Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1892 — Can Teach the White Man. [ARTICLE]

Can Teach the White Man.

J. D Bradford, connected with the hoi'tsw Hailway Company, Indian Territory, says the Choctaw Indians have no equals in practical politics in any land in the world Last winter when' Gov Jones, a young half-breed, was elected Governor, we witnessed one of the great est campaigns ever fought When our railroad pierced the coal mines of the hoctaw Nation, several of the old red men attempted to get possession of most of the mines and make us pay dearly for the coal. They failed and have cried “corporation” ever since. So when the gubernatorial candidates began to show their honds, Jones took the high moral ground that he was against our railroad and ail those who favored it. He went in the fight with this sentiment as a watchword and was elected, but it was an exciting fight. During the campaign if Jones wanted to communicate with a n ..fty miles away he would send a man with verbal messages, the other cand dates followed this example and no written etters figured In the campaign, the diy before the voting a messiah story was turned loose in the sections of the nation where Jones was not popular and the people left to see the messiah, thus losing their votes. On this same day a number of leading Indians, who were working against the ele tion of Jones, were summoned to Washington by bogus telegrams to talk with the great father. And so it went Every conceivable trick was resorted to After fonos had been declared duly elected and ha taken his seat It was di covered that one p, ecinct which gave him 125 majority was Inhabited by less than sev-enty-five people.