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of gerrymandering of election district lines by Republican
administrators of the Enabling Act in Oklahoma Territory.
Finally, in the eyes of many voters, the prominence of
railroad lawyers in the Republican party and their interest
in a short constitution with safeguards for corporations
evidenced a serious deficiency of concern for the lot of
the common man.~
Democrats capitalized on all the "shortcomings" of the
Republicans, while demanding a "progressive" constitution
for all of the people. The landslide victory of 10© of
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Albert E. Ellis, A History of the Constitutional Con-
vention of the State of Oklahoma (Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1923),
pp. 13-15, 39, 40; Albert McRill, And Satan Came Also: An
Inside Story of a City's Social and Political History
(Oklahoma City, 1955), p. 105; Stewart, Government and Develop-
ment, pp. 298-309, 319; Irvin Hurst, The Forty-sixth State:
A History of Oklahoma1s Statehood and Early Statehood (Oklahoma
City, 1957) pp. 1-3; The election districts for the Consti-
tutional Convention delegates were drawn by committees..
In Indian Territory the U. S. Commissioner to the Five
Civilized Tribes and the two Federal Judges of the Territory
were charged with this responsibility. In Oklahoma Territory
the Governor, the Secretary of State and the Chief Justice
of the Territorial Supreme Court drew the lines. All male
citizens of the United States or any Indian tribe in Oklahoma
or the Indian Territories with six months residence were
eligible to vote for delegates,but Indian full bloods paid
scant attention. See James Shannon Buchanan and Edward
Everett Dale, A History of Oklahoma (Evanston, Illinois,
1924), p. 279; Arrell. M. Gibson, Oklahoma: A Student's Guide
to Localized History, Localized History Series (New York, 1965),
p. 25; Angie Debo, And Still The Waters Run (Princeton, New
Jersey, 1940), p. 166; Joseph B. Thorburn and Muriel H.
Wright, Oklahoma, A History of the State and Its People, II,
4 vols., (New York, 1929), 632; Watonga (Oklahoma) Republican,
December 27, 1906.
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