The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-22


lutely nothing about the feharges which
were preferred against the governor. Ny
impression is this: I &c not think there
have been any charges preferred. I think
the whole business was the work of some
bright newspaper man who thought such
charges ought by right to have been pre-
ferred. 1 am willing to wager 500 that
no document Of that kind with my sigma
ture attached can be produced, Aand if
You are in INDECENT circumstances you
can copper that little amount by show
ing me the original copy of the aforesaid
charges, with the signature Of your hum
bic servant displayed thereon"
Brother Frank McMasters was the next
Oklahoma statesman seen. He wore the
same sunny and smiling countenance he
always does. He said he was from
'Greenland's icy mountains and would
have to be shown bur he wanted one OF
my peerless separators if 1t would separ-
ate Democrats from Pops. He did not
care for one if it would only work in
milk products unless it would fuse the
milk Of human kindness into a territor-
ial government. This territory has been
plundered financially, physically and
morally said he, .'and the only sop
thrown out TO a benighted public was a
little sole soap from time 10 time in the
form of words. Talk is cheap, and the
present territorial administration is now
engaged in vigorously advertising the
splendor of a report the governor was
about 70 make to the secretary of the in
terror. For months the public journals
have been filed with notices of the great
work the governor and his staff were do
ing in the way of report They started
out in this term 10 secure resolutions
from every public gathering in Oklahoma
endorsing Governor Barnes and especial
ly the work of Cunningham in collecting
the public school land rentals, but when
1t finally appeared that Cunningham was
being paid an extra 10 per cent for col
lections, and that Barnes, instead of the
treasurer was handling the funds, they
turned their guns from school lands to
reports to the secretary OF the interior,
hoping to get advertisement out of that
1 could not sell Frank a separator. He
wanted too much for any honest separ-
ator to undertake.
Ex-Major and Indian Agent Billy T.
Walker was over from Guthrie on his
way to Fort Worth, where he is to look
after a lot of school bonds and such
truck. Billy is employed in the Office of
Mr.. Hopkins at Guthrie and is known far
and wide as the territorial administra-
TONS flying squadron. Billy knows the
IL Of h. issa
posted as to the conduct Of affairs at an
Indian agency. He can also write up as
nice a report as ever left a governors Of
fee, but he has no earthly use for a
cream separator since he quit farming
at Anadarko. When 1 found ne did not
take kindly to the best separator on earth
1 asked him what he thought of state
hood. He replied thusly; Statehood?
What do you folks want of statehood?
Amt you gettin' along all right under a
territorial administration? What is the
matter with you folks, anyway?
Let me tell you said Billy, you
folks are never satisfied. You want the
earth, and want it enclosed with a hog
tight barb wire fence. If ydu had any
sense you could see for yourself that our
present form of government far super
ior to that of any that is being put up by
any of the old states. Our thxes are lower
and we can live just as cheap as they do
in any of the western -stsssE Read the
governors last report and compare it
with that Of any other governor. and you
will find we have no just cause to make
a roar. Every state and territory has its
kickers. and Oklahoma is no exception to
the rule. Well, let 'em kick; they will
have time enough to do it, for the day is
a long way off when Oklahoma will get
statehood. We are getting clean, hon
est administration and the people will
have TO be satisfied with it. You don't
thing the Republican power in congress
is going to give you statehood in order
that you might send Democratic senators
and congressman to Washington. do you?
Nay, my dear Deacon, nothing of the
kind is ever going to pass Rest easy
and keep on your under-garments, for,
let me tell you something: Governor
Barnes is going to be the governor of
Oklahoma until March 4, 1904, and maybe
for some years longer"
The above remarks of the ex-major do
not jibe very well with those he made at
the Republican convention held in FL
Reno little over year ago. On that
momentous occasion the major pledged
himself TO assist Dennis T. Flynn in pro-
curing for the people OF Oklahoma free
homes and statehood Dennis remembers
the time
Judge James R Keaton was found in
his Office pilfering witty sayings out Of
the session laws of 90 The judge asked
the nature Of the separator mans visit
and upon being told. proclaimed in a
voice Of thunder that he wanted nothing
in the separator line. He was for fusion
every time. and Bryan, the ex-champion
of silver. for president. When asked
how ne would like 10 help Rev. Delegate
Callahan for delegate TO congress. he
made some kind OF a side remark that
Mr. Callahan was all right and would
help the people OF Oklahoma as he did
before. "Was it not he said the Judge
who got the time for proving up extend
ed ten years? Was il not he. that had a
young fellow admitted TO West Point
who had been In the territory only a few
months? And l say again, was il not he
who stepped gracefully out OF the way
and gave Bob Forrest and myself a fair
show at the Oklahoma City convention
Yes, deacon. he did ali this. and more
too and it has been and viii be proven
again that he and he alone is the only log
zeal candidate for delegate TO congrsss. As
for statehood. would Ike 20 see Okla
hcr-aa 2 So a-E Nm within - give