The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-03-19

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 1S.--
The political roulette ball spins so
merrily that IL Is hard TO determine
where II really does light. The cur
rent week saw T.. B Howard, the
| Tulsa democratic candidate for gov
0ruor. cross to the extreme south
western side Of the state and the
newspapers of that section discuss
| his speech as II OF the opinion that
| the Tulsa candidate was running on
| a nocompromise platform. Very
surely his plan of campaign Is a
| bold onc-suffiCicntly so to arouse
some In the state house circles to
! become somewhat alarmed. Mr..
/ Howard slams the owen candidacy
and then pays his respects to Can
! didate Wilson, using pointed re-
marks to embellish his address,.
The fact that Mr.. Howard had
! confined his campaign to the east
crn side and then Jumped TO Lawton
for the opening wedge on the west
side was an unexpected move so far
| as his opponents were concerned. 1t
at least indicates that the former
auditor is not going to make a
campaign confined to any one sec
tion Of the state and clearly proves
that Mcssrs. Wilson and owen are
going to have to make the state
wide race along with the .Tulsan
openly fighting for the job.
1t also shows that the hope for
n less vigorous campaign than has
/ been true in past years has about
glimmered out, for while these
| three gentlemen have been kind
enough not TO mention the names
/ OF opponents, any woll-intormed
U Ia lRn d 40 hn A.
a really sharp stab Is made against
some particular policy or plan.
Then, too, Mayor Walton is not
| expected to make the campaign , ny
| too pleasant for anyone and II Is
/ equally well known that not a few
| OF the large newspapers Will prod
| the mayor--nOt, perhaps directly
| but they will shower down on
/ whatever they can find in the way
| OF error and at no time will they
/ be in haste to say things about him
as "A candidate for governor.
Added to this is the present activ-
| ity of Governor Robertson, who. in
/ the past month has exhibited some
| fighting qualities, During the
week he gave out an interview to
| the newspapers stating that em-
/ ploycs who were given to unusual
! criticism would have to go else
whore for pay warrants. and the
| hand OF the chief executive Is be-
| ing shown at each turn of the
! political wheel
! At the outset he was known not
| to be much OF an admirer OF any
/ gubernatoriai candidate and all but
! Hubert Bolen were somewhat criti-
| cal Of him in their opening an
nouncment. Many of his friends
| are friendly to Judge owen but
| that candidate and the governor
have never been able to get along
| together politically-at least they
have never been as were Damon
and pythias.
Whatever the governors cXecu-
tive mistakes he is far from a poor
politician and viii know how "a
throw his support In "A manner 10
accomplish the most. Moreover ne
has not a few big democrats for
whom he thinks some punishment
should be given and the fact that
ne is on the lob and watching cy-ry
corner very clearly shows that ho
does not propose for the campaign
to get wholly out OF his sight.
In addition to the troubles OF
getting candidates for one or more
offices, the troublous times add 70
perpleNitics. one Of them was the
dispatch from far-off Paris, France
whore Senator Robert l.. owen an
nounced before sailing for home
that he had given up his great
banking idea for the present and
was sailing In order TO reach Wash
ington In time TO vote for the four
power treaty. The senator, Il will
be recalled, was not very deeply
in love with the league of nations
pact and no one had presumed what
he thought of the present treaty
II means that both oklahoma SEN
ators will be FOR the pact, and the
owen announcement means that he
is again TO be active in Oklahoma
politics-in fact II Is probable that
he may get into the present pri.
mary campaign, although that has
never been his policy as n senator
since the first primary when nc