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THE WEEKLY OKLAHOMA "TATE CAPITAL' SATURDAY JUNE 15, 1907
THE OKLAHOMA STATE CAWTAL."™r!lSg «gSSS.Tmmm
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FRANK H. GREER. EDITOR.
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Kindness is a conquering hero.
What is so rare as
days of June!
, When trouble is asleep don't throw a chip nt It.
It begins to lodi us though summer lias come to
Stay.
W-h-c-w! but isn't summer getting down to busi
Hess in i.cood bliapeI
A gelf-made man would be a nice fellow if ho wouli
quit telling us how he did it.
Winter, the old rake, had to finally give up that
comfortable seat he so long monopolized.
i Fears are to tlio heart what dyspepsia is to the
stomach. Hope is the good digester of life.
A St. Louis paper describes Taft as "the man with
the 40-acre smile." Isn't that stretching it a little?
Now they tell us that the word "thousand" on the
$1,000 certificates is spelled wrong, but how are we
to prove it.
The President declines to discuss the spring style
in women's lists, and lie is wise as usual. Ho is not
u horticulturist.
That "sight nnseeii'' constitution of Cocklebur
Bill's is getting pretty badly frazzled, judging from
the wnv the billy goal luis been chewing upon it.
The election campaign is on sure and the only
thing that can "put it out of commission" now is tin
sustaining of the i'aneoiist decision by the supreme
court.
Rebuke! not in anger, or with severity; hard words
lire like hail stones in summer, beating down and de-
stro>ing what tin y would nourish were they melted
into drop
The !>■ n cents per line scheme of the Oklahoman
lias no doubt proved n great money maker, but can
ii great parti.-an newspaper afford to sell its columns
for such v ork
The "eat and dog tight" of the past two weeks cul
ruin,it 1 in a knock out for several of the partici
I ants li'it the lacerations resulting will be a long
time healing up.
And now e< ' s a Mr. Ovcrmullcr of Connecticut
who owns a b.i.ilam rooster that is "mothering twen
tv chicks and 1 small snake and clucks like a hen.'
O, these nature fakers !
If speculation on the regular so-called boards of
trade is le al. whv i; it not as legal in bucket shops?
Betting is betting, only the furnishings of the gam-
bling rooms may be different.
Frenzied Tom Lawson is running another bluff on
the people. He has endorsed Roosevelt for president.
Wonder how much he has up on the proposition that
Roosevelt will not be nominated.
Some men sret so busy regulating such big things
as the railroads and national finance that they let
their groc< ry bills :;o unregulated, and unpaid. Reg-
ulation like charity, should begin at home.
"Oklahoma democrats are hopeful," says the St
Louis Republic. Well, "hope springs eternal in tlie
human breast." That's a way it has, and especial-
ly in such cases as that brought on by the democrati
constitution of Oklahoma.
By the way, speaking of that constitution: It is
regulation and not annihilation that the thinking,
sensible people want in such a document. The
Cocklebur constitution, as now before the people,
runs too mnch to annihilation.
All those in favor of having Juno behave herself
•wii! please manifest by saving aye. Contrary no. The
■ayes have it. Now Miss June, you know the desire
o: the public ami as it is expressed in a unanimous
vote you will no doubt get on your good behavior at
onec.
The largest canning establishment in Greater Ok
lahoma will have its opening next week. The event
will be worthy of special note as it adds another
great industry to Guthrie s proud array of premium
winners. The capacity of the plant is three car loads
of goods per day.
At this s, ;,s al ot the year there is 110 city in Greater
Oklahoma that ean show to the visitor a prettier resi-
* 1' IJt port ion than tiuthrie. With her romantieallv
rolling hill.-, beautiful and majestic shade tress and
her neat ch-t-rfiu homes, every citizen should be con-
tent with liutbrii- as a city in which to live.
I The people must give the State Capital credit for
I predicting at the outset of the convening of the con-
jstitutionul convention the exact cimidition Unit today
confronts them.
I At the outset, soon after the election of Cocklebur
Bill as president of the convention, the writer pre-
i dieted the conditions that have so vividly passed in
! j.r.'iorr.mie view before the observing, watchful
public.
In an editorial o,' January 17th we again pre-
dicted along a line that must prove of some interest
to the readers at this time, hence we here reproduce
it:
The constitutional convention lias been to niar^- from
tho llrat a puxxl*-
It I. gotilng no better (nut.
Tile worst that has been said about It is not any too
bail. Judging by developments from day to day.
Tho charge that nnsrt-hlstlc IdeaB were being en-
grafted Into Ihe bill of rights, boldly made upon tho
lloor of the convention by a member of tho dominating
purty, did not put It ono whit too strong.
Developments from day to day go to prove that the
early cry of "danger" from those loyal to tho statehuot
Idea was not an Idle dream.
THE SEQUOYAH ELEMENT HAS RULED FROM
THE K1R8T.
The Sequoyah element fought statehood up to the
passage of the stutehood bill
Tho Sequoyah element sulked for a spell In their
tents, then they entered tho tight with the fury of war-
riors In deadly strife.
They were victorious at home.
They were victorious in organization.
They are victorious today.
The Sequoyah element of that conversion Is not to-
day, at heart, longing for statehood.
If this Is true, what would be the most likely tiling
for them to do, holding the reins In hand as they do,
WOULD IT NOT HI: TO MAKE THE CONSTITU-
TION' SO ODIOUS TO THE PEOPLE AS TO CAUSE
ITS DEFEAT AT THE POI.T.K"
Think of this feature of the question.
Think seriously.
Keeping this th lught In nilnd. we would ask:
COULD THE CONVENTION HAVE DONE MOflE
THAN IT HAS ALREADY DONE, po FAR AS IT
HAS no NR. TO CREATE OPPOSITION?
It could ry t do more and nt the same time keep up
the appearance before the people of being sincere In
doing what they wire sent hero to do.
First, they arrayed both democrats and republicans,
In all parts of the slate, ngalnst the constitution,
through the unholy butchery of counties-
And that Is tile inly closed act, if Indeed it is closed,
that tho convolution can boast of to date.
They are now engaged MAKING THE RILL OF
Till HITS SO ODIOUS THAT IT WILL REPEL CAP-
ITAL FROM THE STATE AND DRIVE AWAY MUCH
OF TH AT ALREADY HERE
Pv so doing, they boldly advertise to the world:
"Wo want no more railroads."
"We want no moro Industries."
♦We want no mire foreign capital."
"We want no mo-o prosperity."
The acts of tho populists In the days of Sockl«ss Simp-
son and Pe\vhlskcr, d Peffer were tame as compared to
the efforts now betty* made to force capital and enter-
prlro out of the st 1 to, and tell people abroad that w-i
want no more to come.
All should be iin ier the rigid control of tho law, but
laws that are prohibitive and unprotoctlve in their
form are not what build up commonwealths, cities,
villages and country.
They nr.- not what the people are expecting.
And the people will not stand for them.
Yet, fellow eltlaci\s, such ure the laws now being
prepared by that learnel body-
It was while they were engaged In this pernicious
work that Delegate ICornegay branded the majority as
anarchists.
THE DAYS OF ANTE-HELLUM I.AWS WERE
NEVER MORE GRINDING UPON THE PEOPLE
THAN WOULD BE THE LAWS IIEIN0S ENCiRAFT-
Kll INTO THE CONSTITUTION UPON INDUSTRIES
AND CAPITAL, IN FACT, UPuN ALL THE PEOPLE
With such a constitution, aft enterprises dependent
upon foreign capital would pass Oklahoma by,—
And capital would, as much as possible, pull out of
the new state, as it did In Kansas lr^ the palmy days
of populism.
This has been the history of every section of tho
country wherein anarchistic personages have been al-
lowed to have sway In law making.
The State Capital has, up to tills time, held i^loof
from entering Into the acts of the convention, further
thm\ to paragraph them and mildly mention some -if
their shortcomings, but IT FEELS THAT THE TIME
HAS ARRIVED WHEN THE ALARM SHOULD BE
SOUNDED.
If necessary to bring tile destroyers to their senses,
the cry should go forth from every house top in the
new state,— v
Give the people a constitution they car vote for or
pass it up entirely.
Rear in mind that the above editorial was written
but a few weeks after the convention had organized,
evidencing the fact that the convention had sufficient
warning of the breakers ahead, and proving that
the leaders have themselves alone to blame for the
present humiliating condition in which they now
appear before the public.
The State Capital sounded the alarm and almost
daily cautioned the radical leaders against putting
into the constitution those things which might carry
the basic law down to defeat and thereby defeat
statehood.
The designing, desperate tricksters heeded not the
warning and the prediction of the State Capital
based upon that provision is coming to pass as rap-
idly as time will permit.
The Cocklebur constitution is doomed.
convention tin- State Capital has pointed out many
things that are not only ruinously oppressive to the
people in general but must result in stunting the
growth and prosperity of the rural sections, the
towns and municipnlties and the state as a whole,
not failing, of course to include among its indict-
ments that of the wholesale disfranchisement of
voters.
The Oklahoman bus conceded that wrongs exist
in the constitution as adopted; has attacked with all
its fury the man who is credited with writing the
constitution, and has demanded a reconvening of
the constitution to right the wrongs. It has done all
this and more,—has been ignored in such demands.
- -and yet it is now strongly advocating the adop-
tion of the document of conceded blunders.
Which of the two newspapers has been and is
today most consistent, and which hits in reality laid
itself amenable to the charge of holding to its course
for sellish ends to the detriment of the public in
general—
The State Capital or the Oklahoman?
CONSISTENCY. THE JEWEL IS A STRANGER
TO THE OKLAHOMA CITY OKLAHOMAN
The Oklahoman says the State Capital is opposed
to the constitution becausfe it wants to hold the ter-
ritorial printing
The Oklahoman \< the same token, is supporting
the constitution because it expfcets to get the stats
printing.
Let us see:
One statement is as legitimate and true as the
other and yet how silly are both
The two newspaper
their respective partie
MANY DEMOCRATS WILI^VOTE WITH
REPUBLICANS TO DOWN CONSTITUTION
Says the advocate of the constitution:
"With statehood under its provisions the people
can easily right the wrongs."
Let-us look at this claim a moment:
The first and most essential condition necessary to
the correcting of a wrong by the people at the ballot
box, is
The right of franchise,—
Equal franchise,—
Franchise to all alike.
Without this condition to start with we have no
assurance that the people may in the future be able
to rule.
Without such a condition the minority may rule
the majority.
The democratic organs, or some of them, admit
that,— J
Under the conditions set forth in the constitution
Ihe republicans may carry the state by 30,000 major-
ity and yet the legislature will be democratic.
This statement need not tarry alone with the dem-
ocratic newspapers as authority.
It can go farther—to the hall of the convention
to the fact stated in debate with the committee's
re port.
And vet we are told that it will be an easy matter
to correct bad laws appearing in the constitution,
once we have statehood.
The fact is it will be a most difficult tiling to do.
even stopping with the condition above recited.
The disfranchisement provisions—those which
make it possible to count out a legally elected gov-
ernor t'iron'."i an overwhelming democratic legisla-
ture—meets the approval of tho constitutional dem-
ocrats, and if made a law will be stubbornly protect-
ed at every turn made by the people for correction.
It was such a condition that brought about the
Goebcl outrages and the final death of tha't individ-
ual in Kentucky.
Does Oklahoma desire to so construct her laws as
to create and perpetuate internal dissensions for
years to come!
No party, republican, democratic or reform party,
ean be trusted to amend a constitution so as to better
the condition of political opponents.
ihe initiative, under the proposed constitution,
makes it possible for 15 per cent of the legal voters
of the state to force a vote on an amendment. When
the petition was presented the legislature would be
compelled to put the amendment to a vote, but it
would require a two-thirds vote of both houses to se-
em- - its submission at a special election. This would
make it certain that all such amendments would lie
voted upon at a regular election. In that case a ma-
jority of all who vote at that election must vote for
the amendment or it is lost. A majority of those
voting for the amendment does not carry it unless
that majority is also a majority of all the votes cast
at the election.
I nder the plan proposed almost every amendment
voted on in the states having the initiative has fai'- '
11 200,000 votes were cast for officers 011 all tieke;
and 09,000 votes were east for an amendment and
none against it, the amendment would be lost.
If once adopted it will be an impossibility to re-
move the wrongs engrafted in that document, so long
at least as such men who composed the constitutional
convention, dominate in the legislature.
There are thousand of democrats who not only
from a standpoint of right end justice but through a
sense of self-preservation, through a thought of bet-
terment of the democratic party,— x
Will vote down the accursed thing.
GIVE TO OKLAHOMA A PEOPLES' LAW;
NOT A POLITICIAN'S GRAFT LEASE
The fact that it is a difficult matter to find a con-
stitution democrat outside the ranks of the office I
seekers or their immediate strikers, who will not ad-
mit that tho constitution is anything but a model
document,— , ,
Is proof positive—• -
That it is bad,— '.1 • \ v
Very bail, in fact. ' '
They admit all this and then proceed to make the
excuse for advocating its adoption, that they want to
be sure of statehood, asserting in the same breath al
most, that "tin? bad features can be corrected after
we get statehood."
1 hey have in mind, of course, correction by refer-
endum.
I'liey will, if posted on the question, admit thai
the initiative and referendum are classed by consti-
tutional lawyers among the features which jnake the
constitution unrepublican, and if indeed they are
such ami the constitution carries ^nd is signed by
the president, the first thing that the courts wiii
knock out will be the initiative and referendum.
With the referendum out what shape would tin-
people find themselves in!
Could they within a decade repeal any of the bad
features of the constitution!
"Xot if the court knows heself, and she thinks she
do."
It is the history of all states that it takes many
3'ears of agitation and at last compromise measures
to secure 1111 amendment to the constitution before
the people, and then they are frequently defeated.
How long, think you, would it take to get a vote
on an amendment to the constitution through a legis-
lature made up principally with politicians who are
in perfect accord with that document—many of them
being a party to the devilish measures engrafted
therein ?
Once a law that element can carry the legislature
even though the state were to give a republican ma-
jority of 30,000.
This fact is well known by this time to every ob-
server and reader of nespapers.
The Guthrie Leader has even put it stronger than
that, and at the time the referendum was being de-
bated 011 the floor of the convention members of that
body used that statement upon disconcerted dele-
gates to whip them intto line.
lb'is it wiil lie seen that, whether flic referendum
is in accord with the constitution of the United
States or not, flu- question of repeal of objectionable
features is one of much doubt and even at best must
delay for years.
But, while on the subject, let us look into the initi-
ative and referendum clause more fully:
Paragraph 23, SYction 4, of the constitution of tho
United States says:
"'"The I nited States shall guarnatee to every state
in the union a republican form of government," etc
Tho Oregon law is not a constitutional law; in fact
there is not a constitutional law of the kind in exis-
tence in America.
It was passed by the Oregon legislature and it has
a clause in it which gives to the legislature the right
to amend the petition as ctmiing from the people or
to ignortj it entirely, thus making it conform to the
idea of a republican form of government.
Even then this law has been very unsatisfactory to
those appealing to it. they seldom carrying their pro-
posed amendment.
It takes a majority of all the votes cast at a gener-
al election anil most invariably the majority of all
votes has failed to materialize.
The only way to clear Oklahoma of a political par
ty stigma that will cling to it for all time to come is
to defeat the constitution now before the people and
with the enabling act to be given us this winter,—
Make for the people a people's constitution and
not the political tricksters' constitutions
The Statehood Dilemma
Or What's the Use.
SPEA^ESHAKEAN
DRAMA.
By Ed. J Costcllo.
DRAMATIC PERSONAE.
House Sequoyah
King: Railroad Haskell, supreme poten-
tate of tlie Realm of Sequoyah.
Lor<l Cocklebur Bill Murray, heady*>f
the Con-Con. by the Grace of hla Majes-
ty, King Railroad.
Sir Walter Ledbetter, member of H a
Majesty's Con-Con. (To h—1 with the
federal constitution.)
Lord Hayes. Duke of Chickasha, and
member of Hla Majesty's Con-Con.
l/ord Moore, Earl of Enid, and mem-
ber of Ilis Majesty'® Con-Con.
Master Walter Ferguson, A soldier of
fortune In the employ of His Majesty.
Sir John Flenner, Lord High Scrioe
to His Most Potent Nibletts.
House of Shylock
King Cruce, supreme potentate of th
Realm of Shylock.
Lord Doolin, Duke of Alva, Lord High
Chancellor of the Shylock Exchequer.
Sir Fire Escape Hill Cardwell, one of
the fight Nabobs.
Crown Prlnco Moman Prulett, another
of the eight Nabobs, and chief of the
Swat Brigade.
Earl Russell, Bard of Ardmor?, and
Chief Dope 81lnger to His 'Majesty.
I/ord Roy Stufford, Lord High Cham-
bermaid to His Majesty.
8lr Paulus Lycurgus Nesbltt, Wise
man of the Realm of Shylock.
Chorus.
Time^-Slnce the adjournment of the
Con-Con.
In one issue the Oklahoman says that "the repub-
lican politicians fixed things with the president,"
and in another ii says that Xttornev General Bona-
parte stated to the conimitee that he had read the
I constitution and found nothing in it that conflicted
I villi the constitution of the 1'nitcd States or with the
enabling act." First the President "fixed things'
| with the republicans, then the Attorney General
: "fixed tilings" with the constitutional committee.
Getting badly .mixed in its desperate flounderings
is our neighbor. By its last statement either
supposed to be leaders in! S'v<>s the lie point blank to each member of the com-
Lmittee or each member has given the lie to the Okla-
'■'rer led Tom Lawson announces from Paris
1,:'i ii : it < r party nominates Roosevelt lie.
Tom, w I .«rt and iiuauce a new party and
ill.:U nominate an, 1 elect Roosevelt. Mr.
Luwhon . motions seem a bit extravagant, some-
tii.ii - .Milwaukee Sentinel.
It is wn! that Join places the ocean betweei
I? iosevolt and himself. )f he were on this side hej cours.
would .al.lv have to lace Teddy 's dukes or mak. tir
tracks for tall timber.
Kaeli stands bv the principles of its party, lighting 1,"1!an- When Ledbetter. Hayes and Moore came
against the wrongs and differences in the opposition llon,° 'hey each gave out in interviews that they
. M. | eonld get no satisfaction whatever from Attorney
The Oklahoman in the interest of the democratic '" ''""l Bonaparte, further than that be might pos-
The democratic papers will make no converts or
hold any one in line for the constitution by charging
' epublicans are opposed to statehood.
republicans of Oklahoma made the fight for
atut Mjod,—
The republican delegates faithfully aijd consistent-
ly battled for statehood,— ^
Republicans in congress gave us the enabling act—
And the president, a republican, signed it.
Ilence the republicans are "pretty muchly" inter-
ested in statehood, but they want it to com-! with
equal rights to all and special privileges to none,—
With one man's vote the equivalent of another,—
With Americanism the paramount object.
1 his kind of statehood all fair minded, patriotic,
honest citizens will stand for, and standing for it
they will vote down the constitution and wait for
the one following the enabling act of this winter.
party and the people in general, advised the const it u- s''''v communicate with the committee under certain]
king mistakes, andI r:ontl',>or*s. after reading the constitution. The fact !
Statehood fights did much to bring on the war
of the rebellion.-—Leader.
Indeed! Well, if we have learned our lesson aright
the stars and bars went down in that war and the
stars and stripes went up. Cocklebur Bill, with
his squirrel rifle play, Sulphur Hayes, with his
hang the judge.1 Ardmore's school board with its!for
confederate flag decorations and Ledbetter's con-
signment of the constitution of the United States to
perdition, say nothing of the Leader's "deadly"
thrusts can not combinedly work up a rebellion, and
if they did it would be the old story—the confeder-
ate flag would trail in the dust and old glory would
continue to float over the "Land of the Fair God.'
The old Romans used to have a maxim. "Old men
council; young men for war." They did not allow Tt
ACT I
(Throne room of King Railroad .n his
palace In the capital of Sequoyah. KlrtT
dlscovered reclining on tnrone, gently
communing with himself.)
King Railroad—"How doth this Earthly
Bphere abound with schemes of Jl
sorts."—(Smiles loudly.)
Methinks mine enemies have found
Defeat for their cohorts.
J. Harvey Lynch was a winning trump,
I claimed him for mine own,
And punched old Lee Cruau with a
thump, *
In the golar plexus zone, (laughs Joy-
ously4.)
And now, b'gosh, I'll show that ring,
That I'm tho king as yet—
They wunt old Railroad's neck to swing.
But Haskell's safe you bet.
(Loud noise in adjoining room as of
some one pounding on the door anl
throwing chairs around.)
King Railroad—"Heigho! What Infvml
noise doth greet mine ear? (enter Lorl
Cocklebur BUI.) How now, Minion? Has
all hell broken loose; has Cruce dag up
ar.other court record on me, or have you
Issued another squirrel gun proclama-
tion? Why those hell born sounds. Thoy
set most fearfully upon me nerves."
Lord Cocklebur Bill—"Nay, your must
gracious Mapesty. Thou nast mistaken
the real meaning of those sounds. Tney
are caused by the fearful agony which
doth shake this poor soul of mine :>e-
cause of most damnable tidings."
King Railroad—"Damnable tidings?"
Lord Cocklebur Bill—'"Aye, me lud,
most fearsome tidlj.gs."
King Railroad—"Speak, Minion. Your
infernal mutterlngs have given me the
J. Harvey Lynch ague. Out upon >ou
for a procrastinating scamp. Thinkst thou
canst fool with me as thou hast with
the public over that sight-unseen con-
stitution? Open your Jaws! "
Lord Cocklebur Bill—(trembling)—"My
liege, with your most gracious permis-
sion I will call In Sir Walter Ledbetter.
thf> Divine Duke of Chickasha and lh}
corpulent Karl of Enid. They know all
there is to tell."
King Railroad—" 'Tls well, (exit Lorl
Cocklebur Bill) Forebodings of some -v—
ful news Impress my brain, (a bright de*
percolates through his think tank.) Per-
haps 'tis something that will spilt the
enemy in twain."
(Re-enter Lord Cocklebur Bill followed
by Sir Walter, the duke and the earl,
all of whom trembled perceptibly.)
Lord Cocklebur Bill—"Relate, On, 5lr
Walter, unto his gracious *ajesty, thy
story."
Sir Walter—"An' It please your Mnjc-s*
. the president and the attorney gen-
eral at Washington have ungraciously re-
fused to help us out of the miserable
mess we have gotten ourselves Into oy
reason of that Infernal constitution. 1
guess they didn't know who mo and
Moore and Hayes was."
Karl Moore—"Aye, Your Majesty, hey
did but tie divers and sundry Ill-smelling
tomato cans to our coat tails, and b! 1
us go hence to Oklahoma and write a
constitution."
Lord frays,-"And I but told the ©resi-
dent I was a candidate for the supreme
court bench, and he cruelly asked me If
I thought he was running a kindergar-
ten law school. Isn't it shameful?"
King Railroad—"And they dared ef'isu
to help us write a Cohsiltutlon? (rub-
bing his eyes.) What awful tidings bring
you here?"
Sir Walter—" 'Tls fearful your Majesty,
but the republicans are to blame occausa
we did not know how to write a con-
stitution, and It became necessary for
us to make an assirine trtp to Washing-
ton to find out whether we were a set af
Incompetents or not."
King Railroad—"Woe Is me! This, thea,
means that we will defeat statehaod i'of
Oklahoma unless I can devise a means
of reconvening the Con-Con. (Glowers at
1 <'ocklebur Bill.) Bill, wha'ar is taut
constitution?"
Lord Cocklebur Bill.)Bill, wha'ar is that
pocket, Your Majesty."
King Railroad—"Let it remain there sir,
until further notice. v(PIaces his index
finger at hart his nose.) Sh' hoklf A
thlnklet o'erwhelms me. (Performs a few
gymnastic stunts and suddenly s'.ands
erect with right hand poised In appovid
Ink bottle fashion.) Aha! I have it. Nov
me r-e-v-e-n-g-e! That Shylock Cru'*
thinks he's got me whipped for govarn^.r.
He has. has he? Well, if he has, nell
never be governor, not if your *Unc!a
( harlle knows himself. i,Pt him come on
and win In the primaries. Ill de"eat
statehood if he does I'm from Ohio, I am
and I ain't forgot Cal Bryce's teachings
b> a long shot. Bill, ring for Ferguson
and Flenner."
(Lord Cocklebur Bill rings the bell
and M;.stcr Walter and Sir John enter.)
King Railroad—"Ho, Scribes, what ac-
count yourselves have you to offor?"
John—"Your Majesty
tion mouldors tliat they were ninking lnistuKes, aimj "ua uuuuu, mr ittci j p
they hooded it not. Since the adjournment, of the! 's Oklahoman doubl"-crosses itself so often that ' , - -
convention the Oklahoman h.is said thai the cunven- :,s 'lo not know what to count on for the gos. i" '"""J'IT!''' ltoman s"mito "n,il 1,0 was wortfti, '^Xiou, "n'J
lion should re-assemble and correct errors made. :'el tr,lth ip its columns ! ,IP h d accumulated that!'™, i.r-i. ,iv oppoiUnt "IT in
but they heeded not that warning
The .State Capital in the interest of the people in
"orifctting party interests, of
advised the constitution moulders from iiip a certain number of signature
lo time that they were making mistakes ,M(|! .t.„ .7" h"| "oul P™ • -•'«« paid by democratic candidates
pcuuing the. for governor and senator in Oklahoma. Has tho.de-|i'°v'.:'t
| Cfly Started ill f .thou shJll descend with me to cv r rlgh;
lould ro-assemble and eorroet errors truth ir its column_ .
11,111 "e wns not able to justly decide upon questions
South Dakota has the initiative anl referendum! s*ate* Jl!S ni'e until Caesar and the later
not forgetting nartv interests of I with a new wrinkle. The filing of a petition bear-! f?D|>c,'(Jrs *ll!od t!^e scnate with their creatures, and
shflUhoWo,tni u'/u CC1-\0fthc republic be^an. $80,000 is other,.'
time that tliev wero nvii-iiw m ctni-nc i " 1 • i , " 1 out the price 1>. inij paid by democratic candidates R*HroM--"Weii done, thott- g>vi
• , li e- i ' s fin suspendnijr the operation of the law pending the Jor governor and senator in Oklnhn.ii n>. ti i f™1 ,faUhCu.1 « reward for rhy
j they gave uu heed, biuee the adjournment of thej decision of the people. i- ■ . , Oklahoma, lias tho.de-Ijjua-ty. p*uj for in *oo,i round piuv.
general
!•.'..rue with all the crooked corporat'.i.is
In the world."
Master Walter—"Ard I have Just d'is
up nnother 'corker' on J. Harvey Lvnc';.
T're Escape Bill,' Prince Moman and tho
\ConUnued <Jn page tfjve.)
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Greer, Frank H. The Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 8, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 15, 1907, newspaper, June 15, 1907; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth352824/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 20, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.