The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-10-15
VEN K|Nk N POLITICS
Reservation Residents Want
Representation.
QUESTION is A PUZZLER
For the Elections Board and
the Next Legislature.

Guthrie. O. T, Oct. 1.-(Special)-Mr.
c. A Cleveland. an Indian trader az the
Anadarko agency. was here 70 interview
the governor and attorney general on a
matter that promises TO inject an entirely
new feature into Oklahoma politics. name
ly, the right OF the inhabitants OF the
Indian reservations adjacent 10 Okehona
20 vote at the general elections and TO
be represented In the territorial legisla-
ture by their own regularly elected dele
gates. Acting upon the assumption tha
the reservations are entitled 20 these priv
!eges. the people living on the Kiowa and
Comanche reservations have gone through
the form Of nominating a legislative ticket
composed OF a councilman and two men,
hers of the lower house and IL was the
purpose of Mr.. Cleveland's visit to have
This ticket regularly placed upon the
I election ballot to be voted at next months
elections. II is a question that the cleo
+ ton board VIII have to determine and in
/ the meantime cne attorney general is look
ing up authorities on what promises to
be a novel political problem.
/ From a mere off-hand view the attorney
general is partly inclined to hold with the
reservation people in their contention so
far as it applies to representation in the
territorial legislature in a delegate capac-
fly. the Same as che territory at large
Is represented in congress. Under the
decision Of the United States supreme
court the stockmen and lessees on the
reservations are obliged to bear their pro-
portion Of the expense of carrying on the
4 al
70 be no more than their right that they
should derive some benefits from the large
amount OF taxes they pay the territory
annually. II was the attorney generals
advice to Mr. Cleveland that the occu-
pants Of the reservations who pay these
taxes 60 through the form of electing DEL
egates to both branches of the legislature
and that these delegates present them
selves before the Legislative assembly
next winter with their credentials and
demand representation.
When an Indian accepts his allotment
OF 80 acres Of land he becomes a part Of
the vox populi. citizen of the United
States, with the privilege OF voting at
elections. The allotted Indians in Okla
homa are the Cheyennes and Arapatoes,
Pottawatomies. Sac and ok, Iowas,
Kickapoos and Tonkawas, with an aggre-
gate OF probably 1000 votes. No effort
scarcely mas ever been made to educate
these Indians in the intelligent use of the
ballot and but one serious attempt made
20 corral their vote in Oklahoma politics.
This was during the campaign of 1924
when Flynn, Wisely and Ralph Beaumont
made their three-cornered fight for con-
gress, and great stress was laid by the
campaign managers upon the Importance
OF capturing the Indian vote For two
months the Indians appetite was hattered
with raw beef and smoking entrails and
and his palate ticgkled with smuggled fire.
water; but with his newness OF citizen
ship and lack of education the Indian
could not be made to see through the in
tricacies of the Australian ballot and he
WAS too suspicious TO be herded and voted
like sheep. consequently the politicians
abandoned the attempt to utilize his vote
as factor in elections.
II the Indian would only awaken to the
potency of little white ballot concealed
on fhis person it would do more for the
betterment OF his condition and surround
ings than a hundred eastern societies for
the propa CATION of ffeas and laziness No
more Will he be compelled to drive into
the ditch when he sees the arrogant white
trespasser driving along the highway from
the opposite direction and his squaw can
tilt her nose In disdain as she compels
her gentle and fashionably shod white Sis
ter to step aside in the mud and give her
the right of way on street crossings. Let
the Indian study leaf from the political
history OF the negro if he would have the
white man crawl In tho dust before him
in humble subseryiency.
Candidate Keatod was in me city today
assisting in the preparation of the papers
in the mandamus proceedings that is 10
be brought against the governor 20 COM
pei him 20 recognize the Hobbs faction OF
the Free Silverites on the territorial cleo
ton board. Il is supposed the papers VIII
be served upon the governor upon his re-
turn from Oklahoma City. Mr.. Keaton
does not expect the court 20 recognize
the claim Of Hobbs and his alleged party
inasmuch as Hobbs was a conspicuous
figure and delegate in the Democratic con-
vention az Oklahoma iCty. but ne hopes
10 use the incident in his campaign speech
es and TO roast the courts for their alleged
partisanship.
Our Treatment Of spanish Captives
Never before in history vas there a case
where a defeated and captive enemy re-
ceived such generous treatment as We gave
the Spaniards- Other nations are aston
iShed. Equally astonishing are he cures
brought about by Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters Never before il history has there
been 50 successful a medicine fer the weak.
debilhated and nervous. eor stomach snd
liver disorders like dyspepsia. Indigestion.