The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-14
THE WORK Is CUT OUT

Inc republican nauOnai convention
for the year 1920. has done its work
and passed into history. 1t has nomt
mated its candidate for the presi
dency, It's man for the second place
and played, we are bound to admit
good politics in making both selec'
tons.
The members of the convention
when things came to a show down
during the closing hours of the most
tempestuous convention in the poll
tical history OF republicanism-barri
only the convention holted by Roose.
velt-demonstrated by their votes that
the American people. republican or
democrat will no longer stand for
Doodle and votebuying-that the dol.
Ax is not mightier than the con
science.
Leaderless the convention at Chi.
made history until the danger point
had been reached; leaderless IL STAN
peded back and forth across the floor
of the Coliseum until at the last
moment the firm hand OF sensible
restraint srasred the reins, and the
nomination of a man with a clean
political history and a clean private
life ensued.
The brains of the republican party
gathered in that little hotel room i'll
the City by the Lake, Friday night.
the republican party selected the
man whom the convention later named
az the republican presidential candi.
date.
Without thought of dividing party
lines, with only the knowledge that
the personnel Of the republican party
rs we'll as that of the democrat
party, was composed of Americans,
the real leaders. the men who had
sat by until the leaderless mob had
worn itself down, stepped in and
quietly and firmly assumed control,
took charge of the drifting delegates,
gathered together the loose ends OF
The partys' woof and interrningled
with it the warp of common sense
ana decency and strength and Ameri
canism, by naming man whose po.
litical escutcheon is as clean as may be
found, who is, as far as surface in.
dications show, free from the contain.
mating influences of the powers
which ever seek TO control the poll.
lies Of the nations.
Understand, We carry no brief FOR
.dr, Harding and We carry no brief
icr the republican party. Between
the date OF the selection Of the demo.
cratic presidential candidate, at san
Francisco, the latter part Of the pres.
ent month. and the ides OF Novem-
her We propose TO do all that lies
in cur power to see that a democrat
again graces the White House. We
propose 10 do this because we be.
lieve IN the principles of democracy
as propounded by Thomas jefferson
and exemplified by Woodrow Wilson
we propose 10 do this because We be.
heve that the democrat party is the
I'arty which more nearly gives to the
people the government which they
demand; we propose TO do this be
cause we believe that, while Mr
Harding is all that can be said of him
honest, upright, just-the republl
can party has so embarrassed him
with useless and rotten platform
that he would be handicapped to such
an extent that his ultimate usefulness
would be nil.
But in taking up the fight against
Mr. Harding we believe that v,
should acknowledge the truth anC
permit our eyes to open to the full
gravity of the man whom we will. a.
democrats, be called upon to combat
Had the republicans have norninat
ed LCwden. we could have defeated