The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-09

ness OF which he is head OF man
ager.
while the clans democratic were scat
tered in flight.
The editor Of the Wise County Mes
senger might do wei to take les
son in courtesy and diplomacy from
the ignorant negro bruiser, Johnson,
while he lifts the hand in salute to
the superior wisdom OF the repuOl-
can press in its united effort 10 re-
establish good will and unity OF pur-
pose in the republican ranks now
that the work of the steam roller has
been accomplished.
For years and years Champ Clark
has stood upon the floor OF the house
of representatives in the American
congress and fought the battles Of the
democracy-stood up and fearlessly
fought for the cause of the people
And during all these years that he
has been a soldier in the ranks OF
the great army fathered by the brain
of the father of American lndepend-
ence and born in twin dlivery with
| the birth OF this nation, he has been
the same fearless soldier, the same
clean man and the same peerless dem
ocrat.
And now that his hair is whitened
| by the frosts Of many winters, now
that his brow is furrowed from the
sleepless vigils of numberless nights
spent in fostering ministrations to the
party when, wounded and all bus1
diving. the leaders of the greatest
cause of all political history lay de-
serted by the shattered and flying
ranks o ia defeated soldiery; now that
! this valiant man, this truly peerless
democrat, rapidly drawing on to the
allotted three score years and ten.
goes down in defeat, himself, at the
hands OF the patry for which he has
worked and labored all these number
less wears: now that his defeat has
been accomplished after a hard fought
battle-the hardest fought since that
in which the republican party over
| threw Grant; now that he has been
| defeated after having big naked ma
jority of all the votes in the Balti-
more convention and man chosen
whom we all-Clark, Harmon, Under
wood followers alike-great as the
great democrat who will marshal dem
ocracys columns in the overthrow OF
! Taftism. of republicanism and OF trust
ism. it i'll behoevs any one to speak
| lightly Of him.
The attack upon Clark and his
faithful Missourians, by any paper
is untimely and ill-advised; it is un-
manly and undemocratc and we can
| but hope that the mistake upon the
| part of the Messengers editor Is one
of the head and not of the heart.
In future years posterity will stand
| over a lowly mound of green sod and
reverentiy whisper the name of
Champ Clark: whisper it with throb-
bing hearts anr sobbing breath whis
per it co-jointly with the names OF
Thomas jefferson and George Wash
ington: whisper it with moist eyes
and reverence; whisper it in awe and
| respect.
And now, for Gods sake, do not
let any man who honors himself by
an allegiance with the great and hon
est cause OF democracy, so far for
get himself as TO besmirch the good
name of that democracy by seeking
to hesmirch the name of the man
who, though defeated and speeding
to the end of his earthly soiourn with
bruised and bleeding heart, yet is
even now marsballing his followers
about the standard of Wilson-Wil-
son the democrat, the man OF the
hour" and the next president of the