The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-05-15
HE SERE AND YELLOW LEAF


eek celebrated his list birthday and, accord
to press dispatches, is "hale and hearty,
th mind which functions as brilliantly and
nch grasps intricate matters of statecratt as
utely now as at amy time during his past
any years service in the highest legislative
dy of this. nation.
Senator Lodge is the floor leader of the
epublicans in the United States senate. He
recognized by the Democrats, as well as by
embers of his own party, as being an able
kislator, thoroughly versed in all parliamen-
fy rules and usages and far removed from
senility which many seem to think comes
the man whose hair is frosted by the winters
Time.
Senator Lodge is one of the many men whose
tivities in public life, after the half century
le-stone has been passed, demonstrates that
best becomes manifest as passing years
ing maturity of thought and rendition of
Unions based upon thorough analysis of
poted points.
1t has been written, or rather it has been
gued that this is the young mans age, that
S is the age which demands young blood in
siness, and classes the man who is on the
hdy side of fifty as belonging to the sere and
low leaf, the leaf which, bitten by the frosts
passing years, is ready to fall from the tree
useful endeavor and be swept away by the
hds of forgetfulness.
While the history of everyday events tend
show the correctness of the statement that
young men of today are forging to the front
ch faster than ever before in the knowledge
man, at the same time the chroniclings OF
failures, as recorded in the financial worlC
bw that those failures have been fewer where
n of tried judgment and matured expert
fes have been at the helm.
The same story may be written in both tht
itical and financial histories of this anC
ler nations The man who has been taugh
the school of experience, who has rubbed
ows with all classes whose wits have beei
rpened by contact with the emery wheel O
n intellects is the man who thinks twic,
ore he speaks, who reasons analytically be
he acts, who may be classed, by tn
nger men, as slow, but whose ultimate iudg
Pit keeps his party, in political life. his bust
s, in commercial life, off the rocks of de
hction and ruin
Take the political history of the last shor
iou III tils VouHtTN, IOHOW lne campaign
the two great parties the campaigns whic
up to the last general election, and not
manner those campaigns were conducte
they radiated from the respective storr
ters at the Chicago and San Francisco cor
tions, and gathered in narrowing circles to tn
ninating battle of the ballots on the fatefl
in last November. Do This and you will at
no matter what your political belief may b,
the crushing defeat Of the national .DemC
Tic party. the defeat which reached frol
It to coast was brought because the force
scpublicanism, generated by men like Lodg
whose minds were mature, whose opinion
C not erratic, whose deductions were car
! made after all the different conditions ha
weighed In the balance of Experience
balance which enabled them to feel Il
% Of public opinion and prescribe that whit
needed.
Oklahoma. cassod from the earliest da,
statehood as a state wherein the Dem
ic party machine" was unbreakable, we
r. body and soul to the Republicans becau
nature judgment prevailed at the counci
he marty. The men who were ripe in Il
crience which comes only with scewnulotii