The Shawnee Daily News-Herald (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 226, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 31, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALD
SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 31, 1914.
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THE SHAWNEE DAILY NEWS-HERALD
fUNiONI^/j LABEL/
OTIS It. WEAYEB
iilitur and Owner.
Entered a« second ciim matter, Shawnee, Okia., under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Show your appreciation for the brilliant and effective campaign the
Hon. S. P. Freeling in conducting throughout the state for attorney gen-
eral by assuring bim of your regard for a unanimoua democratic sup-
port for him in Pottawatomie county.
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HK.NDEKSOJi, TK I XSKIf IIMTOM, VOOKIS FXTKKME POLITICAL
METHOD lit lUSC'lSSIXi I'HIV.lIl! III SlJiUSS OF OTIS WEIVKK
Hon. M. M. Henderson, editor and publisher of Ihe Tecumseh County
Democrat, who, for two months, has been leading a soft, buezlng propa-
ganda of slander to the effect that Judge K. L. Williams had not only
bought lip Ul« News-Herald for the purposes of advancing his candidacy
for coventor, but had In addition financed til# establishment of other pro-
Williams papers in Pottawatomie county, has finally become bo desperate
in the conviction of the Impotence of his candidate—Judge Kobertson—in
this county that, unsatisfied to "cut men's throats with whisperings," be
has done the inevitable—bought the hemp with which to hang himself—and
yesterday publlsed the culmination of his libels againBt Judge Williams
and agaiuBt te publisher of the News-Herald by a malignant editorial in
Ihe County Democrat. ,m' • ■ ' - — ■
While the publisher of the News-Herald guesses that he and Rocke-
feller represent the very extremes In poverty and wealth—and, we hope,
extremes in comprehension of tho rights of the people,—yet he verily
believes there are i mess of fellows around here who diBcuss his finan-
cial disposition and situation with as much constancy, if more irreverently,
than that of the old rich oil boy himself.
A few weeks ago a socialist editor so attacked the financial responsi-
bility and integrity of the News-Herald publisher in that particular way
that a public reply was thought necessary, and one, while thought to be
effective, was very reluctantly made.
It was then concluded that forever after and aye, if chance or fate
should ever again visit the misfortune of a newspaper attack against the
personal honor or integrity of this publisher that he would deal with it
in purely a personal ^ay. If his nerve held out. But this attack by Mr.
Henderson involves the connection of a distinguished candidate for gov-
ernor of Oklahoma, and since tills Tecumseh editor has become the chief
of Judge Robertson's managerial staff, and it being reasonable to con-
clude that if hlB slander againBt the News-Ilerald publisher, if not now
proven false and malicious, the Barne will be exaggerated and spread over
the Btate, It has been decided to beg the readers' permission and to use
this rather extended space to settle once for all whether Judge Williams
has paid for or subsided any paper tn Pottawatomie county.
Editorial of M. M. Henderson in his County Democrat, appearing
Friday, May 29:
"A LITTLE SURPRISED."
"We see from the Weaver-Williams newBpaper syndicate a letter
written by Frank Resch of the Earsboro Messenger, In which Mr. Resch
was undertaking to get Mr. Williams to pass the sheckles around a little,
and not let the Weaver Syndicate hog the whole darn smeer.
"Mr. Resch probably had heard of the fact of Judge Williams' liber-
ality with the Weaver move to establish the Pottawatomie county news-
paper syndicate, where Judge Bob Bigned his John Hancock to a note
for eight thousand plunks as a starter, and where, It is said, he haB been
chipping in for a great deal of what is called legitimate advertising, etc.,
in these later dayB of our Lord.
"The thing that surprises us is that Mr. Resch could not see that
the Weaver syndicate was a special, preferred institution by the stag
Napoleon from Durant, and that If other counties were to be taken care
of in like manner the amount set apart for Pottawatomie county had al-
ready—in advance—been gobbled-lobbled by the aforesaid bunch of prefer-
ential. Mr. Resch possibly had overlooked the fact that a candidate for
governor is restricted under our constitution to the expenditure of not
exceeding $3,0«i0. As to the amount the stag candidate, *udge Bob, haB
spent In this county we can't say, but it is common talk that the Weaver
syndicate bank account was recruited to the tune of two thousand slmol-
eons about thirty days ago. This, however, is talk—and may be all taik.r-
but we have the eifcht-tliouBand-dollar transaction from f'-st hands and
know from these hands and from that source that this Weaver syndicate
could not have been started but for the signature of Judge Williams. If
anyone dbubts this statemest, we are prepared to furniBh the exact
dope on it.
"Now, we like a good, healthy scrap on anything like a fair field,
but this syndicating business isn't just exactly a square deal; but our
guess about this matter is that Judge Bob, the stag candidate, the man
who is brave enough and lias nerve enough to put his fist to an eiglit-
thousand-dollar note, but who hasn't the nerve and courage to marry some
nice woman and establish a home, Is the man who has got the worst of it.
Selah."
Otis Weaver, unlike Francis X. Resch, B. L., who tried to evade con-
leBBlng trying to sell the support of his papers to Judge Williams, will
fidmlt, since the matter 1b selected to be discussed, that a few years ago
Judge Williams went ou liia note for around SlU.OOO. But, before Clod, in
comparative regard, but not In the spirit of the Pharisee, there is an
exceeding spirit of gladness that there was no odium—nor even politics—
in the fact that Judge Williams went on my note.
The Henderson Reflective Charge- and Insinuations Answered in Retail
and in Order.
The County Democrat states:
First. That tbe Weaver syndicate had "gobbled-lobbled" all the Will-
itms campaign money set aside for this county.
Second. That It is common talk that the Weaver syndicate bank ac-
count was recruited to the tune of $2,000 about thirty days ago. infer
entially saying that Judge Williams had supplied the $2,000.
Third. That the Weaver syndicate could not have been started but
for the signature of Judge Williams.
Fourth. That Judge Williams got the worst of It by "putting his fist"
to an elgbt-thousand-dollar note.
Falsehood No. 1 answered: The statement is hereby made that neither
Judge WilliamB nor any other living man has been on my note for any
sum since last February was one year ago; that the note to which Judge
Williams' signature was attached waB paid In full last February year; and
the statement is further hereby made that Judge Williams or any asso-
ciate, or the Good Government Club of Oklahoma, which is conducting the
state campaign, or anyone else, has never paid, given or promised Otis
Weaver, the News-Herald, Carlton Weaver, or any papers with which either
Is associated as much sb one single cent, or anything else for any support
ever rendered or to be rendered him. The statement Is further made that
If Judge Williams or anyone for htm has ever paid any man or uewspaper
in this county one cent for anything, it is not known or suspected—unless,
indeed, the Wanette Enterprise may have been paid an honest and modest
and deserved announcement fee.
Falsehood No. 2 answered It is true, the Weaver Shawnee bank ac-
count was recruited from the outside recently for about $1800. This
lean bank account had to be recruited from the same source of Beveral
similar rehabilitations since this publisher got into the newspaper business
in Shawnee, to-wlt, from the earnings and collateral stability of bis Ada
newspaper and property Interests, the same being secured by ten year.-*
of hard work—a commodity with which the County Demoer.-.! editor ought
to strike hands.
Falsehood No. 3 answered: The statement is hereby made that Judge
Williams' friendship or signature were not essential to the asqulsitlon
of any newspaper interests In this county or elsewhere.
When I had bought the Bhawnee News in 1911 and found that I
could not bope to succeed in the newspaper business in Shawnee in com-
If you take a summer trip
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Having these checks when away from home is like carrying a
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♦ POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ♦
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♦ PRIMARIES AUGUST 4. ♦
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FOR DISTRICT JUKGE.
Judge Charles B. Wilson Jr.
For Re-election.
Robert Wheeler.
of Tecumseh.
C. P. Holt.
FOB COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF SCHOOLS.
H. M. Fowler.
Miss Cora b'oble of Shawnee.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
J. T. (Jack) Davis.
George M. Southgate. >
J. I. (Ira) Sims, g
Of Dale. j
W. C. Jones
FOR COUNTY JUDGE.
petition with the Herald, I went to my former home at Ada and applied
to the First National bank there for a ten-thousand-dollar loan. It was
agreed to, and the amount of $8500 was offered on my Pontotoc county
real estate. When the papers were drawn, Mr. P. A. Norris, president of
the bank .suggested that while the real estate security was ample, the
national banking law prohibited the acceptance of real estate security as
the basis for a loan, and requested that 1 get a couple of signatures to
my notes. I suppose 1 could have gone around the corner and got some
signers, but I had never asked but one man In Ada since I was twenty-
one to join me ou a note, and that was for money for a friend in need.
The only other man preceding that time 1 ever aaked to go on my note
was a farmer by the name of Mr. J. D. Jett, now residing on the Green
farm a few miles south of Tecumseh. Mr. Jett used to be one of the best-
to-do farmers in the old Chickasaw nation, and when twenty years old,
before the time of free schoolB, I taught school in his neighborhood.
When I had taught about three months, with but very little subscription
collected, measles broke up my school and broke me. Mr. Jett went on
my note for" $50. Mr. Jett is now a tenant farmer (but an awful good
one) because of going on too many notes.
At any rate, it first occurred to me to select the man to ask to whom
I felt closest bound by ties of affection and friendship I naturally thought
of Bob Williams. Lots of old Indian Territory fellows will understand.
Back in 1904, when ho was territorial national committeeman, he made
mc an assistant sergeant at arms of the democratic national convention at
St. LouIb. That hohor caused me to swell terribly. It was Judge Will-
lams, more than anyone else, who caused me to be selected an alternate
delegate at large to the Denver national democratic convention. It was
my recommendation to Judge Williams, then chief justice of the supreme
court, soon after statehood, that caused him to secure the appointment
by his court of my beloved boyhood friend and then city editor of my Ada
paper, Hon. Howard Parker, to the position of state reporter for the
supreme court, which position he has since efficiently filled.
But it is my duty to Bay.Bince 1 have thus digressed, that Judge Will-
iams was not always for me. I accredit he once defeated what was
secretly the one ambition of my life. It was a few years ago, when the
democratic state executive committee, of which 1 was a member, had to
select a state democratic campaign manager. George Stone of Tecumseh
was a member of that executive committee. My friends were putting me
forward to lead the campaign. Mr. Stone was for me. It looked to my
friends for a while as if I would be selected without contest. It was au-
thoritatively handed out that 1 would be satisfactory to both the Cruce
and Murray factions. On account of the grandfather clause campaign,
the Btate manager was to be selected ahead of the primaries. Bob Williams
sent for me and made the statement: "You perhaps wonder why I haven't
been co-operating with other friends toward your selection as chairman
of the committee. It Is my duty to tell you that I do not believe you are
the man for the place. This grandfather clause campaign will be an all-
important one. You are too hot-headed; your disposition is against you
to manage a campaign for the disfranchisement of the negro, when the
most painstaking Judgment must be exercised." I consider Judge Williams
caused my defeat, and I was only elected vice chairman, with the privilege
of Btaying at home.
When Mr. Norris suggested signatures to my note on account of the
national banking law, I then and there called up Judge Williams, stated the
proposition and the matter of my collateral. He replied briefly that he
would sign notes with other gentlemen I might secure; and he signed
them. As before stated, the last of these notes was paid in full last Feb-
ruary year.
The reason the above public references are made, indicating the
friendship between Judge Williams and this writer, howsoever here re-
luctantly expressed, is simply because it can be readily understood that
it was altogether personal aud not political considerations that caused
me to naturally turn to Judge Williams for the favor of the use of his
name, a favor that is of not unusual extension between responsible gen-
tlemen who know each to be the friend of the other.
Falsehood No. 4 answered: Mr. Henderson stated that Judge Will-
iams had got the worst of it by signing these notes. That could not be
the case, for the notes were paid aud the bank never did address a single
reference to Judge Williams In regard to the payment thereof.
I believe I have fully and absolutely refuted every statement and in-
sinuation of alleged fact made by Mr. Henderson critical of Judge Will-
iams' campaign as It connects me, unless, of course, I have not essentially
told the truth In the above relations.
In order that tho issue may be closed, for the News-Herald 1b not
going to engage In any campaign of mudslinging or Billingsgate with Mr.
Henderson. 1 beg hereby to make the following proposition:
M. M. Henderson: I hereby challenge you to select any regular pastor
of any Tecumseh church and any regular pastor of any Shawnee church.—
you to select both pastors, and these pastors to select a third minister from
elsewhere tn the county, all of whom shall constitute a committee tbe duty
of which shall be to ascertain whether in the above relations I have, be-
yond a reasonable doubt, written the facts in all the essential details; it
being agreed, however, that the selection and the services of this com-
mittee shall be dependent upon you putting Into tbeir hands the minimum
of $250 or the maximum of $1,000, I to give them a sum equal to yours,
with the written agreement that if the committee shall find for me, the
sum of money shall be returned, or vice versa, and that the money of
the loser shall be used by the committee where in its best judgment the
most good will be accomplished; but if the committee can not agree, then
the money shall be paid into the fund of the county farm for the poor.
The maintenance of the poor farm ought to have your regard, for if all
those who have had claims against the county for the past few years had
collected comparatively as excessively as you have for services rendered,
then the present limits of the county farm would become coincidental with
the boundary lines of Its present splendid proportions.
Signed: OTIS B. WEAVER.
Paul A. Walker.
YY. 1*. Langston.
FOR SHERIFF
J. W. Legg
Of Brlnton Township.
Knox f. Gardner. ,
R. L. (Dob) Sparkman.
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
E. 1). Reasor.
L. G, Pitman.
IV. S, Pendleton.
BERRIES
Strawberries about gone, no doubt you have used up
all your surplus jars, etc.
Dew Berries, Black Berries, Cherries and Plums
now coming on, you will need such as
One-half gallon Mason Jars, 80c dozen
One-fourth gallon Mason Jars, 66c dozen
Pint Mason Jars 50c dozen
Jelly Glasses 26c dozen
Elberta Rubbers, 8 dozen 26c
Parafine t 15c pound
Sealing Wax 5c box
Quart Tin Cans 40c dozen
COFFEES
After Dinner and Country Club Coffee, - 35c pound
Buy the celebrated POLAR BEAR or WHITE
HOUSE FLOUR. We sell it to you a;
WHOLESALE PRICE.
FOR COURT CLERK.
R. L. Flynn.
1). J. ("Tex") Holland.
FOR COUNTY WEIGHER.
J. M. Hamilton.
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY.
Charles W. Friend.
W. F. Durham.
I C. Saunders.
J. T. Williams.
OR REPRESENTATIVE
LEGISLATURE.
J. T. Michael
of McLoud
Tom Waldrip,
of Shawnee.
James T. Farrall.
Farmers Trading Store
Successors to Burke Grocery Co.
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In tubes 10c., 25c., 50c. In jars 35c., 50c., 85c. $1.50.
fob county assessor
H. H. Alexander
FOB CONSTABLE
Shawnee Township
J. M. ("Uncle Jim") Berry.
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♦ POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ♦
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♦ PRIMARIES AUGUST 1 ♦
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FOR SHERIFF.
J. S. (Jerry) Spann.
ORGANIZE FIELDS CLUB. , on their lease near Morris, showing
Local republicans are organizing a a strong flow of gas and considerable
John Fields for Governor club. It is oil. At last reports the drillers had
said 300 members have already been' not been able to cap the well.
enrolled.
WANTED—Salesmen lo sell lubri-
BROUGHT IN A WELL. eating oils, house and bam paint
Members of the Sixty Oil & Giis and specialties. Big profits. Cham
company received word Saturda> pion Refining Co , Cleveland, O.
night that a well had been drilled In 1-liitSu
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SHAWNEE - OKLAHOMA
A Neat and Carefully
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dressed man is an indication of char-
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means Vhe same thought in things r.f
seemingly more importance. Your
employer even takes this into consid-
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takably are your headway towards
prestige and powt-r. Reflect a mom-
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who is slovenly in his dress?
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Size 20x30 10 oz. $22.00; Size 20x30 12 oz, $26.00
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If you want paint that lasts
longer and covers more. get
Sherwin-Williams' at Warren-Smith
Hardware Co. 26-3t
READ THIS
We, tfie undersigned druggists of
Shawnee, have sold Halls Texas
Wonder, of 2926 Olive street, St.
Louis, Mo., and recommend it to
be the beat Kidney. Bladder and
Rheumatic remedy we have ever
sold. Sixty days' treatment for a
dollar.
Wallace Mann. Lion Drug com-
pany, Shawnee Drug company. Ow
Drug store, C. R. Harryman and
Crescent Drug Co.—Adv.
Direct Action gas ranges save gas
and time. See them at Warren-
Smith Hardware Co. 26-St
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