Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1890-03-27
ANSWER TO JOSHUA

ANSWER TO JOSHUA.
One Of the queerest-and mos
foolish manuscripts that evel
chanced to escape deserved obliv
ion in the waste paper basket
and find itself in print, was in the
columns of the Phoenix last week
This document was from the pen
Of a poor hen pccked individual by
the name of Reynolds. The poor
fellow is from Sequoyah and be-
gins his tale Of woe by saying that
he and his wife Sallie (who evil
IDENTIFY wore the trousers and did
what little thinking the household
required) had fallen out over poll
tics. 1t seems he had let some
body beside his wife think for
him, and in consequence, his affec-
tions had strayed from the chief.
Such a rebellion from Sallie's
apron strings calls forth her righte.
, Gus indignation, SO she rounds the
little fellow up and makes him eat
humble pie right heartily. Since
he confesses his insignifcance and
says it is Sallie that did the think
ing and he the writing, he will be
dropped by the wayside, as he do
serves, and little attention shown
Sallie, as she does not deserve.
Well, Sallie didn't like TnR
CHIEFTAIN or the Telephone-in
hei eyes they were "no good" in
fact, no home papers were any
good in her eyes because they
dared think a little for themselves
and not let her think for them
They didn't fall down and wor-
ship the chief as she thought they
ought. Then, too, she charges
the editors of these two papers
with the terrible crime of being
nephews of Hoolie Bell. Sallie
don't like Hoolie Bell because the
chief don't, and among other
equally weighty reasons, because
he ,as president of the senate, made
Col. w. p. Ross and Hon. Rich
ard Wolfe chairmen of important
committees. As to her not liking
THE CHIEFTAIN and the Telephone,
The CHlEFTAIN is glad of it, be-
cause she will like no paper that
dares to come forward manfully
and speak out its honest convic-
tions. The paper that she likes
must be a weak, sniveling affair
that smiles when Sallie smiles and
weeps when sallie weeps. AS for
the intimation that THE CHIEFrAIN
is owned and controlled by Hon.
l.. B. Bell, nc one except an igno-
rant old granny that never reads
would believe such a thing. As
for worshipping the chief, that is
and foolish. These |
papers have applauded the chief
when he was right, but they have
not been SO blindly foolish as to
say he was right every time.
There are very few times that they |
differed from the chief. When he |
went around before he was elected |
and preached against Bushyhead's
extravaganza in keeping four men
on regular pay in the executive
Office and said that If elected he
would make a reform there, these
same papers shouted "amen" at
the tops of their voices. But when
the man of promise took his seat
and began his reform by putting in
seven men, these papers that have
tried to be fairly honest and patri-
otic had to submit a minority re-
port and leave the "amen" busi-
ness to Sallie and her clique.
When the chief raised the lease
10 two hundred thousand a year,
he got the heartiest support and
approval from the papers
that Sallie thinks mo good" but |
when it happened that notwith-
standing the fact that the strip
brings two hundred thousand
yearly instead Of one hundred
thousand dollars, per capita pay
ments are made no oltener than
heretofore, these mo good" papers
began to enquire into the reason Of
30 strange a thing.
When Mayes tried TO eeOnomize
md make the afiirs Of the coun-
Iry better and make the country
more permanent. he VAS upheldt TO
he fuilcst extent; but when be sat