The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-09-02

were dear TO you aud Fgu .lught 20
perpetuatc them as TAR as 20 jolo but
your interests were no, Worthy ot
jhe.. yaspoc, and you tr,-tly sold
THAI the gove.nmect of the united
States had something to s.y about
the kind Cf state the new one should
be Can you afford to place in power
in the new state the party who has
not exercised the least consideration
and kindness toward you. when you
most needed it? can YOU vote for the
| party whose attorney general in the
crritOry Of oklahoma sa-a that there
are technicalities in the enabling act
| that will not permit the Indians OF
/ the new state TO yC.c nor hold Office?
! II was said bv prominent Republican
: at the Republican rally az Bartles-
! vile recently that the ignorance of
menace to the upbuilding OF the new
state The Democrats have not con
/ sidered you an obstacle or an article
of merchandise. but regard YOU as inn
portant as themselves and compO-
nent part Cf the new state Can you
expect to lend your assistance in the
oganization and Strengthening o. the
party who are YOU demoralizer5 and
repudators? The jurisdiction cf our
triabl courts was curtailed by the
AtCka agreement but we were other
selfgovernment for a period Of eight
years, and our tribal government thus
modified was considered so satisfac-
tory there would ue no need or desire
fer further change until we would
be in the opinion of cOngess pre-
pared for admission as state in the
union. he Republican party. through
Secretary Hitchcock, Immediately
took charge OF our schools without
authority of law or the consent of
the Choctaw and Cnickasaw people
and placed the management of the
same in the hands of their subordi-
Mates depriving the Indians who were
qualified Of holding these places
thereby chilling the laudable ambition
of our citizens to acquire further pro
licioncy and crushed the hopes OF
our young men and women
to occupy places OF honor, and
yet these Republicans claim {,
be our protectors and benefactors and
have the effronterv to ask us to sup
port them-for a further travesty up
on our rights Thees parasites are mic,
, monkeys to balance the scales of jus
, tiCe for a helpless Indian. Can yol
, vote fer such people. no. You can no
. be a Republican and be true 10 you
1 principles. Without authority from tn,
= .hoctaws and Chickasaws the sec
S retary withheld from allotment val
Y liable tracts of pine timber lands, NOR
D than eighteen sections, to the det
{ riment Of the full-blood Indians, VIII,
V lived in that vicinity, forcing him t
{ seek other lands far away. ant
r through grafters, the natural product
of the Republican party, he filed upol
S allotments that he has never seen.
g Under both the Atoka and Supple
G mentary agreements, the ChoctaN
n and Chickasaw freedmen were to rC
Q ceive aIlotments of forty acres eac
IS equal in value to forty acres OF tn
So
II the late Curtis act, the feature of tn
D. secretary, unbrldled Hitchcock, thi
D. provision was revised and the freeC
;e men are allowed to purchase at tn
b. appraised value enough more to max
,e forty acres. no matter the grade {
b. the land. Thousands upon thousand
.e o. dollars of Indian property was thr
te diverted to an unlawful channel an
without the consent of the owner
N Mr. Indian, it will be well for YOU
r. remember all this when you decit
rs to vote This is net all The Sc
le etary, as a futhe injustice, is no
ie enrolling the freedmen babies wit
nd ont cur consent or authority of la'
ne causing loss of many thousands
dollars to the Choctaw and Chickasa
n nations and yet they tell our peop
ic of the love and reverence they ha'
ye for them and tue goodness and fait
nd ful services they have rendered
al their behalf ana the remembrance
nd them dieth not COrruptiOn in politi
mt so highly systematizod for the be
to eft of the deluled Indian must
he guarded against. II is prepared to be
at befCfe every onslaught of every he
be est voter but to arise again as so'
en- as the storm is over. If the Indii
ra- people will listen to the gltteril
til promise sof the Republican party a
er they will knot the lashes oi Jre;r