The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-03

SnOulu De QSIlOleu ana OSlIdClSeu
If it is crime for an executive to refuse
to stultify his honor and belittle his dignity
through appearing before drumhead court; ,
if it is a crime for the governor of Oklahoma
to tell his maligners to "go to hell then
Governor Robertson is grave offender
against the people of the commonwealth and
should be transported to some lonely isle in |
mid-ocean.
A careful reading Of the items set forth in
the bill of particulars" as filed by the inves
legations committee, however, fails to disclose
that Governor Robertson during the entire
time he has been in office, has done anything
which will reflect upon his integrity as a pub
lie official and upon his honor as a private
citizen.
A careful reading of the items set forth in
the report of the Investigations committee
fails to disclose anything of which Governor
Robertson might be found guilty and for
which he could be impeached. careful
sitting of the chaff fails to disclose any wheat,
for there is no grain mixed with the chaff
left after the wind from the winnowing ma
chine settles.
careful reading of the items which make
up the whole of the alleged information fail
to disclose anything further than a series of
unsubstantiate inuendos launched at the IN
tegrity Of Governor Robertson, as an officer
of the people and against his honesty, as a
man.
Shorn of its mass of camouflaging verbi-
age and the charges simmer down to relter-
alton of "kitty did with the finale hidden
behind a smoke screen which carries, by i'm
plication, an attack upon the state senate, an
attack upon the Democratic senators and a
series of allegations calculated and, doubtless,
intended to convey the impression that it will
be impossible for the ends of justice to be at
tanned should the case against Governor Rob
ertson 90 before the senate, sitting as a high
judicial body.
Shorn of its mass of nouns, pronouns,
adiectives and coniunctons, bereft OF It's
forms of speech and legal metaphor, stripped
of its unsupported allegations, the cry of
wolf, wolf cut out by the editor, the giSt OF
the charges filed against the Governor by the
investigations committee SINNERS down to a
statement that the senate would, should the
case come before that body, sitting as court
of trial eXOnerate the accused.
With its welI-rounded sentences reduced
to plain statements of facts, the charges
against Governor Robertson contain nothing
save an attack unsupported by proof, an at
tack made for the sole and only purpose of
making mountain out of a moehll, of
stirring up mares nest, Of casting a blot and
stain upon his good name, blot and stain
which will serve to eliminate him from the
states political future history.
AS final and prma facie proof that the
report of the investigations" committee
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, "Cat" which maintains its abode in the men
tai haymow presided over by Cam Russell
found nothing of worth upon which to base
its demands for impeachment, nine Repub'
licans, Republicans whose sense of justice and
honor was broader than political bias, voted
at Fridays session of the house, against the
adoption of the Investigations committees re-
port
But in the face of all this bombast, al
these unsupported charges, all the threats
made by the majority members of the Re
publican house of representatives to uneartf
dishonesty and show the "rascals" up to the
people, these selfsame members of this self
same Republican majority will return to then
homes and, at the next general election &C
before the boys from the forks of the creek
the men who live close to the grassroots, anc
shout to them and cry to them in voices trem
bling with emotion, reiterations of the tale!
told at the last elections, tales replete will
charges of rascaity and corruption in office
Of the Democrats of Oklahoma.
VIII the men and women voters o
Oklahoma believe them a second time
, VIII the men and women voters of Okla
, homa believe that the case of the investiga
tions committee against Governor Robertson
was 'whitewashed" in the senate, by the Dem
+ ocratc members Of that senate, even after tn,
: Republican house had failed to adopt tn,
Impeachment report?