The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-31
lLLEGITIMATE REPUBLICAN
PROPAGANDA

Sent out without mark or signature print
ed in folder form. and devoid of the union
label" mailed in plain envelope, devoid of
identifying card in the corner, one of the
most insidious pieces of Republican prope
ganda, attacking in particular Article Ten, is
finding its way into the hands of the voters,
as an immediate forerunner of the election
on Tuesday next.
Assuming that, should Cox be elected
president of the United States the adoption
of the covenant of the League of Nations
without reservation, will Immediately follow,
the author of this bit of propaganda, to
which he seems ashamed to affiN his sig
nature, proceeds to tear to pieces Article Ten,
phrase by phrase, and then rebuild it to suit
the Republicanized eXigencies of the occa-
sion.
With a disregard for truth which is really
appalling, the writer of the folder sets forth
that Article Y proposes to fasten upon the
United States a responsibility which would
hurl this nation into the vortex of war at
any time England should crook the finger
and beckoning, call upon us to come to her
aid in any war of conquest in which the Brit
sh government might seek to plunge. With
well-worded insdious inuendos the author of
that Article Ten specifically provides that
this country would be in honor bound, by
duty called to guarantee that England shall
keep forever the spoils taken in this war, a
war in which the United States fighting for
principle, took not one foot of land from any
nation"
Following along this line of misleading
thought the folders author asks Shall this
u oil
other nations and refused to despoil the van
quiShed, now guarantee the spolls, the seized
territories taken from the enemies by nations
that won with our aid?'
Replying to this we'll worded and mis-.
leading query, the answer may be given,
Most certainly not?
No brain save that of a trickSter could
have conceived such construction of Article
Ten. No brain save that of trickSter could
have SO twisted the meaning of Article Ten,
could have SO manipulated the construction
of its sentences as to have brought forth SO
abominable abortion Of the child conceived in
all honesty in the brain of the president Of
one country and egitimatized through the
action of forty-one other nations.
And nothing save the fact that the Re-
publican party finds itself now in the most
urgent need of supporting votes, nothing save
the fact that the leaders of the Republican
party, the members of the senatorial oligar-
chy feel the situation slipping from their
grasp, and realize that they have digged a
pit into which they themselves are about to
be plunged pit in which their own party
is about to be en,ombed-coud cause the un-
sponsored publication and circulation of so
foul distortion of truth and fact.
Appealing, by reading between the lines.
TO that element of voters of both parties and
sexes, who are embittered against President
Wilson and all things which may emanate
from him. the propaganda seeks to convey
the impression that one of the pledges made
by the San Francisco convention. and agreed
to by Mr. Cox in accepting the nomination,
was the specifically set forth agreement to
enter Alto the League Of Nations covenant
with Article Ten paramount and gold-em-
blazoned. leading, like the name of Abou
Ben Adhem, all the rest.
Without touching upon the fact that the
Chicago platform as presented to and &C.