The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-31
HIGH T.. ZONES TAKES ACTIVE INTEREST
IN THE GRANDFATHER AMENDMENT
The Daily Ardmoreite

The Daily Ardmorei,e.
We are nearing the close o. one
o. the most strenuous political cam
/ ystgns in the history OF the great
southwest.
The peOp.e Of Oklahoma SHOULD be
/ vel acquainted VIA every candidate
I iu the field. from constable TO govern
or and when they go 10 the polls on
hext Tuesday 10 select their party
/ leaders for the coming battle in next
November. they should not on y select
the most fitted men for those offices,
but they should think we'll what the
passage Of the Grandfather Clause
means TO Oklahoma. and to her citi-
zeuship in a personal way.
The peanut.headed newspaper men
with the hickoryshirt Bill and overall
John politicians have misled a great
many Of Oklahoma's besc citizens con.
cerning the mos. important issue of
the day.
In my estimation there has been
more political lies told concerning the
| proposed amendment TO the auffrage
G aI.e TO our constitution, better
known as the Grandfather Clause 20
thal any other proposition that has
eve. lecn presented to the people in
| the history OF politics in this latter
day
II seems TO ne there are more poll
ucians in Oklahoma than any other
state in the union, who believe that
the best way to carry any issue be-
fore the people Is to tell al the lies
they can think up themselves, and
borrow all they can from their neigh
bors. and print them in boX-car letters
and tell them with an the force pos
sble
In discussing this question befoee
the people of Garter county | have
tried to present the conditions that
really exist. for believe the only
way to carry an issue before the peo-
pc of Oklahoma is to tell the truth,
and if there ever was a question that
would win on its merits alone, it is
the proposed amendment that viii he
voted on next Tuesday
The people who are opposing the
Grandfather Clause are opposing it
on account of ignorance as to its
meaning. and what it will do for OK
lahoma and for poltiial reasons and
those alone.
The republicans have declared for
years that the only issue the demo
Gratis had to win ON was the negro
question. and now the democracy OF
. Oklahoma is asking that the people
p forever eliminate the ignorant black
+ from Oklahoma politics, and bring a
f., public question before a fair, thinking
$ public, and fight those questions out
@ between the white voters of Oklahoma
s hereafter.
The democracy Of Oklahoma is not
~ afraid OF it's electing every state Off
, GER in the coming general election
9 democracy IS not afraid of one law it
has passed or one issue it has recon-
q mendod to the peJp'e OF this state. and
# that Is better shown by the returns in
@ ,he last election on the capital loca
tion and proposed amendment repeal
@ ing Sec. 9 OF Art O. and portions oi
n several other sections OF that article
D. Of our constitution.
.r The socialists of Oklahoma who are
being led by lot of turncoats like PA
N Nagle are fighting tho Grandfather
n Clause" in order to get the negro vote
@ ana that alone.
= have heard the leading socialist'
81, in This country in their speeches de
c uuuuce the proposed amendment, anC
~ plead for the poor old niger as ;
=. working man. | have read the dop,
" they have scattered to the iour-wind.
" Of oklahoma in which Mr.. Oscar Amer
niger states that we socialists
ID are as blind as bats concerning race
.e color, or nationality, and The negro
,r belongs to our class
lf Mr. Ameringer has made that state
ID meut claiming that he was speakin.
the sentiment of every socialist il
is Oklahoma, but | know he isn't, anC
d every loyal Anglo-SaNon regardless o
IN his politics, knows thar it is a false
r. hood as black as man ever uttered.
IN Mr. Ameriuger wants the Niger
~. vote. and that is the way he thinks h,
n. will get it. with the aid of the Appea
,r TO Reason C?D telling all the infamou.
q. lies that j. A. Wayland and his co
m workers can possibly dig up.
% The socialist journals edited il
10 some states. where some Of lhC
.. u-hifps had abnut ~ soon aat Min .