**** “He was a Republican, too” ****
In the Territory Everyone Was, even the Injuns :^)
(I don’t want any Native American Backlash, like I slighted anyone, if you feel slighted go to your Safe Zone or I will pull out my I’m THIS % Cherokee Card, in reality I could do that and my Negro % Card as well)
Well, technically he was hired by Judge Isaac Parker, who was based in Arkansas, and he was one of only a few post-Reconstruction Republicans in the state at the time still holding office (although he had moved down from serving in Congress in Missouri).