The Waynoka Democrat (Waynoka, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1912 Page: 4 of 10
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THE WAYNOKA DEMOCRAT AUGUST
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J. LEE SMITH MARVIN SMITH
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Governor Cruce has been con-
' sidering the matter of calling a
special session of the legislature
to abolish a t.umber of county
offices or tq consolidate different
county offices. In reply to a let-
ter from the governor. Attorney
General West gives the opinion
that a county office can be abolish-
ed at any time even after the
official has been inducted into
office. It has been the common
opinion that an office cannot he
abolished while the incumbent is
serving: the term to which he has
been elected, but that he must be
allowed to serve out his term.
West is of the contrary opinion.
It is almost a certainty that Gov-
ernor Cruce will recommend to
the regular session of the legis-
lature t he abolition of a number
of offices, both county and state.
with a boy who is her senior in
both years and experience.—
Bowling Green Times.
Established
Nineteen-Nine
THE PEOPLE'S SLOGAN.
W
E
IN
ITH
ILSON
Socialists deny that some men
have greater earning capacity
than others and by reason of
their greater capacity acquire
greater wealth. Yet these same
socialists will pay Debs $100 a
day, Stanley Clark $10 a day,
and men like O. A. Fisk and
Luther Langston twenty-five
cents a day payable in sorghum
molasses.
For the Sake of Innocent
Girls.
When Roosevelt succeeded
NcKinley there were 149 trusts
in the country. When Roosevelt
left office there were 1,020. So
it is that almost every trust in
the nation is swelling the ran-
cous chorus of ‘we want Teddy.’
How appropriate that Geo. W.
Perkins of the International
Harvest Trust should be treas-
urer of the Teethodor party.
Another thing we cannot un-
derstand, Mary Ann, is why you
dear sisters are so careful about
your sons and so careless about
your daughters. When we see
immature girls, some of them
mere children, parading the
streets at night or buggy-riding
through the shadows with boys
several years their senior, we do
not wonder that so many of them
become coarsened and cheapened
while yet in their teens. The
wonder is that so many of them
escape everlasting shame. No
matter how upright the young
man may be, it is a period of his
life when every atom of his
blood is easily inflated with ani-
mal impulse, and a period in the
life of the girl when she is most
inclined to follow the lines of
least resistance. This is no re-
flection on either the boys or the
girls. It is simply a hint to the
parents who are too indulgent
and lax with their girls. If Sis
is bound to have company while
yet in her knee dresses, inform
her that a paddle will be vigor-
ously applied if she goes about
That the trusts of this country
have flourished and waxed fat
under Republican rule is shown
by some illuminating statistics
just published by John Moody, a
New York financial expert, and
the author of Moody’s Manual,
which is regarded as an author-
ity in financial matters. The in-
crease in trust growth he at-
tributes wholly to the tariff, and
not to any tendency toward in-
dustrial centralization.
“Notwithstanding the so-called
trust prosecutions and the en-
forcement of the Sherman law,’’
he writes, “the industrial cor-
porations have kept on in-
creasing in size, until their total
capitalization is now’ more than
$8,000,000,000. This astonish-
ing growth does net include in-
dustrial concerns which enjoy
the benefits of the tariff, but
which are not trusts.’’
This expert goes on to say that
there is no truth in the much-
exploded idea ihat trusts lower
prices.
“In the majority of cases,’’
he says, “trusts were formed
with the sole idea of controlling
the output of a product, with a
view of advancing the price to
the consumer. The theory has
often been put forth by trust
managers that such organiza-
tions tend to eliminate the waste
of production, and thus enable
the consumer to reap the benefit, I
but there is no evidence that thej
consumer ever obtained that j
benefit. The great enlargement j
in profits has been brought about
by advancing the price of prod-
ucts, rather than in curtailing
the cost of production.”
Mr. Moody attributes the
growth to the tariff. He says:
“Steadily, throughout every
year of the past decade, trust
capitalization has continued to
increase. When Mr. Koosevelt
began his second administration
the figure had risen to $0,843.- |
891.700. When Taft entered the
White House this had grown to
$7,560,004,000: and now, with
Taft closing his term, the total
is $8,060,290,861.
“It will be noted that the
growth of trusts during Mr.
Taft’s term has practically all j
been accomplished since the
enactment of the Payne-Aldrich
tariff bill.
“While no exact figures on the
subject are obtainable, it is read-
ily estimated that only 25 per
cent of this vast sum represents
actual investment. The remain-
ing 75 per cent is what is com-
monly known as water, or, as
the Wall street financier puts
it: ‘Capitalization of earning
power.
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DOING
IT!
We have the largest per-
centage of the produce
business of this locality.
What everybody does is
worth looking into
■ We have for sale
We pay the highest cash
price for your poultry,
eggs, hides and cream.
_, /or Pres/ o'err/ -
Woodrow WiJsan
Corn Chop $1.80
Shorts - 1.35
Bran - 1.30
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
SCOTT PRODUCE COMPANY
FOR PRESIDENT
WOODROW WILSON
Aclv.
To the Tax Payers of the
State of Oklahoma:
Three timee here the people of this atate
daeifnated Ohlahoma City aa their capital.
Firet by the territorial lagialatiira, October 1,
INI; retaod by a carpetbag gorernor. Sec -
ead by aa overwhelming rote of the people,
Jaae II, 1910; election declared invalid by
the coarta on account of a technical defect in
the ballot title. Third by act of the State
Legislatnra, Dec. 29, 1910. It ia purely a
question of what will be moat convenient for
tbo thtmaanda of people who. in the yeara to
come, will bare business with 'he State De-
partments. It is time that those who keep
this subject in a perpetually unsettled con
ditioa, lor their own telfiah purposes, should
be sqaelcbed by the voters and taipayers of
the state.
^VKLAHOMACITY was made the permanent capital of
this State by your votes on the nth day of June, 1910;
the vote stood: Oklahoma City, 96,261; Guthrie, 31,301.
You are all familiar with the history and results of the lit-
igation which immediately began, and did not end until
November 13, 1911, when the Supreme Court of the United
States denied Guthrie’s last appeal.
February 12, 1912, Oklahoma City voted certain bonds
that indirectly a fund of $100,000 might be raised to comply
with conditions agreed upon with the Governor preparatory
to starting work on the capitol building. Immediately there-
after Guthrie prepared to initiate her petitions for a new
election.
On the 21st day of May, 1912, Oklahoma City placed
in the hands of the Governor $100,000 in cash, and in addi-
tion thereto clear titles to 650 acres of land which will even-
tually brit^g to the treasury of the State for capital building purposes not less than $1,400,000. NO
SOONER WAS THE MONEY AND DEEDS PLACED IN THE HANDS OF THE GOVER-
NOR THAN THIS PETITION FOR A NEW ELECTION WAS FILED WITH THE
SECRETARY OF STATE. The capitol building would now be under construction had it not
been for tfliis action of Guthrie in forcing a new election. We believe the voters of the State
will be slow to cast aside this sum, and add additional burden upon themselves by voting to
remove the capital from this city. Three-fourths of the state departments are now located in
absolutely fire- ------ ------------ After securing
buUd'i'npof *" ™1S IS WHAT ™E GOVERNOR SAYS: £"WetteV^nd
There is rr'tTne , ““ ,hU Proposition i.(..idled i» . bumeulike«d th. .f’hirX
such building in ,a“d “ reserved from sale until the completion of the capitol is jzens repudiated
Gythrie. • Okla- assured, I am thoroughly convinced that it will realize to the their bonus notes
homa City has state a sum sufficient, when added to the $100,000 in cash, to went into court
always made go far towards erecting the building, and that if handled in this ar|J upon vari-
good. Guthrie waj( jt wi„ rea,iie t0 the slate many thou>and> ot dollars more ous technicalities
ord of°reImdi- lhan if wo“ld bave bcen P°**ib,e t0 do nnder tb* ori*inal meut' oi The
ated promises agreement. . bonuses prom*
and bon vises. . 1"' ised.
Yet with such a {record citizens of Guthrie have dared to defame and villify Oklahoma City.
. WHY VOTE ’ADDITIONAL BURDENS UPON OURSELVES?
Closely corfnccteJ with this project for the relocation of the permanent capital in another city
is the question of taxes. We all know that in a new
and unavoidably high. The State has now a total bonded
and warrant indebtedness of about $4.500,000; and a
determined: effort has been made»bv our citizenship all over
the State to seduce taxes and relieve the overburdened
farmer and burtness man. Of course this condition has
been augmented by hard times. Before accepting the
Guthrie idea, returning to inconvenient and inflammable
temporary quarters for an indefinite time, and throwing
away the mslhois and a hah red by Oklahoma City
we ask the f^co^e to think twice. Guthrie papers have
admitted that they expect the State to bear the full cost
of any build frig ever erected tlieie. < Oklahoma City has
fulfilled everr pledge up to this minute, and stands ready
to go forwardew heuever permitted to do so.
state like ours taxes" are necessarily
Guthrie’s only claim to the capital
is that iu territorial days her fioe
manipulations at Washington held the
capital for her against the wishes ot
the people; and that the return of
the capital regardless of the interests
of the state and people is now nec-
essary for her future existence. A
state capital is not a thing that will
by itself make a city. It can do
little for a small town, and a small
town can furnish little accommo-
dation for it.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT
T. R. MARSHALL
FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR
ROBT. L. OWEN
FOR CORPORATION COMMISSIONER
COL. JACK LOVE
FOR CONGRESSMAN-AT-LARGE
JOS. B. THOMPSON
W. H. MURRAY
CLAUDE WEAVER
FOR CONGRESSMAN 2ND DISTRICT
JOHN J. CARNEY
COUNTY TICKET
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
CLAYTON B. HYDE
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
I). F. MILLER
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS
NORA SCHAEFER MINER ,
FOR DISTRICT CLERK
KARL WIEGAND
FOR COUNTY JUDGE
W. M. B1CKEL
FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
F. O. HAYS
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY
W. D. ANDERSON
I Real Estate, Insurance
» Law, Loans and Collections
NOTARY IN OFFICE
All Legal work entrusted to us will be carefully attended to
JOHN R. MUR.ROW
Office in Murrow Bldg.
Waynoka, Oklahoma
:W. G. BESSEY
Admitted to practice in the United States
Courts, Supreme Court of Oklahoma and all
inferior Courts. Supreme Court of Michigan
and all inferior Courts. ornte aver Hairsciatbiae si«r«
LAWYER
LAWYER
LAWYER
Phillips (8b Parnett
“POOL HALL”
Come in and Spend your idle hours in fun
■ Located in Old Hendrie Bldg.
Iwc
Cigars and Tobacco.
FOR COUNTY CLERK
T. J. BENTON
For’Sheriff
HUGH MARTIN
WE OFFER
QUALITY, SERVICE, PRICE
As an inducement for your trade
C. E. SHARP LUMBER COMPANY
J. A. Byers, Manager Phone 52 Waynoka Oklahoma
FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR:
J. C. MADDOX
FOR COMMISSIONER 1st DISTRICT
FERRY A. MONROE
FOR COMMISSIONER 2nd DISTRICT
IIOD McCOXKEY
FOR COMMISSIONER 3rd DISTRICT
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Smith, J. Lee & Smith, Marvin. The Waynoka Democrat (Waynoka, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 29, 1912, newspaper, August 29, 1912; Waynoka, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc848256/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.