The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1906-10-31
LEDBETTER WILL WIN
INTERVIEWS FROM LOYAL DEM.
ocRATs OF ARDMoRE.
Labor Leaders State the Republican
Reports Have Placed Labor Unions
in False Light-Have Stirred the
Democrats to Active Work.

The local committee has continued
its work Of interviews and present
some good thought today from bust.
ness men from the legal procession
and flom labor leaders.
A. c. Yomg.-Thcrc is no question
in my mind but that every democrat
in the city should vote the ticket ON
Nov. &. 30 district in the new state
has a more worthy man or a more ca.
pablc man i'm the race than district
1903 and Ardmorc will do what is
expected Of hcr-shc will send Dem
ocrat to assist IN writing the constltu.
tion of the state.
w. W. Holt am a carpenter and
come In contact daily with many
men in my trade and they are all pleas.
ed with the democratic nominee and
will support him to a man OF course.
all carpenters are not Democrats but
the great majority OF them are and
they will rally to the support of the
nominee. The report circulated by
the Republicans that union men were
for Mr.. Weeks has weakened that
party. Such report is false. our un.
ions take no hand in politics but each
individual member votes his own sen.
timents.
ID. y Forguson-Thc report that
the labor unions had lndorscd Weeks
I, has placed organized labor In false
light and has aroused the union mon
10 prompt action The Jesuit OF this
election is in no doubt; Nr Lcdbct.
ter Is absolutely certain of election.
\. Eddlcman-Thc framing Of the
constitution for the state OF Okla.
homa is Of the greatest importance to
the people. Upon it the prosperity
and happiness of the people depend.
It is true that if mistakes are made
the people would not be absolutely
without remedy for they may be here.
after cured by amendment hut not uu-
I'll after the lapse of considerable
time and the expenditure of much cf-
fort and money, and probably gricy-
Gus loss to many citizens. We should
therefore, select men Us delegates to
the constitutional convention who can
and will frame a constitution for Ms
that will not require amendment To
do this. two things are essential To
the qualification of the delegate First,
J that he should know what constitu-
tion Is or should be, and how to frame
it, second, that he have the will to
represent the interests of the people.
| concede that both the Democratic
have the second qualifications, but
how about the first? II Is said by
some that the framing OF tie consti.
rutiOn will be perfunctory to LARGE
IeXtcnt; that the convention can just
take the constitutions OF the several
states and select what we want and
thus prepare constitution in few
days. Doubtless they VIII have the
= constitutions of the various stat AT
hand, and very large percentage OF
the matter in our constitution will
be culled from the constitutions Of
other states but it must be borne in
mind that the various clauses Of the
several constitutions of the states have
been the subjects of judicial construc
tion and have been passed upon and
their meaning fully determined and
fixed by the courts Of last resort. and
that every clause borrowed from the
constitution Of another state will come
TO ms with its construction or meaning
already defined and fully determined,
for the legal presumption would De
that the convention knew such con.
structiou and selected the clause in
view thereof What then can the man
who knows nothing Of the judicial
construction of these several cOnstitu-
tious and the various clauses contain.
ed inthem, nor to investigate or
ascertain the same, do toward select.
ing the material from them for our
constitution? II he should select q
clause from the constitution Of Texas
or Kansas which seemed to be a prop
er provision to adopt he would not
know what he had unless he also knew
how such a clause had been construed
, nv the courts. and IL might be n he
knew the construction placed upon
II he would not want the clause at all.
, But, suppose somebody else who knew
the construction should want the
clause because it had been so con
strucd, how easy il would be for them
to- mislead the man who fancied the
clause but did not know its legal mean.
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