The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-07-18
KNOWS NOW WHERE TO FIND HIM

Arkansas legislature that the story has been
told, that, losing the thread of his argument
Just before reaching the final peroration in a
cut-and- dried speech, he appealed to the pre-
siding officer with, "Mr. Speaker, where am
| at?"
Mr.. Harding, in other and more Chester
fieldan language, propounded an interroga-
tory relative to the whereabouts of Mr.. Cox
and Mr. Roosevelt and if we are any political
diagnostic his ailment has been remedied,
he has been told and told in terms so posi-
tive that the entire republican party may
know, from now on Just where the heads OF
the Democratic ticket stand, just what the
Democratic platform stands for.
While Franklin Roosevelt may not handle
the vitrohc brand of the English language
with which his kinsman, the late Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, was wont to express his
opinions relative to those who questioned the
principles for which he stood, yet the brand
seems 100 proof, bottled in bond. He uses
no linguistic subterfuges, answers in no half
way manner tells no half-truths, lodges no
issues.
On the contrary, he comes out boldly, stand
ing by his chief, the head of the ticket, and
states the Democratic campaign will be a
straight, clean-cut fight upon the issues set
forth in the declaration of principles as
adopted at San Francisco a fight which will
bring the enemy into the open and carry to
the voters of America the league of nations,
for approval or rejection.
When Senator Harding made the charge
that President Wilson had forced the Demo-
cratic presidential and e-presdential nom
inees to accept his views on the league of
nations, he possibly reckoned without Oliver,
he possibly believed that technique" fol-
lowed by the anti Administration senators
during the sitting of the last congress would
prove an impervious armor, while none would
question his assertion, while none would
pause to reply that the fundamentals of Dem
ocracy and not Woodrow Wilson. would be
brought before the American voters this fall.
In addition to this Senator Harding, and
the entire Republican party, is given to un-
derstand, by Roosevelt in his reply, that
should the Democrats elect their men, there
will be no question that the covenant of the
league of nations will be endorsed. He is
given to understand that while the delegates
at the Chicago convention adopted spine
less platform, the Democrats came out boldly
for that which they believed right and that
they are not, through their nominated lead
ers, now trying to back-fire or hide behind
the skirts OF anyone.
Mr.. Roosevelt says:
THE great attempt of Senator Hard
ing, yesterday, to befog the true league
of nations issue by dragging in the name
of President Wilson, is merely further
evidence Of the historical fact that a GER
attn type of senatorial mind cares more
about squaring an ancient grudge against
an individual than it does to consider the
true welfare of the nation. 1t is, of
course, well known that seven-eighths of
the opposition of these senators is not to
the league of nations, but to the person .
of the president of the United States
History will take care of the great
part Woodrow Wilson has played, but
the Democratic party enters the cam
paign with the clear-cut issue purpose
of proving that the world war has not
been fought in vain. Senator Harding
says: Should the Democrats win the
treaty and the league will be ratified
He is right no one, probably not even
Senator Harding himself, knows what
would happen should the Republicans
win. One branch of his supporters, such
as Hiram Johnson, assures that nation
that a Republican, "'"tory means no league