Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-07-01
Underhand Party Methods
Sure to be Undoing
at Election.
WOULD EVEN PERJURE
Finance Committee Finds
Itself in Deep Water
After Exposure.

THE Democratic financial commit
L too, which has been padding its
little canoe for the past several weeks
| through entirely placid waters. where
squalls and nautical unheavals
seemed utterly foreign. suddenly ran
afoul a typhoon OF Republican wrath
! yesterday and their frail bark. con-
/ structed Of unreliable planks, natural
| ly capsized. leaving the voyagers
| floundering.
The typhoon was nothing mere or
less than an expose of letter pub
| lished in The World, twenty thousand
coIies OF which letter had been
mailed to Democrats only in Tulsa
county, urging them to prepare them
selves in order to register in last
| effort to overcome the majority piled
up by patriotic Republicans who were
determined not to be disfranchised in
spite Of an unspeakable registration
law.
CONSERVATION prevailed among
members of the committee yesterday
when the light Of day was turned on
tho letter 50 that all might see to
what ends the Democratic party ~
going to get the names of the faith
full on the registration books, whether
they belong there or not.
Anyway 10 Get on.
Anyway to get the names on tho
books" must have been the slogan
adopted by tho committee. Send
your neighbor's name before Friday
night. as tho party has only four days
I'm which to stand or fall" admon-
ished the letter. II made no differ
ence to the committee how the names
were obtained it seemed, but the let
Oh hu I,f.n q
could be used best to see that none
Of the neighbors were overlooked.
It made no difference to the com
mittee that tie registration in this
county is in a terribly muddled shape,
and that little or no attention had
been paid to keeping within the re-
quirements Of the law. The commit
tee proceeded to make a last valiant
effort to overcome the lead Of the
Republicans. even II the law did have
to be stretched and warped.
The letter refers the faithful TO a
subject that was popular about fifty
years ago. 1t declares that the forth
coming campaign will determine
wheti or or not this state Is to he
ruled by white men or negroes and
carpetbaggers.
When asked II this was truly their
belief. members Of the finance COM
"Why Of course not. That's merely
politics"
Worked Overtime.
Night after night candidates for
various county offices on the Demo-
cratic ticket gathered in the county
commissioners' room I'm the court
house where they worked until late
hours stamping and mailing thousands
of these silly and untruthful letters
to members Of the party in all parts
OF the county.
The registration closed last night.
Although IL was understood that all
voters were required to register during
p ten-day period early in May II is
said that many OF the registrars have
been making every effort to sec
Democrats and register them before
the last day when the books must be
turned over to the election board.
Registrars are supposed to register
only those voters who were out OF the
county during tho time Of registration
and who will make a sworn affidavit
to that effect. The finance committee
didn't bother TO point this out to the
"neighbors" and other Democrats in
their last appeal but requested them
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