National Affairs: New Nation

Seventy-seven counties has the State of Oklahoma — Choctaw and Pushmataha, Bryan and Love, Jefferson and Garfield, Custer and Dewey, Cotton and Alfalfa, Beaver and Kingfisher, many another.

But of all these, only Major County, up on the Cimarron River near the Kansas border, failed this autumn to vote the Democratic ticket for President and Senator. Last week at Major's county seat of Fairview, which lies on the main line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R., Gerald Vincent Underwood, publisher, and Cass Alonzo Carr, editor of the Fairview Republican, took matters...

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