The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-02-15
1T MIGHT BE WORSE

THIS being quadriennia campaign year IN the United
States the country of course is going to the dogs OneI
almost hear the yepng Of the savage beasts that stand
ready to deVour this great and glorious nation They are
growing and grinding their teeth sharp for the feast I'm
iessust put the OF your own political party here
wins in the forthcoming election disaster amounting to de-
sucton lies Just beyond the top Of the hill of November
That's the situation friends. It's always the situation in
the United of America presidential campaign
year Just divide by four the number of since you
began to sit up and take notice and the result will give you
the number of times you have the country going to the
dogs.
OF course as you must admit it has gone alto
geher the dogthe dogs have snapped at the tempting
bait and missed-but it has close to their lathery
teeth several times that you have gasped and held your
breath Those times when the opposite party the
election. Somehow after ALL the country has been saved,
with the other fellow running it.
But now-this year--s the crucial test If the other
t,llowshose of the political party opposite to your
get control through the November election, the poor old
public dead and done for this time Yes Just it waS-n
yCur minds eyeevery other time the opposite party
red the country the polls Just much dead and done
fer as it those times, and more.
Indeed the situation serous-as each of it for
himself. Every fourthyear campaign it grows and
serious There sixteen, twelve eight and
four years ago why the country failed 90 the dogs
the dogs perhaps not quite ready swallow the great
republic at gulp But in the present instance the
different-why of course it is-and mevocabe disaster
will oVertake beloved land if the other fellows win
That's the talk Just now-as it four eight, twelve,
sixteen and twenty years ago you know. How many times
Rave los-and sayed--the country! Through what
onies of travail have passed in each quadennia period
Of saving the country We hudder recall those times of
terrible anxiety.
Friends and elow-cizens, let give way utterly to
despair For every cloud its silver lining Maybe it's not
bad this year. looks the others Per-
haps might be than is In fact inclined
think Our notion that there is quality inherent
il the national fibre which makes it very nearly impossible
for this country to go to the dogs
We have, somehow, abiding faith in the ability of
the American people to pull out of any slough despond
into which the vehicle Of government may get mred through
the necency of the other fellows driving We are in
cned beleVeand this is proof of our ngrowing
optimism-that president such Hiram Johnson
would not be fatal this sovereign republic Four years
cf Hiram, of one similar to Hiram undoubtedly would
put perlous crimp in things but there would remain the
golden opportunity OF deramng the country at the end of
the Quadrennal period and the republic of Washington still
would live and be doing business at the old in Wash
ington d. c.
The thing for each of do is to sit tight and not give
way to pancky forebodng insane fear. Hand on the
throttle, eyes the track The fine old engine the loco
motive assembled by forefahers who wrote the Dec
araton and built the Constitution yet has had an
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