The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-17
Has Grabbed Everything and Even Takes Liquor Away From Be- aishted White. Who Patroni.s
 Him.

New York Times Washington Special.
 Some fairly reliable reports have f1n- ally reached Washington from Okla homa,s Constitutional Convention, and they chiefly illustrate a new quality in the haracter of To. the Poor Indian" More interesting even than the expected color-line legislation, temperance leg islation, and the effort to restrict cor porations. Is the fashion in which L. F. l.. has put it all over the white brother in the game of politics.
 To Indian Territory was allotted fifty
 five delegates in this Constitutional Convention, to Oklahoma fifty-five dele- gates, and to tho osage Nation two del- egates. The whites of Oklahoma were settlers who had been educated from their youth up in primaries and nom mating conventions, and territorial elections had kept them in training, while To had none of these advantages. It. therefore. was natural that the Ok lahoma delegates should have begun to caucus weeks before the convention- planning the distribution of the offices, committees. and the good things gener- ally that are passed around in Con- stitutionai Conventions as we'll as Leg islatures. They gathered in Oklahoma City and glibly discussed tLe task of organizing" the untutored red man for his good and their profit.
 Shock to the Whites.
 The untutored Red Man was a shock when he arrived, for he had been edu- cated at Harvard, Princeton, Cornell. Michigan, or Chicar1, nd he wore taiI- or-made clothes and smart linen and the latest thing in scarfs that had reached St. Louis. For the Indiana" of the Territory are ich beyond average avarice. because paternal government has protected them in their property until 1t has reached boom values. The Farmers" as the Oklahoma delegates called them. were heads of banks. Di- rectors of railroads, promoters of gas anl electric companies, and owners of farm mortgages. The numbered In- dian had put Forward his blst man.
 Oklahoma, on the other hand. select. Ing delegates according to the best traditions of American politics, had picked chin .whiskers for honesty, windy little lawyers for oratory, and a few bar-tenders here and there to lead in such manipulation as might be necessary.
 The two neutral delegates from the Osage Nation looked over the two crowds and threw their deciding votes with their fellow-Tndians. Some of the Oklahoma delegates liked the company in which they found them selves so little, or were sc upset at being overlooked in the planned dis tribution of the pie that they sided with the enemy.
 The White Brother had planned to give Indian Territory few janitor- ships That Is precisely what he got The untutored Red Man hogged the whole blsiness--presiding officer, clerk, sergeant ct arms, and the chairman- ships of all the important committees.
 seised the LegisIature
 But the end was not yet The Con- stitutional Convention was to cut up the new State into counties. The Ok lahoma delegates had made some plans about that. But they sat aghast and To carve up Indian Territory to give him the greater number of and consequently a majority of the Legislature, and then turn about and rearrange the counties of Oklaho- ma for his own purposes.
 The white man who represented Beaver County in Oklahoma roared and kicked most loudly over these things. Four towns In his County were contesting for the honor of being made the county seat. The politically ignorant Indian established Beaver County's seat on farm in the middle of the County and named it Buffalo, because, as one Indian gravely said, the only public improvement visible in this new metropolis was a buffalo wallow.
 Worst Yet to Come.
 Even then there was more and worse l