The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-12
STRONG TALK
BY HENSLEY
OF Ell RENO
No Man Can Be Trusted Who
Would Become Traitor
TO THE SCHOOL CHILDREN
An Awful indictment Against
Roy Hoffman.

Guthrie, o. T, Oct 1.-THE brass col
lar Of Democracy is not choking Tom
HensIey Of the FL Reno Democrat, 50
lad that he cannot express his opinions
and express them vigorously. Here is
what he says about Bill Cross. Of Kansas
City:
a man. whether he be a Democrat or
q Republican, is not a safe man 10 trust
with an official position who openly ad-
Yocates division Of our school fund
which belongs to Oklahoma children,
with the Indian territory, or who advo-
Gates the establishment Of our educa-
fionel and other institutions which be-
long to Oklahoma, in the Indian terri
tory. Yet that is just what the single
statehood Democrats Of this territory are
proposing TO do now.
AT the AIusc0gee single statehood
convention. held November Is, 1901, and
winch was composed Of delegates who
were opposed 10 the admission of Okla
homa as a single state, Col. Roy Hoff-
man, one Of the men responsible for the
statehood plank in the Enid platform,
and one Of the men who is now opposing
the omnibus statehood bin and is now
trying TO elect Bill Cross because Bill
Cross is an avowed opponent TO immedi-
ate statehood. said in response to the ad-
dress Of welcome at Muscogee:
g We want statehood with the Indian
territory: we want you people Of the In
dian territory 10 take our name. but that
is not all we can give you We do not
come 10 you empty handed. The people
OF Oklahoma have been industrious, saw
Ing and honest. We have in round num-
hers 1850, goo acres of land set apart as a
basis for permanent school. college and
public building fund This land is worth
al fair valuation, 100000 and Yields
q revenue at the present time Of 100000
FER year"
Our public Institutions with the ex-
ception Of a few chools. have no per
Hsnent site. They are on wheels and
ready for you TO hitch onto. Guthrie and
Oklahoma City have been sitting on their
respective hills and splitting venom at
each othre for ten years over the capt.
tai question. They have engendered a
Jealous rivalry as keen as that of the
Roman senate at a period when it never
begun it's public duties without first con-
Carthage must fail The result will be
that eventually each Of these towns viii
throw its strength to YOU people Of the
Indian territory rather than see the other
get the capitol, and YOU viii carry of the
prize and we have in addition to this
$4,000 saved and appropriated by con-
gress ready TO build a state house now.
This is the pledge that has been made
by certain Democrats Of the East Side TO
the Indian territory as our contribution
&C them 10 permit rs 10 come into the
Union with them as one state. our pub
lie institutions are -on wheels ready to
be hauled arcoss the line as soon as Bid
Cross and his committee can defeat the
statehood bill; $4,000 of money ready
earned is ready to give them with which
t. build a capitol. and a sum twice as
large belonging to the public school chill
dren OF Oklahoma is also TO be divided
as soon as the lines of statehood can De
thrown around us and the indian terri
tory as one state"