The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-02

county courthouse, meeting in the
county courtroom Tuesday afternoon
al o'clock could not properly be call
ed an enthusiastic one, but it was one
which was very much in earnest.
The assemblage was composed Of sew
eral hundred citizens of Ardmore and
vicinity who had gathered in mass
meeting, following a call signed by
number of citizens, as published in
The Daily Ardmoreite, Of Tuesdays is
sue to protest against James y. Reed
United States senator from Missouri,
speaking in Ardmore against the ad-
option. of the league Of nations and
the ratification by congress- Of the
peace treaty without reservations.
Rev. DR.. R. +. L. Morgan, of the
Broadway Methodist church, presided
and Judge Eddleman acted as secre-
tary.
In an impassoned manner DR.. Nor
gan outlined the reasons why the mass
meeting had been called, stating that
it was the sense of this community to
uphold the hands of the president; that
the people Of Oklahoma as wen as the
majority Of the people of all other
states in the union, sanctioned the ac-
tion of President Wilson at the inter
national peace table; that the president
had gone to Europe representing the
people of this country, the country
which had stepped in when Germany
had whipped and all but conquered the
people of all other European nations
that ne had gone to Paris as the min
lister plenipoteutiary and every extra
Nv lary of the American people, repre-
hing every individual American, rep
rNsenting every real American, repre-
: senting the people who whipped Ger
many and made the world safe for de-
mocracy; that there might be found in
the league Of nations some things OF
which we as individuals might not ap
prove. but that Wilson had been our
representative and it was our duty as
American citizens to stand by him and
give our sanction to what we had EN-
powered him to do; that the coming oil
Jim Reed to Oklahoma. and the going
Of Tom Gore to Missouri each to speak
against the adoption Of the covenant
of the league Of nations and the peace
treaty in their entirety, was against
the wishes and desires of the great
majority Of the great American people
Dr. Morgan was followed by Tom
Pollock who spoke in an impassioned
manner, telling Of the good American
boys who lay sleeping beneath the pop
pies on Flanders field. the American
boys who gave their lives on the alar
of Liberty and whose memories de-
munded that u league to bring about
and maintain an endless peace should
be adopted.
Mr.. Pollock told of the manner in
which the loyal, red blooded Americans
had gone into the trenches and charg
ed through the Argonne wood and
swept forward in the Chateau-Thierry
drive. pressing the German hordes back
across the Rhine; he told how those
who had remained at home had work
ed in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan
drives, making every sacrifice demand
ed Of them i'm order that the ultimate
victory might be won.
'We- have whipped Germany said
Mr. Pollock. 'aud we don't want Jim
Reed of Missouri or Tom Gore of Okla
noma. to come and tell us that the
4 doption of the league of nations Is
Yur,np. we believe it is right and we
y / can only look upon Reed and Gore as
\ being tools of our political enemies
and the sewers of the seeds of dissen-
tion. the spreaders Of German propa-
ganda Let us arise as loyal Amer'
cans and tell Jim Reed that the peo-
nle of Ardmore, the people Of Garter
county. the people Of southern Okla
homa don't want to hear him; let us
roll him that we know he cannot speak
against President Wilson, in Missouri
any more than Tom Gore can speak
against him i'm oklahoma ! am Il
NTissourian. a native Of the same state
from which Jim Reed halls and | know
that Missouri. grand old. rockribbed
state that she is, is ashamed of having
a pro German in the United States
senate. A committee should be appoint
ed TO meet the train which Will bear
lin Reed into Ardmore to go TO MN
when he attempts to leave that tram
and wrap him in yellow rag ana
tell him to pass ON through Ardinore'
We don't want any Jim Reedism ana
we don't want any Tom Goreism IN
this section of oklahoma
Following Tom Pollock came II. H.
Brown who spoke fluently against the
I coming of Senator Reed. He stated that
we had a little too much pro German
l ism abroad in this land at this time
i that Jim Reed belonged to the same
L GLASS in which belonged n man who
Il was suppospd to he one of the senators
1 from Oklahoma, a man whose name ne
1 vould not mention, because he enter
/ tanned too high a regard for the 1eeI'
l ines of all true American Oklahomans
/ to call that name i'm public, that name
I which was branded with the stamp OF
\ hslovaltv. the name of man who was
kXra of the disloyalists who did as ana
I Inn Reed everything to hamper the
| president of the United States and 10
| retard the country in its prosecution
| of the war. III,
1--WE don't want men who join win
| Senator Knox in opposing the ratltica-
! ton of the league Of nations ana lne
| peace treaty said Mr.. Brown, because
l if is cruel peace to Germany Il
4 .cruel peace TO the country whose ieau-
| ers and whose people never felt never
| knew a humane sentiment during all
| 1he time the German armies We're
| sweeping onward toward the gates OF
Paris We don't want Jim Reed IN
| Ardmore. we don't want him and his
| views. we don't believe in taking him
out to the Country Club and feeding