Salt Meat*.
An up-to-date line of Market
Products.
risn, OYSTERS,
CELERY, ETC.
Telephone your order and we will deliver it to you. P. O.
Block. 'Phone 120.
H. MATHEWSON,
President.
GEO. W. BOYD,
Vice-Presidents.
L,. S. NOBLE, Cashier.
J. M. NORTON. Asst.
First National Bank,
J* j* Mangum, Okla. j* j*
CAPITAL, $50,000.00.
g. w. boyd.
C. p. hamilton,
DIRECTORS:
jno. norton.
: SURPLUS, $8,000.00
h. mathewson
You Know What You
When you take Grove's Taste-
less Chill Tonic because the formu-
la is plainly printed on every bot- ,
tie showing that it is simply iron ' "
and quinine in a tasteless form. No
cure, no pay, 50c.
We regret tort-port in this weeks'
I issue the illness of Mr. Pritch-
Are Takira ®Ur Patrons receive every Courtesy and Accommodation within the
range of prudent banking.
satisfactory to the republican party the nc^ro missionary. Mrs. Shep- It is very unfortunate for Mr
at any time, and would be satisfac- pard sang later before the synodi- Pritcb ird being just on the eve of
tory now. The boundary lines are cal meeting at Sbelbjrville. and bo *
less important than the advantage- ot tbe Southern Prebj-trrun min-; IMj ,,jj p^yy Dot ^ to
enjoyed by any sovereign state. ,<4ers told a newspaper woman that n,ak<. any canvass. —Sayre Head-
The GLADSTONE HOTEL *
O. F. COX, Proprietor.
Kates, $1.00 Per Day.
YOU PATRONAGE SOLICITED.
$
$
s>t of Noll & C-<
Lumber Yard.
M H l>
has added a new
transfer hue and solicts
the patronage of tbe traveling pi
bos to hi
It is true that Delegate McGuire he never heard anything so beauli-
weut to Washington with the in- fui M her voice.
teuUou of passing a bill providing This shows what all tbe •»*
light.
Gtaur> & Sultan always make
«ce 00 stoves for school ■
Ljutive
CwosaCoMfaiOMDay.
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