The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-01-11
We arILL STAND WITH WOODROW WILSON

yN& AR MOREITE still stands by President Wilson in his
position on the treaty and the League of Nations which
latter necessary part of the treaty Our position is
c&2cy what it has been all along. We stand for peace
Wh honor and against peace that compromises with dis
honor We did everything possibly could to hit the Hun
and win the The Hun has been hit hard but the
will not be until the Great Peace prepared for the nations
At Versailles shall have become fact manged by bunder-
buss blows from the Little who lack the saving
of Vsionand Vision by the way the grandes word
in all the opulent English language.
Mr. Bryan in the view of the present writer who has sup
ported the Nebrasan in nearly all Of his crusades for about
t four years, took the road his speech the
ia on Day dinner in Washington. We not denouncng
T. Bryan for devang from the straight and way
One cannot be expected always to identify the waymarks
aong the toruous path of human progress Mr. Bryan
belief thoroughly sincere always heretofore in the posi-
ton he has taken He is however in opinion mistaken
We to detect in the uerances of Mr. Bryan tinge
OF political eXpediency which is in his pronouncemens
Heretofore he has been the great no-compromser has
taken his stand what he has believed be right
stood there four-square Occasionally he been off the
grand highway heretofore, but not far asray Always
believe, he has travelled according to his lights
Those who believe that Mr. Bryan has taken his present
stand because Of any expectation that will land him in the
presidency do not know the from Nebraska Mr. Bryan
is too wise to believe that he could be elected if nominated
When spoke above of political eXpedency had in mind
the of the democratic party in the forthcoming
pagn 1t our reading of the Bryan uerance that he fears
defeat for his party the party stands aunchy behind Pres
dent Wilson for uncompromised treaty.
The of William Jennings Bryan makes us believe
that like Henry Clay he would rather be right than president
Nevertheless in this instance that he has per-
mted his zeal for party to take precedence
ideal for which believe overwhelming majority of Amer
lean and would stand placed before them
in its true light Mr. Bryan being primarily pacfist cannot
grasp that ideal it grasped by millions of other good
citizens
To make compromise with Germany would be thor
oughly wrong in principle and in practice it would work i'm
measurable harm to America and to the human We
helped associates the European allies to thrash Germany
We made possible to thrash Germany The thrashng was
administered partly in the field and partly the peace con
gress at Versailles Now demand that the field victory
should be cnched with the peace congress vcoryha the
victory of Versailles be accepted SUCH that it used
to its highest advantage.
To modify the treaty merely to suit the fancies the pref
udces the grouches of small group of United
tors and their comparatively small following would be
tragedy than the tragic war itself.
The world must forward not stand STILL not turn
back
The world took gigantic leap forward when at Versailles
the very best peace possible under all the circumstances
promulgated II but for the world to accept that peace
and let time do the ree future event and occasion perfect
(See Last Column)
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