The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-19
THE STATE COMMITTEES MEETING.

The republican state committee. which
meets In Oklahoma City tomorrow morning is
tion In to the party AS n whole and to the state
and not to any cabai or clique. There is full
confidence that 1t will do SO.
In the matter OF endorsing some one to fi
Hamon. the committee can scarcely avoid being
guided by the popular will as last expressed
And II II does that, It's choice is narrowed to
two mem Senator Harrcid and State Chairman
its selection must fall on Harris because OF tho
senator's preference for Mr.. Harris.
It is stating an admitted fact to say that
aside from Harreid himself no republican in
confidence Of all the citizens, democrats as well
az republicans, AZ Harris who. In the faco of
almost insurmountablo obstacles. directed n
victorious state campaign, sinking his own per-
sonai preference at all times. and at other times
absolutely humbling himself TO avoid a breach
in tho organization until after tho election
The demand for Harris to remain at tho
head Of the state committee Is weli-nigh uni
vcrsal. yet at the same time 1t is conceded that
his selection national committeeman. 30 far
as the state committee Is concerned. Is essential
TO the maintenance Of the organization without
break. A year from next August there will
bc "A int Mt In iunu
Material campaign. and at that time a new
state chairman will be selected in due form
It is not at all certain that there needs to be a
new selection prior to that time for even
though endorsed for national committeeman by
the state committee. Mr.. Harris may not DO
actually appointed to that body prior to the
convening Of tho state convention.
Inevitably the members OF the state COM
mittee must keenly resent the movement to
make the widow OF the late Jake Hamon ma
tional committeeman. quito as much because of
the methods employed as because OF the effect
1t would have in perpetuatins tne Hamon
tragic scandal that the sooner forgotten the
better.
The mere fact that the suggestion came in the
first place from politicians outside the stats.
the notorious Jake Babbler and "Liv." Morse
OF Missouri. and has been carried forward 20
such a point that Ohio politicians, generally
supposed to stand close to the preside mt elect
arc debating that 1t shall be done, is enough %
defeat 1t.
Neither Jake Babbler, 'Liv," Morse or Harry
Daugherty voted in the state of Oklahoma Nor
did they contribute directly or indirectly to tho
victory which Oklahoma republicans and inde-
pendent democrats scored November 2 They
will not be voters In this state two yeors fror,
now when 1t Is eNpected to finish the work
laudably begun last month The only possth,e
effect their present advice can have nm ,h,,
campaign two years from now is to render the
success of that campaign exceedingly doubtful
II their advice is followed,
Tho Daugherty telegram assuming II 10 ~.
genuine, was not only impertinent It was also
the coarsest kind Of machine politics. That n,
was sent at all Is the most convincing proof no,
s,ble that the paughsrty influence with tho
president elect is much less than the gentleman
ana his friends have advertised It to be. For.
happily, 1t In . matter OF record that the presi.