The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-22
From Current Political Comment in
Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

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Pacifsm in time Of war and re.
bellion against his party leadership
are the causes for the defeat Of Sen
ator Gore of Oklahoma, according to
the majority Of the American press.
The blind Senator's downfall. along
with that of other 'irrecsncilable
Democrats" is accepted by most Of
the Democratic writer's as sound proof
that the Democratic party is solid
for the League of Nations claim
fatty denied by but few Republi-
can newspapers.
Among these is the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle CRep), which
says:
Administration press agents have
been trying to fool the people into be-
leving that it was Senator Thomas
L. Cores opposition to the Wilson
League of Nations that caused his
defeat, Senator Gore was DOOM
cd to defeat more than a yedr be-
fore President Wilson went abroad
TO carry out his international scheme
" Gore, in effect, was defeated
before the armistce and before there
was any chance to oppose Wilson'S
Utopian league"
To claim the = feat as an admin.
Sstration triumph, the Philadsl
phia Press RepJ considers a "vio-
lent assumption and while il grante
that some Democrats may have 49,
posed the Senator because No 90
himself with Lodge in the Senate
treaty fight, there were "o,nei rea.
sons chief Of these that he was a
pacifist,' and therefore the Detroit
Free Press QndJ explains he would
not have won on his record in any
State in the Union either as an ad-
ministration or as an anti-adminis.
tration man IF the defeat of Sen
ator Gore is deserving Of all the
significance which is being attached to
it, by those friendly to the White
House the Philadelphia Bulletin Rep.)
asks:
What is TO happen to all the
Democrats throughout the country
who have been unwilling to follow
the President and commit the United
States to the blind pool of nterna-
tionalism?"
Other papers Of both parties see
various reasons for the Senator's
defeat more important than opposi.
tion to the covenant itself. To the
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette Dem)
it is chiefly matter of political 10y.
atty. This ought to be a lesson" it
says, Ito those who consider them.
selves superior TO their ;-arty and
Independent of party leadership" and
the Wichita Eagle Qnd) interprets the
situation thus: THE blind Senator
joined a faction, which. although not
exactly disloyal, was branded as
such" 1t is this "dsloyalty" to the
country that many discover as the
true cause OF Senator Cores down.
fall-"a triumph for the flag" the
Tulsa Tribune DemJ calls it, The
Ardmore (Okla) Ardmoreite. Demo
crat, says Cores defeat was a Sian
at disloyality.' To the Oklahoma City
Oklahoman DEM it is "a clean.cut vic
tory for Americanism.' The Houston
Post tDem.) is more explicit:
Slowly but surely" it says, "retri
button is overtaking the politicians
who failed to see their duty clearly
when the Nations honor was trampec
by Germany, and who put themselves
at variance witt the constructive ac
ministration of President Wilson"
His war record was the issue ir
the campaign upon which he was de
feated, the Chicago Daily News Qnd.
declares, and the Charlotte Observer
ind. DEM adds to this his position
in reconstruction" IS the "unques
tionable' causes Of his retirement.
Among the newspapers which see
Wilson victory in Cores defea
are the Portland Oregonian und. Rep.
which, however, adds that it may
or may not be so pleasing to Colum
bus" and the Chicago Tribune und