The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-31

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men who wiz carefully consider the
school land question when the prope.
time comes
CONGRESS has not deemed il advisable
| to deal with this matter and in my honest
judgment school land lessees can safely
| rest their rights in the hands OF the PEG
! pie Of this territory. The people OF Okla
Just and generous. and the school land
( proposition. in all of its phases. will not
! prove to be an exception in the splendid
/ history Of our territory In settling this
matter. DO your desire. The man who
has seen you locate on your quarter sec
I ton OF school land your house. barn and
/ fences; the man who has seen you ex-
rend your time and money. do you want
/ the man who is yorr neighbor. who lives
! in the. same school district and perhaps
belongs 10 the same church: the man who
is interested in you and your family do
you want that man as an OkIahoman.
to go to the legislature and prescribe the
school land regulations Or do you want
Z the Indian territory man 10 come into our
! legislature and thereby relieve every Ok
! lahoman Of his proportional part OF re-
/ sponsibiIity in reference TO this school
/ land? What does that mean 10 the les
see? That means that those people. being
without school land or school money
would exact the last dollar from the man
or that land. You get your land for IS
or $50 or 500 per quarter annually; let
them come into the legislature and l say
to you in my honest judgment, If the
land is retained. the price would be ma
terialIy Increased. and you could not
blame those people because We would
have their institutions TO support.
Now, my friends / want 10 leave this
matter with you. but desire 10 can your
attention to another thing for just a few
minutes. There has been a great deal
said in this territory about the mixed
school problem. I want 20 call your at
tention 20 some THINGS that have beer
going on. I want 10 say the separate
school matter is absolutely settled 10 the
satisfaction Of the colored people and the
white people. The colored people have
their schools and have employed teachers
and the very man who introduced the
bill providing separate schools did so al
the request OF the coiored people OF Lin
coin county.
and in that county the Populists and
Democrats are fighting with more vigor
than l have ever observed between Re
publcans and Populists 1 met an old
time friend Of mine from Oklahoma eoun-
~. and he said: What is Cross saying
about the Populists in your county?"
1 said: Il have never heard him but
once; 1 talked from the same platform
at Ames, in Woods county. and he said
as nice things as he could about the
Populist party" Ny friend said: HE
went after US down in this county. and 1
said to him that as the Populists did
not have a candidate he might get some
votes here"
] think in this age, when telegraph
wires are connecting almost every town
and where telephones are reaching into
almost every home. where newspapers
are going into every hamlet in the land,
where our people are an educated and
reading people. I believe it is impossible
in this territory OF ours for a man 10
go into one county and make one kind OF
a speech and go into another county and
make another kind of a speech, with no
other reason than TO secure a few votes.
I believe 1 know me people OF Oklahoma
territory They are as bright and intel
ligent and as thrifty and as honest IN
politics as any other people IN any other
section of this great nation Of ours In
my judgment. the people OF Oklahoma
are going to stand by the party and by
the man who can and does express the
same kind cfsentiments in every country
in this great territory. (Applause) We
can afford 10 be fair With the people
And while I am at this particular part
OF my speech / want TO call your atten-
ton to some htings that happened when
we were talking from the same plat
form. He said: Il want 10 read 10
you Populists something a Republican
paper was saying about YOU. and Of
course II a Republican paper was say
ing something about them. Mcclure IS /
re ponsible for it. So he read the arti- !
Gle After the meeting was over I said (
TO him: 4 wish you would tell me
where that came from" He has never I
told me. from that day TO this Did he 4
owe II TO me my friends. 10 tell me2 /
II I give you anything IN the way or 4
statistics. and you ask Mcclure where I.
it came from. see whether or not 1
win tell you and give 1t to you. re- +
quested him TO give II 10 me. and ne 4
has not done Il. What did he do7 He
went to Enid and evidently said the 1
same thing. and Isenberg Of the Enid +
Wave came out with an article and went 4
Cross one better. Nj Cross evidently
told him where the article came from. /
and Mr.. Isenberg was evidently anxious 1
to do Cross all the good he could and 7
he said Il was McGuire's paper. and that 4
Mcclure furnished the money IsenSerg
said. The Briscoe Republican f. pa
per conducted b. a. schooluate Of BIRD I
Mcclure. Mcclure furnished the money (
10 start the paper. This is what the
Republican says. let Democrats and .
Populists mark it well
Here IL what Mr Cross read. saying
il was from a Republican paper n Okla i
aoma. we are proud - the fact that
Oklahoma Republicans have never pros
. -uted themselves by fusion with the
vid-eytd rsg-time. calamity
bowling Popuiisfs. The Democrats and 4
their rebel candidate are welcome %
such cattle
and Mr. Cross has never told me where
that came from. have nor much money
but I VII tel yen what 7 Ell 90. There
IS 100 for anyone who vii aud chat pa
PER. There 6 no such town IN Oklahoma.
here Is no s1ch paper 90 Oklahoma ter
-itorg. that paper q rot published % ruv
znoWiedse. and 7 have made some hives
igations. You say. is 4 possibie that
hey have done that They have eone
hat; 7 hea-d & myself
Tha; is 10 tall once. before startef
o The stage 20 make tax some gen