The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-18
STATEHOOD IS FIRST
Not as Shelving Free Homes,
But as Aiding,
AND SINGLE OR DOUBLE
It's All One, Just So 1t Is
Statehood.
AND SINGLE OR DOUBLE

Oklahoma City, o. T., Nov. 1.-THE
statehood mass meeting here tonight, as
well as the session Of the statehood
executive committee this afternoon,
would have been tame but for the I'M
qualified enthusiasm for statehood. The
attendance was not as large as had been
expected but the lack of attendance was
made up in enthusiasm. The sentiment
of both the mass meeting and the COM
mittee seemed to be for statehood even
before free homes. This is accounted for
in the growing sentiment that free homes
will come much more easily after state
hood is accomplished. All the talk of
both meetings was for statehood, single
or double. Any way to get statehood.
The mass meeting in the opera house to-
night was addressed by Selwyn Douglas,
Oklahoma City; Tom Ferguson, Blaine
county; Sidney Clarke, Judge Keaton,
Senator Ravens and Frank Gillette. No
resolutions were offered.
When Judge Clarke called the meeting
to order it was found that Secretary
Hunter was absent. w. ]. Walker nomi
mated Colonel Havens, who was elected
as temporary secretary.
A telegram from Ex-Governor Seay
said that he regretted his inability to at
tend the meeting but that in his opinion
Oklahoma should have immediate state
hood and that the Indian Territory
should be let alone
The meeting of the executive commit
tee at 4 o'clock this afternoon simply
ho he a
convention did at Guthrie last January.
The executive committee appointed at
that time, consisting of Sidney Clarke,
Oklahoma City; c. E. Hunter Enid;
Frank Gillette, FL Reno; b. S. Barnes,
Ponca City, and Joseph Wisely, 9th
RE, was requested to raise funds to send
Sidney Clarke to Washington this winter
to lobby in the interest of statehood.
The money IS to be raised by subscrip-
ton, Mr.. Clarke agreeing to head the list
with a $50 lift. Mr.. Clark is instructed
also to make an effort to secure the
gratuitous service of fifteen or twenty
good citizens, or hundred, for that mat
ter, to go TO Washington and make a
combined and persistent effort for state
hood, single or double, or any way so
it is statehood.
supplementary, or home guard com
mittee of five, consisting of Horace Speed,
Guthrie; J. L. Brown, w. r. Little,
Perry; Selwyn Douglass, Oklahoma City;
and ]. H. Warren, was appointed for the
purpose Of drafting a petition to congress
setting forth the reasons why Oklahoma
should be admitted as a state This is to
be printed elaborate form and issued
as a pamphlet. This committe is also
TO prepare matter for Oklahoma papers
and dailies of the west and send it out
with request for its publication.
The regular committeeman were not all
present but delegates from the crowd of
attendants from the different counties
were accredited as follows: Beaver
county, J. II. Lookabaugh; Cleveland. A.
w. Fisher; Canadian, f. z. Gillette;
Dewey, c. w. Bugbee; ]. w. Lawton;
Garfield. l. B. Cullison; Grant, J. R.
Renshaw: Kay, Thos Smith: Lincoln,
L. P. King; Logan. John D. Taylor; No
BILE, R. w Southland; Oklahoma, Sidney
Clarke; Pawnee r. w. Dunlap; Washita,
T. T. Cook; Usage Nation. w. J. Sol
DAM; Kiowa and Comanche country, w.
T Walker.
Congressional Delegate Dennis Flynn
was one Of the first arrivals and all day
long he was the center Of attraction.
Mr.. Flynn was Kept busy shaking hands
with the visitors from over the terri
tory and short informal conferences were
the order of the day. His friends all took