The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-03
fMUSKOCEE GIVES
MURRAY
ROYAL WELCOME
SIMILAR TO RECEPTION OF
Y ONE ALREADY ELECTED
vi GOVERNOR
ANOTHER CAKARD KILLED
kilograms Refute Robertson's Ac-
cusation That Murray Had Not
Participated In Red Cross and
< Liberty Loan Campaigns.
(By Charles H. Adams,
Staff Correspondent


~ Muskogee, Okla, August ? (Fri-
day)-Muskogee's reception to Will
liam II. Murray, Democratic can
didate for governor of Oklahoma,
could hardly have been excelled even
if Mr.. Murray had already been the
next executive. After an afternoon
meeting at Eufala. where he spoke
to hundreds OF Mcintosh farmers,
Mr.. Murray arrived in Muskogec
just before E o'clock. The Murray
for Governor" Club. together with
many other admiring friends and
citizens, met him at the Katy sta
ton and escorted him to the SEWERS
hotel, where an informal reception
was held. Several conferences were
held with Murray leaders of the
northeastern portion of the state and
glowing reports were made.
Mr.. Murray's audience was one OF
the largest that has assembled here.
His only deviation from the ad
dresses he has made in the past two
weeks was the reading of several
Italegrams refuting Robertson's
charges that Mr.. Murray had not
participated in the Red Cross and
Liberty loan campaigns. The tele-
grams were addressed to Red Cross
county chairmen in this portion OF
the state, and were signed by chair
men from more than half dozen
counties, asserting that Mr.. Murray
had made one or more speeches in
each of the counties referred to.
Spoke in Ardmore in 1917.
The writer recalls that Mr.. Muir
ray made the first patriotic speech
presented in Ardmore in 1917, and
also that Mr.. Murray spoke in be-
half Of the Red Cross and Liberty
Loan in the Carter county seat last
year. Further, Fred f. Tucker, then
district chairman for nine counties,
Garter, Coal, Pontotoc, Marshall,
Bryan. Love, Stephens, Jefferson
and Johnston, with Col. Graves
Leeper also of Ardmore; L. G. Crit
fifth, former president of the Wealth
erford normal school, and the writ
er, visited Tishomingo the second
week in December in their campaign
of organization for the Red Cross
Christmas membership drive.
Mr.. Murray presided over large
and enthusiastic meeting in the
Methodist church, introduced the
Speakers and himself made an elo-
quent appeal for Red Cross sup
port.
Robertson's Tactics Losing.
Robertson forces are steadily los
ing throughout the state through
their tactics. The rhoorback to the
effect that Mr.. Murray refused to
speak for the Red Cross and Liber-
ty loan campaigns is OF like stripe as
the tale that the Robertson forces
abandoned several weeks ago when
they stated that Murray failed to
Aontribute to the Red Cross cam
Jaigns. A statement from the Red
Cross chairman at Tishomingo,
showing Mr.. Murray's liberal con-
tribution soon made it necessary for
his enemies to abandon that story.
Tulsa is much exercised over the
various rumors OF withdrawal from
the governors race. The managing
editor OF the Times s-Democrat, the
Charlie Page paper, told the writer
Thursday night that he had had a
telegram each night this week, all
dated at Oklahoma City. stating that !
Bill" Durant had withdrawn. Up to
this time no direct word has come
from Mr.. Durant, and none of the
Murray forces are referring to the
rumors. for they prefer to let the
Robertson and Alexander forces deal
in possibilities and they themselves
stick to facts as they have been
able to verify them.
Durant and Other Candidates
cannot learn that the withdrawal
of Durant will have much effect in
this portion of the state. He is not
in northeastern Oklaho-
ma as a strong candidate. and the
belief is that the race will be be-
tween the three candidates whose
names are heard most often, and it
seems to be the consensus, unless
rock-ribbed Robertson or Alexan-
der men are doing the talking, that
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