DEMOCRATIC RALLY
Passes Hot Resolution on Wynnewood
Monday the Democratic Club and others gathered at the Woodman's hall to perfect their orginization. They were entertained by speeches from Messrs. W.H.L. Campbell and Robert Wimbish of Ada. Mr. Campbell dwelt on the unpleasant features connected with the voting power of the negroes. His disposition to force himself on the whites. Said they would force the Republicans to keep out of their platform a declaration against mixed schools for negroes and whites. He warned the club against those who clamored for non-partisan nominations. In nine cases out of ten they were Republicans or Socialists. No Republican ever wanted such nomination in a Republican district. He charged that the Republicans in Congress unanimously voted down a proposition by a Democrat to make the districting boards non partisan. He would challenge any man to show a single district that was not laid off with a view to Republican success. The members of the board have all taken an oath th discharge their duties impartially and deal out justice. The Purcell district is 56 miles long and probably 26 at the west end. Its small end, which runs down the Canadian to include the negro allotments, is 86 miles long and 7 miles wide at the widest. They have done everything in their power to make every district Republican. He urged the club to familiarize themselves with the Australian ballot, 9 out of 10 men who have never studied it could not cast a legal ballot. It is a complicated system. They must elect one chairman and elect or have him appoint four committeemen in each township as a campaign committee. A little book will be sent from headquarters to each of these instructing them how to vote and they in turn should instruct the voters. He warned them that influential Republicans had already been chosen in each district who were pleading with the people to stay out of the party primaries and were secretely working with the Republican clubs. He urged Democrats to get busy and organize. At a future time he would tell the people here about his candidacy.
Robert Wimbish made an excelent address from a Democratic standpoint. He urged the necessity of thorough organization.
He insisted that railroads be confined to the transportation business and made citizens of the new state be compelled to have headquarters here so that they could be sued in the state courts.
Judge Clayton and other members of the board have used every effort to make the districts Republican though they took a solemn oath to perform the duties of their office impartially and when Judge Clayton returns to his court it may be that one of the first criminals to come before him for sentence might be a prejudiced possessor of 40 acres of land and if he were in the criminals place when called on to say why sentence should not be passed on him, he would say "It is true I have injured one man by false swearing, but you have by false swearing, deprived the people of 81,400 acres of their right of suffrage. You have taken power from intelligence and given it to the black son of Ham. Yet Judge Clayton is said to be the whitest sheep in the Republican fold of office holders.
At the conclusion of his speech Capt. J.J. Rottenberry was elected township chairman and Prof. Tom Farris secretery. The other members are F.M. Burch, J.M. Jones and D.M. Hyden. 43 members of the club were present. The club unanimously endorsed Capt. J.J. Rottenberry for delegate to the constitutional convention.
The club passed the following hot resolution:
Whereas we, the Democratic Club of McGee, have been informe that the Democrats of the town of Wynnewood have entered into an agreement to support an independent candidate for delagate to the constitutional convention and to stay out of the Democratic primaries for the purpose of securing the county seat for said town.
And, Whereas, we believe that the control of said constitutional convention by the Democrats is above the selfish interests of any town;
Therefore, be it resolved by the Democratic Club of McGee, that we denounce such an action on the part of the Wynnewood Democrats as selfish and unpatriotic and detrimental to the cause of Democracy and we consider such an action as an attempt to sacrifice the interest of the entire Democracy in the new state to a petty selfishness.
Second, that if the Democracy of Wynnewood persist in such action we pledge ourselves to oppose ever locating the county seat at Wynnewood.
E.G. Lingle Sec. Protem
A.C. Cromer Chairman.
William J. Bryan was accorded a great reception on his return to New York. Prominant Democratic politicians from many states and of nearly every shade of political belief from the Cleveland Democrats like Watterson and Francis to the Alliance Democrats like Ben Tilman, united in the cheering. The reception was under the control of the commercial Travellers' Anti Trust League. That part of the reception that stands out most prominantly is the declaration of Mr. Bryan for the government ownership of railroads, emphasized by the Anti Trust League as follows.
"Hon. William Jennings Bryan,
On behalf of the American Anti Trust League and expressing, as we firmly believe the sentiments of the great majority of good citizens who are opposed alike to the evils of monopolies and the dangers of socialism, we welcome you home and express to you our gratfication and appreciation for all of your great speech of Thursday night at Madison Square Garden and moe especially for you invincible stand in favor of, not the regulation but the destruction of the criminal trusts and for government ownership of railroads.
"We hold that the experience of all civilised nations has firmly established the principle that the maintenance of highways is one of the chief functions of government, one of the few great attributes of sovereignty, of which no state can divest itself without endangering the very existance of the government and utterly destroying that great proinciple of equality of rights which is the very cornerstone of the American Republic."
Our next trade day will be the 1st Saturday in Sept. and it will probably find nearly all our business men located in Walling. The weather will be pleasant. It is proposed that we have our next trade day at Walling. Our people will make a special effort to make it an entire success. Our stock show will be revived and all those having good animals are urgently requested to bring them out that day. Walter Strickland is the first on the list. He will show his magnificent draft stallion, Logan, grandson of Stonewall of Kentucky and of Clydesdale and Denmark stock.
R.A. Jones of Fitzhugh, came in Wednesday to visit his daughter Mrs. W.M. Russell and incidentally invested in some Walling property as did Mr. Russell. He says the boll worm is just about as bad at Fitzhugh as it is around McGee. That is bad enough.
MCGEE'S FIRST BALE
McGee received her first bale of cotton Tuesday Sept. 4. It was raised northeast of town by W.T. Price, one of the earliest and most successful cotton raisers in the territory. It weighed 486 pounds and was sold in the lint to S.S. Lee for $3.80 and the citizens contributed a premium of $20 making altogether $12.90, being within a small fraction of 18 cents per pound.
A number of railroad attorneys like Col. Ledbetter of Ardmore have resigned their positions with the railroads in order to be elected to the Constitutional Convention. Of course it is possible such a man would work for the best interests of the people; but there are so many good brainy men who have not been corporation attorneys that it is not worth while to argue that question.
Messrs. Williams and Galt of Pauls Valley were here Saturday.
W.D. Hayes President of the Citizens' National Bank of Ada has bought three business lots in the town of Walling.
J.E. Ritchie says he wiil start this week to build two dwelling houses in Walling, one for himself and one for his sister. He has one of them rented out for a year.
Mrs. John Kelley in the country is reported quite sick.
Dr. D.H. Putman and his brother A.H. Putnam [SPELLING IN ORIGINAL]were here Friday.
W.D. Hayes tells us he will be picking cotton in 15 days. He says the boll worm has not hurt his cotton much.
J.F. Ethridge of Iron Post school house neighborhood says worms are very bad there also. The constant rains have caused him to lose 15 acres of fine millett.
New sorghum for sale cheap at G.C. Mooney's, 5 miles SE of McGee. Will make up cane on shares.
Born - To Mr. and Mrs. John Parto on aug. 31 a girl.
H.H. Taylor of Hart, says there has been 21 professions of religion during the series of meetings held by the M.E. Church of that place.
Dr. Shi has been on the sick list for a few days. The doctor has been overworked for a week or more.
"Buck" Shi has been sick but is better now.
W.T. Weaver who started for New Mexico some time ago is now at Amarillo and writes back from the plains "Rain, rain, rain". He'd as well staid here. We have plenty of rain.
If you want to see a stranger come to McGee. Every second man you see, and sometimes more, are strangers to the town. But many of them will soon locate in Walling.
C.O. Wright wants a business house in Walling. Can't some one rent hime one?
Dr. Davis of Hart has bought six resident lots and one business lot in Walling and contemplates putting up a good brick building some time in the near future.
Crop of 30 acres cotton and 15 in corn on the old Patterson place on Springbrook, 5 miles NE of McGee, also 5 cows and calves, 14 head of hogs for sale. T.F. Blakemore, McGee, I.T.
Mrs. John Kelley, who has been quite sick, is reported better.
Mr. Hayes says he did a pretty fair business in Walling and on the road Saturday.
Mrs. R.J. Brandon opened school in the Baptist church house Monday.
Mrs. Hobgood of Center, is visiting Mrs. C.H. McCurdy.
Samuel Gompers says Union Labor will go into politics, "whenever it will bring the labor movement a step further."
Mrssrs. W.H.L. Campbell and Robert Wimbish of Ada met with the Democratic Club at McGee Monday.
G.W. Parks the popular Tonsorialist of Byars was in McGee Monday, looking after business interests.
Davis large grading force, having finished their contract south of town, moved on up the line Monday to their next work, 15 miles east of Chickasha.
MIDLAND DOTS:
The death angel visited the home of John A. Austin last Sunday night and took their son Ola. Ola was a good, industrious young man.
C.M. Woods, A.H. & H.L. Putman have all bought lots in the new town of Walling.
C.L. Berger and Wiley Florence made a flying trip to Walling and McGee last Wednesday.
Miss Edna Austin is vey sick with typhoid fever.
The grade work on the O.C.R.R. is about completed to Midland.
The Farmers around here say the boll worms are doing lots of damage to the cotton.
Rev. Hampton of Roff, passed through town Wednesday on route to the Baptist Association at Byars.
Rev. Kyle will commence a Holiness meeting at Midland church house Friday night.
The Christian meeting closed Wednesday night. Rev. McCracken preached some good sermons. Miss Jane Alton joined the church and was baptised Thursday.
Jim Staggs and family, of Magnolia, Ark., is visiting his brother inlaw J.C. Smith, this week.
Prof. A.H. White, principal of Midland free school will take up the Fall and Winter term Monday Sept. 3.
Van Collins and family from Texas, are visiting the family of C.L. Jones. They say crops were fine in Texas at the time they left.
J.R. Tims, one of our prosperous farmers says he will go to picking cotton Monday if nothing happens.
Several of the Midland people attended the picnic at Lanham school house last Thursday. They report a good time and plenty to eat. Among the party from Midland were J.M. Bohannon, P.M. and Tom Ryan. They say the speaking was all O.K.
J.W. Bohannon went to Center on business today.
C.L. Berger has bought Lon Bohannon's interest in the well auger and I guess the new firm will land in the new town Walling next week.
Guess Who
HART
It is still raining in this vicinity.
People have quit talking so much about boll worms and have gone to talking religion. Rev. Smith, Jones, Tabors and Benge are holding a meeting. There are 32 converts to date, and no talk of quitting yet. The preachers are Methodist, Missionary Baptist and Cumberland Presbyterians, and the members of all sects are taking an active part in the meeting. Old settlers say they have never seen such a revival at this place. In unity there is strength.
Mr. Roberts moved into the Dr. Widner house last Monday.
Alf White and Holley Caulson are back on a visit.
Mr. Roberts presented him with a fine boy last Saturday.
Mr. Lindsay and family made a trip to Sulpohur last week.
Tom Tattler
SUMMER CHAPEL
Boll worm talk is all we can hear, and they have damaged our cotton fifty percent, but shucks, 'taint no use in grieving over spilt milk.
Everybody is eating fresh molassas. A.P. Knight is doing business with sorgham in a hurry. He says the bees are ashamed to come near the mill because he is making better stuff than they make.
Jim Magar is wearing a smile on his face a yard long. He says it is a boy.
W.H. Williams fell out of his wagon a few days ago and is severely crippled for some time. He had started to the field when his mules jumped across a muddy place in the road. The wagon ran over one of his legs and he is afraid that amputation may be necessary.
Oscar Forbess went to Ada to meet his father who will visit him a few days. Mr. Forbess home is at Ravia, I.T.
Lewis Williams killed two coons and three large housecats and skinned all of them this week. He says there is more money in selling hides than in farming.
Prostell Flatt and family of Asher, O.T., visited relatives here this week. He says crops are fine but the boll worms a "Jona" to the cotton.
Ask George Knight if he can fix a "divisor" in a molasses mill.
Walter Benjamin has left the country for a while but wouldn't say where he was going.
Oscar Forbess has purchased a new overcoat. This looks rather odd at this time of year, but Oscar says anything that will turn cold ought to turn heat.
Miss Beckie Knight has gone on a visit to relatives at Konawa.
Blockhead
H.C. Gilliland of Hart was in McGee Monday.
G.R. Santford is building a large barn on his farm this week.
W.R. Branch of Shawnee, has bought lots in the new town and will put in a stock of hardware. Mr. Branch buys his wagons and other things in proportion.
Mrs W.O. McFall returned Thursday from a weeks visit to her sister at Checotah. She thinks it is a magnificent country.
Mr. and Mrs. A.V. Thomas attended the Union meeting at Hart. They say many are being converted.
Married Aug. 23--Oscar Ketner and Miss Nettie Tolburt, Eld. W.U. Goodwin officiating.
GRIND YOUR MEAL FREE--
Next Saturday, Sept. 8 we will grind free of toll all the corn that is brought to our mill at Walling - Shi Bros.
ORANGE BLOSSOMS
Bert Quillian says Mr. Whitt Hyden and Miss Dovie Farris were married at Center Monday and went to Ada to take the train for Galveston. The Chickasaw News joins with a host of friends in wishing them every happiness.