The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-15
.PENR0SE DIED
LIKE HE LIVED

CONTINUED FROM FACE ONE.
pArceled out. Penrose, rapidly rls-
ing TO the top In the political coun-
ellis Of his party, is using as the
rungs on his ladder other figures
that have given the city OF brother
ly love the odious distinction OF be
ing the most corrupt and contend
ed on the globe.
The scene shifts again. Penrose
is fighting for his political life. II
"a the first time in the history Of
the state that n candidate for United
States senator is forced to go before
the people. II is 1914, the second
year OF democratic adminlstra-
ton In Washington. but the seventh
year OF a severe industrial depres-
sion which started under Roosevelt,
but for which every republican or
gan in the state is blaming wilson.
Behind Penrose Is every brewery.
distillery and saloon in the state.
His picture adorns every barroO m
mirror. Bar tenders circulate his
petitions among the riff raft that
sticks It's feet on the rails and signs
between drinks. Every steam rail-
road. every street railway and al
most every industry In the state
Issues orders 10 line up for Penroso
and cracks the whip over the heads
on Its payroll. Breweries levy "A tax
on every barrel of beer and distil-
lefies on every gallon Of whisky. or
ganized wealth and organized vice
Join hands with Penrose and with
slush fund OF millions against the
moral forces OF the state.
In that fight republicans who OPP
posed Penrose in the primaries re-
ierred 20 him as n moral issue.
Mitchell Palmer called him the last
leat on the tree OF political graft
ana special privilege. clifford
Plnchot condemned him unmerc!.
tully on the street corners Of every
city in the commonwealth, while his
Ied-headed bride circulated n~fi
Penrose pamphlets in the crowds
The mighty Theodore came rusuI.4.
INTO the state laundering in the in
ueH. The people of tniontowr
heard what Roosevelt had TO say
OF Penrose then, but lest there b'
some doubt as to this, permit us Z
introduce document which wa
published broadcast:
oyster Bay. October 29. 1914.
=, Dear Sir: Penrose stands In pub
nc life for all those forces Of evi
against which every clean ana de
cent citizen should unfiinchingll
stand, Sincerely yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
- But great as was the power o.
roosevelt the power OF PenrOse wa
greater, because behind him Pen
rose had the organized wealth Of th'
hs'lon and the wallOp thai billion
could and. Two short years befor'
Fenrose had sacrificed the republic
an party before he would surrends
70 the hero OF Armageddon. Tat
carried two little states out or tn,
~ Roosevelt had carried the stat
~ lslZ-the same state which eigh
years before had given the Co;one
the record plurality OF $50, 00I
,otes. But -Penrose showed tn
se or oyster Bay who was master
an the three-cornered fight. wit
,he republican party supposed 10 b
Sorn asunder and shivering Ia piece
On the rocks, Penrose. running OF
.Ae ticket Of that party. had NOR
soles for United States senator tha'
,eimer and Plnchot combined in tn
'st real test OF popular strength
Mst ever confronted him
Fenrose was q study in psycholo
lie was Of illustrious ancestry
rs torhears on both sides datln
oaek 70 Revolutionary DAYS. II
came Of a long line OF doctors. law
ana jurists. Prepared for col
hy private tutors and in a re
.s,Cus school, he entered Harvar
'Ae age Of i6 and emerged there