The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-03-24
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TO PUT TICKET IN THE FIELD
Men Have Failed ~ civic Progress,
ssys Mrs. ?. {. Wilbon, Candidate
f,r Mayor. So the Weaker Ser VIII
shou Them Han

H1anezeu. Kan, March Zz.-Tae
probable ticket for city offices q
ne coming city elecuOn IL Hume
vel is.
FOR MayO--Mrs. p. T. Wilson
FOR police J1dge--Sirs. G. 4 o.
born.
For Council Women-Mrs. l. Z
m.ou. Wrs. o. Ellis and Mrs. z. A
CLARK
H1nneweli is small place but It's
+ gms.lness has not prevented f. re
ing Wicked, yes. very wicked, A.
ieast that is E.ha. the women who
aspire 10 city offices gay. And they
bel.e.e that the only way ~ cure
This evil is 70 place women, mothers.
a.. the head Of the towns affairs.
Tho say that man IS good enough
In his way but he Is lacking the
.
cepuon Of her aptitude in OOkins
out for She moral welfare Of the
bOys. Yes, even though he be a
iaiher. Mrs. Wilson Is a large NO
man. She has large blue eyes that
scem 70 Ne laughing all the time
even when she Is discussing affairs
OF state In the most serious man
ner She has a positive manner
made all the more intense by the
direct way in which her azure eyes
look into yours.
Men Have Tried and Failed"
why shouldn't the women run
this town." she asked. The men
have been at It long time and
their failure, 30 far as law enforce
ment Is concerned, Is acknowledged
by nearly every woman in town and
some Of the men. It's high time
that something is done and as the
men have been tried and found
wanting. don't you think the women
should be given a chance?"
This was a dEect question and
there came a positive encouraging
yes from the stranger Mrs. VII.
son adjusted her back combs, smooth
ed the hair at her temples, when
so far as the interviewer could see
, needed no smoothing.
I'm mother" continued Mrs
! Wilson. Two boys, one 20 and
p the other younger. They are the
J meat In the cocoanut of this town.
. election. don't mean my boys
, especially, but all the boys The
l town should do something for It's
. boys. We should take temptation
away from them. BoOtlcggcrs have
been selling the demon rum around
here for years, and 80 far as we
can see nothing has been done by
our men (thcre was an emphatic
, emphasis upon men, authorities
/ 10 put a stop to the nefarious prac-
; tice. With women IN power tina.
, would be changed. With a woman
, mayor and police judge these boot
I Logging rascals would be run out of
, town or compelled to go to work.
] something they have never done yet
We would put the lid on tight
, Then there are the poo halls
Every one should pay license They
don't now. But that is a minor
detail so far as they are concerned
our city ordinance does not permit
minors TO 80 10 poolhalls. But what
does a city ordinance amount to with
these men? Boys go there and mix
with rough men. It's bad, very bad.
and that's all there is to 1t. Now
thc playing OF pool and billiards Is
in Itself not wicked for men, but
/ everyone knows that rough ele-
ment gathers there and that Is
who're the harm comes to our boys.
They should he kept away" The
blue eyes snapped, and there was
every evidence that should the
speaker be made mayor OF Hume
well the poo hall proprietor would
shoe the boys away from his place
as he would well developed case
Of black plague
Civic Improvement Also.
Now let's get away from moral
issues continues Mrs. Wilson. This
town needs better sanitary conditions.
sewers and the like. and our un-
used wells should be put in use.
oh. yes; just another word about
/ another moral issue. They have gam
bling devices here that are contrary
to the state law They should be
suppressed. The boys use these,
too"
Mrs. c. A. Osborn, candidate for
police Judge. Is a much larger wo-