The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-07-25
CERTIFICATE CASE IS POSTPONED AGAIN
Those Twenty
Questions Are
Yet Unanswered
Editorial

Mayor WaltOn OF OkiahOmA Nuy,
candidate for governor, was billed to
speak in Ardmore last night. and in
order to get Mayor Walton ON record
regarding some uncertain issues re
lating to his campaign the Ardmorite
asked 20 questions for hun to answer.
Then Mayor Walton didn't show up.
We wouldn't be presumptlous enough
to assume that he checked Ardmore OH
his route because of the 90 questions,
but we do contend that the coincidence
is clrcumstantial. At any rate the 20
questions are unanswered SO far as
Mayor Walton Is concerned.
Paul Nesbitt spoke in behalf OF .le
Oklahoma City candidate and Paul did
not answer the questions either. lie
answered at one Of two. and berated
the editor of the Ardmorite-as Is the
wont of Mayor Walt0n's crowd. He
practically admitted that Mayor Wal
ton was running on the Shawnee plat
form then endeavored to make II lit
! a Democratic formula-with meager
success.
thC aohS obC
question In the whole co. said MIR. Nes-
bitt. 'and that one was pertaining TO
Democratic principles" Mr.. Nesbiit
answered that one all right, because he
Is Democrat, but il is not written
that Mr. Walton could have answered
1t, certainly he couldn't have recOnciled
1t with the Shawnee platform and
even Mr.. Nesbitt couldn't do that.
"A democracy" proclaimed Paul Mes
bitt, "is where the people rule, with
equal rights to all and special privl-
lcges to nOnc," or words to that effect.
As matter of fact that is the theory
the ArdmOrite had Of Democracy. We
had fool idea that the Democratic
party believed in government that start.
ed ut the grass roots and moved up
wards Ms against the centralized plan
Of the Republicans or as against the
governmental ownership platform Of the
Socialists.
And that's why we wanted Mr.. Wal.
ton or Mr.. Nesbitt or somebody to show
us how MIR. Walton could be Demo
crat and still believe In class legisla.
tion. state ownership Of lights, gas and
and other utilities, class exemptions.
and number Of other things so ably
set forth In the Shawnee platform.
But MIR. Walton is u Democrat. insists
Mr.. Nesbitt. Perhaps he is. A Methodist
Is still Methodist for that matter. II
he Is caught i'm bootlegger raid. Or
u man naturalized In America might
call himself an American even though
he fought under the British flag. You
get the point.
ence how the various tax schemes pro
posed by the Shawnee conference would
effect the poor devils who are neither
organized labor, nor capitalists. lie neg
lected TO inform his audience what the
soldier bonus plan, the tax exemptions
cts, would mean to us fellows who
are barely on speaking terms with big
business. As between this big business
Octupus and the almost certain destruc
tion to the small property owner of the
Socialistic schemes proposed by the
I.aborFarmer League, Il does look like
Mr.. Average citizen is In y pickle this
time. doesn't itY
And another thing MIR. Nesbitt could
have explained to us is about the poll
tical completion Of MIR. Amerlinger. Mr.
Hoson. Mr.. Sheldon, Mr.. George Wilson
and few others Of the same llls WI,
are now and have been since the beginn
ing Of Mr.. Walton's campaign. the mos
active workers in the whole shebang
Mr.. NesbItt knows they are avowe,
Socialists. have always been.
The ArdInorite wishes MIR. Waltor
had answered those questions. or al
least had them answered. As Il Is ev
erybody viii feel doubtful about him
and no gubernatorial candidate wishes
such a state to exist.