The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-01-20
500 INVITATIONS
WILL BE ISSUED
friends Intend to Launch
Boom for Governor
Of Oklahoma

number Of members and en-
ployees Of the Legislature and other
prominent Democrats in the cant
tai city are arranging for banquet
in honor Of Hon. w. Il Murray speak
er Of the lower honse Of the legislature
The bouquet viii be very expensive
affair and about five hundred invita-
tions will be issued. The friends OF
The speaker intend to propose the
name OF Mr. Murray as the democratic
nominee for governor TO eecceed
Governor Haskell.
Alr Murray has made no statement
relative to the proposed candidacy
and has not even told his closest
friends that he will enter the race.
but his friends all over the state are
insisting that he be candidate and
propose TO launch the candidacy for
him leaving no other alternative than
to make the race Mr. Murray insists
that he Is trying 20 forget politics
during the session Of the legislature
and wants TO devote ali OF his time
TO the enacting OF the laws. The
speaker Is working on the theory
tnat it win take all Of the time to
perfect adequate laws for the state
owing to the. complicated conditions
that result in joining the two terri.
tories
There Is no character IN the state
that has made more indelible i'm
press on the Institutions of state
hood than the speaker Of the lower
holsse Of the Aleefellslre A pttle
over year ago he WIS practically
| Unknown IN the twin territories and
today he is a national character He
has been talked about more than any
man In the state His chief asset in
the political field Is tie fact that he
can stand criticism and his utter dis.
regard for what the newspapers say
about him. While column after col
umn has been written in criticism
OF him and the flood gates of the re-
publican party's opposition have been
directed more at him than they have
at his party there was only one artl-
/ Gle that ever gained Resentment. A
local newspaper man during the con
| stitutional convention had been writ
/ ing all sorts OF slander about him. as
| president OF the constitutional CON
yention and failing to get any notice,
resorted to a slanderous libel on his
family Mr. Murray forgot that he
was president of the constitutional
convention, or that he was q public
man and went Hooking for the man..
He never found him and perhaps it
Is we'll that he did not
Mr. Murray first gained recogni-
tion when he was elected president
OF the constitutional convention He
came to Guthrie an unknown man and
he had asserted his organizing abili-
ties and had the pledge Of the demo
cratic members that they would select
him as their president As president
OF tho great convention he acted
within the dictates of his conscience
and exercised the functions OF his ad-
ministrauve office wShout regard for
his future political career. He was
always firm In his decisions and made
the great convention work along the
lines Of drafting a consultation rather
tian the playing Of politics. He was
OF able paramentarian and his ser.
vice in this regard was prime
factor IN the tremenGuOus Success Of
the convention Tho opposition
thought that they would have him In
"a hole when the convention ad-
jodmed bat Mr. Murray refused 70
adjourn the convention until the day
that statehood was proclaimed Dur
ing the fight for the adoption Of the
constitution and the securing Of a
proclamation Ter election he kept the
constitution az HIS home in Tishomin'
sc believing that it was there In
safe hands
Many Of the acts during the conven'
tior wero seized by the opposition and
hy his enemies IN his own party with
prediction that they would work
the down fall OF Murray hut at the
appointed time they always worked
ont 10 his credit and 10 the amazemen'
OF his enemies
some enthusiastic friends Of the
distinguished Tishomingo statesman
last summer started q boom for him
as the democratic nominee for vice,
president An enemy sent a telegram
aa follows rRnn him for God Almighty
and am. sure that he viii receive the
nnanimous s'ippert OF an Of the dele
gates 70 the constitutional conVen
ton That enemy did not know the
great truth hc SET forth IN his state
ment. although intended IN sidicule
AS a matter Of fact the support of All
OF tho delegates 10 the convention
! was his for anstning that he shou'
want. The same delegates whom hs
had ordered 10 their seats, with the
assistance ol the serseaai-at-arms
when they were out OF order or trans
crossing the rules Of the convention