The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-15
SPEAKING n THE
CtPT0I. or his
HOME STATE. COX
FANS OPPOSITION

,rostituted for this campaign" was
asserted by the governor. The gov
,rnor said:
THE campaign for the presidency
Of the United States has now reached
The point where it is possible def-
nitely to get fair appraisement of the
'orces that are aligned on either side
behind the candidates. II is we'll to
lake stock Of these forces and to as
sess them at their real worth pa
triotic or unpatriotic, to measure
hem as history will measure them,
and to assay them in the light of
nretensions 10 a monopoly on Ameri-
canism.
"Tn general it is not seemly TO
question the forces arrayed behind
ones leading opponent. but l deem
this to be an instance In which there
Is right to examine them carefully,
and L say this because | have had no
hesitancy in granting to my opponent
full and free opportunity to examine
the forces and influences behind my
own candidacy. My nomination came
in the open convention, as the result
assembled. I was not nominated at
any 2:11 a. m. conference in a smoky
back room of a hotel suite, and l
am perfectly willing that the forces
endorsing my candidacy be examined
and compared with those behind the
reactionary candidate as part of the
issue of this campaign.
II am, however, more interested i'm
the groups of forces that have been
aligned, rather than the individuals
themselves.
with this preliminary / assert
candidly rather with sympathy and
compassion, rather almost with shame
for some Of those who profess to be
Americans, that the candidate of the
senatorial ring has behind him today,
the most motley array of questionable
groups and influences that ever were
behind a candidate-an array that to
survey brings the crimson blush Of
humiliation TO an American. and an
assortment of influences that he must
begin Immediately after the election
10 repudiate, should the unthinkable
thing of reactionary victory darken
the happy prospects of victorious
and proud America.
II assert upon the results Of n
canvass Of these United States, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. that the
lcactionary forces do not place de-
l'endence for success upon one party
tho historic Republican party which
the evil influences of 1912 have again
captured, and Of which they are in
full possession.
II affirm that Senator Harding is
the candidate Of more than a dozen
groups working through the present
reactirnary Republican leadership. /
assert and so advise the American
people that the party once led by
Abraham Lincoln has been sold to
tnese several designing parties to be
prostituted for this campaign. i do
this so that the sober thinking ele-
merits of all parties may know Of the
uses to which the Republican organi-
Zation has been put, that they may
+, pudiate those who have made of
their temple den of disrepute in
the attempt to evade the issue of the
league Of nations. and distract the
public mind from our answering
support of peace and progress.
II shall inventory the strangely
Heterogeneous parties that are ar
rayed behind the candidate of the
senatorial group seeking to annex
the presidency:
First there is the reactionary
party of this country. Then there is
the pro-German party, the party
whose members opposed our, success
fu' prosecution of the war and gave
secret sympathy and aid to the de-
posed kaiser, the party whose heart
would leap with JOY were this mon
sicr of m!litnrism by some strange
prGnl of fa'e restored to power Their
tim - tho Italian party whose
T. r'hcrs place futile Italian i'm
! .nLsm o,ol She interests of this
7. 80. nl OVER and above the peace
O. ;. worlN. There is the Law
V a. rrt an organization witt
tfo''o Understanding that tht
" es r,e N down 10 the Levels
@ ''.G D. 0S. have encour tered
/ -, ."Ie many m-mbers of thi.
= a r,-r th.To is the suppression
- 'o, W.mhciS sny or secretly
/ nv 'i't r,cry lit of progressive
trI.h is TO he chol;ed by denying
nu ci;.ces Of liberals the right to eX
n - themselves. There is the Greel
prr'y and the Bulgarian party will
diverse aims bun common purpose
tu punish those who considered th'
wIlfare of the world as rising superior
in the Gains of nationalistic ambi
lion. There is the Bayonet party
which believes martial law is a solven
for all Industrial disputes. | have
encountered its members. too. ant
they are thick upon the muster roll
OF win II. Hays money diggers.
Then there Is the Atavistic party, go
ing back to the economic fantasy tina
the foreigner pays the tax
II assert that Senator Harding Il
backed by the National Isolation part,
whose object Is TO secure au.ocrat
position in the world and who's
creed is selfishness. This party wouh
prevent the hearing Of the cases o
oppressed peoples of the world In tn
sasirt OF world public opinion AM
deny to Egypt, South Africa and Ire
land the right TO press their claim
FOR local self-determination.
81 charge that Senator Harding
n backed by the Liberty Bond Specu
lators' party, now arranging suddel
coup In these securities through som
plan of reissue which will work t
the prejudice of the taxpayers,
define as arrayed behind senate
Harding the Anti-Fcderal Reserve Ac
pnrty, whose real purpose is to dc
stroy the greatest piece OF legislo