The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-10-31
Lee Cruce Should S1Ueep
Clean Southern Oklahoma

When you take the man, the red
blood of personality out OF any move.
ment, there Is nothing left. All his
tory Is biography. Put your fingers
on any movement, any principle and
run it TO its source and you will find
| II in some fellow who so struggled,
| thought and fought that he shook him.
self into peculiar light before his
nelshbors, his clan, his tribe, his state
or nation.
Charles Martel was warrior who
| did things, with a battle-ax other
/ Franks could not do, and so his people
| singled him out, and loved him into
the founding of kingdom. Wash
ington was the recipient of every hon
or community could bestow before
Virginia trusted him as a state and
Virginias universal love for him as a
noble son. was the finger pointing out
to the nation a character worthy and
capable to lead 1t in time of sorcst
trial So it Is that every leader Of
men has depended upon his home peo-
pie to furnish him with those creden-
tials of power, faith and integrity
which the larger outside world de-
mands of men who would lead them.
We are engaged In great fight in
Oklahoma.
Two men and two measures are be-
fore the people. History Is going to
be made November s. One of the great
leaders Of this battle is son of Ard
more and Carter county, an immediate
product of southern Oklahoma. Re.
gardless of creed or party, the people
of this city, this county and section,
have seen his struggle for better op-
portunities for himself his neighbors,
his county, his territory and state.
They have so universally approved OF
him and trusted him that a great
movement has chosen him for its lead
er. Lee Cruce would never have been
initiated into rites of state and ma
tional leadership had not Ardmore
and Carter county signally and Pc
cularly held him aloft while they
ties, all creeds, all classes have tried
and trusted" Take him and upon our
word, we rest his worth" This state
ment was accepted Lee Cruce stands
today in the crucible OF history and
November s will decide whether Ard
more, Carter county and southern Ok
lahoma shall have it to say Lee
Cruce IS an illustrious name" His was
a great career and the best OF all, We
his home people. knew no lines in
dealing out confidence TO him"
The bitter partisans. the political
Euerrillas. and iayhawkers sneer at
this plea. But after all is not the
dictates of an honest heart better
advisor than they? Let the voters Of
this section read the foregoing sent
ences and ask If it be not approved OF
that mind which claims kinship with
such truth as do unto others as you
would that others should do to YOU"
When one reads the story Of political
struggles in the last ten or twenty
years IN this country, he is forced to
see that blind partisanship is doomed.
Tom Johnson was elected governor OF
Minnesota not because he was a demo-
crat but because he was a man the
boys, girls, men and women at home
found true and offered him regardless
OF party to the state. Hadley was not
elected in Missouri because he was a
republican. bu. because he did some
things 10 t-eacherous trusts that every
body indorsed. The day OF the "ycl-
low dog" in peoples movements IS
going. The cry everywhere is give
US men"
There are two men asking for conf
dence November s. Guthrie may know
enough OF Mr. McNeal 10 vote for him
in preference 70 Lee Cruce. He has
lived there, they have looked up his
daily life and they know. But Il is
not within their power TO prove 10 the
democrats. republicans. socialists, pro
hibi.ionis.s o. any other organization
Of ro7= -.@- a this section that he s
man 20 he trusted beyond or above
our ueiEhho- and so1. NJ. Crroe, in
principle. personal o. political We
know C-uce 70 be as liberal pure and
Just as any man. There IS 10 dispo-
s!ton - pose IS hero worshiper IN
that s-1-e-er. The proposition ;hai
one -a- IS about at good SO another,
Y 1ot E l.tle bette" Is universally
Gccer.ed- But as Christian ciuz-n.
~ - Ssrrv -&s-S before or ewes. IN