The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-02-12
FOUR HUNDRED VOTERS REPRE-.
sENTeO BY FEWER THAN 10.
WHERE ARE We "AT?''
Seven OF the Committee OF Ten Were
Absent-p. 3. Jones Refused to
Help in the Movement Of the Rule
OF the Few.

m cciy hall was fincd to over.
flowing last night on the occasion of
the political meeting Of the first ward.
Thomas Norman was placed in nonin-
alton 10y pr Young for chairman and
was elected W. II. McNci. was chos
on secretary. Mr. Norman stated that
The first ward should have a commit.
tee OF ten to confer With similar com
mittccs from the other wards and that
II would he the duty of these commit
tees I'm Joint session To determine how
the Oklahoma laws require nomina-
tions to be made. whether by primary
bv convention or 10y petition lie said
that some lawyers were contcnd'nr
that the general election law Of the
state did not apply to city elections
and q may be that every voter will
yet be required TO register before he
can vote
James Cotncr asked the chair 20
inform him whether that meeting was
mass meeting OF the citizens OF the
ward or was It 70 he participated in
only by those who favored the selcc.
tion of a ticket by ten men. The chair
stated that the meeting was called
for only those in harmony with the
committee movement and NJ. Cotner
replied - was a caucus then instead
of mass meeting and he would with
draw from the room for the reason
that he was not in sympathy with any
movement that placed the affairs OF
the city in the hands of few men
rather than in the hands Of the peo
pie. When Mr.. Cotncr left the build
. ing more than half Of the people fol.
lowed him and as the crowd filed
from the room one man remarked
/ that fully three-fourths Of the voters
retired The movement was one of
Justice and reflected credit upon those
who favor the primary plan.
What is the further pleasure Of
| the house. came from the chair and
DR.. Young responded again with a
motion that the chair appoint a com
mittcc Of four to retire and name a
committee OF ten TO serve with the
committees from the other wards in
putting out a ticket. The motion was
seconded by Major Tnsk. The mo.
tion carried and the chair appointed
Dr. Young, chairman and insisted that
he serve over his protest william
Green. j. s Bowman and r. r. Dallas
were the other members Of the com
mittcc.
While the committee was out Hugh
McGin addressed the meeting HC
said in his opinion the general elec
ticn law did not apply 10 city elec
tions. that no registration was re
quired and that the statutes made pro
vision for republican, democratic anc
socialist tickets to he nominated b,
/, the primary method, but that a cit
zen's ticket or Independents could ge
on the ticket only by petition.
Rev. J. n. Moore made brie
r speech In which he made the timel
+ query, where are we att"
Mr.. Bagwell wanted some lawyer
to answer Mr.. Moore.
Mr.. Moore moved that the firs
= ward committee be instructed TO col
! fer with the other ward committees
determine II primary election wa
not necessary.
+. X. West from the second ware
was called for and asked about III
sentiment in that ward, Mr. Wei
stated that it was the prevailing sci
timent in the second ward that
blanket primary should be held
The committee Of four remained OF
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