The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-29

handled the affairs and are aching, each in
iivdual mothers son, to join the ranks of the
righteous Republicans long enough to kick
he rascals out"
And investigation always shows that regi-
ments of former Democrats" who fill the
woods, of which the World speaks, sifted
down, is reduceable to a few score of dis
grunted woud-be offce-holders who, adding
heir shouts to those of the Republicans, make
a maximum of noise, but develop modicun
Of voting strength.
Also, we will find that the Democrat who
s ashamed of his party, state and national, Is
either man whose mind is OF such callberI
hat he is easily placed under the hypnotic
control of the Republican professional mes
merist, or a man whose veneer of Democracy
is so thin that it but scantily conceals the
Republican instincts with which his political
body is garmented.
Verifying this assertion, doubtless unin-
tentionaly, the editor of the World further
writes
The machine has been driving with
an iron hand Almost every man you
encounter has either come in contact with
the cruel thing or has friend who has
suffered some indignity at its hands.
Then too Campbell Russell, through his
Cat" is reaching much larger num-
Der of voters than the general public
knows, and wherever he secures reader
he makes an angry democrat.
Again the howl of machine" from an
editor who affiliates with party which has
been machine e-controled, machine-driven from
the day of its birth.
Such shout coming from the sanetum Of
Ill chnt,t
telling the outside world that the Democracy
of Oklahoma and of the United States is in
the hands of machine which must be
wrecked and dismembered is very like the
plant of the drunkard in whose eyes every
man he meets seems an lnebrate who must be
sobered up and saved.
In this extract the Worlds editorial writer
asserts, almost every man you meet has
come in contact with this cruel thing, or has
friend who has suffered some indignity at its
hands" In the next sentence he says, Then,
too, Campbell Russell, through his Cat is
reaching a much larger number OF voters than
the general public knows, and wherever he
secures reader he makes an angry Demo-
crat"
The closing words as above quoted, we take
devoid of salt, swallowing the dose without
batting an eyelash or catching our breath
For, as we do not question the right OF
bull to get angry at the man
who shakes red rag in his face neither do
we question the right of a loyal Democrat to
get angry when he reads Of scandal and state
ments Of untruth launched at the party to
which he belongs, by man whose bread and
butter has been furnished by that party ever
since statehood; as we do not blame the kind
hearted master for castigatlng the dog who
has bitten the hand which has fed him, neither
do we blame the Democrat for flaming with
righteous indignation whenever he reads the
articles in the Cat" which libel the party
which has furnished the cow to whose teat
Campbell Russell, the Judas 1scarot of Okla
homas' democracy. has hung for all these
years.
And the hows of discomfort and the
shouts of machine politics and gag rule and
Democratic corruption, in Oklahoma, will be
found, in practically every case, emnating
from Cam Russell and his Republican-bitten,
hydrophobia-sm -smitten Cat"
Russell, in a sort Of unofficial way as
yet is the real head of an nsurgent
movement that is sworn to clean up its
own party, and that is beginning to un'
derstand such thing can be accom-
plished only by defeating it at the polls,
"Vote her straight the old shibboleth,
that for years at election times rang
through the woods and over the prairieS
from the Red river to the Kansas line is
no longer heard.
If the editor of the World, and the editors
Of all other Oklahoma Republican newspapers
will modify the above statement just trifle,
we will be willing to swallow it, also, without
making face. But we want the dose diluted
a trifle. We want it amended to the extent
IF saying that Campbell Russell constitutes
he insurgent element Of the Democratic party
in this state. Then we will be willing to give
10 him the questionable honor Of heading the
'insurgent movement"
Also, we would like for the Worlds editor
% amend his figures and give us the official
returns upon his statement, the statement with
which he closes the above quoted paragraph,
saying, "'Vote her straight the old shibbo-
eth that for years at election times rang
through the woods from the Red river to the
Kansas lne is no longer heard"
We would like for this to be amended so