The Lamont Record. (Lamont, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1909 Page: 3 of 6
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VOL 4
Lainont Needs a Booster Club. Why (not Organize one,
A, AUGUST uf
LAMONT. OKLAIIOM.
100".
No.21
C
and
HAN DIG AR DEI)
(Jones oi' <)Ulalu>nm City,
.). W. Me Neal of Guthrie,
have announced their candidacy
for flic nomination lor gov* rnur
next year, on tin* Republican
ticket, These are two line gen-
tlemen and should either of them
ho nominated ami elected, would
make good g laTinru a 1 I give
the state a business administra-
tion. 1 hit there is one thin?.*; that
would he disnsterous to tin* Ik*
publican party in a campiign.
and that is the state capital fight.
Hot.li Oklahoma City and Guthrie
are candidates tor that houm
and on * could not stand to see
the otlu*r win prestige hy having
the governor ele *ted from • ither
of the cities. Next yen is nut the
time for the Republic m party t«
allow state capital location and
i tlirr side issues to get mixed
up in a campaign. The party
wants to make i’s eampa:gn on
facts and solution* for ■•* blun-
ders of th * prose .t almin's ra
tion. Tim people and taxpayers
of the state are look inn- to the
Republican party t> furnish a
Moses to lea 1 them out of the
Wilderness of h’gb tuxes and un-
conservative actions, and place
the state on a business basis,
that it may be redeemed and oc
oupy its place among the great
and re- o a reef u l stalls ot 11 it
union. The man wlm theR pub-
licans nominate for the office oi
governor 'must be a man from
among the people, a fearless ad-
vocate of the right, and unhamp-
ered by any local issues. He
must he a mm whose mind is
broad enough to encompass the
state from the north to the south,
from the east to the west, and
who is unprejudiced on all quos-
lions, either those for present
consideration or those which are
liable to arise during the next
four j-years aft r his in mgura-
tion. lie must he a man who
knows the citizenship of the state*
from the farm to the factory,
from the day laborer to tin* count-
ing room-. With such a candidate
as this it will inspire the eonti
deuce of the people and they
will not fear that he will be sway-
ed in his judgment by local is-
sues or specia 1 interests. There
are plenty of good men in the
state who can perform the func-
tions of governor, with credit to
themselves and everlasting cred-
it to the state, and these ty.o
gentlemen mentioned are among
them, but unfortunately either
of them would be compelled, on
account of location, to enter the
race handicapped, and next year
is not the time that any candi-
cate can carry a handicap. The
candidate must come from a neu-
tral locality on all questions and
be neutral, unpledged and un-
biased, and in sympathy with
only the best interests of all the
state and all localities.
VIEWS OH AN EX CONGRESS-
MAN.
What the trouble with this ex
congressman is, is hard to falli-
iuember of congress, “about the
courage and independence o" cer-
tain congressmen who jumped
onto Uncle .Joe Cannon during
the late session of congress. The
truth of Lh“ imilter is that it r<*
quire.1 a deal m »r<* courage t<
stand hy tin* speaker in this so*
.ion than it did to attack him. It
locsn’t take very much cuuntgt
to vote against the speaker oi
the liner of tlie house. I havi
done it a s* ore of times witlmu
thinking of taking any pa-ticulai
credit for it. Hub I'll tell ym
wluit dues tale* courage, and that
is to stand up against the elumoi
of your own people. It tlu
people who maUi* cowards of pub
lie men. They d< not intend ti
do it. They declare that wl.at
they want above all else is a re| -
reselltutiv<* v, ho has a mind of hi.
own and who w ill stand for what
h * believes to be right against all
o ids. H it, in point of fact, when
they get that kind of a man tliej
slm Rail kinds of anthems at him
the moment he takes a positioi
m some pub ic question wiili
which they don’t agree, and hu
often in* is either q lickly drivi n
out of public life or becomes a
m >re weather vane, pi anting witl
ts'ie wind just about as useful
as a chip Heating with the cur
rent. There are a few state*-
whore this is not so. M , s ,c!u ■
setts, for example, allowsits re] -
resmtatives the wiih si latitude
of opinion on public quo- was.
s ippoi ting them loyally so Erg
as there is no question of tlieii
sincerity and honesty. Surah r
Hoar speaks of this parlieuiarh
in his autobiography, saying Muit
although lie had freqceitly dif-
f *red with a large majority of his
constituents, no attack lias ever
been made upon him on that ac-
c unit. The result is that Mass-
achusetts always had a delega
tion of strong, fearless mi n in
congress fearless because thei
constituents do not, make cow-
ards of them. Ann her result is
that the public sentiment of
Massachusetts gets itself ex-
pressed in congress not the
hasty, ill-considered demands of
public clamor, but the real senti-
ment which is based upon f ill
and fair-minded discussion, it
is the man who can stand before
his own constituents and tell
them they are wrong when lie,
believes they are wrong who has
the true courage, and it is that
kind of a man who in the long
run wih be the true representa-
tive of the people.”
Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 20.
Shawnee has taken a hand in the
capital tight and has made a
proposition that the capital ques-
tion be settled by a compromise.
U. S. Russell, editor of the Shaw-
nee Herald, has addressed a let-
tor to Senator Campbell Russell
of Warner, who is fathering the
pro] omd New Jerusalem bill,
suggesting that the supporters
of the Oklahoma City bill, which
is now tied up in the courts, and
the advocates of the New Jerusa-
lem bill, which is now being cir-
th * features < f the* Nov.’ .Jerusa-
lem idea, ex.*,op' Ihul I la* 1 .-:i t inn
if the copital be limited I » w ilhin
t .vo or three miles of some <*s tab-
I shed railroad center and .find
the alleg 'd unfair feat ures of tin*
Miluliotfia City hill he eliiilimited.
“In support of my plan of set-
foment let me call attend m to
Lh • fuirne-is to all e no*era * I that
Irdinguislios a delegate eunv n-
lion.’’ says Russell in his lettei
• Campbell Russel), “pledg'd in
II vance to support the prin i iih-s
i id policies set forth in the call
1 i such a Meeting every cil.v and
iwn in Oklahoma would have at
* pin I opportunity to b * liear.l in
he draft mg of the capital bill,
with the result that wide*] row
•iad instantaneous suppoitfoi
a* accept!' 1 hill would h.> si*
•ured withoutadditionab'xpi i s 1
‘Vrom close observation of lh<
methods adopt d by the Oklahn
i:n City capital organization,' !
am led to believe that the neoph
i.i many instances have been ink
e i advantage of, while 1 know
f ir a certainty that tlso plan ad
v meed by them contemplates ;
e m< idacy of Shawnee and f
Guthrie upon a platform w rilti n
and adopted by Oklahoma Cit.\
without the consent or know
ledge of those two town ; which
have been forced int o the capital
c mtest. 1 further kn nv that
in my other towns ii Oklahoma
would have enter d into a cam
iiaign for the sea* of government
had they tie<*n permi .fed.”
is s ow.'an
fully as'tlu
planning for the work
l'owpeas may In* made
profitable a (a h crop a. earn,
cotton or wh at. And tin* g eat
advantage li** . in the improvi -
meat of tin* soil which is inevit-
able whenever cow peas are
■ ro an. 'I’li • increased y ield o '
ik 1 owing crops pays all the ox
o ■•use, hut t i.s is o:n* year when an
attorn] t should be made by
Commissioners to allow tlu*
j lints to run and I am pleasantly
surprised to learn f iat the may-
or has ordered his chief of police
to close them again. I am not
here to help the elieif, hut I am
here to see that the joints close
ami
stay closed. 11- any of them
running this week 1 will
t ie other nro'.il ; fr*»:11 tlu*
Top : 111 ill 1(1 he f, uke I all
HOTTING
Tin
READY
WHEAT .
•I i W pea
T.
UGH
wheat acreage is hound to
> * increased in Oklahoma this
f ill, High prices for any crop
ever fail to stimulate increased
production. A great many farm
ws are always a year or two be-
hind lie* good markets an 1 they
keep jumping about from one
crop to another without any set
tie 1 syst< in which experience
ha-> proven as besj adapted to
We av; r ,g<> seas >us in their lo-
cality.
k mw it and I certainly will give
Ll.ein and the administration
, plenty of publicity.
“It lias been demonstrated
that the joints can becloie'd tight
h *re and i intend to make it my
business to see that all of the liq-
uor violators in this city are
mad * known and prosecuted, if
that i > possible.”
Mrs. McHenry entered the of-
lice of 111<* mayor where M r. M a r-
shall was in consultation with
the county attorney and the chief
of police. She upbraided Mr.
Marshall because In* hud driven
her out of Howard, Ivans., ten
years ago. She followed him
SAVING a AM :.\ SEED
There i- more u t profit to be
made out of an ordinary cow pea
•rop than from a good crop of
cotton. Taking it by tlu* must
expensive method, tint of hand
picking the cow peas and either
Jailing them out or eh 'uning tin m
T\ i h a cowpea huller, there i* a
dollar a busied clear above all ex-
penses. It's a pretty poor cow-
pea crop which will not turn out
ten bushels per acre and yields
of more than doable that amount
ar ■ not iufr< quent.
The folks who have planted a
good acreage of cow peas may
make the crop compensate to
some extent for the damage
which dry weather did to the
The work which is done during from the mayor’s office to the
. he next- six weeks has a great office of the Beacon, w here she
h*al to dowith next.year's yields, berated both Mr. Marshall and
Kor best r .'suits, all of the land Henry Allen, the editor, until
for wheat should have been she was put out of the office by
I *
plowed before this time aiul ii an employee,
should be harrowed of; on enough Mr. Marshall has heard that
to kill the grass and weeds as there i.s a plan to make the lid
they stm t and to keep the sur- raising intermittent in Wichita
face of the soil loose. Hut it has end he is going to see if he can-
been dry and butrlittle plowing not put the men who sold beer
has boon done. As Hu* season during the past week in jail fur a
advances the plowing should bo : time. lie thinks this mightU ive
shallower and if pays to follow il s effect upon the next lid rais-
the plowing with a subsurf.iei. mg. Mr. Marshall consulted
packer to linn the lowin’layer ol w ith the chief of police over the
soil and make good connections advisability of prosecuting the
corn. Cowpeas have rarely sold
for loss than two dollars per j nil except a bluff at disking,
bushel in Oklahoma and it is not ,:l great deal <>f this will be in
w ith the ufnlistur’) *d soil ill the
bottom of the furrow*.
The seeding may bo done from
September 20th to October 20th.
with but little el ect on the yield
if other condition ; are the saui *
Hut it doesn’t do to sow in No
vember and as late as December
Ist. as many do. No! only dors
this late sow ing pro\ i le no pas-
ture hut it never yields as mud
as that sown before the first of
November.
If all of the acreage devoted to
wheat were properly put in, the
average yield per acre might
.-asily be increased ope half. Too
much w heat will be sown on land
which has had no preparation ut
And
the
likely that the price will soon 1 w estern part of the Ian
drop below a dollar and a half,!OK. P. J. where good
while it may reach three dollars. aK* absolutely essential it good
When the cowpeas have been yields are to be obtained. A
planted in the corn field, there is j few acres well put in will be
nothing-to do but pick the pods I more profitable than four times
by hand. But where the crop J the area “hogged in.’
All of the wheat grown in Ok-
men who violated the Jaw last
| week.
“It is not the desire of tin* at-
torney gc leral's office,” said
Marshal1, ”to interfere with the
plans of the local officers when
they are honestly t rying to get
results. The chief «f police chal-
lenged tne to go out and buy a
bottle of ii.-er or imitation beer.
He put t*n lid on this morning
and says he II keen it on.
“It is the judgment of the
chief of police and the county at-
torney that the city administra-
tion is in better lu'sitbm to han-
dle the matter than either the
county attorney or attorney gen-
eral’s office. The attorney gen-
eral’s office will not hesitate to
prosecute for past, violations of
1 of the ■ 11 io law if in the judgment of the
methods i office it becomes necessary.”
was put in after a
crop
crop of early \
nm. It might, be the “ex” and it
might m* a few sour grapes which j c dated for signers, get together , ground and
potatoes, on land where cotton
failed to make a stand, or on
wheat or oats stubble, the crop
may be mowed and made into hay
after most of the pods are ripe.
The hay should be carefully han-
dled and fully cured before stack-
ing or putting away in the mow.
Eater if a cowpea thresher is
available, the seed may be thresh-
ed out and the hay will still be
excellent feed Or a circular
space may be cleaned olT on hard
the seed may be
lie wishes to pass out to some of
his ex constituents. J. 1*. Bur-
ton might be the author of the
following “views.”
“There lias been a lot of fool-
ish talk,” said a former Kansas
on a proposition for calling a
state convention in which all can
didates for the capital will be
given equal representation.
It is proposed to frame a bill
lalioma this year is of excellent
quality and there will be no trou-
ble getting good seed, either lo-
cally or in Kansas.
MRS. McHENRY AGAIN.
Wichita, Ivans., Aug. 2d. Both
Myra McHenry and John Mar
si ml, assistant attorney general,
arrived today to see that the
“lid” was again placed on the
joints in Wichita. Mrs. McHenry
has been away for some time,
but returned w hen she read in
the papers that Wichita was wide
tramped out and cleaned with a
fanning mill. 'open.
Methods w ill have to be varied ( “I came hero for the purpose
to suit the equipment of the farm of organizing a crowd of women
but save all the cowpea seed you and making raids on the joints,
Wichita, Kansas authorities,
have allowed the lid to blow off,
and joints are running wide open
in that town. ThTit town i.s gov-
erned by commission form of
government and this is the first
fruits to he plucked from that
experimental government. There
is a privilege in Oklahoma’s con-
stitution creating that form of
government, and several towns
have the proposition lip before
their citizens for consideration.
The Log Rolling, Bean Bake
and (Amiivol at Lament is the
only attraction hilled for Grant
county in September. If you
have not, ; oceived a personal in-
vitation, you might, as well con-
sider yourself invited, for you
will be welcome.
his convention having most of can this year. The time to be _ s he said. 1 am surprised taut
The railanad commission of
Kansas has “Jim Crmved” the
drinking cups on the trains.
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Bradfield, O. J. The Lamont Record. (Lamont, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1909, newspaper, August 26, 1909; Lamont, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc956716/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.