The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-11-10
Stona for statehood ard for local SELF

newspaper owner from the TERRITORY. n
man "l" was born in Mississippi ard
VINO lived through the dark DAYS of re.
construction there. told me only Il day
or two ago that the situation in Okla.
homa almost paralleled the methods OF
carpetbag government in the south.
lie declared that the deputy marshals
We're as arbitrary. as brutal and as
violent as rhe officials in the south dur.
ing carpetbag days. He asserted that
the*e federal o.iiceholders cOnSorteG
almost wholly with the negro roprla-
ton and We're endeavoring to use the
negro vote to advance their own int +
ests. In brief, he said that it was q
new case of the carpetbag regime and
that the one hope Of the people for re
lief lay ii statehood. They will have
statehood within few days. Govern
or Frantz fled today the official docu-
ment which Will enable the president
to issue his proclamation Tie presi-
dent las twenty days from the date OF
fling to declare the territory a state
but | am Informed upon good autllori-
ty that he will not use the time allow
ed him. but will issue the proclamation
almost Immediately upon the preaenta-
/ ton of the official returns
4 Incidentally Governor FrantZ, who
will s. ont Of Office as soon as the proc
/ lamation is issued. is looking for a fed
eral job. II is believed that he was Of
! fere1 the position Of assistant secreta-
ry of the interior, but declined it. AS
one Of the old rough riders he is look
/ ing for something of a military char
acter and no one need lie surprised ta
see him appointed either to a promi-
! neut position in the army or to 4 place
in the department Of war.
President Roo1eve't's Birthday.
1 President Roosevelt has just cele
brated his forty-ninth birthday. To
! very few men have forty-nine years
+. brought so much Of good fortune AMI
/ of achievement. In Il sense he was
| born to the rurple-that is TO say. he
inherited 2 distinguished name and 4
| fortune which, though not swollen.
! enabled him to- face the world with
! confidence and with the perfect knoWl-
=
Few men have been 50 consistently
and so continually in public office as he.
! Probably the salaries attached to these
Offices did not attract him. for he had
/ inherited enough to Keep him from the
/ worries which ordinary men undergo
! But in 1882 he was a member of the
! New York legislature. In 1886 he was
/ candidate. unsuccessful, for mayor
| of New York. From 1899 to 1895 be
| was national civil service commission
er. from 1855 to 1897 president Of
| the New York police board. then for
4 year assistant secretary of the Unit
! ed States navy department., then
! lieutenant colonel of the rough rid
| ers. and thereafter his history Is
known to all men. 1t was in 1880 that
! Mr. Roosevelt graduated from Har
ward. and during the twenty-siX years
which have passed since there have
! been less than six years during which
he has not held public Office. This i
! not to his detriment. but rather to his
credit. II would have been easier fer
! him. with the fortune he possesses. to
! have loafed away his life Rather he
/ sought to make it useful to his coun
I try. Some may doubt whether hi,
methods have been the best o.
whether his purposes were not affect
ed largely by personal ambition But
/ for Il man of forty-nine even though,
helped by a comfortable patrimon.
and by the most extraordinary luck
/ that ever attended man in public
/ life. to have accomplished as much as
he has is an achievement worthy Of
! celebration Mr. Rcosevelt's career of
| fers an extraordinary Illustration of
what is possible to a youth born in this
/ country.
The National Conventions.
Chairman New and Secretary Dover
/ have issued the call for the Republican
national committee to meet in Wash
ington ON the 9th of December for the
! purpose of fixing the time and the
! place for the Republican national con
vention. Many cities will fight for the
| honor of holding the convention. The
| Democratic committee has not yet been
! called together, but it has been Gus
! tOmary for it to meet early in January.
| and no doubt Chairman Taggart will
call it at about that time. am much
| inclined to believe that there will be
surprise to the country when the
| places for these conventions to be held
! are announced. The Democrats have
/ met in Kansas City. st. Louis and Chi
| cago, the Republicans in Chicago, Phil
| adelphia, st. Louis and Cincinnati. all
within the memory of young men in
| politics. 1t is quite likely that this
| year one or both Of the conventions
| will come east Indeed, l think alto
i. gether probable that there will be ear
nest endeavors to bring the Democrat
| ic convention at least to this side of
the Alleghanies. People have an idea
| to my mind mistaken one, that the
/ fortunes of candidate are affected b.
the place OF Sthe convention. If this
, were true, r. hight be worth while to
| hold a Democratic convention in Wash
/ inoton M cun1 idotp ga n noSSibly hal!