The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-12

was so close, that they still think an
honest G. O. p. counter might have
clipped that 5OO0-vote obstacle out
of the way"
It's An Experience That Causes
Fields Pleasure
There's no doubt that John Fields,
twice leader of the Republican ticket
has Il tingle of pleasure when he
thinks his second campaign cut the
Democratic majority down to 5000
even before Warren G. Harding and
Manuel Herrcll became widely known
in the state: before normalcy had been
pushed into innocent vocabularies but
out Of the cotton fields.
Until this very campaign year, John
Fields, could sit back in his farm
paper EDITORS chair and say with ut
ter sincerity that he was thru he
had done something no Republican had
ever done before, and he was thor
oughly satisfied.
But now behind us is a vision
of 10000 majority in Oklahoma for
Harding aud about the same for Sem
ator j. w. Harreld. What does John
Fields puny runhef-up Of total amount
to now?
1t perhaps serves as one of the
highest compliments man was ever
paid. 1t placed him solidly as the
foremost man of his party in Oklaho-
ma.
1t showed that his personal cam
,an nj 1, al
the trick against militant Democracy
which national upheaval turned
against a split and sorry opposition.
Fields life may be divided into two
distinct epochs. The first eliminated
in the organization OF the Concatenat-
ed Order of Kafir Wooles with him
self as Chief Purveyor of Palaver. The
second, or present epoch may be
styled, the -Sow-Fowl obsession.
Kafier Woolics Put Their Stuff Across
While the KafT Woolie Club may
sound highly humorous now as it did
in 1910, there was purpose in Fields
move which can be seen in the estab-
lishment OF the kafir feed crop
throughout the state.
Though he often put the twinkle of
his eye into the words he writes and
speaks, he has demonstrated a happy
faculty of backing highly sensible doc
trine.
Though he has run for governor
twice, Fields has always preserved the
attitude of the student-teacher, ana
through the columns Of his paper has
continually hammered for some par
ticular plan for the advancement of
general prosperity In the rural COM
munities.
In the days OF Fields campaigning
the Republicans had no particular
policy of their own in Oklahoma; they
merely sought to seize upon something
which would present a good campaign
talk, then seize upon someone who
was a good campaign talker, and
then go to ii.
Fields had a few ideas, and a wit
to express them.
It is not often that you find man
whose penchant is the study of agri-
cultural chemistry, who becomes
hTOWn as Il nDllllcdl leducT. L ltluS tll-
tered Oklahoma as a chemist at the
Saltwater experiment station in 1896.
He served till 1906, and during the
time probably learned more about kafir
and other Oklahoma feed crops thaV
any other woolie in the state.
He Can BE Dry as the Arid Zone
He published book once called
Sure Feed Corps" and if you think
this man of wit cannot be as dry as
his dry.farming districts, you ought
to read this book. However. if you
are a farmer in Western Oklahoma,
the book may have n sparkle in il
that city man is incapable of find
ing.
But dry farming hasn't been his
only subjetc Of editorial ana personal
You perhaps know that Oklahoma's
schools have increased by
leaps and bounds in the last 10 years.
For which increase, perhaps Robert II.
Wilson Will claim large credit during
the coming campaign.
Yet John Fields should go into the
and claim as large a share