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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-07
True Democracy, the Rights OF
the Country Counties, and
the Efforts of the City
Politicians tO Steal
Those Rights.

If you give a king unlimited power, he
becomes tyrant.
If you give commercial corporation q
monopoly, it becomes a tyrant.
If you give any one church absolute domin-
ion, that church becomes a tyrant
Everybody knows this to be true, and it is
not necessary to cite illustrations.
Human nature is just so constituted that, if
one man, or one set of men, are given too
much power, they will abuse it.
Now, ma ority of voters in any city, or
in any State, would ride over the rights of
the minority If there we're no legal limits to
those things that the majority can lawfully
do
Foreseeing this, our statesman set those
legal limits in the very bed rocks Of our gov
eminent.
In every State Constitution you will find
what is commonly called "the bill of rights"
1t is a statement of those things that the
majority shall never do.
For example, no majority can vote away
your right to keep and bear arms, to publish
your views on any subject, to speak your own
sentiments about any issue which comes up,
to exercise freedom of conscience, and to be
secure in life, liberty and property until
deprived thereof by due process Of law
including the invaluable rights to Ha6eas
Corpus and trial by jury.
These are some of the blood-bought hber-
ties which the people won from popes and
kings, and which cannot be taken away from
you by majority vote.
To safeguard these enormously valuable
liberties, your forefathers provided a system
of government qnKich checks the majority.
Your common sense is bound to tell you
that in every city and in every State, there
are grasping and INSCRIPTIONS men who
would rule everything with high and unjust
hand, If they had the poeoer.
It is one of the most difficult tasks of
craftsmanship to curb just such men, when
they have won over a majority of the votes to
their side, either by threats concerning
employment, or brides paid directly to the
corrupt.
is not only checked by statement of those
things that Congress shall never do, but by
the division of political power which protects
the small State from the large one.
Little Delaware cannot be run over by big
New York. Why? Because no law can pass
except by consent of the Senate; and. in the
Senate, little Delaware is equal to big New
York
In the lower House of Congress, each State
is represented By 0op4Zation. Pennsylvania
and Ohio heavily out number Delaware and
Rhode Island
But in the Senate, the States are repre-
sented as political onoits; and every State is
equal to every other.
Thus the vast numbers in Illinois and New
York are checked, by the State units Of Geor-
gia. South Carolina and other smaller States
Now, when our w1sest men met in 1877 to
from a Democratic Constitution, to take the
place of the one that Bulloclz's crowd had put
upon us, they followed the plan which is
mapped out in the Federal Constitutional
plan agreed on by George Washington, James
Madison Rnnianin franklin Rrtlndnn Mar
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-07
THE JEFFER SONIAN

is, each county is recognized as political
body, with certain rights, which big counties
cannot take away from little ones.
In the State Senate certain counties are
grouped and given one vote in the Senate.
Thus each senatorial group of counties IS
equal politically, regardless of what dispro-
portion may exist In numbers, wealth or era.
The senatorial group which holds the City
Of Atlanta, amounts to no more In the Senate
than the group which holds the town Of Har-
lem.
BY this division of power, Harlem, Grove
town, Thomson and the other small towns OF
our Senatorial district are protected from the
overwhelming population of Atlanta.
In 1892 and in 1894, we country people had
to submit to the rule Of the City of Augusta,
where Boyl1in Wright and Sonny Collins
stuffed %, 900 ballots into the boxes.
The one county Of Richmond thus dis
franchised the nine country counties Of our
Congressional district.
Nine counties wanted me to remain in Con-
gress, but one county did not-and the one
county had its way.
Was that right? Was it true democracya
Wasn't it violation Of the representative
principle?
The rule was changed afterwards, and
Augusta lost her tyrannical power to dictate.
The Constitution of 1877, provides that
even in the lower House of the Legislature,
the weight of numbers shall not prevail
unchecked
Six of the largest counties are given three
votes, 26 next largest are given two votes;
and all the rest have one apiece, no matter
how much they may differ in wealth, area
and population.
In other words, Toombs, Jenkins, Reese,
Lawton, Tiff, Holcombe and the other long
1OoI oI /
made 1t fore0er impossible for the cities to
rule the State.
They had deep and patriotic purpose in
it, too. The CITIES ought not to rule the State
for the cities are too often ruled By greedy
corporations and rotten politicians.
Every Governor should be elected on the
county unit plan. Otherwise, he is not the
representative Of the SYSTEM framed in 1877.
Every State-house officer should be elected
that way, else he will not represent the SyStem0
Of the Constitution
But, above all the u. S. Senator should be-
chosen by the county unit plan, because he is
to represent, not population, as the Represen-
tatlve In Congress does, BUT TIE STATE
UNIT.
Population cuts no figure, in the u. S. Sen
ate; and population should not dictate the
man q0h0 IS to represent the State unit, in the
State unit branch of the National Legisla-
ture.
[ see that the plant tool of Hog-eye Smith
is going to have 0aot1er meeting of the State
Executive Committee
What for?
TO ROB THE COUNTRY COUNTIES
OF THEIR CONSTIT UTIONAZ
FIGHTS!
Hog-it-all Smith h'ooaOs we have got him
beat.
He has been in minority ever since his
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-05-07

The JcGersonians cannot assume RESPONSE
Eiiity for unsolicited manuscripts or letters
sent them. WHEN found available, they are
published; it accompanied by stamps for
turn postage, they are returned if not avail
able.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
Had Insurance.

Last week the Billiard resi-
dence down toward Lawton was
burned down but he carried $500
insurance on the building and
contents.
This will 20 II long ways to
help replace the property that
was destroyed and leaves the
man in much different shape
than il he had not carried the
insurance.
Sometimes men will say that
they cannot afford to take out
tho insurance, But the facts
are they cannot afford to 20
without the insurance.
Look over your policy at once
and see IL it has expired, After
the fire is too late to write the in
surancc.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

the surplus being deposited in
the Kansas City reserve bank,
then this bank could loan that
money 10 banks In Oklahoma or
any other place where crops
were short.
Thus the money from one sec
tion is loaned through this sys-
TEN 10 other sections that may
need IL. with good security put
up ns collatcral on the loan.
The theory Of the law is fin.
and " u works out IN practice an
expected IL viii make Senator
Robert l.. Owen president Of the
United States IL he lives twelve
0Ore years
Who's Mckinley wna IN con
aross and The Mckinley tariff bill
was pnsaed. n man made the
statement IN the writer's hearing
that h would make him president
Of the United States. We laugh
cd nj his statement but saw his
prediction fulfilled in "A very few
ycars.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
The Right Move.

In another column is the an
nonnccmcnt that the county com
missioncrs have set Feb. IS AZ a
day for every body 10 work the
roads. This in the right move in
the right direction.
The date however, may be n
little late should the weather be
suitable for oats sowing. But
every able bodied man who In not
sowing oats. or mt other work
he cannot leave, should help in
this good cause.
There are some terrible roads
in this locality and their condi-
ton is due largely because Of no
move to have them better. When
the farmers begin to realize that
good roads add to the value of
their EARNS. every land owner at
least will turn out and help in
the effort TO improve the condi.
ton of our roads.
And the renters viii feel dis
posed to help some also when
they get tired II travelling ovci
the bad places "A our ronds.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

Quite n number have asked
what effect the new banking law
passed recently by congress- Ia
going TO have.
So many changes we're being
nude In tho bill during it's dis
cussion that u was hard 10 make
n study Of IL until IL became u
law.
Tho law provides for from 3
10 IL Federal Reserve Banks TO
be established In large cities all
over the United States. The
capital stock Of each reserve
bank In to he not lcss than
%,00c. 900. made up by the stock
subscribed by all national banks
and such state banks that have
at lcast $25, 600 capital IA may
wish to 20 in.
All national banks must put
m amount eqnal to Q per cent. Of
their capital into the capital of
tho federal reserve bank IN their
district = II this IN not done ia.
sidc one year their charters viii
bo Cancelled. State banks that
wish D go IN must put up six per
cent. OF their capital also.
This mnkca every national
bank u stock holder IN one FEEDER.
al reserve bank, They are thcn
expected to keep their surplus
funds deposited in the bank
where they hold stock; which is
intended to draw the funds out
of Wall Street New York and
scatter II over the United States,
the best step possible to prevent
panics.
Pgnics have always boon caus.
cd 10y too much money being con.
tered in New York City.and this
In designed TO atop them.
II is tho intention for federal
reserve banks 10 loan money to
the other banks holding stock in
thcm, that may need u good loan.
For instance, IL Kansas City
had n reserve bank. and there
were good crops and plenty of
money in Kansas and Missouri.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
Local News Items

f'fs'.'+'.'s':'s's.f+ ++<<%<+<*++...s
Il. V. Hamilton went to Law
ton on business Tuesday.
We pay from Is TO 20c for
butter. Young Il Wolcott. adv.
For Sale--Twelye stock hogs
eight dollars each. II. +. Shirk.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. r. Bennett
visited relatives in Anadarko,
Sunday.
All kinds of fresh and cured
meats ut Young e. Wolcott's.
(adv.)
Marion keck will farm the
land of l.. G. Coffin the coming
season.
Lowest prices on all kinds of
furniture at Young Il Wolcott's.
(adv.)
Mr.. and Mrs. T. b. Smell ar
rived Sunday from Chickasha
and have gone to housekeeping
IN the Windsor house in the
north part Of town.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

Young ~ Wolcott are psying
2Oc for eggs. adv.
Miss Cora Ray visited with
Miss Mae Carter at Sterling over
Sunday.
We guarantee a square deal on
your cream. Yonng Il Wolcott.
(adv.)
G. B. Stackhousc Of near Rush
Springs was here Monday and
Tuesday.
For Sale--2 good mules ready
for spring work, by the Bank OF
Elgin.
HI. Cremer returned Tuesday
from trip to Kansas City and
points in Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs ID. e. McAnaw
went to Lawton on business last
Wednesday evening.
McAIester lump coal 81 off the
car on Saturday of this week.
ID. n McAnaW. (adv.)
Miss Cena Crawford was not
able TO teach school last week on
account Of having tonsilitis.
G.. w. Compton was one of the
Jurors on the fremont murder
case at LawtOn last week.
Yukons Best Hour 81. 10; Queen
of The West $l.W at Young &
Wolcott. (adv)
Miss Alta Hoffer and M
Alma Howe went to Oklahon 4
City Sunday for u short visit.
ID F. McAnaw will sell Meal.
ester lump coal at 81 per ton of
the car Saturday, Jan 81. [adv. /
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

The Farmers Champion In
authorized "a announce these
men m chndIdidatcs for county
Office. subject 10 nomination in
the democratic primary IN Aug
ust:
For Commissioner, Eastern
District
j. A. COLLIER Of Fletcher.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

ii. II. Hagle made business
trip to Lawton Thursday.
A new % inch bell was ordered
Monday for the Methodist
church.
Subscribe for the FARMERS
CHAMPION and get all the local
news.
Ribelin. Stone 4 Walker are
taking their annual invoice this
week.
H.F. Shirk is taking advantage
of the fine weather and is paint
ing his store buildings.
Rev. w. +. G.. Humphries and
family left Tuesday for their
future home at Pine Ridges S. d.
A. Rohlfs is buildidg a wagon
shed on the side OF his black.
smith shop. j. II. Addott is do
ing the work.
Rev. and Mrs. u. L. Hinckley
and two daughters returned Sat
urday from u two weeks visit at
New Boston. Texas.
Ed Harper of the Midland
Bridge Co. left Sunday morn.
ing for Kansas City. having fin.
ished his work in this county.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
Abseutminded,

Al ths Rox Oince. Ticket Sellers
'l,os m9nyr' Atscnt Minded stu
sont--rwo standing recm together
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

List your farms for sale or
rent with the Bank of Elgin. No
charges unless sold or rented.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
puusCR,pTiori
Aov,pf,siua uArcs,

display nds. ~ i'2oen's por Inch Tor
each insertion, discounts Riyen ON
large ada, All Advertising matter ruo
urill paid aud ordered out
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

State of Oklahoma. County of
Comanche IS: |. II. =. Wetten-
gel, President of the above nam
ed Bank, DO solemply swear that
the above statement is true to
the best Of my knowledge and
belief, so help me God.
II. P.WETTENGEL, President.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
Sincere Praise.

Po~ Did she think my sonnet
sae soodY" trlend-'shc must have
ahs Sldut believe you wrots II
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

Rubber boots. overshoes Arc
tics for men. women and child
rem nj the "Old Reliable"
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

J. T.. Pitts of Waldron, Ark.
was here Tuesday to lookAt some
real estate he had purchased.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28

On Saturday. Jan. 81. will sell
McAlester lump coal at 81 per
ton of the car. d. T.. McAnaw.
ladv.l
Mrs Purdy, mother Of r, II.
Purdy, has purchased the resi-
denco property near the Stack
house residence.
A few young people gathered
at the home of 4. X. Bennett
last Wednesday evening in honor
of Monta's 18th birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T.. +. Reeder
and son Of Pocassctt, Okla. came
Saturday for a short visit at the
home of Rev. d. l.. Hinckley.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
Elgin, January 28

Entered ~ second-clnss mat.
Tor, December 3rd. 1919, NJ the
poatolicc nj Elgin. Oklahoma.
under lhc Act of March Bird. 1879.
Farmers' champion. (Elgin, Okla.) 1912-1922, 1914-01-28
Post Office Time Table

WEST MAIL
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-17

mick, Mrs. Catherine Waugh Mcs
CullOugh, Mrs. Stanley Mccormick,
Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait and other leaders of the
votes for women" movement will at
tend the convention, which promises
to make more suffrage history than
has been written in the forty-six
years Of national suffrage organiza-
ton.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-17
ODD WAR BITS

Paris.-Tod- Sloan, the famous
American jockey, is at the front with
the French Red Cross, driving motor
ambulances. He was rejected as a
soldier, but being an expert motor
driver was Immediately accepted by
the medical authorities.
London.-WhiIe one of Lord Kftch-
ener's staff officers was showing his
conferees a handsome dressing-case
which he was taking to- the front
with him, K. of K. entered, looked at
the gold-stoppered bottles and elab-
crate fittings and inquired cuttingIy:
What is your taste in hair pins?"
Lohdons-OWiRg to the number of
German barons in the big detention
camp at Olympia, the soldiers call
one section of the enclosure ''the
house Of lords"
Paris.-"Accept my condolences
upon the capture of Brussels by the
Germans, said the Turkish ambassa-
dor at Petrograd to his Belgian col
leagues. 81 also ask your excelIency
to accept my condolences on the
capture Of Turkey by the Germans"
the Belgian diplomat is said to have
retorted.
PaFis.-Among the officers of the
Indian troops, forming part Of the
British expeditOnary force, are three
native princes, each of whom has a
fortune exceeding $20,000,000.
-O-O
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-17

larry HOwse will welcome the visitors
to Nashville. Mrs. Guilford Dudley,
president of the National Suffrage
Association, will extend the freedom
of Tennessee to the vote-seekers.
Mrs. R. E. Folk and Mrs. J. ]. Roach
win be her aides as official hostesses.
The annual wrangle over the re-
election of DR.. Shaw, who has been
president of the national association
since 1904, viii be one Of the riffs in
the conventions lutte. Mrs. Grace
Wilbur Trout Of Chicago and several
other suffrage leaders are in the race
for the national presidency, but DR..
Shaw declares she is perfectly willing
to carry on the burden of Office an
other year, and she, too, will be a
candidate.
But a wider rift may be caused by
dissension over the two suffrage !
amendments now before congress. !
Suffragists are divided in their sup !
port Of the Shafroth amendment, |
which provides that the question of |
ballots for women be submitted to |
each state by initiative petition, and |
the Bristow-M onden amendment pro-
.viding for an amendment to the fed
eraI constitution, r
A still wider difference of opinion
will divide the convention when the
national delegates pass upon the
Congressional Unions policy of hold
ing the Democratic party responsible
for the defeat of the suffrage amend
ment in congress. DR.. Shaw con-
dennis the unions action and de-
clares that it is contrary to the nom
partisan policy of the national organ
ization.
The women Of Nashville have ar
ranged street parade to be held dur
ing the convention. Hundreds Of
women, including many of the social
leaders of southern cities, will march
through the streets, and noted suf-
= - I'LL ,,,1y,5,N 5oon h0woB and |
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-10-17
THE MAIN SPRING

Bill Bowhay is a jolly wight,
He loves his little joke;
Says he: MY watch is watertight
It's often been in soak"
Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-17
GERMAN COMMANDER DEAD.
Gen. Otto Won Emmich, Leader at Liege,
Was Veteran Of 1870.

London, Aug. IA dispatch from
Brussels to the London Exchange Tele-
graph company says the death of Gen.
Otto won Emmich, the German command
err at Liege, is confirmed He is to be
succeeded by Gen. Won der Marwitz.
Gen. Won Emmich was SO wears old.
He joined the army as a volunteer in
1865 and was promoted two years later
to lieutenancy. He took part in the
Franco Prussian war in ls70-7l After
ward he was promoted through all the
grades until he became major general in
1901. When he was appointed to the
of the Tenth army corps, he
was made a general.
The Brussels correspondent of the Lon.
don Star says that a Belgian officer
who escaped from Liege brought details
Of the death of Gen Won Emmich. The
officer declared that Won Emmich CON-
mitted suicide. The correspondent says
i is stated that Gen. Won Emmieh's UNI
limited confidence in the German army
md its style of fighting was shattered
BY the events around Liege.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-17
HEADACHE AND DIZZINESS

Headache is never a disease. II is
always a symptom. Applications, pow
ders and tablets that drug the headache
into quietude are treating the symptoms,
not the disease, always a useless proceed
ing and often harmful.
When headache is associated with some
dizziness il is usually the result of ner-
YOU. exhaustion and will continue as long
az the person who is oyerworked allows
the debility 20 continue. II rapidly dis
appears when rest and the proper tonic
is taken.
Nervous exhaustion, the cause Of such
headaches and dizziness, results from a
strain on the nerves with which the re-
building work Of the blood is unable 10
keep pace. The best tonic for such a
condition is DR.. Williams Pink Pills.
These pills build up the blood and
strengthen the nerves. With this treat
ment, unless the overwork. worry, or
whatever has caused THE nervous break
down, is persisted in, the headaches, dir
riness, nervousness and irritshility that
neurzsthenia rapidly dis
appear.
The Or. Williams Medicine Companv.
y. Y. viii send free on re- 1
quest q helpful little book on the home 1
treatment Of nervous disorders. Dr.. WI /
IiAns' Pink Pils are obtainAble a. any
drug store. ...
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-17
Suspension of the Bank Act.

The proposal of leading bankers and
business men IN this city that Congress
meet the existing financial crisis by leg
islation allowing national banks to d.
lutte their reserves of gold and legal ten
der with bank notes was to BE- expected
in view of the practice of other nations
in like emergencies. Such a law would
be tie equivalent of the English suspen-
sion OF the banking act, intended to re-
lease banking resources when they must
be made available.
In our case the necessity arises from
our inability TO meet the demands of
our English creditors. They want their
money. We can paw them in nothing
but gold. Settlement Of their claims can
now be made in Ottawa. 50 that we can
no longer hold back on the ground that
specie shipments abroad are impractic-
able. The only thing to do. therefore,
since we are solvent and anxious to
our good name, seems TO be to
pay up with the gold in the banks that
lies unused save as collateral.
IN short time we shall get back all
hat we now surrender. England must
1uy stores from us and must pay for
What she takes in gold Or securities. For
he moment. owing 20 suspension OF for
ign trade. we are caught with an ad-
.erse balance and are asked to liquidate
t.-New York Globe.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-08-17
An Arab HONEYMOON.

For seven days after the wedding
the Arab bride and bridegroom are
supposed not to leave their room. The
bride may see none of her own family
and only the women folk Of her bus
band, who wait on her. She remains
In all her wedding finery and paint and
does absolutely nothing. The bride
groom generally slips out at night aft
er three days and sees a few friends
privately, but be persistently hides
from his wife's family, and should he
by accident meet his father-in-law be-
fore the seven days are over be turns
his back and draws his burnoose, or
haik, over his face. This is their view
of a honeymoon, and they grow as
weary of it as any European couple do
of their enforced continental tour
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