The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-06-12
BEHOLD OUR HAPPY
FAMILY.

It's a platform all right-no
body can successfully deny that
In every plank, paragraph
sentence, yea verify, even to the
punctuation marks it meets al
The requirements Of the ideal po
liical pronunciamento; in Other
words. it is every inch a plat
form. -
A platform, you understand, is
a declaration of what its makers
do and don't mean, artistically
designed to make the " dear pee
pul" believe that they do near
everything they do and don I
mean. 70 be perfectly plain, il
is a vote-catching trap, the prin-
cipal ingredient of which is that
great. nationally advertised and
largely consumed product known
as bunc" in polite language but
designated by a more poetic and
expressive term by the old west
ern plainsman
For fear that you may not be
getting the drift Of these ramb-
ling remarks, at this point i'll the
performance well take occasion
To say that we re talking about
the remarkable creature to which
the elephant, after long and
painful labor gave birth i'll CHI
cago-the G. 0. p platform. AS
was to be expected the platform
condemns everything ever done
by the Democrats and it conveys
the impression that the Republi-
can party will do everything that
everybody in the country wants
done if the reigns of authority
are turned over to Is G. o. 7.
Ism t that exactly what a plat
form should be? Lofty senti-
mems, finely phrased, high-sound-
ing principles which all patriots
approve. Certainly, it contains
all that; it wouldn't be a plat
form if it didn't; the master
carpenters who built it didn t
overlook any good bets; those
truly excellent artisans aimed to
build it so large and strong that
all the voters in the country
could stand on it without Jost-
ling each other and at the same
time be perfectly comfortable.
Yes, Wen say it's some plat
form.
For time it looked like The
platform builders were going TO
have trouble. Not that there was
any serious disagreement as TO
the greater part of the job. For
the most part, they were all
ready TO "view with alarm" and
condemn the doin's of Woodrow
Wilson and as 10 the general
inc of "dope" which the party
would put out for the conSump-
ion Of the voters, there was
title indication of dissension, but
here was one huge element of
liScord which loomcd ur and
rhich threatened to disrupt the
peace treaty and the
Leagne of Nations
which Wilson had thrust upon ,
he country. What the samhill
'ere they going to do about it2 ,
Truly, it was an ominous situa- I
on; those bilious-looking clouds q
ere portentous of a typhoon a
hich might wreck the party +
here was one Hiram Johnson. {
reconcilable of the irrecpncil- +
lies. vowing by all the nine u
IDS and then some that he g,
ouldn't stand for anything il
ort of the uneduivocal condem-
tion of the league and there
SO were the mild reservations
:. - like Senator Lenroot, to-
ther with the regular reser-
tionists, like Senator Lodge
10 had been leader in the fight
the ratification of the treaty
h reservations. How under A
sun could all these opposing Nj
ws be reconciled Worst of 1t
Hiram threatened, if ne 1t
MT have his way about it. to
lrry the issue to the people T"
ch was interpreted to mean a
ty split. yor
It this critical stage in the sol
lings, enter Mr.. Root, plat tn;