Cimarron Page #8

I've heard just about enough from you,

Cimarron Cravat.

And you might just as well know it,

that as soon as I'm on my own...

I'm gonna marry Ruby.

- Your father will put a stop to this.

- Dad knows.

It's all right with him.

Ruby's waiting, Mother.

Goodbye.

Well, that's a nice social problem,

an Indian in the family.

Well, I'm going to pick out the richest

white man in town and marry him.

Sure struck it rich, Louis.

Yes, boys. Money's coming in so fast

I don't know what to do with it.

- Isn't she a beauty?

- It's a crackerjack!

Hey, Cal, how do you like it?

It's a humdinger.

Latest thing out, folding glass front.

Show them, Irving.

- Thirty, I bet.

- Does 30 an hour.

- You don't say.

- How's the business, Cal?

Fine. They're building another addition

to the Bixby house.

- Say, that's great.

- It just couldn't be better.

Hey, boys, don't scratch that.

It's a new car, you know.

I must say, Mr. Levy,

your stock is quite up-to-date.

You'll have my orders in at once

for my new house?

I'll attend to it myself.

I hear you have a lovely new home.

Small place, 15 rooms. Goodbye.

Mr. Hefner! Gentlemen. How do you do?

- A lift?

- Thank you, I don't mind if I do.

Go ahead, and don't break anything.

Be seated. There.

- Three cylinders?

- No, two.

I've ordered a four-cylinder.

I'm gonna get one of those new

acetylene headlights...

so I can see around the corners.

- Now, Irving, careful. Not too fast.

- He might blare the horn.

Goodbye, boys. Goodbye.

Yes, sir. I've seen your complaint.

We'd like to inform you

that the Oklahoma Wigwam...

still prints all the news, all the time.

Knowing no law but the law of God...

and the Government

of these United States.

Yours very truly.

Well, Rickey, you don't stutter as much

as you used to, do you?

You noticed it, Mr. Leary?

I'm getting better all the...

What'd you mention it for?

Cravat is expecting me.

Yes, I'll tell him.

Mr. Cravat, Mr. Pat Leary is here.

All right, Mr. Leary.

Thank you, thank you.

Yance...

we've been rather opponents in the past...

but there's no reason

why we can't be friends.

No.

After all, you haven't gotten very far,

I mean, in a moneyed way...

with all your talk and editorials.

No, but I have a clear conscience.

I could throw another vote your way

to elect you governor.

Yes, you could.

Now, with you in the chair,

we've got the chance of a lifetime.

We can fix things

so we'd all make plenty of money.

Now, you see, the Indians...

they aren't competent

to take care of their own...

oil leases, and claims, and income.

That's understood.

Now, we'll have an agent

appointed for them...

- one that'll do just...

- Now, let me understand.

We'll have an agent appointed...

who will steal the money

from the Indians?

Well, just a matter of bookkeeping,

you know.

Mr. Leary, I've known

all about your scheme for weeks...

and I think it's the dirtiest,

filthiest piece of politics...

that ever came into

the State of Oklahoma...

and I'll smash you

and everybody connected with it...

- before I'm through with you.

- You ain't coming in, then?

Then I'll smash your chances

for governor...

and I can do it, too.

Yancey, you know about Cim and Ruby.

We can't live our children's lives

for them, honey.

Listen to this, the lead for tomorrow.

"The demagogues plan to rob them again.

"Stealing the vast ocean of oil gushing up

through the miserable, barren land...

"known as the Osage Indian reservation...

"again victimizing those duped and

wretched Americans, the Osage Indians.

"Their treaties broken, their land stolen...

"and now there's about to burst forth

the gaudiest...

"star-spangled piece of crookedness...

"ever played under the wing

of a double-dealing government."

- We can't print that.

- And why not?

This isn't the Cimarron country.

It's the State of Oklahoma.

You can't slur the government.

It's treason.

It's history.

I don't blame the government

for crooked politicians' tricks.

I'll show them.

I'll stop them if it's the last thing I ever do.

- But...

- Furthermore...

the time has come

to give the red man full citizenship...

so he can live as free

as the white man lives.

Citizenship for Indians.

Give them the vote.

The people here would mob you.

A prophet is never without honor,

save in his own country.

You could be one of the greatest figures

in this nation.

You are if you don't throw it away.

If you print that article,

you'll never be governor.

Never.

I've forgiven you many things

in the past 10 years, Yancey Cravat...

but I'll never forgive you that.

Oh, yes, you will, sugar.

Never is a long time.

Not while I'm alive, maybe...

but someday you'll be able to turn back

to the old files...

and read this article

and be glad it was printed.

No, I have some position

to maintain in this community.

- I have some voice in this paper.

- I know that.

Well, then I say you won't print it,

not in these columns.

When you take my name off

and put yours in its place...

you'll be editor of this paper.

Until you do that, sugar, I am.

Will you send Rickey in, please?

The proof's all right, Rickey.

Just think, our 40th anniversary.

Forty years.

Well, that's the longest time

I ever stayed in one place.

The longest time in one place.

Haven't you ever heard from the boss?

No. He doesn't write letters, Rickey.

The only news I've ever had

was from that captain...

who thought he saw him

at Chteau-Thierry...

with his hair dyed black.

He's alive somewhere, I know it.

Now, you just keep on

believing that, ma'am.

Have you decided on the editorial

for the anniversary number?

Yes, we'll reprint the one

on Indian citizenship...

from the 1907 file.

I have that one marked.

I'll never forget the flood of clippings...

that came in from all over the country...

and they called him

the nation's leading editor.

Yes, and since then,

Congress has granted all he asked for.

Yes, that's it.

I'm setting it up in 12 point.

- And use the same signature card.

- Yes, ma'am.

The card, s'il vous plat.

The card, monsieur.

I?

I printed them.

Quite an affair, ain't it, Sol?

Yes, nice.

The card, madame.

The card, s'il vous plat.

I'm on the committee.

Sorry, Mr. Levy,

about your not being on the committee.

You see...

we invited representatives

of our principal families.

One of my ancestors was a signer

of the Declaration of Independence.

That's all right.

A relative of mine, a fellow named Moses,

wrote the Ten Commandments.

Ladies and gentlemen...

as Chairman of the Oklahoma Progressive

State Committee, I greet you.

We are here to congratulate

our new member of Congress...

and to welcome our noted visitors...

the senators and congressmen

from Washington...

who will accompany us on a tour

of inspection to the Bowlegs oil field...

and also to announce the arrival

and the unveiling of a statue...

to commemorate the Oklahoma Pioneer.

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