The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-02-04
Wednesday, February a, 1920.
SCOTT FERRIS is A WINNER

q ONE candidates for office orae. Others gyrate Still
y others spebnd fourth class, and the class by far
the smallest number and highest in number and highest in
quality, talks. This fourth class talks common sense Scott
Ferris belongs to this class.
If you didn't hear Scott Ferris talk last night in Conven
ton Hail. that your misfortune If you went to the nall
expecting him gyrate to spellbind, you
perienced a agreeable surprise He did neither He
Just talked He talked And he talked it
eoodnaturedy and peasingly and with artistic skill A
aker of that sort has something and he says it, and
what he says gets the fooghs and into the ears ana
the minds and the hearts of his hearers
Everything that Scott Ferris said last night got the
fooghts and under the mental epderm of the audience
He talked in such plain, simple everyday language that
everybody understood him easily There frls in the
Scott Ferris talk. He nduged in feahery flowers of
speech attempted hifautn flights of oraoy emitted
Vriolc outburss Of vndctvenes He had things to
sSya great many thng-and he said many things he
could an hour and half and the multitude heard him
gladly.
1t the first time heard Scott Ferris talk in
public We had been told that he would make effort
spe-bnd, and that made keen to hear him. The of
the spebnder in American politics and American statesman
ship is past The American people of today are too nel
gent to be awenspred by the spellbinders
We had been told that Scott Ferris would deliver
oYaon and that also made keen to hear him One does
not wish nor expect to hear an oraon when he to hear
political address still their place in the
bu that place not the political campaign stump De-
mbshenes and Cicero all right and in their
place. but theirs the ancient Wnen lhe
<poken word the peoples only opportunity for
eloquence and enlightenment These dayshis place Amer
caare opuent of opportunity for information and enhra
ment in the books and the newspapers and the and
the songs of the people.
And there have been perhaps time and place for the
gyraer for the fellow who swings his and his tongue
simultaneously who fights the atmosphere with fierce ges
ticuaon and still ercer verbiage But such time and place
not the and the here We the people have become
intelligent to enjoy that stuff from the public
AnflN, Il Mr. Enrric
in his dozen years public speaking he has made
monkey of himself along that line He knows better than
gyrate and the people know than expect of
HIM
We did expect Mr. Ferris say something and he said it,
We expected him to Justify his candidacy for the United
States senatorshp Senator Gore and he JUS
tilted 1t. We expected him tell something about the
present political situation and he told us expected him
to make good the pouar acclaim that he is fit rep
Oklahoma in the upper chamber at Washington and he
made good.
The Scott Ferris talk a thoroughly good and whole
some and sensible and and safe talk There moth
ing wild in his expressions He proved himself to be man
Of good strong horse We such men in
the United States senate the good Lord knows In that body
there are too of uncommon sense, gra
too many orators too many spellbnders and too few
members who appreciate the weknown fact that the Amer
people have become in years very considerably
fellows who gyrae and and pebnd the senate per-
fern those nts because they feel that they provide
entertainment suitable the limited perverted intelligence
of their colleagues Most surely they do not meet
the requirements of the great body of the pan-vng plain
thinking American people outside senate