You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
Hellraisers Journal, Thursday October 11, 1906
Mother Jones Found in Oklahoma & Indian Territories During September
From the Tulsa Daily World of September 2, 1906:
MOTHER JONES’ CAMPAIGN.
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Socialist Agitator Will Make Addresses
in Indian Territory.
Durant, I. T., Sept 1.-Mother Jones, of Philadelphia, who is well known from Maine to California, as a socialist agitator of great prominence, was greeted at Shuler Park last night by a large and enthusiastic audience, many of the people coming from a distance. The speaker was introduced by R. M. Coon. Mother Jones in her address principally talked upon the labor struggles which her party declares is in existence. She is a fluent talker and is very emphatic in her denunciations. Her remarks were at all times heartily applauded. She will leave today for Madill, where she will address a socialist meeting tonight.
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From the Appeal to Reason of September 8, 1906:
CENTRAL STATES PARTY NEWS.
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Oklahoma.There will be a Socialist picnic and red card county convention held in the park at Watonga, Okla., Tuesday, September 11th. Mother Jones and other noted speakers will be present, and every body is invited.
The first number of the “Oklahoma Socialist Bulletin,” for September, has been issued by the state secretary, J. E. Snyder, from headquarters at 112 1-2 W. Grand avenue, Oklahoma City, Okla. Besides the program and constitution of the Oklahoma party, the “Bulletin” contains much miscellaneous matter of interest to comrades in the territory.
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From the New York Worker of September 8, 1906:
PARTY NEWS.
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National.NATIONAL AGITATION FUND.
Contributions to the National Agitation fund from Aug. 18 to 31, inclusive, are reported as follows:
Mother Jones, gathered afield, $60; Wallace Berger, Albuquerque, N. Mex., $1.50; A Comrade, Chicago, Ill., $1; John M. Work, Des Moines, Ia., $1; H. T. Smith, Chicago, Ill., $1.
From the Appeal to Reason of September 22, 1906:
CENTRAL STATES PARTY NEWS.
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Oklahoma.A mass convention of the Socialists of District 55 will be held at Corum, Beaver township, on September 29th, for the purpose of nominating delegates to the state constitutional convention.
Mother Jones is still working in Oklahoma.
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Socialist Party Organizing in Oklahoma and Indian Territories
From the Appeal to Reason of September 1, 1906:
CENTRAL STATES PARTY NEWS.
—–INDIAN TERRITORY.
Comrade J. T. Montgomery of Hughard, I. T., has made arrangements with a local paper to publish socialistic matter. This is a thing that should be done by the comrades everywhere.
There are fifty-five constitutional districts in the Indian territory, and the indications are that each district will have a Socialist ticket in the field for the November election. The real strength of the Socialists in the territory is unknown, but is greater than generally supposed, and will prove a surprise. Old party politicians try to dampen enthusiasm by telling that the Socialist ticket cannot be filed because the party was not specified in the enabling act; but, as the Oklahoma election laws apply to the territory, such is not the case.
Comrade F. P. O’Hare has had enthusiastic meetings with large attendance in the Indian Territory at Williams, Rameron, Bokese and Sutter. Collections, sales of books and subscriptions to the APPEAL big at all points.
(See important notice in Oklahoma news.)—–
OKLAHOMA.
To the Locals of Oklahoma and Indian Territories:
For the purpose of nominating candidates to the constitutional convention, your executive committee hereby calls upon you to comply with the following rules:
Each local in every constitutional delegated district will at once elect a member of the local to act as a member of the district committee.
The members so elected by the different locals in your district will form the Socialist Party district committee for the ______ district. This committee must meet at once; elect a chairman and secretary, and formulate a call for a convention as follow:
To the Socialists of _____ District, Oklahoma Territory:
A mass convention of the Socialists of the above district will be held at _____ which is in said district, on the _____ day of _____, 1906, for the purpose of nominating the Socialist Party candidate for delegate to the constitutional convention to be held at Guthrie, and which election is to take place on November 6th, 1906.
To be signed by the chairman and secretary of meeting, with their residences.
This notice must be published in some newspaper in the district as “Legal News,” at least fifteen days prior to holding the convention.
We call upon all the locals to give this their immediate attention, as the time is very short for publishing all notices, and proper filing of nomination papers.
Districts having but one local, the local will act as the Socialist Party district committee. Where the members of a local live in more than one district, the local will elect a member of each district.
The following applies only to Indian Territory:
Petition to the election commissioner of the _____ district, Indian Territory.
At a mass convention of the Socialists of the ____ constitutional delegate district, _____ _____ (Name of candidate in full), a legal voter of this district, residing at _____ was nominated as the candidate of the Socialist Party for delegate to the constitutional convention for this, the _____ district. The candidate is a Socialist, and is eligible to hold the office for which he is nominated.
The undersigned hereby petition the election commissioner of this, the _____ district, to place on the ballot to be used at the election on November 6th, 1906, the name of _____ as candidate of the Socialist Party, and the emblem to be used on the ballot by the Socialist Party will be the open hand _____.
To be signed by the chairman and secretary of the meeting, with their residences.
This petition must be signed by twenty-five legal voters of the district, giving first name in full, and stating their residence opposite their respective names. Any other information desired will be supplied by Territorial Secretary J. E. Snyder, 112 1-2 West Grand avenue, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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SOURCES
Tulsa Daily World
(Tulsa, Indian Territory)
-Sept 2, 1906
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042344/1906-09-02/ed-1/seq-1/
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
-Sept 8, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66994460/
-Sept 22, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66994506/
-Sept 1, 1906
https://www.newspapers.com/image/66994438/
The Worker
(New York, New York)
-Sept 8, 1906, page 5
http://www.genealogybank.com/
IMAGES
Mother Jones, Mar 11, 1905, AtR
http://www.newspapers.com/image/66992169/
Socialist Party of America Button
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/eam/spa/socialistparty.html
See also:
Grass-Roots Socialism:
Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895–1943
-by James R. Green
LSU Press, Jul 1, 1978
(Search with: mother jones oklahoma 1906)
https://books.google.com/books?id=LuMPvekcRwAC
Frank P. O’Hare
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_P._O%27Hare
Indian Territory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Territory
Oklahoma Territory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Territory