The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-10-05
PLATFORM ADOPTED
BY THE REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENT ION

We, your Committee on Platform,
respectfully submit the following
The issues in this campaign are not
National They have to do entirely
with our own domestic affairs of gov.
eminent.
The people of Oklahoma must now
choose between our established system
of government and Socialism.
They must make their choice be
tween maintaining the form of gov.
ernment under which America has be
come the greatest nation in the world
and submitting to the rapid encroach.
ment of the kind OF government that
has plunged Russia into chaos and
bankrupted North Dakota.
The question to be determined by
the voters of Oklahoma at the ballot
box in November, is Shall the degen.
eracy of the present state administra
tion be affirmed, approved and alb
solved thru the election of the state
ticket. which while loudly voicing op.
position In the primary, accept their
support, and is secretly committed to
insure immunity from the results OF
prosecution for those state officers
and their associates who have been us.
ing public office to fill their private
purses.
Not only is immunity sought. Con.
tinuance of the same demoralizing in.
fluences in positions of power in our
state government is definitely planned
To insure the nomination OF a can
didate for Governor who win serve
these ends, a secret alliance was form
ed with radical leaders of every shade
These succeeded in inducing their sin
cere but misguided followers to desert
their party and participate in the Dem
ocratic primary. Their plans were sue
cessful up to the nomination point
Their campaign for election is start
Ing on two platforms, utterly unrecon
cilable; one designed to hold the rad
ical Socialist votes which determined
the nomination.; the other to attract
and win conservative Democrats who
opposed the Shawnee Platform in the
primary and who stand for orderly.
constitutional government.
Real Democrats hold the balance OF
power. Our candidates for state Of
hces cannot be elected without their
votes. We frankly solicit them, to the
end that our state may be saved from
the disgrace and disaster which inev.
itably will follow the placing of Radi.
cal leaders in power for the purpose
Of protecting the present Governor and
his associates from the consequences
of their misdeeds.
One of the platforms on which the
nominee for Governor in the Democrat
primary is making his campaign
for election, says: I'VE believe that
the disclosures show that the Bank
Guaranty fund and assets have been
looted, and that there has been graft
In other departments of the state
and We demand prosecution to the
limit, of the bandits, whether public
officials or private citizens"
We accept without modification
this endorsement of the good work
OF the Republican House of Represen
tatiyes in the Eighth Legislature.
which resulted in disclosures of loot
ing and graft which later became the
subject of grand jury action thru the
good work of the County Attorney OF
Okmulgee County.
The other platform on which the
nominee for Governor in the Demo
cratic primary is making his campaign
rejects the plank which has been
quoted and endorses the present and
previous state administration fol
"the faith kept and good work accom-.
plished."
Such double-running as this clearly
forecasts doubledealing, The only
manner in which the books may be
opened. the truth made known, the
guilty punished and the states bust.
ness established on sound basis OF
economy, efficiency, honor and integ,
rity, is thru the election of candidates
on the Republican ticket for state of.
fees, and both houses of the Legis.
lature. We pledge and commit them
to these high purposes.
The Government of Oklahoma must
frst of all be rescued from the gang
of state officers. bankers and attor
neys who seek to retain control so