The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-10-10
SENATOR HAIR DIN c
!. FL|RTS WITH OIL
CRUDE AND REFINED
Styles Oklahoma City the
Metropolis Of Americas
Petroleum With Star
Seeking New Fields
THE BRITISH SCAR E
CHARGES ENGLISH INTERESTS
ARE ENDEAVORING TO GAIN
CONTROL OF OUR GREASY
WEALTH.

OhIdllOllli 1ihy, wv. o'Shboif
thrustng at the foreign policy Of
the Wilson administration, Senator
Harding tod the voters of Demo-
cratic Oklahoma tonight that while
the American government was be-
quilting them with idealistic notions
of a new social era, the other ma
tions had reached out to dominate
the commerce and industry of the
world through control Of the pc
troleum supply.
British interests in particular. de-
clared the Republican presidential
nominee, had put their hands on pc
troleum resources in many quarters
of the globe, foreseeing day when
oil would become the handspring of
transportation and material progress.
He said it was high time the United
States also gave attention TO ma
terial well being and stood behind
American promoters in their efforts
to give the nation self-reliant place
in industry.
have taken very seriously" the
"self-abnegating aims which the
| Washington government mas been
! proclaiming,' the senator also as
sailed again the Paris league of ma
tions and said he wanted no voter
TO be in doubt about his determina-
/ ton to stay out Of the covenant. In
/ spring as a plan of world peace
might be, he declared, the nations
slogan in all its policies must be
America first"
Senator Hardings night speech,
last of his mid-western trip, was de.
livered at the state fair grounds near
Oklahoma City. Earlier In the day he
had made several rear platform
speeches on his way across Kansas
and Oklahoma, and had detailed his
agricultural and league Of nations
policies to a gathering Of several
thousands in Wichita Forum.
Cheering crowds greeted the NOM
lnee at all of his stops and In Ok
'ahoma City his train was met by
a throag which packed the street
for more than n block away Through
the downtown section he was cheer
! ed by n crowd which extended far
out beyond the curb.
At Arkansas City. Kansas. the
crowd covered the plaza about the
railway station and at Ponca CITY.
Okla, the gathering was so large
that his voice did not carry to It's
outskirts. Other cities in which he
spoke from his train were South Win.
field, Kansas. and Perry, Guthrie and
Edmond, Okla.
At Ponca City, when farmer
handed up l. printed circular quot.
ing him as advocating dollar wheat.
the candidate characterized the
statement as miserable. silly old
lie and crumpling up the paper.
tossed IL back into the crowd. He
said the story started from his hav-
Ing remarked in the senate once that
no cou'd remember when IN normal
times dollar wheat was very desir-
able.
why II you wanted TO refer back
to Bryan's day." he continued while
crowd yelled again. you would have
shouted your heads Off to get a dol
lar bushel. But that does not ap-
ply now"
Turning eastward from Oklahoma
City late tonight, the candidates
train will reach ST. Louis tomorrow
evening and Marion at noon Mon
day.
Praising American genius and en-
terprse in its development of Am
erican petroleum resources. the sem
ator dcnomlnated Oklahoma City in
his fair grounds speech as worlds
metropolis of petroleum."
But the star OF pctroleum's EN-.
pire travels always from the ex
haustcd fields TO newly opened ter.
ritory," he continued. new fields
must be opened, and before many
years we will be compelled to draw
upon other countries, even other
continents. to provide for our own
needs.
we must turn again, now. after
an excursion OF some eight years
into the realm OF lofty and no douh,
most ennobling idcallsm, TO M
uonal consideration OF some very
plain practica'ities Of life. II has
been fine thing that so many should
have been inspired during the war
by the wish to effect arrangements
that would prevent repetition Of such
conflict But while our own ad
mln'stration has been seeking tc
produce such an ideal situation, WIN,
have been the real activities, the
dominating concerns. OF other ma.
,ions7
"fravo we found thcm anInntc,
by tho samo lofty purposes nnd
noble aspirations that hnvc been
proclaimed by our own 'sinee track
national leadership, I aucstior
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