The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-31

cepted, in its entirety, by Senator Harding,
was made up Of series Of beautiful strad-
dies straddles which endorsed nothing, stood
for nothing, but which evaded everything and
lodged everything save denunciation OF
President Wilson and his polices-without
referring to the additional fact that the DEM
ocratic platform, as adopted at San Francisco,
and accepted by Mr.. Cox when he accepted
the nomination, came out boldly upon the
principles of Americanism and law enforce
ment, without, we repeat, alluding to any OF
this and these, we defy any Republican poll
tician, any Republican editorial writer, any
Republican spellbinder, any Republican au-
thor of anonymous and unlabeled Republ-
can propaganda, to point out single plank
in the San Francisco platform, to show a
single phrase in CoXs speech Of acceptance
wherein either the party or the partys stand
ard bearer entered into an agreement, specific
or otherwise to make Article Ten the issue
between two great national political organi-
cations.
Read the Chicago platform over carefully,
however, and outside of an attack upon the
chief executive of the United States, we defy
you to find anything for which it stands, for
which the party stands. We defy you to
find a section wherein the claim is made that
we shall have an association" Of nations
wherein the statement is set forth that we
shall not have league between the civilized
nations of the world.
Then read carefully the Democratic plat
/ form, and we defy all Republicanism to point
out single paragraph which says Article
/ Ten constitutes the entire League of Nations
or that the league shall be adopted, in event
of Democratic success, in its entirety. We
defy any man, any woman, Republican, Dem
ocrat, Socialist, whatsnot, to find more than
an endorsement of the league with such mod
fications as may be found eXpediate.
While we do not admit the truth of any
of the Republican arguments against the
much denounced Article Ten, while we can
not see wherein that article binds the United
States government to put up the lives of its
young men as pawns with which other ma
/ tions may play, yet, as we have previously
stated the Democracy Of the United States
believing and knowing that all parties should
be subservient to the will of the people eX-
pressed a willingness to eliminate any part OF
the covenant of the league, which the repre-
sentatives of the people might find objection
able, even including the bitterly reved
Article Ten, but did bind itself, both in its
declaration of principles and in its platform
to take the United States of, America out OF
the class with Germany, with Russia, with
Turkey.
In view of the palpably evident fact that
the unfair propaganda has been sent forth tc
catch the unwary that it is chaff from which
the veriest tyro in politics would turn, its dis
tribution seems to be carried on in the same
underhand method which marks its author
Chi baar No fn chO
from whence it came, while its author, il
his claims sets forth that Article Ten lays
the bars open for the president to hurl US into
war at England's call, but forgets that, by
Constitutional provision, only the Congress
of the United States is enabled to declare
war; under any circumstances, on any nation