Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-11-15

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viErrA, IND. TER, Nov IS, 1900.
lie no longer principle against
principle. Il is now just simply
money against poverty.
Fort Smith is drifting back to-
wsrd the days Of Parker and
Maledon. One ward actually gave
Mckinley a majority.
The pOoi, overworket brokers
and spectators Of Wall street are
pleased with the election Of Nc
Kinley.
The Muskogee Times predicts
some important changes in the
holding of offices under the feder-
al appointment during the near
future.
There promises to be a racy
suit fled for the divorce Of
democracy from populism. The
grounds are ample, both scripiural
) aud otherwise.
The English press is jubilant
over the election of Mckinley.
Heretofore there has been a secret
alliance with England, within
year 1t will be an open alliance.
Muskogee BARRIERS have formed
a trust aud today put the price Of
shaves from 10 to Is cents. Thus
Muskogee is the fret territory
town TO feel the effects Of the en-
dorsement of Mark Hanna.
There are at least two questions
definitely settled by the recent
election, that effect the Indian
Territory-the statehood.with. Ok.
lahoma fallacy, and the national
democratic committeeman row.
The talk drumming Mark Hanna
for president in 1904 Is all bosh.
Hanna will at that time have
finished bis second term, and there
is an unwritten law that no pres.
ident shall be elected to a third
term.
Chief Burlington advises the ma.
tional council to get through with
its annual pow WOW in thirty dcys,
because the funds are chi t. Bet
ter admonition would perhaps be
to tell them there is nothing they
can do that will help the Cherokee
people.
VIM. Allen White, the famous
Kansas editor, says that when be
went into the newspaper business
an old newspaper man advised
him to make enemies enough to
prevent him from ever getting into
Office and he would succeed.
White did both.
Among the dead issues in the
Indian Territory is that Of state
hood either single or double. II
there is any one thing hat can be
considered settled for four years it
is that no more states will be
created. There is nothing in the
southwest the republicans can
hope to gain by statehood.
The Bartlesville Magnet has dis
covered fact in a rural Missouri.
ans philosophy. The Magnet
says: "a Missouri editor thinks
IL quite sad to see a young husband
supporting a sealskin wife on
muskrat salary" For pointed
picturesquences of expression, the
Missouri rural editor takes the
corn pone.
Did you ever notice bow much
faster a man wsIks when be is
going somewhere than when he is
simply lettering. The difference
can be noticed any day on the
streets of every town. The man
or boy is peculiarly unfortunate
who is not going somewhere, and
who has no definite motive in all
his movements.
Vinita can now be properly con-
Sidered the seat Of political power
for the Indian Territory. Itis the
home OF National Committeeman
Mellette, Of Judge Joseph A. Gill, |
and Of Pliny L. Soper, the suave
and accommodating prosecuting at
torney for the Northern District.
Seekers after political patronage
must needs come 20 Vinita.
Indian Commissioner Jones, in
his annual report, contioverts the
commonly sccepted theory that the
Indians are becoming extinct. IA