The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-04
The Political Procession

Along with Hill, Bobby Burns and
Ed Dabney one might so so far as
to suggest that the contrast Is no.
ticeable, when II comes to physical
beauty. But George IL under no de-
lusion that the campaign Is going
to be fraught with rouge and toilet
water. and for that reason he has
postponed the date of his entry as
long as possible in order to avoid
getting winded in the home stretch.
Besides his own weight. he will have
to carry both Prince Freezing and
Governor Robertson, so that he has
needed all this time for training ex-
lercises. ~
A favorite pastlme Of the various
candidates for governor Is to charge
each other with having the support
of Governor Robertson. This is sup
posed to be about the vilcst thing
that can be said OF an opponent, and
Immediately brings cut an alibi,
which they all appear to possess. 1t
has even been asserted that Tom
owen and the governor have made
lup, and the fact that Robertson has
refrained from putting out the poison
he had laid away for owen seems to
justify the conclusion. There was
quite an accumulation of this, pro-
fessional, political and personal, so
it is reported, and that there has
been some sort of understanding be-
tween the two is the opinion of most
political observers around the capi-
tai.
Monday will witness a meeting of
the republican executive committee,
at which 1t is expected will be
launched the first movement from
the G.. o. p. in the campaign. The
fact that many republican filings
have been coming in for state Of
fices during the past week indicates
that the party leaders do not ex-
pect to be caught mapping as they
were in many cases two years ago,
and that they have been admipis-
tering a tonic in the quiet honieo-
pathic way this is exemplified in
Chairman Alexander. The chair
man is just home from Washington.
where he had an extra layer of felt
glued on the soles of his moccasins.
| Speaking of chairmen, Ed Semans
Is not having smooth sailing in his
peregrinations over the state for the
ostensible purpose of organizing the
!. democratic workers in each county.
Recently 1t was discovered that in
some mysterious manner his visits
were followed by an increase OF
IoWeH tdIh among the local pOlltlC-
ians, and suspicious were aroused
that the machine planned Owens
nomination by the strong-arm meth
cd. Semans was confronted with the
charge that he was encouraging an
owen organization, which he stren-
uously denied of course. but he has
not been able to convince much of
anybody. The recent appointment
of A. A. Mcdonald of Hugo to man.
age owens campaign. a man who
is n member of the state executive
committee and congressional district
committeeman, gives further color to
the charge OF a committee "frameup"
for owen. since the three of them
Semans, Mcdonald and owen. prac-
! ticany handled the reorganization of
the state committee by virtue OF
which Ben Lafayette was unhorsed as
chairman. They also attempted to
abrogate the direct primary by adop-
tion of rule providing for a pref
erential convention. but were over
ruled on this point, At the state
committee meeting in April they at
tempted to defeat Mrs. Fite for vice
chairman OF the committee, but In
this effort they failed. Otherwise
they have had things about their
own way SO far. and II Is quite evi-
dent that the nomination OF owen
for governor has been part of their
genetal plan. They have had some
trouble In keeping him from quit
ting, but they are persistent bunch.