The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-22
CAMPBELL RUSSELL


saving that he does not care to succeed him.
self IN office as one of the members OF the
state corporation commission, but that ne
vould like to 90 back to the state senate.
Campbell Russell. in addition to being a
member of the corporation commission, is the
editor of the Cat, an animal of soclalstc ten
denotes and depraved breeding.
He is also q man who comes before the
neople of Oklahoma as both an offlce-seeker,
of the perennial species, and reformer VINO
seeks to make the world a safe place IN when
Campbell Russell may live, without fear OF
having his own sins and shortcomings ana
misrepresentations find him out
He is the only honest man in the Demo-
cratic party of Oklahoma, according to his
own published opinion.
He is the fellow who takes his Cat in his
arms. climbs to the housetop, pinches kitty's
tail and makes it howl, 81 thank thee, oh
Lord, that l am better than are any others
in the Democratic party of this State!'
He is the man who seeks to reform the
Democracy of Oklahoma without first having
reformed himself
He is the man who wraps the mantle Of
hvpocritic self-conceit about him and strikes
I-am-holier-than-thou attitude, depending
upon that mantle to conceal the rags and
patches of the unrighteous clothing which he
wears beneath its hiding folds.
He is the man who seeks to cast the mote
from the eyes of other Oklahoma Democratic
politicians, but fails to pluck the beam from
his own optics.
He is the man who lives in political glass
house, vet hurls stones at others.
Campbell Russell has fooled the people of
-, +bo but npOnlp
suffering and wifully blind have at last got
truism uttered by Abraham Lincoln, relative
to the American public-"You can fool all
the people part of the time, and part Of the
people all Of the time, but you cannot fool
all the people all the time"
Campbell Russell has had his day. He
has fooled the people of Oklahoma, the DEM
ocracy of Oklahoma, but he fools them no
longer.
He has howed about the soulless corpo-
rations but has ever found for the corpora
tions when matters wherein the people were
interested on the one hand, and the corpo-
rations were interested, on the other, have
been brought before him for adjudication.
He has found grevous errors of both omis-
sion and commissioned which, he says, the
governor OF OKlahoma mas Deen guilty., Dul
has never verified those findings.
He has charged mafeasance in office
against practically every Democrat whom the
people of Oklahoma have honored, but has
never verified a charge.
He has sought to convince the public,
through the caterwaulings of his Cat, that
every office holder in Oklahoma is corrupt,
that the Democracy of Oklahoma is corrupt,
that the Democratic politics of Oklahoma is
, seething cesspoo of corruption and that
, he, with his Cat, is a paragon of virtue and
Prince Of Light and has, at last managed
to convince them that the halo with which
J he has crowned himself is set with imitation
stones in place of priceless gems, while the
: robe of ermine which he has wrapped about
his own shoulders but poorly serves as the
clothing Of an innocent and virtuous lamb
, worn to hide jackal garments.