The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-01
by c. w. b. KINDS.
Capital Correspondent.

Worlds Capital Correspondcrt
OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 3l.,-Thc
holiday crop of political announce
ments got delayed somewhere ON the
road. and instead OF "A large number
OF new names being added to the
political list and some OF those here
tofore mentioned getting actively
into the campaign on the democratic
side, leaders have been far more
concerned toward the election Of
precinct committees In the state,
whereby the democratic state orr
gani2ation will be changed. The
last state committee meeting au-
thorized the election of women
members of the committee from
| each OF the counties, and also ar
ranged for member from the con-
gresslonal districts. State Chairman
Lafayette has issued the call. the
new members to be chosen from the
| precincts, such elected representa-
tives to go 10 the county as a whole
and so ON mp through districts. This
Will more than double the member
| ship OF the committees which Is 70
meet early I'm February and make
| such arrangements for the campaign
as the body deems necessary.
Quite naturally the leading demo-
cratic candidates are vastly inter-
ested in the committee as 1t will be
when the women members become
active In the work. Under demo-
cratic procedure the members have
been chosen at the primary when n
governor was nominated to serve for
a tour-year period, and IL has al
ways been felt proper for the CUB
ernatorial nominee to designate who
should be the chairman to conduct
| the campaign This program has
/ often been nssailed on the theory
| that the chairman was In fact but
| the personal representative OF the
| gubornatorial candidate and often
was not In perfect accord with the
| majority of the committee. How
ever, such protests have awaited
nothing and have practically ceased.
( Although Chairman Lafayette was
/ the personal choice OF Governor
! Robertson and had been his warm
| personal friend for term OF years,
/ II Is well understood that they have
| travelled In different directions since
! the very beginning of their two ad-
/ ministrations, and at various times
/ 1t was a rather open secret that the
governor sought to oust the state
| chairman, and bad political feeling
still exists between them.
These matters do not attract so
, much interest among those who do
: not go deeply into politics, but they
really shape the naming of candi-
dates for the dominant political par
~. and those who are listed as cam
didates for governor are all men
who know considerable about how to
muster the forces out for the initial
contest and not one of them appears
to be overlooking an opportunity to
get as much help as is possible out
of the reorganization, for II amounts
to that.
Very definite efforts to pronul-
gate platforms and raise issues
also appear, former Congressman
Howard OF Tulsa actually setting
forth some of the things he would
do in the event that he is nominal
ed and elected governor. The most
biting thing I'm the Poward state
ment Cto those who reside at the
capital city, was In his reference TO
law enforcement OF course that
broad statement did not bite, but the
insert" regarded letting the law
stay enforced after the courts and
iuries had rendered verdicts hits