The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1907-02-05
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sEe adoption Of the Rose amendlae1t
pnz for separate suBaission of
the question 70 the people Of the en-
TIRE. By an overwhelming majority.
Nr. Hayes is much gratiied with
TIE result, since t was the proposi-
tion which he advocated IN his plat
form from the beginning and for
which he fought til the last It was
n0t advocated By either the majority
or the minority report Of the COM
mttee On prohibition, and its final
adoption was a great victory for Ar.
Hayes and those whese we're his CO.
workers.
Mr. Hayes argued the legal phase
cf tie proposition for more than an
hour Thursday and the press pays
him the compliment Of saying that i
Vas the strongest presentation Of the
question that was made. He eonteHded
that tie convention Rad no authority
70 submit the question to the people
Il Oklahoma territory alone and he
oyavineed the delegates that he vas
right.
Mr. Hayes thinks that the conyen-
ton viii last from twenty 70 thirty
DAYS Ionger.
ar asked about the Jim croW
aw Mr. Hayes said.
'If the expression Of the delegate.
At this time IS to be taken as a eri-
erion Of what they viii %, ths jim
Grow car law will be written 10 tn
constitution; but there are a great
many delegates who are not yet reaay
and willing to write the Jim Crow car
axs in to the constitution until they
have al expression from their people.
There Is no longer any question
among the greater number of dele
gates that To write the Jim Crow pro
vsion II tae constitution will en-
danger It's approval by the president.
Tzera cave hean eighteen democratic
senators and congressman who have
either BIZ telegram or Letters, said that
Il we put TIE Jim Grow provisions IN
TIE constitution We shall endlager
statehood A great many Of these
seHasors ans congressman 10 not
step sv sayinv that we will enianger
getting statetosd. but that II will
defeat is The senators and congress
men 50 have thus expressed them
selves are tkose who fought nost
yaliansly to secure for ns tie enabling
act. Thev are men WHO have she in
terests Of Oklahc-sa and Tadian ter
ritory at hesrs and have bern the
strongest friends Of theze tHo TERRI
tories. Trey are men who hnow If
the pledges Of the democaa.ie D. "
ia put a separate eoacn provision in.
to the constitution, and .sev rive The
advice they have given with full
knowledge Of the conditions here, and
Of the conditions in Washington. Two
dEge1ent persons who have tss:el
With the president, and in vi e,n-
versations with the president the Jim
Crow provisions were discussed, lave
written the delegates that if the Jim
Crow provision is put into the consti-
tuition, it viii defeat statehood. The
win not quote what the president
said, stating that they are nat at lib-
erty ta do SO, but that the impression
they received from the presider 8
conversation was that the putting Of
the provision into the constitution
would defeat statehood. Now, per-
sonalIy, 7 am now and shall be ready
at all times to d " my people de-
sire me to do; and uriess ! have an
expression from the people Of my
district, I shall, when the time comes.
carry out what ] believe to be their
desire. which is, to write the provision
into the constitution; but very much
fear that BY doing 80 we shall de-
feat the constitution from being ap-
proved by the president. It IS ny
opinion that the securing Of statehood
is far more important than securing
Of the separate coach provision be
cause without statehood we cannot ge'
separate coaches; but with statehood
we can and will, within six months
secure the separate coaches by al
enactment Of the legislature. It hai
been reported by one Of the news
papers Of this city that I .v0te'
against the proposition which pre-
vents the marriage Of negroes an
whites. This statement is incorrect
voted for the proposition, but on tn
fioor Of the convention, when thi
proposition was under consideration
/ made short talk in which ! tol
the delegates that feared very muc
the convention was making mistake
that this proposition should b. d
layed in its passage until the pvop
81 the territories knew the conditio'