Cimarron Valley Clipper (Coyle, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1913 Page: 3 of 6
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AMERICAN CLUB IS WRECKED
BATTLE BETWEEN DIAZ AND MA-
DERO CONTINUES WITH
DISASTROUS EFFECT.
Neither Side Able 4o Gain Advantage
and Madero and Diaz Still
Promises to Fight to
a Finish.
Mexico City—With.no advantage to
either government or rebel forces the
fifth day of fighting in the capital end-
ed after sundown. Since the rebel
outbreak Sunday several hundred
people have been killed and the danw
age has run into millions.
l'he fifth day was another day of
terror for hundreds of thousands of
non-combatants. These included large
numbers of foreigners who could find
in no place in the
from danger.
city a spot free
, Promise Not Fulfilled.
One report say# that the city ol
Puebla hSs op-sly proclaimed him
provisional president.
Madero promised that the subjuga
tion of Diaz would be swift, that the
government's plan would b# ^o sur
round and completely subjugate Diaz
in his position with their* heaviest
guns but this promise was in no v.ay
fulfilled.
The federal fire generally was slow,
although, since it came from various
directions it was persistent. The reb-
el commander's orders to hiB men
were to conserve their fire and little
ammunition was wasted. No oppor-
tunity was lost, however, to throw
shells at the troublesome* batteries
and his machine guns and riflemen
effectually prevented the near ap-
proach of the government troops.
His greatest energies were displayed
in the line of fire toward the place
whcrijjhis big guns charred the walls
and doors of that ancient structure
and cleared the big square in front
of federal reserves.
While General Huerto had been
busy during the night preparing for
the promised blow, Diaz also had
worked effectively. He sent through
the government lines various small de-
tachments of sharpshooters and ar-
tillery. These detachments, which act-
ed independently, appear to have had
Washington Showed Consum- Honor at Once Conferred by
mate Military Genius in Select-
ing Spot for Winter Quarters.
Washington’s Countrymen Will
Be Confirmed by History.
SAVED TRACT FROM ENEMY HIS HIGH RANK AS STATESMAN
British Possession of Philadelphia
Made It Imperative That the
American Army Should Be in
Close Touch With the Sol-
diers of King George.
Shells raked the principal streets of I orders to harass wherever possible '
the capital and tore their way into
private homes and business houses as
President Madero.
well as through public structures for
which they were intended. -
Machine gun and rifle bullets pene-
trated all corners, finding lodgment in
buildings even in the remote sections,
unofficially but tactily designated as
the neutral zjhei
Two Lejf-ftions Untenable.
The Cuban and Ilelgian legations
were rendered^ untenable, the occu-
pants seeking refuge elsewhere. The
French sonsulate suffered a fate sim-
ilar to that of the American consulate j and machine guns.
and pick off the federal gunners.
At 5 o’clock Thursday evening I
I General Diaz demanded the surrender i
| of the national palace. All through |
the day the rebel batteries of heavy I
j guns were throwing a fierce fire of I
shrapnel around the palace. Many of j
j these dropped into the plaza which |
fronts the building and federal soldiers
I were compelled to mc^e to cover. j
Palace Draws Heavy Fire.
During the heavy shelling of the pal-
i ace, Diaz aparently moved some of his
j forces, to the southeast of the‘city and
shortly after 12 o’clock the palace was
| made the target of both shells and rifle !
| fire from that district. Coincidental- j
| ly the rebels succeeded in extending \
their zone of activity in other direc- j
j tions.
The rebel fire towards the palace
i was intended not only to bring about
its surrender but had for its purpose
j also the clearing of the intervening
I high buildings of machine guns and
j riflemen and silencing the federal
battery operating in San Juan Let ran
' street, at a point midway between the
arsenal and the palace.
| This shelling wrought havoc among
the buildings in that section of the
city. The American club was riddled.
The interior of this building on the
second and third floors was complete-
ly wrecked. Of forty Americans with-
in it at the time, several had almost
miraculous escapes from death
In addition to the shell fire, the inte-
rior, as well as the exterior of the
American club was- perforated in
scores of places by bulelts from rifles
There is a letter of peculiar inter-
est written by George Washington
from Valley Forgo in January, 1778.
It was dictated to. and the body of
the letter Is in the handwriting of
Alexander Hamilton. Sparks printed
a portion of the letter, hut thought it
,sveli (o leave out the following por-
tion, in which Washington gives his
reasons for selecting Valley Forge
as his winter headquarters:
"The enemy still remain in posses-
sion of Philadelphia and are secured
by a strong chain of redoubt with in-
trenchments of communication from
‘“‘f” accusers. . nave gouen an i want out or politics and l must | Schuylkill to Delaware. We are post-
devote a little time to my family. These charges are preying on the health | P(] „„ t|le woat n!
of members of my family and I de-cided that it would be best to have th
e proceedings stopped if possible.”
The news of the resignation of the state auditor came as a bolt of light-
ning from a celar sky just on the eve of the beginning of his trial on im-
peachment charges in the senate
Leo Meyer. J. C. McClelland
A sensational climax to the impeachment .proceedings brought
against Leo. Meyer, state auditor, came when that officer, through his at-
torney, submitted his resignation to Governor Cruce. The resignation was
unconditional. J. C. McClelland, member of the state banking board, was
immediately appointed to succeed Meyer.
In a statement Meyer said:
"Tffese Charges have been framed up against me and 1 am tired of
Doings of the Lawmakers
Activities of the Week Among the Members
of the Oklahoma Legislature
ed on the west side of the former
j about twenty miles from the city, and
with pains and industry the troops
are tolerably well covered in huts.
We are to regret we are not more
comfortably quartered, but circum-
stances would not admit of it. Had
we retired to the towns in the in-
terior part of the state a large tract
of fertile country would have been
Reappdrtionment Bill Passed Code Bill is Passed
A congressional redistricting bil! The Cook bill, to put the Harris-Day
I which would divide Oklahoma into j code in force as law within six days
eight districts, seven of which should j after 1,000 printed copies had been re-
be democratic by pluralities ranging ceived, was passed finally with only
i from 3,000 to 8,000, and one republican
by a plurality of 3,800, was passed
finally by the house of representatives
with the emergency attached, aad is
now in the senate.
The house merely followed a plan
outlined by the democratic house cau
cus, at which the bill finally was
perfected. The vote on the bill was
71 to 20, with 8 absent, and was a
strict party division, with the excep-
several days ago, the consul transfer-
ring his effects to his country’s lega-
tion. Both federals and rebels insist
that they will fight to a finish, in
view of this declaration the Cuban min-
ister asked his government for au-
thorization to charter special trains to
remove from the capital such Cubans
as wished to leave, He proposed to
land them at Vera Cruz and there place
them aboard a ship flying the Span
ish flag, if one is in port; otherwise
on an American warship.
Madero Optimistic.
The president declared he had be-
tween 5,1)00 and 6,000 soidieers and
could reduce Diaz speedily but hesitat-
ed to do so because of humanitarian
motives He denied that there was
sympathetic trouble except at Puebla,
where he admitted a slight difficulty
but asserted thiB had been settled.
The government telegraph wire still
Is jilent on the news throughout the
republic but news has reached here
( irough various sources of information
which appears credible, to the effect
that the Diaz movement has found con-
siderable favor in many sections.
American Portraits Destroyed.
The shells, which entered the read-
ing room, chased through the stone
window casings, demolished a heavy
leather chair and exploded with ter-
nine members voting against it. As
the bill left for the senate; it cofituins
a section repealing, without prejudice
to anyone’s vested rights, the famous
“riparian rights” section, because of
which Governor Cruce held up the
publication of the code and laid the
basis for the code or sand-and-gravel
controversy.
The amended Pruett bill, re-estab-
lishing the old system of elcting the
ml
wi
tion that Mr. Lemon of Grant, Mr. f state board of agriculture by delegates
Reece of Payne and Mr. Berry of Me- from county conventions or institutes.
Intosh, all democrats, joined with the j was passed finally,
republicans in voting against the bil, ! The other two bills passed finally is
although for different reasons. The the "lawful fence’’ bill by Perry, and
ofTjections of the first two democratic the H. H. Smith bill for the protection
members were due to the fact that
their counties are placed in the re-
publican district.
Following are the counties, popula-
tion and political complexion of the
eight districts proposed, as by the
1910 census and 1912 elections:
.............W’
Washington at Valley Forge.
exposed to
all dis etions, cutting the furniture to
ribons, ripping the floors and walls
and puncturing in a score of places
the - portraits which hung about the
room. The portrait most seriously
damaged was that of President Ma-
derd
President McKinley’s picture now is
set in a circle of bullet holes, while
the portrait of President Taft, hang-
ing next to it, escaped with a single
mark.
President-elect Wilson’s features
were riddled, while at the other end
of the line of portraits balls found
lodgment in plenty in the picture of
another democrat, Jefferson.
Portions of shrapnel shell were
hurled through the floor above the
billiard rooms among a group of Amer-
icans there. Four sleeping rooms on
the fourth floor were wrecked. From
one the entire wall was torn away.
Rebel Loss Light. , penetrated, there finding'victims who
General Felix Diaz in his arsenal j ha(i been unable to escape. An effort
stronghold, appeared as defiant as any j w’as made by many to get out of the
time since he was released from prison ! way- and In the early morning people
by the mutinous soldiers and promises of the poorer classes bearing mat-
a repetition of the terrific bombard- tresses, blankets and bundles of cloth-
ment, the fierceness of which is at- \ inK- w’ere seeking places of safety,
tested by" the many partially destroyed 1 AnJ manY of the fugitives were of the
, | No. 1—Osage, Pawnee, Tulsa, Wash-
riric force. Shrapnel was hurled rn j ington, Nowata, Rogers Craig, Mi
A ayes,
Adair.
Rogers Craig,
Ottawa, Delaware, Cherokee, A<
Population 205,866; democratic plurality,
3,003.
No. 2—Wagoner, Okmulgee, Muskogee,
‘ - - Haskell, '
Latimer,
democratic
McIntosh, Sequoyah, liaskel
LeFlore. Population 201 233;
plurality 3,780.
No. 3—Pittsburg, Atoka, Coal, Push-
mataha, Bryan. Choctaw, McCurtain,
Carter, Marshall, I»vt*. Population 206,-
democratlc plurality 7.871
003
No.
emocratlc
4—Creek,
Pot-
plurality 7,871.
Lincoln, Okfusk
nole, Hughes,
Johnston. Population 209,671, democratic
*'o, *—vi cci\, iziiicwin, viuuokee,
tawatomie, Seminole, Hughes, Pontotoc,
Johnston. Pop
plurality 3,823.
Republican District
No. 5—Woods, Alfalfa, Grant, Kay,
Major, Garfield, Noble, Kingfisher. Lo-
gan, 'Payne. Population 218,9U~ *•<
llcan plurality 3,797.
No. 6—Canadian. Oklahoma, Grady
Cleveland, McClain, Garvin, Murray.
212,344; democratic plurality
6,
repub-
Populatl
,967.
No. 7—Blaine. Washiia, Caddo, Kiowa,
Comanche, Cotto
Tillman. Populating
plurality 5,262.
No. 8—
.Stephens, JefL.son,
206,026; democratic
No. s— Cimarron, Texas, Heaver, Har
per. Kills, Dewey, Custer, Roger Mills,
Beckham, Greer. Harmon, Jackson.
Woodward. Population 193 726;
4,907.
on,
33 726; demo-
cratic plurality 4,9
The passage of the bill was accom-1
panied with some oratory, in which
Representative Ashby treated the |
house to real humor as well as clever
repartee, and by one or two talks, ing, or betting on horse races, was re«
| especially from Hill of Pittsburg, ported out of committe unfavorably,
of men .."gaged in the employment of “ha^e'disTress“ed
railroads and manufacturing establish-
ments, ^c.
The Maxey-Wyand Carr resolution
giving the assent of the state to a I
dam across the Grand river out from |
Muskogee for water power purposes, a
long cherished dream of Muskogee
boosters, was passed by the house and
goes to the senate. The assent of the
state is a requirement of the national
wsr department who control all
streams capable of navigation.
A resolution by Whitman, Hunter
aad Chase, memoralizing congress to
provide some means for the condem-
nation of roads through fullblood landB
waB introduced.
The house committe on privileges
and elections reported on the Marshall
county contest, giving the seat to Rep-
resentative C. H. Tomes, incumbent,
against Ben F. Perdue, contestant, on
the grounds that there was no evi-
dence to sustain the contest.
The famous "chiropractic” bill,
which has been a great bone of con-
tention in all past legislatures, wTas
reported out of committe unfavorably,
but with a minority report which puts
it on the calendar and allows a fight
over it this session.
The Russell bill, to abolish the coun-
ty demonstration farms, was recom-
mended from committee favorably.
The Sharp bill to prohibit bookmak
ravage and ruin and we
In a peculiar
manner the virtuous citizens from
Philadelphia who had fled thither for
refuge.”
So it will be seen that Washington
w’as influenced in going to Valley
Forge, not only by a desire to har-
rass and hold in check the enemy,
but to Bave his fellow-citizens from
privation and suffering. Well may he
be called the good and great Wash-
ington. No man has had more diffi-
cult and more desperate situations to
face and no public character in the
hlBtory of our country has had, not
only to frame plans for military and
political crises, but to carry out those
plans himself.
structures within a radius of half a
mite.
The rebel loss in killed and wounded
was considerably smaller than that of
the government forces.
The cannon of the federals eventual-
ly were silenced by the rebels, but
well-to-do class whose homes had been
occupied by the men of both sides for
strategical renswis.
The Zapatistas did not enter the cap-
ital, despite their presence within a
few miles of the city.
The struggle of Diaz to overthrow
the extent of the damage to the rebel the power of President Madero result-
artillery is not known outside their ed in one of the moBt remarkable inci-
own lines. j dents in the history of the western
The streets in which the fighting J continent. Street fighting has oedur-
occurred present a dilapidated appear- ; red in Mexico in time past, but a bat-
ance. One of the buildings which Buff- tie in which the contending forces em-
ered most is that In which the Ameri- ployed heavy artillery at a range fre-
can consulate general was located and quently of less than half a mile in a
from which the consul and his staff densely populated city, was a new and
were forced to flee. startling spectacle.
Not even the imminence of battle
was sufficient to keep many of the
curiouB from exposing themselves, movement was the position of the
Others among the injured came from t Captital Young Men's Christian build
houses into which shells and bullets 1 ing, a seven-Btory structure.
Childers of Garfield and Lemon of I but with a minority report
Grant, which displayed strong feeling, places it on the calendar.
which
What undoubtedly contributed great-
ly to the rebel's ability to resist this
Wll.on Publishes a Boole I reason of its pre-inauguration exploita
New York—A scathing arraignment j tion of a future presidential Dolicv nn
-.ni„ n„alno..'* la other chlef execut|ve Qf ^
States since the Declaration of Inde-
pendence having duplicated the feat of
Mr. Wilson.
The president-elect not only attacks
the trusts and monopolies of the coun-
^ut makes it clear that he will do
of "Rig Business" is contained In
President-elect Wilson's pre-inaugura-
tion book, "The New Freedom,”
President-elect Wilson not only re-
iterates his attacks upon the trusts ol
the United 8tates, but sounds a new
warning to the great financial inter-
ests of the country. The work is con- all In his power to legitimately restore
Hidered one of the most remarkable trade competition and individual op
ever put In the field both by reason portunity and to disentangle commit-
of the bitterness of Its arraignment of oily centralization which, he savg hat
the present financial system and by j become dangerously co ordinated
The authors of the bill include
peaker Maxey, J. Ityy Williams, Hu-
bert L. Bolen, John P. Crawford, Tom
W. Hunter, J. E. Wyand, A. McCrory,
G. D. Harvison and W. . Bearing.
Will Disburse Funds
Dr. J. C. Mahr, state commissioner
of health, as soon as Governor Cruce
signs the Hunter-McAlister bill,
which appropriated $10,000 for sup-
pression of the smallpox epidemic in
southern Oklahoma, will arrange a
plan in connection with local health
superintendents for the disbursement
of the fundB. The epidemic is confined
principally to Choctaw, McCurtain and
Pushmataha counties but there are
also a number of cases in all of the
two southern tiers of counties of the
state.
The fifth big “abolition" bill has
passed the houfte. It is by H. H. Smith
and would abolish the state board of
affairs.
Building Wrecked In Bank Robbery.
Sapulpa—Sheriff King of this city,
was called to Kiefer to investigate the
robbery of the Kiefer State Bank.
This is the same institution that was
burglarized about a year ago and the
same band of cracksmen evidently
performed this job. only this time they
made the damage more complete.
When Sheriff King arrived on the
scene he found the big Bquare safe lit-
erally blown to pieces. Cashier Strat-
Can Not Serve
Again
The house passed finaiy the Barrett
bill from the senate requiring rail-
roads to maintain hospital service in
the state and the bill desired by the
newspaper men of the state, also by
Barrett, providing for taxing legal pub-
lications as a part of the costs in each
case.
A new bill by Griggs, which has
bearing on the Meyer case, provides
that when any officer shall resign with
oharges pending against him this act
shall operate to disqualify him from
again holding office. A proposed consti-
tutional amendment by Morris pro-
vides for the appointment ^>f the clerk
of the supreme court b? the .court
instead of by the people as now pro-
vided. Mr. Morris takps the position
that this office is merely clerical and
that the court Is besi qualified to say
who it shall have for its clerk.
Original Name Was Washen.
Mr. Joseph I. Keefer developed
tome curious information on the an-
cestery of Gen. George Washington.
In an address which he delivered before
William Cvfshing camp, Sons of Vet-
erans, at Washington, Mr. Keefer de-
clared that President Washington’s
forefathers were not named Washing-
ton at all. Their name was plain
Washen. In 1660 when John Washen,
President Washington’s great-grand-
father, sailed from the north of Eng-
land for the colonies and settled for
a new life at a place called Pops, near
Colonial Beach, he revised his piebian
name of Washen for the more aristo-
cratic Washington. Mr. Keefer gave
a sketch of the deep researches which
led him backward over the branches
of the Washen family tree for more
than 50 generations, until he located
the original Washen at Cave Castle,
England. He had many interesting
pictures of historical subjects, which
he displayed in connection with his
lecture.
West Resolution Expunged
A scathing urarignment of Altdr
ney General Charles West wus de-
livered from the floor of the house by
Representative Cufry of Tulsa in reply
to a motion from Lemon of Grant that
the resolution of the former relative
to the Btate’s attorney introduced sev.
eral days ago be expunged from the
record. Lemon declared that It con-
tained language unfit to become a mat-
ter of permanent record in the stute
ton stated that the amount taken The motion to strike from the Journal
vvouid rpach between $3,500 and $4,000. | carried 44 to 38.
Washington.
A nation is not merely an aggrega-
tion of Individuals, but a body of
laws and institutions, welded Into one
organic, living entity. Writing and
reading of history are beneflciul only
in so far as history establishes a
school of morals
The past is a vast field. The bad
man as well as the good man finds in
cthe future a limitless haven for hiB
imagination, and hopes for fame and
favor at the hands of generations to
succeed him. The historian, looking
back at years far fled, seeking to per-
ceive clearly through obscurity the
right relation of acts of individuals, of
parties or of nations, is sometimes
Inclined to doubt the soundness of his
own Judgment in a future that harks
back to a past so distant.
Far-Seeing Mind Perceived the Fu-
ture Needs of the Country He Had
Done so Much to Create—
Loved and Trusted as
He Deserved.
f :-
Once more, what is it to be an
American? Putting aside all the out-
er shows of dress and manners, so-
cial customs ami physical peculiari-
ties, Is it not to believe In America
and in the American people? Is it
not to have at. abiding and moving
faith in the future*and in the destiny
of America? Something above and
beyond tho patriotism and love which
every man whose soul is not dead
within him feels for the land of hiB
birth, is it not to be national and not
sectional; independent and not colo-
nial? Is It not to have a higher con-
ception of what this great new coun-
try should be, and to follow out that
ideal with loyalty and truth? Has
any man in our history fulfilled these
conditions more perfectly and com-
pletely than George Washington? Has
any man ever lived who served th4
American people more faithfully, oz
with a higher and truer conception ot
the destiny and possibilities of the
country?
He was the first to rise above all
colonial or state lines and grasp
firmly the conception of a nation to
he formed from the thirteen jarring
colonies. The necessity of national
action In the army was at once ap-
parent. to him, although not to oth-
ers; but ho carried the same broad
views into widely distant fields, where
at the time they wholly escaped no-
tice. It was Washington, oppressed
by a thousand cares, who, in the
early days of the Revolution, saw the
need of federal courts for admiralty
cases, and for other purposes. It was
he who suggested this scheme, years
before anyone even dreamed of the
Constitution: and from the special
committees of congress, formed for
this object in accordance with this
advice, came, in the process of time,
the federal judiciary of the United
States. Even in the early dawn of
the Revolution, Washington had clear
in his own mind the need of a conti-
nental system for war, diplomacy,
finance and law, and he worked stead-
ily to bring this policy to fulfillment.
There must have' been something
very impressive about a man, who,
with no pretensions to the art of the
orator and with no touch of the char-
latan, could so move and affect vast
bodies of men by his presence alone.
But the people, with tho keen eye of
affection, looked beyond the mere
outward nobility of form. They saw
the soldier who had given them vic-
tory. tho great statesman who had led
them out of confusion and faction to
order and good government. Party
newspapers might rave, but the in-
stinct of the people was never at
fault. They loved, trusted and well-
nigh worshiped Washington living,
and they have honored and reverenc-
ed him with an unchanging fidelity
since his death.—Henry Cabot Lodge,
“The Real George Washington.”
MARTHA WASHINGTON.
From ari Old Portrait of the Wife ot
the Great Prealdent.
Snub Precedes Triumph.
After one of Gen. Washington’s dis-
astrous campaigns the ladles of Phil-
adelphia declined to notice hiB wife,
and administered the snub direct,
which was in Interesting contrast to
their reception of her when next she
entered Philadelphia as the wife of
the president
Washington's Records Public.
. Few men have left so complete a
record of their public lives as Wash-
ington. He began early to keep copies
of all his Important letters and after
the outbreak of the revolution he was
undoubtedly conscious that the cir-
cumstances of his career were such
as to make a record of them, one
which would be of Interest to others
than thoBe of his own generation. This
fact in itself must have acted as a
restraint to the free expression of feel-
ings in which lesser men may indulge
themselves.
Worthy Wife of Hero.
Mrs. Washington, on one occasion,
gave a striking illustration of her suc-
cess in domestic manufacture by ap-
pearing in a dress of cotton striped
with silk and entirely home made, the
silk stripes in the fabric being woven
from the ravelllngs of brown silk
stockings and old crimson chair cov-
ers.
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