Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-27
Political Dupcty and Double Dealing Exposed in Letter
by Bruce keenan, of Tahequah to One Jim Harris


,or being somewhat undecided
whether there Is not more danger ol
offending the nincty-siN thousand
men who voted for John Fields thau
there is gain IN satisfying the lod
| that followed Mr. Disney and the foul
| thousand that followed Mr.. Mellon
aid. Mr. Disney says you know bot
| tor than we do what Is best for the
| party and your success, ana think
/ that ought to be true. though OH
| hand n is not easy 10 see.
MI Disney ana ! are friends ana
| both supported Colonel Roosevelt
| four wears ago. Two years ago he
desired me 10 be a candidate for con
gross in this district in the interest
of Colonel Rooscvclts candidacy IN
1916 lli, plan was TO hold the Pro
grcsiNcs together and then sweep the
country with the PrOgrcssiNcs, or
fuse with the Republicans ana make
"a "kllhne" In order 10 do That II
would bc necessary to Keep up the
organization by having candidate
for congress in this district lie said
hc would insure my election 'A-
peuscs / told him IT would be easy
to get the nomination without oppo-
stiou. but that IT would be very diifl-
cult to get elected without support J
said:
Personal Mistakes.
owe got bad deal at Chicago.
Theodore Roosevelt ran on an indc-
pendent ticket as a protest. MY
Judgment IL he was justified, as indi-
Gated by the vote. The mistakes OF
the Chicago convention We're personal
rather than party mistakes. The re
publican party has too many things
10 It's credit to be ovorthrown by
mere mistakes of its crstwhile lead
ors. There Is not sufficient founda-
tion for the Progressive party. IT
must fail am Republican ana
not Progressive.'
The vote in the district proved my
prediction. 1853 votes for Mr. Reed
and $3.50 for MIR cook. Alvin Me
Donald tried to make me believe the
Proerossivcs would carry more votes
than tho Republicans, and that the
Republicans would never hold an
other national convention. ! answered
him in the same effect ! did MIR. DIS
nev. The result was 95.9Oi votes for
Fields to four thousand votes for
IIickam The only result this Pro-
prcssive movement had under Mr..
Disney and Mr. Mcdonald was the de
feat Of John Fields for governor. II
seems that this situation had a very
great influence I'm inclining these
leaders without following to want
ITO get togcthcr'. Does my friend
Mr. Disney and your friend Mcl)on-
aid think anything more of the ke-
publican party than they did two
years ago? And If so. why?
Let them come back. But ! would
think they would hesitate to come
suddenly. lest that old committee,
which is stll on the job. and whose
acts So shocked them that they de-
serted the party might again DO
something TO crate the nerves of the
sensitive Mr. Disney and Mr.. Me
Donald. However, If they come back
they should bc satisfied with such
rcCocniti0n as they might have had
had they not gone out, but isn't II
questionable propriety To- Kill the
fattcd calf for them to he placed at
the head of the command?
Resolution an Insult.
Men may honestly differ. As a
LOYAL friend and admirer of Roosevelt
! thought the fulsome resolution Of
fercd at the Muskogee convention
concerning him was rather an insult
than an appropriate culogium of the
man To be appropriate in Repuh-
lican convention to adopt such res
olution as makes him the matchless
leader of patriotic America. ncccs-
sarN prelude would he to apologize
to him for rohhing him of nomina-
tion in 1912, to specify the great act
Of leadership of the ProgrcssiVes,
which gave him four million and two
hundred thousand votes to three mil
lion ana five hundred thousand for
Mr.. Taft. for Commendation and ten
der him his belated nomination for
1916. otherwise the resolution was
such hunkum as might be addressed
to a coNcomh to tickle his vanity. |
offered an amendment to instruct the
delegates to the Chicago convention
to nominate him for president, which
the convention voted down under the
leadership of Charley Runyan. This
is the result in the district in which
II was hcraldcd that the first dele
gates to he elected to go to Chicago
would be instructed for Roosevelt to
start stampede for him, instead we
have lukcwarm friend, whose party
polled less than | per cent of the
votes in the district, and an anti
Roosevelt man selected as the dele
gate hv a convention that tabled
"A resolution for his endorsement.
stand on the matter of the ma
tonal committee fight where | stood
in my letter to you of January ~,
1916. The reference in that letter to
what was said in Tulsa in 1914 was
about tins. 0s | reCollcct IL. Reference
was made to the same fight over the
committeeman I'm 1912. | suggested
to you that while | had supported
Mr. Pricstlv that year that there was
nothing personal. and that | was do
ing what I thought to he for the best
interest of the party, You were
earnest iu your answer TO me that
the party must be kept above the for