The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-13

of the entertainment committee on the men,
orable night Jim Reid Of Missouri, was ten
dered the egg shower" when, against the ad-
vice of friends and in the face of his own bet
ter judgment he Uove) climbed upon the
stage at Convention Hall and aided through
personal contact, in converting a number of
erstwhile perfectly sound eggs into an ONE
lete
Readers of the daily newspapers will re-
member that on October > 1919, looking upon
jim Reid as a political apostate, modern
Benedict Arnold who was wilfully betraying
his party a twentieth century Judas IScariot
who was ready anxious, willing to betray his
political master with leprous kiss, Democrats
of Ardmore and Carter county foregathered
at the courthouse meeting in the same court
room in which Clara Smith stands trial for
her life and liberty, and decided jim Reid
should not come to Ardmore, as a Democrat,
to assail and viify Democratic administra-
ton
1t will be remembered, also, that Reid was
advised by Wire not to come here nor attempt
to speak here, and it will also be remembered
that he came nevertheless, and that he made
an abortive effort to address an audience,
speaking against the league Of nations cove
nant
1t will be further remembered that some
one joined someone else in showering the Mis-
souri, senator with eggs, nice and fresh and
high in price.
: 1t will also be remembered by the citizens
of this city that Mr. Love climbed upon the
stage, took up position beside Senator Reid
thereby placing himself upon the same foot
1 inn will tba ila old
caught in bad company, received his reward
Perhaps we are wrong, but the most chari-
table construction we can place upon Mr.
Loves vindictive, ungentlemanly and dishon-
est attack upon this paper, upon this city,
upon the people of this city is that it was
born of an antagonism against Ardmore and
all things appertaning to Ardmore, which in
turn, had its birth simultaneously with the
bursting of the first (egg) shell.
Evidencing a statement which we now
make, that we are not resenting Mr.. Loves
attack upon The Ardmoreite, upon Ardmore and
the people of Ardmore without Just cause we
wish to say that we have read those of that
gentleman's syndicated articles which have
thus far appeared in print and find them Sc
narrow, so stealthily dishonest, so evidently in
intended to iniure Ardmore and the people OF
Ardmore that we feel we would be dishonest
with ourself and to our constituency were we
to remain longer silent
And, after reading Mr.. Loves articles, read
ing them dspassionately and with mind un-
biased, we feel constrained to say that we are
bitterly disappointed in him, disappointed in
him as a man, disappointed in him as writer.
of news stories unglossed by misrepresenta-
ton, undistorted by personal bias.
We had thought Bert Love a man of broad
mind and deep intellect, erratic, perhaps, but
honest enough and fair enough to deal Justly
and honestly and fairly With the city in which
he once lived, with the people to whom he was
once neighbor and with many of whom he
was an intimate social associate
We had thought him man possessed of
broad views and liberal IDEAS one who could
give and take, one who was honest enough with
himself to acknowledge his own shortcomings
when he found himself in error.
We had thought him an intelligent, educated
hgh-minded, cultured gentleman, one who had
gained wisdom through rubbing elbows with
the world, one who had profited through at
tending that school from which all real news
paper men, all fair editorial writers graduate
the great school presided over by that greatest
of all instructors, Experience.
We knew that he was erratic, mercurial and
antagonstc to his own best interests, but we
respected him. believing him to be a man who
was not so narrow but that he could detect
the beam in his own eye, before attempting tC
cast the mote from the eye of brother.
1t takes broad-mnded man, fair-mindeC
man, liberal-minded man, man who has the
courage of his convictions to acknowledge his
own error
And, after having read Bert Loves uncalleC
for. undeserved, unmerited, unjust, untruthfu
and unethical attack upon The Ardmorete ant
the city of Ardmore, and upon the citizens whC
live in Ardmore, we frankly acknowledge thai
we were mistaken in him.
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