Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1919-11-10
Oklahoma and the League

The democratic senators will find still further
food for thought in the returns from the congressional
election in the Fifth Oklahoma district in which j. w.
Herald republican has beaten Claude Weaver demo-
crat by something than LOO votes according
to the returns they had been compiled Satur-
day. with only 20 precincts missing of go We
have available the figures in the congressional
contest of last fall in which Joseph b Thompson,
deceased, was elected. but find that in the
counties constituting that district President Wilson
received in 1916 1s1oS Mr.. Hughes 1215s votes;
Wilson's majority $3.50
In this campaign both for the election and in the
democratic primary the issue the League of
Nations. There eight candidates for the demo-
cratic nominal which resulted in the choice of Mr.
Weaver. a strong advocate Of the League
The result OF the primary moved the New York
World TO this jubiation
Isn't Oklahoma, where candidate op-
posed to the league of nations eighth in
primary for the nomination of a congress
the where the voters had
eggs to spare when Senator Reed there
to oppose the covenant?
We have never believed that egg throwing was a
complete and convincing expression public opinion.
When Senator Reed chased off the platform at
Ardmore Muskogee, forget which, by barrage
Of Anticipated eggs believed that those eggs were
fairly representative only of the people
and perhaps OF the sentiment in the community 1t
was equally evident when the lone opponent of the
League Of Nations brought up of the process
sion in the democratic primary, that the sentiment
of those participating in the primary of piece
with that of their egg hurting brethren of Ardmore
Muskogee. But the final and decisive expression
of sentiment occurred only Tuesday and from it
We conclude that whatever happened at the primary
and elsewhere there must be very large number of
democrats in the Fifth the most important congress
sonal district in Oklahoma and one of the most
rock ribbed districts who opposed the League
of Nations.
OF the successful candidate little is known Mr.
Weaver is well known He elected congressman
at large in Oklahoma in the SD congress and he de-
clined denomination to accept the postmastership
Of Oklahoma City He has devoted himself for several
years to municipal and other reforms is a writer
and lecturer high in the counsels of his
party that since his retirement from congress he has
been member of the National Democratic Congress
sional committee.
The issue in the campaign was the League of
Nations. unclouded by anything else Mr. Weaver ad-
vocated it through the primary and congressional
campaign and the republican candidate neglected
everything else to hammer it. The campaign in the
Fifth Oklahoma district resembled every much that
Of the bye election campaign in Kentucky where
some weeks King swope an unknown republican
elected in district which had never before been
represented by republican. Swope was given a
nomination which nobody else wanted because it was
believed to be hopeless There only one plank in
his platform, opposition TO the League of Nations
His democratic opponent met him that plank and
scored the first democratic disaster in that district
One thing that made suspect that the egg
throwers were not quite representative of okahomas
sentiment with respect to the League of Nations was
the unbendng and uncompromising opposition of
Senator Gore Senator owen, though voting with the
administration throughout has not been conspicuous
advocate Of the League, but and then he has
suggested compromise, a middle course through
some disputed point.