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RENFREW’S RECORD, ALVA, OKIjA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 88, 1W0W.
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GORE ELECTED SECOND
TIME TO SENATE.
Blind Statesman Receives 102
I'lynu's -10 on First Ballot.
APPLAUSE OVER CHOICE.
Guthrie, Okla., Jan. 20.—Amid
the applause of the assembled legisla-
tors and the spectators who crowded
the galleries to their utmost limit,
Thomas Pryor Gore of Lawton, was
today selected by the two houses of
the Oklahoma legislature in joint
session to represent the state of Ok-
lahoma In the United States senate
for the next six years.
The election went off without a
hitch and was not marred by any of
the delays such as occurred last year
over the question of who should pre-
side at the joint session. Lieutenant
Governor Bellamy and Speaker Wil-
son sat side by side on the platform,
the former presiding over the deliber-
ations of the two bodies. Governor
and Mrs. Haskell and Miss Frances
Haskell also occupied seats on the
platform, but left immediately after
the election was consummated and
before Senator Gore's speech of ac-
ceptance.
While the election was a mere
formality, and was recognized by the
republican speakers as such, they
were no less ardent in the praises
of their candidate than were the
democrats. All of the democrats in
the two houses of course voted for
Senator Gore and all of the repub-
licans for their primary nominee,
Dennis Flynn of Oklahoma City.
Gore received 102 voes and Flynn
49, with one absentee on each side.
Lieutenant Governor Bellamy
called the joint session to order
promptly at 12 o’clock, and the en-
trance of Senator Gore just afterward
was the signal of vociferous applause.
When nominations were called for,
after prayer by the blind chaplain,
the Rev. J. T. Jones of Krebs, Sen-
ator J. Elmer Thomas of Lawton
was recognized to nominate Gore.He
spoke of him especially as the friend
of the people, expressing his delight
in the fact that even in selecting the
members of the highest legislative
body in the country the voice of the
people is now consulted, and declar-
ing his belief that no representative
selected from the state of Oklahoma
would ever disregard that voice.
Representative C. S. Wortman of
Claremore made the first seconding
speech on Gore’s behalf, referring
to the stand he had taken in the
light and to the recognition accorded
him by his political opponents ,as
evidenced by the appeal of the Phil-
adelphia North American to the peo-
ple of Oklahoma to send the blind
man back to the senate. Senator E.
M. Landrum of Tahlequah mj.de a
very eloquent speech on behalf of
the Indian and couching of his
speech in very clever and witty Indi-
an dialect. Representative Amil H.
Japp of Lawton also seconded Gore's
nomination, paying tribute to the
blind senator's ability and his popu-
larity among the people of the state.
Senator Harper S. Cunningham,of
Guthrie, placed Dennis T. Flynn’s
name before the joint session on be-
half of the minority, referring to
him as the “Little Giant of Okla-
homa Republicanism.” His mention
of Flynn’s name was greeted with
enthusiastic applause from the re-
publican members and from the gal-
leries. He referred to Flynn's free
homes record, declaring that even
the mothers in the lullabies sang this office.
"Free Homes, Free Homes, Flynn
and Free Homes.”
He deplored the personal abuse
which had filled the last campaign,
declaring that the abuse heaped up-
on Dennis Flynn by the democrats
was only exceeded by the abuse di-
rected by the republicans toward
the governor. He appealed for cam-
paign along party and not personal
lines, and created much laughter by
declaring that he and the senator
from Marietta ought to be able to
speak from the same platform and
go out and drink bootleg whiskey to-
gether afterward if they wished, ad-
ding:
“And I hope that time will soon
come.”
He declared that the democratic
party would have a fight for its life
in 1910, and that if the republicans
were triumphant the socialists would
lick its bleaching bones.
Representatives C. G. Jones of
Oklahoma City, was the first to sec-
ond the nomination of Flynn. He
also referred to the free homes fight,
declaring that at that time political
lines were broken down and that
the democrats helped to send Flynn
back to congress. He also spoke of
the statehood fight and said that
Flynn had done more than any one
else for the cause of joint statehood.
He was followed by Representative
George W. Patrldge of Aline, assert-
ing that the darkness with which
Gore was enveloped was not greater
than confronts the people of Oklaho-
ma under the party he represents.
A eulogistic reference to Roose-
velt in Partridge’s speech was greet-
ed with hisses by some of the demo-
cratic senate leaders.
Senator F. M. Colville of Mustang,
closed the seconding speeches, tell-
ing of Flynn’s career, stating that he
and the republican nominee were of
the same Irish extraction and natives
of the same county in New York.
After the result had been announc-
ed Senator Gore was called upon for
a speech and responded with an elo-
quent address, interspersed with his
usual dry humor. He complimented
the legislature on its good judgment
in electing him, and declared that
after that object lesson he considered
it needless for him to offer any ad-
vice. He declared that he would
rather be the representative of the
state of Oklahoma than the crowned
czar of the Russias—as there was less
danger of assassination. He assert-
ed that to have triumphed over so
distinguished a citizen as Mr. Flynn
was the chief glory of success.
Mr. Flynn was also called upon
for an address and after stating that
it was not customary to require a
man to preach his own funeral ser-
mon, he told the legislators that the
people had confidence in them and
expected them to pass laws for tho
benefit of the whole people. He urg-
ed them not to let it go out that it
Is a crime for a man to have honest-
ly prospered in Oklahoma, but stated
that the business interests are entit-
led to the same consideration as any
other interests, no more and no less.
The one thing which is really nec-
essary, declared Mr. Flynn, Is to enact
a law which will let the people vote
on election day for their choice for
United States senator. He insisted
that he was asking nothing unfair,
and pointed to the case of Oregon,
where a republican legislature had
just elected a democratic senator in
obedience to the will of the people.
Old papers, 10 cents a hundred at
BLOSSOMS INTO HIS OWN
LEFT.
DIA-
Senator E. M. I.aiulrum of Tulileqiiuh
Seconds the Noniillation of Sen-
ator Gore in Indian Dialect.
“I tell you I’m heap like him, that
T. P. Gore. He’s my good fle-nd.
I’m watch him close, long time, spec
so pretty good mans, don't know,
though. One white mans come to my
house and stay long time; he's ail
time talk it politics. He’s eat it
my ‘connyhany’ and ‘conutchee,” my
’cochaneeb’ and hog jowls, an’ after
he’s fill heself jls full like plzened
pup, while it’s settin' on po’ch he’s
pull it out his pocket one paper an’
he axed me ‘you knowed it this mans
T. P. Gore, what’s run demoelat for
Benate?’ 1 say ’uh-huh.’ He say
‘taint no demoelat nary durn tall,
he’s pop’list, you read it this speech.’
I’m take it speech an’ read it right
slow an’ kyeeful then look way off
an’ spit over banisters into the holly-
hocks. Pretty soon I’m turn it
'round right quick an’ hitch up my
chair close to his’n, an’ p'int it my
finger in front of it his face an’ I
tell him ‘If Gore make it that speech,
he's jist a smart that's all; an' if he's
got it sense ‘nuff to quit it them pop’-
list, when he seen it the errer o’ his
ways, an’ jlne it to the democlats
he’s jist kin' I like it.'
“Pretty soon he’s make it big
speech in my town, that Gore, an’ I
hyered it mysel’ an’ I jist tell you
right now I’m jist feel like it ever’
one them shingles on the house the
top of It is french harp an’ all playn’
’Home Sweet Home.’ I’m jist holler
till I think pretty soon break it my
throat. I tell you jist long as he's
good fle’nd my people I’m for ‘it
that Tom Gore ever’ time, an’ when
I’m good fle’nd I’m stick to it all
time; an’ when he had it a bad luck
an’ drawed it the short straw I’m
tell it all good my fle’ns to jist stick
it to it heap harder. An’ when he’s
tetch it off them fireworks way Rocky
Mountains this side an’ most bust it
up that convention with he’s elo-
quence, I jist fall down an’ laugh an’
tell um ‘I told you so.’ An’ way
that time we Tect it constitution
them white mans what you call it
judges an’ what they call theyselves
‘the court,’ was tell us take gyardeen
our chilluns, that Injun ’taint got
sense ’nuff to be my daddy his own
chilluns, this good my fle’nd was help
us out. He’s make bully one fight
that Gore an’ help it out of the mid
die of a bad fix us Injuns an’ I'm
who’s goin’ to stick it to him all time.
I second the nomination for U. S.
senator from Oklahoma the name of
our present U. S. senator, the Hon
Thomas Pryor Gore. In honoring
him we honor Oklahoma. In honor-
ing him we honor the highest type
of Christian manhood.
Likens Gore’s Rise to Soaring Eagle.
“Shut out as he is from the light
of day his course is somewhat like
the course of the water fowl—Tone,
wandering, but not lost’—but 1
would rather liken it to the flight of
the golden eagle, the monarch of the
sky, soaring upward to the sun.
With a single swoop the bird comes
down from his eyrie among the rocks
as though he were about to drop
earthward; then lifting his head, he
has spread his pinions in the wind
and sailing upward gloriously with
slow, majestic motion through the
light. Far below him the white-
crested waves gleam afar off, the
purple stretch of the dark marshes,
the rounded masses of the woods.
A storm may be brewing below, but
the mad wind-waves but uplift him
as he reigns and floats and careers,
king of the elements. Higher and
higher he raises in royal grandeur,
soaring onward and upward, against
the blue skies and piles of snowy
clouds—rejoicing in his solitude,
kingly in his strength. With his
broad wings spread in the sungleam,
plunging headlong through eddying
gulfs of air, his empire takes in the
vastness of the space that monarchs
cannot gauge, and his plumes are
outstretched in all the glory of his
godlike freedom, his unchained lib-
erty of life.”
Tortured on a Horse.
“For ten years I couldn't ride a
horse without being tortured from
piles,” writes L. S. Napier, of Rug-
less, Ky., “when all doctors .and oth-
er remedies failed, Bucklen's Arnica
Salve cured me.” Infallible for Piles,
Burns, Scalds, Cuts, Bolls, Fever-
sores, Eczema, Salt Rheum, Corns.
25c.—Guaranteed by all druggists.
REPUDIATES ROOSEVELT.
Guthrie, Okla., Jan. 21.—The low-
er house of the Oklahoma legislature
repudiated President Roosevelt for
endorsement of alleged scenes In Ok-
lahoma as shown by a moving picture
company, when a request ftom United
States Marshal John Abernathy to
put on his "wolf hunt, bank robbery
and Indian Massacre" pictures in
legislative hall for the edification of
the solons. These pictures are the
same as were recently shown in the
White House at Washington, when
President Roosevelt acted as “spell-
er” before a select crowd of states-
men and diplomats.
When the Abernathy request was
made, Representative Faulkner, of
Kiowa county, sprang to his feet and
declared Oklahoma has had enough
notoriety of this character; that the
lawlessness of the past was a sub-
ject the state was seeking to forget;
that manufactured pictures of bank
robberies and Indian massacres were
not only libelous hut an outrage. He
objected to the hall being used for
such purposes. His speech brought
applause.
A motion was made and carried to
commit the request to the committee
on criminal jurisprudence.
Some weeks ago at the suggestion
of President Roosevelt, John Aber-
nathy, A1 Jennings and others, put on
a series .of wild west "stunts" before
a moving picture apparatus. They
first produced their pictures at the
White House. Advertlsng matter re-
garding their show bear this surpris-
ing statement: “Approved by Pres-
ident Roosevelt.”
The action of the Oklahoma legisla-
ture, therefore, can be considered a
slap at the President in return for
his willingness to slandor Oklahoma
before the world.
are worth on an average a dollar
apiece.
Most of his huuting was done on
the Kenal peninsula, with the town
of Seward as the base of supplies, al-
though some of his finest specimens
of deer were killed In Southern Alas-
ka. He considers himself very for-
tunate in securing the white mountain
sheep, which are quite rare and dif-
ficult to get. The mountain climbing
makes their hunting a hazardous ex-
perience, although the most exciting
game of all to hunt, according to
Prof. Stevens, are Kodiack bears,
which are of about the same variety
as the grizzley, only twice as large.
One of the animals which he killed
weighed 1,400 pounds and some o.
them run as high as 1,600 pounds.
He gives a very graphic description
of the sensations experienced when
trailing a wounded bear through un-
penetrable underbrush, with tne
knowledge that at any moment the
bear is likely to turn and fight, hunt-
er and hunted then having their po-
sitions reversed.
With everything packed into the
very smallest available space. Prof.
Stevens brought back with him a half
car load of material, all of which
came through in very good shape.
The bulk of it will probably go to
the Alva school, which, through his
efforts, already has a fine collection
of Oklahomn fauna. The board of
regents are Inclined to give some of
the specimens thus obtained to the
other normal schools, but will prob-
ably require them to mount the spec-
imens and prepare them for exhibi-
tion themselves.
Prof. Stevens is a graduate of
Kansas University and received his
training in zoology and taxidermy
under Prof. L. L. Dyche, the famous
Kansas scientist and hunter of big
game—Wichita Beacon.
NOTICE TO TEACHERS.
The regular examination for
teachers’ certificates will be held at
the Normal building in Alva, on
January 28 and 29. (Last Thursday
a.'.d Friday), 1909. Work will begin
promptly at 8:30 a. m.
Respectfully,
F. O. HAYS, Co. Supt.
Dr. R. M. Minter
DENTIST
Successor to J. C Herron
14 years Experience. Special
ist. Plates Crown and Bridge
work.
Guaranteed Satisfaction
Prices Reasonable
Office,South Side Square
Phone 136. Alva Okla
See Mothers Grow Young.
“It would be hard to overstate the
wonderful change in my mother since
she began to use Electric Bitters,”
writes Mrs. W. L, Gilpatrlck of Dan-
forth. Me. “Although past 70 years
she seems really to be growing
young again. She suffered untold
misery from dyspepsia for 20 years.
At last she could neither eat, drink
nor sleep. Doctors gave her up and
all remedies failed till Electric Bit-
ters worked such wonders for her
health.” They Invigorate all vital
organs, cure Liver and Kidney troub-
le, Induce sleep, Impart strength and
appetite. Only 5.0c. at all druggists.
WATONGA MERCHANTS
FAVOR GOOD ROADS.
RENFREW FURNITURE Co.
FURNITURE AND EMBALMING
Largest Stock.
Finest Hearse
Best Service.
Everything New
and Up-To-Date.
No old Shop worn
stuff.
OFFICE PHONE 47
Southwest Corner Square
HOME PHONE 91
ALVA.
The merchants of Watonga are al-
ready feeling the effect of road Im-
provement to the south and west of
town by the Increased trade from that
direction. Heretofore, It was a
stretch of sand for a mile In length.
Now the sand Is being covered by
clay and next week Mr. Spelcher,
the road expert, will begin the work
of crushing rock for stone roads. The
crusher bought by Watonga Is in
place and will be run by the road
roller engine furnished by the state,
thereby saving expense of an engine
to the city. Heavy loads are now
being hauled by single teams, when
It took double teams previously.
“We desire to make Watonga a
trading point,” explained one of the
merchants, and it Is doing the work.
When we hear the farmers complain-
ing about the bad roads of some oth-
er parts of the county, and the rough
streets they encounter, they compli-
ment us on giving them a smooth
roadway to this town and on our
streets, which are good for a country
town, we know they appreciate It.
We believe It has helped us In our
grain and stock trade, and it has
certainly been a satisfaction well
worth while.—Herald.
IIAS MANY SPECIMENS.
Prof. W. W. Stevens Made Splendid
Collection on Alaska Trip.
Guthrie, Okla., Jan. 9.—Returning
home from seven months spent in
Alaska with one of the finest collec-
tions of zoological specimens ever
brought out from the Arctic regions,
Prof. George W. Stevens, head of
the department of biology at the
Northwestern Oklahoma Normal
School at Alva, is in Guthrie to dis-
cuss with the board of normal school
regents the disposition of the mater-
ial which he has secured.
Prof. Stevens’ collection includes
groups of eight varieties of big Arc-
tic animals, moose, caribou, seals,
sea lions, black bear, Kodiak brown
bear, deer and white mountain sheep.
He also secured a fine collection of
smaller animals, such as beaver, mink
and otter, about 120 varieties of birds
and 1,500 valuable bird eggs, which
Every City
Every Town
Every Individual
IN OKLAHOMA
IS INTERESTED IN THE GROWTH
AND DEVELOPNENT OF THE STATE
is giving the many advantages of
the state of Oklahoma wide public-
ity. We are distributing advertis-
ing matter in every section of the
United States and Europe. We are
bringing new people to the state
and we want to bring them in in-
creasing numbers.
Willyouhrlp u is work? If
you ha vefriends or relatives whom
you think we might be able to in-
terest in the state, send in their
names and addresses and let us do
the rest. DO IT NOW.
GEO. E LEE, J.S. McNALLY,
Gen. Pass. Agt., L)lv. Pass. Agt.,
Little Rock, Ark. Oklahoma City
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PHYSICIAN aid
SURGEON
Office In Green building
ALVA, X OKLAHOMA
We
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Poultry, Eggs
and Butter.
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Correct Counts tnd Weights Guiruteeo
J. P. REED.
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Bakery
WM. AECKERLE, Prop.
The first-class Bakery of Alva.
Corner of Fifth street and
Barnes Av.
STOPPING A LEAK
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better way is to call us In. We will
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one we have worked for. We don’t
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to do, you’ll be wise to have us do
it.
A. MC KITRICK
G. N. BILBY,
Physician and Surgeon.
OFFICE PHONE 59
RESIDENCE PHONE 81
ALVA, OKLAHOMA.
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Day or Night.
Office in McHenry bldg. Up stairs
Phone 352.
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