The Chandler News-Publicist (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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THE CHANDLER NEWSPUBLICIST
FRIDAY. FKBRl ARY «. IIMO.
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Voters throughout the state, and especially
in Lincoln county, who have been reading the
little tilt between the Chandler Tribune and the
News-Publicist, will be glad to know that the
News-Publicist won out over the caponized edi-
tor of the Tribune. The News-Publicist started
the row by demanding that the report of the in-
vestigation of alleged school land frauds be
made public. (!. A. Smith, editor and owner
of the Tribune and now secretary of the school
land commission, hastened to chastise us. He
said, you will all remember, that the governor
had not yet “sot the stage” whatever he might
mean by that. The News-Publicist came back
and “called1’ .Mr. Smith’s bluff, he then, in his
Tribune, got personal and called the News-Pub-
licist editor a liar and alluded to him in other
similar -endearing terms. We called his hand
once more. This has borne fruit. On Monday
of this week the- legislature sent word to the
governor that they desired the original report
of the said investigating committee, also an
itemized account of the expenditure of the $2,-
500 appropriated to make the investigation.
The governor forthwith unearthed from the se-
cret archives of his office the long hidden re-
port and sent it to the legislature. The report
has not yet been given to the press but it is
hoped that it soon will be. And when that time
comes the voters and taxpayers of Oklahoma
will learn the methods, or at least some of the
methods, used by dishonest officials in filching
money from the state funds. Time was when
G. A. Smith evinced a great interest in the
school lands of the state and was fearful that
some of the funds belonging to the school chil-
dren of the state be wrongfully used. Of late,
however, since his betrayal of his fellow towns-
man, Hon. .1. B. A. Robertson, and his espousal
of the Williams cause (which resulted in his
having a prominent seat at the pie counter)
he seems to have experienced a change of heart.
He is now fearful that the truth will come out
and that some of the pets of the administration
will be shown up in their true light. Verily the
leapord changeth his spots.
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A CONJUNCTION OF I ,V TERES TING
EVENTS.
All the indications are that there will he
nothing common-place during the coming
spring, summer and fall season. The conjunc-
tion of circumstances and forces that plainly
are to be in nction is such as seldom occurs to
maintain a keen public interest in the affairs of
our national life.
A national political campaign is ordinarily a
season of increased interest to the people of this
country in their political affairs, even if other
interests of life lag. As a matter of fact it
often happens that other interests do lag at
such times. Wo have become .accustomed to
think that business activity and presidential
elections do not go together; that business halls
to await the outcome at such periods. Yet
this year we apparently face an unprecedented
activity in business during the campaign.
Orders are so far booked ahead in ail our in-
dustries that there is hardly a possibility of a
halt. Such a state of things is unprecedented.
Beyond this is the development of the critical
period in the great conflict in Europe. By-
common consent the war is approaching the
period from which it must hasten to close in
some fashion. The limits of financial and eco-
nomical endurance are being approached, it is
national to expect the most desperate efforts
on both sides to bring about a decisive issue, or
a‘ least to change the situation so that the ulti-
mate outcome will be foreshadowed.
While in the United States we are fortunate-
ly spared the direct contact with the fury and
horrors of war, its course and its results touch
so vitally the civilization of the whole world,
and bring this country so much more closely
into relationship with the rest of the world that
it is a matter of vital interest to us.
Thus do three of the greatest interest arous-
ing events possible come into conjunction this
year to keep the American people aroused. Our
own business, our own politics and the Euro-
pean war are all to he at their top notch dur-
ing the year. It will be strange if there is
nny place for lethargy among the people at such
a time as this and under conditions as these.
It is a time when men will read and when men
must think, while at the same time they nro
busier with their occupations than for a long
time. Such a season should have its good re-
sults on the people mentally and let us hope that
the moral results will be proportionate.
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There’s many a slip twixt the icromtl the hip
these days. The good fall while the sinners
stand up in slippery places.
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You are not safo in suspecting the person
with a red nose theJe days. Some of our most
respectable people have their countenance lit
up in amazing style.
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The leaders of the War College pick Lewes,
Delaware as the weak point on our coast at
which an enemy force could land with ease.
And we never even heard of the town until
the experts held its shameful weakness up be-
fore the public gaze.
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Hiram Percy Mexim, inventor of the famous
silencer, announces that he has discovered a
way to eliminate the noisy chug-chug of the
railway locomotive. There won’t be any ro-
mance left in railroading in a few years if the
inventors keep up the present gait. The only
excitement will be guessing how late the Frisco
trains are whenever a storm arises.
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Those who are carefully reading the speeches
now being made by President Wilson will note
in them a strong tendency to prepare the people
of the United States for serious trouble. Can
the president mean that we are soon to he
plunged into war, either with Mexico or with
the now warring foreign nations? Certain it
is that in his every speech there is a veiled
warning, of some impending danger.
The president has successfully demonstrated
that a change of mind may be necessary for
political reasons. He has informed Congress-
man Kitchin that he has changed his mind on
the tariff commission question and now favors
such a board. He will probably change his
mind on the few remaining questions before
the November elections. Can you name one on
which he has not turned a complete somersault?
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Governor “Boh.’’ is having trouble with his
lower house. The democrats there, several of
whom are tinged with socialism, are not in
favor of an election law made absolutely for
the benefit of the democratic party. Therefore,
according to the present program, a very mild
bill is to be passed bv the house. The senate
is to put the "stingers” into it, attach the emer-
gency clause and send it to conference. The
troublesome house members will be easier to
whip into line by this plan.
The news from Washington is to the effect
that our own Geo. Von L. Meyer has been seek-
ing to demonstrate the value of preparedness
by calling his old friend, and later foe, Truxton
Beale, out of the Metropolitan club trenches to
the sidewalk and there having it out with fists.
Truxton is sixty and George is fifty-eight, so
that the battlers may be said to have been of
about the same calibre and range, although
one seems to have been “made in Germany.” It
w«s developing into a real draw with the two
| combatants rolling over each other, when the
i taxi-men developed plans of mediation by pull-
| ing them gradually apart. They there upon
returned to their trenches where our George
will continue to write dissertations on the
proposition that what our navy lacks is brains.
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Our good friend Dr. Charles Evans, whom
we helned to place at the head of the Centra!
State Normal school at Edmond, several years
ago While we were on the board of education,
has resigned and wll become head of Henrv
Kendall College, a Presbyterian institute at
Tulsa. Dr. Evans, in opr opinion. Is one of the
greatest schorl men of the middle west today.
Tho Central State Nn-mal of today stands as a
mark of his great ability, zeal and efficiency.
There is no create- normal s-hool anvwV re.
Ire will ho rememberer! by many of our do -ole
as be conducted n»r summer "ormal institute
for two re-ra wh’le vour humble servant was
county superintendent He is a fine christen
gentleman and will m-ke good of Kendal! H-s
Lincoln county friends wish him success in his
new field. Here’s our hand Charles.
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that their play
“At the End of the Rainbow”
scheduled to be presented at
the Feuquay building tonight
(Friday) has been postponed
until
Tuesday Nigjht, Feb. 9th
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Nichols, L. B. The Chandler News-Publicist (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916, newspaper, February 4, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc911682/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.