The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-12
PROPOSAL TO MAKE NE WSTATE
IN RETALIATION FOR OklAHO-
MAS ANNEXATION PLAN.
SHAMROCK FOR THE CAPITAL
Little Town in the Panhandle Beats
Out All the Others Where lndiena'
tion Meetings Were Held-Oklaho'
ANS Solon's Sweeping Plan.

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panhandle brstling with Indignation
has hurled defiance back at Oklaho
mas proposal of annexation. Also
hurled a proposal, according to the
latest dispatches, which puts it one
lap in front of Oklahoma in the an
nexation business. The Texans pro-
pose to make a new state out of the
Panhandle plus Oklahoma. Pan.
handlehoma with capital at Sham
rock; that is the Texas challenge, the
Texas legislature will make that its
counter proposal.
Annex the Panhandle? Wow, Also
Br-r-r.
Indignation meetings were held
throughout northern Texas to act on
the proposal embodied in a resolution
in the Oklahoma legislature, introduc'
ed by Representative Patchell Of Gar
vim county. His resolution proposed
that by a concurrent action of the
legislatures of Oklahoma and Texas
and the congress of the United States,
Oklahoma should be permitted to ac-
quire certain counties to the number
OF 3S comprising the famous Texas
Panhandle lying between Oklahoma
and New Mexico. Certain events Of
early history caused the Oklahoma
proposal to be viewed in the Panhan-
die itself with the same equanimity
that Hereford bull contemplates a
flaring red under-shirt on blazing hot
day when flies annoy.
Things begun to happen, according
to dispatches from various towns and
cities, with great rapidity and fire.
uuency Shamrock beat them all to
it, however, by town meeting at
which a committee was appointed to
instruct the members of the Texas leg
islature representing a number of
counties each about as large as a New
England state, on a retaliatory meas
ure.
They proposed a new state made
out of Oklahoma and the Panhandle
to be Panhandehoma." The coun-
ties in question included all OF those
which the Oklahoma legislature was
asked to go after and in recent years
have changed from cattle range to
populous farming regions. They were
Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Hansford, Sher-
man, Hartley, Moore, Hutchinson,
Roberts, Hemphill, Wheeler, Gray,
Potter, Oldham, Deaf Smith, Randall,
Armstrong, Donley, Collingsworth,
Childress. Hall, Briscoe, Swisher, Cas-
tro, Farmer. Bailey, Lamb, Hale,
Floyd, Motley, Cottle, Hardeman,
Foard, Wilbarger and Wichita.
The kilograms from the quick-trig-
ger Shamrock to the Texas legislature
said: Noting a resolution offered in
the lower house of the Oklahoma leg
islature, the sense of which is that
the Panhandle of Texas be annexed
to the state of Oklahoma, and believ-
ing that same is in the nature OF a re-
fiection on the grandeur of the great
state of Texas, We respectfully request
you as our representative, that you
offer resolution in the Texas house of
representatives that the entire state
of Oklahoma be annexed to the Pan
handle of Texas and that Shamrock,
being centrally located in new state
so formed, be made the capital of said
state by legislative enactment"
The details of the proposal which
brought on the uproar in Texas de-
clare that Oklahoma legislature has
given consent to the annexation and
that copies of the resolution shall be
forwarded to Washington and to the
Texas legislature at Austin. 1t was
part of the phraseology to which Tex
as took exception that the resolution
specifies, regarding the annexation,
that terms shall be fair and just to
the state of Texas and to the people
residing in the counties"
Mr.. Patchell declared in the Okla
homa proposition that the constitu-
tional questions involved have been
satisfied by the various ratiications.
He referred to the congressional res
olution by which Texas was annexed
to the federal union in 1887 wherein
it was declared that four states other
than the state of Texas might be
erected within the area acquired from
the Texas republic.