The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-03-12

After the first blast Of passionate
denunciation the newspapers Of the
state are becoming calmer in an eff.
fort to sift out the chaff and arrive at
some accurate decision on the aims
and purposes as we'll as the merits of
the Farmer.Labor movement.
A careful study Of the state press
indicates three things as follows:
The league is recognized as de-
cidcd political factor.
1t is nothing but the non-partisan
league in disguise.
Some Of the men on its ticket are
unworthy but others deserve consid.
GRAFTON.
That the meA who held the conven.
ton for the greater part are sincere
and that party disaffection may be
I blamed for the trouble.
Perhaps the most severe condenna-
tion Of the convention may be found
In the Tishomingo Capital.Democrat.
w, c. Geers speaks Of the assembly
as the cuckoo convention" Senator
Luther Harrison in the Holdenville
Democrat is no less severe. calling
the movement "the painted harlot,"
The Daily Oklahoman in a sensible
editorial condemns the league as "a
cloak to cover the identity OF Town.
ley's non-partisan league"
Richard Lloyd Jones IN the Tulsa
! Tribune, In careful analysis OF the
movement, also brands the movement.
1T follows the same lines of the non.
partisan league Of the northwest"
There is little divergence from this
view.
Mr.. Gecrs in his Capital Democrat
deplores the Endorsement Of democrats
and asks the following question:
Personally. We do not believe
that any man nominated by the
Cuckoo Party at Shawnee who
mad noY already announced for OF.
fice on the Democratic ticket
should be allowed 10 file after be.
ing brought out by the non.parti.
san league or socialist party un.
less he runs on that ticket. These
people have no right in our party
and good Democrats should ignore
them. They could not hurt us on
the outside and now they attempt
TO come into the party and disrupt
II. Are YOU decent and respect
able Democrats going TO encourage
this aggregation of hoodlums 10
help destroy the party"
!. !. !.
Senator Harrison takes the attitude
that the men who voted for the plat.
form at Shawnee do not understand
it. He brands II as the flower and
, fruitaee of that foolish babble which
says The people have no call 20 sup
port government, but that government
must IN all cases support the people
The oklahoma News saws the pres.
ence OF the league will nullify the
partisan character Of the Oklahoma
primary
DO not try to laugh away the idea
/ that a new political factor has sprune
/ into being here In Okla homa warns
| the Republican Okmulgee Daily Times
at is here not because OF force Of the
force OF numbers, but because II 1:
something new
Discussing the motives OF the new
I orga nization. the Tulsa Tribune says
i"No man can do a worse service L
the state than the man who substi
tutes mere passionate prejudice foi
reason. These men were mlsled. bu
they were honest, They may be radi
cal. but they are just as patriotic q,
any people in the state"
= Speaking OF it's non.psrtisan lesgu,
earmarks. the oklohoman In its edi
torial quotes George Wilson. who LEI
the non.partisan league movement II
Oklahoma. as follows:
There's no use TO deny that thil
league, although under Q differen
name, means non.partisan.'
:: = +
So It seems that there is genera
agreement that the new movement q
the non partisan league cloaked unde
different name, Even the Republic
an press Of the state admits this.
The oklshoman, IN concluding Il
editorial on this point, concludes.
Going into campaign OF the
importance OF 1922, it is vital that
the people OF the state know ex.
actly what the movement IL that