Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-19

early days that s-e Linco.nssque IN their
| quaint and hume .ous wisdom
The Capitol reporter Tor the Daily
Oklahoman tells the following story "a
illustrate the humorous side Of MUIR
rays nature: The reporter and stan
photographer of the paper went to the
executive mansion to take some pictures
Of the Governor and his wife in their
home. Having made all the pictures
| they wanted the photographer I'M
limbered and closed his camera. and he
and the reporter started to leave They
had crossed the lawn and we're about ia
go out the gate when they heard the
Governor call them:
Hi, there! Don't you want this pose,
too?"
They turned and there was GOV
Murray standing on his head and wav-
ing his feet in the air. The photogra-
pher hurriedly grabbed his camera 70
open 1t again, but the Governor sprang
upright, laughing. waved his hand AT
them and shouted:
Pretty lively for an old fellow OF So,
heyl Well, good-by, come again"
AS the press conference ended, this
writer asked the Governor when he
might see him for long talk, and the
Governor said at o'clock that evening.
In the executive mansion that evening
Murray went about the halls and rooms
IN his shirtSleeves and with his hat
en-. the inevitable cigar in his mouth
and streams OF smoke trailing behind
him. He took the writer to his bed
room, upstairs. ordered up some peaches
and ice water, lighted fresh cigar,
kicked of mis- shoes and lay down at
full length upon the bed.
Asked About Candidacy.
He was then asked about the MUIR
ray-for- President" buttons and clubs
and if he we're candidate for the
presidency, and he said:
$50 far, that's all bandwagon stuff.
I hadn't anything to do with getting
out these buttons. They were ordered
and are worn by my overzealous friends.
Naturally, they want to make me Presi-
dent. It's all right.
But even If do intend to be a can
didate for the Democratic nomination
/ think 1t is too early now to announce
my candidacy. However. / am anxious
to have tie Oklahoma delegation to the
Democratic National Convention solidly
behind me and am planning for that.
l want to get on the Platform Com
mittee, so 1 may write several of the
most important planks in it."
Asked what those planks would be,
he said it was too soon to go into
that in detail. but" he add,td, "tf1e
issue is not what 1t was in 1856 when
Bryan was nominated Then I; was a
class fight between different sections Of
the country. Today 1t is more of a
fight between the small business man.
the laborer and the farmer, on the
one hand, and the big mergers and
monopolies on the other, and it is not
confined to any ono section. Today
oil parts of the country are affected
by the same ills"
He said he would stress this idea In
the platform He would emphasize the
remedy for our economic ills and he
would have plan for increasing our
foreign trade, especially with Latin
America. He would favor a larger and
better organized American merchant
marine. and he would bring out the
need of helping the little business man
and the farmer and worker.
An Out-and Out Dry.
Il would have a dry plank. too" he
went on. I en- an out-and-out dry.
When I wrote the constitution for the
State of Oklahoma / put in pro-