The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-05-27
DORAH PAINTS
GLOWING PICTURE
OF REPUBLICAN PARTY REUNlT.
ED WITH THE PROGRE SSlVE
ELEMENT.

Detroit, Mich, May pa glowing
picture of the future of the republican
part reunited, with the progressive
element which left it in 1912, was
painted here today by Senator Viii
liam T.. Borah of Idaho, speaking at
statewide conference" of repub-
licans
"The republican party" said the
senator, "is coming back into power,
The proof of it is on every hand. The
trend is unmistakable. | said year
ago that the amalgamatiOn which
would take place would be an ANAL
gamation of the voters, not the as
sumed leaders. | said furthermore that
that was the only amalgamation that
was worth while. The men who voted
the third party ticket to the number
of four million for reasons entirely
satisfactory to them, can neither be
questioned as to their integrity of
purpose or their patriotism. But that
it was a protest and not a manifesto
tion of purpose to permanently leave
the party is now established by facts
and figures which cannot be doubted.
"NOW, in view of this pronounced
and unmistakable purpose of those
who voted the third party ticket to al
ly themselves with the republican par
ty, in view of the determination to
support its principles and its policies,
what is the task before us? 1t Is un-
questiOnably to make the party equal
to the tremendous problems which
now concern us. 1t is to build up in
this country, out of the traditions,
the achievements and prestige of the
past, the duties and obligations of
the present, and, the hopes and aspir-
ations of the future, an organization
efficient, militant and progressive
worthy of its old days and equal to
the obligations which now rest upon
us. 1t is our duty, in other words, in
unmistakable terms to make it clear
that the republican party is to be as
it was in its best days, thoroughly
progressive party. We ought not to
assume for a moment or cOncede for
a moment, that because the party bids
fair to go back into power, there Is
going to be any compromise with
the forces which brought 1t near its
ruin. There is in this country a pow
erful influence for the bad in politics
and it will take possession of any
party in the world, if 1t can, which is
enjoying power. This kind of an in
fuence does not fight party in the
open. 1t holds itself in readiness to
direct the course of any party which
happens to be in power. With such
influences there can be no compro-
mise if we are to have party which
is going to meet and solve the great
problems which a new industrial life
and a new social condition have i'm
posed upon us.
"No man living in this splendid age,
amid these eXhilirating environments,
can afford to permit the corroding
poison of pessimism to enter his soul.
But on the other hand, the curse of
our age is that cold, cruel, selfish CON
servatism, which, living in its ease
and comfort, enjoying wealth and all
it brings refuses to see or sympathize
with the conditions of those, who in
the midst of a world of plenty, are
bordering on the line of hunger and
misery, who refuse to see the new
conditions or the new problems which
must be met and dealt with in the
same spirit and with the same courage
and progressiveness that our fathers
met the problems of their age. The
great and almost superhuman task,
my friends, is not the gathering of
wealth, but its fair and equitable dis
tribution.
What we want in this country is
a party which will do the simple but
profound thing which Lincoln did, that
is, gather up the common sense, the
common honesty the common patriot
ism, the common courage and the COM
mon righteousness of the common peO-
pie of this country, and organize 1t
into a militant, progressive, disciplin-
ed force for legal and social justice,
and do il all under the constitution