Campaign Funds Appeal for Bryan Kern Victory
A national fund drive asks Ada readers to deposit one dollar in banks to credit the Pontotoc Democratic Campaign fund. Contributors are named in the News honor roll and receive an engraved receipt with Bryan and Kern portraits signed by national leaders. The letter urges editor support and wide newspaper collaboration to finance a clean campaign in 1909.
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Ada
Pontotoc Democratic Campaign Fund
Bryan and Kern
Norman E. Mack
National
Moses Wetmere
Haskell
Oklahoma
O. B. Weaver
The
Evening News
Okla
National Committee
Democracy
William J. Bryan
John W. Kern
United States
Great
Democratic Party
Patriotic Democrats
M. C. Wetmore
Auditorium Annex
Chicago
Violent clash ends with deaths in Oklahoma blacksmith shop
In Keota Oklahoma a courtroom dispute between Sid Stockton and Sam Shores erupted into a hand to hand battle in a local blacksmith shop. Shores died his son aged 18 fatally injured Leflore and Stockton also injured as the fight with sledges caused multiple broken arms and bloody scenes before a crowd of about 300 could intervene.
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Shores
Son
Leflore
Oklahoma School Land Preservation league action expanded
Oklahoma City reports letters from across the state praising Senator Roy E Stafford and his league in opposing school lessees selling school lands. The state committee is to be formed with one representative from each county and meetings are planned as the league’s machinery comes into full motion within a week.
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Oklahoma City
Roy E. Stafford
The
Oklahoma School Land Preservation League
Stafford
League
McAlester
Kansas
Prison St
Bryan Regeves Odd Gifts for Presidential Campaign
William J. Bryan received from the Minnesota State Agricultural Society a trick mule as the party mascot, shipped to Lincoln and welcomed in Fairview. Donors packed unusual items for the campaign, including chickens, a watermelon, walking sticks, flags, and a pressed effort to raise funds. A Texan farmer sent a four month old colt to Fort Worth for sale to aid the campaign fund.
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Dickenson
Correspondent Corps
Bryan
Dallas
A. R. Conroy
Mansfield
Tex
Miners Pursue After Negroes in Jellico Uprising
Knoxville reports say white miners attacked negroes near Jellico with threats of killing within three days. Sheriff Hughes of Claiborne County arrested five alleged leaders, easing tension though fears remain. A cabin fire killing an elderly woman and five children was unverified but feared to be connected.
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Sherif Hughes
Claiborne County
Tenn
Dents
Jellico
Huddleston
Gov Johnson Renominated by Democratic State Convention
Minneapolis August 19 Gov John son renominated for governor by the Democratic state convention after Mayor Lawler of St Paul announced his name. The hall erupted in a wild demonstration with waved standards and a brass band leading delegates. A messenger was sent to inform the governor who had previously stated he would not run again. The convention pressed on ignoring his stance.
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Minneapolis
Johnson
Lawler
St. Paul
Reduction in Rail Guthrie Ok Aug 18
General West and his assistant George W. are reported in Guthrie Oklahoma on August 18 regarding a reduction in rail operations. The terse dispatch notes local military or logistical adjustments.
Soldiers Stir Riot at Terminal Station
Atlanta police reserves battled two companies of United States regulars who roared from Fort Slocum on route to the Philippines. Officers used force after soldiers harassed passengers. Col Thompson and Fort McPherson troops joined the response amid a serious stabbing incident involving soldiers Frank Smith and Joseph A Bleak.
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Atlanta
United States
Fort Slocum
Philippines
Fort McPherson
Col. Bankhead
Terminal Station
Hill
Col
Thompson
Gulf Department
Benedict Arrested Again in Oklahoma Libel Case
Guthrie Oklahoma Aug 18 Editor Omar K Benedict of the Oklahoma City Times is named a defendant in a second criminal libel case after Gov C N Haskell filed an affidavit in Logan county court. The charge claims Benedict published an editorial accusing the governor of schemes to defraud creditors of the Oklahoma Central Railroad and tried to sway public opinion against Haskell. Benedict vows to appear in Guthrie and post bond.
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Logan County
The
Times
Oklahoma Central Railroad
Benedict
Guthrie
Haskell
Publica
Oklahoma Central
Gov. Haskell
Clerical Push for Democratic Ticket Split
Bishop Walters of the AME church led a delegation to Bryan press manager Watterson to urge colored voters to desert the Republican party and back the Democrats. He argued that white southern protection would ensure negro welfare and cited Springfield riots as a spur to defeat Roosevelt and Taft.
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New York
Walters
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Watterson
Bryan Press
America
South
Washington
Springfield
North
Roosevelt
Taft
Bryan
Poverty Drives Woman to Poison Family Then Herself
In Orlando Oklahoma on August 19 Mrs Elmer Garfield wife of a laborer fed poison to her baby using a spoon and to three other children with rough on rats capsules, then drank the remaining poison. Medical aid saved all involved and she had written a letter explaining her motive. The druggist refused arsenic sale, leading to the fatal plan.
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Orlando
Elmer Garfield
Garfield
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National Democratic Committee
Ada Bank
ADA News
Kern
Victory
Treas. Dem. Nat. Com
Bryan Regeves
ODD
Fairview, Lincoln, Neb
Ceived
Minnesota State Ag
Ricultural Society
Lincoln
Fairview
Mr. Bryan
Danten
Seabie
William Jennings Bryan
Tennessee
Knoxville
Gov
Evenan
Frank Smith
Joseph A. Bleak
Oklahoma City Times
K. Benedict
Gov. C. N. Haskell
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