The Oklahoma Representative. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 23, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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The* Oklahoma Representative
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VOLUME 5. NO. :57
GUTHRIE,•OKLAHOMA* .1 I LY LM, "1 ! <>.
WHOLE >.' I'M I.ET5 12! T
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05LS oils? m oils!
Fa'rmers Should keep it in *m,'nd when
Procuring all kinds of Machine Oils that
RENFRO'S IS THE PLACE
OILS BY. THE PINT OR GALLON!
DR. FUKLONQ IN COLORADO.
HISTORY REPEATING.
He Stops over for a Call at Populist (>en Picture and Comparisons From
Headquarters—His Choice.
The
C. R.„ RENFRO, The Druggist.
Guthrie, Okla.
OLR EDITORIAL FORUH.
subsequently repudiated by the party
iu that district, and we are afraid will
be, by the democracy in other elec-
tions. If the democratic party is ac-
ting in good faith we congratulate it
011 having1 learned, though imperfectly,
the lesson our party has so long- been
teaching.—Courier. Alva. Ok.
The act opening Oklahoma to settle-
ment exempted the Indians from taxa-
tion and fastened the payment of $1.25
It is
A Brief Resume of the Best Reform
Thought of Oklahoma.
Sic transit gloria mundi as interpret-
ed by the western republicans since
the St. Louis convention, means, "we
are in a hole, help us out somebody."
Courier. Alva.
The strongest opposition to free sil- ,'and #1.50 per acre upon the honest mid
ver coineh from Massachusetts, the I hard workinp white settler. .1 Ins was
state that exiled liotfcr Williams, epped j11 ' that was passed at u time >vhen
Wendell Phillips and mobbed William i U"' republican party was in power and
Lloyd Garrison. Massachusetts has | Harrison in the White House.
never ceased to be a Hritish colony.- _ ——————
Champion, Oklahoma City. I
The republican party of this terri-
tory is doing all it fan to make a patri-
otic issue on free homes. There can
be no issue on that point as there is
not a man in the territory opposed to
free*hoir.e *. Why not resolve for plen-
ty of rain, good crops and good prices.
this issue would be just as consistent
as the free homes issue.—Headlight.
El Reno.
The political jackasses, who think
they can longer hold the people of this
country in check under the party lash
l y prating about •'international agree-
ment" "with the enlightened commer-
t ial nations of the world" and McSkin-!
e:n tariff protection to home and fire- j
side will be turned out to graze and I
meditate on their greatness this fall. - I
Reformer. Kingfisher. Okla.
The fool killer has evidently heen
getting in his work effectively. It has I
been some days now since some servile I
ed'* it- or gold bug hireling has announ-
ced that the silver craze is dying out.
When the silver forces open their cam- j
paign in the east the gold bugs will I
quake with fear and astonishment, j
They can't fool a!: the people all the |
time.—Star. Medi\.r-:i. Okla.
"An international ap'eement for the [
larger use of silver is an irridescent
dream." says the Globe Democrat of I
st. Louis, tlie leading western republi- j
can newspaper. And the republican
platform on which Dennis Flynn stands i
(when sober enough to stand at'all;
demands that we continue the present
gold standard until an international
silver agreement is s. cured!—Voice.
Norman. Okla.
What a weak, frail ground Dennis
Flynn really has to make a campaign
on! He and his boosters must always
tell "how much he has done," but nev-
er t«ll what it was: they must not say
anything about finance—no! no! Free
Homes is their only hobby. And what
is that? Is it an issue in this cam-
paign'.' No! Because an issue must
have a negative, and no man in Okla-
homa is fool enough to be against free
homes and our own interests.—Patriot.
Perry. Okla.
About the palest, sickliest, gonest
looking thing we have observed since
the adoption of the go.d standard by
the Republicans at St. Louis is Frank
(Jreer's "home production of the Amer-
ican product" sheet. it has such a far
away look, haggard, dejected, ema-
ciated. forlon. wilted—the gold cure
was too strong a purgative for its Okla-
homa stomach, and lias run into an ag-
gravated case of running off at the
mouth. Poor 'thing! it will be a mira-
cle if it and Guthrie's Washington
agent survive the change of weather
that must come this fall.— Reformer.
Kingfisher.
The huftb of the republican prep*
on the financial question is awfully
painful. They talk McKlnley, reci-
procity, prosperity and other yam-
noted doctor stopped over one j
j train last week while enroute from
i Oklahoma City to Colorado for a short I
ami much* netted rest. The subject
! naturally turned to lJrvan and the wise
course for Populists to pursue. He was ,
I greatly pleased at the democratic nom-
{ ination and hoped for St. Louis en-
dorsement.
On the matter of congressional nom-
ination. he indicated no personal am-
bition or intention to himself be before
the convention, but dii> express a stray
admiration and desire that Dr. Delos
Walker, of Oklahoma City, should se-
cure that honor. He says:
I look with favor on tlft' candidacy of
Dr. Walker, and 1 can vouch for his
populism, integrity and ability. I
would further implore the delegates
and candidates to control their person-
al feelings and ambitions for the good
of our cause—to fix no slates or com-
bines, but to leave the delegates per-
fectly free to look the whole ground
over and select the man who, in their
cool and unbiased judgment, would do
Grand Clearance Sale of Shoes!
the Past for Present Good.
Ed. Kei'REskntativh:—■ It has been a
serious matter with me. a farmer, la- ;
boring under the disadvantages of pos-
sessing only a common school educa- j
tion, such as the Buckeye boys received
50 yejfrs ago in the three months terms
held in the old buckeye log school
liid away among the hills and dales of
old Clermont county.
•Hut Ciermont county gave to the
world a Grant—the silent man of des-
tiny—and although ambition with
me has never been a ruling passion, 1
#believe that I have inherited from a
long line of American ancestors a love
of liberty that is with me a ruling pas-
sion. and '96 as *01 finds me ready for*
the fray, ami*I stand as 1 did on that
bright October day in '01. No. ti in the
rear rank, and Oh, how proudly we
marched away, and* Oh. Ifow sadly
proud we returned again after four
years—only l'l out of the km) returned
to home and loved ones. Let the or-
derly call the roll; the guardians of our
ivill soon
at prices
To make room fur our immense fa
arrive-we will offer all of .o
that will tempt the most scrupulous
We have the best $t.oo 1'iow Shoes in the territory.
Don't fail to give us a call. * •
11 stexk which
immer Shoes
buyer.
118 West Oklahoma.
Ei5enschmi1.lt & Weckel.
places. And we have just reason to pe
•ondemn ourselves, for ct nniving in all
those terrible and crying disorder
those who eommitj.take no manner «>f
pains to conceal them nor to hide
their thefts and depredations from the
eyes and knowledge of the public. "
How like our •present horde of mil-
lionaire brigands ensconsed in their
palaces along the banks of the Hudson.
Speaking of the third age of Greece
the historian says: "The introduction
ot gold and silver- into Sparta from
whence they were banished under se-
vere penalties, did not happen until
about eighty years after the battle of
ple. the soldier, the farmer, the
hunt, the tradesman, with an
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ception clause on tlm hack of it in fa-
vor of the bond-bolder, the financier,
the banker and the capitalist the law
under which the paper was issued pro-
viding tin- bond and placing it in the
hands of the capitalist to absorb the
paper money and by transiering it into
the hands of the \VaH street specula-
tors in the form of non taxable inter-
est bearing debt, under another law
made the basis of a scheme of robbery
called the national banking system.
The midnight robber and assassin
must approach his victim cautiously.
At first the bond called for only inteh-
i i st in coin: the principal not yet be-
ting due. the robber awaits his oppor-
|t ;nity. The voice of the people is
| i .;shed i«y the < lainor of the loyal mob.
I The great miltury* leader is elected
i •/-es'ul^'h!: f« <-en days after his in-
auguration signs an act of a loyal
! congress called an net to "strengthen
i the public credit of tin; i'nited States."
converting the bonds gathered in by
j the rich men at -10 cents on the dollar
nto' -tnn bonds. which simply legisla-
ted ; few billions of.the people's money
nt - the pocke ts of a higher and sup«-
rior class of citizens: that class which
Alt \iii.(K r Ham 1 onV lyles "the rich
|-ml we!: born, wlio by tlie graee of <■<>«]
I and ti
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LA1JOK VS. GKEEI).
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A WAHMNfi TO PLUTOCRACY.
jTifrhted 'SP0, by !1 ViNCBK*
foolishness for the people to listen to
this 'free home" howl of Flynn'*. If
Flynn was in earnest in this matter lie
would have secured the passage of his
free home bill a long time ago. It was |
gotten up especially for political bun- j
combe, but Mr. Flynn has misjudged |
the Oklahomans: they cannot be fooled |
upon all occasions.—Review, Alva. Ok. •
the most, not for one locality, but for
the whole people.
I would like very much to be with;, ..
. . i . ' i -ill lumbia. Ivenesaw. Hcntonville, Kaleigii
you Aug. 4 and 5. and possibly I may.! . .. , .... ^
national cemeteries, from Shiloh. Vicks-
burg. Corinth, Atlanta-to-the-sea. Co-
but i will at least be with you in spir-
it and desire
Poor Dennis Flynn! The fog has be-i
- , ■ .... ... , i come so dense as to absolutely cause
vauis I he tar « question is >feltinC , , t() dt.r far from home has
nwfi.l tlrenoine to tl.e average Anion- reu(1 thought, studied and
ran voter. I he tanfl was on poll«lered over the St. Louis platform,
the country In the .lavs of Gmrgc | i;,n(rin(r for scnetliin^r contained tluTo-
VN ashinjrton. and a.elnldyet nnborn Un that he mi^ht throw as crumbs to
will he elffhtv years old before It i« ],js constituents, and as though bv in-
setlled. It Is a inaneot. a subterfuge spiration there came to him as words of
in politics and a steal on the con*u n- fire "Free Homes." He threw
When Dick Bland voted in congress
trf compromise at a ratio of 16. 17 and
and even *J0 to 1 in the interest of free
silver. Itilly Bryan was voting with
answers for the absent ones. The war
is over, and we are at home ngain safe
in the bosom of mother earth. Hav-
ing died that others might live we rest
in peace, and the orderly answers, all
present or accounted for—l!l men on
parade.
we have entreated, we have
plead, we have begged, -but now we
petition no more, we beg no more,
We defy them."—Banner. Newton Kas.
ers of the west. The tariff will be
smothered tinder in this campaign.—
Enid Wave.
The national Democracy in conven-
tion at Chicago, apportioned a large
part of the People'?* party platform.
t,. ... . - •
the
away i
f the platform and now j
ha lan
says that "free homes" are paramount j
to the financial, tariff or any other is-]
sue. And this is the sop proposed to be
thrown out to a people who have been
robbed and plundered by vicious legis-
- .. lation. This is heaping insult upon in-
I he republicans did the same thing in jllrv rtn(] unless we mistake the people
the seventh Kansas Congressional dis- j tney will resent it by voting both Flynn
trict when "Prince I!;i met his at-1 Jin<j tlit* nartv out of existence,
erloo. but the act and platform were |{eview. Alva. Okla.
NEW STORE, STOCK, PRICES,
FARMERS and,everybody are solicited to call and
Examine our new Stock. Just what you want.
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Groceries, Notions, and Sundries!
1Mb* Urn Hi'nted «i.nvr >1 no
11 " Hati'i 1 ickctl lJtuiis 2.r>
f> " 1 i in >« . . 2ft
1* " HoIImI Oat* . si*
4 " i-aokufe • • 2c
1 " .\rt>HckU- ifO
.1 " Li'in Cofee .10
*1 Cm CiLMirni'M
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" Brnk#n Rift ... ..Ift
bulk Starch • • • • 2^
' rorn Starch 2ft
" Tom«tofii . . • • •<*
** Cal Aiiricot* lo
" " Plum- ••• 10
" tree 10
rnvid^nii'd mlllifto
" til tardinrt
1 i 1 jelly 40
1 sal «'t (lorfhuM
1 ml rood Corn pyrip.—30
I'ry nalt Side Mrat lb
Armoar'f Ham
1-4 lo devilM ham
ltfc lb
9 («fi
. ,«ft.
. .9ft.
Come and Get Acquainted. It will both pay and
plea«e you. We are in the old Shapland l?uilding 8
/asf Oh la Aug.. under Masonic Hall W. R. MOFFETT.
Jerry Simpson and tin- other Populist I _The thoughtful student of history re-
congressmen for 10 to 1 or nothing. As ; viewing* the world s battlefields, iu the
Hilly said at Chicago, "we have peti-. workshop and on the farm, knows to
• ' • an absolute certainty that now ih the
critical, tlie supreme moment: that 1MHJ
will seal perhaps for centuries the des-
tiny of the "jrreat republic.*' The
power behind the throne, that in all
ages has been greater than the throne
itself, has at last concentrated its power
in this country in the great republican
party. Thoroughly united, avarice and
greed have chosen their agency well.*
They have stolen the livery of the great
* party of Lincoln, and under its present
banner demands the surrender of our
free constitution. The American citi-
zen that can put any other construction
on the financial plank of tin St. Louis
platform than that of a virtual surren-
der of our whole system of government
to the money Kings and crowned heads
Special rates arc made for delegates
and visitors at the Capital hotel for
August 411) and 5th.
Special Rate* for Guthrie.
A I.ARGK CONVENTION EXI'ECTK1>-—IM-
PORTANT SESSIONS—WHEN TO A It-
K1VE FOR HfSIN)fSS.
The railroads leading to Guthrie and
connecting for Guthrie have granted
special reduced rates on account of the
Populist Congressional Convention for
August 4th and 5th. Delegates and
visitors should arrange to arrive here
from the south not later than 5:45
o'clock a. in. of the 4th. and from the
north not later than 12:25 p. m. of *the
same day. as the convention will be
called to order promptly at '2 p. m. of
the 4th.
The temporary organization will pro-
bably hold during the afternoon for
the selection of committees apd the
hearing of the territory reports. In the
evening, while committees are out. the
city will turn out in ait informal re-
ception and a short interesting pri*
gram will Ik* called at which it is ex-
pected that some of the best talent
from all over Oklahoma will respond.
The deliberative session will doubt-
less convene early on the 5th, and un-
less delayed longer than can now be
foreseen, may finish in g< od season of
same day. Better take a day off and
come to Guthrie.
Salamis
manners
and the ancient
adhered
war Is. notwithstanding that violation
of the laws of Ljcurgus.*' As much
may be said of the test of Greece,
which did not grow weak and degener-
ate. but slowly and by degrees. This
is what remains to show. The princi
f right to rule and govern.''
1 N< rslied. the monster avarice and
I gre-'d using the means resorted to
i! ii;fig tit ; n • nt Greeks and Komaiij.
sec.;: e the passage of acts to provide
tor * e ref .tiding of the bonds and ?n
. :-(l r to blind their dupe:, aeecpt low-
rates of '.nt< rest, all the time look
!ug Jorwad to the time of the grand
a .. i:.:.t >n <>t' their robber schemes,
j I y t he passive of the demonetization
Now the leaders shout
republican party point-
j r. • to the record of the past,
l\ >.r :i their perfidious and crime
led history. Their treason more
Aii. V«'s. the ir legalized acts of
hateful than any ever
\ erpetrut u i \ the physical power of
ij ei." fr' « bo; ters. not excepting the
beastv. Ale•• ander the Great or Napo-
leon the first.
Hear t!. • ■ shov.t go up, « very ditllar
is j; g«-od as every other dollar. The
crmn of the I'nited States is A 1
among t'n** enlightened nations of the
earth." <«od is gold ami gold is God.
Seventy millions of human beings
groaning under an indebtedness of for-
ty billions of dollars all payable iu gold
or its equivalent.
Turning again to Kollins. in his his-
tory of Pontius we read: "Lucullus,
when he left Amisus. directed his
march toward the cities of Asia, which
the avarice and cruelty of the usurers
and tax-farmers held under the most
dreadful oppression, inasmuch that
t hese poor people were obliged to sell
their children of both sexes, and even
>et up to auction the paintings and
statues consecrated to the gods. Ami
when these would not suffice to pay
the duties, taxes and interest unpaid,
they were given up without mercy to
their creditors, and often exposed to
such barbarous tortures, that slavery
I in c< mparison with their miseries seem-
I ed a kind relief and tranquility to
———— ti i m.
I These irr.mense debts of the proviue
linnlicity of j arose from the tine of twenty thousand
long after- talents, .vhich Sylla had imposed on it.
They had already paid the n in twice
over, but those insatiable usurers, by
heaping interest upon interest, had
augmented it to one hundred and twen-
ty thousand talents, so that they still
owed three times as much as tliev had
pal cause of the w eakening and declen- I already paid, Tacitus had reason to
sion of the Greeks, was the disunion
which rose up among themselves. The
Persians who had found them invinci-
ble in arms, as long as union existed,
applied their whole attentions and pol-
icy in sowing the seeds of discord
among them. For that reason tiie\
say. that usury was one of the most
ancient evils of the Heman common-
wealth. and the most frequent cause of
sedition. I ut at the time we now speak
of it was carried to an excess not easy
to comprehend.
The interest of money among the
employed their gold and silver, which Romans was paid every month, and
succeeded much better than their arms was one per cent, hence it was called
and steel had done before, flic Greeks ; ufeuria c< nicsima, unciarum foonus.'
attacked irresistibly in this manner because* in reckoning the twelve
by bribes, secretly conveyed into tin* months. ! v.1-elve per cent was paid; 'un-
hands of those who had the greatest i .:s the twelfth part of a whole. The
share in their government, were divid- ]j,v.- of ti e twelve tables prohibited the
ed by domestic jealousies, and turned raising interest to above twelve per
their victoiious arms against them- -ent. This law was revived bv the two
selves, which had rendered them su- tribunes of the people in the three
perior to their enemies.' hundredth and ninety-sixth year of
N history repeating itself. < r is it i |;(,rju. 'i'en years after interest was
not .' Let the financial legislation of | reduced to half that sum. At length,
the last •'<) years speak.
First comes money for the common
Mb pace.
of Europe, does so at the sacrifice of
his American manhood, either as the
dupe or paid attorney of the father and
mother of despotism, avarice and greed.
Rollins, in his ancient history of
Egypt, speaking of the crime of Verres
at that time pruetor of Sicily, says:
"That w hat Cicero reproaches Verres
with in this place, was not peculiar to
him: it was the crime of almost all the
magistrates sent by Home into the prov-
inces: a crime which the senate and
people seemed to approve, and of which
they made themselves equally guilty,
by their weak and abject connivance.
'We have seen for several years.' says
the lime Cicero, in another of his ora-
tions against \ erres. and have Buffer-
ed in silence the wealth of all nations
to be transferred into the hands of a
; few private persons. Athens. Pergam-
o*. Cyzicnm. Miletus. C'aio. Samos. in
fine all Asia. Achaia. Greece. Sicily,
are now enclosed in some of the coun-
try houses of those rich and unjust
men of rapine, while a general want of
money is experienced in all other
MONEY SAVING SALEJ
* o
A LL our Men's, Boys and Children's Suits i;o at greatly
■"^reduced prices. We still have a larpe stock of Sum-
mer Suits on hand, if you need anything in Clothing now is the
time to
SAVE BIG MONEY ON A SUIT
We also have an immense stock of Hats, Shirts, Underwear, Cot-
ton Pants, Trunks, Valises at greatly reduced prices. Come in
and take advantage of our extra low prices on good <|'jalitifv
LEVY'S BEEHIVE.
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