The People's Press (Perkins, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1906 Page: 1 of 6
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Many Constitutional
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Initiative and Referendum,
and Inheritance
Propositions Have Been Introduced
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Primary H«tion. Railway Committor.,
Tax. and Other Popular Measures
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organ ;%**d and rvady t'» lu-ar ail
proposition* wliich may be »ub-
mi tied. 0»er tOO propositions
lUt. i| j»^.. . „t «to. mention «i l» Uh» con%*niM.u for »dopu«n
f..r lb* .n- tit»n »i »l .* > oflkers »n t»H» CooallUltlon *p«e*lt»*
auJ in.. nWr»of »ui"* ^tiOalurr "f «W* system of rjcnnuing At
fur ili»* * of U*U win and bumiof county
fur the r*ttttr»M«i! of <becoost»- compsr-l with ti - olH *y»l»u>.
tutioti % kmHW by t - * couvcu thoCwo Adtatceaays.
Ihh, nod at the ume und lo | -Hie a. intake .f the «yatom
the *au»« ma*n»r the cjn»titu- outlluedover thereat ayaUim
non •* voted n|«on a., provided in; will he obviou* u all. «*y tola
sunt ordinance* t!vr- ahall b«« 'system each and -very jwrt of
, t, , „ Z.ZZ' ,uU«vut-r, of ti... the county will K- roMr^,„«l
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^Considerable tin,- week r^ctimi umi ^buld diininiah
l.w >••>■ '•»•«»' «•»"»•! "A" l*"H«nPh 3 ,f seo"on
was deciaod 'hut it by <>7 t.. th.-Territ-.r/ of i)«l«hom» and
aotuteeadriew.tw being absent. Indian Territory. .Ne» H*xko
w« roen referred i and Ar^na.he r«bt to tom .
hack... Nie .-r.-m.Wee »" con-icenatilufon. eX.-ept,n# tl.at.he
' words *'th'»*K? parts ol ^uiid state
^TheccMinty lUie» a«d county now known ae the Ind.an Terrf-
seats are receive onsidewWe i tor.v and the
attention .-inc-e the committee|becl.«»ced toread • Okkihoma
toe corrupt iuu ;»•'« j'v"»'v-
rolling so detrimental to many
counties. Politiciaua may con-
tinue to swap and trade «»n the
other oflicier? but the commis-
sioners is out »)f the Kame and
the power of the political trader
is diminished to that extent. The
people ignore partisan politics in
the selection of township officers.
iu iudu "A county boaad so constiiut-
. , |Territory." The said provision ed would have all the needs and
Ivas been named. shall be publU4ied in »he same necessities of every part of the
Maay delegalww from Indian.si< P * fo, thc con. county in mind all the time, and
Territory have ^^wever^the: dilution and s-hali be submitted,being close representative and
iheir ckums. However the nuer: | sponsible to the people would
-r tue ballot,^ to economy m pubhc ex
^ ,u- . I s-s-. W(\ in cni'l i tnft kluuSGi
ment before the oommittce was]to be troWd In sucli el« twos the
jiamed. lieaver county wiU words, "For the prohibitory
probably be divided into three, clause and ,ae proh''
>mailer counties, and .some of j bitory clause-.' If th? majority
ihe other large counties in west-, of the <£»«>;<* v0tc» ofsntd
«rn Oklahoma 'will Ukel, be state of Oklahoma restdtng u
. 'the part thereof now known as
^ The committees will .soon be j the Territory of Oklahoma and
able to report on some of the |votmg on sa.d proMs.on shall
UIWV. ju4 M.no li.uo warn nacv* ! n-nlUio. lie »eye he
•anly ««.».»«! In nrrmngiac I It- A Uwery ww Uwre.
for Ut»< writ; but tho orgMttaa*, Utlin-itor «ay« the
lut« •w'fln nKllllully ami n,.vi„|ai|H»ri* iiiiiri'prmonled him.
adoilrehly done. i S:ih*« road lug Ins roply, we bo-
D»«|i*i(iii«t McOtn'V), chairman H«ve tliey dW, In fact we ha*
of the committing on public llavad It liefore. Dblegale Hakar
printing, who .* an editor, -ays, ]Uataooirtlnanintonrlaw. Since
I am strongly in favor of
printing plant under the owmir-
ship of the a late, and in which
only union labor shall be employ*
ed. I do not favor nucha plant
to embarrass any privlate print-
ing plantx, to Uke worh away
from them, or vo even be their
competitor*: formed
that states which own their own
printeries save to the people
from *.\IXH) to $8,000 a month,
and ecomouy that is good for
oUier states is good for Ohl-
homa.
••Relative to the pobHshing of
text books for tne schools, I am
decidedly in favor of this measure
—not to furnish the books to the
schools free, but to the school
children at the actual cost of
manufacture."
Judge Led better, who is a
member of the liquor traffic
committee thinks that the con-
dense. • vention should put into the con
"The more io «lh=ent maune. on ^ subi,;cto( ^
inwliichtheneedsofthed.ffereut|b.t.m nwthing mora i^m is
sections of the county wouldbe, t tooompl.v
provided for would more than f nec. . y
provided for -.vouia ^ ^"Uith the enabling act, and that
compensate for any extra expense h Wqnor
or trouble. There need be no ^ snou,u
instance of public money enough
spent in bridging a dry stream
splendid measures
been offered.
that have vote
' (JI1 ^iAiU oiiftn -x a a
;for the prohibitory clause" to bridge a quarter of a c«anJyj
. « I __ _ !l.L «rvnilM Y^llKlfA D0
To Submit Prohibition
to Oklahoma Voters only
Delegate Bilby r»f Alva has
submitted a bill to the constitu- 7
tioaal convention t»n the pr-ni'oi- -pQ^yj-jghip Trustees to
^xr^ng^tln^nw- Members of County Board"
merit. Nor can the leaders of - • Si:« T!Of»
the Anr.-Suloon Le-a-r-ies f^H outJ of municipal
with it. for their facial organs j ^ tj,e Tow:iship. " " " "
have said that they have no "bjec- "Sectiqx—The Townshi
tions to submitting prohibition j Trualee in each township shall
U) a vote of the people, if • none; ^ a member of the Board of
but the voters in Oklahoma prop- j County Commissioners (or Sup-
' ervisors), and the Board of
that kind ^oun|y Commissioners (or Sup
erviaors) shall consist of the
Township Trusteesof the several
townships."
neither would public funds be
located in payment of politica
obligations.
"Now is the time for the plund-
ered aud disinherited townships
to maue their rights and wrongs
known. This is no dreamer's
dream or visionary's vision, but
the tried and successful system
in many states. It is essentially
a constutional question, defining
^ he primary! unit j the relation of the component
organisation shall | parts of the body politic.
i then aud in that event said pro-
1 vision shall become a part of the
, said constitution. But if a ma-
jority of said voters shall vete
, "again>t the prohibitory clause"
' then said clause shall be deemed
j rejected."
Be
we should leave the lienor
question to the legislature to be
dealt with so far as Oklahoma
territory is concerned. He
might be willing to compromise
on the subject by shaping the
matter, so as to permitOklahoma
to decide the question for her-
self. He does not think that the
people of Indian Territory should
in any event vote on the ques-
tion, so far as Oklahoma is con-
cerned, but that it should be
separately submitted to the
people of Oklahoma.
Delegate Tosh, another mem r_„ ,
berof tlieliquor committee, says < of the elections, will
both gentlemau have
their positions, it is
thai theirs is a distinction with-
out a difference. The buHn of
one's argument was thai the
atates have rights which the fed-
eral government must reaped;
tha other argued that the Inderal
government |ia*„ fiuefcie-*^"^
the states moft respect BotH
are right and both claim thai tha
resolution adopted is exactly
what they wanted. And,. as as-
ual, the republican newspapers
have mado much ado about
nothing.
The final settlement of t&e
liquor problem will be a com-
promise of the two extreme^
prohibition and an ti-prohi-
bition; namely, a referen-
dum vote of the people of the
Oklahoma side of the state*
Already it is freely predicted
among the Solon&that this will
oe the end of the matter.
The offer made by the eom-
mercial club of Fairfax to print
the Book of Rules, Roster, etc.,
for the convention free of
charge, was accepted.
So far every proposition for
statewide constitutional prohi-
bition without a vote of the people
has come from the Indian Ter-
ritory.
President Roosevelt wrote t^
the convention that he was sorry
he could not visit the convention;
Judges Clayton, Gill also regret-
ted that they could not be
present. Editor Watterson of
Kentucky sent his regrets.
It is estimated that the ex-
penses, including the expenses
amount to
er are premitted to v
Delegate BilbyV bill is
of a measure. It reads:
"Be it ordained by the
tution of Oklahoma:
,n*ti
•That under the provisions
of The foregoing'^ will be subxuitt-
The prohibitionists claim that
7 of the committee on the liquor
traffic are favorable to their
views.
The character of the work to
be performed by the constitution
al convention is of vast impor-
1 he emphatically in favor of resort nearly $250,000.
~" . . ! ing in the referendum and send Xn case the convention takes
Convention INOICS ing mooted question to theino action on the primary system,
people and let them decide what ^ ^emocratic state executive
they want. ! committee has selected March
Delegate W. T. Dalton of 12 as the date for the state
Broken Arrow was formerly a primaries.
resident of Payne couuty, living j payne county is represented
in Stillwater. on seven committees. Sater on
President Marry ("Alfalfa on four and Newell on three.
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Strickland, C. A. The People's Press (Perkins, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 6, 1906, newspaper, December 6, 1906; Perkins, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc304921/m1/1/: accessed May 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.