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THE CHANDLER NEWS-PUBLICIST
LINCOLN COUNTY’S LARGEST, BEST AND MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER—BEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM—GUARANTEED LARGEST CIRCULATION
VOL. XXIV.
CHANDLER, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY. (K’TOBKR “ 1014.
NO. 3
FIELDS AND HIS POLICY.
Kansas City Journal Comment* on
Republican Candid idate for Gov-
ernor.
The Kansas City Journal had the
following to say editorially of John
Fields, republican nominee for gov-
ernor of Oklahoma, in its issue of
Friday:
"A bona tide and successful farmer,
addressing a gathering of tillers of
the soil as a candidate for an Impor-
tant office, naturally drops into agri-
cultural metaphors—especially if his
name happens to be Fields. But
John Fields, republican candidate for
governor of Oklahoma, is peculiarly
forceful and felicitous in the an-
nouncements of the policies he will
pursue if elected chief executive of
the state in November.
“Mr. Fields, who is from every
standpoint one of the strongest can-
didates the republicans have ever
nominated for governor of the new-
state—and this can be said without
the slightest disparagement of the
able men who have been given this
honor in the past—likens a state and
its affairs to a big fertile farm which
has been allowed to go more or less
to waste. Applying the figure with
special effectiveness to a state which
for the last seven years has been
given over to the machinations, ma-
nipuatious apd exploitation of a gang
of political spoilsmen, he declared
that one of his first acts will be to
rid the farm of all the pests which
have infested it and which are re-
sponsible for its run-down condition.
In Mr. Fields’ vigorous words:
“ ‘The corn cribs and wheat bins
will be made rat proof. The gophers
down in the alfalfa will be extermi-
nated. The orchard will be sprayed
to kill the insects. The boll weevil
will be kept out of the cotton, the
chinch bugs out of the corn, and the
green bugs out of the wheat. All
these kinds of pests have been at
work in state affairs for the last
seven years.'
“A farm purged of the insidious
sappers of its vitality is in a fair way
of overcoming most of the obstacles
to its development First, however,
Mr. Fields says that he will put all
the machinery into good shape; he
will not -leave any of it out in the
weather to rust and rot. There will
be plenty of work to do about the
place, -but there will not be so many
hands’ that, they will be tripping
over each other while the work is
being done. All the ground will .be
utilized and tilled with intelligence
and zeal—a very important consider-
ation in the case of a farin’ whose
possibilities have hardly been
scratched during seven continuous
years of slip-shod farming. All the
broken fences will be repaired and
everything will be conducted just as
any sensible, ambitious and up-to-
date man would conduct the affairs of
his farm.
“Finally, Mr. Fields says, he w’i-11
run a hog-proof fence around the
whole place—a statement which is
especially significant to Oklahomans,
but which may be pushed in applica-
tion too vigorously for the ultimate
benefit of the commonwealth. The
fence ought not to -be so ‘tight’ that
it will keep in that which ought to
go out, or keep out that which aught
to get in. But as a general proposi-
tion Mr. Fields’ platform is so sound
and patriotic that the people of Okla-
homa will reflect little credit on their
intelligence if they roll up the stereo-
typed Democratic majority this fall.
If the city Oklahomans haven’t sense
enough to elect that kind of a ‘far-
mer* as governor, and if the farmers
have not sense enough to elect him,
they deserve to have a continuation
of the same brand of government
which has kept moss on the back of
the state ever since it was admitted
to the union. Oklahoma has pro-
gressed in spite of the moss, but it
will advance much faster when the
last vestige of moss has been re-
moved by the election of a man like
John Fields to be Its governor.
COMPLIMENT FOR REPUBLICAN
OFFICIAL.
County Treasurer J. J. Gay man re-
ceived the following very complimen-
tary letter, Monday, from Jacob
Mercer, the deputy state examiner
and inspector w ho recently completed
the task of checking up Mr. Gay-
man's office.
This letter Is one of a nature that
Mrs A. 1). Wears, of (’handler, ss
perintendent of home and visitation,
Oklahoma State S. 8. association, who
will address the Lincoln county S S.
convention at Chandler, October 19.
C. H. Nichols, Oklahoma City, gen-
eral secretary Oklahoma State Sunday
Schoo-l association, who will be one
of the speakers at the Lincoln county
Sunday school convention at Chand-
ler, October IS and 19.
any democratic state official would
give almost anything to be able to
possess. It is just one of the many
that republican county officials re-
ceive, annually, from democratic ex-
aminers. It just goes to prove that
it is the fixed policy of republicans
to elect to places of public trust only
those who are capable and qualified.
The letter follows:
Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 23, 1914.
Hon. Board of County Commissioners,
Chandler, Oklahoma.
Gentlemen:
1 have just completed an examina-
tion of the books and accounts of
John J. Cayman, county treasurer,
from August 6, 1913, up and Includ-
ing September 3, 1914, and have the
honor to make the following report:
Balance on hands last re-
port ---------------$ 120,969.11
Collected during said pe-
riod --------- 611,221.82
TOT \ L ' , • :•/.
Disbursed during said pe-
riod _______________ 549,702.17
B \LANCE_________$182,488.76
1 find the above balance ou deposit
in the banks of Lincoln county and
invested in county warrants as the i
law directs
Mr. Gayman has performed his j
duty well as county treasurer and Is
worthy of commendation of the pub- i
11c.
Respectfully submitted,
JACOB A. MERCER,
Deputy State Examiner and Inspector.
FIRST NUMBER OF LYCEUM
COURSE A GREAT SUCCESS.
For the benefit of the students of
our schools and those who enjoy
things worth while the business men
of Chandler have arranged for a
Lyceum Course of five numbers from
the Midland Lyceum Bureau of Des
Moines, Iowa, to be presented during
the coming winter. The first num-
ber was given Friday evening in the
opera house by Arthur Rachel, a
graduate of the Lelaud Powers school
of Boston, and a member of its fac-
ulty for two years. Mr. Rachel en-
tertained for one hour and a half one
of the most attentive audiences ever
seen in Chandler, bringing to them
most forcibly the humor and pathos
of “Thu Music Master,’’ made famous
by the wonderful character Herr Von
Barwig, created by David Warfield.
Most favorable comments have been
made on Mr. Rachel and his Imper-
sonations.
The opera house was comfortably
filled and a great part of the au-
dience was made up of children.
Something like seventy children’s
tickets were sold and several went
In on adult tickets. Most of the
business men either sold their tickets
or gave them to friends, neighbors,
or customers.
The next number of the course will
be on October 26, when the Sara
Ruth Bates Company will appear.
This is without question one of the
beat attractions on the Lyceum circuit
today. The opera house will be pack-
ed on the above night and those who
have not received tickets yet should
do so early so as to be sure of a
good seat.
Open Letter to Chandler People
Chandler, Okla., September 30, 1914.
Dear Sir:—
1 feel sure that nearly everybody in and around Chandler felt a regret
when our militia company was ordered disbanded by the War Department
two months ago. We all realize that a good militia company is a good
thing for a community in many ways, and it is especially valuable to a
town situated as Chandler is. This is the military headquarters and
rendezvous of the state. Thousands of dollars have been expended here
by the national and state governments in improvements and other thou-
sands are disbursed here annually. The militia of the state is increasing
in numbers, and the improvements and expenditures will in the future be
more important than in the past. If we cannot maintain a local military
organization, we cannot hope to retain even what we now have, much less
enjoy what the future has in store for us. I think that it is the realization
of these facts that has caused the question to be asked hundreds of times
during the past sixty days, “Do you think we can get Company B re-
organized at Chandler?”
I am in a position now to say positively that we can get the company
reorganized, at once, IF THE PEOPLE OF CHANDLER WANT A COM-
PANY HERE. I have been given authority to reorganize the company,
but I cannot do it alone. Moreover, I do not wish to undertake such a
responsibility unless the leading citizens of Chandler want a company.
What I mean by “wanting” a company is this: That they will talk and
work for it and encourage young men to enlist and serve faithfully as
citizen soldiers. If we don’t get a company here, the blame will rest upon
those whose indifference and “knocking” prevents our securing the re-
quired number of men.
The Adjutant General requires that we have SEVENTY men to start
with. This is a reasonable request, but it is one we cannot comply with
unless we have a general co-opei'ation of the people of Chandler. 1 am
sending you this letter to make it clear to you, as a loyal Chandlerite, that
there is a responsibility on you just as well as on me in this matter. There
are more than a score of towns that want the chance to organize com-
panies. We are being given the preference because we have always main-
tained a good company and have lost it through no fault of our own. BUT
THIS WILL BE OUR LAST CHANCE. It will be settled within the next
two or three weeks whether we get the company. It will likewise be
settled as to the matters that depend on our maintaining a company.
I want your help. What we need now' is enlistments, and you can
help us get them. What we do NOW will count. If we fail to do our
part NOW, no amount of lamenting later on will cure the damage. Let’s
boost for Company B.
Sincereiv,
H. B. GILSTRAP.
P. S.—I have asked the assistance of all the former members of Co.
B in this work of recruiting a new company. L. B. Nichols, secretary of
the Pull Together Club, and Hiram Frisbie, former first sergeant of Co. B.
are serving with me on a reorganization committee.
H. B. G.
Mrs. c H. Nichols, superintendent
elementary division, Oklahoma State
Sunday School association, who will
conduct elementary conference at
Lincoln County Sunday School con-
vention at Chandler, October 19.
GREAT FARMING CAMPAIGN
ENDS.
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“Grow Your Farm Product* and
Keep Money at Home”—In the
Holden MeNKiige.
The alfalfa and live stock cam-
paign in eastern Oklahoma ended
Tuesday This campaign, which has
been carried on by the Eastern Ok-
lahoma Agricultural association with
the co-operation of P. C». Holden, di-
rector of the I HU Agricultural Ex-
tension department and his associates
has been the most extensive work of
its kind that ha.s ever been done in
the south or southwest. More than a
dozen counties have been covered and
hundreds of meetings have been held
on the farms and in rural communi-
ties.
The key note of the campaign has
been "Do not send away your money
for farm products but raise them at
home. Have some alfalfa and di-
versify the crops. Raise live stock
and poultry and keep up the fight
on the cattle tick.’’
Most of the meetings have been
largely attended and there has been
a great deal of enthusiasm amongst
the farmers, merchants and bankers.
At dozens of places the farmers have
j told the campaigners that they are
* greatly going to increase the acreage
of alfalfa; go into diversification
strong, and raise more and better
poultry and live stock.
Professor Holden and his men in
the last week have shown the people
In a striking way what great sums
of money they are sending into the
central west all the time for butter
and eggs, poultry and meats, and
canned goods—all farm products that
they could raise Just as well as the
for a month, while the cake
other delacacles 1 have destroyed
would make the mountain as high
as the price of gasoline. No wonder
thtare is a famine somewhere all the
time. What keeps me guessing is
how the rest of the world lives at
all. Why, it’s getting so you have
to carry something to eat around
with you on the street If you want
to halt u man long enough to tell
him his house is on fire “Refresh- j 8Pctlon fr0m-which they come. They
ments. is coming to be the perman- ffhowed that very little of this money
ent password into all society and or- evep coraeB back. He said that all
Ra^at‘0n?.°f^rry.kind , r I of this money could he kept at home
\\ hile all of the above is, of course for j0(.tti enterprises if the people
j only burlesque, it Is true that we. Would resolve to raise their own
|Hpend too much foolishly. VV e are meats and vegetables and poultry,
unconsciously permitting our own ( They urged the fathers and mothers
NUHOOL PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, Governor Lee ■Truce has
proclaimed Friday, October 9th, as
fire prevention day for the state of
Oklahoma, and.
Whereas, Life and property are en-
dangered by permitting the tire haz-
ards to exist and it is for the removal
of the same that this day has been
set aside.
Therefore, 1 proclaim Friday, Oc-
tober 9th, 1904, as clean-up and in-
spection day for the-schools of Okla-
homa. and I ask that all trash and
rubbish he removed from all school
premise* and that a careful Inspec-
tion he made by the teachers and the
boards of education of the premises,
including apparatus, coal bins and
wood yards, flues and chimneys, and
that all defects found to exist be
remedied at once, and at the satnc
time a thorough in«|H‘ctlon be made
of the well and closets In connection
with the school, to the end that they
may be put In a healthy and sanitary
condition
Done this 28th day of September,
1114
t Signed) R H. WILSON.
State Superintendent of Public In-
' Btruution.
WHY DEFINITENESS PAYS IN
ADVERTISING.
Here and there on finds a mer-
chant who says he has tfled adver-
tising but never made it pay The
chances are ten to one that he sim-
ply needs to study definiteness.
The principle of the specific fact,
and the specific instance, affect all
writing and speaking. They make
one man’s advertising a partial fail-
ure, while another’s is a money get-
ter
If one man visits a strange city,
he comes back talking something
like this: “It was fine, grand, splen-
did.'* His talk evaporates into vague,
general phrases. The people that
hear him talk know no more about
that city than before. He has few
listeners, whatever his subject of
conversation may be,
Another man remarks about the
same town, that it is full of buildings
twenty stories high, that the streets
were so crowded he had to wait ten
minutes at one cross walk to get
over, and that people were always
in a hurry ami the street railway
conductors always said ‘Step lively.”
After such a man has talked a few
moments, you get some Idea about
the place he describes You see it
with your own eyes.
Every man who ever made a suc-
cess as a newspaper writer has
learned that you must give personal
incidents and actual happenings to
make any kind of news article in-
ten-sting If the reader can’t see the
thing with his own eyes, the copy
won't sell.
Just the same in advertising. If
you merely say “Best stock in town”
the reader may or may not believe
you. Try picking out the best values
in your store, give a few details about
them so the purchaser can get some
idea what they are, then name the
price The- reader then sees the bar
gain with his own eyes, is interested,
and feels a desire to buy.
That is all there is to good adver-
tising. It does not require wit, nor
literary nor technical skill. Just
“come down to brass tacks.” Give
the plain facts at>out an article us
you would talk to a buyer over the
counter. Try It and see'
TREMENDOUS OIM*ORTUMT\
NOW FOR THE UNITED STATES
In the current issue of Farm and
Fireside appears an interesting in-
terview with Edwin F Sweet, assist-
ant secretary of commerce at W.i h-
ington, in which Mr. Sweet points
out specifically the opportunities that
now abound for American business
as a result of the present war. In
the following extract from the inter-
view with him, appear his reasons
for believing that one opportunity
lies along the line of increased man-
ufacture of cloths in this country to j
take the place of imj>orted goods:
“When the tariff was taken off
wool most people believed it would
be a serious blow to the production
of sheep and wool in this country.
“But the expected failed utterly
to happen. Wool began rising In-
stead of falling in price as soon as
the tariff act passed. The real ex-
planation was that the whole world
was short of wool; it was a universal
condition, and in the face of a world-
wide shortage of such a staple, tariffs
and bounties and the like are swept
into insignificance.
“Wool has been going up and up,
and the sheep and wool industry is
coming back as fast as it can. It will
keep on coming.
“And wool is another Illustration
of the great opportunity now open
to Americans of capturing their own
home markets from the foreigners.
Did you ever stop to think how al-
most ridiculous It is for an American
to go into a shop, buying a suit, and
to have the tqllor drag out, right at
the beginning, ‘something particular-
ly good and just the fashionable in
imported wear?' That's the Invaria-
ble experience; the imported woolens
are always pushed at us. Why
shouldn’t we be making as good
woolens as anybody else?
“Can’t we make them? Of course
we can, and now that we are In the
way of having to do It we will, see
if we don’t.”
DE \TH <M J. C. HOSIER.
Died Monday morning, September
28, 1914, at the home in ('handler.
J. (’. Mosier, aged 61 years, 1 mouth,
26 days. Funeral services, conducted
by Elder Cansler, were held at the
f a
ter Monday afternoon. Interment
was made at Oak Park cemetery.
.1 c Mosier came to Oklahoma
nearly twenty years ago and since
then resided in or near Chandler A
wife and two children, Roy, a son,
and Mrs T S Harris, a daughter,
are bereft of i loving uml considerate
husband and father. To these sor-
rowing on*** the heartfelt sympathy
of all is extended.
( HANDLER FLAYS SHAWNEE
FRIDAY.
Shawnee, Olola., Oct. 1.—Friday
afternoon the foot ball season opens
In Shawnee when the Chandler high
school foot hall squad meets the
Shawnee pig skin warriors on Glen
field.
Captain Higgins men are ready
for the boys from Chandler and a
good game is expected. The locals
while having only three last year’s
left, have a lot of good material, and
have already some recruits who are
as good as many of last year’s team.
King Faust, a new man at tackle,
is a wonder and is considered by
many to be one of the best ever had
Ion the high school teams. Meeks on
' end is another new good one. Others
who are new ar« Reed, Lane, Mc-
Glothin, Page. Wilson, Hicks broth-
ers and many others who deserve
mention. The High School Athletic
association wants all merchants and
others who can, to attend this game.
READKRS BEGINNING TO WON-
• HR IUST WHO OFR “OH-
SER\ I R" IS.
By ‘•Observer.
People are beginning to wonder
who I am. Some think I do not ex-
ist at all, and still others think I
am several people.
Just a day or two ago I was In a
local grocery and heard two women
talking about “Observer." One of
them was real sore over my article
on whipping children. She was posi- acquired considerable experience
tlve she knew w ho‘“Observer" was - *,,v
pleasure to breed socialism. The man
who Is broke and without a job can
never be made to believe times are
hard l’or everybody when there is
a wanton waste ull about him.
And yet, where is the woman
brave enough to attempt entertain-
ing without the •eats?” How far
would she get?
ED, G. KEEGAN
Ropuhlicun Candidate for Legislature
Lincoln county needs the assist-
ance of better state laws:
FIRST- A complete revision of
our tax laws, founded on the basis
of an equitable assessment of real
j and personal property. Our people
who are laboring under the burden
of special taxes, such as drainage,
paving and sewer taxes, need pro-
tection for their property. Under
the present system property can be
assessed for its full value and in
I many cases more than its value;
thus practically confiscating a man’s
property and the labor of his life
(time without proper compensation
I and without sufficient benefits.
I SECOND—An effective and operat-
ive road law; cut out the red tape,
and give us a law whereby roads can
be constructed from local material
and local labor.
THIRD—A revision of our school
laws; that every child shall have
the opportunity of an education, and
the benefit of graded township
schools.
FOURTH Reduce the number of
public officers; the same or better
service can be given in both state
and city government with practic-
ally one-half of the present number
of officers.
FIFTH Reduce the number of
employees in public offices; cut out
the practice of paying private pets
out of public funds.
SIXTH— Enact effective and rigid
laws for the inspection and conduct
of all state departments.
SEVENTH—An effective ware-
house law’, under state control, for
the care of surplus crops
EIGHTH-—-The exemption of baled
cotton from taxation
These, together with other laws
for the welfare of the people, it is my
purpose and duty ro work for. Also
I favor that a rigid examination and
an accounting in full be demanded
of the present state administration
of all state departments I^et the
daylight, in and rub off the white-
wash that conceals from the people
of Oklahoma the present state of af-
fairs and the many acts of gross
misgovern men t
I have been a resident of Okla-
homa for fifteen years. I own my
home In (’handler and some farm
land. i am well acquaints! with
conditions In Lincoln county; have
ot see that all of their children had
chickens or pigs or calves as this
alone would add thousands of dol-
lars annually *to the wealth of every
county.
Dr. J. P. Bushong, of the IT. S. De-
partment of Agriculture, In the last
week carries on the fight against the
cattle tick at dozens of meetings.
He pointed out that Oklahoma is
losing several millions of dollars ey-
ery year because of the ticks—in de-
creased market prices, in the loss in
weight and in the lessened milk sup-
ply. He said that Oklahoma could
be made a tick free state by the be-
ginning of 1916 if the majority of
the farmers and business men gave
active and moral support to the
work.
and that I was Mr. Soandso, for
he has ;i kid of his owyi that ought
to be licked every day and never
gets one 1 have been flattered by
being called woman, minister, teach-
er and office devil—have even dis-
cussed my articles with local people
ami times had to cough pret-
ty hard to hide rny identity.
It was while in the grocery men-
tioned above that I got my idea for
this article what seems to me to
be a foolish waste of money In spread-
ing a luncheon that may range any-
where from a sandwich to a banquet
every time we have a neighbor step
in To use a little slang, I, myself,
have hatched iny mouth to the grub
stake in so many different spots that
w henever my stomach begins to year
for food It wants to turn In at the,
first house 1 chance to pass I have
coiled my anatomy around enough
HOYT FOR (COMMISSIONER.
E W. Hoyt was born and raised
on a farm in northern Ohio, came to
Lincoln county a little over twenty
years ago, and homeateaded a claim
one-half mile west of Chandler, and
has been a resident of Lincoln coun-
ty ever since. Held the position of
deputy county treasurer for two and
one-half years when D. W. Ulam was
county treasurer of this county,
served two terras as city treasurer of
the city of (’handler, and Is now
serving his fourth year as a member
of the board of education of the city
of Chandler.
Been in the abstract business in
(’handler since 1896, w’ith the excep-
tion of one year.
Is a man that has always attended
strictly to hla business and looks upon
every proposition from a business
standpoint.
The man that is not controlled by
any corporation, bank or grafter, and
if elected will show no partiality;
but the tax payers will be treated
fairly in all parts of the district, and
that economy will be practiced In
management of county government,
so far as lies within his power. adv
HOW TO GET RID OF THE
CUTWORM.
Farm and Fireside says: “Thou-
sands of gardeners and tobacco grow-
ers stand helpless in the presence of
the cutworm, when a little effort
would solve the difficulty Poisoned
bait will do the trick. Green clover
cut up and sprayed with arsenate of
lead will get them if scattered over
the ground. So will a mixture of
Paris green and bran made into a
mash and left In small balls where
the worms will find It. Fall plowing
1h a good preventive.”
tax payer.
I ask the voters of the Second Leg-
islative District for their support.
1 offer my best abilities, honest effort 1
and a square deal As for jny stand- j
ing us a man, and my qualifications j
for official life, 1 leave that to the
opinion of the people of Chandler
who have known my daily life and
conduct for many years. Ask about
me. It is your right to know the
man you vote for, and to determine
as near as possible whether I ant an
honest man. a qualified man, and
earnest and willing worker.
1 will appreciate your vote on elec-
ion day.
Yours for bett# r government.
ED is M G \ N
■
sandwiches to feed the Russian army kitchen
The boys will always briug a pail
of water for the ball team, but don’t
humiliate the youngsters by :isking
them to lug one for Mother In the
J. S. Peter, of Pawnee, president
of Pawnee County 8 S. association,
who will address the Lincoln county
S S. convention at Chandler on Oc-
tober 18.
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