The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-18
ANOTHER ISSUE DODGED


Of Many Promises the man who
is ever ousy telling the voters of
Oklahoma about things he Is going
% do for them. and prating of meas
ures for which he expects TO vote,
lodged the issue.
Again has Senator Gore failed the
people Of Oklahoma at the crucial
moment; again has he refused TO
support the administration; again has
he shown lack of moral courage TO
stand by mis- convictions, if convic-
tions he has.
Saturday, May l6. will go down in
American history as the date upon
which the United States senate went
upon record as usurping the great
prerogative of the chief executive,
by adopting the Knox Resolution
the resolution which declared sep.
arate peace with Germany.
Quoting the words of the Associat-
ed Press dispatch, with a few
thrills and no hitch in the pre.ar-
ranged program. the senate adopted
Saturday, forty-three to thirty-eight,
the republican resolutions declaring
the state of war with Germany and
Austria Hungary at an end"
With the exception Of one senator
Newberry. the republicans stood by
their guns and voted for the repub-
lican measure Three democrats were
counted as casting their votes with
the republicans. Reed. the man re.
puiiated hy the Missouri democracy,
and Shields and Walsh. Paired against
the measure We're five democrats
and noted absent and not voting
will be found the name of Senator
T. p. Gore, of Oklahoma.
One republican senator who was
opposed to The Knox resolution, pair
ed win some democrat who favored
it. thereby nullifying the vote which
he would have cast. Five democrats
opposed To the measure paired with
others who favored it, but Thomas
Pryor Gore, the man who was
popuist in Texas and who has been
honorcd as a democrat in Oklahoma,
not only failed to cast his vote, pro
on con. but through failure 10 pair"
refused TO ,nullify the vote Of some
republican senator.
Scott Ferris, when the Esch-Cum-
minis railway measure was before the
was absent, but the records
OF the United States senate do not
record him as absent and not vot-
ing.r These records, however, do
show that he was paired upon the
matter. that he was opposed to the
bill and that, being unable TO be
present and cast negative vote, he
did the same thing, practically by
multiplying the vote of fellow who
was in favor of the legislation.
Senator Gore, through his press
agents and the subsidized republican
press Of Oklahoma, made big howl
about this, seeking TO show that
Scott Ferris lodged an issue where.
in the interests of the railway work
ers were concerned. We would like
10 know how these press agents and
how the republican papers are going
10 get around the dodge" Of Sena-
tor Gore, the adopted child of the
republicans and socialists of Okla
bona. the dodge OF the issue wherein
the democrats Of the senate were
called upon 10 say whether or not
they stood by the administration,
whether they were TO be found in
the ranks Of their party, or, as de-
serters, in the columns Of the repub.
licans
Senator Gore and the republican
press will probably make some effort
TO explain this, but We venture the
assertion that this explanation will
be another dodge, that it will, upon
investigation, prove but rancid CO.
coanut from which the milk has been
drained.
The people of Oklahoma expect
representation in the United States
senate The people Of Oklahoma
want a man in the United States
senate who has the courage Of his
convictions. The democrats Of Ok.
lahoma have the right 10 demand
democracy Of the man whom they