The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-10

up In stall without Ieeu OF Oats, Il Oaie VI
hay or an ear of corn, yet expected to carry
the load of the government, to thresh out the
affairs of daily routine. to draw tonnage OF
expense.
This being true it becomes, we see it,
the duty of Governor Robertson to call the
legislature together in extraordinary session,
setting forth in the official call and specifying
therein the particular and specific matters left
undone which law and equity and common
sense and common decency demand shall be
done.
1t becomes as we see it. the duty of Gov
ernOr Robertson Ga duty he owes to his con-
stituency) to call the legislature in special
session, a session wherein the members OF both
houses shall be forced to cease playing dis
honest and disreputable and infamously dis
graceful petty politics, long enough to dis
charge the duty they owe the state, long enough
to pay the debt they owe the misguided con-
sttuency whose votes vested them with powers
beyond their ability to perform, and clothed
them with vestments which they have proven
themselves unworthy to wear.
AS we see the matter, still further, Gov
ernor Robertson owes it to himself, as a per-
sonal duty to call the extraordinary session
He owes it to himself because the tongue of
,caumny is already wagging with the asser-
! tons that he fears for his own political safety
to reassemble the bolshevistic house majority.
| He owes it to himself because, while elected by
the Democratic voters of Oklahoma he is the
chief executive of all the people of Oklahoma
irrespective of political beliefs and as such is
the proper officer to demand the faithful COM
pliance with their oaths, as subordinate officers
of the state government, Of each and every
member of the Oklahoma Legislature, house and
senate, Republican and Democrat man and
woman, individually, collectively, Jointly and
severally.
1t is not for us at this time to enter into
detail relative to the sins of the house major
itv. 1t is not for us at this time to call the
attention of the people of Oklahoma to the
fact that the disgraceful and parsimonious pro-
fessed economy of the majority members de-
feated the soldier hospital measure and said,
by this infamous action, that the boys who
lost their health in the trenches along the
western front could die like rats in cage, for
want of attention and humanty's care. 1t is
not for us to point out, at the present moment,
that nefliciency and ncompetency held sway
supreme in the lower branch of the Okla
homa legislature. 1t is not for us, at
this writing, to repeat that which you
already know, the story of how petty
politics and desire to besmirch and throw
mud upon all things appertaining to Okla
homas Democracy took precedence over duty
to state and people. 1t is not for us to point
out, in this article, the single and collective
perfdes of the house majority, nor is the pres
ent the time to discuss the relative merits of
the two branches of the eighth general assem-
bly,.
But it is the time as we see it, to call at
tenton to the fact that every second of every
hour is the psychological moment for the peo-
pie of state to demand honesty of purpose,
integrity of action and faithfuness to public
veal in the discharge of duty, not alone from
every citizen, but from every sworn officer OF
the state. And the members of the house of
representatives are sworn officers of the state
of Oklahoma
The members of the house majority devoted
almost one hundred days Of the regular session
to shouting, as did the Pharsees of old, from
the housetops telling in stentorian tones OF
their own Righteousness, while pointing the
finger of scorn at this, that and the other
departmental head of the Democratic state
government and mouthng declamngs OF the
"I-thank- God IAN -holier -than-thou' kind, yet
ended the session of the most flagrant donothing-
ism. in carnival of political hate and de-
bauchery which declared the state of Okla
homa in the same column with the dishonor-
able bankrupt.
Such being the undsputed and uncontra-
vertble fact, the Governor should, in our
opinion, reassemble the legislature, and put 1t
up to each individual member to do his duty.
And the people of Oklahoma, should the
members thus reassembled again fail them,
should have recourse to the recall, thereby
showing these professional obstructionsts that,
in deed and in fact is the "voice of the people
the supreme law."-George H. Wyatt.