The Lamont Record. (Lamont, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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THE LAMONT RECORD.
VOL 5
LAMONT.- Of&LAfiMltAt JULY 7 L9K4;
NO. 12
liHSLPSiHASK ELUAsND C1UJCR
McA4**»ter„ Gkln,.„ June' X—
Mb Ales ter,. Unrtshornm KLrebu
and the* towi* and* counties in
Mia segregated!coal and asf/iiait
land belt were the goats in
iHMisationuh teapot tempeststertf
od by Senateiviu the closiiqcday.s-
of the session of congress as a
part of the campaign against
•Xfenator Unbent L. Olvenawd BH11
Murray in the interests of Gov-
ernor Haskell and L**e Cruee-..
Gore’s action ..coming! so late ini
tlie session that its efface on tlie
^gislatkm could not be* counter)*
acted, defeated the McGuire
proposition for tlie sale of the
surface of the segregated coal'
and asphalt lands. Gore played
directly into the hands of the
’ McMurray Lyon, aombination,
tlie very, men he alniuied to be
lighting.
The whole of southeastern Ok-
lahoma, under the leadership of
the McAiestaer commercial club
and the segregated belt organi-
sation, has been urging for years
the sale of the surface of the half
million acres of coal lands be-
longing to. the Chickasiw and
‘I’hoctaw nations but withheld
from sale by the federal govern-
ment. A number of senators,
headed by La BVdlette have de-
clared they will tight*to the last
ditch any proposition* to> sell the*
coal itself,, and it will be years
before this, etui be done. For
that reason tbe-sale of. bhe sur-
face for agrieulturul purposesmb
once, is advocated. This would
iiemove the millstone that is re-
does. Then eamo-the rn-nsation-
al Gnro*rfi-irg»s..
The word was* immediately
aarriedlto.tJie* conferoes on the
Indian omnibus biil, who- were
preparing to re instate the* Me-
G4ii re* provision for the sale* of
the surface. The waters were so
muddied that it was necessary
to drnp*the legislation as there
was buttone-dtiy of the session
lbft.
«
Senator Gore’s- action is re-
garded here as a* sensational and
successful effort to- play demo-
cratic factional politics and to
defeat the sate of the cold land
surface.
Gore was able to* make a stir
about the contract!* because of
the lack of information iii the
country on the subject, and it w
the knowledge of these- subjects
here that causes his motives to
be questioned.
The Chocotetjw and Chickasaw
Legislatures in 11105 passed la .vs
authorizing their governors to
employ attorneys-at fcemuer cent!
to sell the coal lands* Governor
McCurtain of the Chocotaws and!
Governor Johnstonjofithe*Chu!k-
asaws entered1 into*the contracts
with Col. Cecil Lyon of Texas aud*
J. F. McM array of McAlester.
>
juctr under which ifrwttjfcifiacte was
approved, when MaM-urruy rep-
resented those nations in citizen-
ship. m«itten»v.bugtllc'citi«enship
oonrt allowed- him. his $750,OtW
fee. The present contracts arc-
negardftd as illegal here, but it
in- certain that an attempt will
he made to enfonce them when
fche-tribul projierty is sold. It is
believed here that it would have
been safer to-have Ibffc tire ques-
tion oflapproval off the contract*.*
and tlte-amount off comi>ens?itu>n
jin the-lmndM-oS the president and
secretary.
I SenatoirGbre’* nwiin charge is
that on May 6» ha was offered) a
Ibribe and it is a* matter of gener-
al comment here that lie said
nothing*.about this alleged crime
juntil Jhne 24, when It appeared
certain that the legislation for
the sale of the coal lands swfacs-
wouldib* eaaetod.
i
In his camgalgn for the re-
publican nomination)for Govern-
or; Joseph W. McNeal iias slrrvrn
himself to be a man sf incred**
ble endurnnee. He ha*. been
(traveling, almost contitmoaely
ever since last Manoh. Mr.isngr
from one to two speeches-a< dav,
than) il* was- when I started my
campaign.”
McNeal was asked what sys-
tem he followed in keeping him'
Guire was a candidate. This*
time it was for the- nomination.
The-Uaskell machins and demo-
cratic press has 8een turning
self in trim. “There is only one [heaven and earth tv beat Me
system L aver heard of thufris
worth talking* about,” he said.
“When I was a young man T de-
cided that it would be foolish for
me to cut off an arm if I wished
to out wood, or a leg if 1 wished
over old times with Innumerable
tarding the development of this!
section of Oklahoma and making ereatecif a coal land
lUllYl 1)1 1 *-fcA3 I AD n M t I Llkt/Wl t S-] » 1 am mm .
and wiiile “resting;” inithe inter-
Contracts and.actoomthe partof. val.**,. has sFuikeiu hand* with
*iie tribal government**-are not?'thousands of persons and talked
legal until approved by the pres-
ident and interior department.
Yet the contractu-and.aots-under
which the^wdre muds* ware not
forwarded for appaovak.and few
knew »[ then* existence until
1908,
The constitutional oonoenison
taxes almost unbearable
J. F. Me Mur ray; Ceuil Lyon
and others interested in attor-
ney’s contracts for the sale of
the coal- lands have always op-
posed the sale of the sui-facie, ex-
pecting to use the popular de-
nial 1 for this" legislation to as-
sist in bringing about a- law. for
the sale of the surfiioe and coal,
^together.
Every Oklahoma legislature
demoralizes congress to sell the
surface separately and at ouce.
The democrats of. the Oklahoma
delegation have always pledged
their support, hut Congressman
[McGuire has shown, up their
double dealing. Cfcan a montli
ago Congressman O&rter, in
| whose district tha-dands aresitu-
i^pd, wrote the McAlester com-
mercial elubkthat it was-v useless
11*» push the proposition at this
.Mission, ms the house would not
commission, and President M.ua*
my appointed ail democrats an
tiie board. Lyon and- Me Mu rrray
appeared before the commission
and offered their contract®, to
show their authority to repre-
sent the two nations. Secretary
Garfield asked for a report and
the contracts were then present-
ed to him for approval. Both
Garfield and President Roosevelt
disapprove the contracts and the
acts under which) they were
made.
Lyon and.McMurray then se-
cured individual contracts from
75 per cent of the citizens of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw nations.
W.hen,these contracts were pre-
sented for approval both Presi-
dent Taft and Secretary Balling
. ** 1
friends th%t came to see him in
'thedifferent? towns. Life has run
the gauntlet oft alii kinds* of ho-
tels-—from the kind where a man
gets sick because the living i»
too high, to. the lunch .counter
where a fried eggr a doughnut
,and coffee that oats- the rust off a
[wire nail are-recognized! as- first
aid to the injjirad. He has slept
in moving buggies, on bare floors
and in “goose hair” up to his
‘neck, the old cowboy name for
featherbeds. He lias drank al
kali water that would loco a bull
fr< g! and been thankful for it.
McNeal went home* several
days ago to look.over his corres-
pondence* afc headquarters. A G-trthrie, Ok la., July G.*—Sena*
friend that s«w him was aston-ft tor Gor-a’s-weak attempt* tw con
islied at his appearance. Instead
of finding him worn out. nervous
and complaining of indigestion,
Guire in ihe primary, feeling,
that this is the only way he can-
be beaten. As in Haskell’s case-
hedidinota.sk for an investiga-
tion .-
Gowbegan hedging the next
to run a footpace. I realised (lay after lie- made the charges,
that good nerves and good di- He explained that he had not sakll
gestion were even better than a Congressmen and Senator
two arms and two legs. For. this were i«tene*teil in the M’eMui
reason, 1 have been temperot*Milb' ray e»mtraets, that he had only
my life. I wonked hard—and said this had been told him by
diat’a a v.vmdierful maker of man who haditried to bribe him
good health—andi never permit-!six weeks previously. Just as-
ted myself to indulge in. excess-1 he* did on- Haskell.’s p*.liticalf
es of any kind.. 1 went to bed aS s-uito,. MoG^iire demanded an in -
a reasonable hour, and got up>[ ^stigation. H^rose in thelwuse*
uliile the morning was still as congress- was about to adjourn-
fresh and the dew on die grass, and asked that the rules be sus
L gi»e you my word for rt, I know pended and that an investigating,
men that except; by accident committee b«?namfch
have not seem the sun rise for', Gore’s expose has- fallen-flat’,,
twenty years. But they’wseeir though ho* received, enough ad-
the moon go down all right/’. vertising to mnko him wealthy*
“My enduranoe is due to. reg- fnam. leoture plath.rm receipts-
ular habits and temperate tokig. ttiio-summer. He started on his-
Bf'Lcould get all the young men leatune*tour ewesoon as congress-
and boys of Oklahoma together^
should like to say,just this to
them: ‘Do* not dissipate your
esergy by wrongr living* Work
hard for some particular, worthy
purpose. Go to bed early and
gstiup early Be tempei*3te ini
all things. Remetnbeir thatltlie
water that runs dowai s-ttresm
does not come back and that if
you want to»be strongmod useful
adjpuraed.
President Taft submitted alii
tiie fuote aonoennih,^: Mo?
Mumayv oonteaats to congress-*
two months-befbne adjournment.
MoGoim1^ proposition wits to*
leave-the aujmmd ofi individual!
conttvjcts with* Indians- and'the*
amount of. compenertibn to the*
Pf*esident?3nd Secretary of In-
tenoiv Qrbr®‘k proposition was?
far beyouri Ae time* when rcorf* to > Ifeaae to con gre»«r TSaftand*
man in thesfrdaya are decrepit, -BMlki»e*rliad twlos* turned the*
worsmoot or dead, build a* darn* contracts dewnpso il? i» readily,
that will ®tore uT> tha* watem-of.’ween that McGuire’s proposition
you th, .andun.kster years-yotinwll
have - aireservoirstrength and
energy tliat williturn a thousand
wheels under tbe-guiclance of
your matured wisdom. For gen-
uine happiness, one day of right
living beats a thousand yea:**5 ofi
wild oat»i\
nect Congressman Bird McGuire
with the Me Murray contracts is-
not the first attempt an the part
oitlie iiit»kell.macliine in (iikla-
he saw a man fight .or a prize
fight. His eyes were* dear and j^wia to throw dust in. the eyesj KBS*©! B
snappy, lus skin tann^I to the of the voters of Okiahonaa for the Loans an<1I)fsem,nts
F
et. * Within a week after Carter'!b
wrote this- letter, Congressman
McGuire, single-handed,, put
{through the pwposition, to-sell
I'olie surface, exclusive of.mineral
Rights, tin* »ugfa the lie use by .a
[unanimous-vote.
It was squarely up to the sen-
late but the Oklahoma democratic
I.senators did' not) hold it in on
that side.
ini mediately Congressman Me-
lt. uire announced that lie would
Ireihstate the provision in confer
color of an old buffalo robe, his- purpose of. defeating. McGuire,
appetite better than that of a1A similar effort was made in the
band-cutter with an old-fashioned last campaign.
er refused to recognise them.'threshing* maeliine, and his* Just two months before the
weight heavier than when he be- J election in Novimber, 19t)8, Gov-
gan his campaign. He wasn’t ernor Haskell through his pri
even tired.
“L
)BkIlinger took a deceive stand
against them. Green McCtirtain
repudiated the contract he liad
jmade. These facts are shown
y the message of President
Taft to .congress, April 2±. of this
year.
Under existir.glaws, contracts-
with Indian tribes most have-the.
approval.of the president-and in.
terror department. The prows-
fon placed in the general- detio*
ioncy bill by the conferees that
Gore attacked was general in
character and daft it to the-dis-
cretion of the-presiden t and sec-
retary of. interior whether the
contracts- made with individual
Indians shauldibe approved at»U.
and. if* so-approved* to- fix* the-
As all
vate attorney, Orville T. Smith,
never- enjoyed anrvthing filed suit, against (Songrpssman
Bird*McGuire in tlie Logan coun-
I Mice, and Senator Owen, onet-of
Ithe three members of the senate
{conference committee made the, amrxint-of coinpensatroai
IstatCMnent. But* the-two ixnver-
|ful factions, the Me Murray and
the anti-McMhrray faction, want-
4 the legislation defeated, be-
[ause of their interest in the
proposition to sell the coal.
Humeting, desperate miust. Ire.
more in my lirfe,” said* MoNead.
“You d-^iow I used to hunt buffalo ^district court for $196/000,
in the old days in western Ofela- j which, ho alleged McGuire had
homa, andi ah this traveling' received on-printing contmcts
ground brings back, tile old duringAhe territorial da;(». Mc-
times andi make®*- mo* young (Guire in eveiy speech, in the
again. TJie moment I touch the campaign charged-that* the suit
bed L-falhaaleep andi when early j was solely for political purposes
dawns comes in at the vsindow I' and demanded- an* immediate
am. fully, refreshed, and ready trial. He asl-:od<tkat the case be
for the-dky.'s work. If. L bad. tried on its-s merits ■ before- the-
lived im a* city all my liffej aadij eteetiem and pros&ised not to in-
done-the things that make men troduce a witness.- He offered
okl jjist when they ought* to be ' to resign his sent-in. congress- if
useful; perhaps-L might bo-call- Haskell could mak-eacroseagaimH
Lug. ou a. doctor toheip me out. him when he offered mo dafen.oe.
My only.surprise is tho way my Haskett ignored the*proposition
attempts to secure anproval of voice holds--uiv To speak twice nJ six;weeks afU-sr-the election
the McM array contracts during , a da.yv- usually in tlie.* open air,*. Smith Hifdrraed1 thtecourt that
the last three years had failed?! whore a*man soon swallows more lie-had failed to get evideneeand
it cannot be seen here why it,was- than his idloted,peek.ofMirt, is a the suits-were dismissed,
unsafe to Jeave the matter to.strain, on. the-throat ofs even aj Senator Gore'-s political1 ecu n j
president and secretary. professional speaker. As a mat-! like that, of Haskell came on the
Neither, tiux. contract, nor. the..■ ter.ol’Jact, my voice is atrong£»J evaoLa ciunpirgii in. which. Mr^ )
jdidmot mean til**-approval of
McM u rniyrc on tracts.
But Gore was doing; Haskell's-
bidding.. He liad’jiiotApassed his^
-^solution for the investigation
of the Haskell prosecution. Two
years--ago the first district re*-
pudiated IBis^tell’s- campaign
methods-, and it is- endent they,
must io so again,
Report of TTic Chodltion of
The Citi:-.*rv> r)ax:k at T.ainont. in the-
Aiate of Oklab©*DR, vx: tb« close of
y»s,Ress JTfcne 30tli; 1D10.-.
RBflGURCES..
Overdi’Tt.s-94ee.*a,&cUhsec‘d 597.83 -
Stocks. Bonds, War’nts 1,12').40
Banking House 4,500.09
.Furniture and i-'iMtr.»cs- l.M)\09
Due FrosnBanks 29,303.58
Checks artfiiotheivCaftfr-Iteas HrVIC *
Exchanges fl>r ClewringHouse 2.188.20 •
Cash in Bank 7.077.301
Total $153,588.70
LIABILil'IES..
Capital Stcvs^iHaiA.Isvi $20,000.00*
Surplus Fund 2.000.( 0»
Unv’dPft liislessEx.taxespd. 1,981.00
7iitl’.l Debits .so-bkettoch’k I09.1J2.4!?
,D»e to Banks NONl-f*
iDlmand C'tf’ts of Deposit 10,055.00 •
Time C’tf’ts of Deposit 10,470.30*
Cashier’s clfecks Oukstaailing.
Ortier liabilities
Total; 8*53,588.70*
State of Oklahoma, County
of Grant sis
I, O.i K. .Ileetb.Cashiei* of the above
named Bank; solemnly, swear tluitr
the above staterausius'true ;t) the best-
my. knowledge and-balk?, s*i* help *
me God.
O. K. Rkeek,
Cashier .
Subscribed and sworn to before mee-
this 2nd diy of July, 19U0.*
P- H. Wnssf.
Notary PuljJica.
Sy*ec*®Bri»sion expires - Aug 31, 1911,.
[cohuect attest:]
J' S. GlLDE 'T,
F. E. Directoi- *.
lvl-.< :*UVXEY^,
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