The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-04

print and then go before the socialistic, an
archiStic, bOlshevistic, prO-German, un-Arfer-
lean element of his constituency and say to
them, 81 cast my vote for you; | cast my vote
to keep your boys at home, to stop the war;
cast it in your interests, against the govern
ment of tyrants to whom you are rightly and
Justly opposed
Realizing that this man was distorting
facts to suit his own purposes, that he was
hoodwinking part of the people all the time
and all the people part of the time, the story
of fancy and fact intertwined, tells of how
some of the editors of the leading papers of
the nation got together and fixed upon. a
plan which ultimately became the political
undoing of this un-American representative
of an American people.
In solemn conclave these editors threshed
out the matter in detail They found that
the American people, loyal as Christ himself,
endowed with hearts of gold, were mercu-
rial people; that they were a lenient people,
lenient with the pro-Germans and socialistic
traitors who were scattered among them /;
that theyAwere people who were prone to
believe that even the devil himself could not
be as black as painted; that they were a
people who were ready to forgive the sins
of scarlet and condone the traitorous pulsings
of the disloyal heart, provided the culprit
was endowed with tongue of velvet and a
gift of language which would enable him to
cast oral exotics at their feet, while he wove
rhetorical bouquets about their brows.
Knowing all this, appreciating every
point, realizing that the lover of publicity was
also master dissembler, it was decided so
the story tells, that the unpatriotic, un-Amer-
lean politician was no longer news" that
nothing he did, nothing he could do, would
be considered news; that he was as one dead
gone and forgotten.
The editors corked their vials of vitriol
and laid aside their facle pens the cartoon
lists hunted for another subject the telegraph
editors carefully eliminated him from all
news dispatches; the headliners forgot the
spelling of his name-the "thunders of 81
lence" alone throbbed where before the cla-
rion note of publicity had sent his name pulls
ing from one confine of the union to its fur
thermost horizon. The man was dead, gone
and forgotten as far as the news writers and
editorial writers were concerned.
The impulse of the writer of this pleasing
story prompted him to delve still deeper into
the realms of romance and fancy and to tell,
after he had told of the crushing defeat at
the polls, of how this man with the Judas
heart realizing at last that his sins had
found him out, like Judas ended his own
miserable career.
Eliminating this last unpleasant fancy
could not the mythical "thunders of silence,
conceived and born in the novelst's brain,
be made to bring about the most desirable
event in Oklahoma, the defeat, the assured
defeat of the man Gore, who as United States
senator. elected by the people of this most
American state, proved himself most un-
American by joining the "poison squad" the
squad who held themselves bigger than
the constitution, bigger than the men who
marched with Washington that the colonies
might become a nation, bigger than the men
who gave their all to Lincoln that the Union
should stand.
Dreams of poets and novelists have, in
numberless times, been the foundations upon
which practical science has builded lasting
superstructures. Why cannot the dream OF
this novelist be put to practical use? Why
cannot the democrat editors of Oklahoma,
the democrat editors who believe the best
interests of an American Oklahoma will be
conserved through eliminating Gore and all
others of his kind, do as did the editors in
fancy's story?
If they will do this, do it Systematically
and well, seeing to it each one personally,
that Cores name does not again appear in
their editorial or news columns, the 'thun-
ders of silence" will bury him so deep, will
sink him so far beneath a political sod that
even the trump Of Gabriel will fail to awaken
him.