The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-19

committees were named and while
they were at work the meeting was
thrown open to talks on the situa-
uon. Stanley c. Edmister, an attor-
ney or Tulsa and formerly county at
torney OF Pawnee county. made an
OLD fashioned talk. dwelling at length
upon the work OF past republican
leaders
James 8. Mabon OF Miami, state
senator, and candidate for congress
from the First district, made a very
pleasing talk, In which he criticised
President Wilson extensively for at
tempting to put over the league OF
nations.
The congress OF the United States
Tor the next few sessions will be
very busy" said Mr.. Mabon, "cor-
recung and overcoming the evils that
the present administration has COM
mitted.
"One thing that congress must do
Is to reconstruct industry with its
two great arms--capital and labor.
II must pass laws that are fair to
the workers; fair to capital and
equally fair to the public"
Mr.. Mabon said that he was happy
to see the convention opened with
prayer to God for his guidance, while
President Wilson and the premiers
or Europe found that they had no
time to have any word uttered to
the deity during the deliberations of
the league OF nations.
Inc three committees then report
ed, the organizations committee rec
ommending the election OF Messrs G.
u. Rogers and $. Il. Walle for dele
gates, and Messrs. q. Il. Schwabe and
a. a. Dennison as alternates; Mrs.
Verda Ethel Tomlinson as presi-
dental elector. The reports were all
'oked' as read.
The only fly in the ointment oc-
currod when Captain Brooks called
for nominations for temporary chair
man and temporary secretary of the
congressional committee. Delegates
in half dozen places began POPPING
up, insisting that such procedure,
while called for in the organization
committees report, was wrong, and
should be stricken. They were
stricken and the report corrected.
Resolutions were then read and
adopted as follows:
Resolved, BY the republicans OF
this congressional convention for the
First congressional district Of Okla
homa, that we hereby declare and re-
new our allegiance to the principles
by the great statesmen who founded
and moulded it's policies George
Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Will
liam Mckinley, Theodore Roosevelt,
and other great leaders, who have
since the birth OF the nation. warned
this country against entangling alli-
ancos with foreign nations.
We congratulate the republican
party upon the great number of wise
statesmen who are now defending
the principles advocated by the
founders of our party, and who are
now upholding the honor of this
country and defending 1t against
internationalism and international
socialism, and to whom we may look
for safe and sane leadership.
We desire peace--a peace OF JUS
tice and right. We believe in a peace
that preserves the dignity and influ-
ence of the United States that we
may not be dominated by European
powers or become subject thereto in
the time of war.
We further condemn and denounce
the unpatriotic and un-American at
titude OF the administration in urg-
ing the adoption of the league of ma
tions and the secrecy that surrounds
the inception and promulgation as to
Its contents and effects, and its gen.
eral useless extravaganza and incom-
potency.
We do unaualifledly endorse and
commend Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge and his associates for their
stand against surrendering the inde-
pendence or this country to that of
European powers We commend
them for their patriotism, loyalty.
courage and unselfiSh sacrifice. to
the ridicule of those seeking favors
from foreign powers. and an Amer
ican guarantee of the payment of
old world war debts rather than
stand for the maintenance OF
American Independence.
We emphatically declare against