The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-06

sonally and because We may regard
[ him as a happy end humorous and
even forceful speaker, nor because he
| is able TO entertain us highly with a
pleasant lecture, nor because we have
sympathy for him and even resent
what we regard as unfair and unjust
attacks upon him. On the contrary we
should select a senator just as
farmer selects his laborers, or a mer-
chant selects his clerks, or bank Sc
lects its president. We are not confer
ring an honor upon some one, but We
are selecting a servant, and when we
hire this man to serve us in the SEN
ate Of the United States, we ought to
hire a man who is qualified for the
job.
What is the first qualification of
democratic candidate for the United
States senate? My answer is that he
must be a democrat. The democratic
party stands for certain principles of
government. 1t is now, and has always
been, the real progressive party OF the
people. 1t is now the party in power.
1t has control of every branch OF gov
ernment. Unless it performs its plat
form promises and stands squarely for
its historic principles, it will again
90 down to deserved defeat The two
leading candidates for the United
States senate are the present incum-
bent and the Honorable Samuel w
Hayes. The friends of Judge Hayes
confidently present his name to the
democracy of this state, with the
statement that he is a democrat, that
he has always been democrat, that
he was a democrat when the party
was not in power, and that he is not
a mere democrat for the sake of Of
fiice.
Challenges Democracy.
"On the other hand, we challenge
the democracy of the present incum-
bent. The first political campaign in
which | participated, was in Missis-
sippi in 1894. At that time | was
making speeches for the democratic
party and my allegiance to that party
has been without doubt, or shadow of
turning throughout these years. At the
same time in Mississippi Gore was
making speeches and he was telling
the same funny stories and using the
same felicitous phrases and amusing
crowds as he is today, but then the
democratic party was the butt of his
ridicule, the object of his attack. |
heard him speak in that campaign and
he was then denOuncing the party of
the peerless Lamar, James Z. George,
the great old commoner and the pure
and chivalrous Walthall, whose names
/ then, and are now, dear to all Mis-
sissippians.
Gore also participated actively in
the campaign in 1896. At that time he
/ had failed to secure office in the state
of Mississippi and had tried to secure
office in the state of Mississippi, and
| had tried his fortune in Texas. He was
making the same speech that he made
in 1894, and it so happens that pOr-
tions of that speech have been pre-
served, and | quote for your edifica-
tion the views of our present senator
on the democratic party in 1891.
What Gore Said in '96.
"The trouble with the democratic
party is, it is a party of statesmen
without craftsmanship, of patriots
without patriotism, of heroes without
heroism, and that party's policy when
entrusted with power always begets
farmers without farmers, labOrers
without labor and free men without
freedom. Whoever heard of a demo-
cratic platform ever lasting over two
years? The fifty-second congress had
a majority of 14S, and if it redeemed a
single pledge observed a single prom
Use, kept a single demand or dis
charged a single obligation made to
the people of the United States,
will quit the stump, retire from the
canvass, return to Mississippi and new
er raise my voice again against the
democratic party. | have presented
this proposition to the most distin-
guished democratic statesmen of Tex-
as and Mississippi, and it has never