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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11

can distribute their tracts that tell o
the glories of the country life unit
the mails are clogged but pretty Ian
suage and vivid descriptions attraci
only the man or woman who IS tired
OF the streets, tired of the congestion
| of people and who want TO rest by
running brook to heal their tired
nerves. These do not make the coun
| trymen love their country more. The
/ newspapers can talk back TO the
farm" day after day, but the advice
will 70 undecided Attractions, con
venlences and companlonship must be
given to people who live on the farms
TO make farm life attractive sufficient
" to draw people TO the cultivation
of the soil.
In this connection the value Of good
roads must not be overlooked. The
township. the county the state and
the nation should cooperate together.
Millions of federal money Is spent ev-
cry year in developing the waterways
of the country and that sum should be
equally divided with the people who
live away from the navigable streams
and should be spent upon the roads.
When the gasoline or electric passeng-
er car can make twenty miles an hour
over the country roads In all kinds OF
weather, when the farmer who lives
ten miles from town Is removed only
thirty minutes It means a charm 10
country life that the country must have
before 1t comes into It's own as
place for homes for culture and for
pleasure.
The good roads movement must
necessarily go forward at slow pace
for the reason that vast sums of mon
ey are required to do the work neces-
sary, but It is different with the system
OF telephones. A network of tele-
phones can be put in at comparative
~ small sum and demand upon the
part of the farmer, a willingness to
patroni2e the lines will produce the
man with the means to install the
phones. In many localities the farmers
themselves organize their own com
pany, operate their phones and use
them at exact cost.
Carter county has some rural tele-
phone lines but It ought to have more.
Every county in Southern Oklahoma
ought to have more rural telephones.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
WELCOME w. c. T. US.

The Ardmoreite joins with the peo-
pie OF Ardmore In extending a cordial
welcome to the good women of the
state who are in the city as delegates
Temperance Union. In their great
work in the interest Of temperance, in
carrying out to its fullest extent the
teachings Of Frances Willard, these
women have our heartiest sympathy
reform. lntemperance construed in
It's broadest sense or or in its narrow
intemperance Is a national evil, and
the women who are In session in this
city have vast field OF educational
work lying before them. 1t is a field
that must be conquered by persistent
work, by continuous education and
the schools and colleges, the Sunday
school and church, and the allied so
cleties OF the church are important
factors in aiding the Womens Chris
tian Temperance Union.
People may differ on the best meth
DDS of promoting temperance but all
agree that temperance in that one
word holds a sacred meaning for the
elevation of the young and the saliva
ton OF the old.
The Ardmoreite trusts that the dele
gates to the convention will be so
pleasantly surrounded during their
stay in Ardmore that they shall depart
with the kindest feelings toward our
hospltable city and they will ever re-
member their visit here.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
FIGHT WACED ON STANDPAT NOMINEES
NO ACTIVE INSURGENCY IN THIS YEAR

machine and in the conduct of the
campaign.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11

became enamored with one Charlie
Susie Massle, about the color of a
chocolate drop and whose facial fea-
lures would indicate that she was
OF African extraction, but who woulC
overlook any little thing like that in
order to become the bride of a scion
of the flowery kingdom. However,
they struck snag yesterday when
they applied for a license from the
county judge. They sailed into the
office wreathed in smiles in antici-
patton of the happy event, but in
about a minute the gloom that sur
rounded them could be cut with a
knife.
There is law in this country
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
ThE RURAL TELEPHONE.

That which has contributed chiefly
toward retarding the development OF
the rural districts OF America has
been the hegira from the farm to the
city.
That which will contribute 10 hold
the people upon the farm and keep
them out of the consested centers OF
population will solve the country life
problem.
The solution then is a most import
ant matter for country life association
to contemplate.
In arriving at the solution, the ans
wer to the first question asked, points
cat the cause Why would peop,o rath-
er life in towns and why do they leave
The country at every opportunity pre-
sented?
The only answer TO this question is
there are more conyeuionces in the
town, there are more things TO amuse
and TO please, there are more people
TO come in contact with, to rub up
against in social and business way
and as a consequence there are great
el opportunities for intellectual ad-
yancement in the towns.
Reverse the conditions and the peO-
pie will flock TO the country as they
nave to the towns. Make the condi-
tions equal ana you put country life
and town life upon an equality and
the population will be fairly distrlbut-
ed
The results sought to harmonic the
attractions is to furnish easy and
prompt communication. There are
TWO great forces to produce this re-
suit. The rural telephone and the
gooe road.
When every farm house has its tele-
phone, when every boy and girl can
communicate at moments notice
with any other boy or girl in the coun-
try. when the family physician can be
consulted. when emergencies arise the
Heighbors can be informed, when the
preacher and the teacher can be seen
any time of day or night over the tel
ephone 4 most important hindrance 10
rural Development will have been re-
moved.
The colorei leaves OF the forest IN
the autumn, the green meadows, the
ripping brooks. lose all their beauty
10 the stout heart OF the man or wom- /
an who loves better the companionship
IF others OF their kind rather than the
OF the fields and the chatter
# the birds. Country life associations
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
Eiuht on at Poteau.

Gilbert Dukes of Talihlna, republi-
can nominee for lieutenant governor,
Is a reactionary. He formerly was
governor of the Choctaw nation, and
Is said to have been a democrat. He
is a machine candidate and was put
into the race for the purpose OF de-
ceiving the Indian voters of the Choc-
taw nation. His influence has aided
William Harrison, postmaster at Po-
;eau, to hold his job against the in
surgent opposition and to suit the will
of State Chairman Harris. A hot fight
is brewing at Poteau with Martin Bas-
well, assistant postmaster, progress
sive as the leader of the new host T.
w. Dolberry, editor of the Poteau
Sun, was also secretary of the LeFlore
county republican central committee,
is one Of the leading reactionaries of
the eastern side of the state, and Is
lined up with Congressman Creager,
and Chairman Harris in support OF
Harrison. Baswell it is said expects
to resign his position between this
date and the first OF the year, and
wage an active campaign against the
Harrison machine for the appoint
ment.
Numerous postoffice fights are en-
bryo over the eastern half of the state.
The insurgents go on the theory that
to win the state by piecemeal, and
these little battles will call Mr.. Roose-
yelt's attention to the fact that while
they are in a state that is dominated
by standpat chairman, they are not
sleeping even though they are not IN
position to get out and openly oppose
the republican ticket.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
(By Andrew II. Whitmore.) }

Tulsa, Okla, Oct. 10.-There will be
no active insurgent movement in Okla
homa this year. This state will sus.
tain its reputation of being in the re-
dictionary column. This does not sig
Nifty however, that the republican
stanpdat nominees for congress will
be elected. In the third congressional
district there is the same character
and practically the same quantity of
of feeling against machine dictation
and standpat politics as exists in the
Second district. Creager has as little
show as Morgan, TO be elected
Oklahoma insurgents are free to
talk-as free as they are to thiuk--
but they wont make any noise about
their acting. Seven republicans out
of ten in Eastern Oklahoma are at
heart against State Chairman Harris.
They recall the dilemma of 1907 when
Frank Frant2, their nominee for gov.
ernor, asked to be elected that he
might enforce the provisions OF the
constitution he hadn't read Blindly,
1t seems a minority of the party fol-
lowed the scheme outlined by Char
ley Hunter to oppose the constitution,
and their only hope of making a show
ing was in committing their platform
TO amendments to the constitution so
that it would suit their desire. No
amendments have ever been propos-
ed and even the minority of 1907, IN
the face of the progressive spirit OF
the times, are not willing as body
to 90 into certain ignominy of another
campaign as that of three years ago.
1t is practically certain that large
majority OF the democrats of Oklaho.
ma approve on the whole the Haskell
administration. Here and there ap-
pears man who doesn't like Has
kell personally or disapproves of some
minor act of his administration, but
almost invariably he Is willing to ad-
nit that a governor is human, and that
from the mountains of difficulties the
first governor of the new state enter
ed, must flow some putrid streams.
The percentage of democrats that will
vote against Lee Cruce because of the
policies of the Haskell administration
is so small as to be insignificant. On
the other hand the percentage OF re-
publicans who hold the progressive +.
Ideas OF the Oklahoma democrats is T.
large. This sentiment is
iue largely TO machine politics and the .
character Of the republican candidate. .
Machine politics made a platform be
'ore the candidate was nominated and
politics forced the nominee
10 desert his eminence of independ-
'ncc and submit to dictation by the
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that the agricultural schools
viii be fostered, that corporations
will be kept within the bounds OF
'eaSon and that their girls and boys
Will not sit on the same seats and
'ecite In the same classes with the
ions of Africa as they did under re- ,
publican control, and that is salts
action enough for any mortal man.
: IS work that is deserving o. ,
no hes; thought. the best energy. ,
nd the choice firs. page position I
n every democratic paper In the I
tate OF Oklahoma. {
And that much service is being !
iven cheerfully by the democratic I
ress OF the state. '
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
VIII Wonders Never Cease!

We know n minister in Rutherford.
Tenn, who had indigestion and other
stomach complaints for over sixty
needless to say that no parishioner
could tell him of ''cure" that he didn't
try. In this way a lot of money went
out but no health came in. Finally
ne did get a hint that was genuine. \
friend told him his own experience
with DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. He
thought he would try once again. He
did, and this time was cured though
he had the trouble for sixty years. II
Is wonderful cure for all stomach.
liver and bowel complaints. Price SO
cents and 81 at all drug stores.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
A DREAMING EDITOR.

The biggest joke of the whole
campaign this fall has been the
wonderful discovery of that man
Benedict of the Oklahoma City Times
Of the one hundred thousand dollars
which have been thrown into the
laps OF few of the democratic pa
pers of the state.
Wonder if anybody ever took Ben
edict seriously, anyway?
Wonder If anybody is dull enough
not to see through his plans?
It's simple enough SO simple that
Benedict ought to take a vacation
during the campaign and turn his
editorial column over to some other
genius who could manufacture some
scare stuff that the people might be
led to take seriously.
Who ever heard of a democratic
campaign committee paying all it's
Indebtedness, much less have money
by the thousands TO give out to Il
favored few
But We were about to forget that
willy EDITORS object. But, really. 1t is
too silly to mention. He hopes TO
accomplish this one thing-arouse the
prejudice of the smaller democratic
papers OF the state against the lar
ger papers, get them out of harmony
with their party, get them to let up
singing McNeal in every issue, and
lead thow to think they have been
neglected.
Will Benedict succeed?
II that editor would just turn
away from his political prejudice
three inmates he could tell the people
of persons he knows who do not de
sire even to do the legitimate print
ing of the campaign committee for
fear in the windup the committee will
not have sufficient funds to pay their
printing bills. The chief expense Of
NdHAlHA0u - ~ SSN pilhNtu hdNNt4
and mail ii out. The hired help must
have its pay each week or the stem
ographers leave their desks: Uncle
Sam se;s his money for stamps strict
ly IN advance and all the credit that
is extended is done by the printer.
Necessarily he holds the bag If there
is any TO be held, and there always is.
No. our friend Benedict will not
make fools o. the democratic editors
of the state.
These democratic newspaper men
are ;he most faithful party workers
in the state. They contribute their .
time, their space and the prestige OF I.
their papers TO the campaign With I
ont one cent OF remuneration and /
only too often 10 is the case that |
democratic newspaper men take the .
lead in committee work and do the
real work OF the campaign. The
irldgery OF the campaign is the
work OF the members of the diner.
ant county central committees and
n every county there are democrat
C newspaper men devoting their ener.
,ies TO the drudgery work.
When the campaign Is finished
hey will not have a full purse, but
hey will have the satisfaction OF
that state government is
till held close to the people. That
be guaranty bank law will still be
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
NO WEDDING BELLS
FOR THIS ''CH|yK''
JUDGE MASON REFUSED TO
GRANT LICENSE FOR CHINA
MAN AND NEGRESS.

The wedding of the Chinee and
the Coon" didn't take place in Ard,
more yesterday, scarcely, and 1t all
came about through the flinty heart
of Judge Mason. 1t seems that one
Sam Wah, a celestial of almond hue,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11

against the marriage of negro to
white person, and as the Chinese are
considered white, there were no wed.
ding bells tolling in Chinatown last
night
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
CLEANING, DYEING AND
PRESSING.
EDUCATIONAL.

STUDY STUDY STUDY
Your spare time. The /. c. =. will raise your
salary. Salaries raised last year. 3 600. amount.
ing to go 600 ,0oO. Teaches 2s different courses
For International. H.L.Holbrook. A rdmore
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-11
Charley Hunters Error.

Charley Hunters Error.
Frank Frantz and Charley Hunter
We're both rough riders therefore
friends of Roosevelt, the progressive
leader. They erred three years ago
just as their chief erred in condemn
ing many things, in the Oklahoma
constitution which he now approves.
Roosevelt was In a position to speak
this new sentiment but Frantz and
Hunter are not thus to do. The only
course for them to pursue Is that of
the Snail and the Flea. A new regime
has supplanted them and they and
their followers and those who believed
with them must find consolation in
the fact that the tendency at the
time is toward progressiveism in Okla
homa, and that through the instrument
tality Of the democratic party.
CANDIDATE a Postmaster.
Progressiveism means cutting
loose from worn out ideals and theories
and giving up place and position If
need be to the furthering of the new
cause. An example of standpatism
Is found in the situation at Wewoka.
Donald r. Fraser, republican nominee
for secretary of state is postmaster
at Wewoka, and Is making his cam.
paign at the expense of time he is
supposed to devote to his office. More
than that he Is half owner Of repub
lican paper the Seminole Capital,
which Is edited and partly managed by
his daughter. He used to be United
States commissioner but lost the place
after statehood His partner in the |
business is Walter Fergu- /
son who is also superintendent of the |
Emalaka Mission, q United States !
school, and the republican nominee !
for representative in the legislature. |
Each man holds an appointive job un-
der the Taft administration, and each .
Is seeking the state job at the expense |
Of the time assigned him by the gov
ernment to this office. Fraser is
reactlonary of the deep-water variety.
He is a personal friend of Joe Cannon
Df Illinois and stands for every princi-
pal OF the Aldrich-Payne tariff law,
or the retention of Ballinger and the
Ultimate elimination OF Theodore
Roosevelt from politics and the public
mind.
Mixed Government School.
In the school where Ferguson pre-
ides, negroes, Indians and whites are
reated as social equals. There is no
eparation of the races. What Okla
,oman's term a Jim Crow law IS ap-
'roved generally by Oklahoma people .
without regard to political belief. The
iea Is spreading over the country and
vii probably be adapted by the pro-
ressive leaders II is therefore shock
ng that a national administration ,
hould permit the mixing Of the races
\ government schools where bright
.merican boys and girls are seeking =
D climb the respectability to positions
honor In white society. r
have heard OF white and negro
hildren in 4 government school IN
klahoms playing the game of post. =
flee" during the game each child is
ken into dark room where che post $
Iaster administers q loving kiss. ac- !
by a fond embrace. have =
card OF white girl as postmaster .
eing forced to kiss mulatto boy who
as ushered into her presence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-15
WAS BANDIT HIS SON?
AGED MILLIONAIRE SEEKS TO
ESTABLISH IDENTITY.
Sends Agent to Investigate Case of
Slain Oklahoma Bank
Robber.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
GUTHRIE, Okla, May 14-Was Frank
Carpenter, killed by officers in the at
tempted bank robbery at Harrah, the
night of December 81 last, the son Of a
Boston millionaire and veteran of the
Spanisf-American war, with pension
fund coming to him? Some years ago, just
after the war, a Frank Carpenter dis
appeared from his home in Boston and
ever since his father. wealthy and aged,
has attempted to lo.ate him.
The bank robbers were surprised at
Harrah by a posse of federal officers I'M
der United States Marshal Alternately.
Having read of the attempted bank rob-
berry at Harrah, and seeing that man
with the name of his son was one OF
the victims. the aged man sent to OKLA
homa a representative, John Snow, from
Boston, to endeavor to find if the dead
man and his son are one and the same.
Snow brought with him picture OF the
Boston Carpenter, and has shown il to
several people who knew the Okla homa
Carpenter, but ell seem to be of the
opinion that they are not the same. Snow,
however. will not end his examination
yet. as he is not fully satisfied and will
leave no stone unturned to establish the
identity if possible.
The Carpenter who was killed was we'll
known to the police of Oklahoma. hav-
ing been accused of various crimes be-
fore the one in which he met his DEATH
In March a year ago he was charged
with having held up and robbed pas
sengers on several street cars on the
outskirts of Oklahoma City.
Ii is said that Carpenter is the one who
tipped the officers off to the Harrah rob-
berry and that he was to fall when the
shooting took place. He was shot, how
ever. were two of his confederates, one
being killed instantly and the other now
serving a term in the Oklahoma county
Jail Carpenter was brought to Oklahoma
City after the fight and placed in the hos
ptal. where he died the next day, telling
his wife that lie was innocent this time
of any wrongdoing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-15
Mr.. Warmers Tribute.

Mr.. Warner added his praise of Mr..
Willard. His chief characteristics"
said Mr.. Warner, were courage, perse
verance and energy. He came Of good
Vermont stock and was justly proud of
it. When he first came to Washington
I'm 1S43 the city was little developed. He
saw it's growth and aided in it during his
long residence here. He was a member
of many organizations and may be called
and the more progressive party. typified
by Gov. Shepherd. which put into execu-
ton many of the improvements which
were needed here"
Mr.. Warner spoke Of the hospitality of
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard and said that
theirs had been a perfect home.
Mr.. Willard was always thorough in
his work. continued Mr.. Warner, "He
erected number of buildings here.
among the most prominent being the
kellogg building, on T. street between 14th
and 18th streets. and the Willard build
ing on 14th street, which is now occupied
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor. He was a good citizen and
type of the best American
William r. Bryan, member of the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants, read a
paper telling in part the history of MIR.
Wizards eventful life and describing
Washington in the sos and COS. Mr..
Bryan described Mr.. Wizards early life
on farm in Vermont and his first steps
in business. He told of Mr.. Wizards
going to Troy, N. Y. and becoming a
steward on one Of the steamers plying
between New York and Troy.
1t was while he occupied that position
that he made the acquaintance Of Miss
Phoebe Warren Of Troy, who was en-
gagged to marry Benjamin Ogle Tayioe
Of Washington. Miss Warren was much
impressed with the ability Of Mr.. Will
lard and recommended him to Mr.. Tayloe
when the latter was seeking a competent
man to take charge of the City Hotel in
Washington, which Mr.. Tayloe owned at
that time. This gave Mr.. Willard his
opening in Washington. He came here
soon afterward and leased the hotel. He
took his older brother, Edwin c. Willard.
into the management of the hotel with
him. So successful was Mr.. Willard
that after a few years he was able to buy
the hotel property. which was located
where the New Willard now stands. At
the end of fourteen years Mr.. Willard
gave up the hotel business and sold out
his interest in the hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-15
HYBRID CREATURE KILLED.
Animal Resembling Lion, Hyena and
Wolf Terrorizes Community.
SpeeIal Dispateh 10 the star.

Special Dispatch TO the Star.
CHURCH POINT. la. May 1I-Bear-
ing the combined characteristics of lion,
hyena wolf and coyote. strange ami
NAL that had terrorized q wide section for
two months. killing and devouring dogs
and live stock. and attacking pedestrians
at night, was slain near here today by a
farmer whose mule colt. just born. had
been killed and partly eaten by the hy-
brid creature.
The animal has a heavy name of taw-
ny hair reaching half way of it's five
foot body, while the hind quarters are
set four inches lower than the front legs
A bristle growth ridges the back and a
large and ferocious mouth. with huge
teeth and tusks, makes the species a
mystery.
The skin will be prepared by a taxider-
mist and sent TO Theodore Roosevelt
when he lands in New York,