Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — Can Teach the White Man. [ARTICLE]

Can Teach the White Man.

J. D. Bradford, connected with the hoctaw Railway Cpmpanv, 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, wo witnessed one of the great ■st campaigns ever fought When our railroad pierced the coal mines of the hoc taw .Nation, several of the old rad men attempted to get possession of most of the mines and make us pay dearly lor the coal. They failed and have cried “corporation” ever since. So when th« gubernatorial candidates began to show their hands, Jones took the high moral ground that he was against our railroad and all 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 nu n fifty miles away he would send a man with verbal messages. The other candidates followed this example and no written letters figured in the campaign, The day 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 election of Jones, were summoned to Washington by bogus telegrams to talk with the great lather. And so it went. Every conceivable trick was resorted to After Jones had been declared duly elected and had taken his seat It was dl covered that one precinct which gave him 125 majority was inhabited by less than sev-enty-five people.