Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-03-30
PAGE WOULD CRUSH
THAT TULSA SPIRIT
Thinks That Chamber of Commerce
should Re BANNED Tor Possess
ing Republican Officers.
B00TLEGGERS SHOULD RULE
Were In Power IntiI Decent Citizens
Forget Party and Elected
Simmons Mayor.

Desperate in tho face of m inFlo-.
rious defeat. tbE Democratic organ
Of Tulsa is determined 90 destroy
tho usefulness Of The Chamber Of
Commerce. hamper tho progress Of
Tulsa and divide into factions the
wonderful organization of war work
ers IN tho city, hy injecting into the
campaign the charge that the sim
mons administration has not backed
up the war program
Goadcd INTO an ungnvcrnablo
fury because the leading business
men of Tulsa are supporting the
Simmons ticket TN the election ucNt
Thursday the Democrats are mJk-
ing the foolish charge mat the
chamber Of Commerce o' Tulsa is
IN political body for the support
OF simmons This would appear
10 he the limit of dirty politics and
indicates that something more than
the mere city offices are az stake,
when the Democrats will endcavor
to destroy that wonderful thing
called TULSA spirit" in order 20 gain
their own miscrly political ends.
Until the dcspicablc Democrat
called attention to the fact In order
to gain political advantage that
the majority Of the officers and di-
rectors Of the Chamber Of Com
merce are Republicans. no ono else
In Tulsa has ever thought It Inn
portant enough 10 inquire about the
political affiliations of those men
Where's the Crime?
But ir tho members OF the Cham
her OF Commerce, which include
nearly all the business and oil men
OF Tulsa are takiag part In this
political campaign they are only
exercising a right given hy the con
.stitutiou TO every American citizen,
and right they did not give up
when they Joined tho Chamber of
Commerce Any action they arc
taking IS being taken as citizen
and the decent people of Tulsa rc-
sent Il as an Insult that the Dem
ocrats should try, to destroy the
usefulness Of the chamber Of Com
merce by making 1t political foot
ball
The Democrat evidently believes
that the bootleFror and gambler.
prizofighter and loafer has a perfect
right to his political preturment hut
athat an oil man or business man
must either pay no attention to poli-
tics or pay tho penalty ~ disNp-
proval by the Democratic organ.
Cleaned Up on Vice.
They have charged that tho oil
men of Tulsa arc trying tu run the
| politics OF the town. Right here li
/ can DO said that until two years ago
| tho oil men paid little political at
| tention to Tulsa. but nj that time
they realized that n Tulsa was to he
/ made "A fit place IN which TO live.
/ they must get rid ~ the old boot
! Logging machine that had been run
ming thlnrf, for so many years and
/ elect decent law abiding citizens 70
| public office This was done and
/ the Simmons administration has
made record that those on mon are
proud of, and once more these same
| OH men are battling against &ho
Z forces of vice and corruption 10 krep
. Tulsa from slipping back Co what II
was two years ago.
These oil mon arc canNinced. as
arc all the decent people in town
that Hubbard and hla ticket nhso-
Ivtclv mean a return to the old con-
ditIorg SO better evidence oi ih.s
could hc found th1n the uh''l1lc
support which Democratic leaders
admit. of tho hootlcEgcrs and F1Wh-
,lers Tor the Democratic ticket Even
.a former booucrelnr iaNtt i7 now be-
ING u.rd as De,rnaratit ho1iuIortors
lond should the Democratic ticket hc
elected. this location has been prom
isci a prominent bootlcggor a7 a
place of business for tho next TWO
ytHra. ,f
The oil mon NJ Tulsa alo indlg
naut over the imputauon mat tn'y
should have no right in the cA''hlnE,
ON NJ municipal affairs The on
,,,,, dIi mot make their money in
.r,ts, Thev made 10 from the oil
wr.ls outside az Tulsa. hJi these
.auc mon have made Tulsa what IL
,s today is investing this money IN
,-,,,., and IuiIIiuc up the torn. o