The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-30
STIRRING Up
DISTRUST
Democratic Papers Seek to
Create Dissatisfaction.
CONSTITUTIONAL MEETING
Oklahoma Said to Be Entitled
to Most Delegates

Guthrie. o. T., April 29.-There is a dis
position among some of the Democratic
papers in Oklahoma to try to create dis
trust among the people Of the Indian
Territory by pointing out that the bill
which has passed the house of represen-
tatives and has been sent to the senate
admitting Oklahoma and the Indian Ter
Iitory as one state does not give the In
dian Territory a fair representation in
the constitutional convention.
It is understood here that Oklahoma
will have ten more votes in the conven-
tion than the Indian Territory. 1t is
supposed by the people that at the time
of the last official census that Oklahoma
must have had the most people. People
from the Indian Territory come TO Guth-
RE pretty frequently and the ones that
come are generally representative men
of the different sections of that terri
tory. None of them when they come here
complain that they are not fairly treated.
Nobody up to this time has come for
ward to claim that there will be any di
vision on territorial lines in regard to
any policy Of government to be en-
grated into the constitution of the new
state. 1t is believed that when the dele
gates assemble in the constitutional con-
vention there will not be very much diff
ference in the delegates from the two
sections There will be Republicans.
Democrats and Populists, all anxious to
The idea Of forming one state Of Ok
lahoma and the Indian Territory seems
to meet with about the unanimous ap-
proval Of both the territories and it is
unfortunate that an effort should have
been made thus early to arouse sectional
feeling, when there are no issues upon
which to base sectional parties. It might
be asked what Oklahoma will want that
the people Of the Indian Territory would
rather possess That is what the peo-
pie here are trying to find out.
+. II. Kellogg Of South McAlester was
here yesterday and he said he had heard
OF no dissatisfaction in the Indian Terri
tory over the plan adopted by congress
of admitting the two territories as one
state He seemed to think that the peo-
delighted with the idea. He thought that
ten years ago the men in the Indian coun-
try capable of forming a constitution
for a great state might have been num-
bered on the fingers of his two hands.
1t is different now and there are thou
eands of men in the Indian Territory
who would make capable delegates to the
constitutional convention
The people of the two sections of the
proposed state are coming together as
friends and there is no reason why pol
itics should have very much to do with
the constitutional convention that the av-
erage citizen is able to point out. The
convention will mot be called upon to
settle a single gold standard or bmetal-
lsm. 1t will not have anything to do
with the tariff, the policy to he pur-
sued in regard to the Philippines, nor viii
it have To provide for the building of the
Panama canal
All these things are being pointed out
here and people are wondering why the
Democratic editors refuse to be happy
when there is cause for general rejoicing.