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


governments, at the international peace table
He had insulted them, the republican thun-
der-makers and democrat wind -jammers He
had failed to invite Lodge, the bitterest enemy
of the democratic administration; he had neg
lected to invite Reed, the man bearing social
istic ear-marks although grazing in democrat
pastures; he had even overlooked Berger the
Milwaukee congressman-eect under indict-
ment for syndicalism.
Yes, the league of nations, the joint off
spring of the greatest minds of the allied ma
tions, must be sacrificed. Even as were the
gladiators of the days of the Caesars butch
cred to make Roman holiday, so must the
league of nations, child of the fathers MUIR
dered by German atrocity, be butchered to
make republican campaign issue.
No sooner was the idea conceived than
the plan was put into execution. Creeping
through the dark, speaking with forked
tongue of the serpent, the entertainments of
American adoption of the league was at
tackled and the unscrupulous ones of the
democratic party were approached. Soon
the propaganda had been spread, the signal
fires were burning and republicans "uber
allies" gathered with the "dirty dozen" and
inaugurated the campaign, campaign
against idealism, against all that would bring
to America the respect and the friendship of
the nations of the world.
Anathemas were hurled at the head of
President Wilson from the floor of the SEN
ate, seeds of dissension and discord were
scattered amongst the American people by
the medium of the press dispatches, and syn
dicalistic speeches were made by ones who
had been elected by the votes of American
democrats. For, even as the hostile Indians
of the earlier days of the eighteenth century
had in their camps traitors to the pale-face
race, so had Lodge. in the republican camp,
his Simon Girtys.
The leaven of dissatisfaction was put to
work and the leaders of the G. O. P. could
sit back and wait for the loaves to rise"
And now, with the league of nations the
issue, the real and only issue before the
American voters, the republican convention
incorporates into its platform a plank, So
called anti-league of nations plank, which
sets forth that the motives of America are
suspected and the American nation is dis
credited among the other nations of the
world But the drafters of that plank remain
beautifully and magnificently quiet about ex-
planning why America is discredited, why the
actions of the American people are looked
on with suspicion.
Oh! Consistency! Thou at jewel! But
thy name is not found recorded in the Book
of the Republican,
The league of nations, as approved by Mr.
Wilson, of America; as approved by Premier
Clemenceau, of France; as approved by Pre-
mier Lloyd George, of England; as approved
by Premier Orlando of Italy; as approved
by the wisest men who sat about the peace
table at Paris; this league must be defeated,
1t must be stricken from the pages of Ameri-
can history, and all because the republican
party, the grand old party" which at one
time numbered grand old men in its person
mel, must have an issue; must have something
upon which to stand in order that member
of that party should be honored with a home
in the White House.
America and American people wanted
league of nations, but the republican party
wanted platform-so, America and the
American people must be damned.
Take the republican platform, as adopted
at the Chicago convention, and carefully dis
sect it and see what you will find. Do not
tear it asunder, as the republicans have
sought to tear asunder the good name and
honest intention of the American president
but take it apart, atom by atom, carefully
using the velvet touch of the master surgeon
as he lifts the sinews and tendons and muscles
and arteries of the human anatomy, while
searching with skilled and trained eve for
the fostering spot Of cankerng disease: lift
the skin of the elephant from the flesh and
tissue of the body of the platform, remove
the mortified matter which smells to high
heaven of groundless attacks on President
Wilson, and you will find left the naked and
oathsome skeleton of party without an
issue.
Laying metaphor aside, all you will have
to do to awaken to full realization of the
fact that the republicans, through the ma
chinations Of Lodge, Knox, johnson and the
Benedict Arnods Of the democrat party, have
only tissue-created platform, manufactured
by tearing down the work of good men, work
done for humanity; that every plank, shorn
OF its bombastic verbiage bereft of its asser-
tons, assertions unsupported by any recorded