The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-25

bNlul ltt OhilsI W. - ny w.
sitting in republican state headquar
tcrs, State Chairman Jim Harris ant
Honest Election" Jake Hamon.
You were speaking the other day,
said Jake, about my staying with
you. Old pal, have concluded to
stay with you until the dispensary
goes dry or the Canadian river runs
red with negro blood in Seminole
county My reputation is that | never
desert a friend. OF course, you un-
derstand on the quiet, that | did have
to turn Gore down, but then he forced
me to do it by saying naughty things
about me. Yes, jim, I'll stay with
you"
"Hows everything at the election
board headquarters? asked Jim.
THAT fellow Seth Gordon watches
me like a hawk. He must think I'm
an awful mean man. lie wouldn't let
me have some sample ballots to look
at. I haven't been able to find that
anything crooked IL going on, but |
started something the other day and
got my name in the State Capital.
You know I've got to make good, Jim,
and we had as well start something
whether there's anything crooked or
not What do you think that guy Cor
don said to me? He said Jake, do
you expect to stand around here and
be an ornament to this board? Why
don't you get your coat off and pitch
in here and help ship out these bal
lots, jim. didn't come up here eX-
pecting to do any menial labor;
came to keep my eyes on the demo
cratic members of the board, doncher-
know, didn't give Gordon any cause
to order me about like | was a slave;
simply asked him when we drawed
our pay. and he insulted me by order
ing me to so to work.
What do you think about the stu
alton in Seminole county?"
The Negro Question.
"To hell with Seminole county, as
you said about Roosevelt; (and so
say u they've got us skinned to death
down there this year. You under
stand this, Jim, that the democrats
have every advantage in the world.
we are in a pretty mess-and while
some Of that Seminole county stuff
may sound like dope, We can't get
around the facts The negroes, armed
with guns and whisky, have already
begun an insurrectlon and first thing
Won know the decent white people OF
this stnte will rise up in their wrath
and smite every negrolover that bobs
up: Jim, don't you know they're la
BILE TO get Joe McNeal and Bird Nc
CURE about the first ones. Old Chap
pie McNeal, he fixed the thing fine for
us when he got into the bond-signing
business a while ago. They can best
us on that, but this negro business is
likely to ruin us forever. Jim, we're
in the wrong party this year. Lord,
how I wish, as Walter Ferguson says,
We could get our republicanism on
straight"
Whom do you think We had best
try 10 save?"
Jake Talks for Bird.
Bird Mcclure by all means" eX-
aulted Jake. Hes the truest friend
We have, and he stood by me nobly
in that congressional investigation.
What do we, you and me, care about
Creacer? We have been dictated TO
long enough in Oklahoma by the big
bosses Of Ohio, Illinois and New York.
That was all right In territorial days
when the big ones We're shipping car
loads of appointees into the territories
so that they could pay political obli'
cations and give the republicans
decent showing after statehood. You
know Joe Cannon shipped Charley
Creager into Indian Territory and got
him some sort OF clerkship In the
Indian agency and when the fight
started on Cannon he picked up Creag'
er and got him sent to congress that.
he might support the old duck and
help him hold his seat, Creager does
not amount 20 much and We won't
lose a great deal when We drop him
Besides, he deserted me in my hour
OF need when that committee was I'M
Oklahoma"