The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-12
Editorial
of the Day
LEST PINCHOT FORGET

From Muskogee Times.DemocraD
Il want to see Harding elected
not only because l have come 10
think well of him. but because he
belongs TO the party of Lincoln and
Roosevelt" said Clifford Pinchot in
explaining his support for the Re-
publican nominee.
During the presidential campaign
Of 1912 when Roosevelt and John
son were the progressive party NOM
inoes for president and vice-presi-
dent, respectively, Senator Harding
said editorially in his Marion (Ohio)
Star:
In seeking a prototype of Col
onel Roosevelt among public men
Of the country, one finds the
closest resemblance to Aaron
Burr The same ambitions the
same overbearing disposition, the
same ungovernabc temper, the
same ruthlessness in Disregard
ing the ties of friendship graf
itude and reverence, the same
tendency to bully and browbeat
and finally, the same egotism
and greed for power and the same
mental tendency generally
An editorial entitled Great Artists
in Fooling the People" Harding's s
Star, under the date of September l6,
1912, said:
"Tlis (Roosevelt's) is not a
constructive or consecutive mind.
Whatever he thinks will listen
good TO the electors he happens
TO be before is good enough for
the occasion. If called to account
later he unblushingly denies that
he ever made the statement,
which seems to have been un-
wise. Still Mr. Roosevelt has been
wonderfully successful in fooling
most of the people all of the
time, and sees no reason for be-
lieving he cannot keep on doing
So"
On the following day the star
said:
THE people cannot be ex-
pected to govern themselves sue
cessiully as long as they contin
ue to let themselves be fooled by
the Roosevelt Johnson, Perk-
ins, Hannas and others, repre-
senting lawless ambition, secret
interests and demagoguery.'
And on October 81, of the same
year the Star, editorially said:
THE entire Roosevelt campaign
is based on sclfishness, false pre-
lenses, envy and spite 1t is con-
centration of all the forces of
failure and discomfort. of indicted
money.kings and discredited poll
tical bosses. They rallied about
the personality Of the most self
rceking politician this country has
ever known the most arbitrary
boss the party has ever suffered
under: the most dangerous agi-
tator who has ever threatened
the perpetuity of the govern
ment."
Another vicious attack Harding
made on Roosevelt through the colu
INNS of the Star appeared September
25, of the same year. We quote:
I'VE are opposed to T. Il. be-
cause we believe him to be un-
suited in character and tempera-
ment TO be chief executive: be-
cause he is an unsafe and dan.
gerous leader, because he is law
less, insincere selfish and un-
scrupulous; because his first ad-
ministration was unsuccessful in
maintaining the prosperity he in
herited; because he is a bully by
nature and a lover of war. and
is, therefore, not to be trusted
with contro. Of the army and navy
and our relations with our neigh
bors."
We wonder II Harding belonged {,
the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt
when his mind actuated him to sa!
in the Star on May IS, 1912:
THE Theodore Roosevelt who
wept sincerely when he took the
scepter from the hand OF the
martyred Mckinley was not the
Theodore Roosevelt who dra-
gooned the cabinet, threatened
the courts. and through the in
formation gained by paid spies
blackmailed congress into follow
ing his plans. Every day brings
forth a new Roosevelt. confident.
boastful, truculent, holding in
scorn what he preached yester-
day. Prepared TO denounce 10.
morrow what he advocated today
and 10 brand as liars those who
reverted to his former views or
utterances, even though the re-
cord were indeliblv uermonant" "