The Guthrie Daily Leader from Guthrie, Oklahoma • Page 1

TflE Guthrie Daily Leader THE ONW EVENING ASSOCIATED PRESS PAPER IN OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. VOLUME 24 GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY NOVEMBER. 5. 1B04 NUMBER 90 Murphy, Trapp, Detrick, Wisby, Burford, Herod, Patterson, Pulliam, Donahue, Bowersox, Burke, Jernian, Favor, Over-bay, Keys, Stice, Jones, Niblack, Carpenter, Levy aJl white; all for Low Taxes arid Good Government.

Guthrie is the best city in the Territory, bit is hampered by Ring Rule and the election of negroes to, office. Throtv off the THE IMPERATIVE NEED OF THE HOUR. The Commeirlal club Of Guthrie tmi spent thousands of du.lars In an erfort to bring factories Mid capital here. A tfiaananlmous people have t.ntributed generously to funds tor tho bultdlug -f lines nf railway tnto the cltv Rvr rtsource has ecn exhausted to make Otithrle xrrow and prosper F-r plalit ears the enort to push forwart' was continued. There was everv indlcathn that roth! results would ensue.

favor-able were the comments pawed on Outhrie nnd Loaan county. Than, one sad day the Kansas City Commercial cliih started on a. tour nf the jraiilhweflt. The partv was compcsed of one hundred substantial business men from tbw city at the mouth of the Kov -mu who Iwd surpliu cash to invent In communities where returns were reasonably certain. AH the towns of the In.llan territory were visited bv this cltl and alx of th "ending Uvji9 of Oklahoma.

At Outline the club xxns iK-rltriuly entertained The business men were delighted with the pri.spnet hero One of the patty was rathor bibulous. He strayed from the told during a walk ad drive over tho city. He did not 'et riotous hut faltly mallow. In tryln ti the oar at the btntlun the bibulous man st.imbletl and felt. A negro policeman happened ifo helpecf tho Kansas City man io feet, and not knowing ho was a visitor, with all tlw jrUIIoRM of the ciy.

ho gently, lint firmly piloted him towards the city hastllo. then located on First streot. south of The visitor protested Ho gorpd won-, Uerlnglv nt the policeman's badgo of authcrlt. and elaculated "Well. HI ij0 The officer urged Ills ptteonei on.

The prisoner, incensed, ltepan swearlnjr and piilllUK from the officer The olW wot.ld brooft no ilelay or "back tilk" He cracked the xlaltor oxer tho head. ni had him within two hundred vards of the Jail, when a crowd of tho prisoner friends nearing the rocket, it" estimated and went to hts relief, the lamentations of and dUsnst were loud. The officer was prcl-nblx not sc mucr t- Maine. was peihaps. doing his duty as he saw it, hut when ho mreHtod the man from Kaunas Citv.

he strict a line of publicity that has iiurt Outhrie. Of course, naturally, the affair was hushed up as much as possible. Every reasonable explanation wn, made. Ity offtelajs vied wlih local business men In trying to atono for til Injury done The Kansas City business man took the matter gracefully. "Perhaps, I made an ass of my-self and doserx ml all 1 not." suld he "but." and here lie red leood "why couldnt a white policeman have led me away" The unfortunate Incident was quickly forgotten by Guthrie Not so.

Kansas City. It happened there wnn a newuraper correspondent, repre-rent In? the Kansas City Journal, attached to the party. It seem that he trained newspaper man that he was asked Vme questions What that newspaper man learned wns plenty. The Journal next rt.ij In iti mention oi the party's trip to Guthrie contn.ied no mentun the arrest it did contain the fallowing The llfth city visited in Ok'alu ina bv the club wat tho temporary capital. This city has an admirable Mto ami co-tat-s hospitable people.

The town 's Just now interested In VI and sa. A 2,000 ft. well beta mink I.v Harr Decker and the ind'eailons are that oil in paying quantities in ill be found 'iuihrie Is a good ecttoa market and lare quantities of and fruit been marketed h-re rhls season lhe rhiof drawback to the town is its zeal in parading i's nottro populaUi-n. whirl! ia given mi ie prominence by tho fact that negroes arc elected to Important offices In this county (Logan) several negro hold official positions In territorial ami county offices, police fore, council 'and board of education. The peo ple here seom to think nothinr of It, ttjtt the club members commented rather freely over this condition.

Cant c. H. randy the "Missouri n-tro prillttelan. r-Ionised most of the negroes That wat all, but that wa-t enough The Weveni Newspaper Urlon, which turns rut from 400 tn 6W idy-irlr'' of inisrelleny for rmintry wtettly papers used this corresponicwoe The African news soon spread I The til Kt-no Democrat published au editorial rn the suhjoct. oaptlonod- "Aniither Africa Wanted Another Stgnley' The Chicago Inter Ocean.

In reercn of feature orls aent Its 4-orresnoHdent If C. Adam, nou western dnr manager df the llibllfhtts' Irs to Uuthile to study "socl--l sbl conditions." Adams was hte three days. The- following Sunduy Inter Otean printed three oliimns o( netti'nlng to "condltionH" as Adams saw them. With the sUuy was a picture of Morton, then agro efmnty clerk. W.

H. JfoCaner and' hi. I Me.Cabe Adam' article wn cruelty overdrawn and exaggerated tn tne same lsstic there wns a timllnr article from Kenla. Ohio, where govortiiHent experts recently (InlsfitHl a 'sociological lnveatlgntion Then the Oklahoma City papers began harking Ihcv started and kept up a fiisllade on "Darkest Oiilhrie." Dennis Fhan vtBUa Oklahoma City one day one paper referred to Jlilm as "The brand Duke from I.lttlo Africa." The Kansas City journals article was nuts tor Oklahnnm City. 1 Hiring all this time, the ttibJaQ' wjs once alluded to by any (Juthffe paper.

(Uitlirto biiinei i)en well Infpw the oondltlona They had fctriren for jeurs to cover up -tit o'ftlrdnlism. and had appnronlli sue-ece'led Rut nn Jnadveitenl arrest af ai visitor by a negro rwlloowan a chain of nircunistsnces showing how a imlltK-al ring had thrust iaol a Into office in order io maintain power. Soon the territory began tn realise that since S1. Guthrie hail It-sen playing ott the 'ilatk that a -iug of politicians, in order to control the office and make graft easy, had weloomed the negro to lmiiottunt official positlctis The first taste of pie was good to the negro, he wanted mere, soon the negro polltleian was in etdnee strong. He got busy and found he a self Ml ro tie ring.

Instead of accepting political crumbs, negro politician ollowed his effron-lry ant to wax eoergellc. Ho demandod, and iho ring conceded The Uxfmvlng rtepuhllenii, who does nm aik for office, lu.t simply xer-Ues the right of suffrago mis l-montl in conventions and soon the ring and the tiogro Joined bands on in equal basis The tenanles of uearo officialism swiftly spread to nl' rvilnt- of the count v. I.angslon ns black as ace of spaddtg. wanted a ut-tventity and It was given and thw work of coloiiirlug the IikicKh oounii was carried on with 1-erdston onlv equalled bj raptdltv t'lmorron South Cimarron. It wa townships and the Second nmrnusioner'a iilstHot, were pi-oplsd with H.

luteal Mack. from Mbu-iipi and l(iin4'i I aid crdonlrers did tlielr Nork effeoiually and well Mci'ube. ut1 sapient v. a not In the terr inrial auditor's oltiio or noUiiut nor Capers toplue and easily worked attaclip! to the fourty co itnil e.iimnittee for ornamental iiiifjowt only Tho pilitlral rini; haxin- lmwer, did not to i-M it the plan i( mtatm.i oftu- w.is witi and pleanant So, lu ii queiice, the chief ofl.rn- tin iiinu hdM' Ik i like ht old pndnlem twlnvlnp back and forth fr Ilhin'litit v'lrpini from ParHnter to Khlnehart And durlnp all ibis lure il.r iirn'my 'm (htiii'sn; "xith the orv "black Cinhrie" and the louder t.n- rr iht I)1 tojiei offirl ihsm grew Let it bo remembeiv.1 'hit .11 tl is i rr' riu leader touclu ver) lightly on i ho uuhject of iuKrn i1uiul ml Then tn now "he Leader, wirh lis all Guthrie hai the IritereMn of 'iUirie and togun county at heart. Attacks frcm outside town were paused over tn silence.

1 hat negro off (claUsm was entreuohe.i in Iogan nnir.tv as strong as Gibraltar, ns iinvleMIng os tho laws uf tho Medcs and Persians wns self evhk.1t, hut The Uader, ardently hoped that tho turuilt of Rault would ceae Instead of cesnatloa it hvbv liuder. It lec.me ia upron. Travelers took up thv cry and reftrrod to "iurMuwn ibPn (,, i(ioo Thn Uaier cieneil its guns on negroism. depicting! county Republican cot' ventlom. where ring poHtoiana hugged and honeed the blacks, gave prom lsr.

money, tffecUon and liquor The Lender told a blunt facts. Thi ring howled campaign fiction am' the ring Hcket araln wns elected In the following t.Minp pc.nipalgn the ucMnocmt. seeing the menace, passed resolution dsnouncnr Ft publican amehine ndo ami negro officialism. The terrilorlnl prejudice against Outhrb wm luteiiMifleu when twa negroes wero eleoiinl to the schol board and suliseiiuo'itlv compOMrf the committee oh course of study for white children; when a negro cnin-Rilman ortlclally delegated by the mayor to isit IJltle ttock and Iftcr-vtev huslnesH men there relative to a gas fmucltiH) and when the tlnK gave preference to Mack Instead of white laboritu- men In public contractu. The seed "knokerlsm" was well sown, ltivnl town lost no opportunity to plug Outhrie and Logan county on account or their black condition.

Tho Loader could do little loss, after all this, than to dlcl'ee the renl facta. The C.apltnl being cno of the iienellelnries of nng rule ant" negro ontelnlistn reiimlned ullent, save when It criticised rh. i fder for referring to Uulhries plight The Indor believes tlwt It u.n proven public benefactor In giving the tru'h and awakening tht people io the peill Jmvering oxer the lown and enitniv. Our proem eonlltio.i ts known hII over the country One geU It whenever he takes a 'rio ove the runiry Tl-or. Mind to the real cumlliloii tho whi.

lavo n. s-ot strai gte or vxho have not been out of the county tor eipht viwrs. Outsldo or the ring thiise are the people who crltdire Tho Leader 'ir pu iuhlng th fncts in they xUt, afier years of slieuce, whIU- contcninoiarits laiuitig nho'. nnd shell on li town and coui.ty. If there lu no prejudice elst.ini, then Tlio leader Ij at fault, llut prujudlro dor-? exliu, nnd iinudroiiH or people 8 kept from In'-esting In Outf.r.- and county becnttsu rival town relHitleMly hannver nljgrls it.

them Hint is the st.uu of mutters today That Is OiiMiHe'a pniletu. Shrill this ctidi.i.-n contln-ioT After all the money expended far railxynyn ami other enterprise. Ij Gtithriii bo kept doxvn by othor t.wns, which ytdl negroiin whenexer nn entor- rrht? glvos Indication of moving oa Guthrie Therq Ih 1 ut one solution far thin illlomttm. Word must go out that Guihrlo anC Mgnn awtnly havo repudiated the whnlo mlsornble business by itHtiiig white ticket Thin nust be done now this year. Sentiment has no plac.i in this arrnlgnment ofpresent conditions The Indiiatrlnl welfare or the community in at stake mid the xvhito veters, xvho own property In the cmntv mint art rin xlctiry means Intensified black publicity The eves or th- errltoiy are on Cluilirle.

'ITie capital of the territory will be Ised by wh.it Is done hem Nov 8 Negroes who owr 'trfptrtv In Iwin cmn.ty aie a mricii nueei.ied in till qutHtlun a the white man atul they will act arconllngly. Th-democratic purty i.r Loan c.uniy and Tlu Leider nrolojle4 t. ntrr foi the present fight The Heues an na.i.. up ri nn i.rat am concerned, and they apneil Ui the inie'iiw 'be pati lotlsm th loyalty and the independence or tax paying xmcih irtispeefhU 0f prtv, aid thorn hiingtng reformation iu order thai there may bo whit, and renewed indiutrial gctiyity. Edgar West Jones torney or Logan conntv in the face of Ulft IV7iritlltulll Hmjinu; nx ere yell performed and ih po--ple soon learned that in Kidgar West i.

ihov otMild place ihe hlgRe-' trust and confidence within their to bestow. i In 1900 he was reelected county at- torney Hir conetltuenta were sV tboronghl.x at the plendl 1 1 record had iMade luring his first term that he was glxen an iiicreasel majority at the pi lis It 1900. A pri feecuting attorney of Logan comity for four years his reputation was en liancod anr1 his fame made more lustrous Ills party ha.1 uill higher honor i in store lor the young chieftain and I Edgar W. Jones died last night at 11 o'clock after vu Illness of nearly throe month. The direct cause of hi death was pton.alne poisoning, and during his sickness bore much suffei Jng.

He will be laid to iest in Summit View cemetery tomorrow ofter-iioou at 2: SO o'c'ocl-. the funeral to he conducted the Rex. pas i 'be church In Hie death of Edgar West Jones Oklahoma loses a noble son He had Just reached that age when famo In nil its glor Ahmes moat iirectiv upon 190Z wug Bltctei tno ujwer hois-j the great mon of the country. He was of the repreaonUthe peo-lorn in Old trgtnla In 18C7 and re Je oJ tlM, Jllltlict. jn ca-j ceivod his early ediwation in nun.

reecrd wa-j brilUant. He. btate. was Ideal legl'tlaUir and never onue His life haa been one continiinl rlae ,11, nm pi'imlie he hod made from the obscurity of boyhood to the l0 conattluenoy. jnagnlficenne and ptihllclly of an in- TnU ar the Democracy of Log-n luntlal dtlren.

While scarcely numy adxunce'l his name far tli jnoro than boy and for several years r1 delegat to congress. He prior to tho opening or Old Oklahom friends througboul Ok- Kttlement he wta cliiet ciera ot th- land office at Lamed. Kanres In tht iwHltic-' he 'nade his ilret itupre-fitons upon the public mind as a yoi.ng uuui of sterlinst quality ami tiu was his start to hlulu-r honors. Among the pioneers he came lo Guthrie in 1S8J an I ever sirr.e n.odt this cliv his home. Amu alver blties and oftenUm.

bn in'! hU and supporters were many In the Oklahoma City convent.n he levoloped a fctng fol lowing, but was defeated. Edgar J-mes frltnis. and true. In all parties. Ilia follow ers wero not ctmnned to the ranar ot Utinocrscx aloitf, hut his stivnrth in eluded isor-l mtn in the Ifpubll'jan, Populist.

Socialist. Prohlb't 1.11 a-Oemccratic par'ies. He wr.r, lookct upen as one of the most pn m'sln worked steadily and aslduotily lu the lav "friro nh hi father, Colonel young men in Oklahoma Thomas 3 Ji -ei until he was rccog He wa also prominent in lodge j.Ued throughout Oklahoma and In- circles be-iK J2d dot-reo Maon, a Jian territorleii r.s a conspicuous fig mcml-er of the Fraternal Order ot in nnMHcw nnd in the law nraeUeo. Eagles and th Elxi. He eeoect To the Voter! On Tuesday wljen you vote you will be handed two ballotsone printod on red tinted paper aud one printed on white paper.

Tho rod tinted ballot contain the namen of congressional candidates only. The white ballot contains the county and legislative candidates the county candidates come Jirst, followed by the legislative candidates, then the twwnahip oflicers. If you wiah to vote the straight Democratic ticket, stamp your ballot in the square surrou tiding tli9 Kooster. and do not put any other mark on your ballot. If you must scratch your ticket, stay away from the square surrounding the Itooster, and stamp in the square at the left of every candidate you wish to vote for.

Some candidates' names appear twice on the white ballot. D-E NO CIRCUMSTANCES STAMP THE NAME OF ANY CANDIDATE TWICE ON YOUR TICKET. 00000000000000000 TODAY'S COTTON MARKET, Seed Cotton $8 05 Lint Cotton 8 90 OOOOOOOOOOOOQOOOO Furnished Ly Houghton DoiiGla Cotton Otn pa) ronry he vnh brlfcht uml wgll inform ed. He loved fh work and gave it lias m. was elected by the al pleasu.c hi furthering tK im-srast JHJgout study As an Eagle nnd an eonoj church Democratic party as prosecuting at- of everything ho bclcnm' In Mn KIk he himcU ever ready with faith.

personal nor, ice tc atilHt In an) move. Ho was a the DSpU- an1 4otei to that t.Te dtoeael liMves a young wlfo IimvIiiu I14.4HI lnrrl I lout flian Ivn' woaths 840 to Miss Franae Kaufmaa of Si, J.oila, Bho was by hr hue band' Mitongtoovt hi lllnea nnd a niore.dyaiotid wo'iian never lived tnan she Their love for each other wa as true a thn hvens and th" parting 1 a biow to fondest In pes ru-ulde- i xxifo, ho Unx- a rsth'-r ami irntt-cr Ci lontl Th .1 S. JontH who hrve ben esleened au I hi nnroii or (Juihr'e laco he aturly days He also leuvea 3. sister, Mik Hav Doolltle. or Str City, wh ar lived in fl'iMirie nlht In 1 1 nm her brother draw his last breath Hhe vtHh bt-n hi IIIiks 1 nearly oil the time and Ih a devi-t- All Oi.lahoiui sympatl Ji et with th bejetived family.

The Fraternal Or dur of 'isle. have re'iivu'd 'i -tr memt'i to meet the Aerie n' cell tu ne lor ll. fti.it'. ..1 i jlhe o'hir or of whieh he wab a inetiittCM 'a ill tke part In the laui nt 1 1 fur i v. man Co.

Nitiee. I All mt-w-ers 1st Iloxt. 'Ok. N. av -fim Hifit to meet at the on oiduhi u.u avwii'e ut 1 o'clock p.

Mu'iitay Nov 1DCM. t-i (Continued, on ptsgo 8.).