The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-27
GOVERNOR IN CHARGE
Through Appointees, Gov.
Robertson Plans to Die
tate Program
PUSH WOMEN TO REAR
Rooms Assigned Fair Sex
Bare and Worn, While
Gang "in Glover"
BY CLARK C. HUDSON.
World staff CorreHpon1pnt

OKLAHOMA CITY. Aug. 90
After ten days OF cranklng. and
shifting gears. and shooting the gas,
the democratic machine was started
up today in the Lawrence hotel
headquarters, and at last accounts
was running wheezily on one Cylin-
der. The other cylinder, which was
10 function at the old walton head
quarters as a women's bureau, was
not working. In short, the mascu-
line contingent gave the women
special recognition" by walking out
and leaving them. The singing has
started without a soprano.
Down at the Lawrence, where the
men disport themselves amid a richly
cushioned and Carpeted environment,
occupying an entire floor. equipped
with dozen baths In which TO dip
the bolshevikh presided over by the
imberlurable and immobile Semans.
the sheik. there is a stir oetokening
important events. Surrounded by
tables. towels and tapestry. the males
merrily mill. To be sure there Will
be stenographers about. but so far
as manage ment or consultation goes,
the male democratic headquarters is
as womanless as Eden before the rib
incident. In contrast 10 the luxu-
rious setting provided for the men,
the two rooms assigned" to the
women In the old builling at Main
and Broadway. where the Walton
banner still floats, are conspicuous
for their rough, bare floors and
Scared walls. and are fitted OUT
with a pine table and two cheap
chairs. one view opens out on Main.
the other on a vista of discarded
quids. cigar stubs and broken glass
bottles that adorn the roof OF the
adjoining building. From this insplr-
ing setting the women are expected
10 extract voltage sufficient to knock
n voter down as far as Boise city or
ldabel.
The campaign organization, as It
was finally fitted to form, consu-
tutes remarkable piece Of political
mechanism. First off. II appears TO
have been an exchange of empty
shells. Chairman Semans emerges
from the mUddle with his supremacy
secure; his executive committee of
lS anti-Walton and one Waltonite In
posse sslon OF the field; his hand
picked men In charge Of the organi-
2ation work so that the reconstruc-
campaign; the speakers bureau split
SO that he can work In the Pat Har-
rlson's and the Heflin's to rally the
old democratic spirit, and his pub
nsity bureau manned by inexperi-
enced men so that he Will have 10
provide the technique later. Semans
was building for the future. He has
put up a valiant fight. and a win
ming one. TO save the party organi-
zation for himself and the old guard
after the election this fall has
passed walton comes out OF the
melee still the candidate for gov
ernor. His lleutenants of the recent
past, some OF them. have been given
something to play with until after
the campalgn--bureaus and toys or
Earious descriptions-and then the
deluge.
Walton remains the hope OF the
farmer-labor league. His statement
following his nomination, TO the ef-
feet that he will stand on the plat
form built at Shawnee until II is
changed by It's builders. has inspired
the bellef among them that he will
follow the program II elected COVER
nor Regardless OF the concessions
which have been forced for cam
paign purposes they believe that he
will not fail. when the test comes, 20
stand for everything in tho Shawnee
program. SO far, they are steadfast
IN the faith. wait until he Is elected
governor, they say: then he will be
IN position to dictate without inter-
ference. Then the petty annoyance,
such as I'd Scmans and hts commit
tee. will be brushed aside With
Walton, and the initiative and refer
endum. all viii be well
Waitonltes Disappointed.
The campaign organization turned
out to be much like the stockyards
platform-full of air holes. II is no
secret to disclose that the real Wal
tonites we're disappointed AFTER they
had taken an inventory, In the first
place. the organization bureau took
all the organizing out OF the hands Of
the league by virtue OF being turned
over to John r williams and Edwin
Dabney. williams was one OF r. II.
Wilson's managers. represented Il
w, Marland IN financing Wilson. and
is bitter against the league Dabney
got out OF the race for attorney.
general to help George Short, and
represents the state administration
with them 10 handle the organiza.
uon work, under direction % chair