Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-03-14
OKLAHOMA BORDERIsM
STIRRING EVENTS THAT ARE MAKING
IT'S EAIsLY HISTORY.

Tact:onal Feeling Runs High and More or
Less Trouble Attends the Starting OF
Government Machincry-News OF Narl-
Gus Sorts from All Points.
An official from Oklahoma says there is
much bitterness over the candidacy OF
Edwin p. McCabc, colored, for governor
of that territory. He declares emphati-
eally that if President Harrison appoints
McCabe the latter will be assassinated
within a week after he enters the territory.
There is a rapidly growing anti-negro SEN
timent, caused by the aggressiveness OF the
colored people, and this feeling bids fair
to unite the whites, irrespective of party
Oklahoma will possibly see q bitter race
war, especially if the negro society, The
First Grand Independent Brotherhood"
continues its work of crowding colored
people into sections where the lands
are already taken by whites.
The threats of assassination now
made will but intensity the feelings
of the negroes. Had these threats com
from the rough element but little atten-
ton would have been paid to them, but
coming, as they have. from the leading
men, they will be o rallying cry for those
who would readily indulge in murder or
riot. The fact that there is q 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. One hum
bred white boomers arrived in Arkansas
City and expressed their determination to
select their new homes Immediately. They
were taken in charge by one 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 deferring and eventu-
ally suppressing any hasty action on the
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 q fierce contest for the
legislature. The democracy is united and
will hold a territorial convention on March
IL at Oklahoma City. But little doubt is
entertained of the territory being demo-
cratic at the present time, the only fear
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 a general negro influx
has begun from the southern
states. 1t is gradually beginning to
dawn upon the whites that the most seri-
Gus 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 at
tend separate schools or none at all. It
may be stated as a certainty the neglo will
not tread o path of roses in Oklahoma, and
he is already being given to understand
that he is 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.