The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-13
COVE AND
LEAGUE, ISSUES
tate Campaign to Center
on Those Two Points,
Hudson Predicts
LEAGUERS" SATISFIED
Got Promise They Wanted
From Walton; Convention
TO lndorse Robertson
By CLARK c HUDSON

OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug ~ 2-
The political Issues which Wer,
forced to the front the prlmnr,
result. and which are ukoly Ia con.
tinuc outstanding throughout the
campaign, are two In number First
or. the farmer labor league sue
cess IN nominating ia cand date
for governor has forced Tho dc
rinnds Of that organization to the
fore, ana The shawnee platform vii
he the economic issue of The ram
paign. Secondly although the
states chief executive might uuea
tion the order of Importance. ths
administration Of Governor Robert
son has been made q principal Issue
5y the returns. and this will be en-
hhaslzcd by an lndorsement nt the
state convention Upon these two
. issues the contest viii be fought
out
ieagucrs Not Pcrturbcd
Advocates of the shawnee plat
form do not admit party align.
ment In the fight which IL 10 be-
waged over the farmcr-lnbor de.
mands They have not been eape
cially perturbod at the evidences OF
schlsm In democratic party ranks
since Walton came out In his "lrre.
vocable" pronOuncement for the
Shawnee document, II matters not
much to them whether the demo
cratic convention patches or dis
patches their platform. so long M
Walton Is going 70 run on IT, yer.
batlm ad iltcratlm ad North Dako.
tun, To he sure. they are count
ing upon controlling the convention
ana becoming the democratic party
themselves; but In case this should
by any means slip they will 60 on
with the cand date and platform
indorBed at the primary paying no
heed TO any contrary declaration
which may em0natc from the state
convention. So II pcrchance the
gathering OF patriots here Tuesday
should trim or modify the platform
upon which Walton was nominated
there VIII be two platforms Each
leg OF the party. In that event. will
have platform to stand on. which
should make II easy on the legs
What the farmer-labor group
wanted, In short and simple annals
was q promise from Walton to 70
through on tho Shawnee platform
regardless of what any other group.
Including tho politician group
might do. They secured this prom
ise In the walton ultimatum Issued
during the week, That done, the
leaguers have small worry Other
groups. such rs the Ed semans
group, the Tom owens group and
the Bob Wilson group, may assem
BILE and exhaust their creative
genius in manufacturing platforms
until the lowing kline weud their
homeward way and II bothers the
ieaguers not one whit. Poufi they
say. Just like that.
The Old Gang Is Peeved.
Naturally. the oratorical and
categorical elements In the demo-
cratic party did not take kindly to
the new freedom as practiced by
the leaguers. They couldn't imagine
n campaign without a convention.
whereat loud and reverbernting vo-
callzation might he INDUCED In ana
n choice assortment of platitudes
arranged In set OF resolutions.
they we're Mortified
lest an opportunity he passed to in
dorse Woodrow Wilson, the league
pf nations, Bob Williams, j. II. A
the state bank failures
and Fred Dennis. SO they wouldn't