OKLAHOMA. 



ONTARIO. 



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Memorial. At Blackwell, Nov. 19, a large 

 gathering of people of the Territory held memorial 

 exercises in a church in honor of Capt. David L. 

 Payne, the original " Oklahoma boomer," who died 

 in 1884. 



Political. The People's party held its Terri- 

 torial convention in Enid, April 10. A determined 

 bolt divided the convention, and each faction nom- 

 inated national committeemen and ten delegates 

 the " regulars " to the Sioux Falls National Con- 

 vention and the bolters to that at Cincinnati. The 

 resolutions of the " regulars " recognized the call 

 for a national convention at Sioux Falls, S. D., 

 May 9 ; favored union of all the elements opposed 

 to trusts, imperialism, and monopoly in the inter- 

 est of the reform candidates in the presidential 

 election and of those in the Territorial elections; 

 reaffirmed adherence to the St. Louis platform of 

 1896; declared for the initiative and referendum, 

 and for public ownership of public utilities; de- 

 nounced the Republican party for placing the pub- 

 lic money in the hands of banking corporations; 

 regretted the evidence of the Republican adminis- 

 tration's sympathy with England in her efforts 

 to crush the Boer republics ; deplored the adminis- 

 tration's conduct of insular affairs; and pledged 

 loyal support to William J. Bryan. 



The Territorial convention of the Republican 

 party was held in Enid, May 10, and transacted 

 its business promptly and without unusual inci- 

 dent. Resolutions were adopted declaring belief 

 in all the principles of the Republican party, ap- 

 proving the national administration, favoring ex- 

 pansion, commending Delegate Flynn and the free- 

 homes measure, and demanding statehood, the 

 creation of a county out of Osage and Kaw Res- 

 ervations, and the allotment and opening of all 

 the Indian reservations to settlement. 



The Democratic Territorial Convention met in 

 El Reno, June 5. This convention resulted in a 

 split, two sets of resolutions and of delegates to 

 the national convention being the outcome. Both 

 factions declared in favor of the nomination of 

 William J. Bryan for the presidency. The plat- 

 form of the " regular " wing denounced the ad- 

 ministration of President McKinley, imperialism, 

 plutocracy, and trusts. It demanded statehood 

 for Oklahoma, and favored the organization of the 

 Osage and Kaw Reservations into one county, 

 to be called Osage County. 



At the joint congressional convention of the 

 Democratic and People's parties, w T hich met in 

 Oklahoma City, July 31, Robert A. Neff was 

 nominated for Delegate to Congress. In the plat- 

 form, anti-imperialism and hostility to trusts were 

 among the most prominent features, the currency 

 legislation of the last Congress was denounced, 

 and free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 demanded. 



The Republican Congressional Convention as- 

 sembled at Guthrie, Aug. 8, and renominated D. T. 

 Flynn for Delegate to Congress. The resolutions 

 approved the Philadelphia platform of 1900; de- 

 clared that every pledge of the Republican party 

 in 1896 had been fulfilled: congratulated Okla- 

 homa on her prosperity, and especially on the 

 extension of the free-homes policy to the Indian 

 lands; extolled the services of Delegate Flynn; 

 pledged the party to strive for the earliest possible 

 *t at ehood of Oklahoma; declared in favor of stand- 

 ing for all the results of the Spanish War, and 

 of expansion "externally and internally": com- 

 mended the appropriation by Congress of $5.000,000 

 for the St. Louis exposition; denounced the dis- 

 franchisement of citizens in North Carolina in vio- 

 lation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments 

 to the United States Constitution; and favored 



lie extension of county rights and government to 



the Indian reservations of the Territory and the 

 early opening of all the reservations to settlement. 



The antifusion wing of the People's party held 

 their congressional convention in Oklahoma City, 

 Sept. 1, and nominated J. S. Allan for Delegate 

 to Congress. The resolutions affirmed unshaken 

 belief in the cardinal tenets of the People's party 

 as set forth in the Cincinnati platform; approved 

 the nominations of Barker and Donnelly for Presi- 

 dent and Vice-President ; denounced the Repub- 

 lican and Democratic parties as tools of plutocra- 

 cy, and opposed all entangling alliances with 

 them; favored single statehood for Oklahoma and 

 Indian Territory, and the speedy allotment and 

 opening to settlement of all the Indian reservations 

 in Oklahoma; and opposed any legislation looking 

 toward the sale of the school lands of the Terri- 

 tory. 



At the election, Nov. 6, the vote for Delegate 

 to Congress gave Flynn, Republican, 38,253; Neff, 

 Fusionist, 33,539; Tucker, Social-Democrat, 780; 

 Allan, Middle-of-the-Road Populist, 780. Flynn's 

 plurality, 4,714. 



To the Council of the Territorial Legislature 

 were elected 7 Democrats, 5 Republicans, and 1 

 Populist; to the House, 16 Republicans and 10 

 Fusionists. 



OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH. The twentieth 

 Old Catholic Synod of Austria met in Vienna, 

 Sept. 8 and 9. Sixty members and a representa- 

 tive of the Government were present. The number 

 of members was returned as 16,885, against 6.113 

 in 1882. The accessions since 1898 had been 3,62<>. 

 of which 1,183 had accrued in the first seven 

 months of 1900. Four new congregations had been 

 organized and four churches built during the year. 

 The moderator spoke of growing friendship be- 

 tween Old Catholics and Protestants. It was 

 represented that the Old Catholic movement was 

 gaining ground in Bohemia, where 17 priests and 

 2,500 people were ready to join it. 



ONTARIO, a province of the Dominion of 

 Canada; area, 222,000 square miles; population 

 in 1891, 2,214,321. 



Politics and Government. The early part of 

 1900 saw the new Ross Government installed in 

 office. It was composed of the following members: 

 Premier and Treasurer, G. W. Ross; Attorney- 

 General, J. M. Gibson; Commissioner of Crown 

 Lands, E. J. Davies; Commissioner of Public 

 Works, F. R. Latchford; Secretary and Registrar, 

 J. R. Stratton; Minister of Education, R. Har- 

 court; Minister of Agriculture, J. Dryden; min- 

 isters without portfolio, W. Harty and J. T. Gar- 

 row. As a reorganization of the previous Hardy 

 Government, which in turn had been a reorganiza- 

 tion of the Liberal Government of Sir Oliver 

 Mowat, in power since 1872, it had certain ele- 

 ments of weakness which made the session of 1900 

 very active. The majority was small, and the 

 Conservative Opposition, under the provincial lead- 

 ership of Mr. J. P. Whitney, had come very near 

 to success in the elections of 1898. By-elections 

 had gone only slightly with the Government, and 

 Messrs. Latchford, Dryden, Stratton, and Preston 

 were elected, against Brower, McDiarmid, and 

 Robson. The House of Assembly was opened on 

 Feb. 13 by Lieut.-Gov. Sir Oliver Mowat, with a 

 speech from the throne, in which he said: 



" The lumbering industry of the province is in 

 a flourishing condition. The legislation of 1898 

 requiring all pine logs cut under license to be 

 manufactured in Canada took effect first in the 

 season of 1898-'99. The practical operation of this 

 legislation has proved wise and timely. While the 

 quantity of pine timber cut last season showed 

 little if any diminution, compared with previous 



