The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-21
TERRITORIAL EDITORS.
Proceedings Of the Convention Held at
Oklahoma City.

Proceedings Of the Convention Held at
Oklahoma City.
| Special Dispatch TO the Daily Eagle.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, May 90
The last of the visiting editors left to-
| day. The editorial convention and press
banquet were great success. The name
| of guest is an open sesame to the hearts OF
the Oklahoma City people. 1t is the ener-
getic texture of the Oklahoma Cityan's
makeup and his personal proneness to
municipal endeavor that make it quite I'M
| possible for visitor to strike the town
without being caught up and waited up
one street and down the other, all the time in
| an atmosphere of modest boastfulness and
| bombarded the while with hard lnsur-
mountable certainties, momentous point
ers and the most glittering panoply OF a
sure future.
In short, the Oklahoma City man is
stuck on his town, and if you have a
spark of appreciation about you he will
make his fascination infectious. Every
| business man has the question ready, and
speaks it trippingly on the tongue, do
you like our city," OF course you do if you
do not, you will have TO get out the city at
once, or you may find yourself changed in
opinion quickly, Everybody in Oklahoma
City talks Oklahoma City and wants to
prove his claims. So, when half a hun
dred editors and few honaries came down
| on the town Monday, it is easily presum-
ed that the heartiness of the usual well
come was doubled in appreciation OF the
guests reciprocal tendencies.
Everything went off smoothly.
In the afternoon the convention was
held, and after a handshake and general
acquaintance making among the editors
In i4ip CT. IN
vention went to work. There was not
much to do. There were no grievances,
nor any contentious scenes. The OklahO-
ma editor can make his contemporary
hair fly when it IS necessary, but this was
meant for a love feast and In no wise was
the intention futile. One of the prlncI-
pal actions of the meeting was the deterrn-
lining of legal rate of printing, with a pen
atty attachment. This penalty is a harsh
one, providing that any newspaper man
who cuts this rate shall be expelled from
the press association and all his territorial
exchanges cut off. What would an Okla
hOma editor do without his territorial eX.
changes?
At the afternoon session Governor Steele,
Chief Justice Green and L. y. Sweet
talked to the convention.
Parsons Miller, of the Purcell Topic,
and W. L. Thompson, of the Guthrie
News, were appointed delegate to the st.
Paul editorial convention in July.
j. j. Burke, the enterprising editor of
the Oklahoma City Journal, was elected
president of the association. Otto q.
Beckemeyer was elected secretary, and A.
H. Classen treasurer. The executive COM
mittee consists Of the following gentle
men: Frank Greer, chairman; l.. j. Bick-
ford and w. II. Walker.
J. L. NanDerker L. +. Brown and Otto
Beckemeyer were appointed as commit
70 hn han,
submit the revision to the eXecu-
tive committee for their action,
which would be final The consti-
tuition, bylaws and proceedings of the as
sociation were ordered printed in pamph
let form, each member to receive copy.
Governor Steele, Chief Justice Green, D.
A. Harvey, G. N. Barnes and Judges
Clark and Seay were made honorary
members
In the evening the guests were all taken
drive over the city.
After ball in the evening the banquet
took place. AS the editors emptiness is
proverbial, this was an important part of
| the program. Landlord Barr. the Scotch
| French host of the Grand Central, loaded
the board with dainties and substantials
alike. Several toasts were responded to,
| the Hon. Sidney Clarke acting as toast
master. Those who responded were Gov
ernor Steele, Judge Harvey. a. q. Scott,
w. 4. Thompson, Frank Greer, Horace
Speed c. NJ Barnes and Victor Murdock
| The festive maze was continued after the
banquet.
Not the least of the success of an i'm
pOrtant event for the prosperity of Okla
homa City, was due to the indefatigable
push of her home newspaper men, among
them j. j. Burke and E. E. Brown, of the
Journal; Frank McMasters, Otto Beck
meyer and Irwin Cells, of the Gazette, and
Hamlin Sawyer and f. w. Buttrey. of the
Times.
The journalistic visiting contingent
were: \. H. Classen, Sun, Edmond J.
News, Guthrie; Rev. J. b. Stevenson, Our
Brother in Red, Muskogee; Will L. Little,
State Capital, Guthrie: II. w. Sawyer,
Times Oklahoma City; j. j. Burke, Jour
nal, Oklahoma City: Z. f. Brown, Journal,
Oklahoma City; Frank McMaster, Gazette,
Oklahoma City; Irwin Geffs, Gazeste,
Oklahoma City; Otto q. Beckmeyer,
Gazette and Globe Democrat; Judge
and Mrs Rock, Oklahoma Press,
Guthrie; G. w. McClintock, Courier,
Yukon; Bert Foster. Chickasaw Chief
tain, Ardmore; J. y. Williams. Herald,
Wynnewood; Bee Guthrie, Payne Hawk,
Saltwater: L. j. Bickford, Clipper, Hen
nessey; S. S. Case w H. Walker, Regis
ter. Purcell; II. T. Miller, Lafe Merritt,
Topic, Purcell; Ed. p. Inse, Transcript,
Norman; Mr.. Daugherty, Advance, Nor
msn; Victor Murdock, EAGLE, Wichita;
Frank Greer State Capital. Guthrie; Bert
Jones, State Capital, Guthrie.