The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-17
CRESCENT SPEECH.
COOKED WALTON
Those Hoping for Some
Sort Of Unity" Quietly
Quit Their Jobs
BY CLARK c. HUDSON
world Capital Correspondent

world Capital Correspondent.
OKLAHOMA CITY, sept 16.-
when Mayor Walton fired his shaw
nee platforms into the campaign, in
his opening speech, he destroyed ali
hope of the regulars for unity In the
party this year. Up 20 that time they
had been figuring that an old fash
toned fight might be made by put
ting on a patch here and there; but
they discovered TO their utter dis
may, after looking over walton
speech, that they had been following
"a blind trail The new alignment re-
fused TO be hidden any longer
Makes Convention Farce.
So it has happened that in the
days Immediately following the Wal
ton speech, there has been a de-
cidcd sloughing off OF the hitherto
hopeful regulars, They abandoned
hope when the head " the ticket
took his stand upon the Shawnee
program. regardless Of the platform
which the democrats thought they
made at oklahoma City. and they
headed Tor the wilderness. For the
Walton speech made farce COM
edy OF the state democratic conyen-
tion and its platform.
The result Is, Walton's organiza-
tion now commands the headquar-
tcrs In all particulars except sign
ing the checks, which Job ed Sc
mans has managed 20 hang 20 for
the nonce but which he will relin-
quish when Bob Dick the walton
treasurer. arrives In oklahoma city
next week. There Is no evidence
that EDS job OF writing checks has
given him p n paralysis, at that.
la hgu ut ~ 70
marshal the financial angels who are
standing around with their check
books waiting for him, there Will
not be much left for Semans 10 do.
unless he undertakes to sing for the
company
Machine Plans Fell Through.
But It had to come. The regulars
had It all fixed up 20 salvage the
democratic party from the recon
struCtion league by holding the man
agement. through Chairman Semans:
controlling the organization through
an organization bureau OF regulars,
and splitting up the other bureaus
so that no policy could be followed
without their consent. All this beau.
tiful structure fell with Walton's
opening speech. There was disap-
pointment and disgust everywhere
among the old-line democrats, who
heard new definition of democracy
issue from n nonpartisan conven-
ton and saw Il vanquish the old
democracy by making the democrat
ic convention n ghastly Joke. There
was no alternative for Walton. He
had 10 stand by the groups that
made his nomination possible. And
yet, until he had actually delivered
his speech at Crescent and its fate
ful sentences had been spread upon
the printed page, the regulars had
cherished n fatuous hope that oil
and water might be mixed under
some political alchemy, after all.
The schlsm began after the wal
ton speech. in earnest. John r. Will
liams, prominent in the manage
ment OF II. II. Wilson's campaign,
who had been named to head the
organization bureau. decided to re-
tire for a two months rest in a sanI-
tarlum. j. Berry King. who had
been named with o. A. Brewer TO
manage the speakers bureau. spent
two or three days at headquarters
and departed for Muskogee 10 re-
main indefinitely. King was to have
charge OF the business speakers
bureau" but evidently couldn't
make out what II meant In English.
| brewer mas been billing all the
speakers, including Walton. and
every one is 100 per cent for the
league. No Pat Harrisons or Tom
Heflins for him. He is under no
misapprehension about this being a
non-p partisan fight. and therefore
| Graves no old-time democratic
| speeches that would drive all the
soclalistic, radical and negro sup
port away from Walton and the
/ other league candidates. SO James
| Berry King, taking one frightened
| glance over the layout, called up the
ticket agent and asked for a rcserva-
| tion on the first train to Muskogee.
Lafayette Has II Easy.
Ben +. Lafayette, than whom no
| Walton supporter was whomer, has
/ been placed in separate quarters
| whore he has nothing to do but look
| over personal correspondence OF the
| mayor. and is relieved Of anything 10
| do with the management OF the
campaign. Mrs. Il. L. Fite, elected
TO be leader Of the democratic wom-
en-, by virtue OF being vice chairman
OF the state committee, has returned
TO Tahlequah, her duties having
been entirely supplanted by the es.