Who knows ... what the future holds?
In Alfalfa Bill's time the full range of human rights that we all enjoy today had not yet come into being. Little did he realized that black people and all women would take their God given rights as equal to the White men.
Alfalfa Bill Murray was almost President of the United States. Roosevelt beat him out for the Democratic nomination. He was the single most prolific contributor to the Oklahoma constitution. I met him when I was 18. My dad and grand dad had known him all their life. In fact he was born in the same county in Texas where my dad was born...Montague. In Johnston county we called him Kuckleburr Bill and he named his son who later became governor of Oklahoma after Johnston county. His writings reveal a regrettable racism that was part of the commonality of his era. More than any other person he was really the father of Oklahoma.
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