The Choctaw Herald. (Hugo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1912 Page: 2 of 6
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The Choctaw Herald
ISuccesror to The Soper Her&ldl
JESSE 0. CURD, - - - Editor and Owner
Teiehone No. 21, Editorial Rooor
Entered as second-class matter March 3, 1910,
at the post office at Hugo, Oklahoma,
under Act of March 3, 1819.
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THURSDAY FEB. 15, 1912.
As usual, "Uncle" Tom Latta, until recently
editor of the Tulsa World, and commonly known
among the press of the state as "Ag'in Tom," as
he was usually against everything any consider-
able number of people favored, is on the "ag'in"
side, and is trying to father a Roosevelt club in
Tulsa, but is making very little headway.
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ONDER how much Ed. Perry is paying
the Oklahoman to conduct that "presi-
jdential (Roosevelt) primary? On the face of it,
, it looks like paid political dope, and as Ed. is the
| only "enthusiastic" Roosevelt man in the state
'foolish enough to part with the coin to npive the
| colonel the nomination, it is natural to suppose
he is running the election.
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Direct Vote.
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ITH BOTH Champ Clark and Folk repre-
senting the state of Missouri in the dem-
Following is a plan for the direct nomination!'* national campaign as candidates
of candidates for president and other political: for president is sure to throw the good old state
places, as submitted by William Allen White: of Mtssouftm the republican column at the elec-
To have a direct vote on the candidates for tion next fall. The political enmity between the
President, delegates to the national convention, i tw° favorite sons will get mad enough at each
and delegates to the state convention. Each other and the balance of the democrats in the
voter would be given a chance to vote for his; country to put the state where she belongs.
choice for President. Each candidate for dele-i q
gate to the national convention wouM state onj
the ballot the name of the candidate for Presi- rytHE BRETHERN on the back seats are not
dent he favored and each candidate for delegate j I raising much fuss the past few days. The
to the state convention would make the same A Roosevelt convention at McAlester (on
Sunday) was represented entirely by proxies
(Perry's usual mode of representation) and the
big meeting at Oklahoma City has been post-
poned on account of the very few who signified
an intention of attending. Meanwhile Jim Har-
ris and the Taft force? are marching on to vic-
tory.
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TOM TAYLOR, editor of the Democrat-Rec-
the legislature from his county. If the
representative from McCurtain must be a demo-
crat, let it be Tom. The lawyers of the state
have been in the legislature enough to put the
state on the bum; now let's try a few men from
the "Third Estate," and put Oklahoma where
she belongs. There is no class of professional
men on earh so broad-minded as the newspaper
men, and we believe that with a legislature with
a fair representation of newspaper men in it will
enact more equitable laws than we are now "en-
joying."
statement.
The state convention would do nothing more
than canvass the vote cast for President and for
delegates to the national convention and declare
those receiving the highest number of votes elec-
ted, instructing them to vote for the Presi<ten-
tial candidate receiving the highest number of
votes.
The state convention is provided for only be-
cause the call of the national convention requires
it in states that have no statutory provision for
a Presidential primary.
It is difficult to see how politicians could side-
step this kind of a direct vote provided for in
Mr. White's plan.
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Press dispatches tell us that the republicans
of Florida are split. This news at least indicates
that there is more than one republican even in
Florida.
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"Pat Dore, of Westville," was at a meeting of
the Third district republicans last week. Pat
has been silent so long republicans thought per-
haps he had moved to Arkansas.
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The Choctaw County court house is beginning
to take on some shape now, and will soon be fin-
ished to the roof. When completed, we will have
the handsomest county building in the state—a
credit to the intelligence of the voters and tax-
payers of the county.
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Prospects look bright for professional baseball
in Hugo this year. The Oklahoma-Texas league
will perfect organization in a short time and if
has been intimated that Hugo could get a berth
if she desired. There is nothing quite so whole-
some as a recreation as the national game, and if
it is possible, Hugo should take advantage of this
opportunity.
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Almost all the Hugo mercantile houses are jROM time to time during the present cam-
laying off this month—that is, they are not ad- l_ pajgn> The Herald will re-print the editor-
vertising to any considerable extent. Not be- 1 iais 0f the leading papers of the country,
cause they do not want business, but because ■ both democratic and republican, in order that
they thought perhaps this would be a dull month' our readers may keep up with the political situ-
I'artnership Notice.
State of Oklahoma,
County fit Choctaw, ss
Know all men by these presents,
that we, R. J. Wages of Hugo, Okla-
homa, and John Vaughan, of Hugo,
Oklahoma, hereby certify that we
have entered into a partnership un-
der the name of Hugo Plumbing
Company for the purpose of doing a
general plumbing and tinning busi-
ness and general repair work in Hu-
go, Oklahoma, and that their princi-
pal place of business is in Hugo, Ok-
lahoma, and that we, R. J. Wages
and John Vaughan, composing the
firm doing business under the name
of Hugo Plumbing Company, are all
of the members of above referred to
partnership.
In witness whereof, the parties
hereto have signed these presents in
duplicate on this, the 7th day of Feb-
ruary, 1912.
R. J. WAGES,
JOHN VAUGHAN.
Before me, Earl Lockwood, a No-
tary Public within and for Choctaw
County, State of Oklahoma, on this
the 7th day of February, 1912, per-
sonally appeared R. J. Wages and
John Vaughan, both of Hugo, Okla-
homa, after being duly sworn say
that they signed the above and fore-
going instrument of their own free
will and accord for the uses and pur-
poses therein set forth. Subscribed
and sworn to before me this the 7th
day of February, 1912.
My commission expires September
4, 1912.
(Seal) EARL LOCKWOOD,
f8t4 Notary Public.
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IT IS being whispered among some democrats
that Senator Owen has seen the handwriting
on the wall and will withdraw from the sena-
torial race and leave the field to Haskell. Sure,
Haskell will be a mighty hard man to beat, with
the death grip upon the political machine of the
state; but Owen has made a good democratic
senator, has been prominently noticed over the
entire country and amnog his colleagues,' while
Haskell has been building the machine and his
senatorial fences, and has made only unenviable
notoriety for himself among the honest men of
the state and country. Haskell is a smart man—
very astute and smart—but he can't walk away
with Owen.
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Notice By Publication: Attachment.
State of# Oklahoma,
County of Choctaw ss
In the District Court.
O. A. Simmons and V. Bronaugh vs
F. W. Stahl.
Said defendant, F. W. Stahl, will
take notice that he has been sued in
the District Court of Choctaw Coun-
ty, Oklahoma, upon a petition and
affidavit in attachment, wherein
plaintiffs seek to obtain judgment
for debt arising on contract to the
amount of 11045.00, said suni to be
levied out of the goods and chattels
of the defendant in Choctaw County
Oklahoma, by proceedings in attach-
ment; that said F. W. Stahl must an-
swer the petition of the said plain-
tiffs, O. A. Simmons and V. Bron-
augh on qr before the 20th day of
March, 1912, or said petition will be
taken as true and a judgment for
the amount of $1045.00 and costs of
said action will be taken against him
and the order of attachment issued
by said court sustained.
(Seal) T. W. HUNTER
Clerk District Court, Choctaw Coun
ty, Oklahoma.
By E. A. Burke, Deputy.
Works & Copping, Attys. f8t3
for any kind of business—and it is, for the pa-
pers.
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THE PAVING is again under way and prom-
ises now to go to a hurried completion—
unless some one again enjoins the work. The
city has been torn up the entire winter and very
little headway has been made. If it is not right,
stop it entirely—if it is right, let the men put
the paving down.
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COTTON is selling around ten cents row, and
sweet potatoes are selling at $2.00 per
bushel. Some farmers are selling cotton
at ten cents, and paying 50 cents per peck for
the potatoes. That doesn't look like very good
business sense to us, especially when cotton will
make at best 500 pounds per acre and an equally
good crop of sweet pototoes will make 150 bush-
els. It is very easy for even a school boy to fig-
ure wh© the loser is. Then, besides, the potatoes
is a very short and easy crop, while the cheaper
crop of cotton is a long and hard crop. The
sooner the farmers of the country begin to diver-
sify the better off they will be.
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DOGS! Hugo is blessed with almost millions
of canines, and they are very bothersome.
They seem to delight in coming in to the
business section of the city and sprawling them-
selves on the sidewalks in the sun. Ladies and
children are compelled to walk around them at
the risk of being bitten, and perhaps by one with
the rabbies. And the curious thing about
the average Hugo- dog is that he wears n.iither
collar nor tag—still we have a dog law
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GUESS JIM HARRIS didn't show Cochran
and the Perry bunch where to head it' at
the Third district convention :it Tul.ia Last
week when Chairman Cochran had to re-issue
his call and make it legal. Jim is watching ever v
corner and the many slips t^at oc cur, and it
showing them that he is wel) on to the job.
HENRY ROBBINS, of the McAlester tfeWE-
Oklahoman over its straw vot- for choice
Ctfpital, has started something with the
president, and the Oklahoman defends its vote
as being correct by saying that they are making
it their chief concern to see that there is no
stuffiing of the ballot box. In this city last week
a Roosevelt supporters went to a local news
stand and clipped the ballots out c A a .large bunch
of Oklahomans that had been 1 eft over on the
news dealers counter and filled in the name of
Theodore Roosevelt and sent them in. That's
the way of all straw votes. Th ,ere is nothing to
them, absolutely.
ation and have the opinions of others. No man
should vote any ticket because he believes that
he is of that certain political faith; the time is
here when men—all men of all parties—are vot-
ing for men and principles and paying but little
attention to the name of the party. It has al-
ways been the policy of The Herald to give both
sides of any and every public question as near as
possible, and we expect to do this politically this
year, and any paper that will not do this is too
narrow for the broad-minded men of this gener-
ation to read.
H
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ENRY ROBBINS seconds the motion of
Walter Ferguson, who placed in nomina-
tion Bert Parmenter for the United States
Senate to succeed R. L. Owen. Parmenter is a
true blue republican, and the only man in the
state we know of that can hand out the proper
dope to Haskell. Any time Bert fails to land on
the deposed monarch it is because .he doesn't
have the opportunity. He is a young man with
a bountiful flow of good English and one of the
brightest minds in Oklahoma, and every repub-
lican in the state will support him, and if he
should accept and Haskell be the democratic nom-
inee, he will make it so very warm for the ex-
governor and hide-and-seek editor that he will
have to shed his coat every time he sees him.
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ONE of the first important matters talked
of by the new organization of the Hugo
Chamber of Commerce was the installation
of free mail delivery in the city. The local office
is ready for the service, the department requir-
ing that the city must have 10,000 inhabitants
or the receipts of the office must be more than
$10,000. A city of 2,000 inhabitants may have
the delivery service if they can show that the
office has gross receipts of $10,000. However,
in either case, there are other requirements that
are made by the department before the service
will be installed. And one of these requirements
is what Hugo is up against good and hard. The
nostoffice department positively will not put in
free delivery service where there are no street
crossings. There is the problem with Hugo.
His paper has been urging street crossings for
many months, but has made very little impres-
sion, it would seem, from the small number of
crossings put in. Now we will turn the street
crossing proposition over to the Chamber of
Commerce, that they may try their hand in the
matter. But one thing is sure—Hugo will never
have free delivery of mail until there are im-
provements made in the streets of the city, and
especially the crossings.
Notice By Publication: Foreclosure
of Mortgage on Real Estate.
State of Oklahoma,
Choctaw County, ss
In District Court.
T. W. Tyler and R. A. Wright vs
L. G. Doyle.
Said defendant, L. G. Doyle, will
take notice that said plaintiff, T. W
Tyler, did on the 3rd day of Febru
ary, 1912, file his petition in the Dis
trict Court in and for Choctaw Coun
ty, Oklahoma, against the said de-
fendant and that the said L.
Doyle must answer said petition
herein on or before March 20, >1912
or said petition will be taken a9 true
and a judgment rendered in said ac
tion against said L. G. Doyle for the
sum of $146.00, \y>on a certain pro-
missory note executed by the said L
G. Doyle to the said T. W
Tyler and R. A. Wright
the 12th day- of October, 1911, with
interest thereon at the rate of 10 pel
cent from the 12th day of April, 1911,
and for costs of suit and for.an at
torney's fee of ten per cent of the
gross amount recovered; ahd a fur-
ther judgment rendered in said action
against said defendant, L. G. Doyle,
for the foreclosure of a certain mort
gage securing said promissory note
and of even date therewith upon the
following described real estate lying
and situated in the County of Choc
taw and State of Oklahoma, describ
ed as follows, to-wit:
SE 1-4 of SW 1-4 of Section 26,
Township Seven South, Range Sev
enteen East of the Indian Base and
Meridian containing forty acres
land and adjudging that default has
been made in said mortgage, that
plaintiff have a first lien on said pre
mises to the amount for which judg
ment will be taken as aforesaid and
ordering said premises to be sold
without appraisement, and the pro
ceeds applied to the amount due
plaintiff and the costs of suit, and
forever barring and foreclosing said
defendant from all right, title, es
tate, interest, property and equity of
redemption in or to said premises or
any part thereof.
(Seal) T. W. HUNTER
Clerk District Court, Choctaw Coun
ty, Oklahoma.
The Battle Cry!
The battle cry of the Republican party in 1912 is protec-
tion to capital and labor. On this the party can win. With-
out protection to our great indusries with all their millions
of workers, without protection to the farmers who constitute
the largest working class in the country, we shall revert once
more to the souphouse era of the free-trade times of 1893.
We arc glad that President Taft, on his Ohio tour, made
the protective tariff the vital issue. We are sorry he did not
do this earlier. When he departed from the platform of his
party to advocate reciprocity, the corporation tax and a stren-
uous policy of trust-busting, he jeopardized the prosperity of
the country, to the maintenance of which he had been solemn-
ly pledged by his party's platform. This is the only fault that
can be found with the President and it is at root of all his
troubles. But let the past go. It is. never too late to mend.
The real issue on which the Republican party has won and
can win again is prosperity, the full dinner pail and the handy
bank book. We are getting back to our moorings. The work-
ingmen of this country, including thbse who work o nthe
farms, need only to be told the truth about the policy of pro-
tection to renew their faith in the Republican party.
It is a matter of no consequence that a oozen or twoof
co-called insurgents in the House of Representatives and a
measly half-dozen so-called insurgents in the Senate join with
the free traders in smashing at the protective tariff. Their
constituents will settle with them next fall. It is of conse-
quence that a Republican President should preach sound Re-
publican doctrine. Now that this gospel has been preached
i nOhio, we hope it will be heard throughout the country,
not only from the lips of the President, but from the lips of
every Republican leader.
On this issue the party can regain all Its lost ground.
—Leslie's.
NO. 3—CHARLES II. OF ENGLAND.
The most picturesque and eventful exile of any English
sovereign was that of Charles II. of England, who was com
pelted to disguise himself, flee from his country and remain
in hiding for a considerable time before he was restored to
his throne through , the death of Cromwell and the fall of the
form of government he had established. It was at the battle
of Worcester in 1661 that Charles' forces were defeated and
he was compelled to escape, and it was nine years before he
was finally restored, and with him a return of licentiousness
and infidelity.
With the death of Charles I. Cromwell had seized the
reins of government and established a protectorate. Charles
had been crowned at Scone and was supported by the Scots,
but Charles was able to raise a large army and defeat them
at Dunbar. This, did not prevent Charles from penetrating
into England at the head of 14,000 men, but the King was de-
feated by Cromwell and the whole Scottish army was either
killed or taken prisoners. Charles succeeded in escaping with
extreme difficulty, in the disguise-of a peasant. He was so
closely pursued that at one time he was compelled to conceal
himself for twenty-four hours in a large oak tree, while his
pursuers are said to have actually seated themselves under
this tree, which was afterward known as the Royal. Oak.
After various journeys in many disguises Charles II.
reached France. Here he was continually being pursued by
th«J agents of Cromwell and frequently can* near being cap-
tured. Upon one occasion it was only, through the treachcry
of an agent of the Protector that he made his escape. The in-
cident was as follows:
When Charles was in exile at Brussels, he determined to
pay a visit to his sister, the Princess of Orange; but as se-
recy was indispensible to his safety he did not make his in-
tentions known to anyone. He set off at night, accompanid
by a faithful attendant, Fleming, and arriving at Te Hague
by 6 o'clock in the morning, he alighted at a low and obscure
inn in a remote part of the town. He immediately sent Flem-
ing to acquaint his sister where he was, and to leave it to her
to contrive the way and manner of his having access to her,
so as not to be known.
Fleming, having despatched his commission, was no soon-
er returned to the King than an unknown person came to the
inn.' The King, believing it might be his sister, desired Flem-
ing to withdraw. He admitted the stranger, who immediately
on finding he was alone, fell on his knees and pulled off his
mask, making himself discovered to be Mr. Downing, then
Ambassador from Cromwell to the States General. The King
was not a little surprised, but Downing soon assured hi mof of
his good wishes, and as a proof of them, after first enjoining
the strictest secrecy, mentioned the cause of his coming to him.
The King, having solemnly engaged in the terms required
Downing proceeded and stated that his maters, Cromwell, be-
ing now at peace with the Dutch, the States were o obssequi-
oub that they refused nothing he required. In order to make
it more effectual he had entered into a treaty with the great-
est secrecy by which, among other matters, the State stood
engaged to seize and deliver up to the usurper the person of
His Majesty, if he should at any time come within their ter-
ritories. Downing represented his master's intelligence to be
so good that a discovery would be made even to himself
(Downing) of His Majesty's being there, and if he neglected
to apply to have him seized his master would resent it to the
utmost, which would infallibly cost him his head.
Being desirious to prevent the miserable consequences
which would follow if it was discovered that the King had
been there he resolved to communicate the danger he was in
to His Majesty, and for fear of a future discovery he had dis-
guised himself, being resolved to trust no person that His
Majesty should tmmediately mount his horse and make all
the dispatch possible out of the States' territories. That he
himself would return home, and under pretense of sickness lie
longer in bed than usual; and when he thought His Majesty
was far enough off, and in no danger of being overtaken, he
would go to the States and acquaint them that he understood
that His Majesty was in town, and require that he should be
seized, according to the terms of the late Treaty. The King
immediately followed his advice, returned home, and every-
thing happened as was proposed.
The King having thus escaped this imminent danger, most
religiously performed what ho had promised, never mention-
ing any part of the story until after his restoration, when he
rewarded Downing for his attachment by conferring upon him
the honor of knighthood and continuing him Ambassador to
the States of Holland.
Upon Charles' restoration, by affiability end wit, by going
about without ostentation, and mixing with the lowest of his
subjects he obtained a certain degree of popularity, and the
name of the Merry Monarch distinguished him during his life
His wit was ready and pleasant, as Rochester happily ex-
pressed in the epigram in which he speaks of Charles as one-
"Who never said a foolish thing,
And never did a wise one."
To this tJie Kirg replied: "The master was easily ac-
Mirdstryv'1 " W" his own: hi* ""on* were his
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