The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-29
THE SKELETON IN THE CLOSET

The SkEle Jun IN IFC S-S@' -
Habits are strong. A habit once
formed becomes a part of man. a
habit once formed becomes part and
parcel OF the human system and will
be handed down from generation to
generation for hundreds and thous-
ands OF years. Ananias formed the
habit Of lying several thousand years
ago-away back before the coming
of the Messiah-and for centuries the
taint has been in the blood OF his
descendants. Passing through the
days when the nomadic tribes OF the
desert were rulers OF the known
world q descendant Of this venerable
prevaricator has been found in every
generation The church has been in
vaded and even the venerable Peter
gave way to the taint OF inherited
untruth until the Growing of the cock
brought to his mind that his denial
had been foretold.
And from that time on down and
down. On through the days of the
crusades, through the days of the in
QUESTION, through the days of the
great American revolution-in every
century and in every cline has been
found a man who had coursing
through his veins the blood OF the
first grand master of monumental un-
truth manufacturers. Each particu-
lar one of these has shown brilliantly
In his particular way, but it has re-
mained for the United States OF
America, ia the person of one Theo-
dore from Sycamore Hill to bring
forth a genuine re-incarnation of the
hoary old reprobate who disgraced,
for a time the sacred history of the
world.
And back yonder several years ago,
a ruler of a mighty country gave his
wife TO dring of poisoned cup or
W
ruler had become one of the mos,
powerful potentates upon the face OF
the globe, a closet in one of the pri-
vate chambers of his palace was
open-d, through whose blame or in
advertance we know not and the
skeleton OF the wife whom he had
murdered years before was found
reposing within. Lying as he had
left her decade before, this skeleton
was found her fleshless features
barred in an eternal smile at his dis
comfiture while the eyeless sockets
Knocked him now that his sin had
found him out. And while he, the
once powerful, was led away to a pub
lie execution, her bones ratified In
glee as the rats and the mice played
hide and seek through her barren
ribs or nested in the cooling recesses
of her empty skull.
And since that day, for ages musty
with stories of political crimes, the
closets OF some one-of some ruler of
fame-has been opened and the rat
Ting bones of the skeleton brought
into the light of day. Hand in hand
with Ananias with lies, with misrep-
resentations and broken pledges, the
skeleton dances forth and pirouttes
turns, twirls and turkey-tro before
the public eye. And the ruler in
whose closet this skeleton has been
found is taken forth to public exc
cution.
AS naturally as the day follows
night, as surely as the coming OF
death itself, the skeleton in the CLOS
ct will be found And it has been
found in the closet of that prince of
demagogues, that descendant of the
King Of Prevaricatcrs. that great
American Ego-the Sage of Saga
more. Jangling in its hands the bag
of $4,000 rafting before the ewes
of the public the demand for si50,0O0
more. the skeleton dances forth from
the closet, where 1t has reposed since
1904 and demands that the public