Times Democrat (Newspaper) - November 20, 1906, Muskogee, Oklahoma win the big contest at ft population bank BY THE ASSOCIATED SEE IT IN INDIAN TU ION 1 LAST NUMBER 5T. ALWAYS LITTLE WIFE OF SEN. BURTON THE Wl CONVENTION Murray H. of Vice of South M. Young of Sergeant at of Assistant Sergeant at Oats of Naylor of Nov. 20.- Democratic caucus Inst night selected H. for president of the constitutional Murray received 01) voto out Of ' of South was the candidate against Murray in the show Hughes got 28 ing After the selection of the candidate for president of the Peter Hanratty was chosen vice-president and John M. of Henry of called the convention to W. of was made The Republicans voted to stand for P. B. for an empty Nov. 20.-The Hon of Murray to presidency of the moat important convention that Oklahoma will eve Is the sequence of a series of events in the new state tn pointed to this culmination With i erring It may added that there was a group any one of whom might hav supplanted Murray without Ing at all the plan that was The success of Murray and tht old Sequoyah crowd which ed tha constitutional convention here was born years ago n the acrimonious spirit and the vi clous attacks that were made men who believed separate was bettor for the two territories than The staters the separate Into a ct class by charging with selfish trying to defeat anil most on the calender tending to cause an unkind The separate star on the other advocated separate did not place anything In the way of sin gle simply any kind of but expres Ing a When statehood it jeft the Separate filters standing solidly and the single staters split In dozens of That's why Hughes could aot be He could not cement THE TWO COMMITTEES HAVE CONSOLIDATED Nov. 20.-(Special) i to leave the selecting of a The of In- new state organization to a ai hero last Into both expressed organization to as Democratic state central committee of Jesse L. chairman of the Oklahoma Territory and Fren of the Indian Territory stepped out of their offices and J. B. of Paul's was elected the chairman of the consolidated and W. L. of was chosen secretary of the new Pat a committeeman from presented a opinion that the commit tees have no right to perpetuate His resolution was voted down by a large Col. William of moved that each Indian Territory delegate have one vote In the meeting of the amalgamated was The Is composed of thirty members from Indian Territory and fifty-four from The committee adjourned to meet at Tulsa two days after the Hams take to cover the that should have been There are thirty-five old Sequoyah constitutional delegates In this They wrote the Sequoyah constitution and the indications are that they are going to write the Oklahoma When the Indian Territory men came here they demonstrated superior executive ability and an Intimate arid surprising knowledge of what a constitutional convention is. This made their work They proceeded Immediately to Jump Clear Over the group of Oklahoma Democrats in the half dozen counties north of the Chickasaw who have dictated the politics of proceeded to mako with delegates In the western A clear case of the being against In Trw alliance was a natural and The Western Oklahoma counties were not in sympathy with Oklahoma politicians on statehood fight not on other The trouble started when the Democrats of Oklahoma called a joint meeting of the Democratic campaign committees at Guthrie outline policies for the and take oilier of the Danger f this should have been seen In tha published statement of Fred Parkinson of who stated that he had not called a meeting of the Territory Democratic committee at Guthrie and did not Intend Phis was the first indication that thj In the and ndian were not going to recognize any party whip who might arrogate to himself such nor were they going to Guthrie to receive orders from the committee largely of men In the of Oklahoma City and surrounding This it may bo one of tha most hopeful signs state has ihe Independence of the parLy from n committee domination is The reason that Murray was selected as the available man Is apparent in his name stands for and stands for A Good The Union did the Murray was the man who could W. A. Ledbetter in the Chickasaw and make R. L. he wanted The Woman Who Now Stands by Prisoner Husband Never a Society But Grand Among the the Sick and the Aged An Episode of the Opening of the Hunting Season ter has always stood wIMi the City Democrats ' Incidentally he has always been on terms with a few Ledbetter was not In sympathy with the majority of the Indian Territory De- I Practically all the north of the Canadian river and a great many would have been solidly for C. N. Haskell of Muskogee for but he would have Lacked Strength in ihe Chickasaw nation and Ledbetter would have been able to deliver the delegates there to the City which he desired to and this have elected It WOUld have also put Ledbetter In tile saddle Indian Haskell would not the so he immediately decided that beat Ledbetter In the Chickasaw and with a combination with Oklahoma he would have a combination that would at no time bo Haskell Is a fighter and not looking for an This left him singularly free to play vigorous and decisive That was what forced Hughes out of i ne Idea that the First ot the new state would be an Oklahoma man Iras leng been in Indian This did not keep aspiring out of the So when Tom who was managing Jonnson of Perry for the presidency of the was told by Haskell and Murray that ii the presidency of the convention came to Indian Territory the governorship of the state would be more likely to go to Tom saw the Tom to be He pulled Johnston off and joined That's where the stampede There were other working on the same whit caused U. S. commence with the Hughes crowd for the chief The fact that lost the clerkship is due entirely to that Russell la a close personal Friend of Haskell and Murray and when they male Peter Hanratta of that they had sufficient strength to give two of the best places in the convention to Indian Hussel had Just as well have had the place as except the added advantage of Hanratta that he iB at the head of which had some weight in giving him the Unless R. L. Williams of has made his peace with the Sequoyah crowd which controlled the he has dropped back several laps In his race for He was not in the which put the slate when it The selection of John M. Long of Lawton is but another evidence of the natural combination of the and ends of the new staio against the Geographical location and have had a great deal to do with the present political t In the Burlier Days when there was nothing at meetings were called at Oklahoma City and because they were easy to reach and because there to drinks an Important item to Indian Territory Politicians who lived ( Continued on Page Kansas Nov. 20.-August and Louis railway laborers were found dead in a local rooming house this The deaths were due to to Special to the Nov. 19 know my husband Is Innocent and some the world will know It and honor him 1 never was happier In my life than I am Such Is the expression of Mrs. wife ot former Senator Kalph Burton of who Is serving a six-month term in jail at convicted of misusing his Mrs. Burton has never She has maintained her confidence and trust In her On the way from homo met them on the train and offered his hand to She proudly I will not shako hands with she declared so positively that whole car noted It. were not our friend when you could have helped and I refuse to have anything to do with you know who my friends aro she am willing to be friendly wlh I am still rt serving the right to my own We will be back In Kane sas In the spring and then will have somo fun in what on tho right of with a Always She always She Is small with a face that is full of She has never been a society but her kindness to those around her Is famous In the little town of Her horse and surrey are always at the service of the Invalids and the her garden furnishes vegetables for a dozen needy am preparing all my husband's she shall see to it that he has good care so that he may come out strong and then he can finish this She does not like praise for her I stand by my she says a wife expected to desert when her husband is in My husband is innocent and I am with him more sincerely than jr An As country school teacher in Indiana when a girl of 17; bride of a struggling young lawyer on the wife of his mature years when she campaigned with him over a senator's wife at the partner of one on whom the law was laying its helpmeet of a prisoner In a little of Southern has been her She made her husband senator MRS. BURTON DESERT ED HOME IN KANSAS When he was attacked she campaigned by side and silenced the Bhe knew more he she won friends from his Once he came within one vote of being senator and She smiled as blithely as now will try she and they began once more win that From Washington back to then to went her and by his side was Women Admire Fifty women were to see her off when they started for She had made a of every Woman in this She has agreed with the housewives that It Is best to plant potatoes by tho moon and has entertained them with reminiscences of frontier life Every day Is renewed by hor hands the bouquet that brightens her husband's It Is doubtful If he could have stood the strain of the past two years and of the present but for her for wife is the most hopeful woman I ever remarked Mr. Burton on the day he entered insists that good will come out of this for me. It I'll be blessed If I ee much of It with a weary Burton is a Christian has made me says for tt I could not hare borne all I will be for the best in. the and am willing to ' Mother to They have no but a dozen nieces hare found la her a bhe has been generous with money and A former telegraph messenger to school on money given him every month by Mr. and t good thing feM come out of this her enabled who aro our ship U what Their toe Much of * to Jt Mr they will go b will It will bo but It will bo w his courageous suffered untold relieved her GUESTS STORM Nov. 20.-A severe snow and sleet storm In the Mississippi and Missouri valleys today has delayed trains and hit wire In parts of Oklahoma and Kansas Sleet is Four Rock Island passenger are stalled in between Bucklin and In Colorado is below in the day between Kansas City and St. Louis was shut off. t Heavy Nov. 20.-With rain still falling the situation in this section Is more It is Driven Shivering into the Streets of Chicago by an Early Morning Fire Nov. 20.-Guests in the Barnes West Randolph and Clinton were driven Into the early today by a that destroyed a building newly occupied by a number of manufacturing The damage is estimated at hundred thousand TAFT I. Nov. 20.-(Bpl.) entire town was shocked taU morning to learn of the horrible death of Mrs. James by It seems that she was at home alone and was stirring the fire tho gas in the coal exploded and the blaze flew out of the door of the setting fire to dress and her whole body was soon a mass of Her cries attracted who immediately came to her assistance but she was burned so badly that she lived only a tew Every stitch of clothing except he shoes was burned off of her and sne D. Nov. 20.- Secretary Taft will return to Wash ington this afternoon and until his arrival there will be no further action concerning the three companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry sentenced to be dismissed for their participation in the riot at Brownsville The case will not nUnn a min ar the Carte proximate a a lather site la considered more tT In this She waa only eighteen and bad been a Her death la and her husband of ihe entire comma t. ' * * -t N. 8., Nov. tic steamer Roosevelt 1*.-^-, or + * iron * + * * * * Tonight GRAND RIVER DIM SITE IS CHAN New developments have shown up In the Urand river dam proposition which will cause a little delay in tho building of but the Indications that it will be built are stronger at this time than at any time It Is a well known fact that a number of companies are interested in the project and from advices from one of them it seems that the site ot tho dam will be moved two up the The old sito is at a place known as Flower's and new site is 4evoruI miles farther up the river on account of a greater insuring more and there 1$ not so much liability an overflow from the Arkansas Another thing In favor of the new alto is that the tracks of tha Frisco railroad will not have to be moved as they would the case ot Flower's Creek site Is It is also that the amount of laud it will be necessary to condemn buy on account of the be much The firm which gating the new site to get everything Is considered a % shore time thing in to
