The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-12-07
Staff Stuff
Upon this column the members of
The Ardmoreite's editorial staff m.
load their superfluities)
AN HONEST CONFESSION

] find this pathetic paragraph:
With the absorption Of the ST.
Louis Republic by the Globe.Democrat
we imagine n lot of old Mlssourians
feel very much like Adam did when
he lost a rib"
Present company is one Of those old
Ntissourians who feel that way. and
worse. have lost an old and valued
friend who owed me something like
one thousand dollars back pay for Ger.
tain sundry scintilations Of staff stuff
produced under electric light by the
sweat of the brain.
When 7 came down to Oklahoma
nearly three years ago / cherished a
mean ambition. 1t was to become an
oil millionaire, maybe an oil multi.
millionaire, return to st. Louis, buy
the st. Louis Republic in toto and out.
right, change its name to The Ameri
can Republic, reorganize and revamp
CIV Nh'lF thAlllt III anu lit4ultuldltlN
rrhire the old staff. including the able
and accommodating lady cashier and
the no less able and accommodating
lady steuographer, cross off with a
flourish Of generous resignation the
debt which the old regime owed me.
ana then create a national daily news.
paper dedicated to the upholding and
perpetuatlon OF what its new name
would iLip!y-the American republic.
The mean thing about that ambition
was the sneaky satisfaction ! was to
Take in carrying into the little old Re.
public office AT Seventh and Olive
streets that bulging bag of oily gold,
dumping its contents upon the counter
IN { neral Manager Iinn's office hc's
moi the <. m. who was responsible for
owing me the thousand. mind YOU,
and saying in chuclily. chirrupy tone
Of voice.
"Look who's here, y didn't think
could come back. hey
Otherwise, | submit the ambition
WAS laudablc, distinctly so.
And hut for one reason il would have
been carried out either in the past
or IN the future That reason. sad TO
say, lies IN the TACT that / have not
become an oil millionaire and possibly,
if not probably, may not become one
unti, next year on perhaps 1850 Now.
alas. what's The use? The 81. Louis
Republic, Missouris Oldest and almost
only hig democratic newspaper, has
been absorbed into the 81. Louis Globe
Democrat, Nlissouri's outstanding stand
pat republican daily.
Wherefore beloved, am / filled to
bursting wirh sadness as ! typewrito
.n'sc few chosen remarks anent the
..-Jrg Of the Republic, Now, may
Pep. I never may become an oil mil.
Hajart at all. The only legitimate
r,ascn for 50 becoming has vanished
Ntunosed verify into the yiewless
Void.
1t is to weep!
let there are compensations. There
arr gains for all our losses, there are
smiles for all our tears
And l am smiling!
Yea, though dewily drip the tears,
through the damp cloud thereof bursts
exultautiy the burgeoning sunrise Of
my Joy. For now and henccforward
am | shorn Of the mean ambition to
WhZz bang into 50. Louis in my private
railrood coach, with coored lackoys
blacking my boots and brushing my
clothes ON regular salaries instead Of
hegIudged tips, TO whi22 bang into the
old becrbossed burg at the riverside.
stalk quite unstcalthily up into the
eyrie under the dome wherc sat Car
toonist and ARTIST \. b. Chaplin, ruy
side-partncr on many an excursion of
featue-getting. writing and picturing,
and say unto him:
Hey, there. Chape--once l had 10
borrow two bits from you because the
Republic owed me a thousand dollars,
more or less, and now here's your pay,
with compound and confounded inter.
est--heres 1925 225.25 Il and. Chape,
you're mighty good fellow, one of
natures naturalborn gentlemen, and
you're entitled to the whole sum, in
Guiding the two-bits at the end"
And then old Chape (he's along about
40. reckon would have looked up
from his drawing board and said:
"We-ell, Bert. III he DANCED! l al.
ways knowed y had it in ye but who d
y hold up for this here interest on
that there two-bts you've already paid
Zig back?"
That IS to say, Chaplin you'd have
acted that way if l could have realiz
ID my mean ambition - Archibald
Bartholomew Chaplin, the greatest
Johnny .on-the.spot quick-action white
andblack ARTIST in America, and one
Of the modestest, friendliest. finest fel
lows this peregrinatlng pilgrim has en-
countered in wide wandering.
The Honest Confession
And this I'd say even if he hadn't
lemme have wobits when was dead
broke and no questions asked. Fact
is, NEEDED coupla drinks at Pal
Carmody dy's--and now old Pat is dead
and his place is closed by fedora
ukase--and the Republic itself is alb
sorbed. However, God reigns, and the
Republic OF Washington still lives, rs
President Garfield remarkcp.
There were lots OF fine fellows or
the Republic, in every department.
including the managing editors steno
grapher. trust they have landed sol
idly on their feet in better berths.
love them, every one-not excluding