The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-05-21
vJNITA BANKER TO BE
THE NEW PRESIDENT?
,,,n,,aI Gossip Last Night POINTS
10 Il~'tion Of a. H. ohhrr"" u"
Associations New Head
THEY MILL IN HOTEL TULSA
n,,or,tc. From Eastern Side OF
sa,c and oklahoma CITY f'hah'
c,aJ Men Are First ON Ground

rrs the political and social side Of Of
no haukcr's convention thu' V''o''
,he chief attractions
number OF bankers salu so 'aSI
.,,h, M Hotel Tulsa where hpout
a. NJ them played bankers poH'o'
a,1 took good care to see that tne
ID. end ~ the game was h"t over
'.,E,I This latter feature was wen
i.,acl after by the Tulsa bankers
" lrousht their wives down 10 hlu
r,,cf.ng the visitors and In seeing
-. n mat The guests were maue 10
r,.. .,gI,l end Of the game dove
,.1s m with the political end OF IL
Va ',,,r words. the social part Is so
!" ,i.r,icd with the political part
NOV are one and 30 It's sort
~, Of playing both ends against
'n.laIc 10 win the favor or the
.,l,r. when II comes TO the eIec-
Non nj officers. etc.
Inco,Crlng n Dark Horsc.
=, w.,s . little early last night 10
All rf candidates, As with real,
l"'N lr,s,n polltical conventions, II
~. 40 he "A rule that every canul =
49,. must be a dark horse until
,st moment. That gives oppor-
.,,,,, for clcctloneering, ana
4 L,,co for reporters to fInd just
.sa, me gossip is Reporters, now
'.r ,,e somcwhat out OF their ele-
,,sn, Nm an atmosphere of finance
,,bIcb . not the case In ~ atmos-
,hsre NJ politics, so II Is more or
,ask FOR an ordinary news scribe TO
.,, the scent. That perhaps. was
ssrv n vas difficult last night for
,.,.sn,permcn to fathom the method
a. ,nc consistency with which certain
hctsrs who had seized upon their
s",,,int,nce. dragged them into the
,asorre NJ A. l.. Churchill OF Vinita,
n,sgidcnt of the First Nationaf bank
there
.,hl, ne mistaken for a member or
,ry other profession than banker
1,., IN New York and even there,
bo worldly bellhops would guess IL
,'gb, fhc first time In judging him
"a he A hank president. Thus, after
t,if n dozen bankers, for the first
lime I'm their lives perhaps deliber-
ately cultIvating the acquaintance or
ar humble reporter. had introduced
tho same reporter to Mr.. Churchill.
q davned upon the newspaperman
mat perhaps Mr.. Churchill was to
he favored in some manner by his
colleagues contemporaries. co-bank-
ers or whatever the proper term
may be
so It's MIR. Churchill.
And when, with a reporters In
ouiring turn Of mind. II was sug-
gested that MIR. Churchill might be
one Of the higherups IN banking
circles. one OF the self-appointed
major-domos whispered, Hes n
candidate for president OF the as
sociaton."
=, SO It develops that Mr.. Churchill
Is candidate for president Of the
State Bankers association. His
!, cause was more loudly proclaimed
than that Of any other man last
night so far as could be learned
Mr.. Churchill, 1t was said. Will not
refuse the office II 1t is rendered to
him and there seemed 70 he plenty
Of Indications that II weuld be ten
dercd to him.
The hotels were rich--opulent
with guests last night, On account
OF the cool weather. many OF them
were somewhat particular about
their sleeping quarters. Nearly all
OF thcm said that they had an aver.
sion to sleeping in a draft and the
'hotsl clerks got even by replying
mn they would cash any stray
drafts on sight.
Important Session To-day. E.
Muskogee, ,Ninita and Oklahoma
CITY bankers wero early on the
ground NJ BOARD, president Of the
Exchange National bank OF Musko-
zee, and his party registered early
Yesterday morning at tho Hotel
Tulsa. w F. Rowsey. a director in
the same bank, was active in the so
e!al wh!rl that kept the lobby buz-