The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-02
WALTON IS FORGOTTEN
Mutual Enemy Lost in Din of
Battle as Marland-Dutch
and Standard Mix
}OLD SCANDAL IS RECALLED
Leasing of State School Land
to Marland Is Factor in
Primary Fight
BY GLARS c. HUDSON.

Worlds Capital. Correspondent
OKLAHOMA CITY. July T.
Three major topics OF political dis
cussion have held the boards during
the final week in June. and as the
last lap of the primary campaign
begins they offer TO whom 1t may
concern broad field for speculation
and information.
"Slush Fund" for Owen.
First off, 1t Is understood that a
Tremendous slush fund has been
raised and is being augmented daily.
for the purpose of trying to nomi-
nate owen for governor.
prominent oklahoma City banker,
who occasionally takes a flyer in
gubernatorial candidates, was re-
ported TO be at the head OF a syn
dicate underwriting owen for $780,
900 to be made available during
July.
Next, the beginning of Governor
Robe. on's activities has aroused
general interest in his plans and
speculation as to what part he ex-
poets TO play in the primary game.
And finally. the North Dakota pri-
mary election. at which nonparti-
san victory was recorded, had been
awaited with almost as much inter-
est in oklahoma political circles as
IN NOrln DAKOTA.
Owen Certain TO Stick.
II is not claimed that $4,000 is
all that is TO be raised in owens In
tereSt for the final campaign effort,
but that this amount represents the
particular jackpot presided over by
the Oklahoma City bank president
who has made somewhat of a repu-
tation heretofore for picking win
ners in the last heat. Still, $4,000
is quite a tidy amount OF itself, and
will no doubt serve 10 attract the at
tention of those political four-year
locusts who have been sitting around
for several weeks waiting for the
sprouts to show up. II has also
done something toward dlspelling
the impression which has all along
prevailed. to the effect that owen
would not continue in the race until
the end and would be squeezed out
after his friends discovered that he
had not vet been able to show better
than third.
But owen underwriters did not
capture all the advertising during
the week, although they raised the
ante somewhat. A representative OF
II w. Marland, who was here a few
days ago. was reported to have
brought along a draft, payable TO
one OF the Wilson directors, in the
neat and net sum OF $4,000. This
report started stampede OF patriots
in the direction OF Wilson headquar-
ters which was in full progress
when the owen story came out and
diverted the attack The banking
syndicate set in a stack that not only
staggered the Marland forces but set
swarm OF the dollar democracy
reeling around in circles, looking for
a way to get at both piles
A Notwithstanding Fight.
The fact that lies behind the cur
tain Is that the contest between the
Marland- Dutch Shell and the Stan
dard, as 10 which shall secure the
next governor. has resolved itself
into a final and desperate clinch.
II was hoped for a long time, by
those who had lesser stakes 10 Llay
for, that a compromise might be e'-
,Nted whereby one ~ them could he
.Wlled out in the hone OF beating
Jack Walton: hut II has heeL in
CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.