Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-08-11
INDIAN TALKS
FOR INDIANS
TELLS WHY EVERY RED MAN
VOTES REPUBLICAN TICKET
BLAIM THE DEMOCRATS
Declares the Democratic President
Signed Bill Demoralizing the
Red Man.

The Muskogee Phoenix says: at
comes to pass that the red man is
dispossessed of all his his land. He
has been outgeneraled, out talked,
out numbered and pinned to the
wall. Now it has been said that the
Indian never forgets faver, or in
Jury, and there is whole lot OF
truth in it. In the first place how
does it happen that the Red man
comes to what he hast The Red
man once had the pick of this North
America, and also South America,
and the Five great tribes, Cherokee,
Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and
Seminoles, desired that Florida,
Georgia, Alabama, North and South
Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana
as suitable for them to live and
raise their young ones and after ex-
tending the hand of friendship to
his white brother, the greed OF the
latter for land caused an eruption
between the races by rascality and
force, leaving out justice to the Red
man.
A great many were then landed
in this, then wild country, to "root
hog or die" The Red man rustled
q living for years, and had accumu-
lated a little stock and a farm.
About this time the war Of the re-
bellion came up and broke the Red
man fiat; first by one side and then
the other. He came home and found
his mortar and pestle burned, his
cows, hogs and horses all driven
away. Then he went to work, and
built little home and struggled
along as best he could for few
years, but he had been forced out,
for it began to be noised about that
away in the west country Of the
United States was garden spot,
that was a blank and disgrace to
the people Of the country but was
owned by a lot of indolent Indians,
and that Congress should do some
thing with the blank spot. Then it
was that the Indian Territory be-
came the home of contention. There
we're bills after bills, introduced in
Congress to do something with this
Indian country, but each bill was
vetoed as they came up for the sig
nature Of the president. General
Grant told Congress at one time,
after vetoing bill, "to let those In
dians alone, until they were able to
compete with the white man." Other
Republican presidents did the same
thing, and we took notice that it was
a never failing fact, that every bill
affecting the Red man was gotten
up by Democrat, and il was al
ways a Republican president that
turned it down.
Now it came to pass that one
Cleveland, who was not Republican,
a centurian or Hebrew, but gen.
uine Democrat, became the president
of the United States. Then Mr..
Springer, and maybe Mr.. Spooner,
knocked heads together, and framed
a bill to have the Indian land di-
vided in severality, this without the
consent of the Red man. When 1t
came to show down most every In
dian tribe in the United States sent
a begging petition to not allow such
a bill to pass, as it would be the ruin
of the Red man. But these consistent
Democrats marched up to Mr.. Cleve-
land and told him to 60 ahead and
sign the bill, as they would like very
much to have the bill carried out,
despite all of the petitions piled
waist high around them. This Dem
ocratic president signed the bill that
has demoralized the Red man OF the
United States. Now this same Dem
ocratic party comes and asks us to
vote the Democratic ticket in this
state of Oklahoma. How is this for
gall when one knows how the trick
was turned on the Red man. The
writer happens to know these things
to be so, and if my people, the red
race of the Five Tribes, knew this as
/ do, there would not be one Demo-
cratic vote cast among their ranks.
A Republican victory in this coun-
try may not take the Red man back
where he once was, but the Repub-
liccan party has shown that it is the
best friend Of the Red man.
"BIG INDIAN"