The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-19
Senator Gould as Humonst.

| was INDUCED in yesterday afternoon by
Senator Gould of Canadian county. The
senator combines those two elements which
are so much opposed to each other-the far
mer and the lawyer. To illustrate his
knowledge of farming, a story is told OF
him that when he came to Oklahoma and
| engaged in that industry he did not know
the modus oparandi of getting a hen to
! batch her young. and spoiled the produc-
| ton of the hen, for an entire season. in ex-
perimenting He did not know that II was
| necessary TO wait until a hen took a no
| ton to set before she would SET but that
the owner controlled her actions in that re-
spect. He simply put eggs in box, put
the hen in with them and then locked the
| little gate and waited. When the twenty
| one days were up, Mr.. Gould opened the
box only TO find spoiled eggs and no chick
ems. In the meantime the poor hen was
| destined to put in another period of cap
| tivity for Mr.. Gould would fill the box
| again with eggs and watch and wait twenty
| enc days longer. It is said that he had
| one poor hen locked up for over six months
| before he was rewarded with brood OF
| chickens. This is the story that is told on
! Senator Gould, but the probability is thai
| It is the work of some joker. At any rate,
! the story was circulated against him dur
I
en- the prestige he enjoyed by being a
farmer. But to the story of yesterday. The
senator had under consideration the bill OF
Senator Garrison making it obligatory upon
| candidates for Office to file their election ex-
| penses with the county clerk, as they do
| il Kansas. II being a Kansas idea, the
Democrats were opposed to il and long
| discussion was INDUCED in. 1t so happened
| that at this time the senators are all tied
| up TO ane another more or less and al
| they could do was 10 talk as hard as they
could without jeopardizing their own in
| terests with the fellows interested in the
\ success of this bill. In other words, they
| talked a great deal and said but very lit
| tie" Mr.. Gould is a fine type of the plain,
blunt man, and when it came 10 his time
| to talk he opened up the statute book, laid
| it down on the top of Senator Johnston
| desk raised his fist about four feet abov.
| his head and brought ii down on the stat
ute book with the force of a steam ham
| mer. Senator Johnston. who had been
writing a letter and had not anticipated
any demonstration of this kind, thought
| the roof of the house had caved in and in
his effort to get away turned over two or
three desks and for a second there was a
dangerous looking stampede. During the
utter a word. but waved his arms fran
tically brought his heavy fists down upon
the American constitution, bulged out his
eyes, swelled up the blood vessels in his
neck, opened his mouth frequently to a
tremendous extent and then closed it with
all the snap and energy that an alligator
displays when he catches a frog between
his jaw. After ten minutes of this most
extraordinary pantomimic demonstration,
Senator Gould quietly took his seat and
the entire audience roared. They had
caught onto the fact that Mr.. Gould had
INDUCED in a clever satirical display to
illustrate the fact that the senators were
making a great fuss about nothing. 1t
was the happiest hit of the session and the
senators felt so good over it that they i'm
mediately adjourned.
Senator Hammers election law has passed
the council and in all probability it will
pass the house and become a law. The
bill, as it stood when It passed, was alto
gether different from the original bill, but
for all that it will be known throughout
Oklahoma as Hammers election law. La
purpose now is to disfranchise the negro
but it is possible that the result will be
different and that 1t will disfranchise more
negroes, knowing that it is designed 10
disfranch'se them. will be more determined
to acquire that knowledge which will en-
able them to comply with its provisions,
while the ignorant white people, knowing
that 1t was not intended for them. will not
take the trouble to inquire into the matter
and hence will be more lily prepared 10 cast
the ballot intelligently on the next election
day than the negro of similar mental ca
pacity and requirements. All the negro
will have to learn is the name OF the Of
ficer and Office he wants TO vote for and
the Republicans of Oklahoma are not fools
enough TO allow him to overlook an oppor-
tunity of learning this. The bill abolishes
the party emblem as a means of disting-
uishing the politics OF the person whose
name IS under IL. II makes IL obl:gator on
every person 10 make out his own ballot
unaided by the Judges or clerks unless he
is a man who is physically unable to make
the 'X' mark In the square before the
name Of the person be wishes TO vote for,
or unless he is blind and hence cannot see
the names of the candidates. The law also
provides, as an additional means OF con-
fusing the voter, that the present system
of party columns in the ballot be abolished
and that the candidates of all parties for
the same Office be put together and the
politics of each designated by an abbrevia-
ton of the party appeliation such as Rep"
for Republican, Dem" for Democratic and
Pop" for Populist. The bill In its con-
ception is an outrage on the right of every
citizen 10 express mis- will at the ballot box,
but it Will not bring about the results de
sired.
In discussing the election bill last night
and its effect upon the Indians. I learn that
at the election last fall a great many In
dams. living on the East Side of Oklahoma
voted. \ big vote was cast among the
Pawnees and every last one of them voted
the Republican ticket from top 10 bottom,
except for the office of sheriff Through
the exertion OF personal influence they vot-
ed for the Democratic candidate for that Of
fee. The Tonkawas also voted TO a man,
but as there are only fifteen men OF voting
age in the tribe their influence Is not very
great-not as great as that of the average
work-train boss in Kansas. The Tonkawas
are all Republicans, but they voted for J.
W. Lynch for senator last fall. At one
time the Tonkawas was a great race. but
they stole horses from the Cheyennes and
Arapahoes and the latter didn't Go thing
but practically eXterminate them While
the young men Of the tribe were out hunt
ing the Cheyennes and Arapahoes descend
ed upon their camp. killed the squaws wiz
their tommshawk. and took their children
by the feet and dashed out their brains
against the trees and rocks The race Is
now reduced 10 about eighty persons.
During the week Hon Eugene Wallace
accompanied by his estinlable wife. came
up from Oklahoma City and spent few
Renfrow and wife for part OF the time
Mrs Wallace Is said 10 Be the mos: popular
and accomplished lady in Oklahoma City.
Mr.. Wallace IS the vice-pres.dent OF he