The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-13

and peace was declared then came the
dark days of reconstruction which
were worse even than your previous
action and, talk about graft, why man,
the Republicans that you sent down
south after the war must have been
picked on account Of their hunger for
graft
We had twenty-four Brigadier-Gen>
erals OF northern birth in the South
ern army This was their adopted
home when the war broke out and
they saw things as we did. Mcclellan,
Reynolds and other northern generals
fought US fair and we hold nothing
against the honorable federal soldiers
who only obeyed orders, but your car
pet -baggers in reconstruction days
stole everything from our county and
state funds down To our women's
shoes and hot cooking stoves and yet,
when you begin waving the bloody
shirt you do not mention one word
of this. The allies have no carpet
baggers yer in Germany robbing that
war-ridden country as your gang rob-
bed our country when 1t was flat of
its back during reconstruction days.
Yet you howl there was graft during
the war. Did you ever hear of a war
where there was not some graft?
Would you expect twenty-five million
dollars to be spent hurriedly, when
human life was at stake, as it was in
this war without some crook getting
in his graft? If there was graft, were
your Republicans working under a
Democratic administration in any way
responsible? Who was the man who
prepared the draft quotas and raised
the army? General Crowder. a Repub-
| lican: who was the first quartermaster
general OF the army? General Goethals
a Republican; who was the man In
charge of all the eXpeditionary forces
/ in France? General Pershing, a Re-
publican! Are these men to be con-
demned because some scoundrel Of a
subordinate pulled off aSgraft?
How about the graft in the Spanish
/ American war? How about the en-
/ blamed beef and all the other scandal
Gus CRAFTS during that Republican ad-
] IIl4IASAl dAlOils w "a Aii' maj - w A'f'A~
dent Mckinley responsible for that?
| Why no, he could not help that any
more than Woodrow Wilson could
prevent some small graft during this
awful war when we were spending
| twenty-five billion dollars and trying
/ to preserve human life. They say We
have about four million men left who
] - flufv IA fhir
last war. am in favor Of turning over
10 them for trial every man who
grated on the Flag and uniform
whether during the war or since the
war and it makes no difference to me
whether the graft be financial or polit'
ical.
Notwithstanding the record Of our
selves and our Southern boys in the
Spanish-American war and the record
Of our Southern boys In the recent
world war some OF your northern Re
publican papers insist on calling Us
rebels. Wei, Il we were rebels We
were pretty good ones. Washington
and his little army We're rebels and
for staying qualities under unprepar-
ed conditions both these little bands
Of rebels hold the worlds record,
They were all 100 per cent American
and held the word at bay on corn
bread and branch water
Ny father fought under the stars
and stripes in the Mexican war and
he and | both fought under the Stars
and Bars in the so-called Civil War
lost son In France during this
'ast world war My past lie and the
lie Of my family all show that We
were 100 per cent Amgrican and w
give three chccrs for Woodrow VII.
son who brought The war to an end
and won our victory long before any
body expected and In spite OF all his
ahusers. His health has been ruined
by the hard rrue!ng work OF the wal
and he Is In the same class with the
poor soldier boy who was wounded
following the flag (Srued)
Richard l.. ,uncle DicO Rogers.