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Manchester Democrat., 1910-11-02

Delivers associates can truly say,
that his ship went down when ca
ger winds were kissing every SAIL"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
STATE COMMITTEE
WIRES CROSSE[
Through misunderstanding Vnita
Deprived of Opportunity to Hear
Senator Owen Speak.

The wires of the democratic stat
committee were crossed yesterday an
as a result Vinita people have bee
deprived of the opportunity of hearil
the speaker that they most desired
hear-Senator Robert L. Owen.
Yesterday the state committee tel
phoned Mr.. Owen to come to this ci.
to make an address. Mr.. Owen can
but found to his surprise that on Oh
in Vinita knew of his coming and col
sequently there was no audience
hear him. By some mistake the loa
democratic committee was not notifs
of Senator Owens coming, and b
fact was not heralded. The. senats
spent the evening at the democrat.
headquarters and returned to Musk.
gee last night.
Senator Owen is probably as wa
posted on the political situation as al
man in the state and he expressed q
belief that the democrats would ma
a clean sweep in both the state al
congressional elections.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The investment of more than $780,
900 900 in oil properties in Oklahoma
by foreign syndicates and the Stand
ard Oil company during the past
three years is the strongest and the
most emphatic answer to the howl
of the republican subsidized press
that capital has been driven away by
the policies and the legislation Of the
democratic party Capital is not senti-
mental. men do not invest millions Of
dollars and then add other millions
to them in fields where they know that
the laws impede the just return on the
outlay. Men do not come all the way
from London and Amsterdam to be
ruined in Oklahoma. The prosperity
and the progress of every county in
the oil producing section of the state
and the rapid growth in population and
taxable wealth since statehood is am
ple and convincing evidence that the
capitalists know that they are going
to get a square deal here and that
they have been getting a square deal
since democracy redeemed the state
from foreign government at Washing
ton and the grating official family in
Oklahoma.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
CLAUSE IS
ARGUED IN FEDERAL COURT

voting for members of congress h..
to state, county and municipal o@
GERS as well.
w. A. Ledbetter, attorney for n.
state, offered a demurrer, which w.s
overruled on the ground that Finoh
the election inspector, has resignos
since action was instituted and ~.
therefore an injunction could mot Il.
against him. The court held that .,
injunction would apply to all election
officers of the state. In his petitior
the negro charges that the law makA.
"a discrimination between the races
against the provisions of the Fifteentb
amendment. He was forbidden reyis
tration by Finch, he asserts, because bo
could not read or write.
The grandfather clause amendment
was adopted by majority of 25OOO
August 2, and no attempt to enforce g
has been necessary in the state. save
in few municipal elections. The Al
ling of the suit was so timed that should
an injunction be granted, the law can.
not be enforced at the general elec.
ton November 8. The court may give
decision tomorrow.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT
STATE RIGHTS.

OF the fine innovations proposed in
the New Nationalism," the one that
has so far seemed to provoke the most
opposition in Colonel Roosevelts own
party is the setting up of new stand
ard for the courts. But opposition to
the proposal of still more centraliza-
ton, of more power for the Washing
ton establishment and less for the
state establishments, also instantly
showed itself among republicans; and
democrats, of course, found there the
most direct challenge to them. There
are. of course. two ways of meeting
it, One is the merely argumentative
way. The other is the practical way.
Both from the constitution and from
broad considerations of expedieney,
one can draw strong reasons against
the proposal. The states having come
into the union on terms set forth in
carefully framed written document,
it is not idle to say that they have
rights under that instrument which
cannot with justice be taken away
from them unless the instrument is
amended Equally strong is the con-
sideration of the value of the prin-
ciple of home rule, of local self-govern-
ment-and the practice also. 1t is
best for different communities to at
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The proposed constitutional amend
ment, providing that the school taxes
levied on public utility corporations
shall be distributed equally among the
counties of the state is shown up in
it's true colors by the Tulsa World.
We confess we had not realized the
enormity of the proposition. 1t is act
ually based on the exploded principle
that the interest of one is the concern
of all. 1t is an audacious and shame
less attempt to make the strong bear
the burdens of the weak. Why, asks
our contemporary, should a county
with hundreds of miles of railway con-
tribute to the schools of county,
which has practically none? Why in
deed Every man who believes that
the motto of Oklahoma should be:
Every county for itself and the devil
of ignorance take the hindmost," {"
should certainly vote against the
amendment. rro- rf.f ..fdf
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

tend themselves to affairs which be-
long to them severally, to care for
their own interests. make their own
laws. But II is doubtful il mere rea-
soning. no matter how sound, is the
best way to oppose the tendency to
over-centralization The more prac-
tical way to preserve for the states
their rightful powers is to see that
those powers are actually exercised,
and wisely. When all the states take
up vigorously and sensibly the work
of conservation-as some of them have
in fact. begun to do-the likelihood of
the nations monopolizing that sort of
activity will diminish. When they
control properly the corporations they
charter, so far as their present legal
authority goes, We shall hear much
less of the necessity of the nations
taking complete control. and so in
other fields This, we take it, is sub
stantially the response which Wood
row Wilson would make, or would
have New Jersey make. to the Roose-
welt contention; and we trust demo-
Gratis in other states will follow his
ad.-Harper Weekly.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The late Robert G. Ingersoll gave
the following tribute to tobacco at a
banquet some years ago:
"These leaves make friends and eel
ebrate with gentle rites the VOWS of
peace. They have given consolation
to the world. They are the companions
of the lonely, the friends of the i'm
prisoned, of the exile, of workers in
mines. of fellers of forests, of sailors
on the deep seas. They are the givers
of strength and calm to the vexed and
wearied minds of those who build
with thought and brain the temples of
the soul. They tell of hope and rest.
They smooth the wrinRled brows of
care; drive fear and strange, miss
hapena breads from out the mind, and
fll the heart with rest and peace
Within their magic warp and woof
some potent, gracious spell imprisoned
lies, that, when released by fire, doth
softly steal within the fortress of the
brain and bind in sleep the captured
sentinels of care and grief. These
leaves are the friends of the fireside,
and their smoke-like incense rises
from myriads of happy homes Cuba
is the smile of the sea"
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
NorIcE OF SALE OF Real estate RY ADMINISTRATOR

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN pursuance
County Court of the County Oklahoma
3s day of October 1910 the
the undersigned the administrator
been appointed administrator
zeno Administrative will sell public highest
subject confirmation Monday the
November, 1910 o'clock
the Town of Pryor Creek Oklahoma
title interest and of the said deceased at
DEATH and all the right title estate
ton of law or otherwise acquired pieces
parcels of land situate lying Counties
and State described as follows
the following terms and conditions towit: For cash
The North West Quarter of the
Quarter OF Section Township 5 North Coz
Oklahoma.
An undivided onehaf Half of the North
ter of the North East East Quarter of
Range IS East the Quarter of the North East
the South West Quarter Township "a North and
East containing 40 County
Lot number in Block in the Spavinaw Mayes CD
Oklahoma.
Lot No and Lot Block No TO- in the CITY of vipia
County, Oklahoma.
Part Of Lot in Block in the spavnaw Mayes County,
homa. and more particularly as follows:
Beginning at the South West Block thence I
along the line between Lots North along
line 70 feet thence Westerly point West Block line 10
OF the South West corner of Lot thence
to the place beginning
The North Half in Block No in bo Town Of spaN
Mayes County Oklahoma +
An undivided onehaf interest number in Block num
the West Addition in the Town Spavinaw
The East Half of the the South East R
OF Section 3d. Township % North East containing
more or less in Mayes County Oklahoma.
Dated this 3lst October 1910
SEYMOUR RIDDLE, n ruoMPD
Attorney. Admin u
vinita Oklahoma.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The Chicago chief of police an
nounces that he is no respecter of per-
sons. The girl garment workers who
are on strike in that city have been
able to command the sympathy and
help of many women of culture and
high social position. Some of these
have not baked at becoming strike
pickets and thus putting themselves
in the way of assault and arrest. 1t
was thought at first that the police
would discriminate between real strik-
ers and society sympathizers, throwing
the former into jail and releasing the
latter on presentation of calling cards.
But the chief says, Nothing doing
when the calling cards come out We
are heartily glad of it. At last we
have concrete and definite proof of
real social equality in America. Glass
distinction may be considered practi-
cally abolished, now that a society
woman can't help girls who are strik-
ing against starvation wages, without
running the risk of being beaten and
arrested just as if she were poor. But
let us hope that some of the society
women will have enough of the
martyr spirit to take the clubbing.
Such an occurrence would be good
copy" for the newspapers, and it
might result in the kindling of public
indignation against the brutality with
which the police of our large cities
treat girls and women when they are
out on strike
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The grandfather clause is a part of
the Oklahoma constitution and until
reversed by court of competent juris-
diction is part of the supreme law of
the land. 1t is therefore the duty of
all good citizens to assist in it's en-
forcement. Democrats are no more
honor bound than are republicans to
stand by the laws of the land. To ad-
wise negroes to resist the law is a
species of incendiarism that should be
punishable as a crime.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Oklahoma City, Okla, Nov. line
application of Daniel Sims, an ex-slaYe
of Guthrie, for an order of the United
States circuit court restraining +. H.
Finch. a precinct election inspector,
from enforcing the provisions OF the
recently adopted grandfather claus"
amendment to the constitution, dis
franchising uneducated negro voters,
was taken up here Monday before
Walter A. Sanborn of st. Paul, United
States circuit Judge, with whom Judge
John A. Cotteral of the western dis
trict of Oklahoma and Judge Ralph
Campbell of the eastern district are
sitting jointly. The day was spent in
arguments by John Devereaux OF
Guthrie, counsel for the negro, and At
torney General West, who was pres
ent for the state.
Attorney General West filed a bill OF
exception. In it he contended the
court is without jurisdiction to hear
the case; that the allegations do not
show that the complainant was being
denied the right to vote on account of
race, color or previous condition OF
Iservitude; that the inhibition contained
in the Fifteenth amendment against
the denial of abridgement of the right
of citizens of the United States to vote
on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude, by the amend
ment is made to apply only to the right
to vote which citizens of the United
States have by virtue of such citizen
ship-that is, the right derived from
the United States, and that the inhibi.
ton herein contained does not apply
to the right to vote conferred by the
state; that the right to vote derived
from the United States is the right to
vote only for members of congress;
that the bill seeks relief not only as to
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Jim Harris, dictator, dispenser of
federal patronage, TO whom all who
would eat from the counter. must bow,
is recognized as the one man who may
be expected to save the guard in Okla
homa from joining the democratic
party.
Harris, ably seconded by Jake
Hamon, has thrown himself into the
breach and is fighting with all his
past experience and with every poll
tical vile known to the boss, in an eff
fort to save at least one congressman
to the republicans. Harris recognizes
as do others that his term as dictator
of republican affairs in Oklahoma will
end if he fails to pull Bird Mcclure
and Creager through. However should
it come to a show down, Creager will
be thrown overheard and all assist
ance given Mcclure.
Republican leaders recognize that it
is an impossibility to elect any state
officers in November, and the fight is
now to be made so the leaders can
retain recognition at Washington. and
not because they think the republi-
can candidates have show to win.
This conditions of affairs, naturally,
is not conductive to harmony among
the big men of the party, each of
whom would have the federal admins
tration believe, he was the particular
star in the eyes of republican Okla
homa
This condition also means a return
to disorganization among republicans,
similar to that Immediately after they
were thrown out of office following the
admittance of statehood. That was a
severe shock to them, and another
shock is on its way.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
of life

What is done with the prohibition
amendment to the state constitution
is of little consequence to the Chief
tain personally, but the present law is
so ineffective that our prediction is
that it cannot stand. The bootleggers
have Oklahoma by the throat and are
wringing the life-blood out of it county
by county. 1t is becoming a matter of
cold business and is costing more
than the business interests of the state
can stand The proposed amendment
may be defective, but the time will
surely come when we will be forced
to enact some sensible Legislation along
this line.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

In nearly every speech in the state
McNeal has condemned the Oklahoma
system of education and 10000 young
men and women of the state would feel
the i'll results of his handiwork were
he elected governor and carried out
his campaign promises. Every large
expenditure for educational progress
since statehood has been condemned
by McNeal and were he governor some
of the state schools would have to
go Would he take the east central
state normal? they ask at Ada. Would
the southeastern state normal be
abolished? they inquire at Durant,
VIII we lose our school? they asked
McNeal at TahIequah What about the
central state normal? they demand at
Edmond. What schools could you
abolish? everybody asks of McNeal,
and he hasn't answered yet
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
WHY OKLAHOMA is DEMOCRATIC

Oklahoma, always democratic, prom
ises to give democracy a majority in
the coming November elections, which
will mark an epoch in the history of
the two great parties, and will for
years to come, place ethe republican
party in the minority and its permin-
ent politicians in the federal office
seeking class.
insurgency, ingrafted into the G. O..
p, during the past four years; while
the party stalwarts have been "shoed"
from the political pie counter in the
new state; has come to head with a
revolt of the old guard, on the part
of Flynn, Cade, Dillon, Ewing, Gillett,
.Sisson and many other old time west
side politicians of prominence and
such big republican guns as Raymond,
Perry, Clayton, Wells and others on
the east side of the state.
This revolt has had an echo in ma
tional affairs and the echo is growing
to such an extent that republican gen
erals" of the state are spending sleep
less nights in an effort to determine
what is best to say to those higher
up" when the poor showing of the
party in Oklahoma is made public af-
ter November Sth.
One cause of the activity of the in
surgent movement in the state is that
the voters face a peculiar condition.
Previous to statehood, the republi-
can party, through federal patronage,
was in a position to mould public
sentiments, which should have insured
a complete republican victory in the
first state election.
How signally the party failed of its
aim, the result of four years ago,
shows.
And yet, the first administration of
democracy in Oklahoma could be con-
strued as a try out for the party; K
could have been a feeler in fact; just
to see what democracy could do at
the helm of state government. Grant
ing that such might be the case, dem
ocracy made good in the first admins
tration, and democracy has made good
in other states of the Union.
Then some additional cause must
be assigned if one explains the ever
whelming majority promised democ-
racy in November.
Those who are supposed to know
declare that insurgency, abroad in the
land, stalking westward from Saga
more Hill, has swept down upon the
newest state and that republican, 9TH
er than those who seek and expec.
federal patronage, are deserving the
party ranks, because of Taft's jelly
fish administration and the alleged
crooked dealings with sugar and other
notable interests, recently before the
public eye.
Rumors of breaks between pronti-
nent members of the party in the
state; of dissatisfaction among the
stalwarts, and of scrambles over petty
federal jobs, are rife The party in
Oklahoma is torn and disorganized,
as it has never been in the history of
the state or territory.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Why does the wild cat whistle blow?
When an alarm of fire is sent in the
fire boys get move on them and gen.
orally get to the fire in time to put it
out, but the screeching of the whistle
doesn't help in the least. it only serves
to terrorize people and create need
less alarm In all large cities the wild
cat whistle is cut out as an absolute
hindrance to the work of the fire COM
pany.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Mr.. Creager wants the laboring men
of the Third district to understand he
voted against the bills introduced in
congress that were endorsed by the
laboring class, because they were in
troduced for political purposes" Now,
that should satisfy the most exacting
citizen. 1t is the usual stock answer
of a man in Mr.. Creager's position at
this time-a public official indicted by
the people of voting against their in
terests and in favor of system and
Cannonism.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Every man who is not entirely salts
fed with the high cost of living, which
has grown up under an uninterrupted
control of the republican party should
vote the democratic ticket. Unless the
next congress is democratic the coun-
try cannot hope for a reduction. If
the democrats control it is sure there
will be a downward revision that will
bring lower prices for the necessaries
of life
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Mr.. Creager voted raw silk should
come into the United States free of
duty, and that manufactured silk
should have duty of So per cent,
while a duty of 1856 per cent was laid
on wooden or woFsted clothes valued
at under 40 cents per pound. Ask Mr..
Creager to explain why he voted in
favor of silks and against the clothing
Of the poorer people?
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The reason the oil trust, the sugar
trust, the harvester trust and numer-
GUS other trusts are willing to eontri-
butte large sums to the campaign funds
of President Taft and republican con-
gressmen like c. e. Creager, and are
unwilling to contribute to democratic
camvaign funds is due to the fact that
the republican candidates can be de-
pended upon to permit the trusts to
continue collecting excessive toll from
the consumer in the United States 1t
is a matter of business investment
with them when they put in millions
of dollars each campaign to elect re-
publicans to Office
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04
Strike Conditions Improve.
By Associated Press.

Sedalia, Nov. lit was announc
today that some of the boilermake
and blacksmiths, who struck, in syl
pathy with the Missouri Pacific n
chinists on October 81, have return
to work. The officials of the compa.
said conditions now were better tn
at any time since the strike began
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The spirit manifested at the meet.
ing of the Commercial Club last night
is the kind that makes Yinitas future
SO rosy The spirit is contagious and
those who want encouragement will
get it by attending the club meetings.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Champ Clark is authority for the
statement that there will be so few re-
publicans in the next congress that
their caucuses can be held in an ele-
vator.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Like in all other things Vinita's re-
ception to the Sooners Thursday even
ing was the warmest given the uni
versity boys outside of their home
town.
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

Some of the lesser lights of journal
ism have consistently carried McNeals
picture and made use of the canned
editorials from headquarters. But
there has been no vitality, vim nor
vigor in the campaign that the near
metropolitan dailies have conducted.
The editor of the State Capital saw
a red cloth in the bull pen when the
campaign opened and in self-defense
he has been wildly dancing before the
populace ever since There is no mad
bull after him, but he seeks to have
the populace believe there is, and he
.smears his crude cries for help all
over his editorial page believing all
the time that the populace sees a bull.
There is no bull, and that the people
do not imagine they see a bull is prov
en- by the fact that the other republi-
can papers of Oklahoma, knowing the
reputation of the wild editor, have no
confidence in what he says and prefer
canned editorials rather than the pro-
duction of any of those from the State
Capital. The populaee saw this same
excited editor in the pen four years
ago and recall that he came back
three years ago. But his audiences
have dwindled appreciably and his
screeches, screams and squawks rever-
berate about three times against the
walls of the pen and the audience de-
parts as the last echo dies. The peo-
pie know that he is a fakir
The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-11-04

The stubbornness displayed by
Mayor Rider in refusing to discharge
city employees, whose efficiency was
even questioned, makes him utterly
unfit to attempt to dispense justice
from the district court bench.