The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-01-21

ed him IT ClavcrhOusc had not come
in put them TO the sword and rescued
his gallant and generous adversary
on the field Of Mars
defy any man who is familiar with
'Old Mortality to look with unbiased
eyes ON the situation In Texas and
not discover q striking parallel in the
military career of Henry Morton and
the political career OF Joseph W
Bailey Bailoy's fault is not that hc
borrowed money from somebody. who
had It to lend. not that ne gave legal
counsel to man In st. Louis
named Pierce. No; nothing of the
kind. What they have against Bailey
is this, simply this and nothing more:
Bailey ls the most intellectual man
In the senate, the greatest cOnstitu-
tional lawyer and most formidable
dcbater In that body, and the best
equipped man in all America TO en-.
gage in an academic discussion of po-
llucal principles In that august forum,
the United States senate. That is
what is the matter with Bailey and
all that Is the matter with him. This
latitudinarian democratic party will
not suffer such a man as that to re-
main in public life Envy, jealousy,
prejudice, ignorance-thcsc are the
pack now after Bailey. and it will be
next thing to the miraculous II they
don't get him. Personal integrity new
er looks so much like personal integ-
rity, civic virtue never looks SO much
like civic virtue as when this kennel
envy. jealousy rivalry, prejudice
and irnoranco-put them on and set
mp a barking that would drown all
the thunders Of Olympian Joye. /
have heard It In this towu-thc bay
ings of little minds-and it is heard
In every political capital the world
round, Christian and pagan.
DO they point To a vote Bailey has
cast I'm either house Of congress they
object to2 30; though / can point
to score of them that object 10.
DO they traverse a word he has utter.
cd in either house, or Off the hust.
iurs, or line he has written In lcgis-
latlvc reports? Not one, and they say
that as a statesman he is simply ideal.
hut that he had some sort of business
transaction with man named Pierce,
and that Pierce had ranlckcd with
the Standard oil company. 1t seems
that Bailey bought Barney Gibbs
farm and they want to know where
he got thc money lie also bought a
farm In Kentucky, and they are ready
To charge that as a rascally transac-
tion.
II was the Eighteenth Congress
believe. that elected John Quincy
Adams president of the United States.
The vote of Kentucky decided It In
Adams favor though the people of
Kentucky had cast twenty votes for
Jackson to one for Adams Henry
CLAY caused the Kentucky delegation
r1 give the vote of that state TO Ad-
AIMS. for like thousands of the very
best mon I'M the country Clay did not
believe that the government was safe
Zoo the n,aplug of % man of "Oli Kick
orts" tgmucmmcut Adams appoint
cI Clay secretary of state and imme
dlatay the cry went up that 10 was q
bargain between the two. that Adams
had sold and Clay had bought the
chief place In the cabinet and the
price was the vote of Kentucky for
Adams when the presidential election
had failed I'm the electoral college ana
was determined In the house of repre-
sontatiycs. Everybody who knows
anything about It now is convinced
that O. was slaudcr though it cost
Clay the presidency but old Kentucky
never faltcrcd She stood by her
greatest son am She pllowed his man
ly form 10 its final rest I'm her bosom
40 Lexington.
And they are after John Sharp
Williams. too. Why Because he is
tho foremost man in tho house. Just as