Crittenden record-press., 1910-11-03

I defeated in that race by Haskell but
| the people have shown by the great and
complimentary vote, given him in the
election just had, that they are glad
of ansopportunity to correct that mis-
take. Mr.. Cruce has achieved what of
success is his, unaided by wealth ex-
cept of his own earning, but we might
say his genius energy and native abili-
ty have been strongly assisted by his
brothers who have all stood ,oyally by
him in all his ambitions. Will and Cavit
made speeches and Laure lce and Lafe
worked too, so reports have 1t. From
the Ardmorite we clip the following:
WILL CRUCE AS A POLITICIAN
Will Cruce, good old honest Will
Cruce, has come back from ca
palgn of the western counties of d
state. Will Cruce looks to he very
much at home in the Sunday School, it
seems natural to see him engaged in
the trial of the most perpiexing law
: suits that come up in the state, he
seems most natural when addressing
jury of farmers. but in our imagina-
tion we can scarcely conceive just how
he looks at campaigning the State.
He tells his hearers that he is no poll
tician and he is not. He never so
much as dreamed out in his mind anv,
vote catching scheme, much less--ev-ts
tempted Co Put one into execution. Butt
those who have heard him, say his
logic is unanswerable. He goes at his'
crowd in rather an easy manner at
first, his looks betray his absolute
honesty and he does not stand before
a crowd for one minute until the crowd
is willing to take his word upon any
question. And when the confidence
and the enthusiasm of the crowd be-
gins to reflect itself in the attitude
of the speaker viii Cruce becomes
eloquent with his logic and home-spun
expressions and it is said that no man
in the state has done more effective
work in the campaign than Will Cruce.
And during the entire campaign ne
has arranged his speaking dates so
that he could be with his Sunday school
except upon one occasion and that was
caused by late train which forced
him to change his schedule. VIII
Cruce is not at all seriousness. bat
there is funny side to his make up
and he enjoys fun as much as any one
else
On his return trip ne tells this story
on A. c. Cruce.
"At Hohant" he says. II had the.
smallest crowd of any place spoke.
Whenever Will Cruce was announced
in the circulars, good crowds came,
but when | arrived at Hobart the first
thing that greeted my eyes was cir
cular announcing that a. c. Cruce was
to speak there that afternoon. Well.
knew Che JIG was up then, and sure
enough that was the smallest crowd |
had. - He t~lls the story where A. c.
can hear it and he finds a great deal OF
sport in teasing his brother
When viii Cruce gets to one side
where A c. can't hear him he saws
really he had the biggest crowd at
Hobart because he spoke there on a
Saturday afternoon when all the far
ners were in town, bat he would not
nave A. c. know for it any reasonable
sum.
A great reception was rendered the
Governor elect at Ardmore his home
and many speakers Wed with each
other in landing the name of "honest
conservative and unsulied Lee Cruce.
The Ardmorite closes the lengthy ac-
count Of this reception as follows:
Amid the strains of "My Old Ken
tucky Home" Hon. Lee Cruce then
stepped upon the stage, and for fully
five minutes the air reverberat ed with
the thunders of applause which greeted
him and when the band broke into
Dixie about half of the audience leaped
TO their feet and pandemonium reigned
again. Quiet was finally restored and
Mr.. Coleman introduced Mr.. Cruce.
Mr.. Cruce thanked his home peoole
for the splendid reception and stated
that after he had completed his stew
ardship to the people of the state of
Oklahoma that he would return TO
them and spend the remaining years
Of his hfe in Ardmore.