Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1900-07-12
ndian Chieftain.
NATIONAL TICKET.

NATIONAL TICKET.
For President,
WIN. JENNINGS BRYAN.
For Vice President,
ADLAI STEVENSON.
The republicans are more anc
more dissatisfied with the demo
cratic platform.
Kansas towns are in anewspapel
row over the relative beauty o
their telephone girls
The Tahlequah Sentinel roast'
its 4th of July spell binders fol
talking politics from The platform
Judge w. H H. Clayton is men
toned as the successor of Judge
Williams deceased of the eastern
district Of Arkansas.
The territory exchanges are still
seating the Marcum delegation al
Kansas City and making the Col
onel the next national committee.
man.
The republicans are finding
fault with the Kansas City plat
form and its candidates. Most
any republican can name a strong
er platform than Bryan and
Stevenson.
That the constitution does not
necessarily follow the flag has
been argued pro and con a hundred
years. The democratic position
however has always been that the
constitution and the flag are in
sepaFable.
rhe populi-t party in the United
States will be about as completely
merged into the democratic party
this year as is possible. II success
attends the Bryan ticket there will
be no more pOpulisls-all will be
democrats.
Since the adjournment Of the
Kansas City convention there has
been a decided lull in Indian Ter
nitory politics. The democrats Of
this country will not be considered
TO any great extent until they are
allowed to vote.
In point of eloquence Webster
Davis carried off the honOrs easily
at the Kansas City convention.
Davis impassioned plea for lib
'erty for the Beers will never be
erased from the memory of those
who heard him on that occasion.
A Guthrie paper makes the pro-
found statement that Vinita wants
electric lights. OF course Vinita
wants electric lights and has had
them for a long time. She wants
two of the fiuest artesian wells in
the world and she has them also.
Tie St. Louis street car strike
was resumed again Tuesday. A
week ago a settlement was affected
but the employees became dlssatis.
fed, and the strike and the boy.
colt were ordered to be in force at
8 O'Clock Tuesday morning.
There will be room for a few
more republicans from Pennsyl.
vania and Ohio and Illinois and
Kansas, on the townsite appris.
ment board for the Indian Terri.
tory now talked of around the OF.
fee OF the secretary Of the interior.
The judgments taken in the
United States court at Vinita dur
ing. The fiscal year ending June 80,
1900, amounted to s597, ,765 SO.
The amount of money in fines is
e1095. There have been 246 civil
cases filed and 20 cases in bank.
ruptcy.
Ii should be the determination
OF every good democrat to abide
by the decision OF the committee
appointed to settle the Marcum-
Wolverton contest, and acqpiesce
without bitterness or grumbling. |
Ifitis Marcum, or Wolverton. or a
new mar, let us hear no more of the
controversy.
The preliminary skirmishing
Saturday in the Rogers case IN the
United States court here indicated
that a great legal battle would be
fought out when the CAGE comes up
TOR final hearing on ils merits two
weeks hence There are several
legal propositions that will be
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