The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-12-27
CURRENT TOPICS AT CAPITAL
ROOSEVELT'S POLITICAL GAME

lie dete 'minot hut ( nigh. - mhCh |
further and fare worse.
The really interesting part OF the |
story. however. Is the assertion that |
Hon. Edwin A. Merritt OF New York, |
one OF the most acute and practical |
politicians of the state, a man who |
never sees civil service law with
out throwing brick at II and usu-
ally with a destructive. is to sue
ceed Nj Meyer as postmaster gen
eral. As MIR. James l.. Clarkson is
already in office in New York. as
Mr.. QUAY Is long since dead, as
Boss Cox of Cincinnati seems con-
tent to handle he civil service Of
his own town without branching out
into national affairs, President
Roosevelt could rot more effectively
give the lie to his old professions |
OF civil service reform than to make |
Ed Merritt postmaster general Per |
haps now that the story has been |
made public, he may not do 1t. But |
nearly every wire out of Washington |
tonight will carry the statement that |
such is his plan.
Tom Lawson Again.
Only a week or ten days ago the
eminent reformer of Boston an
nounced he was done with reform
and with politics; he was now going
10 attend only to his own personal
and business affairs. How hard II Is
after all for man to determine
what is going to happen to him.
. Four days later he called at the
white house. presumably by invita-
. ton Emerging thence he allowed
, himself TO he held unwillingly by
, the newspaper correspondents VINO
gather about the door to the exec.
utive offices. In the presence OF
, all this publicity he was unable to
; adhere to his purpose of retiring
, into seclusion, but announced that
, lhe would make a dash into poll
, ties He said he had 100000 cor
= irccpondents throughout the United
o States and he was going to weld
/. them into coherent whole for
-, a., scvelt of NcW York and Johnson
/, of Minnesota. 1t must be at least
a said for Mr.. Lawson that he has
1. moderate amount of originality. He
q isn't quite as striking in his sugges-
~ tons as MIR. John Temple Graves,
who wished Mr.. Bryan to rise and
, nominate Mr.. Roosevelt in the dep-
- ocratic convention. Certainly he
% falls far behind the brilliant souls
Is who are suggesting ticket OF
m Roosevelt and Bryan. Anyhow his
.e suggestions has some novelty. His
four hundred and thirty THOUSAND
correspondents represent quite
In force in the country. If they have
h. all been winning on the tips he has
n sent out ON copper and other gam
10 bling stocks. they surely ought to
a, follow him with the greatest docility
10 to The support of Mr.. Roosevelt or
II. laIv other candidate.
n- | ne democratic Ndtlondi SonSeH''"'''
NJ The call for the democratic ma
mr. tional convention to meet on the 'th
ar of july AT Denver has been issued
,s Iy Chairman Taggart pursuant 70
,s lhr action OF the national commit 'e
n .rken in Washington on the Il Il
Is OF December. Ii will be larger
- convention than that of the repub
rv lcans because while both conven
gs tions will have IS representatives oi
IN delegates from the states twice the
- number OF these senators and rep
resentatiyes in the congress of III,
United States; the democrats give
~ TO each territory and TO Alaska, th'
"a District Of Columbia, Hawaii an'
So Porto Rico six delegates each. TIT
is republicans reduced territorial dele
nc cations to two each. Probably
a., convention could work quite as wei
20, with the smaller number OF dele
ed gates, but In the end the more mel
ut Interested in local political affair
oN the more likely the party is to b.
-, strong in their neighborhood.
,er The committee ON arrangement
he for the convention was made up b
re- the chairman In way which lay
~ emphasis in the party today,
oil. consists of Roger c. Sullivan O
The Chicago. James c. Dahlman of Omf
o. ha. Norman +. Mack of Buffalo, i
In Johnson of Houston, Tex, job
We T. McGraw OF Grafton, w. Va, job
els Y. Osborne. Rawlins, Wyo, Clar
~, Howell OF Atlanta. These are a
ch working and fighting democrats. A
in -, a.. a.,,, unit,