The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-08-09
A CONFLICT OF DIFFERENTIATION

Several writer's who delight to bask In the
rays OF reflected authority and high position,
pointing with pride to the downfall Of Gore.
These gentlemen. and they are gentlemen, note
with considerable pleasure that Gore the
last of the rocalcltrant senators to feel the
weight Of public dlspoasure because OF oppos-
ton TO woodrow Wilson,
It's democratic row. Ordinarily we don't
for such things
But still II may be permitted US TO call at
tcntion to another phase OF this conflict be-
tween the president and senators. As we under
stand the matter. after cursory reading OF
the dihtribes. President Wilson some months ago
set about destroying all opposition within his
own party. II a senator opposed him. then the
fellow must be destroyed, and In that democratic
and christian undertaking he had all too num-
erous following.
Hardwlek fell. It s written, Then Vardi
man, Smith Of Georgia, went body to his
people, won vote OF confidence and their
mandate and had both repudiated by n party
that calls itself democratic. Reed. tho match
less In debate and oratory, was compelled TO
walk the plank or mortgage his manhood And,
last OF all Gore the silver -tongued, the treless
and indefatignble worker In the OF his
party: the man who more than any other in all
the nation won the presidency for he who hated
and haunted him, because It was his speaking
tour of California that won that state for VII.
son and renewed his oommission--G Gore, TO
whom common gratitude impeiled the president
20 be ever considerate; for whom he ought in
average decenoy to have cherished an ever
lasting love--Gorc too was destroyed.
Democratic chiettalns ALI Not one of them
but was famous because OF his service TO his
party years before the political parvenu OF
Princeton was introduced to politics, Not one
of them but served years in the cause OF party
where his prosecutor and destroyer has served
hours But the now Caesar said thumbs down
and the silly. sychophantic mob; the ignorant
preJudicted rabble shrieking for sacrifice,
obeyed orders,
II may be that tho victims are properly
punished. But even so they have their revenge.
For in their destruction the great man des-
troyed himself, Hardwick, Vardman. Smith,
Reed, Gore--not one Of them are one half so
dead politically, but that they have a chance
10 come back while Woodrow Wilson, the
savage and hate-drivon scourge OF democracy,
is politically dead beyond all possibilities OF res
direction.
Gore, polling his seventy thousand votes In
oklahoma IN the face OF an offensive that would
have withered n less able man, stands before
the country a greater democrat than Wilson
in the convention at Frisco, with but single
vote during "A weird ballots. Reed, drawing
immense audiences on his speaking tour in his
own state is greater both as a democrat and a
citizen, than the white house recluse who is too
sick 10 execute his office and who has never
been well enough TO concede to any individual
his right to opinion II that opinion differed
from his own.
Smith, Nardiman, Hsrdwick-even Bailey,
are greater and more potent in their states and
with their own people than will Wilson ever
again be in any state or with any people
And when that impartial history s written that
shall correctly onlighten posterity, Hardwick
Vardimau, Smith, Reed and Gore, who com
n'itted the objectionable sin Of deciding foi
their country even against their party's leader
and paid the supreme penalty foe their rash 1
courageous act, are names that will shine with
greater and more enduring luster than he VIII,
attempted TO barter nations independence,
for personal glory and ambition; who. whatevo
else he may have done never capable o
doing justice to men who differed with him.
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