The Jacksonian Democrat (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 9, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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THE JACKSONIAN DEMOCRAT the board of affairs and the ballot job.
Office of Publication Third and Robin&on Street*.
Publubrd Weekly by the
PRINTERS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Phone Walnut 723»
L. C. CULLISON, Managing Editor.
V\ hether it was the searchlight of public opinion or actual
honesty, a desire to do the right thing, the Board of Affairs
should receive full credit in the way of giving to the lowest bid-
der the printing of the election ballots.
This writer represented his friend. Hornady of the Sulphur
THE TIMES AGAIN.
Disposing of Cullison.
Several weeks ago Lloyd C. Cullison, who is now writing
the slop for the Jacksonian Democrat, which was resurrected
by State Treasurer Robert Dunlop, applied to The Times for a
position as political writer. Cullison recommended himself by
Post, in his absence the morning the contract was to be allotted, the statement that he knew all the secrets of the Democratic
Lee Hucki.. Hotel skima! around that table were the same old gang who have party in the state and would reveal them if employed on this
ted the state out of tl " ' ' '
, the way of state printing. Victor E. Harlow of Shaw nee Herald
PIN POINTS
= FROM -
PINHEADS
Shoe Shining Charlie might get a
job shining • Farmer” Dunlop* Sun-
The J»ekw>m*n may be found <>» S*(e »t «he following placet — uet nuwu.> .... i , , , , - — ^ - . [
Hotel. Kiak*d* Hotel.Oki»h..«4 city. Bu,h>- H.>tet M.L.ruod H.-tei. Mt.Aie.-et o». * 1 ’ '<! the state out of thousands upon thousands each year in j paper.
It is needless to say that Cullison was not emploved. A dav hrn„aria ,. .
"Entered a* Second-ciaa. Matter September 25th. 1913. at the Po*i ^me. who received over $-10,000 for printing during the la it decent newspaper does not want such stuff as he writes. Surely 3 fe ^mon Time8'
•fflr* at Oklahoma, Oklahoma.” legislature; Warden, of the Warden Printing Company; and the respectable men of Oklahoma do not regard with any degree
Bixbv of not shoe polish fame. The only member of the gang of seriousness such rot as he publishes in the Jacksonian Derao-
i absent was the great genius of Tulsa, the one who double-crossed crat.
his benefactor Tate Brady, none other than Col Stryker of Red
Book fame. Grafting is more easily understood if you are a
The ••Jackass” Democrat, published
in the Lce-Huckins hoteflobby at Ok-
Cullison is a floater and his name is not in the citv directory. 1lahoIDa Clt>'- sa>* the other edit-
If he is reflecting Dunlop’s ideas he is revealing the fact that "rs of the 8tate arc p111 heads, and an
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JIMMIE JACOBS AND I’LA^H I. TOM. grafter. Consequently, the Jack understands. The scheme to -is employer is coarse and uncouth and unfit toliold any polit- betaU8e d0 not approve of that
light, on which flower to gather the nectar. As gently as lea<l- Irwin of Pauls Valiev. Bixbv of the Phoenix both interested with lost d°«h(X)d. we will push the editorial force of that par m °*a ‘D the e8tlaiatlon of the people
ing up to the point of a friendly loan, we are trying to tell you mind vou. were chosen as a committee of two and they in turn down the street in a wheelbarrow. We have failed as vet to see has >et t0 make the first tru»h-
how hard it is to choose between two loves-Jimmie Jacobs choose the third partv. Now whom did thev choose. Glenn ,a cisrar named after the Times or a national holiday'set in its ;ul.8,atemfent any of his meetings,
and our old time friend Playful Tommie McMechan. These two Rom of this 0itv. who some three weeks ago accepted a position • onor- The reason the Times doesn’t float is because it could < p !* him ia a tor the
gentlemen are sacrificing their busy lives to the cause of State l;* foreman of the Phoenix. This trio reported Homadv’s shop
dropping like a hot potato their evefy-day affairs that posterity ;?nfit to turn out the work. Nothing odd here is there? Anv
may benefit thereby, that Oklahoma may once again be on the fool can unravel the n N er the ballots are turned ---------------.. „1W ttuuril)11 wutt UPUIID
honor roll and take its standing among the nations of ihe world. „ut this trio will either stand as liars or ones who would not investigating the Times we found thev had not met a'pay roll in , , " Dunlop 1>r0PO8e
There comes a time in all our lives when “stalling" ceases know a print shop from a house in the rear of the garden. the front office in six months wholly 'and seldom in part Thev Uie campalgn tor governor
to be an asset, where one must assert his manhood and "marry This was understood There was the clique and dan all J*1 a ^fculation manager by name'Deacon who could not pay .novJeIcrTn a^ vLiem
not with its burden of unpaid bills and its editorial anchor drag- sapport ot the JacksonUiL-suadard
ging in the mud. Sentinel
The .above statement is true with this addition, that upon
wL^Sw'w^t’s”^ a^ent ^Jeverdw^kV com ing * ^
The Jacksonian Democrat, in order
Lrwe after all is nothing more or less than coming in con- bond to protect Senator Gore from another attack bv Mrs. Bond Phonal, so let it be Some time back the Times suggested to
t^ct with innocent youth at a tender age and by constant asso- and all things were ready when lo. behold! the phone rang in the Ja<* to “ a Journalist what we would sav as a gentle- .Ta,cu^ pPwde_:, .! P11
emtum hard to shake off. Me love them both, fair James and the bond company’s office. After the conversation that gentle- man- th,nk that a little of this advice would do it good. showa twelve w * '"a. “,P "®
playful Tom How often, Ah W! how often have we in the man in question turned to Mr. Hornady and said: “I cannot CoL Edgar stated to this writer that he would consider our failed to recogntee Zd Jl®
sweet days of long ago sat under the bamboo tree ami like unto accept your bond.” Going from there to the office of the Board application were it not for the fact that the paper was exper- ever -Johnston Coumy i^“ * ,
Potiphar 9 wife fondled the fair curls of these of whom we write. (,f Affairs, personal bond was made up to $12,000. This was lencing a financial strain, and that he did not feel justified in __ L>emotrat-
and now, like stepping into » trap hole on our daily walk find refused and it then came down to a man with “honest to God” Pitting on an additional force. While it is true that “It isn’t it West and Dunion are in
ourselves face to face, before the bar of justice unprepared. money to sign the bond. While Mr. Chas. Bryant of the Bank "hat you used to be. it is what you are todav ” we have had cur about their race' for governor Thv
Fair Jim our own Jacobs, he of Peeping Tom fame is ever of Commerce of Sulphur had extended a credit of $2,000 to Mr. ™me on a book with a rating higher than H 3 1-2. If the don't they resign the offices they now
in our thoughts With his spit, spit and his spat, spat: with his Hornady to carry on the work he did not fee 1 that (owing to an Times could today have any sort of a rating below M—they hold and quit making the taxpayers
explanatory way of explaining. Oh—words fail us. Jimmie is agreement with other members of his bank) he could sign the vv'>uld employ brains to consider, discuss and write copv about !of the state pay then campaign bills’
a mystery to us of late. In the deep crevices of his home lies bond. This writer said to Mr. Bryant: “Money is like cork, it natters more important than Cullisor. If we were ever justl- Bob williams resigned from "the
buried that famous bloody pillow slip dipped in the blood of our .l as different values at different times. Around your neck when fifd a calling a pinhead a pinhead, the above article from the preme court to make the r Ce and
illustrious Blind Senator and our wayward girl. We have in- thrown overboard it is priceless, on dry land a cent a pound Times proves our conclusion beyond any reasonable doubt. The hese other fellows should either re-
sisted that he bring this forth that a state might be saved a 'Oklahoma has her eyes on the letting of this contract. Let us “ack Perhaps in times past has been a floater. Has seen the sign their office or withdraw from tin-
woman's all once more be placed on the highest pedestal within set a precedent for honest state printing and see ‘what made time when a cracker looked like a clapboard, a quarter like a race. The people are entitled to a
the gift of God—“a woman’s virtue,” that the Devil may gleam the tumble bug tumble.’” When Bryant scheduled for upwards hat. Has eaten with Dives and quarreled with Lazaruus [square deal-Quinton Times
in triumph in the destruction of man's ail—“his honor.” But of $100,000. this bunch of leeches left that room in less time than determine which should breakfast off the crubs. Has slept __
Jimmie remains as firm as a bill collector, as obstitnato as a Lot’s wife turned to salt, differing only in that they never looked '=n Salvation Army beds and on hair from the choicest geese in if the Jacksonian* reports of Bob
country jackass on a rainy day. This great secret is locked back. All this talk about “ridiculously low.” there is over $1000 Arkansaw. Knows the difference between the spring of a velvet Dunlop's crops are halfway true Bob
well within his hairy busum there to remain until Link Me- profit on the job for 10 days’ work at Hornady's figures, and carP*t and the green grass beneath the feet, has learned to wont have anv time to devote to the
Connell calLs Time and the Heavens open at his beck. Some- r.ow the grafter of all grafts, the trust who never trusts, the know tha* imported Havana will never take the place of Ken- duties of governor, should he be
times we fear Jimmie was one of those who worked himself into Western Newspaper Union, refused to sell, for cash—cash in |*jcky “Houn-leg." knows gush from gish, and piff from pickle, elected. According to the Jacks” ete
a frenzy and “kited” a bum check on Link—but no—not this. hand mind you. tK paper to print these ballots on. The man- This knowledge has proven to him that a constant diarrhoea at timate he will have more corn and
And playful Tom. we would rather think it of him. Like **Cer, Julian. says'Uwtt every man who writes about him owes T.e mouth can only be stopped with brains. Our advice to the wheat than Carter had oats, and his
Judas in many ways Tom is wont to wander from the fair Ups k>m- " ell. we never ask him for a penny's credit, and he had 1 Im^s 18 become so constipated with loftier ideals that it will crop was so great that he had to rent
of the daughters of Eve and swap spits with the sons of men. bettor be rather cautious in saying that we owe him. n(^ become so weak from its heretofore chronic cases of GRIPE, more land to stack the oats on—just
~ ‘ ' _ - ~ — | a-Ja-Graves.
Listen ye! After the Bond-Gore jury had “filed in” playful Tom
You can readily see this graft. Why will not this trust
became so excited, his affectionate nature losing all control, he -'ell goods for cash? Answer, friend Julian. It was the entire
stiffened his backbone and in one leap was parting the whiskers bunch versus Hornady and the Jack, with the latter two carry-
of a sturdy farmer in an attempt to find his spooch organ for ing away the grapes. If we had nothing harder in life to do |
a fond caress, and did. In turn he favored the court with a than match wits with this clique we would close up shop and spit
passionate pressure of bearded lips. Judge Clark hardly knew
whether to spit in his face or hold both of his hands to keep him
from further ruffling his dignity, anyway he held both paddles
of playful Tom high in the air. The Judge takes no chances.
With these facts confronting us we can be pardoned for
demurrer.
tenderly at a fishworm light our old cob pipe and dream.
THE NORTHERN DEMOCRAT.
LEST WE FORGET.
'For the test of the heart is trouble
And that only comes with years
And the smile that is worth the praise on earth
Is the smile that shines thru tears.”
wasc i room on the land where the
oats were grown.—Quinton Times.
LET JESUS DO IT.
ONE thing we don't understand. If
Judge Robertson la so awfully strong
in his home county—Lincoln—why is
it that Bill Murray beat him over one
| hundred votes in that county in the
It is well now and anon, or for all if you please, in our mad race for congressman at large in i9ior
a ' From the Shawnee Daily Press. rush for place and power, to cease discussing for the moment Tbey claim about SOOO democratic
It is rumored that some of the southern Democrats will not accursed army of politicians and write of those who are less 'oters in that county and Robertson
support Robert Dunlop for governor because he was born and at table of D?ves and more in the company of Lazarus. received only a few over soo. or just
: reared in Kansas, in other words, they will not vote for hi-n . Napoleon said that the Lord was always on the side with the 3 *raction more than one-fourth of the
... .... „ , I because he is a northern Democrat. This is the most sillv rust- army. Most certainly he seems to be less with the DemocratJc vote Is th«t popular
After ail. Jesus paid the bill. So Link McConnell got bum ue >rUerre ever attempted in a political campaign Bes’des it h washerwoman, more with the jewelry store, with the fata! Popularityr-Quinton Times. (
l . Wl! rt™embemi dimly at that one Lmk!a on rhe loyalty and fairness of southern Democrats to 'hree balls -
McC onnell, a blatherskite preacher whose only asset was a con- their northern Democratic friends, who stood bv the south dur- Step, if you please, each evening over to the Rock Island Blb Dun!oP- the present state treas-
stant diarrhoea at the mouth pitched his tent in Oklahoma City jnjr f e days of reconstruction, when the south did not have an<3 notice good old “Grandma,” upwards of sixtv vears un>r' who asPires to be governor of
and with the assistance of a few silver voiced singers and a first i a Hemtor jn either branch of the United States congress The ?{ age selling papers at a penny per. The kind motherly sniile is th!s sta‘e’ is SOOD to 8tart on a sPeak-
class press agent, proceeded to attract (as he would have you ‘ southern Democrats surely have not forgotten that when in the like a waft of coo} breeze on the desert air her sweet forgiving ine, ,our »owerer. he win be pre-
behe\e) the attention ot the Hrst Great Cause to the awful early days of the year 1868. Thaddeus Stevens. Charles Sumner. aatare like unto a benediction after the day's toil. Allow vour cefled 1C eaoh lown b>' Re-
condition of this our Oklahoma C ity. Zack Chandler and other radical Republicans forced a biff memor>'to fancy her m her youth, full of Hope, assisted bv De- ,ures-sho'“ng him doing various
-tv If .Tneonhau HnfCfiwten h‘-h-*-he0r>^ ,Ct *lhlf through congress, confiscating the homes of all “rebels” in the fire ske starte<1 d°wTi the path of Life with everv promise per- *‘unta ®n. farm’ oppose. While
rn!t if Lhff r^ l «P bhla and n°third? th?" that eleven seceding states, how the loval Democrats of the north haPs of ^ace and P^nty. Opportunity, however, passed her bv ‘ ey TJ , d,ffemit in ever? wa-v
-F f ^ town kad been legally wet. he would have <t(KKj by tbem an(1 their homes from being turned over to and todaY w« fi,id ber as she is. pennyless but happier far than A Jennin^8 moving picture ex-
alS^ot^aid'in " marked fiS ” oegrtws and carpet baggers; that when President Johnson vetoed w.ho tread on velvet or reP<>^ on the downy couch of plentv. 1'’ yet th”ugh' Bob had mor"
he w^f werni"d e^en It thS nri^ But thT>h amu th.nt the bil1' the northern r)emocrato. aided by a few liberal Reoubli- Tor ' At sunrise every soul is born again.” and with the hone traJ ^ ex‘
aV,I\ it Vs That (^ral^av i is thl case l a clusto^ of dfmS cans' b,ocked the Pa<^^ of {he bill over the president's veto of et^rnal *^ard ^e faces the balance of her life, ever content r°bb®r aurika N<;''s Demo-
WJ1 let a guy like McConnell work them up to I pitch of dm,t ***** [° tbe.i,r ,southtn‘ brothers. Again, is not ^ shT yrrZa'n* with h.our:
ping a bum check in the accidentol collection box. Big brainy Ahe northern Democrat entitled to commemlation instead of con- ^ h2±T> _of,* ^^rable tesks. she .s only an example of
Ri«r hmiiir I emiutu 10 cuinrawmauon instead oi con- • , , .----- e
men never go to nuts over camD mwtinjr ^ivation Thev nrefer demnation for standing by and keeping alive the principles of toose who mane up the steenth estate of God's lonely creatures. sn the rin* and i«
tfjssssfz srrzStSi "m",me ,s ever K“viv*r priKl“cins 5UCh “ ^ ^
The Jacksonian Democrat is ag&is
courage to stand up and fi^rht for the principles of Democracy in
states where it was moral crime to be a Democrat, is entitled to 1
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floor.
They have just about made up their minds that God
mighty is like the rest of us. likelv to love a man for w hat he support of every loyal southern Democrat. Is the man born
does, not what he savs; and that a man who pa vs his honest and rear<?d in 80uth "here democracy is a passport to polit-,
debts if he can is as good as a long faced preacher in sackcloth. 111***1 and S(X’!al Preferment entitled to more praise for l<?ing a
whose chief business it is to offer up a praver in a split tail coat • Dem'xra’ than the northern man, whose only reason for being
and a white necktie. After it is all over what good did your a Democrat is his loyalty to its principles and an effort to keep
McConnell do? * the party organization together. Yes. as between southern and
Suppose, as you believe, that McConnell has the attention of n<>rthern democrats. Mason and Dixon's line should be wiped out.
high heaven, he would cause Christ to protest your bum check. opc-Eum
St Peter would say—“Look here, you plizzled up prohi. what _ Aalfca M’e.bln. j
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul;
That, changed through all. and yet in ail the same
Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame.
“As full, as perfect in a hair as heart
As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns.
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns;
To him no high, no low. no great, no small:
He fills, he bounds, connects and equals all.”
Little, jea a trifle, to say the least, do we stop to consider
meek and lowly. Go yonder, if you please, to that costlv:
sack a manner as to make the- fur
fly, so to *[>eak. It tells a iong tale
of his humbugging an old raaa out
of 11,000 by holding up a parole,
granted by the governor to the old
man s son. till the old man came
through with the needful. Just how
he could do that is more than we
know, but then it is not our fight any-
way. Hop to it boys, if that is your
idea of politics,—Pawnee Titnes-Dem-
©<rat.
say—"door nere. you puzzled up
? in SaiW j „ cover SfSE SI’S,” cwT^hTe S ',7" 'L T*' !" «•“« • Th, ,, o, *.
h„T check- -T« but tgrn-t orthmtox p-livon », ,h,t Gore <—* -
rjrssssstjl2SX: ....... or^r-“tjsriir&
Connell, even in bum checks, will never get in here. If he should changed we can't sav but Link McConnell used to be « cro >k ti V* t the ' oil V, -‘ti P ant* t a!P' Jbe cr> °/ the weak- thl' l!an!S- candidates for govemer. spoke
be w» never « . rein rbwb fur . return." gl.OOO for Unk M S^StJSSTS, M ^
*n hlf Pi8tJJ P^krt he carries the letters I How many hours, think ye, do politicians and statesmen H** rio.e io the speaker,
f the I resident and Secretan of Stxto saying as much. The spend m unraveling the mystery of it all. pointing to a balm f01 ,?an'1 and listened most attentively
H.»-J^UeP^re ^ ^ 1whether or not the burn? Christian religion was founded upon the simplicity dunn,f J*nnin** and a* soon
H.ijes is a bettor man to send to Washington than Gore. jof its founder and is fading on the splendor of its represent;!- as hP "?a ,hroush they lifted him
McConnell. Ah. God! what fools. Well that is what makes
Oklahoma dry and bootleggers fat. But let us offer up a prayer.
Their day is about over, this camp meeting business. When a
man will drop a bum check in the hat of a pious deacon and then
stand up and sing “Jesus Pays It All." it is about time to resort
to drastic measures to wake up some morning and find the whole
clique and clan dead. They would make better looking corpse*
than good citizens. This is the ilk that makes the McConnell*
possible.
E. B. Howard. Secretan- of the State Board of Affairs
whose owerful influence with that body and who. with his will-
ing a*r*oe?sftf», swept aside aB “report; to the contrary” anil
■warded the ballot printing to the lowest bidder disposed of
this matter of hugjness with lightning-like rapidity as is hi*
usual custom Mr Howard is one of the few men in public life
in Okahoma who is strong and honest enough to command state-
wide attention, at the same time remaining in the honesty group
<*• . , , T , . . — . # — —-— ~wu iuu oiJiciiui>r tji [rq j’0?)rp<;pnTf “ through they lifted him
an i ^ “ ,h“ ^ »—■ «- £» IVJ. .ft I •«=?“>
100,000 And more stale stuff is his alleged absence from the
away from the stand, leaving Wil-
li „ a * , , .. . .. ^ ^ , - , But the only real pleasure of life is doing good for other* i! a“® to ,alk to emP‘y 8ea‘* not to
roll call. Senators do not live in the Senate Chamber, they are the strong to assist the weak. History's page* ire no* nr l!nt' xc^d 25 8,aid t0 hear him- W!!-
acting on committees or enjoying a Dutch lunch with a Jewish with records of ambitions men alone.' but are replete with the ara* *as 88 'hi,e 38 4 aad
record of those who, by true genius and bv self denial made forG mW,D! with rare: he on,y Md a
reformation and wrought the epochs since the dawn of time. ^ -------
neighbor. This dope is piff and pickle. Rum—bum
You will never defeat Gore with that. Never in a
vears.
reasoning,
hundred
If the Jack never did anything more, the fact that it assisted
in setting the precedent by having the State's printing done at
a reasonable figure, it has done much.
"Take natures path and mad opinions leave
All states can reach it. all head* conceive."
Let us think>ind act for those !e*s fortunate than m U
few words duu t ho a* xre uoi prist-
*•*!<* A man that At Jwitlsp an ey
bandit can take a crowd away from.
* n°t a proper peesoa to nominate
tor governor. It look* now that if
the Democrats nominate either Jen-
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