In Oklahoma last week were 15 assorted Democrats who wanted to be the State's next Governor.* Primary voting had hardly started before three candidates drew away from the rest of the field.
One was Ernest Whitworth Marland. As a Pittsburgh law clerk he watched the Mellons found their fortune. In 1908 he emigrated to Oklahoma, struck oil on one Willie-Cries-For-War's land, piled up a $65,000,000 fortune, built Ponca City, married his ward when his wife died, gave his State Bryant Baker's "Pioneer Woman," and then...