The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-06-20

standing, because the great mass OF
delegates and even leaders. felt the
weight of their responsibilities and
refused to hazard the party and the
nation on such a record.
/ say here and now, and ] be-
lieve 1t with all my heart, that the
ticket which the convention after
many days of travail finally brought
forth was the very best ticket 1t was
possible to secure out of the conii-
tions then existing. II was not my
! choice. ! stood committed to the
soldier and statesman, and | watched
him suffer and die in political
sense with all the keen poignancy cf
| grief that sincere attachment must
suffer under such circumstances
was sympathetically conce ned
with the candidacy OF the man from
| California and the cause he so splen-
| didly stood for, and 1t was with gem
uine heartburning that later almost
! dcgenerated into a passi )ndtc
/ hatred. that | watched him play The
role of selfishness under the propul-
| sion OF egotlstlcal frenzy And |
watched the boom of the Illinois
governor gather in the face Of Bus-
pirion and positive charge If Ger
ruption with the gravest concern.
How Wood Was Defeated.
In February of the present year |
asserted In these columns that the
coahtton which was formed to beat
wood could accomplish its purpose.
but only by relenquishiug all hope
tor the rcaIZattun Of is own ambi-
| Ions. The concession and the fore.
cast were alike justified at Chicago
| The allied fight to destroy Wood
succeeded. But with the destruction
| Of Wood went the destruction Of
johnson ana Lowden.
When The national committee had
done It's worst or its best, the co.
terie IN that committee which as
| pired to supreme dictation. and |
shall here name Hert of Kentucky.
Keeling Of Indiana and Bab!er OF
/ Missouri, to which triumvirate has
/ Stncr been added Hamon Of Okla
| homa, set about displacing the oh
/ guard of lO12, LOwdCn was the man
/ nit upon TO turn the trick. The con-
| spiracy fluurishcd for time. But
/ the sober second thought of men was
| vitalized by the knowledge that tho
| hazard was too great. II would not
do TO nominate LOwden. The re-
allzauon was at last forced home
that there is an unwritten law
against elcCting a multi-milllonairc
Z
mat which prccludcs any nan from
going to that high office three times
let the leaders here and there.
men IN no sense bosses, hecalse tho
Ola guard was not there eyc,nrjnr
IN fragments that failed utterly 10
coailesce and Just as utterly 10 COM
/ 'nand attention, as day rolled hy on
ne heels OF another day, realized
lhdt 10 nominate any one Of the three
men out on front vas A hazard too
great to take, for the reason thar
supP'l uhSs and managers, ,ncv-
a, ,u,lI Il,huo, were at each others
Them to consequences.
johnson Aiccd old Guard.
80 Wood men and johnson men
and Lowden men stood quiescent
while the battle OF elimination wax
cd furious, | do not know that Sem
ators Johnson and Borah know ii or
that they intended IL. but they did
as a matter OF fact deliberately de-
liver the convention and 'he rOmi-
nation to the old guard II the old
guard did in fact finally t"iu'nph.
|, with thousands foregathertl at
Chicago. went hot and cold as | read
in the hourly editions Of tho local
pfess that a sick boss from his dsath
bod In Pennsylvania was lictat.ag to
a national party, To convention
that cheered the name Of Roosevelt
then supinely awaited the dire lions
of the man whom he had condemned
while living, and who had led the
cheering minions OF plutocauc des-
potism against him in another day.
And | say here and now that il
that representative of the old guard
did exert the controlling Influence
In the Chicago convention Borah and
| Johnson made 1t possible for him to
do So Because those two In the
| first instance made 1t impossible for
the progressive wing OF the party TO
/ nominate the candidate. For at anv
time before the recess adjournment