The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 11, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, April 1, 1904 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MANCHESTER JOURNAL
J. M. SIMMONS, Editor and Prop’r.
Published Every Friday at Manchester.
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR.
Entered *1 Mancheiter.Okli., Poetotlieie Second
Cliu Mail Matter.
FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1904.
Advertising Rates.
Local, each lusertlon, per line................._ 5c
Display, per inch, one month...................5oe
Slight deviation will bo made on display
ratS under yearly contract for more than 4
Inches space. No deviation on local rate.
We do not print Journals to give away
They are for sale at 5 cents per copy.
THOMAS ON TOP.
THE OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER.
Southeast Missouri is advertising
for 3,000 berry pickers to help pick
the strawberry crop that will be ready
in a few weeks for the market.
Those Democrats and Populists
who attend the committee meeting at
Medford on April 12, if not already
readers of this paper, should make it
a point to give the editor their names
and a dollar for a year’s subscription.
The Journal received for the first
time on Monday a copy of the Daily
•Bulletin, published at Anthony. It
' is nicely gotten up and Anthony
shoud appreciate it by giving it
liberal patronage. Bro. Armstrong
has also placed a type-setting machine
in his office and is running things
after metropolitan style as far as
possible.
Many or our Republican exchanges
are printing cartoons which resemble
very much those printed of Marcus A.
Hanna in the campaigns of four and
eight years ago. The old man is dead
now and we think the boys should
relegate those old cartoon pictures to
the rear. It's time to get up some-
thing new. A picture showing Teddy
the terror in calm repose among the
wild beasts of the field with the fowls
of the air flying over head would be
more appropriate at this time.
The Brooklyn Eagle screams that
Ilearst is going to capture Illinois
delegates to the Democratic national
convetion. Worse than that, it looks
as if he would capture the entire con-
vention. The Eagle thinks a crisis
has arrived, and it has. Ilearst is
the first man in his party to display
any organizing capacity since Whit-
ney was at the helm in 1892. lie
makes small men show that they are
only of state size while he bestrides
the continent.—Baltimore Sun.
The Journal believes it is within
the keeping of good government for
the Congress of the United States to
enact a law that will make any at-
tempt at violence upon the person of
the President of the United States
punishable by death. Dangerous
“cranks" are the only class of people
from whom there is any cause for fear
for the life of our cheif executive, and
the sooner such people are out of the
way the better. When a man is
elected President of this great country
lie should be privileged to serve his
term.
Palmer Faction Given a Black
Eye at The Republican
Convention.
The Republican pow-wow for the
election of a territorial committee-
man for Grant county was pulled off
at the county seat last Friday. It
was the same old scrap for supremacy
between the Palmer faction aided anc
abetted by the Medford Patriot, and
the Thomas fact ion aided and abet-
ted by the Pond Creek Vidette. First
one faction is on top aiid then the
other.
The fight came up long ago between
the fact ions when John Renshaw of
Medford was made committeeman.
The Pat riot fought him bitterly, but
to no avail, for the Vidette man
succeeded in bringing his man Ren-
shaw out the victor on various occa-
sions. Later on lion. P. A. Becker of
Jefferson was coached and trained for
the race as the Patriot’s candidate,
and for about four years, we believe
it is, he lias been recognized as the
Republican committeeman and leader
of the forces in the county.
But on Friday last the Patriot and
Mr. Becker met their Waterloo.
Thursday night when many of the
‘faithful” from various parts of the
county arrived at Pond Creek, noses
were counted and the Becker-Patriot
followers figured out a “cinch,” but,
while they were doing this the opposi-
tion was by no means asleep. M. L.
Thomas of the Vidette had laid his
plans deep and carefully and when the
proper time came the name of C. F.
Cones of Lamont was sprung as a
•compromise" candidate and he was
pushed through and elected with a
whoop, though the whoop carried
with it only a very small majority of
the votes necessary to down Mr.
Becker and the Medford Patriot. It
was a scheme only such as a Pond
Creeker is able to put into success-
ful operation, and since Palmer went
up against it and got “snowed” under
by the strategy and deep laid plans of
his brother editor, it is but reasonable
to suppose that he will howl long and
loud.
Mr. Cones, the new Republican
committeeman, is generally con-
sidered "a very weak sister,” having
only very limited political ability,
thus placing him in the hands of the
Vidette crowd to use at their own
sweet will, and when an opportunity is
presented tostab Mr. Palmer there will
be a knife four feet long with which
to do the stabbing act. Cones, as we
said before, is "a weak sister.” It
he who made the race for
was
The people down about Helena, in
Woods county, are talking up a county
high school for that point and will
probably present a petition to the
board of county commissioners, asking
that the question be submitted at the
regular November election. Helena
is barking up the wrong tree, and will
find it out in time. The only way a
county high school can be built is to
locate it in some city where the town
people to be directly benefitted by it
can out vote the balance of the
county. The county high school law
is a nuisance and should be repealed
at tiie next session of the legislature
A new Socalist paper called “the
Challenge” has been started at Alva.
It has three editors and publishers
—R. E. L. Hunter, A. Mac. Arthur
and Lee Hoffman. This is force
enough to make the thing go. but
when we stop to consider that when
you destroy the opportunity to accu-
mulate wealth you at the same time
destroy the incentive to produce it.
we must draw the conclusion that
Socialism can never gain a foothold of
any consequence in this country.
Better drop Socialistic ideas, if you
have any, and devote your time to
something that is more in keeping
with the requirements of human
nature.
treasurer two years ago against L. E.
Shamleffer, and lie came out by far
the worst beaten man on the whole
Republican ticket, the majority
against him being 473. Why the
Republicans of Grant county should
pick up a stick of this kind and push
it to the front as their leader, will be
the better understood by Mr. Palmer
and the public when we inform them
that M. L. Thomas did it through
sinsterand selfish motives as a per-
sonal rebuke to the Palmer-Becker
crowd.
Politically, the Journal is pleased
to see the Palmer-Becker crowd
snowed under, while personally we
recognize the ability and general
worth of Mr. Becker as a fighter and
successful campaigner for the cause
of the Republican party. But he
stood shoulder to shoulder with
Ferguson, Palmer and others, and
that was more than Thomas of the
\ idette could stand, so he took out
bis little hatchet and chopped him
down.
Just what the outcome of this act
on the part of M. L. Thomas w ill be
remains to be seen, but it is safe to
predict that none of the former
wounds have been healed by it and
that serious knifing somewhere will
be the inevitable result. Palmer may-
try to hold his temper and gracefully
submit, so far as outward appearances
go. to the political mandate of Pope
Thomas of the Pond Creek Vidette.
but it is more than likely he w ill turn
his batteries loose upon the faction
which floored him in the hope of at
some future time being able to lift
himself from the political grave
which the \ idette dug for his especial
benefit. T. J. Palmer is verv sick,
and well he may be.
But what about the small fry?
There's Jones of the Medford Star. P.
II. Loomis of the Screwdriver and
perhaps Williams of the Renfrew
Tribune, two Lamont papers, the Salt,
Fork Banner and the Deer Creek
Titties, all ready to stand behind
Thomas and the new combine as
against T. .1. Palmer. The Patriot
will have no assistance whatever
except from Charley Dow’s Pond
Creek Republican and T. E. Beck's
Jefferson Review. Thus Pope Thomas
will have seven Republican news-
papers at his command in Grant
county while our friend Palmer can
muster the sympathies of but three
Unless the Journal misses its
guess there is fun ahead for somebody,
and we can hardly await the receipt
of the respective billegerent Republi-
can newspapers who will have their
say in writing up a report of that
meeting.
BETTER DO SOMETHING.
A peep into the future—and the
near future at that—reveals to the
mind of the Journal the belief that
Manchester will soon find herself up
against a proposition that will prove
a cost l.v one to the business interests
of this town. We refer to the situa-
tion as it confronts Manchester
relative to the marketing of the next
wheat crop for this part of the
country.
As matters stand today Manchester
will do well to get 75 per cent of the I
wheat that belongs to this town, and
wilh a decrease in tlie amount of
wheat marketed here will come a
corresponding decrease in the amount
of goods sold by our merchants. This
is due to the fact that under the new
system of farmers’ elevators now be-
coming general in Oklahoma and
Kansas, through which grain is
received and marketed at actual cost,
they are enabled to pay from one to
(wo cents more per bushel for wheat
than any private concern can afford
to pay. It, would be unreasonable to
ask a private grain dealer to handle
the grain business of this or any
other shipping point at actual cost.
They must have from one to two
cents per bushel profit for their work,
and they won't buy unless they get it.
Now what are the conditions. A
farmers'.elevator is now doing busi-
ness at Anthony, another is soon to
be built at Renfrew, another at Med-
ford, another at Wakita, and still
another within a stone's throw of
this point at Gibbon. Now if all
these points pay from one to two
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H. S. GUTHRIDGE,
MANAGER.
Manchester, Okla.
Auction Sale
Every Saturday
At the
Rochdale Store
From 3 to 3:30 p.m.
Shoes, Hats,
Notions, Etc.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
All parties knowing' themselves indebted
to the Grant County Rochdale Co-Opera-
tive Association by note, either for coupons
or stock in said association, will take
notice that said notes appear to have
been lost or stolen. Yo.u are further re-
quested Io not pay said note unless pre-
sented by Cox & Bevis, trustees, or by II.
S. Guthridge, Manager. If you are ready
to pay or renew your notes, call at, the
store and we will receive your money and
receipt, you in full or renew same.*
COX & BEVIS,
By II. S. GUTHRIDGE.
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to attend.
THE SECRET SOCIETIES.
Speret society cards under this heading
will lie printed for three dollars per year.
MANCHESTER LODGE,
No. 40, 1. 0.0. P„ meets
f every Saturday night at
l.o.O.F Hull, Manchester,
All Odd Follows In good
standing cordially Invited
O. W. MORRIS, N. G.
C. E. McMULLIX.V. O.
W. T. CLARK. Secretary.
A. II. T. ASSOCIATION.
Manchester Lodge No. 281, A.H.T.A., meets
every Friday nlghl. Members in good
standing always welcome.
N. W. PATTON. President.
.1. M. sIMMONS, Vice-Pros.
S. It. FLING. Treasurer.
0. E. McMULLl.N. Secretary.
MANCHESTER CAMP No. 78S4, M. W. A.
meets lir.st and (bird Monday nights In each
month. All members in good standing
cordially invited to attend.
Jon Ritter, V. 0.
„ O. It. Powers VV. A.
Chas. E. Bi.ye. Clerk.
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B. W. SAFFOLD,
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MANCHESTER, OKLAHOMA.
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cents per bushel more for wheat than I *t+*5"K-5“{”5”!*+*>+++++++++++++
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private dealers can afford to pay for
it, in what kind of predicament will
it place the business interests of
Manchester unless we do something
to offset it?
W e do not wish to be understood as
finding fault with the grain dealers at
Manchester, for they have been as
liberal as those at other points
throughout the country. So there is
no kick coming on the local grain
dealer.
Tiie condition is one over which t he
individual has no control, and if Man-
chester holds tier own with other
points in a business way she must
meet the conditions as other points
have met them by securing a farmers’
elevator in time for the handling of
tiie next wheat crop.
A year ago when the Journal
advocated tiie marketing of grain at
Waldron and other points in order to
force the Santa Fe to terms in recog-
nizing Manchester by its proper
name, an occasional howl went up
that it would “hurt our business in-
terests.” Tiie re was no cause for
alarm then, but t here is now. Will
the men who howled then get out
and howl now for a farmers’elevator
in order that we may hold the trade
that rightfully belongs to this town?
We do not, ask or expect t lie busi
ness men of Manchester to build a
farmers' elevator. Nor do tiie farm-
ers ask or expect if. But if each and
every business man among us will
lend encouragement by his influence
and to tiie extent of subscribing for a
share or two of stock, if necessary, an
elevator of this kind can be secured.
The Journal has “put up" on
each and every proposition that lias
ever come up for the good of Man-,
Chester since the day the town was'
first started, and has a few dollars
left yet which it is ready to put into
stock for a farmers' elevator in order
to protect tiie business interests of
this town.
Dr. 0. D. REED,
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DR. G. W. SNOW.
K^Ready to answer calls any
time day or night. Telephone
calls may be made at my ex-
pense. Office north side Main
street, opposite drug store, Man-
chester, Okla. Residence, first
house south C. R. Lelund’s, east
side of street.
A. D. UPDEGRAFF
_ SURGEON.
Long Distance Telephone
No. 10.........
ANTHONY, KANSAS.
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* A Hardware Proposition....
Oils atUr ^ardware> Buffgies, Guns, Ammunition, Paints and
F. A. WHITE'S Low Price Store,
agent for the ADVANCE Threshing Rig.
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MANCHESTER, -:- OKLAHOMA
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•If THE LINE OI FRESH AND SALT MEATS. Poultry Fisli »»■
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THE HOME NURSERIES.
HENRY BELLINGHAUSEN, Proprietor,
Offers for fall or next spring an except ionally line line of
Fruit, Ornamental, Shade Trees and Vines.
At very low prices. Come and see what you are buying and tret
thpH'if668 ^res 1 out of the ground and you will be surprised to note
the difference. I have learned my trade thoroughly and have had
otsot experience in this iine in this country and in Europe and
like to talk on that subject. Come and see me. 6j miles south
and 1 mile west of Manchester.
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Fine Wines. Liquors and
Manchester
Saloon.
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FUNERAL
DIRECTOR....
WAKITA, OKLA.
Our line of Undertaking Goods
and Equipments is second to
none in Grant county.
Picture Framing a Specialty.
Everything in The
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