The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-09-11

they have already voted in favor of,
and which they believe to be right.
/ BY thus coercing the people to
vote against a thing which their best
Judgment tells them to be wise,
threatening 10 withhold from that
people unless they vote as the chief
executive dictates, rights to which
they are Justly entitled under the con
sHtu.lon. President Taft has commit
ted himself to an action which is
without precedent in the history OF
the American government.
The president has said to the peo-
pie o. Arizona, in effect: no matter
whether the majority believe that the
recall Of judges IS wise or not; unless
that majority goes to the pols ana
pretends that T. is agains. the re
cal, ! viii deprive the people o'
Arizona of statehood. Yes | will
deprive TIE people OF Arizona OF
statehood whether they are entitled
to it under the constitution or not,
unless they vote not 'the way they
may desire hut as ! command them
10 vote"
While this method of forcing the
peOp,e 10 VOC against their will
may he perfectly compatible to the
mental workings OF an executive with
"Judicial temperament isn't it
after all making farce out of repre-,
sentative government
President Makes Another Mistake.
It is difficult to see how PreSi-
dent Tlft's 1900 mile swing around
the circle can end in anything bu,
= sorry spectacle for himself.
If he tells the people the truth
about how he vetoed the honest at.
tempt of both branches Of congress
to reduce the high cost of living
in this country; how upon taking
Office ne filled his cabinet with men
connected with the law-breaking
trusts, and how ne tried and nearly
succeeded in giving Alaska away
to the land grabbers, he will discred.
it himself.
If Mr.. Taft iugsles the facts in the
slightest degree, the insurgents,
swinging along in his trail, will point
ont his misrepresentation with such
truth and logic thai the president
will he more discredited than if he
had remained at home.
The record of the Taft administra-
tion is one that cannot he debated
with any credit to the president Mr.
TAFT has himself to blame, together
with men like Aldrich, Penrose, Gug-
Genheim and Lodge, to his advice
he listeaed exclusively.
shoddy Woolens.
The wool trusts practice of cheap
ening the quality of its products while
at the same time maintaining prices
at the highest level cver known. has
drawn the fire of the medical Jour
mails all over the country. Through
these journals the physicians of the
nation are protesting against the
lack of warm and enduring under
clohng, a fact to which they attrib-
ute the spread of many injurious dis
eases Women and children suffer
most from this form of greed The
medical journals are demanding
repeal of the high duties--amounting
to 100 per cent on the commOner
grades of wool-recogniZing in these
duties the source of the evil of which
they complain.
See Taft's Defeat.
president Taft has declined a
chance to greatly cheaper the cost
Of clothing, wire, etc, and in so do
ing has defended what he said was
inderensible The presidents vetoes
of The tariff bill will make it difficult
fer him to be renominated. and will
practically insure his defeat il he is
renominated."
This is an extract from the weekly
market letter Of the New York Con
Soddated Stock Exchange firm OF W.
w Erwin and Co. 1t shows that the
New York business interests and
Wall stree. have concluded that Taft
cannot be reelected and are prepar.
ing to throw him over.
Suggestion For an Article.
In the September Columbian maga-
zine Senator Bristow of Kansas tells
How the Interests Control America
and while this is an Increasing en-
pose and one that everybody should