Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-06-22
SMITH HEARS TALK or OWEN
ron PRESIDENT IN 1910
Ar WASHINGTON.
CORE IS MIGHTY STRONG
No Appointments In Indian Service
10 BE Made untll Lane Is Sure
Of Ills Ground.
(BN II. II. SMITH)


WASHINGTON. y. c.. June Ell
To pun your gaze of Of official cor
ruption in Oklahoma, and touch
hands with the caravan Of trouble at
the national capitol. is like releasing
the miniature 20 hug the giant Men
ana things go about and on here so
sklllully that the common folk hear
not the shoelcss tread Of the serpent
Of SlDlock. that winds skilfully
around the baseball going representa-
tiles of the people.
Seeing the Inside OF Washington
orfciol life with prying eyes that
know what windows they may look
into, makes the real difference In
truth and shadow. This adminstra-
ton is not democratic wise alto
gether The altogether IL that no re-
publican is Roing to be elected from
office, A cabinet officer who has
fllrted more or less with the republic
can prosperity. informed me that he
cared not a rap whatever. a man had
"A party organization behind him or
net; If he thought the man was hon
est he would get the job. Another
cabinet officer said, I am told that
he had appointed a man who had no
| endorsement, and was not an appl-
cant This will run the cold blood
down the spines OF many deserving
| democrats in oklahoma, who look
pic eyed; and a man with a good face
to present, stands about as good
| chance to get served, az a congress-
| ionally backed to-the-limit- -favorite,
| 1his all means that President Wilson,
Is not far removed from Professor
| Wilson A civil service academic at
mosphore now fills the corridors of
the departments, whore sit the watt
! ing democratic patriots to be called tn
their political reward and many is
the hotel and lunch that holds the
dollars Of western patriots, who have
| long ago, with depressed hopes and
discontents, departed for their native
heaths. In this, Wilson Is cleveland.
and therein lies his road perhaps to
W9terloo and therein too lies the
peril Of his partys future success.
Good measures and high ideals are
proper. and must be at the setting Of
the partys success, but the wheclman
the leadman, and carblneers who
made the presidential transit safe
over the bogs and marshes, must
have their morning, noon and evening
feed, and Mr. Wilson will find per-
haps, that there is no wolf bite. so
bad as that of the unfed wolf States
manship is virie, and Is based on
constructive policies but It gets its op-
portunlty, from tho boys in the
trenches. who pilot it to victory.
Hence Mr.. Wilson may well observe
that, consideration Of John Doe and
Richard Roe, have his entire atten-
tion along with Tariff and Currency.
lest his party fall under the wheels Of
the car of political procrastnation.
The big, sunny man Of the cabinet.
IS Franklin Lane. with whom we have
az concern In Oklahoma. and to
whom we point our hopes. Lane
is a slow moving body but un-erring
ard certain" is the tersc putting Of
Senator Jim Ham Lewis. lie told me
no would be a Senator from Illinois
in 1900: thirteen years ago is not long
but long enough TO 90 the route in
Illinois. ana the brilliant Jim Ham Is
not jostling around in stephen Doug
las shoes They are not So loose that
they impede his travel. notNithstond-
ing his smullness of stature. and the
swedish complexion Of his whlskers
Lane is a good listener and Ike John
c.. breckenridge. he listens long and
gathers momentum thereby on which
10 act. When he acts. he calls on the
storage battery fired by the meutali-
Is ~ others. This too. saves him labor
and study. His. Is "a big mind. and n
assimilates all that passes TO him. |
guess he has no speaker. but he
somewhere moves al the proper time.
and in Alabama they would call him
some smoke. Mr.. Lane Is simple,
ard plain and his mind is on his
business. rather than on himself;
would this might be said Of all Of Mr..
Wilson's cabinet. that's what Uncle
Sam hired them for. however. \
man who gets important enough In
the world OF affairs to break into tho
cabinet. ought to be able to keep his
mind on the nations business. and II
he does not. according to the story.
he Will lose the race. they will beat
him away from the wire and flag
him. Lane is not to be overcome by
damphoolery. or cajoled bv noise.
bluster or compliment. He is going
to grasp the Indian situation. and act
on the truth as he sees II; the sum of
which will be a real winding up OF
Indian affairs In Oklahoma. and
measuring out OF justice to the red
race and white race. In the commor
sense way This much Is good new
to oklahoma. The crooks will have
bad day when ne gets around Il
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