Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-27
SIRTHER' 5 Joker
BEGINS TO WORRY
DEMOCRAT EDITOR Will SIT IN
CZAli-lIkE PONER FOR A
CERTAIN SEASON.
CROWN IS ON HIS Head
The Light" Begins TO Break as the
Boys Bow Before the COlonels
Temporary Throne.

with each succeeding hour since
the democratic county convention Of
last Saturday afternoon the democrats
of Tulsa and Tulsa county are be-
ginning 70 feel to what length Colonel
Bill Stryker and his publication so
thoroughly control the situation as
concerns democracy hereaboGts, AS
the colonel fiddles so do the democrats
dance.
Some of them on Saturday did not
see the nice little Joker which Colonel
Bill had placed on the tail end Of the
resolutions adopted-that Is, they did
rot see it in the light in which II has
since been shining so effulgently on
them. And Just little while back,
when the Daily Journal was started,
over half of the democracy Of the
city thought they had the colonel In
their back breeches pocket, thought
his reign Of rule or ruin was about
to 20 into clipse for keeps-but not
so. Colonel Bill is pretty well or
gani2ed piece OF human anatomy, and
those democrats who have been as
serting that he can't think for him.
self have, since Saturday. come to the
conclusion that he is thinking for
himself right grandly or is having
somebody who is real smooth to do
the thinking for him. Else how did
the colonel slip the endorsement joker
through?
The Democrat editor had been way
laying the county central committee
convention for several weeks Once
upon a time he used to be able to get
the assistance Of Tate Napoleon In
searching out a place of security from
which to conduct his ambuscade, but
in all the gallant throng which voted
on the endorsement of the Democrat
Saturday, Tates voice was about the
only one which caused risibilities by
shouting mo" in lusty voice. And
the colonel pussyfooted some on Sat
urday, too. Not alone he, but his news
gatherers as well helped him to bring
home the boon and to crown himself
king of everything democratic in this
neck of the woods. The colonel knew
his men, and everyone OF the colonels
men voted on the endorsement, while
a vast lot of democrats who had been
at the convention up to that time had
dispersed. That was considered by
some a few hours later as mere
chance, but it wasn't-it was the
showing of the inner working which
Colonel Stryker had becn building
for 10! these many weeks.
Everybody is wondering how 1t was
that the democrats in convention as
sembled endorsed the editor Of the
Democrat in "all his efforts for law
enforcement and commend him for
the determined fight he has made
wondering how that was slipped
through when not one in a dozen be-
lieved he has made a determined
fight or commendable effort for
law enforcement. Think OF Haskell
men. owen men, Brady men and Gal
breath men voting favorably on
proposition like this, a proposition
which the colonel had slipped in and
which did not come from spontaneous
ness or voluntary and over-bursting
enthusiasm--"It has been fight for
right and in the interests Of and for
the benefit of the democratic party
and the county ticket" Think Of 1t
of the boys swallowing that!
Think Of all different factions unit
ing in praising a man and his policy,
who, with his policy, has been the one
dlsorganizng medium Of the demo-
Gratis and the democratic party In this
city and county,
But that's just what they did, and