Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 18, 1895 Page: 4 of 8
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The State Capital.
By The State Capital Printing Co
FRANK H GREER, Editor.
SATURDAY. MAY 1"
ratkc3 of k|j iim 1(11* r ion
TO IIAIT ftritACIUBRRfl:
One year .$.% 00 I
Bix months . .3.00 I
Three mouths 11.50
One month.. 75
Dh.1.1 VKKKD \ C A Kill KKA
sion here now and the discussions have
advanced knowledge and ambition in
thin line.
There is nothing ho necessary to a
town of any importance as a first claa*
system of waterworks and a thorough-
ly organized fire department. Guthrie
has both of these; and other towns of
the territory have the waterworks and
' are rapidly improving their tire extin
wkkkly kiution. guishing service. The levy in Guthrie
One copy, per year .... 11.00 ja8^ year was one mill for tire depart-
OT In requesting a rhange of Postoffice i meut, raisiug about 81,900. This tax
address allwayn give the name of the , |s too sma|i and will have to be en-
Postoftlce to which the paper has been iarged this year. It is the most profit
•ent;otherwise their may be adelay in , ay,i,. taK paid.
One week .
Two weeks
15 cents
1*5 cents
PROPERTY PRESERVERS. Sknatoh Ei.kin- gives as one of his
Tit.-organization of the territorial reafeoss for belief in bimetallism that
tire asioeiation is klfrnlflcant to prop "a man can generally go farther and
erty holders In the towns of Oklaho safer on two leys than one
ma. It means a stimulus to local fire
organizations, a more proficient ser- |w^eat
vi« and added safety to property. The
annual territorial meeting is in sea-
OPPOSED TO SILVER. | tans and ghouls," will have the gall
to go among the people it thus tra-
duces and solicit business through
POPI'LIS 7
With the purpose of finding out as
near as possible the attitude of the
populist party upon the question of sil-
ver. a reporter of the Topeka Journal
interviewed Senator Peffer. As the
senator is recognized as the oracle of
the party in the west, a good deal of
\* a consolation for the loss of the
rop the St. Joe Herald sug-
gests that "Nature can easily be for-
given for refusing to hump herself for importance attaches to his utterances.
50 ceuts a bushel anyway jj wr instance, when the Kansas states-
man says that no nation should make
money out of any substance having
value as a commodity, he declares for
that same old tiat system of paper cur-
If the fellow is really prepared to
carry out the advertisement *'< ash
paid for everything with the feathers
on," he will be a blessing to several
.... . . . * _ rencv. upon which the populist party
million democrats who have surplus r 11 r •
making the charge
Sample copies sent free.
iberal inducements to Postmast-
ers and Club Agents.
IMPORTANT N'OTICK
If you are not a subscriber t > this
paper, but at the same time are re-
ceiving it occasionally or regularly.
it is because some friend has paid for of th
it and ordered it sent to you, with the
hope that you may find something in
it that will interest and benefit you
Tt will be discontinued at tin* expira-
tion of the time for which it has been
paid. This statement is made so that
you will know that you wi. not be
expected to pay for it
The advent of a paid fire depart-
ment here has saved -* per cent in in-
surance—an aggregate of S25.000 a
year—and at least 5?5,ooo worth of
property is saved from destru -lion an
nually—a saving of 850,ooo to Sr5,000 a
year at a cost <>f about 5 .000 In this
not money well spent" The people
i think so. Not a merchant in town but
t-arries a little less insurance because
fflciency of our tire depart-
ment. which has made the best time
of any department in the world.
The local company are giving royal
welcome to the visitors; have thrown
the town wide open to them. The re-
sult of the meeting will be a wholsome
elevation of this extremely important
branch of the public service in the
towns of Oklahoma.
Do YOt hear the
the cuckoo bird .'
new gold song of
Tiikkk is no doubt that Cleveland is
after a third term, but there is a
doubt as to what part} he will be the
candidate of
111 ?! i ucd is rapidly omphu i g
the fact that there is a dum sight of
difference between a Jeffersonian and
a Cleveland democrat
crow they are anxious to dispose of.
Mausiiai. Nix should lose no time in
supplying his office with the new ritie
adopted by the government for mili-
tary service. It will send a bullet
through twenty-four inches of solid
oak or kill a man at a distance of 1,500
feet.
was born. Throughout his talk he
kept the idea to the front that the
populists were as much opposed to sil
which to keep this paper up, that it
may go on villifying the town and the
people which enable it to live.
There is no adequate apology for
any man or any newspaper which un-
justly reprobates their own town. |
Might as well go upon the streets and
defame your own family. It is the
duty of every man and every newspa- I
per to do all possible to hold up the ,•
good name of the town and the citizen-
ship thereof: and what citizen cannot
be proud of the wondrous achieve-
ments of Guthrie and the splendid
quality and enterprise of its citizen-
DUKE
er at to gold, except as a temporary ship?
Thk board of republican railroad
assessors have assessed the Pullxan
ears in Kansas at f'-.ooo each, the rate
< xpedient for paying off bonds. The
reporter opened the interview with
the question:
•What do you think of the silver
movement, senator?"
"It is simply one of those peaceful
revolutions which upturn civilized
■untries at stated intervals. It shows
that the people are beginning to think.
If criticisms are made on local men
and measures, they should be based
on justice and facts and for the public
good —not to gratify cheap wit or a
maudlin desire to be denunciatory and
sensational.
prevailing before the great anti-rail- and it means the beginning of a pro- of the supreme lodge
a moHTEors vk run v.
Judge Dale, in refusing the petition
A. O.l. W. for
i
Duke PBurhamj
'
^[Cigarettes
Kf-'-Tiy 1 W Duxc Sons LCo T . _
El;/THE AMERICAN TOBACCO ,'/■
aucciaao* lb
Bugr PURMAM. fi.C. U.3 A. yi' J
MADE FROM
High Grade Tobacco
AND
ABSOLUTELY PURE
road, populist Lewellmg board
dueed it to $4. * o0. It keeps the repub-
licans busy reforming populist out-
rages iu Kansas.
Thk school board and the city coun-
cil are legitimate subjects of public
criticism, but when the Daily Leader
declares our public institutions worth-
less and the citizens of Guthrie "ill-
mannered charlatans and ghouls" it is
time for a halt; and especially when
this supposed home newspaper seeks
to belittle the very people from whom
it draws its dailv succor.
.1 Sr.W LIFE ISSl'RASCE PLAS
One of the recent insurance compa-
nies to come into this tield is the
"Life Insurance Clearing Company."
The company insures under average
lives In other words, risks that are
rejected by other companies will be
accepted by this one: of course after a
higher rate and after a further exam-
ination. but nearlv one-half of the re- I firm
Thk republicans of Oklahoma have
never been fence-squatters. They
have been bold, plain, blunt. This
was the case in last fall's campaign
The territorial league meeting at Enid
will not. we hope, break the past ex-
cellent record by passing a silver reso-
lution which will have to have an in-
interpreter. Let it be one which is a
blazing light upon its face—a frauk.
dec la rati m for free American
gress which will overturn the money injunction against the use of rituals
power." and name of the parent order by the
Does the populist party really be- seceding Oklahoma A. 0. U. WVs. gave
lieve in free silver, senator'.'" a righteous judgment. It is not only '
Hesitating a moment, the senator re- , based on law. bit moral equity.
plied: "The government has many The Oklahoma order was attached
ouds in circulation which are pay a- to Texas, and the assessments were
; e in coin. So long as we must pay beyond endurance: then to Kansas,
in coin we need silver to pay it in. and and the burden was not much les-
• this end the populist party has in- sened. They were all the time pray-
dorscd free silver. 1 do not believe ■ ing 'or i separate Oklahoma jurisdic-
that the money cf any nation should tion. sending representatives to the
be constructed of any marketable supreme lodge, and these representa-
eommodity, for so sure as it has a com- j lives were refused admittance. Then
mereial value, it will be used by the the Oklahomans seceded. Under sep- 1
money gamblers to unsettle our tinan- arate jurisdiction the assessments
eial system." were reduced from 85o a year to 810.
•• Do you believe, with'Coins Finan- In the meantime the supreme lodge
eial School,' that the opening of the made no endeavor to establish itself
mints to free coinage of silver would in Oklahoma.
raise the value of silver to s l.-'.< an Judge Dale held this to be a benevo-
lent and fraternal order, having no re-
I believe that gold lation to the laws of trade and busi-
ounce.
"Yes. and no.
ti urn mt in beating the world s rec-
ord in tire department time is not
selfish; ii gladly spreads the honor
over the entire territory
Sam Joxi has deviated his batteries
from Satan to Trilby" —but >am > a
little late; "Trilby" has got t o old
and ^'ale for further harm
Clkvki ami has paraphrased a Kbli
cal idea of rank and dignity when he
says "\\ hosoevcr will be chief among
you. let him be my servant
Grkat Hkitai.n had better clean up
all its bulldo/.ings and pilferings of
defenseless South Amen an countries
before the republicans get in
jected risks of other companies this
company will carry This is a great
benefit to hundreds of persons who.
S from some hereditary tendency to dis-
I case, are barred from the benefits of
life Insurance Such companies are
quite common in Kurope. where they
i have attained great popularity and
I strength. This is the pioneer com-
pany. we believe in this country. Hon
i: W. Findlav. of Topeka, has taken | fre
charge of the company's affairs, as
general 3gent for Kansas and Okla-
homa. which itself is a guarantee of
| the worth ana solidity of the plan
I Kvcyone should carry life insurance.
and if for any reason you cannot se-
I cure it through other companies, write
Mr. Findlay and look into the merits
of the Clearing Company's plan.
The company has its headquarters
at St Paal. Minn and its officers and
directors are among th most protni-
L'oinage at a ratio of to
This country is beginning to earn
that it can do without the guidiug
selfishness of eastern seaboard brains j nent and conservative financiers of
such as th.ise of M pew Krains grow
better and hardier out west, anyhow
Thk s
enne co
in there
able to v:
act:
enei
cattlemen of t
should Waggoner ge
his herds ought to b
en. f they are skillfu
:i branding Waggone
e hev-
the country. Mr. Findlay expects to
establish agencies and take active
steps to introduce the plan in Kansas
and Oklahoma at once.
Mr. Clkvki.axp, well enwrapped
with the adiposity of gold-bond pros-
perity. may sit in the innermost re-
cesses of the White House and issue
kingly edicts to the toiling millions of
the nation, but he had as well stop
and dwell upon the individual beauties
of a land of liberty, free thought and
speech. He may put a sealing-
wax stopper in the jaws of his official
serfs, bvt the privates of the land will
tell Mr. Cleveland and his gold cure
dictuius to go to—where they properly
belong.
and silver would come together, pos-
sibly by gold coming down and silver
going up to meet it; but iu any event
the costlier metal must always yield
to the cheaper when brought in com-
petition as money."
"Then free coinage would result in
silver monometallism
•' Practically so "
ness for profit, and that no benevolent
or fraternal order, any more than a
religious organization, had an exclu-
sive right to any ritual, formula, or
name under which the condition of
humanity was sought to be improved.
There are 32,000 seceding A. O. 1 .
WV in Iowa, on whom this decision
will have an important bearing; and
"Isn t it a fact that populists are op- aiso has a forecast upon the seces-
posed to ail metal money and want si, n of the German element of the
mavericKs
Din Governo
W aggoner vi
ant in. aws"
the Waggoner
► del1
Renfrow agree t
te the national
t would see a so
ease obligates t
r peaceable pos^
of the
Voo
IE! «
s; a near ;
state ba; ,
land wante
silver. Th
a versat
•y — anyt
Voorhe
Voorhi
. Sex v roR PrrzBS, in his speech before
tke territ rial fin a-- elation, said.
I "Guthrie is owned by the territory: it
is the capital city; as much ours as
yours We delight in such expres-
sions Guthrie s policy is one of justice
to a parts of Oklahoma It realizes
its territorial significance and tries at
j all times to so treat the territory at
'irge thai all wi 1 ft t l the >ame senti-
ment expressed by Senator Pitaer.
1 The senator paid our city another
j handsome tribute when he said: "You
have heard of the latch string hang-
nf on the outside: 1 know Guthrie s
dov>rs a\e no latch strings.They swlr g
wide open to every Oklahoman."
The convers: <n f Sa il > e« ip-e«l a
thousand times over by the marvelous
conversions created by Cleveland's let-
ter to Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, in
which he talked of the "indecent"
treatment of the administration by
free silver office-holders and that •the
good of the public service may de-
mand that they be summarily dealt
with." The land office, as an exam-
ple. was full of free silver men a week
ago: now the Cleveland g Id '•ure is
the only panacea for all national ills!
simp.v paper currency
"I said before that the money of the
country should not be made of any-
thing having a market value, as an
article of commerce outside of its use
for money. The populists stand for a
good many things. First, the
of interest should be reduced, so the
people could afford to pay it. and then
the money gambling might be stopped.
I warned them in congress when the
first bond issue was made that the
money changers would soon force an-
other. What we need is money which
cannot be cornered."
The populist party is a paper money
Knights of Pythias, who seceded in
New York because of the late supreme
lodge inhibition of German rituals.
The arguments in this case by Judge
strang, for the supreme lodge, ami
John Shartel and ( G. Horner, for the
rate*- Oklahoma oruer. were exhaustive and
pungent, evolving every logic and
fact which could be brought into use.
AI >M ISISTRA TI OS S ER \ LIS OS.
Hon. J V. Admire, in the Kingfish-
er Free Press, speaking of a letter he
wrote the Kansas City Times, while
receiver of the land office, in which he
run SCHOOL MI DDLE.
There are but two issues in the
school board muddle. Is Whittaker
eligible? If he voted in Iowa las-
November, clearly he is ineligible.
Has the outside territory established
its right to representation by proving
and making of record on the books of
the board that it has a population or
assessed valuation equal to some ward
of the city? If so, an office has b en
created and. if Whittaker is ineligible,
there is a vacancy and the board ha-
the right to appoint.
If such right to representation has
not been properly established, it
should be at once, after which the
board should appoint some good re-
publican in the place to which Mr.
Whittaker was elected, and should
carry out the will of those people by
appointing Mr. Filson also.
We hope the republican board here
will not repeat the action of the old
board, if any appointment is to be
made, and appoint a democrat. Edu-
cationally. a republican is preferable
every time and the board should not
become foolishly non-partisan in ap-
pointments. A republican who will
vote to appoint a democrat to any po-
sition lacks party patriotism and
shows a lack <>f knowledge of the anti-
educational proclivities of the demo-
cratic party.
This matter of outside representa-
tion is purely a legal question and a
board with half a dozen lawyers on it
should be able to settle it legally ana
intellectually and not physically
Muscle and temper are not the proper
promoters and adjusters of educa
tional matters.
party. Every utterance of its leaders, skinned Harrison and Noble for re-
That was a dramatic climax in the
argument of John Shartel when, in
the case v f B ies v- A T & s. F for
s. • o<> for alleged damages in having
hi- wagon thrown off :he railroad
track, by a train at Orlando, he ^al> ;
"There are two ways in which to hold
up a railroad, by pistols and by per-
jury. The Dal tons and the Cooks re-
sorted to the former method, and the
and its literature condemns "intrinsic"
value in money. They believe the
sole and only value of money is made
by the stamp of the government. Pop-
ulists, did they have the national
power. wouM strike oth l* 1 : and -li-
ver from the national monetary sys-
tem. The most useless things in the
country, such as discarded sows'ears
and pig tails, would be tanned, the
tardingtheC and A opening by op-
position to the payment of the Chicka-
saw 3,000,000, says:
"I signed my initials U. V. A.' to
this letter, and it was duly printed
under big head lines, somebody sent
a copy of it to Mr. Noble. He got
very angry about it. wrote me a per-
sonal letter demandidg to know
whether I wrote it. threatened my re-
rnova". and afteward, in a letter to a
United States senator, complained
and called "money"—the
the world ever saw'
best
Thi: Warner*. ►«> - the (fovcrnor.
have agreed to sublet to small cattle
men and that "rervthinp i tranqu
and happy. Hut the (rovernor don't
tell how Wajjfjoaer wii; get hi> cattle
over into that country in violation of
the quarantine laws
plaintiff
The jury
brought i
ant.
in this case
took SharteV
n a verdict
to t
■ latter.
>f it an.
grkat Britain gainer her point in
the Niearaguan tiasco -and her point
is that she :s l oss of South American
affairs and that the Monroe doctrine
has died of democratic strangulatus;
with a t 11
hes the b
teen good
try full of such foreign pimples as the
eastern girls are sw apped for, just to
get a title a thousand ti ues le^s valu-
Ths power of a president is wonder-
ful; but no president until Cleveland
thought to use it to force upon the
people an unhealthy, outrageous,
if reedy, oppressive political policy
which had already become a public
stench. Cleveland's whip in the
declaration that federal pap-suckers
must sing tlu- cuckoo song or be "sum-
■ :ig worth a coun- j inarjjy dealt with" has filled the air
Tin- horror in New York about a
Cheyenne brave trading his girl for
fourteen ponies would sound better if
t were n t .i pr n! habit of New York j
aristocrats to trade their daughters
for brainless, syphiletie foreigners |
Ltachment. The lodiau j
eye for business—four-1
"government stamp' placed thereon that I had been guilty of criticising
the administration instead of attend-
ing to my own business. And. the
funny part of it was. that he came
very near tiring Robberts.the register,
by wrongfully getting him mixed up
with the same letter. These great
men are all alike, they want to own
their subordinates body and soul: poli-
lics cut no figure in that respect."
No matter who thus attempts to dic-
tat individual opinh a —to make slaves
of men in public service.it is un-Amer-
ican. selfish and discreditable No
man of principle and courage will hold
a position under a mau who demands
the right to fo> m your opinions for
you and force you to promulgate them
against v ur honest belief and con-
able than
s-.mp
t.
' of A merit
but England may as v
a republican resurrect!
patriotism and dignity
and a ha'f.
prepare :
Ami t ic
| with the gold music of a lot of sh
who. a week ago. had a loud si
ring in their voices
j Thk postmaster general has am.
| ed the posta
garding hoi
states that
Ma
epteu
iMUbe!
HOME PATRIOTISM.
One of the shameful thirg> in every
town is a few drones who stand around
on the street corn?rs and give the
town they call home gahenna. curse
its past and its future, its men and its
institutions Such are public pests.
If towns depended on this sort of off all
to build it. dry rot and deeay would
early seize it.
Equally as bad as the street corner
loofer. blackguard and defamer > the
newspaper wl.i.l. d- .i^rhts in defam-
ing its home town If the newspapers
of a town fai s to stand squarely by
the town, a sad blow is thereby dealt
to the public hopes and ambitions.
Outsiders gain nearly all their first im-
pression- of a place from the newspa-
pers. and if the herald be unpatriotic.
.aws
days
and regulatio
The amend
libelous
chance
gress?
the Dail
and
then
Chis is 1
• Leade
contemptible. what
for new blood and pro-
treatment
city in this
science.
Party fealty is one thing, the right
of constitutional free thought and
speech another. There are general
party tenets to which an office-holder
should adhere, to entitle him to the
office; he should stand by his party in
all those principles which cause men
to adhere to a party—but when the
appointing power seeks to suborn his
opinion in some non-partisan matter
such as the silver question, it ougl.t t >
be resented as forcibly as w-.-vtne
Ex-Gov. Skay. in the last Kingfisher
Free Press, says:
"Oklahoma stepped to the front on
the silver question a year ago—fret
coinage of American silver, 1 > to 1 1
did not kick at that—was reasonably
well satisfied. Now. however, it is
proposed to open the flood gates—eo
the whole hog—and let everybody
root hog or die."
Half a dozen states followed Okla-
homa. adopting the same plank al-
most word for word. Free and un-
limited coinage" is not only illogica
it is impossible. The present mintage
facilities eould not coin in ten years
the present stock and the annual out-
put of American silver. To coin it in
three years, the facilities would have
to be more than thribbled. at a cost of
three to five million dollars a year
Were it possible for America to coin
the world's silver, how can we force
foreigu free coinage if we coin fre
the world's silver If we refuse to
coin any but our own. and leave free
entry to foreign coined silver, the sil-
ver nations which trade with us would
at once open free mints and be coin-
ing silver with which to trade with
us. Reciprocity treaties, forced
through American coinage, could soon
double our foreign trade. Retaliatory
tariffs can be worked against nation^
(unfriendly to silver and reciprocal
treaties with those friendly to it: but
under "free and unlimited coinage"
none of these will avail. Might as
well, with no restrictions beneficial to
America, agree to make into boots
and shoes free all the cowhide of the
world. American free coinage will,
in a year, force international free
coinage, and if this eountry re-estab-
lishes the ratio of 1 ' to 1, this will
become the world's ratio
"Among ot
tiool board
cencv: a v
pear on dar
Fei
idual
■onsci
is and
e people
to allow
the most
liberty is
I'uce and
L HA
and dishonor
staud. Hart
and reciproc
where they w
i v M Di
4perfit
put ba.
*av
eminent
ord mag
takes on
pe
a •
TV
v spa-
man
If
erv.mg ano
•en
and
and
en an av-
ntil the
la;.- must
vf*T. Tayi o'i who ha*
dent free silver advocat
late ukast f Cleveland to his office-
holders. was met yesterday and asked,
How about silverWell. I have
given the matter more careful study
idence of the awful doom awaiting lately and have change.' my mind. I upon Sunday the following Monday
the republican party if it allows the am now thoroughly convinced that may be observed unless otherwise
gold cure eastern capitalist to domi there
u* r vry i'aki isi \ . ints ti
democracy declare* for free silve
the republicans don': that he
Cleveland, and Uutabaga Morton and
Confederate Hoke will desert to the
republican party. This is another ev
oat no
opened s .thc.ently
public convenien
made up and d.spatche
da vs. When the legal
ho
who per
truth a
There is not a word
in this squib: *he
falsehood and sai-
cause or reason.
We presume the Leader, after de-
nouncing the city's public men as
•brainless and indecent." its public
m and decency,
resembling truth
1:lor knows it is
without sense.
. come a
iiuiivid-
al opinions of those who appoiut
ou. regardless of your own belief or
ense of right, then none but star\ •
rgs. phants ac« weaklings are
t for public service. Such is a subo-
rdination of manhood, a traduction
f American liberty and advancement.
Don i ask a local cuckoo "what
about silver, for on that subject tli«
r< and letter to the Mississippi gov-
ernor has paralyzed the pap-sucking
tongue.
MADE TO YOUR ORDER
SU-'TS0R Sio
OVERCOATS
nste its plstform and candidate
Thk re is only one way to fix the sil-
much reason and g d sense specially provided for by the state institutions as worthless, and its pri- j ver question, and that is to give the
' ;n the president's financial policy'
authorities
vate citizens as "ill-mannered charla- republican party the power to do it
material W# ar* ilir**! in
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•aiup.e* and measuring ln«troctn>n
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Greer, Frank H. Weekly Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 18, 1895, newspaper, May 18, 1895; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth353113/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.