The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-05-10
WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE AND is
A STRIKING FIGURE IN AMsRi.
CAN POLITICS.
PRACTICAL STATESMAN -ORATOR
Most Industrious in Collecting Data
and Master in Handling lt-stsnos
for the Guarantee Of Bank Dsposi.
influenced Platform.


the caption of progressive leaders In {
The United States senate. George II.
Shibley. the we'll known magazine
writer. has the following TO say IN the
MAY rumber Of the Twentieth Con.
tury magazine about Senator Robert
L. owen OF Oklahoma:
"One OF the most striking figures
i'm American politics today Is Senator
Robert L. owen. \. VI. Ill. D., OF OK
lahoma. In personal appearance he Is
tall. we'll developed and handsome. His
sympathies are with the people, and
as he is practical statesman kecI.
rcsourceful and an orator of the first
rank. he is a tower of strength In the
senate He is constantly presenting
important facts ard directing atten-
tion to basic principles. Industrious I'm
collecting data and masterful IN hand
ling IL. he has delivered great speech
es against the tariff-shelter for trusts,
against privately-owned paper money.
for the guarantee of bank deposits.
for direct election OF United States
senators by the people. for an income
tax and an inheritance tax. for de
partment of public health for the re-.
moval OF burdensome governmental
restrictions in Oklahoma. for a postal
savings bank system in which the
funds shall be kept in the several
communities and not diverted to Wall
| Street; and he has vigorously promot.
ed the movement for the initiative
and referendum. For two years he
has served as chairman of the nation
al committee of the Peoples Rule
League OF America. during which time
he has presented to congress three
memorials on the initiative and refer
endum and secured the publication by
congress of 10000 copies of each me.
mortal One OF these helped TO es-
tablish the initiative and referendum
in Maine. In 1905. in Oklahoma. he
took steps which helped to bring about
the questioning of candidates and the
establishment OF the initiative and ref
erendum in that state
During July. 1908. as chairmpn nj
Rule League. he visited Mr. Bry IN Il
Lincoln. Neb., and secured from aim
letter to his personal representative
at the democratic national convention
AT Denver, requesting that 'de plat
form emphasize the need of restoring
the peoples rule. That accounts fol
the splendid platform declaration or
that subject Ard Senator owen pre-
pared the details of the now famous
democratic national plank OF 1908, 10
the guarantee OF bank deposits.
During the past year ne has lu
in many days planning vita othert
for widespread national movement
for the restoration of the people, inl'
as result of the 1910 campaign.
1T is clear that Senator owen /
at war with the system" being at tn
= same time "A constructive statesman
!. lie is an upbuilder. Born at Lynch
burg. Va. educated in Virginia al,
Maryland, he has lived thirty-on
years In oklahoma, where his mothe
was born In 1891. He organized TN
First National Bank of Muskogee. a
MuskOgce, Okla, and was its presidcn
for ten years. As a lawyer he has haI
died the leased district case for tn
Choctaws and Chickasaws, recoverin
S2.99l 900. and he recovered $4,000
00u for the Eastern Cherokees. Iii
argument in this latter case was d,
j Clarcd by Chief Justice Mott, fort
/ years in the federal court OF claim,
/ To be the ablest he had ever heard /
that court, Mr. owen received a III
compliment from the chief Justice q
the federal supreme court
a democrat, he believes In cor
structive government. lie was men
bor of the subcommittee that frame
the democratic national platform I
1896; democratic national Committe,
/ man. lS96.l900; yice-chairman OF IN
1 democratic state committee IN 1900
and United States senator in 1900 ri
zeal is manifested I'm numerous way
in pressing what appears 10 be ~
| chief interest of his life, the improve
ment of the political. physical and M
teral well.being of the American peo
pie.
/ The peoples political welfare rs t,
be secured, he believes. through tn,
introduction of the initiative and rel
. erendum, the mandatory direct mi
mary. corrupt practices, acts and oh
er governmental mechanisms where
\ by the peoples will shall prevail Tn,
D peoples material well.being, In hi