The Guthrie Daily Leader

POLITICS AT PAWHUSKA

Democrats and Republicans Are Active in Osage Nation.

Both the Republicans and Democrats have placed in nomination full city tickets for the first election to be held when Pawhuska becomes a corporation as a city of the first class. It will be held on July 21.

Both parties are organizing to capture the first set of city officers and an interesting campaign is in progress.

A question of vast importance, which both parties are trying to get solved prior to the election, is whether or not the Osage Indians, who are living within the city, are entitled to vote in the city election.

Although a bill has passed congress, permitting the Osages full citizenship and land allotment, yet the provisions of the bill are not yet in effect and will not be for several months.

The Indian vote, however, is entirely an unknown quantity.

The Republicans of Pawhuska have nominated the following ticket: For mayor, T. H. McLaughlin; city clerk, Ed McMahan; attorney, Joseph D. Mitchell; marshal, W. B. Jackson; treasurer, M. O. Garrett; police judge, H. P. White; assessor, R. R. McCreight; street commissioner, J. W. Carter; school treasurer, George Simcock; for city council: D. I. Beck and J. C. Ferguson, First ward; F. G. A. Morris and A. H. Gibson, Second ward; H. Norick and J. R. Patton, Third ward; A. S. Sands and N. F. Overfield, Fourth ward. For school board: J. A. Daniels and F. Schaber, First ward; Dr. Harry Walker and C. W. Curtis, Second ward; J. R. Pearson and H. C. Ripley, Third ward; N. A. Girard and C. W. Burnett, Fourth ward.

The following city central committee was named: A. H. Hunt, J. M. Ferguson, H. P. White and Dr. J. W. Way.

The resolutions passed by the city Republican convention, adopted the following brief platform: To establish and conduct an economical government, which shall be cautious and conservative; to grant no franchises; to exert every and the utmost legitimate effort to solve our perplexing and serious school situation and to establish free schools at the earliest possible moment.

The Democratic city platform stands for the earliest possible establishment of a free school system, favors the principle of referendum in dealing with franchises and pledges the immediate improvement of the sanitary conditions of the city.

They nominated the following ticket: For mayor, C. M. Hirt; police judge, L. F. Roberts; marshal, Charles Callahan; treasurer, R. W. Tucker; attorney, Charles McDonald; city clerk, G. T. Bennett; street commissioner, Jack Hayes; school treasurer, W. W. Hardwick; assessor, J. H. Sloan; for city council: W. H. Hickerson and P. S. Harris, First ward; E. M. Dempsey and J. B. Tolson, Second ward; C. C. Duncan and W. T. Mosier, Third ward; J. L. Johnson and W. J. Boone, Fourth ward. For school board: Ben Liebenheim and A. Gerney, First ward; J. F. Palmer and W. C. Tucker, Second ward; C. B. Peters and G. H. Grady, Third ward; T. J. Leahy and T. L. Lillard, Fourth ward.