Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — OKLAHOMA LETTER. [ARTICLE]

OKLAHOMA LETTER.

lu a letter to The Democrat editor a few days ago, James W. Doutbit of Weatherford, Custer county, Oklahoma, among other things, says: This year Oklahoma is all right. We have had abundance of rain. Our potatoes are ready to dig and peaches are beginning to come into town. There will be an abundance of watermelons this summer. Last Sunday mv wife, baby and I went to Caddo, or Hydro as the postoffice is called. The prairie looked like a flower-bed. This is a part of the new country that was opened last fall. There are houses of all kinds; some good, some very small and some live in ‘‘dugouts.” Between here and Hydro, which is about nine miles east of here, the country is sandy and some of tbe corn is vety small, but if the ram does not give out it will raise a good crop. The cotton is small but looks well. On account of the washouts the roads were bad and some places dangerous but we had a good team and a good rigand got home all right. The Demcrats held their primary election on May 31st and the county officers were nominated. The Republicans will i hold their primary in September. The I county is Democratic but not by a large i majority. The Democrats have nominiated Bill Cross as a delegate for Congress. He is an ex-soldierand a traveling man by occupation. He is considered very popular and the Democrats expect to elect him. Dennis Flynn, tbe present delegate, has said all the time ■ that he did not want the nomination but Ihe may be nominated. He is a demagogue of the first water and has deluded the people of this Territory with free homes and the idea that he could get the Territory in the Union, and by that means secured a great many democratic votrs. We did hope that Quay would have back bone enough to force a vote on his resolution to take the matter from the committee on Territories but he seems to have weakened. Oklahoma has no love for the junior Senator of Indiana who is noted for an abundance of words but a dearth of ideas. Oklahoma will not surrender her convictions and some time justice wifi be rendered her and she will be permitted to take her place in tbe Union as a Sovereign State, even if she is Democratic in politics.