The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-15
DEMOCRATS FEAR
NONPARTISANISM
Mass Meeting Sentiment
"I AGAINST Amendment;
Table Other Action

,..i,, the proposed nonpartisan
\ ba!iroept TO the city charter on
: fte,natic and dissecting 1t with a
'ne 'ad ard trocar Of democratic ora
"a.p ,,orbers of the democratic
ioIy' -, Tulsa in mass meeting at
pay y,nriclpal auditorium last night
ile ile-.'1sed ,'',d il as the tool OF the OPP
diasn ,ertv and cast It from them.
losWs Ion branding the proposed
heay,u sunendment as AN unwise,
'nal 'n,a,s and drastic innovation" was
NC,U.ir,ously adopted at the close of
wv. ,neeiing, preceded over by Z. j.
Lundy A.. .ro,oss,o, q, ,r-
.v1ii,ass towards tho nonpartisan
l,.o.ndment the amendment per-
,s,ng alns 10 the taking in OF Tulsa
la,,nnrtles la,,,,t came up for discussion
p.,V,P'rssmuch as It was the sense of
pus ",ssting that the members pres
.le we're we're not sufficiently well in
owned or concerning II to take action,
NJ laid aside. The civil service
,tsndmont was taken up and voted
Fainsf The amendment relating
- ,be excise board was up Tor dis
,nsslon and its fate hanging In the
b,lance when r. Il. Morgan arose
and asked the meeting assembled to
'look where we'd been IL we hadn't
b,d an excise board" Before tho
unToar subsidized n unanimous vote
sgaInst the amendment was regis
,erd. ,, ,
Tho democratic party was In the
most beautiful harmony last night
q, Tho question of the nonpartisan
smendnent call by Chairman =.
h Lundy for opposing votes on tho
Indy was one OF several speakers
called upon by the meeting. Judge
l. III Poe. declaring that the word
anonpartlsan' was a misnomer,
nleaded at the same time for the
t,mocratlo party to forget that
hTe ever had been, was, or could
~ factions and to present n solid
,ront looking towards imminent vic
tory il was Judge Somers Hardy's
advice 10 put Tulsa on q business
basis by adopting the managerial
\ ,orm OF government IL the idea was
10 take Tulsa out OF politics, but not,
hv adoption of the nonpatisan
,mendmont, "open the way for
chance 10 make n raid upon our
George Reeves and Horace Ha-
tan each spoke briefly opposing the
nonpartisan amendment.
That the women would give Sc
rous thought to the amendment
and would do as their consciences
dictated was tho assurance given by
Nrs. z. Forrest Hayden I'm a brief
talk made at the invitation OF the
chairman, who felicitated the wom-
en members OF the party upon being
10 well represented at the mass
meeting, and congratulated the
PARTY as well upon having the sup
port OF the feminine contingent
whose component parts. he said. are
me partys "best friends and worst
enemies"
Nightmare 10 Davidson. I
That he never had been for the
proposed nonpartisan amendment
although he had served on the civic
committee named at the instance
oi the city club to propose plan
for il was the information conveyed
70 the' meeting by state Senator r.
L. Davidson. Senator Davidson de-
rhred the nonpartisan election plan
'monstroSity" and declared fur
ther that IL it should be adopted,
Nobody could keep him from vot
Ing for a democrat. and that II it
was adopted, he intended to vote for
democrat. Declaring that Tulsa
vas the seat of tho republican
bFains OF the state, and that the
tonpartisan amendment was "the
snTewdest piece OF work he had
ever seen shrewd republicans pull
oh" Davidson declared that its
aekers were presenting 1t as a
riopian idea while promoting II. in
reality, with none but the most