The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-06-18
Glover Issues announcement
AS Candidate for Congress


to new field OF activity.
Production must go on; and the
producers not only have right, but
must have a voice in determining the
hours and conditions under which
they ere TO toll and to part with the
products OF their labor.
Now let us turn to some of the
other issues Of the campaign, the
foremost of which Is the Peace Trea-
ty and League of Nations.
favor the ratification OF the trea.
ty and covenant as brought back
from Versailles by Woodrow Wilson,
but am not unmindful of the fact
that it is a constitutional prerogative
OF the United States senate to ratify
any and all such treaties, or place
therein such reservations as within
their own discretion they may see
fit | am in favor Of placing this re-
sponsibility upon the senate. ! con-
cur in the attitude OF Senator Owen,
William j. Bryan and Senator Gore
toward the treaty and the league
covenant.
feel that this is not Il partisan
question, however, for the reason the
strong arm OF conscrption reached
ont and took all alike into the Euro
pean maelstrom regardless Of polit-
ical affiliation.
We had no time nor inclination
then TO think OF partyism. Our re-.
publican and all other neighbors
yielded up their blood and treasure
to win and thus terminate that awful
war. Now that IL is over should we
not permit the United States senate
TO voice its interpretations and write
its reservations into the compact
by which we are to enter the worlds
League of Nations, regardless Of the
whims Of partisan politics?
70 our soldier boys ] want to say
for their deeds Of yalor and herolsm
their government owes them debt
which in money il could never pay.
| certainly favor such legislation as
will render immedat aid to the dis
abled, aud adjust compensation to
all who stood ready to'die in defense
OF their country.
While you were fighting, bleeding
and dying upon the battlefields OF
France you were then carrying the
Stars and Stripes in the name of
your country In fact You were the
government then. But when you
were returned and disbanded and
thrown back into the ranks of the
great army of producers, you found
you no longer finctioned as the gov.
ernment itself, but found yourself
alongside others of the great army
of workers, victim of commercial
exploitation. Should not the profits
made by the profiteers out of that
awful calamity be utilized to return
to you a small portion of the aavan
tage you gave up? Instead, you are
soothed with the words Tears for
the dead praise for the liying.s
! hate war with all my soul, and |
have not talked with a single return.
ed soldier wao says he wants re.
turn trip to Europe on the same mis-
sion. 1t, therefore, strikes me, the
courageous thing for our returned
soldiers to do is to rise up in their
might and there will be no .aore
war, and see that the Covenant 0
the League of Nations stipulates that
no member power can engage in war
until the sovereign people by ref
erendum shall so declare. favor
referendum on war.
To the motherhood of this congress
sional district want to say that
trust you will assume your response
bility of enfranchisement seriously.
You are the mudsill upon which our
entire structure rests. You are in (
position to knew the bitter end OF
lies struggle, and it will take but |
title thought upon your part to guide |
1ou how to east your ballot.
You are first to give the alarm
when the coal bin, meal barrel. and |.
arder are empty. You are the one
sho knows what it is TO practice and
each the doctrine of bitter economy
n your household affairs. Ten mil.
ions Of your sex in the United /
tates are doing their own work, or I
re employed as wage earners. You I
annot sllirk your duty. II is now
bilgatory thet you take hold and
ssist in the solution and settlement
all issues in governmental affairs
is Imperative that you do some
hing to raise many of your sex
ON the gutter
Ii seems that a man can be reform
/ and become useful citizen but