The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-20
GUBERNATORIAL POSSIBILITIES

= Now that the Oklahoma Republican house
of representatives has written defeat after the
name Of any man whom the Grand Old
Party" may name for state office in the
next general election, provided the Democrats
of Oklahoma show themselves possessed Of
good political sense, the party of Jefferson,
in this great southwest state, finds it neces-
sary to find candidate who will be strong
enough and sufficiently well known to head
the ticket and wrest the state from the hands
of the mysterious stranger into which it fell
when the thunders rolled, the rains descended
and the rock-nbbed hills of Democratic Okla
homa were riven in the earthquake which
illuminated in the Republican landslide in
November, 1920.
s.e While it is generally conceded by those OF
the Republicans who understand conditions
at the legislature, that the ill-advised manner
in which the political accidents who are in
the majority in the house have assaed and
lambasted everything Democratic and every
thing connected with the Robertson admins
tration (while, from the speaker of the house
down to the chaps who rustic the spittoons
and furnish the motive power for the vacuum
sweepers, they have marched and counter
marched, strutted and staggered about with
chips upon their shoulders), has done much
toward the elimination of chances for Repub-
hcan success in this state in the next state
election at the same time the Democrats are
not in position to grab the bull by the horns
and attempt to put someone across who may
have by any chance, been tarred by the'sticks
which the investigating committees have so
assiduousy kept in pickle throughout the
session.
AS The Ardmoreite has claimed in the
past, if the Democrats are to regain full and
complete control of Oklahoma, it behooves
the leaders of the party to work in accord
with the rank and file. 1t behooves the Off
GERS to march with the prvates and fight
with the privates, and in order that those
who are of the rank and file, the boys from
the grass-roots, so to speak, the chaps who
compose the crews of the gravel trains, may
have no complaint to register on election day,
it means that an entirely new personnel COM
pose the list which shall make up the ticket
at the election in November, 1922.
The Ardmoreite has nothing to say against
the good men who have served the people
of Oklahoma faithfully and we'll during the
past several years. The Ardmoreite does not
believe that the charges, brought for purely
political purposes against such men as Trapp
and Leecraft will be sustained, it does not
believe. Trapp and Leecraft are the pair of
unmitigated scoundrels which the Republican
house seeks to make them, but, while it be-
lieves in the integrity and honesty of these
men, and of the others, some Of whom have
devoted greater part of the best years OF
their lives to the party to which they belong
at the same time it believes that the welfare
Of the Democratic party of Oklahoma the
success of the Democratic party of Oklahoma
demands "new deal" from start to finish
None who have held office in the past ol
during the present administration should be
named for office While Governor Robert
son has exerted his every effort and put forth
unlimited endeavor to make the people of thi:
state an efficient executive, to give them ar
honest and progressive administration, the
fight upon him, staged by the envious and
partisan members of the house majority, has
had the effect of weakening every man who
Is the holder of state office. Hence it /,