The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-01-04

in Oklahoma, which means everybody
from grandpa down to little Willie.
have had their attention drawn during
the past week to another gladiatorial
leyent OF no small significance over in
Tulsa county where the ground is all
paved up In the struggle for control
OF the delegation from that county be
tween the Tulsa county candidates for
national committeeman, Tate Brady
and Robert Galbreath.
/ II is now matter OF history that
Galbreath's friends asked for a meet
ing Of the county central committee
TO devise ways and means for clearing
up the situation. When the commit
tee got together they asked for
county primary to put the matter to
the touch and see which is the better
man in the eyes OF the home folks at
Tulsa. They said they would stand by
the decision of such a primary and
whichever way ii went the victor was
to have the unqualified support Of the
yanqulshed,
County Primary Denied.
The meeting was held in due sea
son, but the Brady element was in
control Of the committee and the XII
bosh was put on the county primary
idea Then followed an endorsement
of Brady as the greatest little com
mitteeman that ever committed, but
when a resolution was offered to eli
dorse him for the same place for The
next four years. the county committee
said nav, nay and turned down the
resolution.
Wherefore the friends of Galbreath
claim that Brady was afraid to knock
the chip from the formers shoulder
and test the question of supremacy in
the home county of the two men, and
in that way they say their man has all
the better of the argument.
It is also duly chronicled in history
that following the meeting of the
county committee, Brady suggested
statewide primary, to be held in
August when the question could be
settled by all of the democratic voters
Of the state Mr. Galbreath came right
back with the assertion that this was
an attempt on the part of Brady to
"perpetuate himself as committee
man" since by August the other men,
bers of the national committee will
have been selected organized and
down to the actual work of electing
president as a candidate for the pres.
idency will be nominated in national
convention along about July 4. This
argument never has been met with a
real comeback from the other camp,
wherefore the Galbreath adherents
again claim to have the better of it.
r Is Bradys Move.
And so it would appear that it is
Bradys move. but just what that move
! VIII be or when it will come appeareth
not to the present generation. 1t
would be possible to let matters stand
as they are and to leave the matter of
voting up to the Tulsa county delega-
ton in the state convention February
%. each man getting what he could
when the county delegation is select
ed. Then it would be possible to re-
consider the question and hold a coun-
ty primary along the lines suggested
by Galbreath, but that is bad guess.
This thing of holding a statewide
primary in August? Well, that's an
other thing, There are three other
interested parties-as interested as
either of the two from Tulsa-who for
these many moons have been casting
their eyes toward the national com
Imitteemanship, and It is but natural
presumption that they also will have
something to say While no one of
them has stood right up in meeting
ara Sdlu nay, II dlso II hdluiai W sup
pose that they will unanimously op.
pose the idea of the statewide primary,
which Mr.. Brady has proposed for
the Ides OF August The three other
gentlemen who are interested beacuse
they also are candidates are John B.
Doolin. of Alva; DR., d. NJ. HALEY, of
lMeAlester; and Robert Gillian of Ard
more. And each of them has been
making some committeemans medicine
on his own account all the while.