The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-11-28

think Fleming would have no
chance to head the senate organiza-
ton. But second thought nigh,
cause a different opinion. Fleming
was not alone among the powerful
democrats of the state who sought,
to wrest the democratic organiza-
tion from power. To certainty he
has democratic friends in and ou;
Of the senate. Should he seek to
ride to second commanding officer
OF the senate. his chance of success
might approach the goal. In any
event. Fieming's attitude is being
watched very closely by democratic
officials.
OF course no one knows what the
republican minority In the senate
might do In choosing between two
democratic senators. Tom Simpsu''
Of Thomas IL very probably slated
as the administration candidate for
president protemporc. He Is popu-
lar with the democratic state ad-
ministration. but there are demo-
cratic senator's considered trifle
Wild when they see the democratic
state machine. II will be recalled
that no democratic senator who
stood with the Robertson admins
trat.on during the last session of the
legislature will be a member of the
next senate. Something awful hap
pencd to those who sought to re-
turn.
Traps senate organization was
injured by the large number of
democratic senators who retired.
McAlister, johnson, Tucker, McIn-
fnSh Rnarl n hnr
gone. That was a mighty organiza-
tion when Il worked In harmony.
Elmer Thomas never with any par
ticular crowd. is also out of the SEN
ate, So is George Wilson. Success
sors may prove as strong. Mrs
Lamar Looney succeeds Wilson in
the Fourth. Ross Lillard succeeds
Warren X. Snyder an the Four
teenth; Morton Rutherford sue
ceeds Eugene Kerr in the Twenty
seventh, Clark Nichols succeeding
senator MayfieId in the same dis
trict. W. J. Holloway succeeds Nc
Alister in the Twenty-fourth; Tom
ArSlin, an experienced house man
succeeds Board in the Twenty sec.
ond; Charles McPherren succeeds
Mcintosh in the Twentieth. John
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toga in the Eighteenth district, AMI
Jed Johnson, youth from Wal
ters, will succeed the veteran Ell
mer Thomas.
Additional new democratic sena-
tors are W. II. Woods OF the Nine
teenth distr rict; L. l.. West. Fiji
tcenth, and Horace b. Duran of the
Twentieth. From those the demo-
In the senate, No one can foretell
the lineup and should an insurgent
Gore democrat like Fleming become
an active candidate for president
protempore, the situation would at
least become interesting and might
have considerable effect on the
plans to be made by the house OF
representatives.
Tho democratic holdover senators
are NJ. W. Pugh, First; James Spur
lock, Second; Harry b, Cordell,
Fifth; L. c. Simpson, sixth; T. r.
Hensley, Fourteenth; c. A. Dear
mon, Fifteenth; l.. A, Morton. Sew
enteenth James Draughon, Eigh-
teenth. w. II, Wallace. Nineteenth;
Wilburn Cartwright, Twentieth:
J. L, Fleming. Twenty-first; Luther
htTElSoH, twenty -tNlTu, Es J., mn,
Twenty-f!fth: Pete Coyne. Twenty
ninth; II. J.. Davidson, Thirty first.
Republican holdoyers were few,
altough Harrison Brown OF the SIX
teenth and John Golobie OF the
Twelfth districts were reelected.
The holdovers were. William A.
Briggs OF the Third district. Joe
sherman, Seventh; w. T. Clark.
Ninth NJ. +. Ingraham, Eleventh;
NJ. Wallace Lynch, Thirteenth; II.
+. Woods. Thirty-third.
These newly elected republicans
are from the following widely scat
tered districts OF the state
c. Il. Leedy Second; James A.
Land, Sixth; Harry o. Glasser,
Eighth; Roy Harvey, Tenth; Charles
+. Wells Thirteenth; F.. NJ. Fry,
Twenty-eishth: Glenn II. Horner,
Thirty-seeond; j, corbctt, Thirty
fourth.
Two Of the newly elected Tepub-