The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-10

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c,aD The Cuckoo Republican Club
headed as usual Boy the Guthrie state
Capital. are as ius.ucere ANA untrutn-
nal u their fight ON the dispensary
law as they were last fall In their
rabld attack on the constitution said
j. Il. Thompson, chairman of the dem
ucratic state committee, today. They
are following the same methods in
trying to work mp a sentiment against
the dispcusary system as tney follow
i ed in trying TO create sentiment
against the ratification of the consti-
tuition. Then as now, no lie was too
enormous nor taisehOod too palpaDle
for them To use iu an attempt to de-
cpiye the cita.a. OF Oklahoma and
prejudice them against the democratic
party
Throughout the campaign last fail
On. republican press of Oklahoma
united iu declaring that the proposed
constitution was the most iuiqutuu5
document ever conceived in the mind
OF mortal man. From the day the
constitutional convention assembled
until the people finally ratified the
work OF that convention at the polls,
there was not an issue of these repub-
liCan sheets that did not contain col
umLs OF slaudcr and falsohoods con.
ccruing the constitution, the men who
we're writing it and the provisions
that it contained.
During the campaign the State
Capital and it's 'mc-tuO' satellites re-
pcdtpdly urged the voters Of Oklahoma
TO reject the constitution as an instru
mcut so Infamous In its provisions
that It's adoption would mean the ma.
terial and moral damnJtion of the pro-
posed state. ON one condition only
would they admit that an honest Citi-
zen could vote TO ratify the constitu-
tiou; that was ON the theory that We
should rat.ty the constitution so as
20 secure statehood and then imme-
diatciy amend the instrument so as
90 correct It's glaring iniquities.
The people ratified the constitu-
tiou by a majority Of more than one
hundred thousand. That constitution
has been in actual operation for Ave
months and not single one of these
Z. republican papers, who were so vi.
! cious in their prediction attack upon
j. H., have suggested "A single amend.
. ment to this document. In not one
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D where any citizen OF Oklahoma has
1 had his rights interfered with, his
i liberty taken away or his property de
= stroyed through the operation of a
J. single section of that constitution. Be
fore election they declared that the
only way the state could exist under
the constitution would be by amend
o ing II. Since elec ton they accept the
It constitution, as the great majority oi
!. Oklahoma citizens did before the elec
tion, as being the best instrument o
II its kind ever written and are abso
lutely silent ON any proposition tC
= amend II.
For four months of the five tha
have 'ranspired since Oklahoma be
came state and her constitution
y went into effect, the legislature has
v. been in continuous session. In eithe
branch OF the legislature are to b,
p, found a limited number of the mem
- bers who acknowledge allegiance I,
~ the republican party. Every one o
these republican members from sena
n tors Stanford and BrOwnlec 10 "Grisi
ID. mill Jones in the house, took tn
- same position during the campaign
that the republican papers took. The
he declared that 1T the people saw tit q
d. ratify the constitution that the onl
p way We could live under IL and cnjO
prosperity, would be to immediatel
amend it, and pledged their constitJ
ents that If they We're elected to tn
legislature and the constitution wa
ratified, that they would put fort
their most earnest efforts TO secur
the submission OF sufficient amend
ments TO the constitution to correC
its pronounced deficiencies.
For four months these republican
ir members have sat In either hous
le without Offering or proposing singl
IL amendment To the constitution of TN
:, state. For four months they have de
- voted their time exclusively TO play
20 ing peanut politics, obstructing II
{. every way within their power the ei
~ forts of the democratic majority q
"a enact needed legislation and din
, with neither idea or suggestion in IN
- work of law-making.
VI "lr there was any sincerity in tin
4 proposition of the republican pres
during last falls campaign, why hay
none of the republican papers witt
IS their statCsmcu-editors come tOrwart
ia with a suggestion of some one singh
d amendment TO the constitution whicl
81 IT'S operation during the last hy
G. months has demonstrated to be ueces
n. sary9
W why rs n that not one single rC