The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-22

and every cent. '--C0V. j. NJ. COA.
Here is an old thought clothed IN new
language an old thought which has been
permitted to lie dormant until it has become
almost forgotten, an old thought reVlVl1led
and reimbued with life and brought before
the American voters in a new and striking
torm-n a form which is bound to attract
and hold the attention of every thinking
man and woman.
Thoughtlessly. we have been all too prone
to rush along, voting for the man nominated,
assuming that the party which nominated
him fitted him out with a platform made up
Of pledges which were empty and which
were made without intention Of fulfillment.
Thoughtlessy we have, as people of the
nation, no matter what our politics, accepted
the man named by the party to which we
belong without bestowing even cursory and
passing notice upon the declaration Of prin-
ciples which the candidate should accept as
gospel and pay off as an honest man who
cares to hold his credit inviolate should pay
off his promssory note.
In naming James Cox as the standard
bearer of the party, the Democrats of the
United States made no mistake. Of this we
become more certain as each passing day
brings his personality and his honesty Of pur-
pose more clearly and impressively before
US.
He was named, the choice of the Demo-
cratic party, as man who would go fear
lessly forth, standing upon a platform which
declares fearlessly for fearless principles.
And he has not been found wanting.
The platform adopted by the San Fran
cisco convention is neither straddle nor an
evasion. In its declarations the trainers did
not "wobble" nor hedge. On the other hand
they came out openly, and unequivocally
stated what the party stood for There was no
effort made to dodge the league of nations,
which the action Of the obstructonist Republi-
can senators had made an issue, only to have
the party at the Chicago convention snort and
evade it as such issue. And James Cox,
the man named as the Democracys candidate,
has come out just as openly as did the ones
who drafted the platform, and has shown to
every man and woman in the United States
that he stands without "wobbling' upon a
platform which neither wobbles, trembles nor
shivers
He comes before the voters of the United
States announcing that the Democratic party,
in its party pledges, has issued series of
promissory notes to the American people
promissory notes which he. as the represent
ative head of the party feels in honor bound
to pay.
He is the representative of the party which
stands for something, not the party which
stands as an artful dodger and evader of the
draft which the American people has placed
upon it as political organization. He is the
representative of the party which has given
the American people promises to pay just and
honest debts, not the party which seeks
through the artful manipulation Of words, and
the gerrymandering Of meaningless phrases
to throw an obscuring veil over the provision
Of the contract with the people leaving loop
holes, thereby, through which it may creep
in avoiding fulfillment of that instrument.
And as the representative of such party
as the legal head Of the party, as an Ameri
can citizen owing duty to America anc
Americanism, James Cox comes forth anC
says boldly, without equivocation, without
reservation, without "wobbling,' that the
promissory notes which his party has issuec
to the people of America shall be paid
The voters of America, men and women
have their choice between two parties ant
two men. They have their choice between
the Republican party, the party which stands
for nothing, according to the conglomeratior
Of words and sentences which it adopted. a.
= platform. at Chicago, and the man, Senator