The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-17
Editorial
of the Day
HARDING AND HARMONY

(From the Springfield (Mass.) Re-
publican).
Reports from Marion are that Mr.
Harding views his efforts to harmon
ize all conflicting elements in the
Republican party with keen satisfac-
tion. September has come and there
is no organized detection in any quar-
ter. His stand on no issue has alien
ated a single conspicuous Republican
leader or newspaper. The entire
Hearst press. moreover. has raul
cousy come to his support. The
new German-American citizens league
of the United States. George Sylves-
ter Viereck secretary, has declared
that its duty to support the Repub-
lican candidate is clear and command
ing.
1t Is a situation which even n
born harmonizer might view with
more exu.tation than is credited to
Mr. Harding. Many people and in,
terests with exactly opposite prin-'
ciples and aims are with the Repub-
lican candidate. LaFollette is for
Harding, although there is little more
ing and Debs Psnrose Is for Hard
ing, although Penrose and LaFollettc
regard each other as the most sinis-
ter forces in American public life.
Johnson and Taft are both lined up
with Harding, although each sees
exactly the opposite for the other as
the outcome Of Harding's election.
Johnson looks at the Harding wealth.
ercock and notes that the wind Is
west; Taft looks at it and notes that
the wind is east.
The jingoes are for Harding with
q whoop-but there are plenty OF
philosophical idealists to troop along
with them. Hearst wants war with
Britain and Japan. with Mexico for
desert. while DR.. Jacob Gould Schur-
man of Cornell university, British
Canadian born, wires Harding. Your
position will win the Country" The
American defense society, which would
rescue the country from bolshevism.
Is out for Harding, while Raymond
Robins, who came home from Russia
near soviet sympathizer congratu-
lates Harding on his last speech as
"a clarion call for American nation
alism."
The Republican reactionaries. stand
matters, old guard-whatever you call
them-take to Harding as an infant
takes to its mothers milk, yet the
Republican progressives, so far as
Harding can see. find him pleasant
company. All Republicans now look
alike to him. The impolitc fellow
who would disturb the harmony Of the
occasion by yelling extracts from
Hardings speeches or editorials IN
1912 comparing the late Colonel
Roosevelt with Aaron Burr and Bene-
dict Arnold is dismissed as some one
who Is an enemy Of constitutional
government" Clifford Pinchot goes
to the stand-pat Canossa and the front
porch press bureau quotes him as say
ing magnanimously and patriotically'
Let bygones be bygones,'
why shouldn't Mr.. Harding view
the situation with satisfactionY lie
has even Mr.. Hoover in a trap. His
composture as harmonizer Is not
disturbed even by the awful indiscre-
lions Of the "mopey-diggers" at Re-
publican headquarters, who for the
first time in our political history have
vontured to put forth in an official
bulletin Of the party the drive
slogan:
"Thc platform Is sound enough
10 hold the weight Of the nation.
But boys. get the money!
The confidence OF the Harding cam
paign Is superb The American peo-
ple are so tired Of ''Wilson Auto
cracy." the assumption is. that they
will sign and give to the Republican
candidate a blank check for the sake
of change. And. II that Is so, II
need cause no surprise II Mr.. Hard
ing really seems 20 be the slckesI
and smoothest harmoniZcr of his time
II Is the Republican theory that moth
INK can defect from It's purpose an
electorate bent on change and on
that Theory this national campaign Is
being run.