The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-09-02
INDIANS Are
DEMOCRATS
EX.ooV. HUNTER OF TH@ cHoC.
TAW NATION TELLS WAY.
BY Inspiration and intuition They Are
oemocatic-They Possess Virtues
Altogether Foreign to the Re
publican Party
Boswell, /. p, A.. %, 1906.

zion, has just issued the Following al
dress to his people, urging them to
support the Democratic ticket as cit
izens of the new state.
To the Choctaw People;
Though the RepuDlican party,
through the general government, has
exercised guardianship over yea and
your affairs for many years, it does
not seem to know your attitude to-
wards them with respect to your vote,
and the conclusion is that that party
has not been faithful to the trust or
has grossly Gsregarded its duties,
and | fear that their present actions
and universal esteem for Indians sa.
vors Of unfaithful stewardship and
that they are trying to gather in
sheaves that they have not cultivated
and are not entitled TO.
The history Of the Indian people
shows that they have alwaI regard
ed principle and honor, loyalty and de-
votion to their country, and are al
ways faithful and tue to their friends
and benefactors and in return sensi-
tive in the expectations OF fairness,
Justice and honesty, and if they have
not been accorded such stand stoically
still distrlsting. For many years they
have maintained taeir tribal govern
ments. showing wisdom and justice I'm
the enactment of their laws. elected
officers Of intelligence and integrity
and equal to the necessities of their
government wnen their patriotism
was demanded and SO continued until
now when the inevitable has come
and they must pass out of existence
as a tribal government and be swal-
lowed up in the aggregate Of a state.
Since statehood has been made pos
sible the Republican party needing
the support Of the Indians to eelyate
them in power in the new state. ave
very deeply cCbcened as % how
that vote will be appropriated and
in order to secure the same are tell
ing unheard Of things the party has
done for the protection and prosperity
81 the Indian, but the Indian is too
wise TO take such a dose without
much precaution and will, when they
are possessed of their full and Just
rights give the Republicans their
final retribution.
There are many and cogent reasons
why the Indians cannot support the
Republican party. In the first place
they are by inspiration AMI intuition
Drmocatic, his whole being, being
characterized of honesty, fairnes,
and Justice, and his innate belief IL
the sovereignty OF all the people, no
the few, but a government of the peo
pie, by the people and for the peo
pie. Thus they are Democratic. Thest
virtues do not belong to the Repub
lican party and nence there can b,
no affinity between them. The Repuh
licans may be induced tC appropriate
them, but they can not assimilat
them
It is true that the full-blood Indial
does not understand full ythe differ
ence between tne two great partie
or just what they stand for, but h
observes that infinite wrongs hav
been inflicted upon nim by one an
that the only Iavors and regard h
enjoys comes from the others.
He understands that he was il
duced by the solicitude OF Democrtl
administration, in 1880, to remoy
to the present Indian Territory an
that by authority from the nationi
government he should occupy, an
maintain an Independent governmer
until such time as he saw proper
relinquish and become a citizen OF III
United States and of a state and thu
without his consent he would not
Joined to any other state or foreie
territory; that subsequent administr
tions respected this agreement unit
the Republicans were put in pow'
and launched its policy toward II
lHuldns i ne VI liiio oti'i NN WI
pact, the plighted faith OF the go
ernment, have been abrogated al
totally disregarded and over the pr
test of sixty-fve thousand voic
at the ballot. refer to the Sequoy;
movement for separate statehoo
The movement, though just, W
cnurnod from, machining tO end II
most modest an dthe only request ev
made by the Indian people was rut
lessly turned down by the Republic
party and the deluded and helple
people making the request were n
only disappointed and detected b
weer insulted and denominated as
competents. You cannot afford to vc
for that party and will not. The