The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-09-26

congress I'm the Fifth district. lie
won that nomination because OF two
thlngs-first. he waA ;he district
Judge in the counties OF Murray, car
vim, McClAn and Cleveland. At
torneys there had grown dtspleased
with his court and entered into
sort Of gentlemAnly conspiracy to
nominate him for congress in order
to secure n new judge and those
counties did return overwhelming
pluralities for him at the primary.
Friends OF Swank in Oklahoma City
understood that Roy stafford would
| lead all other candidates in the lar
Rest county of tho state. and re-
sorted to strategy TO secure the anti
{ Stafford vote In oklahoma county.
Two OF Stafford's best friends were
| Judge Jean T.. Day and Clark Hud-
/ son, the latter manager OF his cam
paign In oklahoma city Both were
| strong Gore men and the Swank
champions threw n heavy Ferris sem
/ timent that would have been other
/ wise friendly 10 Stafford 70 the
Swank column.
Swank's real managers are now
/ advertising that they had nothing to
/ do with this arrangement, but there
/ can be no denial that many OF the
disappointed Gore men look with no
/ serious displeHsurc on the republic
/ can congressional candidate Judge
/ Bayard Il. Haincr. who Is making an
| effort to repeat the Harreld incident
| tn the district which is very largely
/ democratic.
Judge Uainer once lived in Guth-
/ rie. was n federal Judge In territorial
/ days and his acquaintance I'm Logan,
/ Payne and Oklahoma counties COM
/ prising three -fourths OF the popula-
/ tion. gives 10 his candidacy some
/ aspects which were unexpected a
/ week ago.
without n Precedent
These two cases find no precedent
| In general election campaign in
/ Oklahoma. Ordinarily the republi-
/ can nominee for United States sem
/ a tor Is mentioned twice--once when
/ he is nominated and again when the
/ majority against him is published
/ nominee for congress In the Fifth
district Is allowed to pay a few dol
/ lars into the general campaign fund,
[ and to do such other things as will
serve to keep him busy This last
was changed when Harreld was elect
{ ed to congress. II is significant
| that the man who oroke that rule
D
| cans for the United States senate
; and that he Is actually leading the
/ field in his offensive against the for
| titled democratic enemy.
The democratic Ardmoreite is In
n frenzy OF apprehension. In an ar
| ticlc telling the democrats to wake
/ up" least the Harreld's campaign
| should he victorious, II aroused the
/ Carter county democrats to hold a
meeting at the courthouse. Several
I committeeman attended and reported d
/ that they favored the democratic
! ticket, then went home. This caused
the Ardmoreite to exclaim and pro-
! test as follows:
There is nothing to be gained
! through few of those who rank
with the chosen disciples OF
| county, foregathering at the court
i houses in the several counties OF
oklahoma, and making speeches to
\ one another and shaking hands
with each other and assuring
themselves that the democratic
party is the party OF the anointed
of the Lord But there is some
thing. there is much to be gained
by organizing the forces OF both
men and women voters ard start
n ing out on a syste matte campaign,
gan "Go and get the votes
"Oklahoma is normally a safely
democratic state. But there must
4 be unity OF purpose and unity Of
action and perfect accord II we
would hold II 80. II means that
we cannot sleep upon the rights
and sit idly at the switch while the
express trains thunder by
After issuing this advice. the Ard
moreite EDITOR, while doing it in the
column devoted to comment, uttered
something, which II true, Is the big
rest news item of the entire year
He said:
Ferris is man pre-eminently fit
ted to serve the people of Oklahoma
as senator"
Blake Opposing Ferris.
Aldrich Blake Of Muskogee, who
was the head OF the Gore Volunteers
in the primary. campaign, suddenly
returned to Oklahoma City during
the week. He e..had spent the days
since the primary In Michigan, and
during his absence the cOmmitte,
had announced he had chosen direc.
tor of the speakers bureau. At va,
rious intervals democratic committee
managers announced that they haC
failed to receive reply from Mr.
p tlahe ana tndt tne position wa.
being held open for him.
Following his arrlvai in Oklahomf
city. Mr.. Blake sought the manager.
OF the Jeffersonian club and admit
ted that he would like to Join tn,
organization without being invited
He had received many letters fror
volunteers during his absence and II
the Oklahoma Leader OF Septembel
Is, Mr.. Blake announced his oper
. opposition to Mr.. Ferris in the fol
lowing statement.
III the letters ! have received
from Gore volunteers mean any
thing, they mean that thousands
OF democrats are going to vote for
]. w. Harreld.
These democrats are not desert
ing tho party They are trying 10
save H. They believe the surest
, way 20 avoid disaster is TO teach
certain OF the party leaders and
newspapers that the rank and file
OF the party will no longer sup
, port a candidate whose success al
the primaries was due to such a
; t'anpaign of misrepresentation and
! ftiticat!on as was conducted BY
! Ferris and his supporters.
Price OF the Lesson.
The loss of a senator is the
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