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VINITA DAILY CHIEFTAIN.
VOL XIV. NO. 67.
VINITA OKLAHOMA MONDAY JULY 15. 1912.
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
WISE PROPHET
ws
FAULKNER
mass of the democratic voters out-
side the convention while the leaders
of the opposition were operating upon
the thousand delegates within the hall.
Reduced to ordinary arithmetic he
offset the thousand with the six mil-
lion and a half voters. His tactics
I were bound to win in the end. En-
meshed In their own foolish devices
Tells The Truth About Bryan And the j they gave him more time than he need-
Rout of the Besses. eo- They seemed to forget that there
was such a thing as the magnetic tele-
graph or the daily newspaper in ex-
Washington July 15. James W.
Faulkner oracle of the Olen tangy
ancient annex of the esteemed Cin-
cinnati Enquirer than whom there is
no equal in the horde of journalistic-
juggernauts writes in his usual high-
ly entertaining and enlightening way
a rather intimate story of the inilu-
istence. The limit of their field of
operation was the city of Baltimore.
His extended from ocean to ocean and
from Canada to Mexico. Like the
muscular party at Donnybrook Fair
with the blackthorn sliillalagh his
work was "beeyoutiful." It showed
what one plucky man with sense could
' do with a clutch of fat-headed politi-
anoa nf Wlllinm Tpnnlnce Rrvfln in
the Baltimore convention. Only those If' weref ftntlle game
few who are not addicted to the habit .d.er therul" of "60- U wasnt Unt"
tue avaiancne oi indignant telegrams
of reading Jim Faulkner's comment
in the Si.nday Enquirer need to be
told that lie has been .doing most of
the thinking for political patriots and
brigands in Ohio for several genera-
tions. He originated the style of liter-
ature for which Sam G. Blythe of the
Saturday Evening Post has become
famous. Here are Jim's grandfather-
ly observations in toto:
Columbus Ohio July 13. if any
person pretending to the possession
of knowledge gives it out oracularly
that in the late fracas at Baltimore
Md.; William Jennings Bryan was
run over by a steam roller had his tail
feathers pulled out or lost his hold
on the party bet him one million dol-
lars in pennies that he is full brother
to the monkey of the jungles. It is
true possibl that William lost the
consideration and respect of certain
politicians whose little game he block-
ed most beautifully but it is not true
that he lost anything else. And do
not let anyone however high his brow
may be get away with the story that
the bosses ran the convention. That
is one of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt's
hallucinations.
The politicians were like the cele-
brated oack of for-hounds that a mis-
guided man imported into a country
infested with wolves. He took them
out for a trial run and they disappear-
ed in the timber. Whipping up he
followed the trail until he came to a
cabin by the roadside in front of which
sat a man with sandy chin-whiskers
who was meditatively smoking a corn-
cob pipe.
"Neighbor" said the foxhunter "did
you see anything of the pack of dogs
around here?"
The smoker nodded.
"How were they doing?" asked the
owner with pardonable pride.
"Wa-al it appeared to me they were
a lettle bit ahead of the wolf" was
the answer. And that's the way the
bosses won at Baltimore. They nom-
inated Governor Woodrow Wilson
after Bryan was through with the job.
The noun' dawgs the Tammany tiger
and all the other forelooping animals
of politics were the fox-hounds and
the Nebraskan was the wolf of the
story.
"He Had Everything."
The geneleman from Lincoln out-
maneuvered the whole crowd of. them.
Like a first-c lass checker player every
time he lost a "man" he jumped two
of their pieces and landed in the king
row. When they started they had a
majority of the convention the crowds
and the claque. When they finished
he had everything they began with
except the money. So deftly did he
work his plays that all the money out-
side the United States treasury
couldn't have bought the nomination
for one of the Twelve Apostle?. The
convention was clean in that respect
and he made it so. The gathering may
have been noisy and rought at times
but it was on the level. His opponents
fought hard but he fought harder and
while they may be sore over his tri-
umph they certainly were impressed
with his prowess.
His winning was simple enough in
;ts methods. He appealed to the great
descended upon them propelled by
aroused sentiment at home that they
began to discern how skillfully he had
trapped them. i
He Let 'Em Think So.
To begin with he knew every card
they held In their hands when the
game began and they weren't aware
of what he was holding. They thought
he was a candidate for president
and he let them thing so! To smoke
him out they put up Judge Alton B.
Parker for chairman and chuckled.
The Nebraskan sought out a private
room and did a Highland fling in ex-
ceeding great joy. He had them. Re-
appearing with a face that resembled
that of an undertaker at a $500 funeral
he appeared to be very much concern
ed for the sofety of the republic. In
the language of the sporting world
they fell for it and fell hard.
"Here's where we hang the binger
on Bill" they chortled as they pro-
ceeded to push Parker over the line.
Right then and there he won the game.
Inside of an hour the country was
ringing with "his declaration that the
predatory interests were endeavoring
to seize the high parliament of the
democracy and sell it into bondage to
Wall street. Daringly enough he
singled out those two shocked per-
sons Thomas Fortune Ryan and Aug-
ust Belmont and used them as In-
hibits A and B respectively to prove
that the money devil and his imps
were there in their proper persons.
They were merely modest delegates
but William had them on exhibition
in an entirely different guise. Inside
of 12 hours the telegraph companies
began to reap a golden horvest from
the frightened democrats "back home"
who sent messages to their chosen
representatives to resist with all their
power this fiendish attempt to throttle
liberty. If they couldn't see their way
clear to do this the messages said
they were required to remain in Bal-
timore the rest of their days or run
the risk of being tarred and feathered
and carried on a rajl if they dared
to show their faces in Cohosh or
wheresoever they hailed from.
"Land the Bacon-Producing Punch."
Just as they were breathing easier
the first match of telegraphed indig-
nation and peremptory orders. Wil-
liam delivered the second installment
by offering his now memorable resolu-
tion inviting Messrs Ryan and Bel-
mont to go away from there and pledg-
ing the party not to nominate one who
owed them money marbles or clialk
or who believed that they were other-
wise than direct descendants of the
Accuser of the Brethren. That finish-
ed them for all offensive purposes and
then he lahded the knockout or bacon-
producing punch by leaving Hon.
Champ Clark for having accepted the
support of Ndw York. They couldn't
get away from his blows. Like the
more or less punk pugilist who was
receiver-general for a fine fusillade of
wallops "their feet stuttered" Hon.
Champ fell exactly 1000 feet and 6
Inches straight down into oblivion
emitting loud cries as be whizzed bot-
tomward. Now Bryan was on to
Clark's game for months and months.
JfcOKeB Make
Your Feet
Glad
With a pair of our easy congress
or lace Shoes or sandals.
Men Women or Children
MILFORD - BERGER SHOE COMPANY
The Indians will never come again;
They will never come a-creeping in the night
With an owl hoot on the hilltop and an answer in the glen
As they gather round the cabin of the white.
O how my heart went lurchln' in the days when I an urchin
Heard ray daddy tell the story of the Reds
Once they came to every village with intent to burn and
pillage
And they murdered little children in their beds.
Ooo! Ooo:
They grabbed the little children In their beds.
"The Indians are coming!" was the cry
That our fathers and our mothers used to hear
In the woods of Minnesota on the prarles of Dakota
And the pioneers grew panicky with fear.
The Injuns used to taunt us from the days of Pocahontas
They would scalp and tommyhawk us now and then;
When the Indians came gunning they would have us up and
running.
But the Indians will never ome again Never more
The Indians will never come again.
They fought us in the days of Washington
They handed" General Braddock his defeat;
In the Black Hawk war Abe Lincoln chased the red men who
were slinkin'
Through the forests where the smoky rivers meet.
When mother was a lassie and when daddy s name was "Bub"
The Injuns used to make things rip and hum.
Grandad took his muzzle loader when he went to pull the
fodder
To be ready if the Indians should come
Boom ! Boom !
Their reception if the ludiais should come.
But the Indians will never come again;
Sleep children for no Redskins are around.
'Cross the dim and distant valley they have made their final
sally
They are camping on the happy hunting ground.
From this earth the brave vamooses with his squaws and
his papooses
They have vanished from the wooded hill and glen;
All the scouts and Indian fighters are but dreams of story-
writers And the Indians will never come again.
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wardsville 111. the storm caused a
property loss totaling $50000. The
heaviest loser there was the Banner
Clay Works a St. Louis corporation.
Charles Shaw's I -year-old child went
into convulsions from fright when the
storm wns at its height at the home in
Mitchell near Edwardsville and died
in a few minutes.
Three persons were seriously injur-
ed by the cloud brust and electrical
storm with!.. St. Louis city limits and J
scores were routed from their proper-
ty. The river Des Peres which flows
through Forest park and the most
fashionable residence part of the city
overflowed. As a result Forest park
and the surrounding section resembled
a lake before the flood began receding
today.
The flood conditions In St. Louis
according to the estimate of the park
keepers are the worst in the last eigh-
teen years. All the lakes with the
exception of Murphy lake and Music
Park lake were overflowed in the
storm and the watc r swept over the
drives carrying mud and debris en
tailing loss estimated at several thou-
sand dollars.
The fish hatchery ponds were over-
flowed and it Is feared thousands of
young fish escaped.
GRAND
y
10 INVESTIGATE
Oklahoma Prosecuting Attorney Faces
Several Serious Charges.
lie was aware that there was a deal
on right here in Ohio with the Har-
mon outfit which kept the speaker's
name off the preference primary bal-
lot. The proof came when Clark
came rushing over from Washington
and in his rage demanded to know
"why Ohio had not kept that agree-
ment." What agreement? For an
answer please address headquarters
here. Clark's action was water on
his wheel. So was the blistering at-
tack of John B. Stanchfleld of New
York referring to him as a lot of
things that were extremely "un-nlce."
William simply smiled inscrutably. In-
side the convention hall John B. was
hailed as a hero. Outside of It he
was regarded by the now raging rank
and file as a demon with pronged
horns a cloven hoof and a long and
prehensile tail. General result: More
telegrams in bunches baskets and
bales.
"Heard Thunder and Saw Lightning."
After that it was a cakewalk. The
bosses whose heads were hot com-
pletely swathed in adipose tissue be-
gan to take counsel with themselves.
They were hearing the thunder and
seeing the lightning if there is any-
thing the politician despises and fears
it is getting caught out in a shower
of iKipular indignation. Up went the
umbrellas one by one and one by one
the bosses began scooting for shelter.
Like the penitent thief on the cross
they sent word to Bryan to remember
them when he came "into his king-
dom." On the exterior they pretend-
ed to be brave but on the interior
their cowardly natures were at work.
"Bryan or Wilson" was the ultimatum
that the people wyre sending and
their teeth were chattering lest the
chance to act would get away. They
saw to it that it did not. There was
a fine "bunk" play over "releasing
delegates from their obligations."
That was the slapstick number on the
program. The fact was that the dele-
gates were releasing themselves and
doing it doing it doing it. Each boss
bosslet and bossikin was watching the
other so that there shouldn't be any
advantage gained in hopping across
the line. So all at once on the forty-
sixth ballot Mr. Bryan calmly fan-
ning himself with the evening paper
watched with twinkling eyes the whole
herd bolting through the gap in. the
fence he had opened. All the power
of the bosses all their tricks and all
of their money had resulted in naught.
One man with gumption and sand had
whipped the entire gang. And that
man laughed at them:
FOUR
DROWNED
IN CLOUD BURST
Disaster Said to Be Most Destructive
in Eighteen Years.
Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Lav.vance ar.d
son Arthur Lawrance a ornparied
by Miss Violet were in tl la city yes-
terday en route from All-rwee to Kan-
sas City where Mrs. Lawrance will re-
ceive medical treatment. Thcs peo-
ple are former residents of Vlnltt..
St. Louis July 14. A cloudburst
reported the most destructive In many
years struck St. Louis aud surround
ing cities at 3 o'clock this morning.
The greatest damage was done at Al
ton 111. near the junction of the Mis
sourl and Mississippi rivers. Four
persons were drowned In the cloud
burst at Alton when a nine-foot wall
of water from Piasa Valley raced down
Belle and Piasa streets deluging two
homes.
The dead are:
Mrs. Frances Magulre 45 years old
and her 3-year-old daughter Goldie
who were drowned in their home at
ninth and Belle streets; and Mrs. Hes-
ter Moss and Arthur Boyce negroes
who were drowned when the wall of
water reached their home a block
from the Maguire residence.
Mrs. Maguire who was deaf and
dumb died clinging Jo her baby daugh
ter and the child was jerked from her
arms by the sudden flood washed out
of a window and lodged on a fence a
short distance away where the body
was recovered.
Many Narrow Escapes.
Mrs. Mary Moore and her son Wes
ley Moore boarded at the Maguire
home and they with two of Mrs. Ma-
gulre's other children Fanny aged 12
and William 10 had a narrow escape
from drowning.
Moore succeeded in rescuing his
mother and the two Maguire children
by carrying them to the roof of the
house until the wall of water had pass-
ed. He attempted to rescue Mrs. Ma-
guire but found it impossible to get
her on the roof and when he found it
isposslble to save Mrs. Maguire he
attempted to take the 3-year-old daugh
ter from her arms. Mrs. Maguire
screamed and clung to her youngest
child. Moore was forced to flee to
save his own life.
The damage to property at Alton
totals $250000. The Alton gas works
were destroyed. The torrent of flood
water was seven feet deep in Alton's
main streets. There were many heroic
rescues of inhabitants of that city
from the flood.
Lightning struck many buildings in
St. Ixiuis and surrounding cities. A
bolt of lightning destroyed the main
building of the East St. Louis Cotton
Oil company at National City III. two
miles from East St. Louis. At Ed-
0000
CITIZENSHIP
Guthrie Okla. July 15. Captain A.
L. Emery prosecuting attorney oi
Blaine county has prevailed upon the
district pudge at Watonga to call a
special grand Jury to convene Wednes-
day of this week for the purpo3a ot
Investigating charges made against
Emery by the Blaine county board of
commissioners and also charges
against Sheriff McArthur asking the
temporary suspension of Emery and
his permanent removal from office up-
on the following grounds:
Gross partiality mal administration
corruption willful and habitual neglect
of duty oppression and practicing
civil law while county prosecutor. Im-
mediately Emery petitioned the court
for a special grand Jury and asked that
the state attorney general's olflc.i Ue
placed In charge of the investigation.
Emery is a captain in the Oklahoma
National Guard. The main charge
against Sheriff McArthur Is that he
permitted prisoners to escape.
BOY'S DEFINITION
Edmonton Alta. July 15. "What
are some of the most important duties
of a good citizen?" was a question ask-
ed of Harold Mason a 13 year old
pupil in the sixth grade at the Alex-
ander Taylor public school of Edmon-
ton. His answer which won the
coveted promotion at the examination
a few days ago follows:
"A good citizen should never vote
for a man who Is a 'grafter' because
he will put all the money he can in
his pocket neglect his duties and not
try to make the city prosper.
"He should vote against the liquor
traffic and never touch it. He should
never use profane language and !;e
always willingly helps the poor uitf
needy.
"He should vote toward paving
streets and try to make his city a
good place to live in. He should have
good schools and send his children to
them.
"He would try to stop the armies
from having money to spend on ships
of war and not have war but turn it
over to the cities to make them beau-
tiful. "Then there would be sewers water
works telephones and electric lights
all over the city.
"He should encourage the buildin;;
of nice bungalows and fine hotels hav-j
no tents make the people clean up
their yards and have lawns with bea-
tiful flowers.
"When he found a man out of work
he would try to get him a job and
then he would be what I call a rea
good citizen."
ROM IMPROVEMENT BEING
PUSHED AT DUNCAN
Duncan Okla. July 14. Work on
the base line road leading east from
Duncan under the supervision of D.
T. Sledge chairman of the good roads
committee of the Duncan chamber of
commerce is rapidly approaching com-
pletion. This road leads direct to the gas and
oil field which is being developed. A
gas well yielding 15000000 cubic feet
daily lias been brought In and four
wells are being drilled for oil. The
prospectors are confident of success.
Most of the land in the vicinity of the
field is owned by Duncan parties but
the chamber of commerce Is building
the road with a view to opening up the
rich fanning country lying along the
Wild Horse river as well as tt facili-
tate the moving of supplies to the oil
field.
The cost of constructing the neces-
sary bridges of concrete is being de-
frayed by King township which recent-
ly disposed of 10ii000 worth of bonds
for road improvement but the expense
of grading Is borne by the chamber
of commerce which contemplates ulti-
mately improving all roads leading
into Duncan. The town now has some
of the best roads in this section of
the state.
The Fairland Indians iost to the
Vinlta All-Star team at Electrlt p&rlc
Sunday afternoon by a scora of 12 to
9. Greable and Raines were the but-
tery for the local team.
THE
Clearance Sale
All this week
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Marrs, D. M. Vinita Daily Chieftain. (Vinita, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 67, Ed. 1 Monday, July 15, 1912, newspaper, July 15, 1912; Vinita, Okla.. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc775741/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.