The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-16
People Have Spoken.

W ho DtlleNtS lltJ Hc - SpcdhIHsp >
for the men with whom he is asso-
ciated. Some men have been slow
to observe, but the majority of us
have seen that the people of the
United States have taken a definite
choice. / happen to be one of the
instruments through whom that
choice is expressed, but l am for
the time, and that choice Is for the
long future. The people of the
United States have turned their faces
in a definite direction, and any
party, any man, who does not go
with them in that direction they
will reject-and they ought to re-
ject
Therefore, in looking forward to
the responsibilities that l am about
to assume, / feel first, last and all
the time, that | am acting in rep
resentative capacity. | am bidden
to interpret, as well as | can, the
purposes of the people of the United
States and to act, so far as my
choice determines the action, only
through the instrumentality Of per-
sons who also represent that choice.
Il have no liberty in the matter.
have given bonds, my sacred hon
or is involved and nothing more
could be involved. Therefore, | shall
not be acting as partisan when
pick out progressives, and only pro-
gressives. | shall be acting as a
representative Of the people of this
great country. And therefore it is
a matter of supreme pleasure to me
to find in every direction, as | turn
about from one group Of men to
another, that mems minds and mems
and mems purposes are
yielding to that great impulse that
now moves the whole people of the
United States.
Business Men Change.
81 do not foresee any serious divi-
sions of counsel in the democratic
party as a national body. On the
l find every evidence of
solidarity. / see every evidence that
men who have not hitherto yielded
argument to the mo cement OF the
age are now about to yield their
| will not say their will.
They do not seem to be acting Under
They are !! agnEllg to-
yield their argument to the Common
judgment of the nation.
Because | find in discussing ques-
tions of business-contrary 10 the
which prevails IN some
editorial rooms-that in spceA."g to-
men of business | am speak; M to
men whose vision is swim gag around
to the path which the "at'Cn has
marked out for itself.
This nation is full iof honorable
men who have been engaged in large
business in way in which they
they thought they were permitted to
do so, both by their conscience and
the laws. But they have had their
eyes close to their ledgers, they have
had their energies so absolutely alb
sorbed in the undertakings with
which they were industrially ident-
fled that they have not, until the
nation spoke loud, raised their eyes
from the books and papers and seen
how the things they We're doing stood
related to the fortunes of mankind.
Can't Succeed by Fear.
"Now they are beginning to see
these relationships, and as they see
these relationships, they are begin
ming to feel the refreshment of men
who look away from a particular task
and extend their eyes to the fortunes
of men lying outside their usual
ken, beyond their touch-the great
bodies of men who would, along with
them, hope and struggle and achieve.
| believe that | am not mistaken in
seeing these new purposes come into
the hearts of men who have not
permitted themselves hitherto to see
what they now look upon. For the
nation cannot move successfully by
except cnocert of purpose
and of judgment.
you cannot whip nation into
line. You cannot .7.vc your lead
ars before you. You have got to
have spirit that thrills the whole
body; and l beliAe that that spirit
is now beginning to thrill the whole
body. Men are finding that they
will be bigger business men, as
they will spend some of their brains
On something that has nothing to do
with themaplyes and fhat the more