The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-11-12
SEEK FEDERAL
APPOINTMENTS
PATRONAGE DISTRIBUTION is
BECOMING STATE WIDE SUB.
JECT OF INTEREST.

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The Wilson administration will be
asked to create the Third Federal dis
trict court in Oklahoma and to re-
wise the present eastern and western
district lines to conform something
like the present state criminal court
of appeals districts. This would place
the new district in southern Oklaho-
ma. necessitating the appointment of
a Judge, attorney and marshal there
for, but the arrangements would
rot disturb Judges of the present east
ern and western districts. Those
rositions are not within the reach OF
federal patronage unless there is a
vacancy or new place is created.
With the attorney and marshal c fed
eral districts this is not true. Those
officers are named for a wear
term unless sooner vacated by presi-
Dental or departmental order.
Democrats have been figuring quite
Literally upon prospective appoint
ments as soon as Wilson gets into
office, and, if statements are to be
relied upon, there is piling up daily
applications with the congressman.
the senators, the national and state
i- n ri %
Oklahoma patronage has not been de-
termined. 1t has been generally talk
ed that Senator Gore, owing to his
connection with the national campaign
and intimacy with the president elect,
would be consulted in no little de-
gree. Were he given all the say with
out the administration taking notice
of Senator Owen, it would inaugurate
somewhat singular rule. This Is
also true of the district congress-
men. who are as much a part of the
state organization as are the senators
and it is understood they will de-
mand the privilege of recommending
or opposing appointment, to any po-
sition affecting their districts, The
exact status of the congressman "t
large has not been Determined, how
ever, it is known through ar arthcra-
tive source that they wi, resist be-
ing ignored,
Organization Backing Necessary
If the president-elect has been coz
rectlv quoted, he is IAN organization
man This is taken to mean that he
will insist that applicants receive the
backing of the local or state organiza-
tons before he would make appoint
ments. This would embrace the
state democratic committee, which
there has already been some disposl-
ton to ignore in national matters,
and would likewise include the ma
tonal committee orgaization as ap-
plying to the state. AS far as state
Chairman Harrill is concerned, apph-
Cants seeking his endorsement or that
of the state committee will have to
come with the Endorsement of the or
ganization below, or from the grass
roots. Chairman Harrill said there
would be no disposition to brush
aside the county or precinct commit
tees which are made up of men who
fight the party's battles when the
fighting time comes.
Eliminating postoffices, there are
already numerous applicants for the
limited number of offices in Okla
homa, and some for offices in other
parts of the countryq. The names OF
D. H. Linebaugh of Atoka and Thom-
as H. Owens of Muskogee have been
in connection with the fed
eral court appointments in the east
er district, and if the new southern
district mentioned is created, Line
baugh, it is understood, would be in
dorsed for the judgeship. He was
active in the Wilson campaign before
the Baltimore convention and took
a leading part in the campaign for
Senator Owen against Chas. N. Has
kell. Tow Owen is not related to the
senator. He, too, was active for DR..
Wilson and was identified with the
national campaign. Owen, under the
Haskell administration was a men,
ber of the criminal court of appeals,
a place he resigned during the term
and accepted the appointment as at
.orney tor Muskogee county.
Many are Mentioned
DR.. A. S. Riddle of Chickasha, |
member of the legislature recently |
elected, has abandoned his campaign |
or speakership of the Oklahoma house
If representatives and will apply for
he marshalshiD of the Dresent eastern |