The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-03
0USTED BY LEAGUERS
SO They Attempt to Capital
ize Former Connection by
Taxing Fearful Interests
TULSA THEIR MAIN GOAL
Oil Firms Here, Whose Back
ers Know Little of Politics,
Marked for Tribute
BY CLARK G. HUDSON
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. q
The merry little milkmaids of poll
tics are securing their pals and dom
ming their aprons in preparation for
the big milking of the octopus which
is to occur during the next legisla-
ture. They are very, very merry.
Not for a long time has the prospect
heen SO good for rich milk har-
vest.
For those who engage In profess
sional lobbying there has existed a
feeling of mingled awe and contempt
since 1t became somewhat passe as
an aVocation. But at least it may be
said for the professional that he Is
not trying to "double'' anybody BY
an assumed lip service. The profess
sional is naive ard, forsooth, a little
inclined TO use the decoy; but he has
never consented to become the de-
coy himself. In the forthcoming
session. It Is becoming apparent 1t
will be the decoys who Will rush
forth to tho kill. There is to be a
boring from within the within.
Tempting Morsels in Sight.
A legislative program that IN
wolves the entire revision OF the tax
system of the state; an increase of
the gross production tax; free text
books; a bank commission for ham
ding state money; possibly a new
constitution, and change in the
election machinery, certainly offers
a tempting morsel TO the profession
al. But he will have mo chance.
The political outriders are ahead OF
him. Those who professed and still
profess to be ION the inside with
Walton and the league have already
surrounded the situation. AS in the
campaign they visited the octopus
for the purpose of extracting the
fluid capital so essential to the con-
duct Of a political revolution, and
went away with their fingers
crossed. so today the same crowd.
augmented by few accretions. is
preparing TO make the same octopus
give down." Or up, under promise
10 keep the battling bolshevidi from
saving its tentacles off.
BE 1T remembered, that during
the campaign, money was secured,
and support as well, upon the repre-
sentation that the Shawnee platform
was only a dream of a bunch ot
h6rmiessfili iliiterati; that IL could not
and would not be carried into effect
because the legislature would be an
tagonistic; that 1t meant nothing in
the young and jolly lives OF the po'
htical captains; that at the proper
time orders would be issued and GER
tain eyolutions executed which would
stop the threatened flank attack
o, boyl o. joyl The funds and the
winks were exchanged simultane-
ously, and the merry milkmaids went
warbling on their way.
Boo! the Big Scare.
Now that the election is well over
and those who were responsible for
the program" have had time "a
gather up the reins which have by
rights passed 70 their control, big
scare has arisen. 1t Is such scare
ms the erstwhile captains and
money grabbers OF the campaign are
happy to see. BY reason OF their pre-
snmed proximity to the new powers
that be; by virtue of their juxta'
position with the protagonists OF the
new day" they are now about e
come into their own. And to facili'
tate the coming they are going tc
meet II.
Since It became evident that tht
reconstruction league and its various
constituent elements is determined
upon the policy OF carrying out the
campaign pledges. and that II is ex'
pected 20 vitalize the Shawnee plat
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