OKLAHOMA OIL BARONS OPPOSE MURRAY; GORE
OKLAHOMA OIL BARONS OPPOSE MURRAY; GORE Leaders in State Primary Face Millionaires in Race for Democratic Nominations (Special to The Progressive) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—With complete...
...The large vote received by Murray in the primary is interpreted as typifying the resentment of farmers to present agricultural and economic conditions...
...Gore in his campaign attacked Hoover policies and ridiculed Hoover prosperity, the Federal farm board, and the Hnwlcy-Smoot tariff measure...
...Wrightsman, by a substantial majority in the coming run-off primary...
...GORE Leaders in State Primary Face Millionaires in Race for Democratic Nominations (Special to The Progressive) OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.—With complete returns now available from the Democratic primary election held last week, it becomes apparent that both William H. Murray, who led In the gubernatorial race by 40,000 votes, and the blind former Senator Thomas P. Gore, who received the highest vote in the senatorial contest, will oppose two millionaire oil men for their respective offices in the run-off primary to be held next Tuesday...
...Murray has suggested the substitution of a graduated income tax to equalize the burden of taxation, placing a fair share on corporations and receivers of large incomes and relieving farmers and others of the excessive high and unfair rates under the ad valorem taxation system...
...He is expected to defeat his millionaire opponent...
...Murray, who is known throughout the state under the picturesque knickname of "Alfalfa Bill...
...Frank Buttram of Oklahoma City, who received the next highest vote in the nomination race for the governorship, and Charles J. Wrightsman of Tulsa, who ran next to Gore for the senatorial nomination, are both known to be oil men of great wealth...
...His millionaire opponent, Mr...
...Buttram, made a spectacular campaign as a novice In politics by emphasizing his romantic career as I he son of a tenant farmer who rose to wealth and influence through his own efforts...
...Gore, who was a senator from Oklahoma since the state's admission to the Union in 1906 until 1920, staged a sensational come-back by stumping the state from one end to the other...
...There is little possibility, most, observers agree, of his boating Murray in the run-oft next week...
...has been prominent in Oklahoma politics for almost a generation...
...Without money, managers, headquarters, or campaign circulars, Mr...
...He was president of the Constitutional Convention when Oklahoma was admitted as a state, and was elected Congressman-at-Large from that state...
...Gore made his appeal direct to the voters and polled the largest primary vote, although Wrightsman was a close contender...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 36
