The County Democrat (Tecumseh, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1912 Page: 2 of 8
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COUNTY DEMOCRAT
By M. M. HENDERSON.
TECUMSEH OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma NewsNotes
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE WILSON
GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON
The dryer cotton weather will he
Along In due time.
Postmaster of OIney also wants to
to township constable.
Newkirk now has natural gas piped
from the Ponca City Held.
Commercial club of l^ehigh is In-
stalling a public fountain in that city.
Friends are people we tell our
troubles to, and borrow money from.
Pauls Valley will soon have electrlo
lights. The plant is now being instal-
led
Tho advice of the agricultural ei-
pert to the farmers still Is to plant
feed crops.
One baling machine near Gotebo
turned out 6,400 bales of alfalfa in
two weeks.
Prague Is to have a canning factory
The peach crop In that section la
the best In years.
Wheat west of Chlckasha will aver-
age twenty bushels to the acre, says
the Chlckasha Express.
Dry farming Is not to be neglected
whether there are abundant rains In
the early season or not
Of the lest eight oil wells brought
In tire Henryetta field, every one
has been a large producer.
A war of extermination has been
•tarted by farmers of Pittsburg
oounty on timber wolves.
Waklta has decided to hold a car-
nival In September Instead of cele-
orating Independence Day.
A good slogan for Oklahoma
farmers Is raise feed and feed 1L
Plant kafircorn and alfalfa and con-
vert the product Into pork and beef.
The surveying for the new dam at
Fort Gibson 1b well under way, and
actual work will commence soon, says
the Fort Gibson New Era.
The city commissioners of Guthrie
have authorized Mayor Nlssley to call
an election to vote on a proposed via-
duct Uuu Issue la tho sum of $25,000.
The Coal County Good Roads asso-
ciation was organized at an enthusias-
tic meeting, and has fifty charter mem-
bers, says the Coalgate Courier.
The value of taxable property In
Grant county excluding public service
corporations is $23,218,656 according to
the returns of the county assessor.
There was a slight decrease last
year in the zinc production in Okla-
homa, but the mining operations were
generally very satisfactory and prom-
ising.
The president of the Bartlesville In-
terurban railway announces that ho
has sold $600,000 worth of bonds to
build an extension of the road from
Dewey, Okla., to Caney, Kans., a dis-
tance of thirty miles and that work
will begin soon.
t
Among the Improvements of the
Frisco during the present year will
be a completion of the heavy steel re-
placement between Oklahoma City
and S&pulpa, and the equipment of
the first division out of St. Louis with
electric block signals.
i
The Dunlap, Northern & Paclflo
Xailway company, which was recently
lhartered with a capital stock of
$2,500,000 to build a road from Dun-
lap, Harper county, Oklahoma, north-
ward to Ellis, Kansas, a distance of
150 miles, announces that active con-
struction work will begin August 1.
The Kingfisher Midget reminds tho
citizens of that place that it is time
to cut the weeds.
Farmers of Oklahoma know that it
Is better to have a little forage to
burn rather than not to have enough
to feed.
Gate will ship more wheat this year
than any other town on the Wichita
Falls & Northwestern railway, pro-
phesies the Gate Valley Star.
More than one hundred carloads of
cattle have been shipped since March
1 from Marietlfc and the destination
of nearly all of them was the Okla-
homa City market
Collins dlle sent out three automo-
biles filled with boosters for a week's
trip through Arkansas, Missouri and
Kansas cities and towns, advertising
Collinsville.
A large producing oil well has been
brought In near Lawton on the hold-
ings of the Hoff oil and Gas company.
Operations are lively In this oil and
gaB district.
The taxpayers will continue to pay
till he puts honest lawmakers on the
Job.
Okfuskee has started efforts toward
the arrangement of a banner agricul-
tural exhibit at the 1912 Oklahoma
State Fair.
Arapaho was dark and gloomy for
•evoral days, due to an Injunction
•gainst tho operation of the Arapho
Light Plant and Waterworks com-
pany secured by the Deep Creek Tele-
phone Company which cleamed In-
fringement on It* right.
NEW JERSEY MAN NAMED ON
46TH BALLOT
CONVENTION COMPLETES LABOR
SCENES OF WILDEST CONFUSION
MARK CLOSE OF CONTEST
After a Deadlock Lasting Four Days
the Democratic Convention Se-
lected the New Jersey Gover-
nor as Its Standard Bearer
Baltimore, Md.— Woodrow Wtl-
Bon, New Jersey governor and ex-
college professor, was nominated as
democratic candidate for president of
the United States at 3:15 Tuesday
afternoon on the 46th ballot.
The result of this ballot was: Wil-
Bon, 990; Clark, 84; Harmon, 12; ab-
sent, 2.
' Governor Wilson was formally de-
clared the nominee for president at
3:34 p. m.
The break in the historic struggle
came on the 43rd ballot, when the
when his name must he withdrawn.
He fs a democrat who stands for the
success of his party.’
A shout of “vice-president” went up
from the New Jersey delegates.
As Bankhead finished. Alabama
demanded that its roll be c-alied over
again. There was great confusion
and all efforts to restore order were
hampered by the delegates gathering
in the aisles. Finally Senator Stone
Clark's manager, got tho chair und
asked consent to make a brief state-
ment. James said that there was a
chorus of nocs from the rear.
Stone said:
"I desire, following (he statement
of Senator Bankhead, to say that
speaking for Mr. Clark, i will release
if release be necessary, any obliga-
tion imposed, on any delegate in this
convention.
“The delegates who have stood by
him so loyally will ever be remem-
bered by him and his friends with
devoted affection.
“So far as the Missouri delegation
is concerned, under the circumstances
that have Burrounded this convention
and its proceedings, we shall vote
Clark until the last ballot. If the
A Short Sketch of the Democratic
Nominee for President
It was as a lawyer that Woodrow
Wilson made his first how to the
world, and as president of Princeton
he became more widely known, but
It was as a reformer that he achieved
the limelight, and It was reform that
landed him in the New Jersey gov-
ernor's chair.
Born in Staunton, Va., December 28,
1856, he was christened Thomas Wood-
row Wilson, but In his youth he cut
off the “Thomas” because, as he said,
he wanted to use only one name, and
Thomas W. Wilson would have been
too commonplace. Graduating from
Princeton in 1879, he practiced law
for two years in Wesleyan university,
he became an educator. He taught
history and political economy for
three yearB in Byrn Mawr college, and
was instructor in the same branches
fo rtwo years in Wesleyan university,
before he was engaged as a teacher
of jurisprudence and politics in Prince-
ton, his alma mater. He became
president of Princeton, August 1, 1902
and held that position until October,
1910, when he resigned to become
governor. In 1885 he married Miss
Helen Louise Axson, of Atlanta, Ga.
Governor Wilson holds A. B., LL.D.,
and other degreas from Princeton,
University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins,
Brown, Harvard, Williams, Dart-
mouth, and Yale universities.
It was as a writer that Woodrow
Wilson first got before the people as
a politician. He wrote voitimniously
of the evils of bossism, the corruption
of politics, and the like, and quite
naturally glided from the pen to the
platform and banquet table, being
asked to speak for various meetings
and dinners in aii the large cities.
“A prophet is not without honor
save In his own country,” and through
his writings and after-dinner speeches,
Woodrow Wilson was being talked
about as a reformer long before the
people of New Jeresy considered him
seriously.
As far hack as 1904 people in the
west were "talking about” Wilson as
a presidential possibility, but New
Jersey knew nothing of him or about
it, and again at Denver, in 1908, he
was “spoken of.” But it was not un-
til 1910 that the people of the doctors
state “discovered” him. Then the
democratic bosses of the corporation-
ridden state decided that it was time
to elect a governor. They had not
had one since the days of Cleveland,
and it was decided that reform was a
good platform. Considering reform-
ers, they picked Wilson as a "man
of the hour," and ran him. Wilson
was elected, but the bosses soon were
led to believe that they had “picked
a lemon,” for no sooner did “Prexy”
have his long lean legs firmly en-
twined around the governor's chair
rungs than he began loudly to defy.
He defied the bosses, he defied the
corporations, he defied everybody
while! the defying was good, and he
made a noise that was heard through-
out the country.
"The time when you can play poli-
tics and fool the people has gone by,”
was one of Gov. Wilson's platitudes
on the night he accepted the New
Jersey “call,” and there are those who
now paraphrase his remarks thUBly:
“The time when you can play the
people and fool the politicians has not
pACf*
shift of Illinois gave the New Jer-1
seyan a majority. From this, in quick j
order, camo transfer of votes from |
hitherto firm Clark bodies, and by the
time of the 45th ballot Wilson oppo-
sition saw that hope was lost.
The withdrawal of Oscar Under-
wood, file announcement of Senator
Stone, for the Missouri delegation,
that his body would support the regu-
lar nominee; the further announce-
ment by Stone that Wilson’s nomina-
tion was conceded; the release from
their Clark instructions of the Mis-
souri delegation; and finally the mo-
tion by Representative Fitzgerald of
the New York delegation, solid hither-
to for Clark that the Wilson nomina-
tion bo by acclamation, were the
steps that brought the end.
Senator Bankhead of Alabama took
the platform just as the 46th ballot
was about to be begun. He was given
unanimous consent to speak, and said:
“Mr. Underwood entered this con-
test hoping that he might secure the
nomination from the convention, but
I desire to say that his first and great
ambition was that he might eliminate
and eradicate for all time rvary re-
maining vestige of sectional feeling
In this country. Mr. Underwood be-
lieves that the country has concluded
that the Mason and Dixon line has
been wiped out and that once more
this is a united country. But Mr. Un-
derwood did not enter this cotnest
to defeat any candidate for the nom-
ination. He would not be a party to
any such scheme.
“We feel that the time has come
"CHAMP TO THE LAST."
Senator Reed of Missouri, speaking
on the motion of Rep. Fitzgerald of
New York to make Wilson's nomina-
tion by acclamation, said:
“Without the slightest desire to in-
dicate any feeling of resentment
against this motion we must object
to its being considered under the rule
that requires unanimous consent We
want a roll call so that Missouri's vote
can be recorded on this ballot for old
Champ Clark.”
WOODROW
w/zjov
verdict shall be against him, I do not
need to go to the trouble of assuring
the people that old Champ Clark and
his friends w'ill support the nominee
of the convention.”
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston was
next recognized. He said that Massa-
chusetts had voted its delegates for
its governor, Eugene Foss, because
it believed he was the right man. it
was Foss’s desire, he said, that his
name he withdrawn and that Masa-
chusetts vote solidly for Wilson.
Congressman Fitzgerald of Brooklyn
Charles Murphy's adviser, was next
recognized and said:
"The desire of every democrat In
this convention is to leave this hall
united, harmonious and with victory
assurrod."
All Are In Line
Baltimore.—Senator Stone , of Mis-
souri, one of the principal leaders of
the Clark campaign for the presiden-
tial nomination, joined with the
speaker Tuesday night in pledging
support to Governor Wilson. “1 am
for the nominee,” said Senator Stone,
"and will work from now until elec-
tion day for the success of the demo-
cratic ticket. It will be triumphant
at the polls in November.”
August Belmont Tuesday night
contributed to the Wilson jubilation.
“Whatever my preferences may
have been, they were to the exclu-
sion of no man," he said. "I am a
democrat. 1 have always been a demo-
crat and expect to remain one. I
shall support the ticket.”
House Defends Clark
Washington.—In answer to attacks
upon Speaker Clark in the Baltimore
convention the house Monday adopted
a resolution announcing its entire
faith in its presiding officer.
The resolution offered by a repub-
lican representative—Austin of Ten-
nessee—follows:
"The members of this house, regard-
less of politics, express their full con-
fidence in the honor, integrity and
patriotism of the presiding officer of
this house, the llqu. Champ Clark.”
WILSON FEELS GREAT HONOR
“Emotion too Deep to Come to the
Surface,’ ’says Nominee
Seagort, N. J.—-When notified of his
nomination Tuesday afternoon Wood
row Wilson said:
“You must sometimes have won-
dered why 1 have not shown more
emotion, as the news came in from
the -convention, and I have beer
afraid that you might get the impres
sion that I was so self-confident and
sure of the result that I took the
steady increase in the vote for me in
Baltimore complacently and as a mat
ter of course.
"The fact is that the emotion has
been too deep to come to the sur
face, as the vote has grown, and as
It lias seemed more likely that I
might be nominated, 1 have grown
more and more solemn. I have not
felt any of this as if it v*ere a thing
that centered on myself as a person.
Those fine men who have been un-
failing for me in Baltimore I haTe
not regarded as my representatives.
It is the other way round.
“I do not see how any man could
feel elation as such responsibility
loomed nearer and nearer, or how he
could feel any shallow personal pride.
The honor is as great as could come
to any man by the nomination of a
party, and higher under the circum-
stances, ami 1 hope I appreciate It at
its true value, but just at this moment
I feel the tax it involves, even more
than I feel the honor.
"I have felt all the time that they
were honoring me by regarding me
as their representative and that they
were fighting for me because they
thought I could stand for and fight for
the things that they believed in and
desired for the country.
"I hope with all my heart that the
party will never have reason to regret
it."
AVIATRESS
FALLS 10 DEATH
MISS QUIMBY AND W. A. WIL-
LARD CAUGHT IN WIND
MACHINE TURNS OVER
BOTH FELL 1.000 FEET INTO
SHALLOW WATER
clight at Boston marred by appalling
Accident—Two More Victims
Added to the Long List
of Aviation Casualties
Boston.—Miss Harriet Quimby ol
New York, the first woman to win an
aviators license in America and the
first woman to cross the English chan-
nel in an aeroplane, was killed instan-
ly with her passenger, W. A. P. Wil-
lard, manager of the Boston aviation
meet, Monday night when her Bleriol
monoplane fell into Dorchester bay
from a height of 1,000 feet.
The accident happened when Miss
Quimby and Willard were returning
from a trip over Boston harbor to Bos-
ton light, a distance of twenty miles
in all. The flight was made in twenty
minutes. The Bleriot, one of the lat-
est models of military monoplanes,
circled the aviation field and soared
out over the Savin Hill Yacht club,
just outside the aviation field.
Heading back into the eight-mile
gusty wind, Miss Quimby started to
volplane. The angle was to shary and
one of the gusts caught the tail of the
volplane. The angle was too sharp
and one of the gusts caught the tail of
the monoplane, throwing the machine
up perpendicular. For the instant it
poised there, then, sharply outlined
against the setting sun, Williard was
thrown clear of the chassis, followed
almost immediately by Miss Kuimby.
Hurling over and over, the two figures
shot downw-ard, striking the water
twenty feet from shore. They splash-
ed out of sight a- second before the
monoplane plunged down fifteen feet
away.
It was low tide and the water was
only five feet deep. Men from the
yacht club in motor boats were on
the spot quickly and leaping over-
board dragged the bodies out of the
mud into which they had sunk deeply.
Both bodies were badly crushed.
Several of Miss Quimb.vs bones were
broken and there were many large
bruises. Willard, who weighed 190
pounds, hit the water face first and
over one eye there was a gash from
which the blood was flowing. He, too,
sustained several fractures and
bruises. The clothing of both flyers
was torn and their bodies so covered
with mud thatit was several minutes
before the doctors and nurses could
determine fully the injuries.
Hearing Postponed
Washington.—The hearing on Sen
ator Martin’s resolution on the pro-
posal to buy Thomas Jefferson's home
Montlcello, for the government, hat
been postponed to a date some time
after the adjournment of the demo-
cratic ntaoinal convention. Mrs. Mar
tin W. Littleton is scheduled to make
the principal argument of the pur-
chase. '
The 46th and Final Ballot.
Alabama—Wilson 24.
Arizona—Wilson 6.
California—Clark 24; Wilson 2.
Colorado—Wilson, 12.
Connecticut—Wilson, 14.
Delaware—Wilson, 6.
Georgia—Clark, 5; Wilson, 7.
Georgia—Wilson, 28.
Idaho—Wilson, 8.
Illinois—Wilson, 58.
Indiana—Wilson, 30.
Iowa—Wilson, 26.
Kansas—Wilson, 20.
Kentucky—-Wilson, 26.
Louisiana—Wilson, 18; Clark, 2.
Maine—Wilson, 12.
Maryland—Wilson, 16.
Massachusetts—Wilson, 36.
Michigan—Wilson, 30.
Minnesota—Wilson, 24.
Mississippi—Wilson, 20.
Missouri—Clark, 36.
Montana—Wilson, 8.
Nebraska—Clark, 6; Wilson, 16.
Nevada—Wilson, 8; Clark, 6.
New Hampshire—Wilson, 8.
New Jersey—dlark, 4; Wilson, 24.
New Mexico—Wilson, 8.
New York—Wilson, 90.
North Carolina—Wilson, 24.
North Dakota—Wilson, 10.
Ohio—Clark, 1; Wilson, 33; Har-
mon, 12.
Oklahoma—Wilson, 26.
Oregon—Wilson, 10.
Pennsylvania—Wilson, 76.
Rhode Island—Wilson, 10.
South Carolina—Wilson, 18.
South Dakota—Wilson, 10.
Tennessee—Wilson, 24.
Texas—Wilson, 40.
Utah—Wilson. 40.
Vermont—Wilson, 8.
Virginia—Wilson, 24.
Washington—Wilson, 14.
West Virginia—Wilson, 16.
Wisconsin—Wilson, 26.
Wyoming—Wilson, 6.
Alaska—Wilson, 6.
District of Columbia—Clark, 6.
Hawaii—Wilson, 6.
Porto Rico—Wilson, 6.
Totals: Wilson, 990; Clark, 84;
Harmon, 12; absent, 2.
Colored Man’s Theory Might Hava
Been All Right, but There
Were Exceptions.
Douglas Fairbanks, out in Chicago,
went into a barber shop the other day
to get a shine. He found three negro
bootblacks there. As one of them
rubbed Fairbanks’ shoes the subject of
women came up.
“Ah tell yo'," said the negro who
was working on the “Officer 666” ac-
tor's shoes, "women is a peculiah
thing. Yo’ gotta know just how to
handle huh or yo’ goin' to git the
worst ufit. Lots of times she'll git
mad at yo' and then yo’ gotta talk to
huh. Talk to huh—that's the way to
mastah huh. She won't stapd fo’ no
heatin’ or nothin’ lak that. Talk to
huh. That’s the way Ah handle ma
wife.”
Another negro working next to him,
looked up. "What did yo’ git that
black eye yo’ got, Rufe?” he asked.
“Weil, ma wife done it, but—"
"Why didn’t yo’ talk to huh?"
"How could Ah?” came from the
first. ‘‘She had me by the throat wif
my wind shet off."
Rather an Open Secret.
A very important citizen was drawn
on a Jury, a week or two ago, and I
met him after he had been discharged.
He sgemed to think that he was en-
titled to be on the bench, at the very
least.
“What was your verdict in that
case?” I asked.
“ ‘The defendant was unanimously
acquitted on the first ballot.’
“'Indeed? And how did you vote?’
" 'That, sir, Is one of the sacred se-
crets of the juryroom.’ ”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Government Has Cash
Washington.—Closing the fiscal
year 1912 with a surplus of $36,335,-
830 the federal treasury opened the
new year Monday with $991360,000
In its steel-ribbed vaults as a working
balance. This is the largest amount
of available cash the government has
possessed for months. The receipts
for the year amounted to $691,140,000
us compared with $701, 372,000 for the
fiscal year 1911. The total disburse-
ments of the year jast closed reached
$654,805,000 against $654,138,000 the
year when the surplus was $46.234,0*00.
On Land and Sea.
"Circumstances alter cases even in
human nature.”
"Yes. Take Jorkins, for instance.
He’s one of those grandiose Chester-
fields who would give up his seat in
a lifeboat to a woman, and then make
nn attempt to lead the saloon orches-
tra in ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’ as the
ship sinks.”
”1 see. On land, Jorkins is the fel-
low at 6 o’clock who horns through
the women and children and gets a
window seat in his home-bound street
car.”
Solid Ivory.
“Yes,” confessed Mr. Dorkins, "It
serves me right. I engaged the man
to move our goods, and I forgot to ask
him how much he was going to charge
me for the job. If evef I do such
a tb’ng again, Maria, you can have
my head for a football.”
“It would be a good deal more profit-
able, John,” said Mrs. Dorkins, ‘‘to
cut it up into billiard balls.”—Chicago
Tribune.
Astonishing Experience.
The whale, after parting with Jo-
nah, was gazing after his retreating
form.
"If any one had told me,” murmured
the great mammal, bitterly, “that I
would find a man ready to jump down
my throat, I never would have swal-
lowed it whole.”
That things are not half so ill with
me and you as they might have been
Is half owning to the number who
lived faithfully a hidden life and rest
In unvisited tombs.—George Eliot.
A Matter of Names.
“What is the difference between
pomme de terre and potato?" “About
two dollars.”—Harvard Lampoon.
Failure is always spoiled by suc-
cess.
A loafer Is an animal that feeds on
a worker’s time.
The gossip of today may be the su-
perstition of tomorrow.
DUBIOUS
About What Her Husband Would Say.
A Mich, woman tried Pestum be-
cause coffee disagreed with her and
her husband. Tea is just as harm-
ful as coffee because it contains caf-
feine—the same drug found In cof-
fee. She writes:
“My husband was sick for three
years with catarrh of the bladder, and
palpitation of the heart, caused by
coffee. Was unable to work at all
and in bed part of the time.
“I had Btomach trouble, was weak
and fretful so I could not attend to
my housework—both of us using cof-
fee all the time and not realizing it
was harmful.
“One morning tho grocer’s wife
said she believed coffee was the cause
of our trouble and advised Postum. I
took it home rather dubious what my
husband would say—he was fond of
coffee.
"But I took coffee right off the table
and we haven't used a cup of it since.
You should have seen the change in
us, and now my husband never com-
plains of heart palpitation any more.
My stomach trouble went away In two
weeks after I began Postum. My chil-
dren love it, and it does them good,
which can't be said of coffee.
“A lady visited us who was usually
half sick. I told her I'd make her a
cup of Postum. She said it was taste-
less stuff, but she watched me make
ft, boiling It thoroughly for 15 minutes,
and when done, she said it was splen-
did. Long boiling brings out the fla-
vor and food quality.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, “The Road to Wellville."
Ever rend <he above letter? A new
•ne nppenrn from time to time. They
■re genuine, true, nnd fall of human
Interest.
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