The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-05-24

E'OutSiH9 IT'S purpose to Becom
a Candidate For the Nomination a
United States Senator Before tn
Democratic Primaries, August {
1912.
FELLOW CITIZENS:
In making the announcement of m,
purpose to become candidate befor,
the democratic primaries on August
9Th, next, l have chosen Webbers Falls
Muskogee County as the place. fol
the reason that my mother was born
at Webbers Falls October 3, 1881, and
/ have felt the natural desire to do
this honor to her memory and to call
to mind the historical fact that my peo-
pie were the first settlers of Oklahoma
and of Muskogee County, where l my
self have been a constant resident in
the city of Muskogee for twenty-seyen
years, and where | am thoroughly
well known to thousands of men by
the compa nioship of a lifetime.
On December 16, 1907, | entered the
United States Senate as Senator of
the United States, representing Okla
homa, but representing also ninety
millions OF people.
For four and half strenuous years
| have given every ounce of energy |
possessed in my endeavor to show my
appreciation of the great trust which |
mad been confided to me by the peo- |
pie of my beloved state. No truthful |
man can say that have failed in any |
particular to discharge my duties to
the extreme limit of my capacity and
physical strength.
brief and partial abstract of the
things which | have done or tried to
do has been submitted to you. and il
is Tor you, the people of my state. to
say now whether, have been faithful
and efficient, whether deserve vote
of confidence or vote of condemna-
ton. This issue submit to your gen.
erous judgment. II
when you sent me as your public :
servant to the Senate, you gave me
power of attorney to represent your :
interests. You did not tell me what Z
20 do; in the nature of the case you =
'ould not be expected to tell me pre- =
;isely what to do 1t was my duty u
Q ind out what | should do in orderi q
O serve your interests, and then it -
vas my duty to do that which would ~
est accomplish this great object o
| found the United States Senate /,
by Aldrich, Frye, Hale. ~
'latt, Depew, Foraker and other prom Il,
lent representatives and benefciaries
the existing alliance between cor O.
ipt commercial interests and politi-
II bosses and machine politics, under Il
hich few Senators controlled the ~
- '"e oeu@'e anu con- sh,
oiled the Senate, under the machine
lies OF the Senate. found that the
sople of the United Stat s were pre- =
'nted from exercising control of the a..
1vernment itself through an intelli-
mt, honest and unrestrained major ~
?, by the existence of a corrupt COM
nation between the representatives
powerful financial and commercial -
rerests and the representatives of o.
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a. present uluer the RUE OF monop- SIN;
: in the various industries and in MIR
the people are com
lied to pay exorbitant prices for I.
erything they buy and they are COM fay,
led to sell their products at less izat
IN the fair value because there is par
one buyer under the monopoly Inro,
TEN. Wnat cnance for a fair price Par
7e men who raise cattle and hogs, 81
Ell the Beef Trust can fix an arti- Iino
al price and steal the legitimate nom
it of honest labor by an artificial, wbe
air price on what the people sell ocra
then fix an unfair price on what hest
Duy oack ior consumption? date
he inevitable result of such sys- 3r,
is manifest to everybody Gigan- tions
fortunes have accumulated in peel;
hands, the Beef Trust managers who
multi-millionaires. Rockefeller is with
mated at a thousand millions-and ling t
ions of human beings are abjectly lco-op
: by being thus deprived of an hon. in e,
reward for faithful labor, and thus govel
g charged unfair prices as con- 4th
ers. for q
has been impossible to correct this and
condition, because the monopolies shoul
; strong enough to finance the cam public
MS of unscrupulous men who pre-. 5th
ed to be the lovers of the people, Party
in reality had a strong and secret patric
nee with monopoly and privilege est a
fore | entered public life | had am Il
studying this condition. | knew Party
the principles of the democracy an III
d afford complete relief for these sort