The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-17
LET US BE FAIR"

Here is an excerpt from copyrighted
article published the past week IN the Baltl
more Sun, which portrays in very plain ant
truthful sentences the manifest desire OF th'
Republicans to mslead the people on th'
manner Of work and the achievements o
Woodrow Wilson. The Baltimore Sun is do
ing a priceless service to the people in glvln'
expression to such campaign truths and Il
exposing the deception being practiced in tn
campaign against the covenant Of the leagu
of nations.
This article in the Sun says
On October 8 Harding said at st. Jo-
seph:
Il want to be far | did not oppose
President Wilson's trip to Europe. | only
objected because he didn't take anyone
with him.
And few days ago Henry Cabot
Lodge, speaking to his neighborS at Ma
hant, said:
THE only advisors the president had
with him in Paris were George Creel and
George Heron. Why did the president
not take with him trained men from the
state and other departments" asks the
senior senator from Massachusetts.
Now, as matter of fact, the presi-
dent took with him almost everybody
from the departments except the janitors
and he carried with him two dlstin-
guished Republicans in the persons of
Henry White and Major General Tas-
ker H. Bliss, who was selected by
Mr.. Root when he presided over the
State department to draw up our first
treaty. arrangement with the new re-
public of Cuba. On his first depar-
ture for Paris President Wilson was
accompanied by his Secretary of State
Mr.. Lansing, who had drawn up
project of a league of nations, upon
which he had spent much time. On his
second visit the president was accom-
panied by Attorney General Gregory.
The president took with him from
the State Department to Paris, j. C.
Grew, now United States minister to
Denmark; Hugh Gibson, now United
States minister to Poland Leland Har-
rison, now charge of the American en-
bassy at Paris; Arthur Hugh Frazier,
for three years member of the Supreme
war council and now United States Com
missioner in Vienna. Each of these gen.
tlemen had been in the government serv-
ice over 10 years and each one was a
Republican.
From among the other men of the
departments who worked with and
under the president in Paris may also
be mentioned Oscar Crosby and Norman
Davis (now Under-Secretary of State),
who were at the time Assistant Secreta-
res of the Treasury. There was also
with them from the Treasury Depart
ment Mr.. Rathbone, also an assistant
secretary. From the State Department
with 20 others, there came Mr.. Wolse-
ley, the solicitor of the department and
its ranking legal officer, and, as we re-
call it, when Mr.. Lansing returned home
his place was taken by Frank L. Polk,
who, as the First Assistant to the Sec
retary of State, was Mr.. Lansings nat
ural successor and substitute. Indeed, it
would seem that instead of having been
ignored in an effort to furnish trained
and trusted assistants to the president
in Paris, the Departments of State and
Of the Treasury and the Attorney Cen
erals office were depleted rather than
/ ignored. If Messrs. George Creel and
George Heron were in Paris, they GER
/ tainly were not there alone.