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Tire WEEKLY OKLAHOMA STATIC CAPITAL. Ofl 111111!, OX'T.AHOMA, SEPTEMBER ii, 1! M.
.HPUt>LBH«>w
OH&AHu
WHAT MP. MATHEWS
KHALI Y STANDS FOR
The patent folly of supporting Mr.
MY RECORD, BY FRANK MATHEWS, No. 2.
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REPUBLICAN TICKET
PrtaM^n f •••Th^oJ^re
Vice-President Charts W. Fwlrhanl**
t>etegare to Co: are** D. 8. UcCulr
Leolsiat.ve Ticket
I*r Coynrll Thtrd ° J ■awn
ww.K*.pr".:?.',,'"..r"". r I) Prsotr
• * r Hr'pr <Vi.L Ur« SMt u,rt«n
Rep..brlean County
Hountr Attorney
. County Treasure!
County CleLk.
>le of Oklah
>n. They ar<
Mr. Mat hew
sity of
i diai
'inn
in a
'hey are not going to deprive
mi) of her poll-hod citlxen
lur young man that he may
on while congress does ooth- I
He there is no represent alive i
>pli (here duly authorised to |
irhat the |
desire.
F. H. M
.N J
fcharle* J
. Coontr Pj|
ti . IV
i Probate Judse
jH'il-Mf r\( Deeds.
I PtMIc Weigher
. Coronor
i Courtr Surveyor.
Commissioner*
Plrot District...
Second Platrlct.
Third District
' Jut ti ra of the Pee
Jaartlce of the Pea
' Ot.net*>!
Cor.Btable
'landerf ...O. W.
.fTT.I. i c. R'rans |CB0 never find out.
le disaffection of democrats and fu-
popullsts is easily accounted for.
Mathews dors not represent an
He stands for nothing He is
e on an impossible plan. He really
i not know what his plan is. He
: DAWES COMMISSION
CAN KINISI! WORK :
I It is not believed that the Dawes. ,
j commission authorlaed the recent press
I report sent out from Mu:
.A. P- flaunde"-s
David Swank
'.'.it' K Rlch«t(l«.n
T. H. 8-v ar4
C«en;e M. I^OroB
C m- narotbouse t < !'"•«. oflB > ««. r
;....0. H. Sprmlnga j effect that it will take a number of
~ . rears for the commission to fix up Its
Meeting of Republican Editors. |i\; nines* and pet ready to retire from
A anittaf « f republican ****£*£? office. For the chairman of the Dawes
£ fiKfiHStjfPe llXXfir. Beptomber *« commission last wlnt r told the gov-
The^ object of the meeting is " nowise in I erument and congress that he could get
conflict With the regular ; throw;h on July 1. 1005. And he
' vj? are,';,ror?V'5r. ■ " "in' ™""i' „ .
and to further sr-i n jg now jqq late In the day to
In °M.t«*5*'S«5SJ5 f '."'lore ro.iKr.-si and ask th.t the
*> attended very fogse of flfe of thai body lie extend-
■* of republican e,j Assfl Mr. Bixby Is not going to
h territories, fjo \m- | dQ u
r7 ^'tri<toMTlMr^"<t^'n rnprcwch nf | It Is doubtless true that all has not
statehood and the unit
"How I Came Into Oklahoma.
hood for Oklahoma and the Indian
Territories would be making common-
wealths the size of Texas counties. It
would be imposing double burden upon
the taxpayers of the two states.
So the position of the parti— 1
outlined.
The democrats, for narrow, partisan
advantage would form four states,
exposition of principles.
*ae republicans, upon principles of
broad statesmanship, would form two
states.
It follows that In the position of the
two parties In Oklahoma Is seen an
The republicans are beiore the peo-
ple of Oklahoma with an honest propo-
sition backed by the republican party
in power in congress and in the execu-
tive office.
The democrats of Oklahoma are op-
posed to single statehood for the par-
tisan reasons explained. The record of
the democratic party in congress
shows this.
But the democratic organization in
Oklahoma is awake to the fact that the
people of Oklahoma are in favor of im-
mediate statehood with Indian Terri-
tory. They realize that to make an
honest fight upon the position of their
party In congress would be to insure
defeat of their ticket at the coming
election.
So the voter of Oklahoma is regal-
ed with the spectacle of the democrat-
ic party In Its platform condemning
the Hamilton bill and at the same time
declaring for single statehood, while
the nominee of the democratic party
makes speeches declaring that he Is In
favor of the Hamilton bill. It is a de-
parture from the pleading. But it Is a
patently dishonest makeshift to bol-
ster the position of the democrats in
Oklahoma They are hostile to state-
hood at this time for they want to
make two democratic states here.
The voter can havo no difficulty in
seeing the line of action that will be
conducive to Immediate statehood. On-
ly one party stands for that. That Is
the republican party.
To vote for the republican nominee
for congress is to endorse tue Hamil-
ton single statehood bill, and to elect
him is to assure its passage at the
coming session of congress.
ti oris in the Indian Territory wouid
probably not be under way.
It has always been recognized by the
republican party In congress and by
the republicans in Oklahoma that ul-
timate statehood was Inevitable. All
republican statehood bills have recog-
nized this fact. But duty to the In-
terests of Oklahoma was paramount and
the interests of Oklahoma have for
several years demanded Immediate
stutehood for Oklahoma.
This was the condition before the
first session of the present congress as-
sembled last December. At that time
it seemed a hopeless proposition to get
the Indian Territory in condition for
statehood. Oklahoma was ready, it
followed that in his patriotic duty to
the people of Oklahoma Mr. McQulre
devoted his attention to urging a state-
hood bill for Oklahoma. But the great
progress he made and the patent In-
justice to the white people of the In
dian Territory that would result from
the formation of a state of Oklahoma
in advance of the time when the Indian
Territory would be ready attracted the
attention of the people of the Indian
Territory and of the officials of the in-
terior department and of the republi-
cans in congress who desired that but
one state be here formed and active
and effective measures were Immedi-
ately Instituted to prepare the Indian
Territory for statehood with Oklaho-
ma at the expiration of the tribal ten-
ure on March 4, 1906.
To this end ail the efforts of the
dominant party in congress were di-
rected. Restrictions were removed
from the sale of allotted lands and the
tenure of the Dawes commission was
limited and they were Instructed to
rlose their business at the expiration
of the current fiscal year. Appropria-
tions were made for schools in the In-
dian Territory, and the aliened lands
The work of theHHHHHpH
last session of congress in preparing an Interesting feature The >'0,'n* m,>n
Ardmore's city council has let the eon-
trart for the erection of the Carnegie
library building to cost 113,000.
A good flow of oil has been struck three
miles west of Sugden. In the Chickasaw
nation, at a depth of 420 feet
The Fort Oibson Post la to commence
work on a special llluBtrated edition giv-
ing much history of Fort Gibson.
A dwelling at Hugo belonging to Prank
Hopkins, and occupied by his ron. burn-
ed Friday morning. Loss about $900.
Th* Enid Wave announces that pick-
pockets and thugs are numerous in that
city. Which shows, of course, that Enid
is metropolitan.
Perry Enterprise: The Modern Wood-
man of this city ere feeling very Jubilant
over the fact that they have the ban-
ner camp In point of numbers In the ter-
ritory. Their membership Is now over
tho two hundred mark and they are one
of the youngest organizations of our
city.
recognizing the rights of the people
there was unprecedented and accom-
plished what had seemed to be the
work of years.
The situation along In the closing
hours of the last session became en-
tirely changed and single statehood
To vote for the democratic nominee | contemporaneously was an established ,
is to condemn the pending bill and
give encouragement to the democratic
opposition that is only waiting encour-
agement to kill the bill by unlimited
debate.
j of their own preparation, giving
i ideals of a young woman, which Ms fel-
1 lowed by a young lady who portrays her
| model of a young man.
South McAlester CAplfal talks of tho
merger of the bar associations and fays:
Now thnt the bar associations have been
united Cliff Jackson's cup of aatisf.tc-
be bubbling over, and .fudge
d that he will have no
matters that will be I'-'fore
the coming ae> ■
range to co-operat
©f the republican partv-
that the meeting will «
generally by the edltj
newspapers in K
tinent things will develop and that at heart the good of the county.
there will be an awakening of the ; It is the duty of all good citizens
echoes. For the constant keynote of to take Interest In the government of
the Mathews speech in the cam-; the county and the management of
paign lip to row has been an attack the county's business. When they have
upon the record in congress of Mr. thoroughly canvassed the situation it
McGuire It Is expected that Mr. Mc- is believed that they will decide and
failures among the whites. The amount
of success that they will achieve is
indicated by the volume of business
that they have already done under
the handicap of tribal tenure and fed-
eral domination.
possibility. Th -n Mr. McGuire got be-{opportunity to compare the lu
hind the Hamilton single statehood bill
aud It passed the house of represen-
tatives providing for Immediate sin-
gle statehood upon termr. of equali-
ty. It Is a fast measure and Its enact-
ment so far as that has been accom-
plished is due to the work or Mr. Mc-
behalf of statehood for Okla-
I lnTol..d In <fc«t «l
that j been made plain sailing tor the Da
commission, In view ui the law that
jinouncemeut
(Juiro will make that clear to the sat-
isfactlon, even, of the sage of Greer
county. But In uddltion to that Mr.
Mathews will doubtless be given an ap-
portunlly to explain how he happens
to be laboring under the impression
*"l <• " ">«' body-:rU'nn"^ -L1'!' L" ihat^VSlD tlroroi .i„gle sl.lehood
i«i Mitt one yoar Bui notwlth. democratic platform
standing there Is no reason (or
A great editor: One wl>0 ha R C1I>"
able business mauas. r
Whr not pet tbe~OUahoman com- to be done after the allotn.-nu
' , «K. KAftka? raade ani1 ,he rolU a11 Closed
spondent to expert the
tending It. The work of the commis-
sion should be closed In as good shape
ns possible on the date set by law.
i There will be need of nothing further
III
The
of the Indian rightly Mongs to
office of agent. And the agent
should he given explicit directions not
It !« «ven money now that the so-^
cialist candidate will get more vote.-' to become over-anxious about the in-
, xiorhmvi dian but to enforce the !r«w.
' ' The Indian Territory situation is
clear, and there need Ik no further
What Oklahoma wants is statehood.
That is why Oklahoma is not "mak-
ing «yes" at Frank Mathews.
The village philosopher announces
.hat when three brass bands live In
the city house rent begins to get cheap
i they are for< <
s to "protect
complications ui^le
officials in a des
Indian.
Every old settler of the Indian Terri-
tory knows that too much •protection''
"" ^ y>Anda live In ''8 the whole trouble over there. They
that when three bra-.s band, nvejn ; ^ ^ ^ #
will be given an opportunity to tell of
the position of his party In congress
on the statehood question; and Mr.
McGuire is feeling well, so it may be
that the record of Mr. Mathews on the
school land question, the educational
question and the populist party will be
probed a trifle.
It is to the great advantage of the
people of Custer county that the de-
bate is to be had. They will have an
opportunity to learn from speeches
that are not stereotyped some perti-
nent facts on the issues.
signify the decision by their ballots,
that ine Interests of Ix>gan county de-
mand the election of the entire repub-
lican county ticket.
know that the Indian
shrewd in the care of his own.
It is true that there are shrewd
THE COLOR LINE White men In the Indian Territory
\vn innrcPiUfRP attempting to de l e mean, for ctrcum-
AINU JUUUC t .-\K!S,E.K | venting a blundering bureauocraey In
In a communication republished its efforts to protect the Indian. It
this morning from tho New York Post is equally true that the alleged graft-
It will be seen that the wires are be- ers have the earnest and shrewd co-
coming tangled in the poncical sltua-! 'jperailon of the tribesmen to that end.
tlon. The democrats of the south will And these facts are easily seen to be
WEAKNESS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY louire
homa.
On election night it will be Import- I While Mr. McGuire did not write the
The student of the Indian nroblem to get returns from West Virgin I Hamilton bill he approves of It and
needs but to {eid the aUte toeumenS i ' ■ because if that has gone democratic , his work for statehood .ton* the only
of the szp
urlng Indian governraentrt tti ! Maryland will certainly be; to hear practicable lines during the last
t the Indian fa ed™"ed and ' from New Jersey, for if that has gone , sion of congress made the Ham,It.
llton bill
hod carriers and speculate on which of
the two occupations carry the most
weight.
Both In tho western and eastern por-
tion* of the territory there have ben
experiments mado this year In growing
tobacco. In both Instances the experi-
ments were successful, but especially fo
in Ponca township, In Lincoln county,
where James Moulton raised 1.20# pounds
from ii small planting last year, and set
out 6.000 plants this year. Tobacco us-
ers say the Oklahoma product it first
Baltic:
Examine:
To Col. Tom Doyle: Tho way to help
Mathews is to not make Invidious com-
parisons. Don't apeak where he does.
After all, Mr. Mathews abould not
be blamed. He bad no Idea that there
nere so many loaded proposition* ' | Itv
Oklahoma.
gilimaia
and vast
Si tn pit
what is
Na
It is too bad that Mr. Mathews did |
cot see It coming and go to Washing- .THE STATE CAPITAL
ton to appear before the committee 1
an territories.
The real thing in carnivals will b >
seen next week in Guthrlo. Plsns and
specifications have been made whi h
indicate that nothing like it has eve:
been seen.
be shocked to learn that the church
attended by Jndge Parker, tho demo-
cratic candidate for president, has ne-
gro members and they will probably
faint when it is observed that the New
York Post, the leading aemocxatlo
paper of tho city admits that the con-
gregation of Rev. Mr. Hall, son-in-law
! of Judge Parker, welcomes the black
I people of the Hudson settlements to
PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATS pa"Jrl,,ate in ™?"n"n,lon th<'r'-
* UP COD u'ruiDt: Thls P"!""111™ <loe "ot prove
A Kb rUK >1 ul IKfc anything But It Indicates that the race
The example of Hon R. ti. Forrest, issue is not so much as It was hoped
of El Reno In abandoning the demo- the white people of the south that
, . , „ ( ii ,,,. , ,,. ,,, ' it would become when Uncle Hank Da-
erotic party has been followed by Judge j y|§ (ounded the keynot(!
C. C. Worrall. campaign manager of it is a mixed metaphor sort of prop-
the democrats for Kiowa county. Judge I osltlon and to the student of condi-
Worrall annouueed publicly last Sat
urday that he Is for McGuire.
It is the dishonesty of the demo- is expected to grow red in the face and , amenable to all of the laws of a sov-
cratic position that drives these dem- hoarse in hollering for the "sage of j ereign state. That will solve the prob-
ocrats from the support of Mathews. It I Esopus." Mem. It will hasten the develor meat
is the inter, -is of tht entire people of | of the Indian Territory aud further tne
! Oklahoma tha: leads them to the sup- "SAFE GUARDING" HELPS interests of a great state. And it will
port of the republican ticket. While THF RHHRPRQ meet with the hearty support of the
i the number of brave democrats who Inc Indian.
! will publicly announce their desertion Tn* most glaring example of mis- Sentiment and philanthropy are th.
of the impossible proposition of the j placed sentiment in this mercurial- curse of the Indian. Attempts
r,.,.nr it11771 r. i'arker and Mathews campaign and minded republic is the government
FIG I Rl' 1 I ZZ L E j forms is large, there are hundreds j "^^snardlng of the Indian.
>nal $1,876
It of mill
atlon in polii
laws that g:
s, and in
of red tape
the Indian
1 of Incompe-
tency protects him In his rights with-
out working a hardship upon the white
man who is doing things in the Indian
Territory, are all that tne situation re-
quires. These do not entail a perpetu-
f the Dawes commission nor of
tenure In mortmalu without revenue I
to the state.
the result of the position of the au-
thorities in their attempt to "protect"
the rights of the Indians. If the bars
were taken down—if the bridle were
removed and the Indian placed in ex-
actly the same position of the white
man—there would be no more grafters.
The opportunity for grafting would be
gone, for the sovereign citizen would
take the place of the reluctant ward.
There is only one way to safeguard
the Interests of the Indian in the In-
dian Territory. And that will also be
treating the white man there with
equal justice. That is to make deeds
In fee to the Indians of their pro-
portionate share of the tribal lands
and to pay them their proportionate
share of the tribal funds; then confer
Itlons has a groat deal of Interest in j upon them the full rights of free cit-
view of the fact that the solid south izens and to make them In all ways
onal
Top
Loan
No, Charles, the repainting n th«
calaboose in your town is not neces
garily an Indication of the scat city of :
residences. It marks the mo>e south
of the hobo.
more who will not support the nomi- I And the 1Jmi| 's reached in the ef-
.850 nee of the democrats but will still . f°rts of federal officials and the In-
1,123 keep silent about their disaffection, idian Rights Association with reference
There is no ground for surprise in ' to the Indians of the five civilized
the support of the republican nominee j tribes
and the republican platform bv patrl- ! Government safeguards have been
$10,149 jotlc democrats. The democratic posl- j ba,,e of the Indian since the In-
i who does not on is untenable, dishonest and con- l'ian °%a3el scalping his benefactors
ramerelal trary to the Interests of the people of | f,ncJnw*n* to on e reserv*tio,M-
e. the above rtgur«s ' oklahoma.
Rut there Is a young j
"Mood 10 REPUBLICAN OFFICIALS
•t w It : ires HIS |
1 track '
I'ntil the policy of pampering shall bo
The Examiner
raised by Frank
r acres in the north part
congress and shows his far sighted pol- ' « <« „,.£• ""J ,&v°e!.™" mes^
Icy in opposing the proposition Of the eleven ii • hes In eircumfei. nce, and ii
single statehood people as long as sun ply 1 sight. Frank planted onions
those propositions imported a delay in j the'r.Su£«
statehood for Oklahoma. for $3 75#
Mr. McGuire made the single state-
hood bill possible by compelling con- j Kremlin New Era; The Hon. J TT.
gress to prepare the Indian Territory r- k. ' uf I'ond Creek was nominated
for statehood. 1 bV acclamation to represent <Jarfleld
It is a bright place in the record and j ."o^cU^r0 D,"'ier iJV honoVVbl"".'??
can not be discounted by the assertion I right man and is eateoined and highly
that he opposed the single'statehood Praised for his career in the lower in
bill. in.. «...
democratic New' York will certainly j possible. It is part of his record in
have gone so; to hear them from In-
dianapolis and to hear them from
some center of Rocky Mountain news.
like Denver. It does uot look as if de-
cisive news from the election would
get in very early this year, unless the
result Is one-sided. If there should
happen to be a republican sweep, such
as the choice of Roosevelt electors in
New York, which would be known by
ten o'clock In the evening., everybody
could go home and go to bed. If there
should be a sensational development
on the other side, such as the an-
nouncement that Illinois or Wisconsin
had gone democratic, with New Y'ork.
people might similarly go home early
with the assurance that Parker had
been elected. But. barring any of these
striking things, the results in the event
of aclose election, will depend tipen
places which may be a lone time in
getting to the telegraph. Indiana is a
slow state to make its report, unless
the election is a sweep, and-Colorado Is
a slow state, because of Its scattered
mining camps Should the result
hinge upon getting seven votes out of
the Rocky Mountain region there
might be several days before the coun-
try would ivnow how the election had j dian Territory have been served by M
gone 1 McGuire In making It possible for that
The weakness In the democratic par- ! territory to become a part of Okla-
ty s outlook comes from the fact that homa at the time of the admission of
of these really debatable centers, It | the state instead of later. For state-
must carry practically all of them. ! hood for Oklahoma has been a burn-
while the republicans can slip up on j Ing question, ignoring which was a
all except any one and still win. If ; disgrace, for several years before the
the republicans should carry New Y'ork j Hamilton bill was framed, based upon
v 1 w lprsev or West Virginia or conditions that made its premises pos-
safeguard his rights are accessory, l,r -New jersey, or we. virguii*. u. 1
to the act of robbing him. I lndlana-any one of these- the elec- sible.
tlon would seemingly be in their hand. |
1 if Indiana should go republican, for : onown noiuiug nse man uuegeu i There will be an Increase of at least 5
DEMOCRATS OUIBBLE example, no one would be at all con- opposition to single statehood that . er cent this year The.., ■ about s.;
ON CTATFWnnn «r ed over Illinois or Wisconsin. If | wojld have been a tort*, of fitne.. | tand. Z>!m <" .• >•
UlN MAI tHUUl); New york Bhould B0 republican no on. - to him in the light nf the changed con-
OT course the voter wants to know ,|,ink New J. rf y in much dout' : ditions that his very alleged oppo-
Garfield county rect.
.this office this year. Mr. Decker will
His opposition to an iposslble pro- work for the upbuilding and advancement
position was what made the condition 1 ot district.
change to make the same proposition
nn«aMit« i A number of merchants In Oklahoma
possioie. City nr.- bolng bothered by drafts from
If Mr. McGuire had gone to congress collection agency in j,a cro>H... wis.
asking for single statehood under the Hr ently the collection company s -nt t
conditions that then existed he wo'tild ; ♦ 21 1«®d 11,0
, . . . , . , merchants and secured contracts to col-
have been asking for indefinite de- if>ct eomo bad and indifferent accounts,
lay. the merchant signing a contract with cer-
This was all shown in the republican , un t'pujationa Tho men ha.nt how-
, , „ ... 1 ewer, p*ud no more attention to his con-
campaign of two years ago when the tr, . Hntl now the comiHjny is trylng to
Indian Territory was smarting under collect pay for the services guaranteed
conditions that were alike unjust and th® merchants.
indefensible and which gave at that
time no promise of betterment in many
years.
The interests of the people of In-
If the
Fort Supply Republican: The repnbll-
can« of Woods county, in the county con-
v ntion, nominated a g od man for tho
pla when they nominated Qua Had-
wiger for sheriff. Tho writer knew Gus
Hadwiger in Colorado years ago, and
havo renewed our fcc^ualntanco since
comlnjc to Oklahoma, and in all these
years we have found him to be an up-
rlght man, a staunch republican and a
faithful ft lend. He is deserving and
well qualified, and the voters of WoodS
county Will havo a splendid sheriff It
they elect him.
The available farm land In Indian Ter-
ritory is estimated bt }f..000 000 acreo.
These figures are taken from th« records
record of Mr. McGuire had of the D*wes .commission, of this 15
what the parties stand for with ref- and New Jersey might go republican i sition accomplished.
erence to the things that interest him ' with New \ork democratic, because -
in the campaign. In this connection recent returns In state and congres-; Now that the campaign Is already go-
it is interesting to observe how the ! sional elections show a consideraly | jng strong, it may be remarked that
ommerclal quantities,
an abundance of hard wood of all kinds.
Tho latost statistics obtainable give the
value of farm animals at !55,000,0c0 The
per cent of the population engaged In
agriculture Is exceeded in only three
itef, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Aikan-
He
Re;
Notice a news item h<
Drift to Frank Mathews."
means Frank Mathews to
That is where he ia hcadct
tip Salt creek.
idel "Tn
the drift,
for—sway
Within
pie of Im-
portunity
dropped or the Indian become extinct republicans and democrats stand on the j stronger republican backing in New (he vital issue in Oklahoma is state-
as a result of It the solicitude of the ; statehood question. For statehood is? Jersey than in New \ork: but if on j hood. Remember that McGuire Is In
government is going to endanger the the ques<ion which most interests the election night it should appear that favor of a possible plan. Mathews haa in 1. .
THE BEST GUARANTY |usefulness of the Indian nnd make htm people of Oklahoma. Parker had carried New York and ! not yet made up his mind jast what be
t seven weeks the peo- , less what he should be. J A glance at the map shows that Ok- 1 Roosevelt had carried New Jersey, the ja jn favor of, but Is believed tc
ountv will have an op-1 The Indian himself recognizes this lahoma and Indian Territory are Jn j question would be pertinently asked, think he oueht to be defeated on gen-
prove of the republican 1 proposition. The most studious Indian the south. Almost all of Missouri,: Where are New Jersey s twelve votes 1 eral principles.
of county affairs by j educators have long seen the neces- Kentucky and Virginia are north of J which are needed In the Parker coi-
the n
ibllcan ticket and ln-
•e another corps of re-
Is to continue the econ-
• wise management ot
lat has marked
sity for making the Indian self-sup- j the lautu
porting and getting him at work And, [ terrltorh
e of the north line of these >mn to be replaced. It would take a j Mathews says the people can not
New Mexico and Arizona j good sized ^tate^ somewhere^to | depend upon a political party to do
"ru,~u ****"" f Ao what it has not even promised to do.
while 1* may be admitted that In the are south of the north line of these | this loss. Which state is it. As an
case ot reservation Indians there is territories On the face of the map the experienced democratic politician ex-
some need for safeguarding owing to I solid democratic south environs the j pressed It the jother day, in still slm-
!t is too bad that Tom Taggart did
not make good. He Is now a sort of
Jesse J. Dunn of the national democ-
racy. Be is discredited and passed up
fcy his candidate.
By the way, the Muskogee Phoenix
Is telling about mismanagement of the
J&iskogee poetoSLce it is imagined that
Colonel Douglas is a candidate lor
postmaster there.
Prince liTrbert BlsmarckT eldest son
I rank
| management
pa ram
I Mr. Fred Dcfal- j county
it a satisfactory ed the
German
fortune
mortal
r the other day,
but he did not
same as his fat!
pave an im-1
MR. M\THE\XS WILL
PROBABLY EXPLAIN
In
' on th
n. chod whenever re- , the folly of the government for a term four remaining territories. The vote pier terms: The reason this election
in the three organized territories is so j Is a two-to-one shot for Roosevelt Is
close as to Indicate that the states because the republicans will win if they
could be made democratic. The Indlar. carry either New \ork or Indiana;
Territory is believed by congressmen the democrats will not win unless they
to be democratic. Democrats in con- carry both." And Indiana has been
gross are convinced that it would tenrl giving republican majorities for ten
to make an increase of eight demo- years and on the presidential ticket
cratic senators in the upper house of j has the head of Its own highly per-
congress if these four territories wer * fected republican organization, with
formed into four states. This wa- ' a dozen aspiring politicians in the
shown by the vote in the house during state eager for his place in the sen-
the last session of congress when the j ate. Every hook that would bring out
Hamilton enabling a< t passed that ' an Indiana republican is baited this
body by a solid republican vote, Vein-; | year. •
opposed by a solid democratic vote, j — —*
The Hamilton bill provides for single DcrnDn oc u.r|!inp
statehood for Arizona aud New M-xle Kcv-UK LJ vJr iYlCVjUirtc
and for Oklahoma and Indian Tern ON STATEHOOD BILL
tory. J
The republicans In congress are j When the republican territorial con-
aware that to make two states of Ok- I ventlon met two years ago it seemed
• been in control. And of years, there is no excuse for the
he election is certain to : frantic and unfounded efforts that are
•nt to the party and to being ma«le in behalf of the civilised
lie republican ticket. Indians of the five tribes.
can party can always In the present Indian Territory the
de to the reeord of re- 1 Indians have been shifting for them-
uJa. And the republic- selves for many years. Before they
county are in the first I came to the Indian Territory they
>se whose pride in the ! were doing business for themselves,
county's affairs Is 1 They have prospered and are pros-
For the republicans of thl
Hoe have always discharg-
ies with due regard to the
the tax pavers and. the
ccjnty. In all of the of
pering . They seek light and they de
mand that they be given what is theirs
and be allowed to manage it for them-
j selves. They have the ability and the
urage to undertake their own salva
The democrats of Oklahoma have
promised to defeat the Hamilton bill.
They can be depended upon to make
the attempt, at least, despite the dis-
claimer of Mr. Mathews.
From the manner in which the open
shop is gaining ground it is imagiued
| that Kalph Easlcy, formerly of Kan-
sas. of course, is going to have a hard
time sledding along the middle of the
road with his civic federations and the
unions.
Mean
holders Hon. It Is therefore apparent that the
to point out things
f the party and the
unty.
nel of the nominees
> frost in
With the
jexpected t-h*t the
binder will now a
menace to the coue
in the candidacy
candidate.
i air it xn.
mp^sn t
j most interestlm
Miga. it
that i
meeting
likely that a lot of per- ing argumen
1
attempt of misguided and unposted
philanthropists to induce the govern-
ment to continue the baseless decep-
tion that the Indians are being safe-
guarded by the authorities is without
i guaranty of continued high -ood reason and is based upon false
the interests of the people, i premises.
Inees are all representative ! The Indians of the five tribes are
iei cltlions They all stand ; anxious to have w hat is theirs. They
hiim. Tber in all alike want it delivered to them just as the
\ able. These are arguments white man has what is his. And when
al to the voters who pay j that is done the Indian will develop.
iey are sound and convino- The percentage of failures among them
the voters who have 1 will be less than the percentage of
Even In Texas old fashioned Irriga-
tion haa given way to the new. And
as a consequence the sale of snakebite
medicine is not scr general nor tho
demand so good as for mowing ma-
chines that will negotiate an alfalfa
field.
If all of the natural gas In Oklahoma
A gentleman connected with one of the
largest bro"ni factories In the world w;is
it well a few days ago. says the
nd In conversation with a farmeB
* city, he said; "We In Illinois
have seen some of your broom corn, and
5t is of a quality superior to any we
can raise, '['hero we have to build great
^:,c(ls In which to dry it; here the al-
mighty dries it for you. Oklahoma la
the beat broom corn country in the *orld,
in western Oklahoma especially, you raise
more and better broom corn on land
worth ten dolars an acre thun we can
on land worth J1K0O an acre Besides
it costs us four times as much to raiso
It, as It does you."
Taloga Observer: The main argument
of the Icr.dcrs of the new Bottlers move-
ment is that the claim holders can not
raise crops on account of the cattle-
men's Ileitis destroying them, but a ride
through any section of the country where
tho settler was here early enough in
the spring to put In a crop will convince
you that their statement Is without foun-
dation The writer has travelled three
times this summer by wagon from Guy-
mon to the Wnodward county line over
t hiee «1 i:Y.• j cut routes nnd all along the
road he passed thousands of acres of as
fine growing crops as he has ever seen,
and theie was not tho least bit of evl«
f them heaving been molested by
the cattle.
the Seventh
faithful :
vice
cd thr.
nd i!
party to succeed hlms
Urm. He has ably rep
pie of Oklahoma nnd it
lahoma and Indian Territory wo.tld | that the Indian Territory would not be , would burn there would be plenty of
be to do an injustice to the people ot. ,'tepared for statehood for several fuel and the approach of the north ?r
this Kreat section of the union Th,v : years. ! "ave no terror, for Uu Improv-
are awake to the fact that the pepula-1 if the republican party In Oklahoma ! Ident tfjmmer man. IJo,
tion of Arizona and New Mexico unit- 'had not recognized the Injustice of de- puti
ed is adequate only for one state. Tho lay of statehood until the Indian Ter- if there was ever any democratic against
single state of Arizona and New Mex- j rltory was prepared and demanded im- enthusiasm In Oklahoma it ail got This accounts for the pei
ieo would be smaller than Texas which ] mediate statehood for Oklahoma the j away when the Keaton resolution was I SS^s^-sac£ 0f our *ter
it Join3 on the east. Separate s'.ate- present effective closing of tribal rela- passed condemning statehood. meet,
i legislat
•sty und
ie nomlna-
tho repub-
. il district
:< a record
ability and
msihle, Winkler
ivo terms in the
nominee of his
If for a fourth
esented the poo-
heir confidence
He
fTlclency In
ands boldly
fters and lobbyists.
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Greer, Frank H. The Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 24, 1904, newspaper, September 24, 1904; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth352684/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.