The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-09

low who had taken too big a shot
of hooch. he thought he heard the
rustic of angels wings every time
some rooster raised his clarion voice
and sent his shrill cackles reverberat-
ing from craig TO craig from bluff
to bluff throughout the hills of Tulsa,
Usage and Pawnee counties.
We will not venture to say how
strong and how sincere has been the
gentleman's conversion which has
caused his feet 10 wander from the
straight and narrow pathway of De-
mocracy into the broad and crooked
road of Republicanism; We will not
venture to say how many sugar
coated doses the gentleman swallowed
before he awakened TO realization
that he was hell-bound to destruction
if he continued TO walk in the road
which leads TO eternal political glory
the road which was laid out and built
by one of the greatest political en-
gineers of America, leading from a
base Of good government through
the plains Of political honesty to a
terminus Of gold government for all,
but We feel safe in assuming that
his conversion has been ahorough
and complete, as he bears all the ear
marks of the true Republican in that
he attempted to enter the ranks of
the Democracy long enough to have a
voice in naming a candidate for Of
flee, while he belonged. according
to his own statement in the camp
of the enemy.
We do not doubt that the gentle
man was at one time a good, true
and upright Democrat. He says he
was, and we have no reason to doubt
his word. But even as 1scariot was
at one time a true follower of the
meek and lowly Nazarine, and fell
from grace when tempted with 80
pieces Of silver; even as Arnold was
at one time a patriot to the cause
of the American Colonies and fell
by the wayside when his spleen out
grew his loyalty. so may this man
have backslidden in good, old Method
ist fashion, until he stands, today
ready to deny the party under whose
fostering wing he grew to manhood
and to ripe old age, even as Peter
denied the Master before the third
Growing OF the cock
The man who has the honor Of
writing this article. like the cor
of the World is a native
Of Missouri. He was born in that
grand old state, was reared beneath
its skies of bending blue. He came
into the world a scion Of "Rebel
Democrat" parents was rocked in a
Democrat cradle, grew to manhood
under the tutelage Of a Democrat
father and mother and cast his first
vote for Grover Cleveland, in 1884. /.
Like the Tulsa man he voted for
William Jennings Bryan, free silver
and all. every time he ran. He even
took Parker without a blink. and
then came back for another dose Of
Billie's sixteen TO one.
He has not been an Oklahoma voter
quite as long however, as has the |
man from Tulsa, but he has been |
here long enough TO cast his vote |
for three governors and TO fail TO dis |
cover anything but balderdash in the
panacea for all ills which the Re- |
publican editorial writer's and plat |
form spellbinders peddle. And as
man who comes from Democratic |
Missouri, who is a citizen OF Demo- |
cratic Oklahoma. he can but feel and |
believe, that the Tulsa Missourian |
who feels so much better having |
plowed with the political harlots Of
Republicanism Is OF the Samson
type, and Is even now clinging TO his |
Delilah. with his legs and arms bound !
with withes. his locks shorn and his |
strength Of purpose and political in
tegrity no longer a reality, but a
tabled myth
We believe that there were good
men in the Democrat party who sup
ported Tom Gore for the Democratic
nomination for the United States SEN
ate. We believe that such men sup
ported him in all honesty. actuated
by the firm conviction that he was
the better qualified man for the cx-
alted office for which he and Scott
Ferris ran. and We believe that such
Democrats will now b. found sup
porting Scott Ferris. just as Ferris
followers would have supported Gore
had he been successful. But We do
not believe that there ever has been
or ever will be such animals" as
Gore Democrats" or Ferris Demo-
Gratis There may be some sore