The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-20
FRlM KANSAS VIEN
Congressman Charley Scott
Will Favor Single Statehood
WITH NEGRO SUFFRAGE
He Thinks Oklahoma Would
be Sure Republican

Guthrie. o. T., Dec. B.-One man who
fakes comfortable and in one phase a
novel view Of statehood for the two ter
rHtories is Hon. Chas f. Scott Of lola,
Kansas congressman-at-Iarge, who in
c.ines to believe that single statehood,
whenever it may be feasible, viii be safe,
rs a Republican political proposition, not
70 argue at all its conceded justice and
Its advantages in the development Of the
territory Congressman Scott was IN
Guthrie to-day between trains en- route
10 his home in lola, from Suliwater,
where he. u company with his mother
and his little son, Ewing, had been fer
several days on a visit with President A
C. Scott of the A & ~ college, who is a
brother Of the congressman.
Mr.. Scott has made visit a year, and
sometimes two annually, to Oklahoma
ever since the ope ning. and has conse-
Quenty kept close tab on the territory s
development, and 10 a greater extent
than is usual with a resident Of another
state has kept 4 ntouch with it's political
life. He extols Oklahoma unstintedly in
Its material aspects and prospects and
took occasion to pay a specially hand
some tribute to Payne county and the
city of Saltwater, which he described a.
fairly bursting with business. The con
gresham brought his fowIlng-piece along
and enjoyed some rare sport among the
quail
Referring 10 state hood, Mr.. Scott said
there had come to him some very strong
pointers that after al, Indian territory
was not Democratic to a cinch, but that
if the col0red people were given the fran
chise it would be actually Republican As
to any doubts about the suffrage being
conferred upon them il was his opinion
that the enabling act, when passed,
should contain a provision that the con-
sdtuton of the proposed state should be
submitted for the approval of congress.
Then congress could hold up any constitu-
ton submitted which did not contain
proper suffrage guarantees. He did not
thing anything would eventuate state
h9odwise at this session, but at the next
session. he said. he would. for his own
part. be willing to support single state
hood and let the future politics of the
state shape and settle itself This he
was strongly inclined to believe would
take the Republican cast especially in
view Of the Immigration situation. in adj
dition TO the col0red vote considera tom
He believed the southern immigration
movement had exhausted itself with the
run and that not only would very few
more people come from Texas. rkansas
anrd over the south. but that very many
of those already here would sell out and
go away-baok to their old homes with
the price Of their proved-up claims in
their pockets, OF on farther west Mean
while. there were pouring iu thousands OF
northern men Of means who were coming
20 stay and would not merely. tn time.
overbalancs the southern element in the
mass but as above suggested would IN
thousands OF particular case. disDlace
and, by his emigratng, practically elm
mate the southern individual from the
territory.
On his attention being called to Okla
homa's railway expansion Mr.. Scott said
lt was great as far as It had gone. but
there was room fer plenty more roads
and he hoped they would be built during
This now prevailing season of prosperity.
for. once built there they were. in hard
times or in easy, for the public couven-
fence. This led TO a backward look to-
ward Kansas great roaod-bunding de-
cade, the SOS, and the semi-humorous re-
mark that i'm many importane respects. it
was better to have doomed and busted
than never TO have doomed at all.
The minute AIR. Scott said Boom he
naturally thought of Wichita. Of course
andn lie the next sentence compumented
The Peerless Princess upon her "renais-
sanc,' forecasung, in passing. a great fu-
ture for The city In this connection he
paid high tribute TO The protector of the
Orient He said Mr.. Sdueu as. not a
Napoleon but hypnotist Of finance. His
building o. The Pittsburg g. Gulf as one
of the sreat achievements of this quar-
ter-of-a-ceutury financially speaking
SullweI had got million and a half o1s-
of an eastern city in 1893, when no one
else could have Eot 30 cents. Mr.. scotts
estimate OF Sulweu q a man is inter-
estins. He sizes him no as man of i'm
finite exacttu5e i'm all his personal ana