The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1904-01-25
ADOPTED
.ntOrse Roosevelt, Declare For
Panama Canal Treaty
Attendance Rare Bunch
: Of Office Holders and
WOuId-bes, Only.

Tie Chieftain is put in the very un-
nfiable attitude Of an apoligist today
ns account Of the failure to present
Ok readers. ''hot from the bat" a
eport Of the republican executive
onmittee's proceedings, Saturday.
Mr. Soper stated to Chieftain rep
Wntatiye about twelve o'clock that
Ii meeting would be an executive
sion, and be calledat O'Clock. The
entleman appears to have been Jug
ing with the truth, for everybody
nd his dog was there, if reports be
rue; and the shiboleth appears to
ave been 'Soper."
Claremore succeeded in landing the
Invention, the date being March II.
For roster, partial at least, Of
tIose present at Saturdays meeting,
F0 are indebted to the Muskokee
rIfnes:
Probably 90 per cent OF these rep
sentative citizens are pie eaters.
This noble band Of patriots will show
tthls meeting that they do not give
9nOntinentaI about the various lucra-
&c Offices they are holding but that
heir love for repubiicanism prompts
hem to bear this burden unc0m-
miningly
10 become somewhat personal ,and
lis necessary to do so in order TO
ruSe the grounds taken.) Grant $.
Fictor, the chairman, is the man who
Neds the prisoners in the Northern
IIstrict. He Is representative citi-
an and model Office holder.
Then, your friend Mike Conlan, the
eeretary. takes the wrinkles out Of
tle stomachs Of the transgressors of
ll3e law OF the Central district He
II also prominent citizen.
Then comes Leo e. Bennett, T. 5.
marshal for Western district: John
Seamans, postmaster at Tulsa; J. A.
Roper, ex-postmaster at Okmulgee,
VITO is looking for another job; A.
NJ. Milan. constable at Eufaula: Chas.
Whitaker Of Sapulpa, who is itching
f0r job; Jno. S. Worthington, ex-
nast master at Tahlequah who would
n'fturn up his nose at a whiif Of good
Die: Charles Q. Frye, postmaster at
RaAisaw; Il. 5. Bessey, postmaster at
Claremores T. b. Bradford Lenapah,
whose mouth is watering for taste
ii y short" crust and ''meaty iillin:N
III. II. Darrough, q. = marshal for
Vie Northern district. frank Genung,
shlef Office deputy at Southtown; Ed
Fannin. clerk Of the federal court Of
ehe Central District; c. L. Long,
1lSision deputy marshal at Wewoka;
and Others OF the faithful who are
aeriiicing personal interests for the
unrpose Of saving their country at
sllch much per save.
Not the least conspicuous Of the
sonntry savers win be Pliny Soper, U.
4NDistrict Attorney for the Northern
District who carries a solicitorship for
lhe Frisco company as a side line and
Mno aspires to be Republican national
eommitteeman.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
we. the members Of the executive
eommittee Of the Republican Organi-
zation of the Indian Territory in reg
.lIar session assembled, desire to place
once more on record as being
Isl fun accord with the principles Of
tic Republican party and the plat
l6rm as adopted by the National Con-
ftntion.
We further desire to express and
fully endorse the wise, conservative
and statesmanlike administration of
0Hr president, Theodore Roosevelt, in
atery branch Of the government, and
endorse his sincere efforts to bring eY-
3y department of the government in
to perfect working order and to cleanse
therefrom corruption and wrongdoing.
We congratulate the administration
8n HE success attained in the plans
for the building of the Panama Canal
the careful statesmanlike manner