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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1906
Page
2
For County Treasurer J. C. CATES and County Tax Assessor Co C. HARGIS W. H. NETTLES, candidates appear in a notice seeking endorsements or nominations. The document outlines positions and names as the official slate for county financial administration.
The piece denounces the Republican effort in the 87th district as small and corrupt, accusing court house federal appointees of stirring farmers against Carlton Weaver. It argues most Ada business people and farmers back Weaver, cites railroads as sympathetic to Republicans, and urges voters to rebuke the demagogic campaign on election day.
The McAlester Capital denounces Republican leaders for alleged efforts to distort enabling act provisions and Gerrymander districts to suppress Democratic voters and block rival candidates from the ticket during the campaign.
A 15 section platform from the second constitutional convention district in Beaver County includes a clause for compulsory and separate schools for whites blacks and Indians and another for separate coach laws and railroad waiting rooms for each race. The writer questions whether Indians would support Republicans under this reading.
A Ada fire outbreak highlights the need for a city wide alarm system. C S Patterson of the electric light plant advocates a loud whistle alarm costing about 80 dollars with steam power furnished free. The system would be operable from the central telephone office and could signal location of the fire.
Resolutions from the Democratic convention at Ada Ora outlining support for direct democracy. They advocate initiative and referendum, right to recall, and the people’s power to decide public and local matters. The text emphasizes trusting the people to elect officers and settle questions via popular vote.
The platform calls for separate schools and facilities for Black citizens, constitutional reforms for direct democracy, an elected railroad commission and supreme court, labor and farmer protections, a state alien land law, a statewide road system funded by general taxes, convict road labor, a 1 percent tax on corporate intangible assets, uniform tax rates, opposition to trusts, anti bribery laws, direct election of all officials, campaign finance transparency, a people’s right to amend the constitution, sensible interest rates and homestead exemptions, and procedural limits on public debt. It also supports primaries, a Jeffersonian constitution, and separate articles on prohibition plus an agricultural department and schools.
The platform argues for anti trust safeguards and a people elected railroad commission, strict charter enforcement and punishment for rebates, land easements limited to necessary rights of way, and reversion of abandoned land. It calls for factory mine inspectors, youth labor protections, eight hour work, free school books, a bonded school fund, retention of state lands, state control of coal lands for public benefit, and ending free passes for public officers with recalls to Congress.
A document written with the assistance of Henry Asp, a professional lobbyist and general solicitor for the Santa Fe system in Oklahoma, advocating railroads, trusts, and illegal combinations.
Ardmore Oklahoma Territory November 2 190N notice to Charles von Weise states Joe and Dillard Perry are transferred from Chickasaw freedmen to citizens by blood of the Chickasaw nation after ten years of appeals. decision allows all Choctaw Chickasaw descent on rolls to enroll as citizens by blood and receive higher allotment and tribal funds.
J L Hobgood a farmer living 1.5 miles west of town died November 3 after a wagon wheel passed over his body as he tried to reach the city with a corn load. It is believed paralysis struck him near the town limits and he died at 3 20 pm despite medical aid.
Mrs. Lurinda B. Smith of Kansas told the national convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union that 10000 girls in Chicago work for five dollars weekly and 5000 saloons operate there. She cited young women held in captivity and sold at auction in New York and urged nationwide delegation unity to suppress white slave trade. She noted 17 nations united recently to combat the vice.
A brief note touts Prickley Ash Bitters as a successful kidney tonic and system regulator. It highlights small yet important kidneys needing occasional support and positions the product as aid.
Venice M. H. Ayers is summoned to appear within thirty days to answer the plaintiff C. M. Chauncey in a case before J. P. Wood mayor of Ada Indian Territory dated Oct 29 1906. Galbraith McKeown attorneys for plaintiff and W C Edwards attorney for nonresident defendant.
In the United States Commissioner’s Court in the Indian Territory S ern District Ed L Reed plaintiff v Oklahoma Oolite Stone Company defendant The Some Oka Oolite tone Company is warned to appear in this Court in thirty days and answer documents of the plaintiff Ed L Reed Witness my hand and official seal at Ada this 16th day of October 1906. U G Winn United States Commissioner. No 1529
J Urquhart of Zephyr Ontario reports a lingering cold lasting weeks was cured by one bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after a local dealer guarantee. He praises it as the best he has used and notes it is sold by G M Ramsey.
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