The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-24

dren of Israel were led into the land which
howed with silk and honey, in the days
when the world was young.
And when the votes had been tailed at
the close of primary day( the returns showed
that Harreld had been nominated the Repub-
lican candidate for the u. S. Senate, despite
his most un-Amercan vote. cast against and
in contravention and notification of the votes
of his own party compatriots seating a con-
vcted syndicalst in the lower house of the
national legislature.
With suavty of speech, in voice which
purred with the softness of the most silken
velvet. with oily smile and hearty word of
greeting, with brows bent in care and stu
dious thought, Mr.. Harreld sought, with plat
itudes and Establishments, to explain away
his Berger vote In tones as gentle as the
notes of the mating dove, he endeavored to
change the shadings of his vote against
Americanism in an effort to- make it appear
that it was a vote cast in the interests OF
humanity and freedom of thought and
speech.
Great God With tens of thousands of
American boys sleeping the eternal sleep
which knows no waking, with tens of thous-
ands of American boys sleeping forever and
all time beneath the blood d-drenched sod of
France. with thousands of mothers hearts
CRYING. weeping, mourning and refusing to
he comforted, for their sons who gave their
lives that Freedom might live as lives the
sun. eternal in the heavens, with the very
angels shrouding their faces in clouds OF
shame of Berger for his acts and words OF
disloyalty to the Constitution which protected
him and the flag under whose folds he lived
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advisor-as an equal of true and loyal Amer
leans in order that he might be afforded the
opportunity of disproving crime OF whlcf
he had been found guilty.
And, evidently appreciating the fact thai
this un-American act cannot easily be Tor
gotten. realizing that he is up against rea
proposition, that he cannot possibly win hl'
election by fair means, Harreld has gone
still further from the straight and narrow
path and is charged with having made the
assertion that Scott Ferris, "up in Missouri,
was Republican, candidate for office upor
the Republican ticket, seeker for poltlca
preferment at the hands of the Missouri Re
publicans.
Scott Ferris was born and reared il
Newton county, Missouri, county wherein
a Republican of the true and unwashed faitf
is as scarce ana dS UdIQ W llIu do CNCi NSi'
the mythical philosophers stone, the foun
tain of youth and truth in Republican polit
ica promise. He was born and reared II
Newton county, one of those Missouri border
counties which suffered most severely in the
dark and bloody days of the Sixties. Ant
the fact that he was born. of Democratic
parents in that section of Missouri, and reared
to manhood surrounded by its Democratic
political environments, is proof positive tha
Scott Ferris never has been and never cal
be Republican.
No, Mr.. Harreld, you can never represen
an Oklahoma constituency in the Unitet
States senate. You are coming into th
greatest court of equity-the court of public
opinion-and you are coming with unceai
hands You are coming before an American
constituency, coming seeking the franchise
of American men and women, with the hen
/, of your garment besmirched and soiled witt
an un-American vote, and with unsubstan
tiated statements against your opponen
!, droolng from your lips, as ,drips venom from
the fangs of the copra de capella, that hoode,
!, menace, the deadlest of all things whicl
strike in the dark, which strike withou
warning
Truth is mighty and must prevail, as al
whom the gods have first made mad vii
, discover on the eve of election day.
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