People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1897 — Politics and Religion. [ARTICLE]

Politics and Religion.

The Unique Prayer of an Oklahoma Chaplain. Perry, O. T., March 2.—The Rev. Mr. Newman, Populist chaplain of the Oklahoma Lower House, delivered this prayer at a morning session recently: “Help4he suffering Cubans, good Father, and prompt Congress to (disregard any unholy President’s mandate and give succor to the afflicted people on that isle; and. O Lord, h§ar now and smile on us, and protect us from the gangrened, corrupt influences and sway of Buzzard’s Bay. Give us prosperity and bimetallism. Speed this assembly in its work. Amen.” Immediately after this invocation, a Populist member introduced a bill to increase the chaplain’s salary by an additional dollar a prayer.