The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-03-24
CANDIDATES DAY AT MADILL
STATE CAMPAIGN OPENED.

constitution when he knew II to be not
true.
lie said in part: Il want to tell
the people Of this county and the new
state a few things. | want to tell the
people that the constitution is the
grandest document ever written. The
plans of the republican party is to be.
litlo II In many respects. The ropub-
lican press bureau reports were al
ways false, and on every occasion
lied on all the members and on my
friend Haskell, and my friend Bob
Williams in particular. The conven-
tion was composed mostly of farmers
with about twenty four lawyers and
others of a different occupation in
the body. Some of the best blood
from very near every state in the I'm
ion was in that body.
1T came to pass that the merlbers
had to stay there without pay and do
their duty which they did and ven
ture to say that 1t cost each mem.
Der at least $500, individually, outside
Of his salary, 10 remain at his post of
duty. which they did. We were accus.
ed of wasting time. but we did not;
we had to protect the interests Of or
ganized Oklahoma and at the same
time protect the interests of the peo
pie of Indian Territory.
The speaker defended the conven-
tion in its work in every detail.
In speaking of the Jim Grow pro.
vision having been left out, he said:
Il was opposed to the Jim Crow pro.
vision and have always felt that 4.
would he unsafe and that II would
ljeopardize statehood to place such a
provision In the constitution. Every.
one of us favored it, even Haskell,
Hayes and others, but the rumor
heard from Washington, and the let
tors received from twenty or TWEEN
lty-five senators and congressman ad-
vising us not to put such a provision
| in the constitution as II would endan-
ger statehood we did not do it. II
we had put the Jim Grow provision
in the constitution, 1t would have
made the question a national one and
Roosevelt would not have signed the
instrument"
The speaker then defended the Pub
lie Service corporation provision, in
troduced by his friend and fellow
worker-Bob Williams-and stated
how the people had been robbed by
the railroads Of more than s5O000..
900. He spoke at some length on the
salient features of the new state and
what protection 1t afforded them and
their children.
lie paid his respects to the peerless
Democrat from Marietta, Clint Ora
ham, and stated that Mr.. Graham
had given the republican party stick
with which to break the heads of the
Democratic party in his speech on the
Jim Crow car proposition. He stated
that Graham favored the republicans
in that speech. The speaker was
about as bitter In his attack on the
Democracy OF Mr.. Graham as he was
on the press
While speaking on the subject of
Mr.. Graham he again referred to the
opinion expressed by the powers that
be in Washington and Mr. Bonaparte,
that part of the Enabling Act was put
in to act as a pitfall to keep the In
dian Territory from having statehood,
expecting the Democratic party to
put the Jim Grow car provision in the
constitution.
In speaking about the press of Ard
more, and especially tho Ardmoreite,
in accusing the Ardmoreite of being
unfair to the constitutional conven-
tion without stating when It was he
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