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I
iNOLER TRIBUNE
-•.Published
Kserr VtitW.’, In. Chandler, Oklahoma
Entere<l ,as second close matter, F*it runry, JOtlN, at tlie post
Chandler, Oklahoma. Under tlie Act of Congress of Mnrctl 3.
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office,
1«7I».
S IT line RIITIOX.f 1.00 PER TEAR.
G. A. SMITH ____
<UNIONh
gmABEL>
STATE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
Word bar gone forth that at a
nesting 'belo in Oklahoma City last
Saturday tho directors of the Anti-
Saloon leagu< endorsed W. H. Mur-
ray, Joe Meitloal and Tom Fergtison
for goyerwr:'The action came some-
what a sn-surprise as the same can-
not In any way aid the cause of pro-
hibition.
On the republican Bide It Is well
known that John Fields is as much
of a prohibitionist as either MoNoal
or Ferguson. .On tho democratic
side the only candidate that is not a
prohibitionist 1st Leslie P. Ross and
since the withdrawal of Judge Rob-
ertson no one hen suggested that he
stood any chance of winning the
nomination.
The directors .of the Anti-Saloon
league know as W|*U as any one else
that this race
the negroes.all vote as they are told.
A beautiful situation, Indeed, where
one ward-bedler can tali' ;S50 and by
herding ..fifty negroes—none of
whom can read—can ..nullify the
votes of fifty .university graduates.
No one will he disfranchised by
I he grandfather clause,but illiterate
negroe sand the descendants 0f ne-
gro slaves. The man who says it
wRi disfranchise you Is,,tolling you
that your veins run negroid blood.
If you are disfranchised, you are
a nugro. If you are not a negro,
you will not be disfranchised.
Only a little over a week before the
primary .election. The past four
months .have been strenuous ones to
the candidates seeking the nomina-
tion of governor. The past tour
moaths have been sp«pt by Hon.:JUee
Crime In upholding the hands of the
democratic administration; in toll
NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME
Many years ago a newspaper reporter named
1 Charles Dh kens wrote ® .story in which a char-
:.acter named Micawber jis exemplified as the
j procrastinating human. 'Micawber never
.amounted te much and Ineilived up to his idea of
i life “waiting for something itotturn up.’’
SSome mert bants today axe msing this Micaw-
ber motto irrfthe conduct icfi their business, they
uarewwaiting for business totEonmto them, “wait-
liQgffor sometfcing to turn tqp.”
tQjMndJer ha* had some naertihants of this sort,
^omenf themqhave gone, some ,of them still
KStruggie along %ith a modicum ,of patronage.
(Others have go«e out with tfhe .publicity drag-
roet artd pulled tfee buying public,into the store
aiad haw prospered.
| liven • furlough for two months.
I There will be no more "Among 'the
Farmers” by F. A. Mitchell for two
i months* It will be “Among the
j Politicians” by the candidates.
-o-
THE NEGRO IDEA
The following news item taken
from the Okemah Leader may inter-
est some of our readers in those sec-
tions of the state where no negroes
reside. It will show the people of
those favored localities what negro
domination means. It also shows
the mischievous disposition of the
negro to control wherever he has the
power. It fitly illustrates the con-
ditions obtaining in a greater or less
degree in twenty counties of Okla-
homa.
‘At the special election held in
the new school district in the west
part of Okfuskee south of Paden,
the negroes of. that district made a
determined effort- to capture the
HON. J. C. GRAHAM
Democracy’s Ideal Candidate for
Attorney General
school board and dominate over the ^ <**938/ In 1871 a republican .on-
white school of that district. This jS ^ ul TT*' °f Presidel't
is the new school district that was 'G t* aboIisbed the local govern-
l“*1 "** ™ent in the District of Columbia •"
recently cut off of a district and the
negroes were given the old district.
order to get rid of negro domination.
1 he reason for this action was forci-
IPublicity and peonage go kuud inlhand, pro-
Sgrerssiveiftierchanteaadvertise.
Is b.etween Cruce and ------------- —.........-.....“**•
Murray. They know that Ross has !lng <>r t,le B°od thlngB that the demo-
no earthly chance of being noml- 1 ,Tallc l'arty lias accomplished In ,Ok-
nated. They know that Cruce ig Itiliomai;: In pointinK 0,it the ec-°nomy
personally a clean ..man—that he h**
never In all his life drank any liquor.
The
They were not satisfied with the di- it. reas0‘
turned down. It was not the con-i palty’ and an intlmate per-
troi of their own schools that they T”? t Political friend of Presi-
wanted. but they wanted to capture 1 Llm'oIn' when he said. "A very
few years made it an imperative ne-
cessity for congress to disfranchise
the control of the white school.
“When the white voters of the
That he voted far ,,prohibition and
that he now stands for the enforce-
ment of the prohibitory law.
No one has ever dtmw'J that Mur-
ray Is theoretically for prohibition
and no one who is well acquainted
that hat been practiced. In calling at
tentlon to the reforms that have been
| inaugurated ; in .mentionip*- the ad-
vancements;! which have been accom-
plished. KIs campaign has been a
campaign efl .education. It been
an optomisifr- campaign. Ho pre-
dicts gleriout (things Tor the ,future
AnMSaloon promise. *5111 [they grtrnt .and grow. Onehun-
quart home.. .scaled ,*»ml j j? ou^challel^tla *** ST”*! The aegrt“* were
bond, but a *eod .^r cent of th. I We a" mortgages, j determined to hold the election but
WiT °r **— for our lgrek0J {voters* had IHuthoX t^o, TZ
sr csj*. s. ~
negroes there. The negroes were raiU a"d 1,rofllgatt‘ ni|e of the
m .i. . , .. &ro„
The same republican authority
that had enfranchised the negro un-
wn and c an teW a Q-, t. P. proptisi-
?ra«lfat;h**r cla
vote for th*- map ,.<itd not tie
tio.n from a gr uedfather da,,' ' , r'’"ts yleId frcn) SW* t0 10° bushels un (election, withdrew to another side'of < ora|,elled to declare that his
evil vote _ . : *?fl (?:Te and “ l(m «• "lore ol vines for the house and proceeded to organize |disfranchisement had become an Im-
and elect school officers. Their
chairman was a man who was not a
---- wen acquainted * —
with him will deny that lie is prac- 'and poln,s l‘* ll,e IHVR as an evl-
tically a violator of the theory. Diil|den<'e* Mr- CV'twct- is conservative,
himself does not deny Mutt ho has ‘"r* <’r,1,'e la an cvptomlat. goptrfcst
spoiled great quantities of tlie bug I wltb thls <*antpaleu the one that has
juice. Several of these rererned |bl'en waapd by the Hon. RV1 Murray,
gentlemen have had practical demon- IVery fc'v Kood lto#gs done by the
■*““— -* ----- - • democratic party have been pointed
out by him and by tbt* courae he has
attracted to his standard the entire
strations of Rill’s proficiency in dis-
pensing profanity. They know (that
he Is intemperate In language and
violent In temper, hut they are *o
mad for power and so anxious ;t»
control the purities of this state tht^t
they line up ftp- Murray when pro-
hibition Is in no danger and alien-
ate the Influence thousand of
good democrats who eon tribe t-
ed time and money t#f tfje good pf
Ihe Anti-Saloon league.
The Chandler Tribune )i*f ever
Stood for law enforcement. We bare
frssljr given to the Anti-Saloon league
Of this county hundreds of dollars of
space; .we have contributed to the
State Anti-Saloon league our little
mite and have ever used our Influ-
ence In the suppression of the liquor
traffic. We do hot Intend to change
our politics. We are against saloons,
republican press of the state and his
praises are sung by the republican
politicians. By inference he leaves
tlie impression that the democratic
administration has been a failure,
(tonal contention and the first Iegis-
The only things that he praises are
thou* done by himself in the constltu-
lsture. He furnishes arguments for
.‘be refcrMlean politicians. He lends
encomragejaipt to the enemies of de-
mocracy. His speeches have a pesti-
mlstlc wall. JMIf ,1s a pesimlst. Bill
is a radical. *^he iaajies are clearly
drawn. Which shall taP governor,
the conservative pptomist or the Pes*
simstic radical?
A hr Person who rhlnkt- ,<’.he negro
is not now getting lijs personal lib-
erty <*n become tboroufc'l ly con-
vinced p.* one application by taking
a stroll down the east side of Man-
vel avenge between Eleventh and
Twelfth sheets any evening, If you
ton't become thoroughly convinced
you are certainly beyond redemption.
ife*v.
JVe are raising some Jejiosalem
ariy hokes for hog.. They yield
ixyprly and the h.o®< do the bayvest-
i»K Our cowpeas have been culti-
vated Jour times now .and are gy-pw-
citizen of the district.
It was such scenes and deeds that
created a demand for the disfran-
chisement of the negro.
........ "CAuuie all Jill-
iterative necessity to protect propertv
and maintain social order.”
Riembmber z vote against .tjw
grandfather amendment is a yp.te
for further encroachment upon the
whites by the negro restaurants and
dives in fhe south end -of town. A
vote for tW* amendment is a vote to
put them on? of business in Chand-
ler altogether.
Ninety per cent of the country
newspapers who are taking an active
The grand- Pan be'"’eCn tlle ‘‘“"dida.es for gov-
„ ernor 011 tbe demoertic ticket are
supporting Lee Cruce. There are
two reasons for this. They believe
that Lee Cruce is the best and the
-i ... . S strongest man for governor and they
resent Che charges of Bill Murray
ii M worm jW-1U meir determination to rule a su- 1 tImt t!le l11ess is subsidized. Mttr-
as bran. %ve will jperior race they have driven the Cau- rav s<'ar<*eiy ever misses an opportu-
r horsAc o„,i 'ennan i. ... nity to unjustly censure the demo- -
— --.....— -------a-------------- A prominent’cltlzen of El Reno In
against the boot-legger, against the discussing the grandfather clause
law breaker, but we want it distinct- said that if the negroes should come
ly understood that we will never give
-a line of space or a penny of money Jorltv and should elect a negro school
to the gang of political fixers who are
now controlling the destinies of the
State Anti-Saloon league.
They are not In our opinion friends
,0f prohibition—they are cheap poli-
ticians and demagogues and so far
as the Trbiune is concerned we are
"through with them.
This does not apply to our home
people who are in favor of law en-
forcement. We do not discredit the
efforts of anyone who feels that Mur-
ray is the best man and that they
should vote for him. We do not
quarrbl with our friends who think
that he will enforce the law better
than Cruoe. but we will never stand
for a gang of politicians, mostly re-
publicans, who get together and try
to mislead the people of this state.
Who debauch the organization they
are supposed to represent, who leave
the purposes for which it was form-
ed and who engage in the corrupting
practice of erecting on its ruins a
political machine for their personal
interests.
Those who oppose the grandfather
amendment and advocate negro im-
migration into Oklahoma should read
of what transpired at Washington
when the negroes heard the result
of the Reno fight. When the wire
bore in the news of Johnson's vic-
tory, thousands of Jubtlans negroes
ruahed Into the streets which were
blocked for hours. Traffic was sus-
pended, street cars were stopped by
the mob. and white people were driv-
en from the sidewalks. Finally ne-
groes began to Invade the white resi-
dence section, and many white ladles
were dragged from their homes and
Into the streets by the negro rabble.
At last the police came In force and
dispersed the rioters, but not without
great difficulty.
“The negro Is not so much trouble
as you have heard,” said a republi-
can politician of the east side a few
weeks since. “On election day we
give the right man a little money,
send him Into a negro precinct and
i-..
One more week In which to regis-
ter. Democrats, remember if.lyou
don’t register in the city of Chand-
ler you don’t vote at the primary.
This does not apply to other towns
in Lincoln county or country pre-
cincts.
into his town until they had a ma-
board and negro city officials, he
would not try to disfranchise the ne-
groes—he would' move away.
Such is the remedy offered by the
opponents of the grandfather amend-
ment to the people of the black belt
I sums and
—"if you don’t like negro domina- ] tl)jg w ^
ROSSVILLK
Harry E. Young of Lawton is visit-
ing Miss Fern J.ightfoot and other
friend's.
Ernest Fenderson and wife are
visiting at Tuttle, Okla.
Miss Lillie Stewart of Chandler is
visiting her daughter. Mrs. Ponnie
Rice also .Mrs. D. A. Stewart.
Verlah Thomas was,sick with ton-
silitis and unable to attend school
once :Uftryest the bakeuye With tbs’ 1 the .times. It was horn of the peril
peasto^y. !of negro domination, ’the negroes
e "ftpt S(,me-eowpetu to plant themselves have invoked the storm
and s.MI ue*t spring. t\V will not jWy their unbridled lust for power
sell the wovjfcea hay, it it- worth and theie determination to rule a su
nearly as m.wlx as bran. %V’e will jpe.rior race they have driven the Cau-
sed that •to M»r horses anti hogs. jW’a,, to initiate the constitutional £°
Last winter gw frogs ate cowpea h%y amendment which is to be voted. or» i cratu' ne"’si>aj>ers and the newspap-
greediiy. Hogs .can be growB .sue- in Au,xust. jers and the newspapers do not want
wssfully upon (*#»’, cowpeas, gea-
OUts, artichokes apa bermuda grasps.
Every farm in Lfnotrln county .wilij
produce ai lof these and should i>e
ralUing pork to use and to sell. If
we ar« tenants and have to move
every year we can still raise hogs
in a dry pea by cutting the varieties
of feed and carrying to then). If
we get to raising hogs we wont
move so often. We will soon buy
tis a little home and let the hogs
pay for It.
I wonder why we don’t raise
sheep? Our climate is most excel- , --------- -------- ...c OOI.ie ..
lent. ’ Nothing better for sheep than jJ’ear rejected the same amendment u ,____-firnTln^'
our bermuda grass We have nient„ I ~ _ ugatmg.
(■ORE .OX THE GRANDFATHER
AMENDMENT
a man in the governor’s chair who
is unfriendly to them. The demo-
cratic party of the state of Oklahoma
owes much of its success and ad-
vancement to the democratic press
of the state and is entitled to th*
consideration of the democratic can-
didates. Mr. Cruce is friendly
Murray is unfriendly, hence ninety
This amendment Is clearly within
tlee purview and limitation of the tif-
t>«Hh amendment. We do not go as
fap ss Massachusetts has gone. We|ftlurrav is linfri„„a
would cot follow the example of Con- ; per cent of the th
necticut, California, Minnesota and takine an ar.t ^ PaP6rS Wh° are
Wisconsin which, it) 1858 absolutely \ir Cm .u* ^ supporting
defeated neL,ro suffrage altogether out Zoe ^ With'
Ohio in 186T voted down an amend-I
ment for negn1 suffrage by more than | The Trlb„n77«°7^ T
50.000 majority. Kansas the same Sulnhur k™ “m P Set
sulphur bromide water. This water
tion, you can get out.” You can
abandon the oil fields and the coa?
fields of tlie east side to the negro.
'Tis true that his domination means
ruin to the richest section of Okla-
homa, but If you don't like a govern-
ment of ignorance and incompetency,
you can get out. If you object to
negro school boards controlling white
schools, you can get out and let the
negro rule supreme.
Rev. Dwyer of Tryon was in Ross-
ville last week.
A. C. Thomas of St. Joseph, Mo.,
is visiting his daughter Mrs. Daniel
Haun.
We have plenty
of good water and shade. Can raise
plenty of bermuda for pasture.
Plenty of cowpeas and cane and corn
stover for winter. Ottr income in
the spring from the woo] and an-
other one in the fall from fat weth- |
ers. It wouldn't be best for us to
buy too many to start with. How
would it do to buy ten ewes this
fall? Learn the business as our
flock increases.
We could raise twice as much cot-
ton on our land if we could raise
When You Buy Your Groceries, be Particular
Tom Roberts of
visiting his parents.
New Mexico is
H. A. Preuss of Warwick was a
i visitor at the Tribune office Wednes-
! day.
cowpeas, hogs and sheep. Of course
mules pay best but we are not talk-
ing about the men who have money. ,
are talking about the men who
Among me Fanners
(By F. A. Mitchell.)
If the election machinery of the
democratic party is corrupt as Mur-
ray insinuates, the democratic par-
ty deserves defeat at the hands of l
the republican party. On the other
hand, if the democratic machinery
Is not corrupt, if our state, conuty j
and precinct election officers are good j
men, willing to give a square deal ! The rain descended but the floods
to every candidate, then Bill Mur- did not come. Just to please and
ray should be relegated as unsafe | *n time to help along our corn crop,
and unbalanced and as a man who There will be a pretty good crop of
has got to the point where he “sees J corn after all.
things." the corn down
The Shawnee Herald, which by the
way, was the only paper of general
circulation supporting Leslie P. Ross
for governor, came out in a two col-
umn editorial last Thursday in which
it asknowledged that Mr. Ross could
not possibly secure the nomination
and predicted the nomination of Lee
Cruce.
have need to make some money.
We want to see every poor sun- j
burnt tiller of the soil bettering his
condition. We want to see him buy ■
as good a heifer calf as he can. Keep !
her with her heifer increase. You I
will then natuarfly set more her- '
muda every year to support your i
fast increasing herd of cows. The
milk will buy the groceries. The •
steer calves will cut down the meat
bill. Buy the best brood sow that 1
you can. Set some more bermuda t
right away. You will need it for
your drove of hogs. Buy a few j
The high winds blew j good ewes. Plant some more ber- |
so we cannot culti-jmuda on that rough patch and raise
evate again as we should and so we
The Anti-Saloon league is asking
the candidates for governor to vlolat*
their obligation to uphold the con-
stitution and refuse to ca'l an elec-
tion when a lawful petition is filed
asking for such election. One ex-
member of the constitutional con-
vention in this county is now work-
ing for Murray because he promises
to violate his obligation in the mat-
ter.
had planned to do.
So many cow peas have been plant-
ed on oat stubble and some among
the corn. Cane is being sown for
stock feed. Everybody is at work
again and with that determination
that wins. The chances Jire that
hay will not be plentiful this year.
Hadn’t we better put in some more
feed of almost any kind. Have
plenty for ourselves anti some for our
neighbors. We have sixty acres of
cane for hay. Some planted in
April. Some in July. We have
one hundred head more of hogs in
twelve acres of can pasture. Will
have to cut the cane as the hogs can-
not eat so much. They drink water
piped from a large water pond, eat
all the Bermuda and cane they can
hold. Then retiring to the shade
more feed cotton for the big cash
crop in the fall. Wool Jor a few
dollars in the spring, milk or butter
or cream for supplies. Just wait
a minute while we take off our hats
to the hen. She will keep her bright
eyes open for bugs amf worms and
scratch for a living, while’raising her
fine brood of youngsters. She will
give us eggs for our breakfast and
cackle fruit for our baskets vhaa
we go to town, besides giving Off hgr
brood for our nice Sunday dinners
or when the preacher comes.
Some of you do not like our arti-
cles because you say we are a book
farmer. Yes we study and observe
and thing. We cannot compel you
to like our articles but you cannot
keep us from studying, thinking and
planning to be helpful to you.
One week more and we will be
Cleanliness is Our Slogan
OUR GROCERIES are Fresh and Clean. The
PRICE is absolutely RIGHT too
We are Going to Sell till the First of August
for..............................................................25C
The best dry salt meat s g>
at per lb.......................................................... | QC
Pure open kettle hog lard « />
at per lb.........................................................• f QQ
Swift’s Oxford bacon r% a
at per lb............................................................2UC
5 lbs Jap rice m*
fop .......................................................................25c
3cans pumpkin r*
for.....................................................................25C
3 cans kraut m*
for....................................................................25c
3 cans hominy r%
for..................................*....................................25c
3 erns corn r*
f°r................................................................25c
25 oz K. C. baking pow der <\
for"’"...........;•.................................................20C
Compare thess Price* with what you have been paying
We have all sizes of the New Ringless Fruit
Jar-ECONOMY
to*!””'..........$1.60 XT”" $1.25
ET........$1.00
Ask Us to Explain Them
IJOGAN’S
•• Grocery..
The Fastest Growing Store in Chandler
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