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Volume 5
Muskogee, Indian Territory, Thursday October 6, 1904.
Number 52.
RIGHT PARTY
FOR NEGROES.
Republicans Maintain Human
Rights at All Times.
PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSE
VELT A GALLANT LEADER.
HY CIIAS. ALEXANDER IN COL. STATESMAN.
The Republican party was
born in 1795 It was called into
pxistence for the purpose of
meeting stern and trying- condi
tions and to solvo problems that
required the organization of the
best intellectual forces of the
timo; and though it was deemed
tho fir&t duty of the party to se
cure political freedom to the
While man, it did not stop there;
it developed in power and mag
nanimnity until it also brought
political freedom to the black
man. For over 40 years it has
contonded that all men breathing
the air of this grand -republic,
whether they be black or white,
aliall be free free to labor, free
to exercise political duties as
citizens, fro to engage in many
business and professional com
petition free to enjoy life and
the pursuit of In ppinsss. In its
platform of 1872 it eruphsized
this splendid declaration: ''Com
plete liberty and exact equality
in the enjoyment of all civil,
political and public rights should
bo established and effectually
maintained throughout tho Un
ion by etfici?nt and appropriate
state tedoral legislation, Neith
er the law nor its administration
in rerpect to citizens by reason
of race, creed, or previous con
dition of servitude" This feel
ing has dominated the party dur
ing all its splendin history;
whereas the seeling of opposition
to the Negroes progress on gen
eral principals has been the
Democratic party.
Wo wnould not like to witness
a departure from this noble prin
ciple, so long serving as a corner
stoue of tho one -great political
party in tho United States, It
would appoar to us that tho eru
dition, the eloquence, aenuino
couragh and tenacity of Presi
dent Roosevelt, on account of
the noblo attitude ho hag already
assumed toward tho Negro, and
on account ot tho noble attitude
Jio hasilreaby assumed toward
tho Negro, and on account of the
now and praiseworthy type of
statesmanship manifested by the
chief exeoutivo of the nation,
would warrant us in beiieving
that we may not witness a de
parture from this principle that
we may trust to his keoping the
legacy of the past, and that a3
long as the Negro will continue
to perform his political duty with
efficiency, he will find a place in
the political arrena with the rest
of the worthy.
The Republican party has al
ways believed in the common
people tho working masses. It
has always believed in honest
labor; and, in token of this, tho
thousand who attended the con
vention at Chicago, at which the
immortal Abraham Lincoln was
nominated, went wild with enthu
siasm when ono of theraih he
had split when a boy was lifted
up beforb them. This devot.:i
to manly labor This aggressive
Vindication of honest toil by tho
Republican party never pro . ?
recreant to its great trust, thai
of maintaining the jcommon
rights of all the citizens of this
republic. And while the yells "f
the barbrrous mob drown out the
expiring groans of its innocent
vie im in some secluded section
of our country 3iju tjulitical man
dicauts take neutral ground in
regard to the subversion of hu
man rights, and the p'jlitL.-l
trickster skulks stealthily away
with his impoverishing plundr
in some rural district, of the
South, let tho grand old paiiv,
with tho gallant President Theo
dore Roosevelt as it3 leader con
tinue to prove the purity of its
purposes, the wisdom of its mag
nificont plans, and the splendid
balance of its judgement in con
tinuing its efforts in tho direction
of human elevation human
rights political liberty!
MARRIAGE.
Mr-. Tommy Gordon and Miss
Ahco Sango were married ono
day last week in okmulgee, after
whioh they returned ts Muskogee
for a few days visit, and left on
the "4'' for Okmulgee where they
will opon a hotel.
Thursday night, September 29,
Mis3 Odessa Bennett, daughter
of Mrs. Rosa Bennett, North 5th
St., to Mr. Cornelius Kimbreau.
Rev. Toliver of the M. E. church
officiated. Success to future wol
fare of the happy young couple.
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OPPOSITE OOUttT HOUSK.
6AT1SFA0TION GUARANTFKB
Dave Richardson. - Proa
Another Piece, of Cowardice,
In tho last iscuo of the Cimoter
I put such a hot dose under the
belt of ono of the trustees, a big
city parson, who pastors in tho
city, till ho is forced to answer
mo from his pulpit, I am in
formed he tells that tho trustees
had a right to do almost any
thing they desired to do, all bo
cause they are trustees What
excellent reasoning! He takes
the pulpit to do his cursed "get
back.,: Now I desire to say in
words so plain that a fool may
not mistake. If anyone say I
was informed of the chango in
anyway, either by word or other
wise till I had approached thorn
after this dirty, black-hearted,
debased, unscrupulous, piece of
dirt had boon accomplished,
write it down as tho biggest,
most diabolical lie told sinco tho
oafk day of Annias and Saphira.
Now, when a man will take tho
advantage to answer an article
from his pulpit because I coind
rDt he present rnd wore I there,
1 would not 1)9 accorded '.no .ib
erty to answer hi n, and teUs a
s.ep dyd, ucomproraisiijg
falsehood, nc more respect should
be shown him Ihrii an ordinary
murder and he sv ws tho true
sins of a cur Jo toil. Thv is
an example of true leador.,p. !
God forbid that such figuerhuadi
should ever preside within the
confines of civilized communities
I am reaady to say to the pub
lic that another trustee, Rev,
L. V. Sango, a man I have
greatly esteemed since I met him,
declares that the matter was not
explained in the Board, and no
real explanation was ever mado
to him till I fully explained it to
him.
This parson tells his people
that they should hear both sides
before condemning him. Well,
sir I am surprised. How could
you have done what you did
without first giving an investiga
tion? But when I hit you ono of
those solar plexus blows, you hol
low foul There are others of tho
Board who live out of town who
no doubt, up to this good hour,
are probably entirely ignorant of
how this rascality was planned,
and the hellish means used to
further the ends of this conspi
racy, I am too muoh man to
uso my ohurch to denounce you,
sir, as long as this government
acoords its citizens free epeooh,
and wo have access to tne press
of our land. Having boon
planned by the devil and his co
horts, you still see there is noth
ing but underground work which
is shown by t a k i n g it into
his pulpit you scorn to pose as an
apostle of right then what
about 'ho monoy you carried to
tho Territorial Sunday School
convention at South McAlister.
They say your Sunday school
gave it to ycu. Why not roturn
it as you 'woro given it to pay
homo one elso's way, and did not
account for it. But of courso
you are a just man. I thank God
tho people are going to make tho
scoundrel and daddy of this dir
ty act, feel public sentiment as ho
never has.
P. TAYLOR,
HASKEL ITEMS.
Tomio 11. Rylo3 has been very
sick this week with chills and
fever.
Messrs. Harry and J. II. Cob
brey, Mr. Jako Simmons, Mrs.
Katy and Jack Friday went to
Muskogee this week.
Mr. Juhn Ware has a beauti
ful $500 resi lent finished up this
week. Ware is 0. K. anyway.
Mr. Joe Jaokaon has baled for
scock to winter on, 45o tons of
fin hay.
M". A. C. Carpenter has 5000
pounds of cotton this week, Mr.
Carpenter in a first class farmer
.Mid is horo from Cherokee nd
lion Mr. Jake Simmons has let a
coutract to a contractor to build
for himself a fine six room, two
atory resident when complete it
will be ono of the finest in tho
country. Mr. Simmon9 owns
Home of tho finest land in Arkan
sas river valley. Ho is a good
farmer. Perhaps there is no one
man in his section has more in
fluence for good than ho.
Sister Doroathor Coats of Mus
kogee, the lady preacher, spent
last week with us warning sin
ners to come to God. Sister
Coats is a lady of fine culture
and equipped for tho pulpit. She
labored very hard for us.
She was born in the state of
Tenneseo in tho year of 1875, G
miles from Grand Junction in
Ilardman county, she has trav
el over a groat many states and
preached whore ever she wont.
We wore glad to have Sister
Coats with us, she is loved by
overybody here,
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