Volume 9 , Issue 19

1905 - Double Statehood Fraud

[This article appeared in The Oklahoman, dated August 22, 1905, frontpage headlines read: "Double Statehood Fraud Has Very Little Sympathy."]

Special to The Oklahoman, Ardmore, I.T., Aug. 2, (1905) -- "The Indian Territory press is almost a unit in condemning the constitutional convention that is being held at Muskogee. The only papers that have expressed sympathy with the movement are the Antlers American, the Muskogee Democrat and the South McAlester Capital.

It is asserted by those favorable to single statehood that the separate movement is designed for the purpose of attempting to defeat statehood altogether, and that the delegates are not sincere in what they are doing. Governor Johnson, of the Chickasaw nation, is opposed to statehood in any manner, and it is believed that others friendly to the movement hold similar views."
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