The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-08-30
POPULARITY OF FERRIS
S SPREADING THROUGHOUT
STATE, REPORTS SHOW
John w. Flennar In Tulsa Democrat

seeking denomination.
Reports from the Usage nation indi.
cate that Mr.. Ferris will sweep Usage
county. Similar reports are coming in
from Okmulgee and Wagner counties.
l. prominent Okmulgee democrat stated
Tuesday that Gore was not even being
considered in that city, which refused
TO extend an invitation to the blind
senator last winter to stop off and de
liver an address. In fact, okmugeeans
sent the senator a telegram telling him
he had better keep on going and give
that city wide berth.
over in Okmulgee," he said, 1--WE
know that Mr. Ferris never did anything
for which he might have eXacted pay
from the German kaiser, but we do
know that Senator Gore, by his actions,
played into the kaiser's hands and
should have been paid for his work"
Republicans Working Gore
An interesting disclosure in Connection
with the senatorial race wliich will
come to a head next August is the re
port that certain Tulsans, more or less
cans alike, have started in to raise a
pany interests, democrats and republi-
500, 900 slush fund to be used in ad-
vancing the candidacy of Senator Gore
in return for his efforts in assisting to
tighten the income tax burdens of the
oil millionaires and near millionaires
hereabouts. OF course the raising of a
fund by the republicans to assist in the
nomination of Senator Gore. will serve
a double purpose in that those who
profited most can repay the debt they
owe Gore while at the same time, in
the event of his denomination, they can
then turn in and help defeat him by
the election of IA republican senator.
Just how the farmers, however, who
have been touted as strong supporters
of Gore, will receive the announcement
of the activities of the allies of the
Standard Oil Company, is a horse of
a different color.
Those unthinking persons who pre-
tend to interpret the political pulse of
the farmers of Oklahoma and who de
clare that the farmers are for Gore
almost to "a man, have another guess
coming. The farmers of Oklahoma, for
the most part, are wide-awake, intelli-
gent men, perfectly capable of doing
their own thinking. They cannot be
led about by a ring in their nose and
they know upon which side their bread
is buttered. They know full well that
Scott Ferris has done as
much if not more for them than has
Senator Gore. They also know that had
Senator Cores ideas regarding the war
prevailed that their farm produce would
today be worth but a fraction of the
unheard-of prices they are now receiv-
ing.
Soldiers Against Senator Gore
Neither can the wool be pulled over
the eyes of the boys who wore the
khaki, who are almost a unit in opposi-
tion to heaping any additional honors
upon the shoulders of the senator, who
would have fixed their monthly wage
at SIS, while Congressman Ferris was
fighting to give them a dollar a day.
Ask nearly any soldier or eX-soldier you
meet as to whom he will support for
United States senator and he will tell
you right off the bat that he is against
Gore and for Ferris.
Another factor in the senatorial race
next year, that has never before entered
into the political equation, is the fact
that the women of Oklahoma now have
a vote and that almost to the woman,
they will cast their vote for Ferris. At
torney General Freezing has all along
been bitter opponent of woman'S Suf-
frage and he therefore can hope for but
little aid from the women in furtherance
Of his ambitions to succeed Gore i'm the
senate. 1t is unfortunate that Mr.. Free
ling should have entered the race, if,
as he claims, he desires to encompass
the defeat of Senator Gore.
No one doubts the mental fitness of
General Freezing to serve as the sue
cessor of Gore, but in the interest of
harmony and the good of the party Mr.
Freezing should be willing to stfle his
ambitions for the present and step down
and out. His entrance into the sena-
torial race has temporarily muddied the
waters, but inasmuch as it has been
quite generally understood for n year
Or SO that the fight for the democratic
for senator in 1920 would
be between Gore and Ferris, the voters
canot divorce the idea from their
minds and so, wherever one goes the
senatorial race is referred as a contest
between Seantor Gore and Congress
man Ferris.
Knew Ferris Would Make Race
1t is true that Mr.. Ferris was prob
ably bit late in announcing his inten-
lions to run but it was so clearly un-
lerstood that he would make the race,
hat his announcement, while delayed.
came as no surprise.
So far as the candidacy of Attorney
General Freezing and f. G. McAdams
are concerned, they will be in the "also
ran" class and, at the best, can only
hope to reduce the plurality of the
winner of the senatorial derby. Their
continuance in the race will in no wise
affect the final outcome for the next
senatorial nominee will hail !
rom Lawton.
With Senator Gore still trying to de-
ay the final consummation of the peace |
pact in the hope that ii will annoy the |
president, the people of Oklahoma, who |
ire anxious to return to a peace basis. |
md thus escape from the clutches of |
he profiteers, have become bitterly dis
yusted with the tactics being employed
,y Senator Gore. who misrepresents the
rue sentiment of the great mass of Ok |
ahoma citizens, and their voice will be |
heard at the primaries next August |
And it will be in no unmistakable terms. |
,ither.