The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-01-02

II theagc-old statement that COM
ing events cast .he!r shadows before
applies to the Oklahoma city poliii-
cal situation, the state capital will
see no sunshine for many days TO
come.
1t has been rather strange po-
litical gathering of the clans here
this week. Victorious republicans.
for the first time In control OF the
house of representative, did not ar
rive SO carly AZ he democrats, nor
have they made the same amount OF
noise, notwithstanding they had u
speaker TO choose and about half OF
the elected members were either
avowed or receptive candidates for
he place.
There was reason for this. The
democrats met following the second
failure OF the democratic state com
mittee to get a quorum. The failure
OF a quorum was not so bad as the
fact tina: the democrats elected to
the legislature failed to attend with
the few committeeman who asSe m :
blcd as II to attend "A funeral. And
hard upon the heels of the lack OF n
committee quorum and the failure of
the governor to control what mem
Der. OF the committee were present,
came the advance guard of the In
surgcnt leadcrs-thc men who have
concluded the way to "reOrganiZe'
| the democratic party is to impeach
| a democratic governor and rcpudiate
him to the inth degree.
To make the situation more com
pleN, the democrats who came TO
organize the senate against he state
| administration were accompanied by
many Of the leading democrats from
the counties, and as they marshaled
their forces In the. leading hotels,
| flung the nO-quarter flags out and
| commenced operations, ii required
no experienced student of politics to
understand that the oncoming leg
| islative session il to witness "a great
| lcontest-the more peculiar because
| the democrats Of house and senate
are TO lead in the effort 10 wrest the
orga nization from the present demo-
| cratic leaders
At the very beginning of the week
| Senators Fleming Of poteau and Bob
| Wallace of pauls Valley opened
Headquarters and became candidates
for president pro temporc on the
platform OF staying out of the demo
cratic senatorial caucus tadmi.tedly
controlled by Robcrtson) and 10
| enter into an alliance with the II
|
Many state administration leaders
| did not recognize the danger signals
but Lieutenant Governor NJ. T.,
| rrapp knew the men who had com
monced operations and took COM
mand in person. unfortunately many
OF Traps old guard machinery had
been unhorsed in the primaries or
at the election.
with his back to the wall, the gov.
ornor near .ho stage of complete
| rout Trapp has staged a battle. IL
had the support OF BIN Durant and
la new senator. Charles MCPherren
OF Durant. In the midst of the cam
paign Wallace issued statement
which included a Statement. that
good government would make II i'm
perativc that Trap himself bs
among those who should be tried
and face the bar of impeachment
since that time the feeling among
| democrats has reached an intensity
that would make the disagreementf
| during the l"crrls-Gorv contest seem
like a pleasant afternoon party.
| At this writing the contes. must
surely be at the peak point. The
democratic senatorial caucus II
called FOR saturday IycsterdayD Sen
a'or simpson was the man scheduled
by the administration caucus to bs
president pro tcmporc. since the op'
positiOs has decided Ia not attend
,he caucus, the administration force'
have offered To .rade that position
Tor any vote they can obtain from
Ithc Wallace Fleming forces.
Means u tInish.
There is far more AT stake thar
the organization Of one house of tn,
Eighth legislaturc--it means thai
the 'wo democratic factions hav,
clinched for "a finish contest. Tn,
state machine has been controlled
from the statchouse, and that di'
vision won the primary last Augus
and while defeat met them In No
Iyember, .hcy are still in control ant
had been very actively marking foi
slaughter those who had failed tC
stand hv the ticket of Cours,
there were attempted harmony meet,