The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-13
INSANE VAPORING AND
MANIACAL VITUPERATION

criticism which could be passed upon the insane
vaporings and manacal vituperatons which are
poured forth in a series Of syndcated articles
copyrighted by the Kansas City Post, and pur-
porting to have been written by one Bert Love
at one time the editor Of The Daily Ardmoreite
(vaporings and vituperations which attack the
fair fame of Ardmore, the city Of which Mr.
Love was a citizen while holding his position
Of honor and trust upon this publicatioN) anC
which, by implication, assail the good name OF
each and every citizen, man and woman alike
of this community.
Actuated by that impulse which causes ever
the most savage and uncvlized to treat with
plying tolerance the words and acts Of those
upon whom the Great Spirit has placed the
blighting touch of-mental unsoundness, we
would, perhaps, have let Mr.. Loves copyrighted
ISLANDERS against both The Ardmoreite and the
city of Ardmore pass unnoticed and unchal
lenged but his slurs, his yindctive assaults
upon the citizenry of this town are so broad
and so sweeping and so defiling that we fee
we would not be doing our duty as loya
citizen of this city, as the friend of honest
manhood and pure womanhood should we re.
main longer silent.
II has been written, "whU -steals-ny purse
steals trash, twas something, nothing, twas
mine, It's his, and hath been slave to thous-
ands, but he who filches from me my good name
robs me of that which not enriches him, but
makes me poor indeed and Bert Love, once
honored and respected by Ardmore citizens
once trusted and honored by The Daily Ard
moreite, now that the dust of Ardmore nc
longer clngs to his shoe-soles and his name is
no longer carried upon the payroll Of The Ard
moreite, would break the guarding locks and
rob, would steal and carry away the good name
not only of the paper Of which he was once
the editorial head, but also the good name OF
every citizen of this municipality.
Forgetting, seemingly, the source of his
bread and butter during the time he was a
trusted employe of this publication, even as
he, perhaps, forgot loyalty to the paper before
his connection with it was severed, in the copy
righted articles, Mr.. Love in purported re-
view Of the inside history of the Smith-Ha-
mon case, devotes columns of space to an at
tack upon the paper which he served, and
which paid him for his services, and goes well
outside the record to hurl mud against the pub
lication, its owners, its managers and its edi-
toria writer.
In fact, beyond very neat and highly de-
served compliment which he pays to The Ard
moreite's city editor, who is indeed, as he
says "a most estimable lady," Mr.. Love, in his
syndicated article apparently forgot that about
which he started out to write, and, permitting
blind vindictivenesS to gain the upper hand
of both honesty of purpose and mental balance
he burned the midnight oil and besmirched
with filth-tarred stick the integrity of The
Ardmoreite and criticised its policies.
In addition to his unwarranted attack upor
the paper-The Ardmorete--whose editor he
had the honor at one time, to be- Mr.. Love
makes broad, far-reachng all-embracing gen
eral assault upon Ardmore as a city, this as
sault automatically embracing every citizen Of
Ardmore, man, woman and child, preacher
priest and layman, church member and non
professor of religion, Jew and Gentle, white
red and black.
The attack is unjust, unwarranted, dishon
orable in the extreme 1t is the attack of The
character assassin, of the man who prostitutes
one of the most honorable professions in order
that he may vent his spleen and hurl venom
more deadly than any ever carried in tn,
poison sacks beneath the fangs of the dreaded
cobra de capeo. II is an attack upon the in
tegrity of the upright, straightforward, fair
dealing business men of Ardmore, upon The
business institutions of Ardmore, and, by in
uendo, upon the fair name and stainless char
acters of the thousayds of honorable, clean
pure, virtuous girls and women. the wives
mothers and daughters of Ardmore.
! 1t is an attack which could only be con
ceived by brain diseased, enwombed in
heart incapable of engendering a worthy i'm
pulse or noble deed
/ 1t is an attack without foundation, an at
tack which comes, charity bids US think, from
fancied wrongs Mr. Love received at the hands