The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-10


will be the third in the states history,
and it will be the most notable. 1t
forecasts greater potentialities than
any that have preceded it, About it
there is to be an atmosphere of sim
plicity. The atmosphere will hold
nothing of the eXultation that usually
charactcrizes such events. Men will
watch the rormaIities-such as there
will be-unmoved. The gray-haired,
sturdy figure of man who will be
the center of the scene-jaw square
and undershot,-will inspire enthusi-
asm. but it will be the kind that runs
deep and broad and strong under an
unrippling surface. The simplicity OF
the occasion, its lack of superficial de
monstration, its quiet, orderly progress
all these will be fraught with the
psychology of meaning and consequen-
ces yet unborn. It means business!
Conclusions with respect to the ad-
ministration that is TO prevail in Ok
lahoma during the next four years are
roregone. The record has already been
made Achievement will be as certain
and as sure as the progress of time.
Writers on political subjects have
long borrowed from the race tracks
its multitude of picturesque phrasings.
There are two kinds of races and they
have their counterparts in the field
of political contest An Inauguration
is not unlike the climax of contest
on the turf for derby honOrs, after the
0utdiatauced runners are being ret
turned to their stables and the winner
Is being decorated with the flowered
circlet Of victory
The race may have been one OF
those contests wherein the painting,
sweat-flaked runners came into the
back stretch punched, each with equal
advantage. Breathless, eyes strained,
nerves tingling, the excited spectators
see the flying feet and attenuated
neck and head of a runner dart from
the mass as if catapulted into the
lead He pmnges forward under the
wire as If flung by the impact of his
own eXertion The spectacle is won
dcrful-it is the element that has
made racing the sport of kings
There is another kind of race In
the betting ring bulletins will an
nounce the favorite-a horse of known
performance. From the post the ia
vorite will take the lead He will
keep it and hold it, There may come
times when one runner or another will
shorten his lead but the finish will
see the favorite cross under the wire
just as those informed on the race
knew ne would do, ahead Of the field
and a winner
Oklahoma has witnessed such polit
iC-l contests and the one that saw
Robert l.. Williams the winner in the
race for governor has its counterpart
in the turf contest that lacked spec
tacularity, but a reasonable eXpec-
fancy OF what the result would be was
known to those informed on his can
didacy from the start. There was no
element to make the race spectacular,
with the possible exception of the can
ddacy OF one man, and it failed to
arouse the interest that it might have
aroused under different conditions.
There was no burning issue. 1t was
simple question of the strongest
performer finishing ahead under the
wire
If there be such All element in hui
man life as destiny, Robert l.. viii
liams is a man of destiny, and this con
clusion was not reached because of
facial resemblance, fancied or real,
to Corsica's Man of Destiny He is a
man of destiny. not because of any
fatalistic creed, but because he has
the character and the force and the
information to make whatever he un-
dertakes. successful as If decreed by