Oklahoma Champion. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1896 Page: 2 of 8
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THE CHAMPION
nvoaojj * staYioko.
OKLAHOMA m y, - OKLA
OKLAHOjXANt) INDIAN TKltkrTOK*
Bill Adams, living near Tuliis Grove,
was kicked in the face Wednesday
mornilie tty n vicious horse. He is iu
a bad shape aud may not recover.
The remains of Harry St. John were
taken to Olncy, III., for interment.
Mrs. I'a tro of Port Scott, half sister of
the deceased accompanied the remains.
Oov. St. John joined the f literal party
at Kansas City,,aud went on to Olney
f with tlie remains.
j Harry St. John, who was out on a
, Slo.ooo bond, and whose trial, for the
j murder of his wife, has been postponed
I several times, died nl 2 o'clock Sutur-
j day afternoon in Logan county, lie
, , , , , ,,, , Iliad la grippe and was sick two weeks.
Judge Kenton opened court tn Okln- ' , , , . , . .
’ 1 Ho was ,18 years of age and Ins trial
for wife murder lmd been set for ibis
liotna county Tuesda v. Tlicre aro on
his court docket 17.1 United States
cases, JO-’ territorial cases and 238 civ-
il suits. Clerk Dunn reappointed Tom
Neal assistant deputy.
Mr. John Miller, census
er of the Chickasaw nation, was in
Purcell the latter part of the week- j
anu was kept very busy enrolling tl e
tribe, mostly intermarried citize-.s. i
He left for Minco where he will con-
tinue liis work.
term of court.
It is rumored that United States
Commissioner David W. Yancey of
. , | Tallequali, in the Cherokee country,
commission I ’ , *
has been ‘ spotted by the society of
Indian criminals known as the “<u-
too-ahs,” which has for a long time
been the terror of all law-abiding, and
especially law-enforcing people of
that country.
The case of the Territory vs. Fred
I ton tils, charged with extorting money
in
Near Yates postoffieo, Wednesday
aiglit James Herndon and John llige- j from ,, u c~hen, hi(s ,H.t.n on triul
low, rivals for hand in marriage of
Mrs. Lucy Yutes, met at the sweet
heart’s house and fought. Before they
could Iks separated each was seriously
If not fatally cut. Both have been ar-
rested.
Under the special order issued a few
Wheat tn the new let ritory i * look-
ing fine.
Oklahomans will not suffer th e year
j from lack of good <trops.
Judge Me A tee and bride are spend-
tiieir honeymoon in Chicago.
A carload of thoroughbred Kentucky
horses have just arrived at El Reno for
the troops.
A recent invention of interest to Ok-
1 liihomans 1« a machine known as the
j cotton picker
Down in Woodward county the oili-
er day a cowboy lassoed a wildcat anil
captured it.
Governor St. John will be in Okla-
homa next week to settle up the af-
fairs of his dead son.
i The Logan county jury which was
trying drove Huntley for the murder
of Manning disagreed.
, Oeorge Cook lias been appointed
chief clerk of the district court of Ok-
I luhoma county by Judge Keaton.
The Ponca City Courier lias an item
this week which would make the fa-
1 tnous Hal Miller of Kansas blush.
INTERVIEWS THE MAJOR.
MRS. LEASE FAILS TO PUT MC-
KINLEY ON RECORD.
He Wont Talk on tl:c Issues Surinam
to Orest a <|tio«ti(iii for til* CoBipr*'-
hnnilnn. A I,ark of Conlldrnre Mark*
t Le Mu', ,
1 J the Logan county district court since j Did any one ever figure out Wash
I* : tl .1 1 Ml .....11 1_ j . t . . , . . . r.i it It if .
Monday and will continue all week
The ease is a civil action wherein
Honfiis is charged with scaring Cohen
into signing a cheek for 8300 for the
rent of the Ron fils building.
Two drummers representing Louis
ton Irving's trip into Oklahoma?
left Ft, Gibson and traveled west.
At a sale in Logan county recently,
cows sold for 835 to 812; chickens 84
a dozen and corn 22 cents a bushel.
At the little town of Independence
in <i county thirty-live bales of cotton
have already been ginned this season.
Hector Henderson of Logan county
days ago by Governor Kenfrow sun- J v„le um, Cindnntttti houses report
pending the quarantine in the ease of j that th,.v W).rt, huld by liv4. masked
cattle brought iu for feeding purposes, | m„n tetwce|1 Urey Horse, Usage na-
large quantities of Texas cattle are j u skyatook Friday evening ... . , . . ..
.ls.»ur coming Into tl» UrriU,ry to I, u„,,r j ““ "
6. fe»l nnd ni.iiy mop. »t« cotitru.-t.-.l j wllt(.,K.s *V. * “1"*4 “ ' 1
for. This gives farmers an excellent I rob,H,r8 wer„ hi(llllg. in a NIViimp. The
market for their corn and other feed dpillnmcM were Jolin P. Bagwell aud
E. M Denman.
aud the price is already advancing.
“Colonel” John Jumper, Seminole
ex-ehief nnd delegate to Congress, died
Monday morning at the age of 73, leav-
ing an estate estimated at 8100,000.
During President Cleveland’s first
term Jumper acted as interpreter for
aeveral parties of Creeks and Semin-
ole* viaiting Washington and was one
of the first Indians, if not the lirst,
ever seen by the President,
The largest elk antler ever found tn
the Indiun territory was dug out of u
sand bunk on the Pouth Canadian river
near Purcell last week. Part of the
aknll was attached to the nntler,
which measured live feet nnd two Inch-
es in length. The man who found it
happened to see one of the prongs
sticking out of the Maud. No one in
that part of the country had ever seen
its equal.
A duel between two brothers occurred
at Wapanttcku one day last week.
Two negroes got into a dispute which
grew into a bitter quarrel; when one
of the men drew a dirk and stabbed
the other in the breast nnd abdomen
inflicting fatal wounds. The wounded
man went to the house nnd procured a
shot gun loaded with bird shot nnd
fired at his brother, inflicting danger-
ous won mis.
James Swimmer, a full-blood Chero-
kee, and Henry Williams, a colored boy
of 18, were hanged in the national jail
yard at Talequah Friday last Swim-
mer killed Ell Hulbridge. also a Cher-
okee, in a feud. They were gunning
for one another, but Swimmer got the
drop. Williams' crime was the mur-
der of another colored boy named
Crockett Mackey, lie made a confes-
sion and professed conversion.
Last Saturday night about 7 o’clock
Mr. D. L. Bearden, who resides a short
distance south of Sal Isa tv, was going
borne when an unknown man met him
in the dark woods and turning fired
three shots at Bearden’s back, one
passing through his hnt, one through
his sleeve and one through his body.
Bearden crawled about 200 yards to
the house of Isaac Richardson, where
be was cured for until death relieved
him, about an hour later.
Wyatt Williams, u stockman of Tex-
as and the Indian Territory and well
known throughout the west, was shot
dead Saturday night by Bud Watkins,
who has since claimed self defense,
which plea is denied by half a dozen
spectators. Watkins was captured af-
ter an exciting chase by Fnited States
Marshals Booker and Tucker and CL 1).
Carter. The United States grand jury
is in session and the prosecution will
be pushed. A widow nnd four chil-
dren survive Williams.
At Wewoka, capital of the Semiuole
nation, Saturday Charles lladworth
and Henry Welsh, half breeds, were
shot to death, paper squares having
been placed over their hearts, for tlie
murder of a M|uaw. June 10, 1805 by
four Indian police at a distance of
twenty feet. According to custom the
murderers had lieen ui lowed their
liberty between the sentence und the
execution of the law, the favor not be-
ing abused, as it seldom is. Eight
legal shootings hare taken place this
year.
The notorious Green gang of desper-
adoes have been captured by Fnited
bLutes Marshals. Bill and Edward
Green were killed, but Arthur, the
youngest brother was shot and cap-
tured-
Mr. Shilling, of Noble county, har-
vested 2,0°b bushels of wheat this year
and has tots of his namesakes.
The population of the territory is
shown to bare increased from 212,825
to >75,6*7 in two years. Woods coun-
ty is the most populous, the figure be-
ing 20,805
church.
Bishop Brooke delivered n very bril-
liant address Wednesday night before
, the Episcopal convocation at South
Officers of Noble, Pawnee and Payne , \|(.\i,.stl.r
counties report that over fifty horses
have lieen stolen tlie past week. Buck
Stapleton, one of the supposed horse
thieves, was arrested near ltulston a
few days ago. There was much talk
of lynching. Parties arriving fiom
P. (J. Smith, n wealthy and pioneer
citizen of Oklahoma, whose home is in
Logan county, died last week ut the
age of 64 years.
Lulu Ray, a colored siren, tried to
defend herself against a charge of
Pawnee county report that there are 8t<>|ll,n(r ft pair of 8hoe8 Sr, an oklaho-
from sixty to eighty horses tied out
in the Arkansas swam [Is.
Joseph Pentecost, of Logan county,
is lying very low from the effects of a
bite from a spider. Within the past
three weeks more than a dozen per-
sons iu this vicinity have been bitten
and one death occurred. The spider
is a little black one, and quick as a
flash of lightning it leaps at a victim
and fastens its fangs, sending its pois-
on direct to the heart sud brain, and
those who are bitten suffer bad effects
for months after the first sickness is
gone.
Friday night C. R. McLung, who
lives on the Chicaska river, was shat
by a mob and seriously wotinded. His
wife was hit several times. AleClung
had taken up some stray hogs and put
them in a pen. In tlie night half a
dozen men came to turn them out, and
McClnng shot at them three times.
The men returned tlie tire. In all
twenty shots were gred. Mrs. Mc-
Clung went to her husband's assist-
ance and she was shot in tlie foot and
hand. Meriting is fatally wounded.
About a montli ago tlie 8 year old
daughter of Mr. anil Mrs. John Jones
of the Orage country, fell from u re-
volving huy rnke One of tlie teeth
struck her in tlie forehead and crush-
ed the skull. She was treated then by
a doetor and she grew better. Lately
the wound in tlie iiead began troub-
ling her. Thursday tlie little one was
taken to Arkansas City. Kansas, and
operated on. Tlie crushed portions
of the skull were elevated and she is
resting much easier and in a fair way
to recovery.
One of the most fiendish crimes ever
known in tlie territory was enacted
at 11 o’clock Wednesday night, be-
tween Jasper Wilson and Dr. Mahreu,
both prominent citizens of Kinflsher
county. The gentlemen did not agree
politically, and meeting Wednesday
night iu a barber shop, Dr. Mahrcn be-
came furious and dashed a bottle of
vitrol into Wilson's face. Wilson was
blinded. Tlie skin dropped from his
face in patches ami there is little hope
of his recovery. Mahren escaped. In-
tense excitement prevails.
Tlie Potawntomie Indians at a tribal
meeting held last week employed at-
torneys to go to Washington us Goon
as congress meets and secure the pas-
sage of an act giving then titles to
the alloted lands upon which they are
now residing. At present the lands
are held in trust by the government
She
ma county town the other duy.
proved u very poor lawyer.
Some one in Oklahoma has written
an article on Temple Houston for the
New York Sun which is being etiten-
sively used. It claims that Houston
never wears a glove on his pistol hand.
Every man in old Oklahoma is inter-
ested in free homes. There arc no
lands in old Ok la I mia to he
paid for, but the merchant who would
object to his customers nnd neighbors
falling heir to 815,000,000 would lie a
chump.
Anne Moffett of Pottawatomie coun-
ty tried to kill herself tlie other day
by taking a dose of oil of tansy. She
dropped in a fit in tlie street. She
was pumped out and wiil recover. She
says that as soon as she feels able she
will try it agnin.
Last week Deputy Marshals met tlie
three Green brother near Vinita, and
in a fight killed two of them and
wounded the third, perhaps fatally.
During the past montli these despera-
does lmve killed three citizens, wound-
ed several others, and committed a
number of bold robberies.
It is new authentically reported that
the Ii. O. G. railroad has decided on
Medford as its present terminus. Med-
ford is a good town and is to be con-
gratulated on its success in securing
this enterprise. This advent will give
the town a new boom and new life.
The road is now graded as far as Wa-
kita and work on the remainder is be-
ing pushed forward rapidly.
An exchange says: “The editorial
“we” lias a variety of applications.
For instance, when you read that we
expect our wife we refer to the editor.
When it is we are behind with our
behind with our work, it means the
whole ofliee, even the devil and the
town. If we are having a boom the
town is meant. But we have dog chol-
era in our midst, means the man who
takes the paper and does not pay for it
is very ilL
It is remarkable that Kay county has
not had a killing for nearly two years.
At the last session of court there was
no necessity for a grand jury and none
was called. T' e justices of the peace
throughout the county find themselves
almost entirely without litigation and
tlie county jail lias no inmates. Thia
cannot lie allowed. Something must
be done, otherwise file lawyers will
find themselves without sufficient
business to secure a living. Someone
and the Indians can not sell nor even j should suggest a remedy for this state
rent without the approval of the in-i of affairs. The lawyers should call a
terior d, partinent. They declare that i meeting at once to take proper “'‘ns to
they are as able to transact business i check this degeneracy of tlie people
for themselves as their white neigli- i from the former high state of civiliza-
tion! and do not want guardians. The ^ tion when merchants assigned, debtors
passage of this act would be of great , failed to pay, and thieves and murder-
benefit to the territory, ns at present [ ers abounded. This tiling of 1700 peo-
the Indian lands cannot be taxed and pie living in a Garden of Eden won't
the entire burden of taxation falls on do, so says a prominent Oklahoma
The New York World publishes an
interview which Mrs. I .ease recently
had with Major McKinley. The inter-
view in part is as follows:
“After discussing Kansas politics, in
which discussion the Major became the
interviewer and dieted a synopsis of
tlie political situation in that state, we
chatted pleasantly of our Scotch lineage
till I remarked: ‘Scotland is tlie only
nation of tlie civilized world upon
which tlie money breeders have not
placed the octopus of mortgaged in-
debtedness.’ A startled look, half
fear, least he had given utterance toun
ungardeil statement, half defiance lest
1 should pursue the subject further,
leaped into Major McKinley's eyes,
‘What a nity,’ 1 continued, ‘that we
have not imitated in this country tlie
example of tlie Scots. The gold owners
have purchased us body and sou!.’ No
reply.
“Every effort to continue the- con-
versation was futile, und I elianged
the theuic. In reply to tlie question,
‘Has woman a future in politics?’ he
replied: ‘Beyond all doubt she has a
great future. Who can doubt her ad-
vancement along every line when we
view the wonderful progress she has
aiatle in tlie past?’
“An effort to obtain some expression
on economic questions was void. ‘I am
not being interviewed at present,’ he
raid: ‘1 think it is the part of wisdom
to reman silent.’
“ ‘I would like your views on social-
ism/ 1 suggested. ‘Its spirit is perme-
ating the hearts of men. The condi-
tion of the people is sucli that the tariff
will not even prove a palliative. Ma-
chinery has displaced liumiiu labor.
Industry is in rags and idleness. Will
a tariff benefit the men whose occupa-
tion lias been taken by labor saving
machinery?’
“ ‘I do not care to discuss that ques-
tion,’ he replied.
“ ‘But the conditions are forcing a
discussion of these questions upon us,
and we are not brave to shrink them,’
1 said.
“ ‘It is too great a question for you
and me to enter upon. We could not
settle it.’ Major McKinley calmly re-
torted.
“Major McKinley is a living example
of disruption of self The utinospheric
power which protects individuality has
lieen broken down by the forced con-
ditions which have brought him into
contact and made him dependent upon
others. A lack of self confidence
masks the man. You do not need to
ask him questions to know that he is a
stultification. ‘I refusa to be put on re-
cord’ is in his manner and lurks in his
eyes. Looking at him, one would say
with Emerson: ‘Be still, for what you
are stands over you and raps so loudly
I cannot hear what you say.’ His
speeches are read from manuscript.
His every public utterance is prepared,
lie does not dare trust himself. lie is
an record. It is a great misfortune to
be brought within reach of the throne.
It deadens the sensibilities, makes eal
lous the understanding anil scars the
ronsience.
“The poisoned influence of wealth
and power proved fatal to the real Ma-
jor McKinley, but his corpse and the
habliments remain. As a farmer he
would have read the mournful story of
tlie report of the agritultural depart-
ment and his soul would have gone out
in sympathy to the oppressed agricul-
tural classes. As a laborer he would
realize that, the menace which con-
fronts the wage workers is labor sav-
ing machinery in the hands of capital
ists, that lias destroyed the stimulus
of consumption by driving the laborer
into enforced idleness, while glutting
the markets witli bonndles production.
As a candidate for the presidency on a
platform which his past career and
his every public utterance in the past
repudiated. Major McKinley has closed
eye and ear to the needs of the people,
and standing as did I’ontns Pilate be-
fore the multitude, he washes his
hands of the blood of the Just One.
Major McKinley is the most colossal
example of moral turpitude and politi-
cal cowardice the age has known.’
the white settlers.
James Evans, of Carrol, Nebraska,
wants infoi nmtion concerning his
brother, Daniel Evnn«, aged 30 years,
who came to Oklahoma in January,
1893.
Tlie Ca-tooth is an Indian secret so-
ciety which is said to be as bad as the
Six Companies of China.
IVm. SaulUbnry oue of Guthrie'a citi-
zens died Monday.
Widmeyer, the weather man says
that Lincoln and i’ottuivotntu!» are
j tbs two beat cotton counties in Okla.
j newspaper.
Hector Henderson, charged with as-
'< snult with intent to kill Alex McClain,
< was convicted by a jury in the l<ogan
j county district court Tuesday. The
i Judge reserved the right of sentence
; until next week.
A number of towns in the Creekand
I Cherokee nations hare petitioned (or
I incorporation under the A rim n as
j statutes aud have been grunted per-
. mission to do so. The plan is said to
work well where it has b:'--n tried,
giving a good fund for use in tixi-g ur
l tint streets, aud etc.
Given Their Case Away.
A sample of Republican inability to
grasp an argument is the B. W. Snow
circular being scut out from the Hanna
lieadxuartersin this city. It submits
a table to show that tlie decline in the
price of wheat is due, not to tlie fall in
the value of silver bullion, but to the
competition that has grown up since
1874 from Russia, India and Argentine.
The table shows that India and Argen-
tine iiave entered Lite field as couipeti-
tfon with the United States sinee is?3,
and that Russia's exportation since
that date have b -en increased about
120 per cent All that is lacking to
make the circular good silver cam-
paign matter is the addition of a para-
graph calling attention to the fset
that but for the fail io the priee of
silver bullion Russia never could have
increased hot exports, ami India and
Argentine never could have entered
the market at all. It is the especial
contention of the silver men that the
fall in wh -atis due to that very com-
petition, and that such competition,
bus been built up together by the
premium on |r<>lil in the exchanges of
England with those countries—Labor
World.
Would He Bolt
The Idea of trying to make a thing
worth one dollar which is only worth
53 cents is absurd. Jt is trying to do
a thing which the Almighty cannot
do. 1 say this with reverence.—Rev.
l)r. I’arkhurst.
But sn ppesc, for the sake of argu-
ment, that, notwithstanding Dr. I’ark-
hurst, the Almighty should by utiliz-
ing tlie mints of the United States,
create a dema nd for silver that would
make what is now worth 53 cents
worth one dollar. Would Dr. Park-
burst bolt? We ask this with rever-
ence.—New York Journal.
POPULIST STATE POLITICS.
Louisbtirg has a Bryan club with
thirty of last year’s Republicans ou iU,
roll.
Good reports come from Poster nnd
Leedy’s meetings in Phillipsburg and
Kirvvin.
Two big audiences were addressed
at the same time at the Mankato rally.
One by Leedy in the opera house and
tlie other by Poster in the courthouse.
After delivering their speeches the
speakers changed places and spoke
again.
Tlie mlddle-of-tlie-road meeting held
in the opera house at Junction City
was a complete failure. There wore
but fifty persons present to hear Paul
Vandervoort, Bennington and Right-
in ire. Thirty or the audience were Re-
publicans.
The Kansas Farmer, among other
agricultural papers, has received a
proposition from a New York agent to
run two col unis of political matter, to
be paid for at advertising rates. It
was gold standard matter, of course.
It is not necessary for silver advocates
to buy space in papers in order to lay
their case before the farmers. The
home of the silver cause is among the
farmers.
After the votes have been cast,
watch the eount. There is as much
fraud perpertrated in counting as in
voting.
Chester I. Long in a speech at Leoti
urged his audience to vote against free
silver because it would be dishonest to
pay their debts in 50 cent dollars—it
would be repudiation. In that speech
lie said that while in congress he had
voted fora bankruptcy law and that he
would do so again if re-elected. This
law would give people, under certain
circumstances, the right to repudiate
their debts without making any pay-
ment in 50 cent dollars or any other
kind of dollurs.
Tlie gold-bug matter sent to the
Kansas Farmer was disguised in tlie
form of a display advertisement but
the Farmer would not publish it
even at advertising rates for the rea-
son that it takes no part iu partisan
politics.
Eighteen residents of Crawford coun-
ty who signed tlie petition for middle
of-the-road electors have sent in a
written request to the secretary of
state to take their names from the pe-
tition for the reason that their signa-
tures were obtained by false represen-
tations.
Webb McNnll after having made 43
speeches in 25 counties and making
careful inquiry at every point has
come to the following conclusions con-
cerning the political situation: Some
counties have not a single gold Demo-
crat. The gold Democratic vote of tlie
state will be about 2,000. The number
of silyer Republicans in each township
varies from 4 to 207. There are 2,300
voting precincts in the state, anil
counting only two silver Republicans
to each precinct would overcome the
Republican majority of two years ago.
The Republican leaders concede that
they have lost 12.000 votes. The state
will go for Bryan by from 25,000 to
40,000 and the l’opulist state ticket will
have about the same majority. There
are no I’opu’ists who will vote for the
middle-of-the-road electors. And agi-
tation of that ticket is being kept up
and tlie expense borne by Republicans.
The election of at least six of tlie silver
congressmen is certain and there is a
good fighting show for the candidates
io the first and fourtli districts. Mi:-
Nall up to this j'ear has been the lead-
Republican in the sixth district.
If Bryan comes to Kansas at all,
whieh is doubtful, he will be here on
Nov. 2.
The Baptist state convention held in
Topeka last week passed a resolution
deploring the non-enforcement of the i
A good crowd of Republicans turned1
out to the middle-of-the-road meeting
at Manhattan.
The Jeunings Echo is now edited by
A. P. Coppedge and its polities has been
changed from Populist to Republican.
Elder Brant of Ft. Scott hasdeclined
tlie nomination for governor on tlie
Independent. Prohibition ticket.
J. F. Willits has resigned liis position
as president of t hf Alliance Co-opera-
tive Insurance company.
The old soldiers free silver club of
Topeka lias established headquarters
which is called “Old Soldiers Home. ’
The room is supplied with free silver
literature and a register is kept. Th
generals tour in Kansas did not bring
all the old soldiers back into line.
W. R. Maxwell, who was nominated
for congress by the Prohibitionists of
the seventh district lias withdrawn
from the race. It’s Siirpson and Long
for it now iu the seventh, with the bet
ling 5 to 1 in favor of Simpson.
Warden Bruce Lynch don’t draw
very well outside of the penitentiary,
lie spoke to an audience of thirty peo-
ple at Goodland.
On the 12th Emporia had its biggest
political parade since 18!*0. The pro-
eessiou was over two miles long and
6(H) horsemen and 200 wagons were iu
line. George Plumb, brother of the
late senator was chief marshall. Col.
Whitney and Judge Fletcher, tw^ for-
mer Republicans were in the parade.
Joe Waters, Col. Harris, Prof. Stryker
and John Martin were the principal
speakers of the day.
Judge McKay of Medicine Lodge
denys that lie had ever promised to be
one of the men who would accompany
Watson on liis tour through Kansas.
Abilene will have a big political blow
out the night before' election. Her
two prominent eitizens, Kd. Little and
J. R. Burton, will be the speakers.
Little will address the silver people in
the opera house and Burton will orato
to the gold bugs in the Wigwam. Last
year boti. of those men spoke from the
same platform but Little could not
stand tlie dose fixed up in the St. Louis
platform, and bolted.
It is like sending coals to Manches-
ter, but the Ft. Scott silver people have
sent 8180 to tlie New York Journal fund
to help the cause along.
Stein lierger has filed a counter pro-
test with the secretary of state to pre-
vent the electors nominated by the
Poputist convention at Abilene from
being placed on the ticket. He charges
that the electors arc all democrats and
that they are on the ticket for the pur-
pose of deceiving voters.
Ness City has a Bryan club of 221
members and there is no question as
to how the vote of that berg will go.
Senator Foraker after spending one
week in the west telegraphed McKin-
ley that Kansas and Nebraska were
sure to east their electoral vote for
him.
The poll of Shawnee eotinty sliowt
a loss of about 1,500 Republican votes.
Every township in Sedgwieh county
will cast a majority vote for Bryan ou
Nov. 3.
There is a harder light being made
on Doster than on uny one on tha
Fopulist ticket. The Republican fix-
ers defeated Martin for re-nomination
in their own party and now they do
not propose to allow Doster,a man who
holds the same views as Martin on
many questions, to be elected. The
tight being made on Doster consists
almost entirely of misrepresentations
anit falsehoods.
II. N. Boyd of the the Bellville Free-
man has challenged uny Republican
in Republic county to meet him in
joint debate at eight points in the
county.
Calvin Hood, an Emporia banker,
has deserted the silver cause and will
vote for McKinley.
W. E. Rush, candidate for state au-
ditor, was called home last week on
account of one of liis little girls buy-
ing been kicked by a horse. lie was
compelled to cancel several speaking
dates.
I). C. Wood, a resident of Topeka,
makes a sworn statement to the effect
that W. G. Bird, labor commissioner
appointed by Morrill, offered him 835
to circulate in Leavenworth and Kan-
sas City, Kan., a petition to have
middle-of-the-road electors put on tlie
ballot It was represented to Wood
that it would take him but two days to
circulate the petition.
The prosperity of American indus-
tries depends upon higher prices for
sliver bullion because our competitors
in foreigu markets are silver standard
coflntries. If the price of silver goes
up tlie prices of their products as
measured in gold, must go up too, aud
our exports will be able to command
a higher price and still undersell them
in the markets of the world. Rut how
, . . . . can we best elevate the priee of silver
prohibitory law by state, county aud | bulHon? By „|ell|n it ont aD(1 d;,.
city officials. Every such resolution
means fewer votes for Morrill, if it
means anything.
Cv Leland has got himself into
trouble by interfering in local politics j the world? The gold bug
eouragiug its use as money as much as
we can, or by admitting it to free coin-
age and helping along its restoration
as a money metal in the dnnimere
*-ays that
in Wyandotte eotinty. Cy has his
hands full this year aud has so many ,
irons in the fire that he will rpoil the j bug, a statesman, a fool or liar.—Labor
whole batch
you can best raise ifs priee by dis-
couraging it4 use. Which is the gold
i Wurltl
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Hudson, C. C. Oklahoma Champion. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1896, newspaper, October 23, 1896; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc941414/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.