The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-10-01
LEE cRUcE AT ALVA.
Ardmore Candidate for Governor
Makes Good impression.

arrived In Alya over the Rock Is.
J Hand Thursday afternoon He was met
at the depot by number OF citizens
with automobiles and escorted mp
town to the Democratic headquarters
| During the afternoon he met many of
cur citizens and in the evening all
dressed the people in the district court
room The Alya Citizens band
played several fine pieces and the
court room was rapidly filled to over
flowing with our citizens, large
number Of whom were ladies'.
Prof. W. u. Morarty was present
with his large class of rhetoric and
English literature from the Northwes
tern Normal and many members of the
faculty were also present. Mr.. J. ID
Scott. an old friend of Mr.. Cruces
family called the meeting to order
and introduced the speaker. For one
| hour Mr. Crucc held the undivided at
| tCntiOn of his large audience and pre-
sentcd the policies of the Democratic
party as applied to the organization
Of the new state i'm a clear and logi
| cal manner. lie said in his opening
remarks that he did not propose to
! 90 back to the times of jefferson oi
Jackson or Lincoln, but would deal
with present and past conditions in
the two territories and the coming
state Mr. Cruce presented an old
truth IN now light when he saii
that in one respect the referendum
! had been used by the voters Of the
| United States ever since the thirteen
American colonies established the gov
crnmcnt He referred to the adoption
of the constitution of every state that
has entered the Union since 1889,
neither of which became the law of
the state until it had been submitted
to the people and had received the
sanction of the majority.
| lie favored the initiative and ref.
crcudm. the employment of convict
labor upon the public highways where
such labor would not compete with
and lower the price of labor in any
| line of human industry the limiting
the quantity Of lands to be acquir =
! by any corporation or individual {
pecially aliens. separate schools. sep
uratc coaches and separate waiting
rooms for the white and black races
aa being best for both a corporation
and railway commission elected by
the people with power to enforce
.Jst rules and regulations for the pro
lection of the people, the ownership
md oucration of the coal mines by
the state to create a school fund for
r" public schools of the Indian tar
ritory and the adoption Of a primary
election law to nominate all state Off
GERS from governor down to road over.
seer
We have only given a brief synop.
is of the many Just laws that Mr..
'gucc hoped would be placed in the
constitution of Oklahoma. He showed
how the Republican party had always
favored the railroads in the Indian
Territory. When the cities of the ter
ritovy asked congress to give them a
Jaw SO that they could organize their
local municipal governments and levy
taxes to create a fund for the eduCa
ion of their children, congress finally
granted their petition but exempted
The railroads from taxation for that
purpose, leaving the burden on the
people who were already prey tC
the unlimited freight rates levied by
the favored corporation He showed
hat the children of the Indian Terri
tory, outside Of the towns and cities
for years had been growing up without
any provision for their education
whatever when the Republican major
ity I'm congress could at any time have
made some provision for them
Mr jrucc won the good VIII OF hi'
entire audience by his fair and candle
! treatment of the opposition ana nj.
| speech was regarded by all partic.
! as one of the best that has been de
4 iyorcd in Alya since the opening OF
the campaign. Nlr Cruce has beer
making addresses for several weeks
over the territory for the uv;aocrati,
{ campaign committee, not as a candi
l date himself, but the knowledge tha
- he will, later, be in the race for IN,
Democratic nomination for governor
is getting ont over the state The sen
timent is growing mighty fast il
i Woods county and northwestern Ok
e lahCma that Lee. CruCe is just the maj
= To be the first governor of the new