The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-19

States government. 1t takes one
million million to maintain the nat
ional government and of this amount
he people of Oklahoma pay one-fif-
81 h. The taxpayers of Oklahoma
70. annually to the United States
g>T. ment approximately $4,000
600 Y equivalent of 1000 bales of
cotto g While these figures were
stupen> e yet the cost OF living
had gon q and up until now the
monopolie. paid five times as
much for I. ecessities of life as
it costs to k, p the expenses of
the federal G, Eernment. This is
caused by the accumulation of gi-
gantic wealth in the hands of the
few. A few years ago he had been
asked to help organize trust-a
nronopoly in the manufacture of
children toys. Thought it strange
that men could fall TO make the pleas
ures of childhood source of un
scrupulous gain.
The senate is controlled by the
money interests and so is the house
to a large degree, while the presi-
dent has been elected by these in
terests since the war. The people
should take the government out OF
the hands OF the few and put it into
the hands of the many. The lum-
ber trust saw fit to buy seat for
Lorimer. The senate is controlled
by senators who owe their seats tc
the monopolies. The people are be-
ing betrayed by their representatives
The senator then read a reproduc-
La. ,,f Intt witt ttn,,
by Mark Hanna in soliciting finan
cial aid to help defeat William j.
Bryan in 1896. These letters We're
to the heads of the big money i'll
terests--to the heads of trusts. The
country has been bound by shackleS
OF monopolies until the ownership of
the republican party by these mono
poles has become so odious that now
the republican party was split half
in two.
Taft, the speaker said, was a big
hearted man; he is well meaning
man, but as Roosevelt says he means
it teebly. The senate is controlled
! by corrupt machine politics, this
must be overthrown. The only way
to accomplish this is by electing the
senator's by the direct vote OF the
people In the Goth congress | led
the fight for the direct election o.
, senator's. | led the fight through the
60th 6lst and 62nd congress. Not
until the 62nd congress did win.
In bringing about this great goou
for the people / feel that my life has
not been spent in vain. The SEN
ator stated that he had given wide
publicity to his speeches in this mat
ter and Bryan run the principal
speech in the Commoner. For
months Bryan used quotations from
this speech. IF the people really
rule why don't they get what they
want" This quotation was printed
in black face across the top of the
first page of the Commoner.
The next step OF political advance
ment will be the naming of the presi-
dent by the people. The steam
roller goes out of business In this
year 1912. The steam roller stale
the presidential nomination in the
republican convention, 1T run owe,
Theodore Roosevelt and mighty ex-
plosion followed"
The senator next told of holding
the floor of the senate for eleven
and a half hours in his fight for the
recognition of the people made con-
stitution of Arizona as against--the
machine made constitution of New
Mexico The hour was fast ap
preaching which would mark. the
legal adjournment of congress APP
preparation bills were to be passed
and he would not yield the floor but
sent word TO the president that the
appropriation bills could be left to
Champ Clark and the incoming
democratic congress; that Clark
would cut down a great many of the
appropriations asked for. By talking
against time he kept the senate
through it's republican senators with
the aid OF a democratic senator
Bailey of Texas-from slapping Ari
Zona in the face
Two years and half ago, the SEN
ator said, he drew up the democratic
policies of popular government. 81
sent copieh of this all over the Uni
ted States. | gave copies of this
to LaFollette and from this docu-
ment the Progressive League was
formed. l even had copies Of this
document placed in the luggage OF
Theodore Roosevelt when he went to
shoot lions in Africa. | am one
democrat who don't want to throw
any rocks at Theodore Roosevelt.
lie has rendered democracy a great
service, he has cut the republican
party half in two
The speaker said that he could
L.
tell of his services to the people,
but said that he had what he had
done published in book form and
would be glad to give every voter
present a capy.
I'VE are on the eve of the develop !
ment of the grandest era of good |
government this country mas ever |
seen. The fourth of March next |