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Governor Murray believes he is a logical candidate for the Democratic nomination but that he has not much chance of getting it because his party is not always logical. He recently declared: "The Democratic party often has done the wrong thing at the right time." Most Democratic bosses hold that a Murray nomination at Chicago would be "the wrong thing at the right time." If the party is to go to the Southwest for a presidential nominee, it is argued, the strongest man in sight is John Nance Garner of Texas. Speaker Garner's boom has grown enormously in the past month. Texas' two Democratic Senators last week declared for him. So did Williams Gibbs McAdoo. But the grizzled little Texan so far has kept his sharp blue eyes fixed steadily on the House, not the White House.
"Hardly any competent person will say that Governor Murray has a chance to get the Democratic presidential nomination. Persons entirely competent, however, believe he will come to the convention with a surprisingly large number of delegates, that his personality and speeches will be in tune with the times and that he will be one of the most potent figures in the convention." So wrote Mark Sullivan, famed political observer and commentator. But the street car conductors of Oklahoma City who are not familiar with Pundit Sullivan and his views continue to announce: "State Capitol. End of the line. Folks, here's where the next President of the United States hangs out."
*The joke: "President Hoover is a great engineer. He has dammed, ditched and drained the country in three years." *Chorus: A soup houn' outa me, a soup Iwun' outa me We're going to beat the guy who made a soup houn' outa me We thought the proper thing would be an engineer to get We went to Palo Alto and on Herbert placed our bet The surgeons took Sir William's gland and old men made whoopee The Genius of them all has made a soup houn' outa me. *Menu for a Murray luncheon given by the Oklahoma delegation in the House: fat bacon, boiled pigs' feet, half-done cabbage, fried onions, fruit cocktail, coffee. *An example: martial law in Oklahoma to raise crude oil to $1 per bbl.