The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-01
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| and praislng MIN hlknly, as Ia also
: j. II. Johnston, who started out as
candidate for the place but with
drew after he had been victimized
| by the Echols. Walker combination.
The Thraves Supporters boldly
proclaim the necessity OF either re-
generating the corporation commits
sion by electing men who will serve
| the people instead of the corpora
tions, or abolishing IL altogether.
| Corporation commission Is right"
| said one well-known democrat to-
night. ut belongs to the corpora
| tions at present The people are a
| darned sight worse off than II thersJ
\ was no such body Every corporaA
ton in the state is working for Bob
| Eohols."
Thraves faces very formidable
| opposition. He can be nominated
only by the people who oppose the
present practices of the commission
being active on primary day He is
! pinning his hopes to the report that
the state is thoroughly aroused
against the state house lodge" and
that revolution is impending. In
such an event he will win
The Fifth District.
| Another contest OF absorbing In
terest is the congressional race in
the Fifth district where Harreld
defeated Claude Weaver a few
| months ago. This is the banner
democratic district in the state. con-
tanning within its meters and bound
~ state institutions, counting the
| municipality OF Oklahoma City as
one, with 5000 voters on the public
payroll.
The democratic contest lays be
tween Roy Stafford, former neN
paper man but now n wealthy oil
operator, and Judge Swank, Of Nor
man, Cleveland county. Tho battle
| ground is Oklahoma City. While
the edgo as the campaign closes.
seems to be with Judge Swank. This
| Is because he is said to be popular
in his own judicial district, and is
the beneficiary OF the prejudice ex-
listing in other section OF the dis
| trict against Oklahoma City candi-
dates. The southern end OF the dis
trict has usually dictated In con-
gressional matters. Yet should STAT
ford run UP big lead in the city
he might be able to pull out win
ner. Leslie Niblack, Of Guthrie.
son-in law of former governor Has
kell, IL also>a candidate on an open
|
about hold matters even between
Stafford and Swank in the north epd
OF the district.
T.. e. Reardon and p. T. Hainer,
both lawyers of this city, are con-
testing for the republican nomina-
tion. Neither has conducted n very
active campaign and but little in
| terest has been manifested in the
race. The opinion seems to be that
| Hainer Is likely to capture the NOM
ination.
The First District Fight.
In the First district the congress
sional contest is in the republican
party. Congressman Howard having
no opposition for the democratic
nomination. j. S. Mabon OF Miami,
member of the state legislature, ia
running against T. A. Chandler, OF
Vinita. who represented the district
In congress one term, being defeated
for reelection.
l The contest has become almost
sensational. Report here Is that the
republican organization of Tulsa
county has projected itself intox4he
fight and Is enthusiastically backing
Chandler under cover on tho
grounds that he is not OF the Hamon
organization while pretending that
1t is keeping hands off. This has
caused some very grave protests to
be filed with headquarters here, and
there is promised some sensational
developments after the campaign is
over.
Whether this has helped or him
dered Chandler remains to be seen,
but many republicans OF Tulsa are
denouncing the action OF the repub-
ncan organization as being entirely
improper and injurious to the party
as whole.
Mabon has the support OF many
OF the most Influential leaders VINO
have been Chandler supports-s in
the past, primarily because they do
not believe that Chandler can be
elected because OF the bitter enemies
he has engendered by his peculiar
political methods.
The democrats of the district. es-
pecially at Tulsa, are quietly doing
all they can to bring about the NOM
ination of Chandler, believing that
their candidate can easily defeat the
Vinita man. This fact Is lining up
republicans behind Mabon In the
closing daSe of the campaign.
The chances of each man are
aoOut equal as the campaign closes.
the coveted plum ready TO drop 1n
the lap of the one which has
most effective organization working
election day.
| Other Contests Tame.
These are the outstanding contests
IN point Of interest In the primary
} campaign. In the Fourth district
there are six republican candidates.
but the situation is so obscured by
personal and factional feeling that
anything In the nature OF a clear
forecast is impossible. J. H N.
Cobb, In point OF ability and cam
paigning experience should, on form
win, but anything can happen there
In the Second. or Muskogee dis
trict' woman, Miss Alice Robert
son, II making n run for the non,iro
tion with better than a fair chance
! OF being nominated 10 make tba
really difficult fight against Con-
; gressnan Hastings.