The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-08-08
Where II Should Go

To other business out of both
dollars 40
One dollar and twenty-seven cents
was the issue during the primary cam
paign. The trained lawyers. the train
ed politicians and the subsidized press
Of the interests struggled to shift the
issue from s1.27 to socialism, bolshev-
ism. Russianism, Dakotaism and other
'isms" and failed.
Now, the campaign is on and the in.
terests, through their trained lawyers
and politicians and their subsidized
press will struggle to shift the issue
from 1927 TO religion.
now appeal to the farmer; l now
appeal 10 the Industrial worker; l now
appeal 20 the ex.service men and all
good citizens who desire an orderly, ben
Efficient government.
Never allow the issue, to be shifted
from Sl..21 10 religion. Brand any man
who undertakes to shift the issue the
enemy Of producing farmer and the
enemy If the industrial worker. The
one-hundrod-and.twenty- seven per cent.
ers will appeal to any feeling or emo.
ton: religious or racial. 10 protect their
sl.?7.
| stand on the constitution of the
United States and on the first amendi-
ment to the constitution which reads
as follows:
Congress shall make no law respect
ing an establishment OF religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom OF speech, or
OF the press; or the right OF the people
to peaceaDly assemble and petition the
government for a redress OF griey.
ance."
l wish II distinctly understood that
] am not the enemy of legitimate bust.
ness under the recent order, so long
as II refrains from ruthless exploitation.
Any man OF sense knows that we can
not have industrial peace when the
farmer receives only 35c and the indus.
trial laborer only 9Sc out OF the con.
sumer's dollar. This maladjustment
must be corrected.
The independent lead and zinc pro.
ducers and the Independent oil pro.
ducers nave been the peculiar objects
OF predatory greed. | am their friend
l know something OF their fight and
the worldwide corporations which seek
TO destroy them. When | am governor
Il will not be necessary for them to
spend dollar to protect their rights
from corrapt legislation.
might speak OF many things in the
way Of constructive legislation. but a!
present viii speak only OF one.
We must have decent election laws
in this state. Every citizen must ap
proaoh the ballot box unafraid. cast
his ballot and have that ballot counted
as cast
The centralized power over the elec
ton machinery must be- destroyed
In the conflict just closed | appeal
ed 10 women, and my appeal was moi
In vain. And now again / appeal tC
women
am surrounded by competent and
powerful men who are marshalllnl
mighty elemental forces in my hehal
as the representative OF the Farmer
hhhNfs Az NNh ifNihfN WV VI AiA'
mighty forces. When the child is borr
II IL the women who goes down to IN,
gates of death. II YOU fail and refus,
J 20 enlist, If you desert me IN this figh
for the common people. THEY" vii
sacrifice your children IN foreign war
b to protect their foreign oil fields ant
foreign loans.
b AT the inception OF our republic tn
titled and landed lords--an aristocrsc
: of wealth and honor claiming to be o
b the better class--asserted the right {
! rule Then It was that Thomas Jeffel
son organised tho farmers and labor
ers--the great common people-an
won under the slogan; Equal right
? to all AMI special privileges to none"
. Malefaetors Of great wealth, built U
; under favoritism OF government. no'
. rule. 90 that there II no fair balanc
I coming TO the Industrial groups. wi'
ness The contraction OF the currenc,