The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-29

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TO him.-Anon,
BEWARE OF REPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA
The Republican papers of Oklahoma,
chief among which may be noted the Tulsa
World, are doing their bit to impress the
Democrats of little faith that there is going
to be a monster political earthquake in
Oklahoma this fall.
In doing this they play not upon harp
with thousand strings, but upon an nstru-
ment provided with but one string upon
which they thrump and thrumb and create
doleful sounds, in efforts to bring about dis
cord in the Democratic ranks
After having worked faithfully for weeks
and weeks in futile effort to bring about
the nomination of Senator Gore, by Democrats
at the recent primary, after having shouted
and sung and whooped and yelled and
screeched and whistled about machine poll
tics and subsidized Democratic press in
order that man might be named by the
Democrats whom the Republicans could de-
feat at the general election, all without sue
cess, the Republican papers of Oklahoma are
now trying to bring about the election Of
Judge Harreld, Republican, to the United
States senate, through creating discord in
the ranks Of Oklahoma's Democracy.
Working along these lines, the Tulsa
World, loyal to the reactionary party, says:
Harreld's wonderful race in the pri-
mary has alarmed the Ferris forces. In
every locality scores of men who actively
supported Senator Gore primarily because
of his opposition to the league, have trans
ferred their allegiance to Harreld and
are already working for his election.
Taken in both the abstract and the con-
crete, the statement Of the World is abso
lutely without foundation of truth. Viewed
from every angle, looked at from the Demo-
cratic viewpoint, looked at, from an independ-
ent stand, looked at from the position from
which even a fair-minded Republican would
inspect the attitude of Oklahoma's Democ-
racy, and one can find nothing in the race
which Hareld made in the primary, as Re-
publican, which smacks OF the wonderful,
surely nothing which may cause the hearts of
Democrats to hesitate and skip beats with
fear OF his success in November
Harreld, creature of circumstance, was
ar accident at the special election in which
he defeated Claude Weaver-a happy acci-
dent for the Republican party of this state. A
man Of aine physique possessed of one of the
most hearty handshakes and one Of the most
winning smiles, good mixer, gifted with the
ability of conceang from the general public
the things which he did not know about po-
litical conditions and information in general,
he won in the special election through a series
of circumstances which were both unexpected
and unavodable--the fact that the Democrats
failed to turn out to vote at special election
and the additional fact that the Republicans,
fusing on every hand, did turn out
This gave to Harreld a victory which,
while not ascribable to good or honest politics.
was more accidental than anything else and
which, while due more to the apathy of the
Democrats than anything else, yet gave him
big, statewide boost with those of the faith
full when he ran against a field of 19 un-
trained and unbroken political geldings.
In an effort to stir up ,discord and create
dissenson in the Democrat: ranks, the World,
in another place in the same editorial. says:
The woods are literally filled with
former Democrats who are on the war
path against their party. They are
ashamed and dissatisfied with its per-
formances in both the state and nation
and in many, many cases are also out of
sympathy with its performances in their
own town government or county admins
tration.
Every real Democrat who has kept abreast
Of state political conditions as we'll as those
nationally, knows that there is scarcely an
iota of truth in the above statement and that
it eminates from the headquarters of Repub-
lcanism, state and national and is spread as
Republican propaganda, for the express pur-
pose and with the wel-defined intention of
stirring up trouble insthe camp of the Moss
backs.
ft'is ever the cryto the Republican poll.
ticians. not in Oklahoma alone, but in every