The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-30

ignoring Of a solemn obligation. has rarely been
witnessed. Yet II IL greater piece Off tho
nsme cloth that has frequently stamped Attor-
ney senver, IN the Judgment Of Tho World as
unworthy OF tho trust imposed IN him by tho
people In the first place, dlsregnrdrul of hts oath
Of office IN the second place.
It will be remembered that his record as
county prosecutor has been characterized by his
frequent uurpHtiou Of tho office Of Judge He
sigunzed hls Inauguration az public prosecutor
by freeing notorious character charged with a.
capital crime, his explanation being that he did
not consider the evidence sufficient to hold her
And 40 it has gone FOR two years Tulsa county
has been Observed very frequently by the nan
elected TO prosecute law v0olators but never
more glarIngy than by tho man who has served
IN TINT capacity FOR nearly two years past
In this connection The world cannot rerlet
the temptation to recall the great furor made
by ibis man scayer ana his evidences man a
few months ago and 10 point moral that
ought TO be educational IN its application. Il
Will be remembered that tho county attorney
and his evidence man. both Of them running for
office aided and hbctted tho fight made upon
Sheriff Mccullough by tho so-caIlcd purity
squad. Never prntors' ink used more
hypocrucally and effectively than during that
period when tho four-fiushers Of the coinmu.
nifty backed by an inslncere press agent set
about Cleaning up tho county"
Much money speut-soms Of II 10 pur.
chase whisky Notwithstanding tho fact
that tho collection taken In prominent
church. Public officials. whose chief offcnse
was that they refused TO play the hypocrltc
were damaged In public esteem: yet they were
ana ars today, NY whites, morally ana trust
worthy to tho nth degree as public officials
compared to most OF tho characters who had
great hour in the spot light
That crusade burned out It's flame There was
much famboyance, much Insncerty much
evasion and, above everything else much
press egenting for the man who had used his
office to protect his press agent who was
charged with unspeaknble crime
But tho crusade went tho way OF all such
crusades one by one things happened TO the
crusaders A dozen different political booms
sprouted in thor midst and were caught by the
frosts OF public condemnation But a few ap-
peared 20 flourish--ono for sheriff and the
other for promotion to the district bench. There
is this good quality about political lightning:
While 1t strikes accidentally over and anon.
raising 20 prominence ana authority characters
unworthy in every sense. IT rarely IL ever.
strikes In such place twice. Hence these two
ambitions which had been nourshed as aforo-
said for months and months were wlthered in
November
Then the mask off Public announce
ment wac made that a solemn oath OF office
would be ignored during the remainder OF the
term, And that announcement has been vital
lied by official act The fruits of the crusade
has turned to ashes on the lips OF the courts
The people have been fooled once moro by
schemlng demagogues, The net gain is the un.
masking OF some OF the unworthy. Possibly the
price we have paid for this II not too great