The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-08
SAM \, BUTLER
SUPERIOR JUDGE
HIS MANNER OF FILING REMINDS
THE PEOPLE OF THE ELECTION
OF NJ. GORMAN, SCHOOL TREAS.

4 am just betting a few minutes
work" said Sam II. Batter, that
there are thirty tn usand people III
Carter county,
And so he is sam II Butler is
United States commissioner, he is
chairman of the Carter county repub
lican committee, he is republican
of the old school, one OF the stand
patters, opposed to the progressive
wing OF the party and stands FIR the
strict party organization in nation
state, county and precinct.
You remember the last legislature
enacted a law providing that in all
counties having as many as thirty
thousand people there should be a
superior judge. The office pays
about $2,So0 a year and it seemed
that no democrat thought of or want
ed the place at least no one filed for
it and late in the evening on the last
day that candidates could file, Sam II
Butler filed Ior superior judge and
another republican filed for the clerk.
ship of the superior court. If Carter
county has thirty thousand pc pie 1t
Is entitled to superior judge, if It
mas not that many people Mr.. Butler
has lost only the time that it required
to file for the office.
One feature Of this race seems to
be that Butler will have no opposi
ton. He is republican in a demo
cratic county and will have no oppo-
sition. The law has been searched
and it is very plain that Independent
candidates must file as other candi-
dates must file. Their names will not
be placed en- the primary ballot but
they must file in the time prescribed
for party candidates and it looks very
much like the democrats will not be
able to put out even an Independent
candidate against the republican, If
there are thirty thousand people in
the county, Butler has beat them 10
II. That is the story in a nut shell
once upon a time another incident
similar to this happened in this city
with the same clerk of the election
BOARD. Mike German filed for the Of
nee of treasurer of the school board.
Nike German is republican. He
mad often been elected to office in the
city before the party lines We're drawn
and had cften been a candidate when
the lines We're drawn but he had al.
ways drawn a blank in each election
But this was one time when he could
be elected, He had no opponent. Now
it develops that the little political
trcik is delaying the building of the
high school Politics stands in the
way of progress. Politics stands in
the way of education of the children.
Chas. l.. Anderson is treasurer OF the
board as it is recognized now. Mike
German has been elected treasurer
Charley Anderson has been faithful
worker on the school board. Many
times the schools would have been
forced TO close down if Charley An
lerson had not advanced money when
some other bankers of the town re-
used to make the loan. Now Mr..
Anderson does not want to give up
he office The board Is with Mr.. An.
lerson but the probabilities are that
he cold letter of the law is with Mr..
iorman. The people will pass judg-
nent on the matter whether they
have right to pass on it at the
polls or not. One thing is certain,
he friends of the Ardmore school sys-
em will not be pleased to have their
schools retarded by any trick OF poll
.ical workers. The democrats of this
city have taken the sane view that
politics should not be injected into
the schools. Have the republicans
done the same thing or would they
control every member If they had
majority in the city?