The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-31
CBy +. J. Dyer
Champ Clark's Roseate Dreams.

rope. has nothing to do but dream
day dreams Of democratic victories.
and TO tell the press how he IS go
ing 10 land on top OF the landslide
as speaker of the house. vice Uncle
Joe. for whose scalp the insurgent
progresslyes are hunting After the
speakership well, Champ has his
dreams about that also, but he IS
satisfied to make public one step In
his pans Of political advancement at
a time
The trouble with the democratic
party. declare some Of the progress
siye democrats. IS that It is not sin
cere in its protestatious Of friend
ship for the plain peepul' and that
It's leaders and especially perhaps
the leaders in the south are drift
ing closer and closer towards the
trusts. Senator Bailey, for instance,
made an argument recently In New
York against a physical valuation
OF the railroads Now it may or
may not be proper to require ply
sical valuation OF the railroads; It
Is easy TO require a physical yalu-
alton OF the railroads; and the
widows and orphans who hold rail
road stocks would be paraded before
the sympathetic public az the ulti-
mate victims while the plutes pru-
IDENTIFY retired behind "A veil of Gro
codile tears and lamented for the
financial undOing OF the innocents on
whom they had unloaded a part OF
their watered stocks. At the same
time, the question of physical valu-
alton Is one which will not down,
Bailey and all the other friends OF
the Interests" Notwithstanding. An
other southern leader, who Is about
to retire to private life and who
Is far more respected by the public
a. larg" than Bailey Is. has been
quoted as saying that in the next
/ campaign the democrats would have
| the support of the corporations.
| Why? Because, naturally, the re-
/ publican party. or at least the rank
/ and file of It, Is drifting rapidly
Is strongly tlnctured with the ann
thlmatized radicalism which is wor
rying the leaders into an early polti
cal demise.
Deprecating Taft's Achievements.
II is rumored that the democratic
campaign will be largely based on
the assertion that the much herald
ed legislation secured from congress
by President TAFT at the tip of The
big stick, Is full of bugs that while
it Is paraded as reform Legislation
It will not hold water. The railroad
bill will be condemned as unconsti
ridiculed as pork barrel measure
innocent of value from a conserya
tion standpoint All of the bills Sc
cured with travail by the presi
dent from a reluctant congress will
be filled full OF holes by the cam.
paign committees blunderbuss. II
| will be freely charged that the re-
form legislation enRcted by the
republicans was largely, if not Who'll.
| ly for political effect in the com.
/ ing campaign. OF course. the rcpub-
/ leans will refutc these arguments
both on the stump and in their liter.
/ ature, but the side which succeeds y
maintaining an aggressive attitude
placing the opposition on the Gcfen.
| s'c, wiz have an advantage which
will be substantial
Arbitration Treaties.
Immediately following the dediiatiou
Of the new building of the bureau
OF American republics. where the
various eminent speakers breathed
peace and good will to all the world.
and prophesied the substitution of
arbitration for the sword in settle.
ment of International disputes. the
announcement was made from the
office Of the Brazilian embassy in
Washington that a general arbitra-
tiOn treaty had been signed between
Brazil and Haiti. Hardly had this
announcement been made through
the public press before the Brazilian
charge a. affairs in Washington. Sr
K de Lima +. Silva. announced that
he had signed with the minister from
the Dominican republic, Sr. Don
Emilio c. Joubert. 4 general arbitIa,
ton treaty between the two coun-
tries named
In this manner is the dream OF
former Secretary Root. Secretary
Knox. Andrew Carnegie. Congress.
man rannoidt, former President