The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-02-13

of my subject. the primaries. Be
fore an election. n candidate for
each office must be selected To run
on the party ticket According TO
tho present state law this must he
done by primary elections at which
republicans only can vote To de-
eide which ot tho candidates asking
for tho nomination shall be placed
on the republican ticket. Demo-
Gratis do the same for their party.
Both parties hold their primaries In
the same place. at the same time,
hut the separate ballots of different
Colors Primaries for city and town
elections are held on the third Tues
day in March, for county state and
federal or what are called general
elections, the primaries are held on
The first Tuesday In August. DO not
register as an Independent if YOU
wish to vote at the republican prt-
mary, because YOU will not be al
lowed 10 do so unloBs yuu are reg
istcrcd as a republican
Npw II you want good mcn ON
your ticket YOU must get 60 work
before the primaries. This propo-
SitiOn OF voting Tor the best man
sounds well but II is not as casv as
II seems. Fir~t you must emulate
Hogensc. hut since there arc a good
many more mon at the present time
than there were IN his day we ought
To have better luck than he ala. In
fact our trouble viii not be 40 much
In finding desirable man az II viii
be In getting him to run. The Kind
Of man We would like to gee Ia pub.
lie offiC" can make more money and
have less trouble minding his own
affairs while chronic office hunt
crs are apt TO be either inefficient or
elso possessed Of schemes to make
more than tho salary out OF The Job.
Vet occasionally there can be found
q good man for tho place who Is
willing 10 serve for the public
Another difficulty Co bc faced ip
making the ticket, especially in
cities. lies IN the fact that most, per
haps all. of the candidates subject tu
the primaries are strangers 10 YOU.
You do not know anything about
them, and, while they or their
friends will call on YOU for their sup
port, tho evidence you gather from
that source IS apt TO bc onc-sidcd.
Perhaps the fellow YOU do know the
most about is a machine politician
who has held office before and from
his public record YOU are sure You
10 not want him on the ticket. nut
he has hts forces organized and
yours are not. He has induc"mc nts
to offer the gang who vote for what
is in it while YOU are having trouble
10 get your women 60 vote at alt
Again there MAY bo several aspir-
ants for that place, each supported
by his particular group OF friends, so
that the entire vote IL scattered and
when the primary roturns come In
you find that Mr. Oldtimcr has the
nomination
Where Influence Counts.
what can you do about IL? Moth
ing after the primaries, everything
before the primaries. Which brings
us hack again to the precinct caucus
/ Ladies: let mo Impress upon you
with every power at my command
( that II is not wholly election day
which is important. nor primary daN
which is more important, but caucus
/ day which is most important. Al
each precinct caucus Will be elected
one man and one woman committee
man elected by the people present
mind you, not the absent. no matter
how staunch republicans they are ol
/ how much they talk about puritylnI
| politics. II II really Is your desire {,
make our party politics clean AMI
. decent, our first duty is to sec lhs
the right kind Of men ana wumoi
lrun for the nomination and then 4
endeavor by every honorable mean
In our power To nominate" rcpub
lican ticket composed of clean. high
standing men and women. Then a
least. Ne will have ticket that M
lady will he ashamed 10 ask he
/ friends 10 vote for on election day
Furthermore. if II Is our desire e
make our party party with a rcpu
tation for pure, clean politics, W.
must go back to the precinct caucu
because the precinct committeeman
| chosen in them form the county
com mlttcc, elect its chairman, III
secretary. and pick its executive
committee. Also those same Caucusei
elect delegates that finally result h
the election Of the state committee
and the nomination Of the prcsi
denial candidate. Nov let mo ~!
that these same precinct committee
/ men. forming as they do the county
central committee. practically con
troll the nomination Of the count!
and the stat" officers because they
are necessarily the leaders I'm thoil
various counties ana precincts a
and prior To the primaries, You SEE
! that February precinct caucus Is tn
| f0untninhcad from which comes no
| only the kind OF a county committee
man, state committeeman and ma
tional ommitteemln the party has
hut also its nominee for prcsiden
and vice president. II IS to thi
caucus that every woman must NJ
taught to go and to be there prompt
ly--on time,
Walking the SiDckcrs
We have a tremendous task be