The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-10-24


FOR politicians during the current
week and the scarchcr for the cX-
citing did not have TO seek long TO
meet All 81 the desired pleasures for
/ his political soul. II is using extra
F ordinary conservatism 90 affirm that
thorc is bitterness manifcstcd, large
by between the warning factions OF
question Of the clccuOu OF ION.
grCs-man Scott Ferris TO the United
states senate. And that BIT.
torucss has broken out afrcsh ir
democratic campaign committee
headquarters, where the knife, guid-
ed by the hand OF political Jealousy,
is being doxtcrously used. Not fcw
uf those who started the campaign
for MIR. Ferris with pomp and splen-
dor have met with royorsos. and the
agitation between those still left 10
mourn for what should have been,
uut promises not 20 be, Is OF n nature
tu create alarm.
Senator Luther Harrison was carly
made manager Of publicity FOR the
campaign committee. The senator IL
famed for his ability 10 make his
opponents mad and the storm OF
protests which followed his first dis
posal, OF campaign editorials alarm
ed the more conservative members
~ the committee. Realizing that
| Congressman Harreld, the rcpubli-
can nominee for senator. was maxi
inR inroads I'm the democratic dis
/ triCts uf the state, Harrison was do
taChcd from thos publicity depart
/ Wout ana assigned to follow Mr..
Harreld. lie progressed in the
smaller communities. and as ne
warmed to the topic became even
more biased with partisanship, at
| firming that mans solemn duty is
| to vote the democratic ticket. no
difference what the issue involved.
| The series OF speeches went all right.
insofar as was known to the outer
world. until Harrison reached Mus
kogee, where he delivered an cspc-
cially bitter partisan speech
Muskogee is the home of Tams
| Bixby, editor OF the Muskogee
| Phoenix, formerly a republican, but
now aligned with the Ferris forces-
I'm fact he has been the leading editor
for the standards OF Ferris. both be-
| fore the primary and afterwards.
| But Harrison stvle of present
ing the cause Of Ferris aroused the
| fighting spirit OF the Muskogee odi-
| tor. lie did not relish the appeal to
| race prejudice nor the doctrine OF
| vote 'cr straight" After durc rctlpr-
| ton the Phoenix editor concluded
| that IL Ferris were TO be saved from
| the attack being made on the demo-
| cratic state machine and the cove
nants of the league of nations, It
would be necessary to retire Uarri-
son from the field OF public speak
| ings, and more in sorrow than In
anger, Editor Bixby took his pen
In hand, delivering from his mind
this mighty indictment OF the Ada
| apostle of rubber stamp statesman
| ship:
Tho democratic cause in Okla
! homa deserves n better champion
than State Senator Luther Harrison
| who came to Muskogee Wednesday
| night upon the heels of ]. w. Har-
| reid, republican candidate for tho
| United States senate
! 'Wo would cast no reflections
| upon Mr.. Harrison either as pri-
| Vata citizen or n puSlic servant. We
| have always though him pretty To
100 per cent in both. And cer-
tainly no one would be mad enough
TO question his democracy.
But Mr.. Harrison comes to
| Muskogce with a mission to fulfill,
! tn win votes for the democratic
I
, misorably. He made no new con-
/ verts, no drove away from tho party
altar many ready TO make their
| first confession of that faith
There ia no doubt that Mr. Har-
! rison means well, his heart Is wholly
| In the cause he seeks To champion,
/ but his vision is so warped and dis
torted. tho path or his reasoning
so narrow and CONSTRUCTED, that he
wholly fails to grasp the conditions
| OF today.
that proclaims itself progressive,
he Is Of the most vicious reactionary
type. He preached nothing but the
doctrine of the party, and of party
| right or wrong, He expressed
tho doubt that there be white"
, republican, he ridiculed the indc-
pendent voter. He forgot complete
ly that 1t is the independent who
must elect democratic ticket IL
one is ever TO be elected that tho
citizenship OF the United States ia
in the normal course of things,
| overwhelmingly republican.
Mr.. HaTrison denies to Il man
the right to follow the dictates OF
his conscience, To forsake old poll
tics when he finds them unsuitable
or corrupt, or to cast his ballot as
he believes best for the interest of
himself, his home and his coun-
try. There Is but one thing a man
may do in his opinion and remain
q good citizen, that is to vote the
ticket straight now and forever,
Senator Harrison is living again
In tho days Of his birth. lie is fifty
years behind the times.
Let us quote Mr.. Harrison. "A
man who will appeal to a race prcj-
udiCc To win votes will lick mOlassea
from dead niggcrs lips" And n
| little later in the same address /:
vote for Harreld and you vote for
niger domination; vote for Ferris
and you vote for n white man s
country
"Old stuff which the thinking
man no longer belives; plea TO
race prejudice and race strife
which no good citizen desires an
appeal to passion rather than an
appeal to reason, n simila that dis
Eusts rather than wins,
I'VE like Mr.. Harrison but our
advice to the democratic party ia
that he be tucked snugly away In
mothhalls until the summer Of the
campaign has passed"
| Following the appearance OF tho
Phoenix editorial was a hurry up
call from the state campaign COM