Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-03-05
OKLAHOMA BORDERISM
1K3IN0sE EvENTs THAT ARE MAKING
1xH EARLY HIsTDRY.

Factt1 1esf1 Ssling HUNS High aud More or
l.esg Treuble Attends the Startling of
(iovS SfnmAnt Mschinery News Of vAri-
ous bDrts from All Points.
An S9Eacial from Oklahoma says there 10
much bitterness over the candiaaey Of
EdwiaP. cCabe, colored, for governor
OF thu territory. He declares emphati.
cally Ut II President Harrison appoints
McCal1 the latter wiz bs assassinated
withinA week after hs enters the territory.
There rapidly growing anti-negro SEN
timent eaused by the agRressivsness Of the
colors pecple, and this feeling bids fair
to unitft tho whites, irrespective Of party.
Oklahana will possibly see bitter race
war, ssrecially il the negro society, Tho
First tsnnd Indepsndent Brotherhood,
continss IL work Of crowding colored
people 3nto sections where ths lands
are lysdy taken BY whites.
The JSks cf assassination now
lssSails VII 66s iuttnssiy tle lss6lI1(1
Of the negroes. Had these threats come
from the rough element but little atten i.
tion would have been paid to them, but
coming, as they have, from the leading
men, they will be rallyinR cry for those
Who would readily indulge in murder or
riot The fact that there is . secret or
ganization among the boomers along the
borders of the Cherokee strip which is con-
fined to white men may keep this feeling
in check. This organization is growing
stronger, daily accessions being made from
among the best of the arrivals. Ono hun
dred white boomers arrived in Arkansas
City and expressed their determination to
select their new homes Immediately. They
were takea in charge by ono OF the officers
of this organization, who will see that they
are aided in making their selections and
protected when the time comes. These
large white forces on the southern Kansas
borders may aid in deierring and eventu-
ally suppressing any hasty action on the
part of the negroes if McCabe is not nameJ
for governor.
A Contest for the Legislature.
In anticipation Of the establishment of a
territorial government, both parties are now
organizing and preparing for what everyone
predicts will be fierce contest for the
legislature. The democracy is united and
will hold q territorial convention on Marc
II ut Oklahoma City. But little doubt 10
entertained Of the territory being demo-
cratic at the present time, the only fea T
that It will not continue SO being
due to the negro colonization move
ment, which is beginning to assume alarm.
ing proportions. The whole northwest
part Of the territory is already thickly
settled by Kansas negroes, while
reports show that general negro influx
has begun from the southern
states. 1t is gradually beginning to
dawn upon the whites that the most ssri.
ous question which confronts the young
territory is that respecting the African.
Hundreds Of former republicans in the
states are joining the democratic party al
ready on account of the negro, and in
Guthrie the latter have been forced to ut.
tend separate schools or none at all. II
may be stated a. q certainty the neg,o will
not tread path of roses in Oklahoma, and
he is already being given to understand
that he 10 not in Kansas. One interesting
political feature here is the fact that the
democratic party is espousing the case Of
the legal settlers As against the boomers,
while the republicans are taking the latter
in tow, and will doubtless work for their
interests in the legislature.