Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-01
GREAT POLITICAL
Event N TULSA
HUNDREDS OF PROGRESSNES
OF OKLAHOMA GATHER
HERE IN MARCH.
A TWO-DAYS CONVENTION
Statewide banquet and General
Mceting-AlI Committees Ap-
Pointed Yesterday.

The state wide meeting and BAN
quet Of progressives. March 2l-22,
will be one Of the biggest affairs of
the kind staged in Oklahoma. This
much was made certain at a meet
ing of prominent progressives and
others at the Commercial club yes
| terday afternoon. The general opin-
ion at this meeting was that from SOC
to 1000 visitors will be attracted to
Tulsa on this occasion and it is up
| to this hustlng city to accord tho
people a rousing welcome.
1t was decided to have the banquet
at $50 on the afternoon of March q,
followed by the general meeting at
the Grand opera house which will
| begin at $3.50 o'clock. A committee
will decide where this banquet viii
be held 1t Is anticipated from three
to five hundred will sit down to this
| feast.
Ex-Seator Albert j. Beveridge of
Indiana, Will be the star attraction
at the meeting at the opera house
and he Will also be invited to make
short talk at the anquet. The an
| ticipation is also that Medill McCor-
mick. editor of the Chicago Tribune,
Will be present on this occasion. Mr.
Mccormick has expressed a desire to
| visit oklahoma and a cordial invita-
! tion will be extended him to meet
with oklahoma "Moosers" on this oc-
! caslon. Ex-Governor w. II. Stubs, of
Kansas, is also expected and an in
vitation will be extended to william
| Il. Nelson, editor of the Kansas City
Star and father of insurgency in the
middle west, and others prominent in
| the cause.
Important Meeting.
The meeting of the state commit
| tee will be held on March % either
| in the Commercial club rooms or in
the parlors of one of the hotels, the
meeting place to be announced later
AS the pla mis- to reorganize and per-
feet the state organization this Will
| be a gathering of the utmost impor-
tance to the new party which is as
rapidly as possible building strong
organizations in every state in the
union.
non partisan reception commit
tee which will include Mayor Frank
Wooden, will assist in greeting the
visitors. A special committee of Pro-
/ gressives will assist
Special Railway Rates.
Railroads entering Tulsa will be
asked to make special rates on this
occasion and one or more special
| trains may be put on.
| Special committees appointed at
yesterdays meeting will Immediately
/ begin the arrangements of all de-
| tails of the forthcoming meeting.
These committees are as follows:
The Committees.
Banquet Committee-F. w. Perry,
chairman; Il. a. Lilly, George IL.
Johnson.
Finance Committee - John X.
Cleary, Chairmani Jas. II. McBlrney,
W. S. Mowris. c. II. Cleveland. J. w.
| Young, Chas. Ostrander, II. ID. Sand
ford, W. ID. Stringer.
! Committee on Speakers, Music,
Committee on speakers, music, etc.
-Frak Newkrk, chairman; r. A.
Latta. A. A. Small
General Publicity-W. W. Neal,
chairman; Eugene Lorton, Tulsa
World; VIM Stryker, Tulsa Demo-
crat: Chas +. Nearman Tulsa Jour
nal: II. u. Rhodes. Skiatook News;
J. &. Parkinson. Broken Arrow Led
ger.
City reception committee-E. \.
Lilly. chairman. r. W. Kellough.
Mayor Frank NJ. Wooden Commits
sioners ]. b. Wilson. Jay Forsythe,
c. NJ. Downing. r. f. Colley.
A general reception committee will
be appointed later The committees
j wiz meet Wednesday evening, March
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