The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-28
, PEOPLES PARTY INDEED.


Tho modern feast of Belshazar, with which
Mayor Walton is preparing to commemorate his
Inaugural AZ chief executive OF oklahoma, Is
20 be n peoples party indeed, since the people
themselves are elected TO contribute all viands
and expense.
Chairman Lockey of tho feast committee. is
sending out appeals to the people to supply the
following goods, chettels, etc:
Is Cash donations (naturally cash donations
come first In all such matters), 500 beef cattle.
200 hogs. 200 sheep, 5000 chickens 1000 tu-
keys. 500 ducks 1000 rabbits. 1000 squirrels,
goo opossums 10 buffaloes 10 bears. 10 deer.
zoe 600 1oaves bread, 1900 buns tons coffee.
3 tone salt, tons sugar, 1000 pounds pepper.
$50 bushels onions, is carloads wood, 5000 peo-
pie to do the necessary work In butcherng.
cooking and serving. And everything must be
prepaid to oklahoma City.
As we understand t. Mayor Walton agrees
to donate the grounds on which the feast ls to
be cooked and served. together with adequate
policing by the state militia. And no further
agrees to accept with becoming modesty all hon
ors, credits etc, and to offer himself as the dis
tlnguished object OF this popular demonstra-
tion
II is a spectacular prospectus that is offered.
but 1t ia not original. It will be remembered
that Governor Haskell, the occasion OF his
first inaugural, Hkowise made gesture of con-
: tempt for the habiiments OF culture and the
arts of refinement. He gave peoples party"
invited the hoi pollo prepared a barbecue and
made merry with the common people. dancing
ssthe square well as round dances. Some way
one gets the impression that It is Haskell
Mayor Walton has chosen for his political pre-
* ceptor, since familiar with Oklahoma poll
tics from the beginning :nds many points of
similarity In the strategy and utterances OF the
two men,
Looking again at tho requlslton made upon
the populace for the forthcoming feast. II be-
comes difficult to harmonize the profligacy
therein contemplated with the theory that
s oklahoma is a devastated state OF poverty
mortgages and want. II 10000 citizens attend
the feast having first made contribution there
TO, and IL the viands requested are indeed pro-
.ylded, II will be impossible to escape the i'm
preston abroad that this is state OF unex-
ampled prosperity and mprovdent to the point
OF profllgacy.
But there was another type OF Inaugural since
the days OF Haskell When Bob williams made
tprepnratlon to assume the ermlne OF supreme
authority he voiced an eplgram. "It is not the
manner In which I go in but the manner in
which l come out, that is OF importance to the
people OF oklahoma" he said.
And so this rugged character refused TO al
glow penny OF tho public funds to be expended
for his coming-out party. He took the oath in the
overholser theater. donated by the then mayor
OF the capital city And when later furni-
ture store presented bill for 80. covering the
rental on chairs used for the occasion, the gov-
- ernor paid st from his purse, refusing &c
permit the public funds 10 bo so used
But doubtless the Belshazar feast Idea is 6
-feeed ono-irom' purely political standpoint
There Is evidence that the role OF demagogu,
i is a pleasing to the people who supply th'
1.votes Hut the doctrine OF old Bob Willio ms
! that It Is not the manner In which offcia
goes in so much the manner in which HI
comes out that really counts, has. strang
appeal