The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-29
MURRAY BEGINS
FINAL HEAT IN THE
GUBERNATORIAL RACE
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lot of votes; eyes, ] was sort ot
on the fence, but now my mind |:
made up; "lIe easily turned {
thousand votes here; "Ycs, anc
every man that heard him and en-
thused by him will go out and
work for him to the last ditch.
These are only a few examples OF
the expressions overheard in every
town he has visited.
And now comes the Withdrawal
rhoQrback this candidates friends
and that candidates friends have
decided that they have no chance /;
no principals up to now have said
they are going to quit, but - ese
statements are to the effect that
their friends have made their de-
cisions for them. They have decid-
ed that Candidate So-andSo can't
win and propose that they unite
their strength in favor of Candidate
This or Candidate That
Blew Up at Euskogee.
Such story gained some little
circulation in Muskogee last week
until the promoter tackled the
wrong individual. He is a Murray
man, but has been somewhat in
active. He was approached by one
who claimed to be representative
of Alexander who said that he and
others were arranging to have
prominent Gault men and promi-
nent Murray men come out in a
statement that they were for Alex
ander because their men had no
chance; that they would elect Alex
ander in this way. The Muskogee
man put the skids under the propo-
sition in a manner typical of Muir
rays friends when lie said: "You
cans get the Murray men, they are,
not of that stripe" The other man
said; But we have plenty of money
and the proposition will be sub
mitted in many places before Sun
day" The Muskogeean who COM
municated with Murray headbuar-
ters in regard to the matter warned
all Murray leaders and asked 10
warn the people over the state to
watch for this and all other kinds
of trickery. Murray has this race
won" he wired. "He will be nomi-
mated by 10000 over his nearest op-
ponent."
Mr.. Murray offered little COM
ment on the matter, believing, evil
IDENTITY, that the people generally
know that he does not lie down
in a race. Gault's friends, when
they receive word of the story. no
doubt will burn up" AleXander's
representative, for he, too, accord
ing to their statements, is going 10
finish, no matter where others think
he will finish.
Durant has also been the victim
of some of the Robertson-Alexan
der tactics, and when in Lawton
last Wednesday went up in the
air" upon being informed OF some
of the tales in circulation. That
the public's patience is exhausted
is an accepted fact by those who
have been trying to learn the senti
ment over state. In no campaign,
and more especially SO in this. in
the midst of warfare, when all real
citizens are united in the effort to
Solidify the nation, is mud-Slinging
an activity in which the thinking
voter takes any pleasure. Political
slime and unfair maneuvers this
year will only act as boomerang and
injure their circulator.
Rhoorbacks Catalogued.
The campaign tales directed par
ticularly at Murray are varied and
fairly numerous. ! have been able
TO catalogue several and briefly es-
tablish the real facts:
No. lit has been said that at
Frederick last year Mr.. Murray
said that President Wilson hardly
measured up to the mark OF a sec
ond rate statesman. This was first
given circulation in The Frederick
Leader, a morning paper that has
little circulation outside of its own
bailiwick. Editor Tullos. of The
Leaders chief opposition in the
Frederick field. The Frederick En-
terprise. has been vehement in his
denunciation of The Leaders mis-
representation of Mr.. Murray's
words. What Mr.. Murray said was
contained in a tribute to Former
Secretary of War Garrison, whom
he praised as second to none in the
cabinet-and that is where The
Leader editor ended the quotation
ignoring entirely the conclusion of
the statement, which in substance