The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-08-08
FEARLESS STAND or A
FEARLESS MAN

FEARLESS MAN
We are in a time which calls for
straight thinking, straight talking and
straight acting. This is no time for
webbing. Never IN all our history has
more been done for government. Never
was sacrifice more sublime. The most
precious things of heart and home
were given up in a spirit which guaran-
tees the perpetuity of our institutions
if the faith is kept with those who serv-
ed and suffered. The altar of our re-
public is drenched in blood and tears,
and ne who turns ava from the TRACE
dies and obligations of the war, not con-
secrated to a sense of honor and of duty
which resists every base suggestion Of
personal expediency, is unworthy of the
esteem Of his countrymen.
Thus spake Governor James Cox, in prefac.
ing his speech of acceptance of the Democratic
nomination for the presidency of the United
States. Volumes could have been written,
thousands Of words could have been spoken
and not as much said. Each sentence, each
paragraph, every syllable, every word teens
with truth, is fruited with fact and filled with
logic.
1--WE are at a time which calls for straight
thinking, straight talking and straight act
ing. This is no time for wobbling.' In this
straightforward, unequivocal statement Gov
ernor Cox states to the voters of the United
States, states in few words, without circumlo-
cution and without reservation, the plain facts
as they must be confronted and the issues met
in the November election.
American men and American women must
go to the polls and vote, realizing that most
important changed conditions are to be met
during the next four years, must go to the
polls and vote for the man who is the fearless
leader Of a party which f~earlessly confronts
and fearlessly meets the questions which are
Of the most paramount Importance to the West
ern World.
Quoting further from Governor Coxs adj
dress we are told that the men and women
who, by expressed policy at the San Francisco
convention, charted our course in the open sea
Of the future sensed the spirit of the hour and
phrased it with clarity and courage"
Every man, every woman, Democrat or
Republican, who has read the platform adopted
at the convention which nominated James Cox
for the presidency of this nation, must ack-
nowledge that no issue was lodged, no plati-
tudes incorporated in that political structure
Believing in the principles of Democracy, as
SET forth by Thomas jefferson and borne out
by Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic national
convention, realizing that this is not the time
for webbing" met every issue s~quarely,
lodged nothing, straddled nothing as did the
Republicans at the Chicago convention, and
named a man who will, as all who read his
acceptance speech will acknowledge, be found
from now until the close of the polls at the
general election, expounding the doctrines Of
Democracy as embodied in the San Francisco
platform, and who will. should success crown
Democracy's efforts at that election, be found,
Gearlessly, openly, honestly and sincerely exert
ing his every effort to give to this nation an
administration based upon justice to all, an
administration which will carry out in detail
every item advocated in his party's declara-
ton of principles.
We ask every one, Democrat, Republican,
Socialist, what not, who has read the Repub-
lican platform and who has read the Demo-
crat platform, who has read the acceptance
speech of Warren Harding and who has read
the acceptance speech Of James Cox, TO take
the two platforms, study them, anaylze them,
section by section, plank by plank, and see
which platform comes out boldly for the prin-
ciples of its party, lodging no issue, avoiding
no question, and then TO take the speeches Of
the two men and study each of them. study
each one carefully, dlspassionateiy. with un-
biased mind, with all narrowness of thought
eliminated. analyzing each paragraph, each sen