The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-15
THROUGH PESSIMISTIC GLASSES

THROUGH PESSIMISTIC GLASSES
The writer Of Politics and Politicians" in
Harlow's Weekly, Of recent issue, views the
political whirlpool Of Oklahoma through glasses
which have a decided tendency to cast the shade
Of blue upon the surrounding Democratic seem
cry, as we'll as upon the turbulent waters as
they seethe the rapids of a possible Democrat
defeat.
The O%klahoman who has read the article,
which might we'll be termed a front page edi-
torial, if he is a Democrat, may feel assured
that the Democrats will be beaten to a fragile,
while, if he is a Republican, he will feel like
praisine the typewriter from which all bles-
sings flow, that conditions in the camp of the
G.. O. P. are not in so strained and dissentious
q condition as they are in the camp of the ones
who expect to vote for Jimmie Cox and Scott
Ferris.
While Harlow's Weekly poses as an indie
pendent journal of m and current
events" the article referred to smacks strongly
Of a desire to impress upon all that Big jim"
Harris, chairman of the state Republican CEN
trail committee, may he the Moses who Will
lead the Children of Republicanism out of the
Wilderness of Democratic rule in Oklahoma,
and into the Promised Land from which so
many individual members of the Republican
family were ANONYMOUSLY busted, when state
hood came to Oklahoma, with its accompanying
Democratic administrations
Speaking of the generalship of Harris, the
article says:
"Under ordinary conditions the re-
publican situation would appear hope
less, but the sagacity of State Chairman
Jim Harris is not doubted and those
who know him we'll understand the
Democratic cries of harmony will not
be deceptive to the Wagner chieftain
who manages to keep himself well in
formed on the political situation and
his finger on the pulse of both parties.
He knows that the Gore-Ferris strife
disrupted the Democratic organization
in some counties, and he also knows
that some of the Democratic state Off
cial family does not work in perfect
harmony with the Democratic state COM
mlttee, and that there are obstacles in
the way of the Democratic chariot
when will impede progress IN an UNI
usual manner. If Harris could get his
" forces III harmony and make a gen.
eral onslaught, the Democratic resist
ance would have to be well generated
to prevent very unusual results, with
the strong probability Of the Republi-
can congressional delegatOn Oelng au-
ded to after March 4, next"
Preceding rhe above, the article contains
the following tatement
No one pretends to deny that the
Gore-Ferris senatorial contest left sores
which will not be healed.
In addition to this the Democratic state
organization will present the President
Wilson front, ana this arrangement will
not be altogether pleasing TO those Of
that political faith who have been very
much at variance with the presidents
views relative to the Versailles treaty
and who would far rather go into
the campaign on reconstruction issues
than 70 again rehash the world war
theories of what may happen in
the event of too much perambulation
among subjects which have to do with
the affairs of Europe"
While, as we stated above, Harlow's Week
" is accepted. generally, as a non-political
sheet, none can find anything sbut Republican
campaign arguments in either OF the above eX.
tracts. We might almost say that the article,
taken from the first letter of its initial para.
graph, to is final period, tastes very strongly
Of Republican propaganda, with a little mint
mashed into the decoction to lill the taste and
\ deceive the unwary into the belief that it is
less than one-half of one per. cent anti-Demo'
4 cratic and, therefore, minus al, kick.
Y A palpably evident effort is, made to arouse
a spirit of discord in the Gore wing of Okla
homa's Democracy when the W. tier Of the arti'