The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02
Group of Citizens in Mass Meeting
Endorse Wilson and League of Nations
Wire Senator Reed Not Wanted Here

soon after We ourselves We're fed on
scraps and husks and black bread
while he, with the other members of
the dirty dozen were doing all in
their power rs obstructionists, as OBJ
structioniSts against Americas sue
cessful prosecution of the war"
Following Mr.. Brown Judge Win
frey. of the county court spoke brief
ly stating that the people Of Ardmore
and Carter county We're against the i'm
portation of Jim Reed, or any other
man of his kind, to SOW the seeds of
discord, to spread the doctrines of Prus
sanism. TO seek to inculcate Germanism
in this section, to spread the poison
OF German propaganda, to seek to
arouse in the American breast u sym
pathy for the Hun, the Hun who had
sunk the Lusitania and murdered de-
fenseess women and children.
Missouri is ashamed of Jim Reed he
cant speak to the people Of Missouri"
Judge Winfrey said. when Reed at,
tempted to address the members of the
Missouri legislature in opposition to the
views Of President Wilson, the League
of Nations and the peace pact the leg.
islators, like the true Americans they
We're, arose and walked from the hall.
Tom Gore can't speak in Oklahoma.
Oklahomans are ashamed Of Tom Gore,
so Tom Gore goes to Missouri, there
to inflct himself upon the people, and
Jim Reed comes down to Oklahoma to
talk pro.Germanism to our people. Let's
tell him that we don't want him."
j. B. Champion followed Judge Win
frey and reviewed the struggle in which
American had been forced to Join after
the Hun, the Hun whom men like Jim
Reed and Tom Gore, both members of
the dirty dozen had ever defended even
While insult, murder and rapine were
being shoWered upon Americans by or
der Of the Hun leaders,
at is an insult to American manhood,
it is an insult to the Americansm OF
| Ardmole and Carter county to bring
! Jim Reed here. Let us wire him that
We don't want him, let us wire him that
we won't have him, let us wire him and
tell him just what we think Of him and
other members of the dirty Dozen"
Following the close Of Champions
speech, Judge Riddle offered resolu.
ton to the effect that a committee be
appointed to rent the Convention Hall
for Wednesday night and that "A wire
be sent President Wilson telling him
that the American citizenry of Carter
county are supporters of the League of
Nations.
AT the suggestion of the chair the
motion was amended so as to provide
dent
Upon motion it was decided to send
q wire to Senator Reed at Oklahoma
City telling him that he was not want
ed in Ardmore.
Upon motion Of Attorney Sigler, the
wire was sent in care of Sheriff John
son Of Oklahoma county, to be person
ally delivered, by him, to Senator Reed.
A motion was also submitted to the
effect that the meeting request Deputy
Ballew, of the sheriff's force, to meet
the train upon which Senator Reed
would come to Ardmore, at the Santa Fe
station and here TO inform the senator
that it might be advisable for him to
continue on his journey.
The chair at this point urged that
the matter be not carried to extremes
saying that the fun sense Of the public
sentiment against Reed and his stand
would be conveyed in the wire. The
motion was then withdrawn.
\ stranger, a travelling man out Of
Fort Worth, arose at this point and
said that he was not a citizen of okla
homa, but that he was an American
ana felt that as such he had the right
to speak anywhere i'm the United States,
including Oklahoma. He said that he
believed the people were making a mis-
take in the stand that they We're tax
| ing in that they were giving Jim Reed
and the opposition to the League of Ma
| tions the very thing wanted by them
| publicity.
This man suggested that the best way
| to wipe Reed, Gore, Lodge, Knox and
all other opponents of the League of
| Nations, and the wishes of the American
| people from the slate, would be to ig
more them. "These fellows want pub.
licity," the gentleman said. "They want
| publicity and want it bad they fatten
on it like a kitten fattens on cream;
| they are kept before the public through
| the mistaken ideas of the public at large
| and the editors of the newspapers. that
/ they are news when in reality they are
/ hot news. Ignore them, then. and they
will soon wither and drift away, even
] pe ,,,if Ia.