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


One of the queerest-and mos
foolish-manuscripts that eve
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 per
of a poor hen-pecked 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 evi-
IDENTIFY wore the trousers and did
Whist little thinking the household
required) had fallen out over poll
tics Itseems be had let some
body beside his wife think for
him, and in consequence, his affec-
tons 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
be confesses his insignificance and
says it is Sallie that did the think
ing and he the writing, he viii be
dropped by the wayside, as be de-
serves, and a little attention shown
Sallie, as she does not deserve.
Well, Sallie didn't ike The
CHIEFTAIs or the Telephone-in
her eyes they were 'no good" in
fact. no home papers we're 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 smong other
equally weighty reasons, because
be. as president of the senate, made
Col. W. P. Ross and Hon. Rich
ard Wolfe chairmen of important
committees. As to her not liking
TIE CHIEFTAIS and the Telephone,
The CHIEFTAIS is glad of it, be-
cause she viii like no paper that
dares to come forward manfully
and speak out its honest convic-
tons The paper that she likes
must be q weak, snivsling affair
that smiles when Sallie smiles and
weeps when Sallie weeps. As for
the intimation that THE CHIEFTAIN
is owned and controlled by Hon.
L. B. Bell, no one except an igno-
rant old granny that never reads
would believe such a thing. As
for worshipping the chief, that is
impossible and foolish. These
papers have applauded the chief
when he was right, but they have
not been so hlindly foolish as to
say ke was right every time.
There are very few times that they |
differed from the chief. When he /
went around before he was elected /
md preached against Bushyhead's
sxtravsgance in keeping four men
IN regular pay in the executive
,fice and said that If elected he |
would make a reform there, these
Iams papers shouted "smen" at 1
he tops of their voices But when
he man of promise took his seat /
md began his reform by putting in |
even men, these papers that have
ried TO be fairly honest and patri- /
tic had to submit a minority re-
port and leave the ''amen" bust
Tess TO SalIie and her clique.
When the chief raised the lease
o two hundred thousand 4 year,
le got the heartiest support and
approval from the papers
hat Sallie thinks ''nO good" but
Fhen it happened that notwith-
tanding the fact that the strip
,rings two hundred thousand
'early instead of one hundred
thousand dollars, per capita pay
nents are made no oltener than
these "no goo" papers
,egan 10 enquire into the reason Of
70 strange a thing.
When Mayes tried to economic
nd make the affairs Of the cOun-
nv better and make the country
norc permanent, he was upheld to
he fullest extent; but when he sat