The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-13
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
'The foreign policy of the admins
tration has been founded upon no prn-
ciple and directed by no definite concep-
tion of our nations rights and obligations.
1t has been humiiating to America, and
irritating to other nations with the result
that after period of uneXampled sacri-
flee. our motives are suspected, our moral
efficiency impaired and our government
stands discredited and friendless among
the nations of the world. Opening par
agraph League of Nations Plank" Re-
publican platform.
Eliminate the vituperative opening sem
tence, framed to cast slur of reproach upon
the head of American national affairs, and
we will find, the truth, the whole truth and
nothing but the TRUTH as the clerk of the
court says when he swears you as witness
before a jury, embodied in the words of the
very first statement set forth in the republi-
can plank covering the league of nations
ISSUE
Adroitly framed, worded with great care
in an effort to place all blame upon the ad-
ministration for the existing status of affairs
between the United States and' European
countries, yet the truth, the unadulterated
truth, crept into the verbiage of the writer of
IiieI PldHh WueH lie peuHeu lH6 WOrQS, 'Our
motives are suspected, our moral efficiency
impaired and our government stands dis
credited and friendess among the nations of
the world
Yes, our government stands discredted
among the nations of the world and our mo-
tives are suspected because, placing party
above country the leaders of republican
senate, aided and abetted Sy the "dirty
dozen" renegades from the ranks of the
democratic senators, defeated the adoption
by this country Of the covenant of the league
Of nations-that covenant to which all others
Of the allied countries had subscribed
This government, the government more
powerful than is any other in the world to-
day, stands discredited, its motives suspected,
its honor impugned, but not through fault or
error upon the part of its president as the
republican authors of the platform would
have us believe. On the contrary, it stands
mpugned because, with the issues of other
days dead and gone, with the full dinner-pail
forgotten song based upon a condition no
longer existing, with the liquor curse elmi-
nated-through the good offices of the dem
ocratic party acting with the cooperation of
the American public-without an issue which
it could raise against the Wilson administra-
Ion, the republican leaders, the professional
politicians of the republican faith had to
create something which could be carried be-
fore the voters of the nation, something upon
which opinions might differ, something which
The blind followers of the rank and file of
republicanism could seize upon and use in
denouncing and condemnng democracy and
all things democratic.
Casting about them, looking to right. gaz-
ng to left, seeking to rend the veil of the
mpenetrable future, nothing could they find.
The Wilson administration had kept America
out OF the war as long as possible; it had, as
long as possible, without dishonor avoided
'pllllng the blood of the sons and husbands
Of the nation; it had at last entered the war
only after due and careful preparation the
roops OF America, thus prepared, had driven
the Hun from the fields of France; the navy
of America, prepared and carefully trained
mad swept the tigers of the sea- the dread
and barbarous German U-boats into the
depths of the ocean, there to canker amidst
he ruins and wrecks of the gallant ships
which Hun perfidy had sent to watery
graves.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, could be
found upon which to claim an issue. dem
ocratic administration even hampered and
embarrassed by republican congress- had
won the war, had conquered autocracy. had
made the world safe for democracy.
So an issue had to be made, an issue
must be found, an issue must be faxed, if
necessary. But what and where?
All At last! All hail the league of ma
tons!
Wilson, the president of the United States
Wilson the autocrat, Wilson the egotist, had
sailed across the seas, there to meet with
he premiers of other nations in the formula
ion of plans which would bind together a
brotherhood of nations, gathering them into
an organization for the protection of the
weak against the strong and safeguarding, as
Far as mortally possible, the lives of the flower
of the young manhood of the world, for cen
n,ries yet '--h----