Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-10-22
DEMOCRATIC RALLY
Was A Sid AFFAIR
BOBS GLUM FACE BEST
SHOWED WHAT A DISAP-
POINTMENT 1T WAS
NO SPECIALS mo owen
The Big Speakers Did Not APP
pear and Likewise the
Crowds.

ITHE Democrats were in Tulsa
Il Yesterday
From every crossroads and town
in the state" they came
Special trains were run from many
points at least the Democratic
press bureau promised that they
were to be run.
And when the mighty assemblage
had been seated in convention hall,
after the band had played Dixie, ad
'nfnltum, and following the appear
ance of Honest Bob" Williams, a
slraggler counted the noses.
Exactly 297 of the faithful were
present including the Tulsa and
Ninita brass bands, the janitor the
stage manager the property man and
Judge Poe.
Pickering Lights.
Last night they staged pitiful
pitiful is the right word.
10 be sure they had torch lights
common lath swathed with red bunt-
ing hat had been used to decorate
the Brady hotel on some former aus
picious homecoming. and saturated
the old war horses carried these
sticks There was ollie Marshall
and Jim Brand and Jess Laswell and
Sam Patton and the other familiar
present and former office holders
Fifteen tOrch-lght bearers and the
two bands constituted the parade.
Tate Brady's famous shotgun brigade
could not be mustered in and was
sadly missed.
Come to See Gabe.
Probably five hundred persons
journeyed toward convention hall
last night to listen to the final death
wall Of Il forlorn aggregation Of of
flee seekers. Gabe Parker, the Indian
registrar of the United States treas
ury spoke. Jim Davenport tried to
speak, and like Demosthenes Of old,
his speech suffered an impediment.
Prince Freezing. the gay Beau Brum-
mel from Shawnee town. likewise
resurrected the bones Of jefferson
and Jackson. Slight applause was no
ticed at times Finally, at an early
hour, the meeting was declared ad-
journed, the crowd silently filed away,
the band played Dixie" for the last
time and the poorest, most miserable,
most heart-rendering Democratic
passed into history.
Lige Perkins OF Willow Springs,
who lives so far out in tho sticks
that he hadn't heard about John
Fields, was one of the fifty out-of-
town visitors. Someone found Lige
along toward midnight, sitting on the
curbstone near the Brady hotel, look
ing like an oyster out of a shell.
"t jest CANT understand It," la
mcnted Lige. These dern fellers
told me there wuz goin' to be a big
show here. I've put on my Sunday
shirt, let my fall plantin' go to the
devil. and come all the way to Tulsa
And here | be. | halnt given a
whoop all day long; | don't know
whether Bob Williams wants to be
governor or warden of the penten-
tiary and. dern it all, | wish | wuz
back home with the kids"
Lige was right.
Likewise Lamcntablc.
The widely advertised statewide
rally-"the only one TO be held by
the Democrats of oklahoma during
II was even a Joke, but tragic one
The day was started with a se-
rlous break IA the Democratic ranks
Corporation Bob came to town,
openly snubbed the Little Napoleon
of Tulsa county Democracy. and had
the affrontery to turn down all ira
ditions and precedents by registering
at the Hotel Tulsa.
Corporation Bob went further than