The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1916-10-24
WILSON IS
GAINING IN
THE NORTH.
CHAs. r. coLcoRD GIVES A VERY
INTERESTING STATEMENT CON-
cERNING NATIONAL POLITICS.
OIL MAN LIKES AROMo7E.

"The election November from
ises to be a Wilson victory" said
Charles f. Colcord last night at the
Randol hotel Mr. Colcord is the
owner of the Colcord building IN Ok
lahoma City and is one Of the larg-
est oil operators and reriners in the
state.
"My health compelled me to spend
the summer in the north" said Mr..
Colcord, land ! had plenty of time
to study the political situation ard
took advantage Of every opportunity
presented to get line on the scrti-
ment in the national election. Every
time / stepped into train | talked
with the conductor. ! found every
one of these men for Wilson. Some
of them are lifelong Republicans
but they are for Wilson This time.
| learned further that there are 40O.-
600 of these men solidly lined up and
counting their families and hose Ce-
pendent upon them and they Lave Il
million votes for the Democratic
nominee.
Il have not only investigated what
the probable political course that IA
Dor would take but | have talked 20
old men and young men alike in all
| the walks of life. | find that they
have great confidence in the leader
ship of Wilson, they believe he will
maintain peace, they believe he saw
ed the country from financial panic
when the war began and that he will
be able to prevent another threaten
ed panic when war ends. They say
with one accord that he has accom-
plished what he set out to accom-
| plish he has done these great things
with honor and without financial
loss and bloodshed.
"In the early summer | found some
opposition to his Mexican policy.
There were those who thought the
| Mexicans should be made to feel the
power of our country in the line OF
battle, but that was a first thought.
The second thought was the sober
one, the reasonable one. The people
came to realize that the Mexican
depredations were being committed
| by few outlaws and that we had
no more right to judge the great re-
public by these men than Canada
would have a right to judge us by a
bank robber that might hold up and
rob a Canadian bank. The people l
! have been among this summer say
that the president was a better judge
of the Mexican situation than they
themselves we're and they are proud
of his leadership. They express ap-
probation of the courage Of the man
who can go against and win out over
what seemed at the time to be a
clamor for war.
| "In addition to these people from
the common walks of life have had
abundant opportunity 20 touch man.
ufacturers and bankers in the east.
| | have come in personal contact with
Boston and New York bankers,
have seen BUSINESS men Of Philadel-
| phia, / have seen cotton mill men OF
the south and cotton goods brokers
| Of New York. | was somewhat sur
prised at the attitude OF these men.
had been led by newspaper reports
to believe that big business is for
I Hughes, but | must confess ! did
not find it so. Business is looking
for safety and itregards Wilson as
safe. Hughes. they say, is an un-
known quantity. They say he has
preached from the stump what no
American can really believe in, that
the entire Democratic slate should
/ be wiped clean when really there
have been some very wholesome laws
passed. Hughes understands that as
we'll as any man and he Is warping
| his own personal views and should
he be elected he would be months in
adjusting his acts to his own real
manner Of thinking He would try
10 make good on the outline laid
down by his speeches and that would
result in an entire change in legis-
lation and the country is not -eady
/ for any readjustment
"war came like a clap OF thunder