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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
SURROUNDED BY MEMBERS OF
HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS,
TAFT RECEIVES 1T.
OUTLINES TAFT CAMPAIGN
Taft Takes Opportunity Of Definitely
Planning Campaign-Tariff and CO.
madam Reciprocity Big Issues in
the Campaign. /,

Washington, ID. c., Aug. 1.-Presi-
dent Taft was formally notified to-
day of his nomination by the national
republican convention at Chicago.
Surrounded by his family and num-
ber of friends in the historic east
room of the white house, the presi-
kpnt received from Senator Root.
chairman of the committee on notifi-
cation, his first official information
of the conventions action.
Mr.. Taft himself arranged to have
the notification made at the white
house. because here he could more
conveniently entertain the members
of the notification committee after
ward Mrs. Taft and children came
down from their summer home at
Beverly to attend the ceremonies.
Opportunity was taken Of the pres
ence of so many republicans from al.
parts OF the United States to def
nitely plan many of the details Of the
fall campaign. Mr.. Taft personally
entered into many o. these plans. dis
cussing them witt the various repub-
lican leaders of the different states.
II is known that Taft would Ike to
make part of his campaign on clear.
cut issue between protection and a
tariff for revenue only, since he has
, learned that the democrats plan to
pay particular attention to tariff III
their fight for Governor Wissrn. Taft
wants his managers to convince the
PEOPLE that the platforra promises for
tariff revision of 1908 have been faith
fully performed. Taft wants to get
close to the rural vote this yeaT
which has not heretofore always
agreed with him on the question OF
the tariff. Those invited to the no.
tification included many prominent
republicans, who have shown an in
clination to favor Roosevelt and es-
pecial Stress was brought to bring
these men back to Taft, and to OF
set the effect of the "Bnll Moose
con, ention in Chicago next Monday.
"Your title to the nomination is as
clear and unimpeachable as tho title
Of any candidate since political con-
vcntions began" said United States
Senator Root at the conclusion.
~ accept the nomination which Won
tender" replied Taft in beginning his
speech of acceptance. Il accept it as
an expression of confidence that in
my second administration I will serve
tine public we'll"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
ARDMORE, OKLAHOMA THU RSDAY EVENING GUST 1912
Rain Causes Postponement.

Owing to the heavy downpour OF
rain this morning the matter OF put
ting the pumps at the Caddo station
to final test in forcing water d.
rect from Caddo creek into and
through the city water mains has
been postponed.
Commissioner Bridgman stated ear
ly this morning that the break where
the new pipe line connected with
the old line had been thoroughly re-
paired in such manner as to with
stand the pressure when the pumps
We're put to work and run at their
full capacity.
Mayor Dawson said this morning
that he did not know just when the
final pumping test would be made,
but that it would be one day in the
early future.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01

Senator Joe B. Thompson OF Pauls
Valley, former chairman OF the dem
ocratic state committee ana recog-
nized as one of the big democrats of
the state, was in the city yesterday
and today extending his acquaintance
among local democrats. He is can
didate for congressman-at- large and
he is large enough for the job.
Senator Barefoot said, Il started
out with Thompson to introduce him
here. but soon found chat he knew
about as many people as | did. Sen
ator Thompson was one of the best
friends Chickasha had in the last
legislature and he never failed to
come to our rescue"
Mr.. Thompson served four years as
chairman of the state committee,
leading his party to splendid victor
les. He is recognized as one of the
leading lawyers in Oklahoma ana
has a host of friends throughout the
state.-Chickash Express.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01

preservation of liberty and justice.
You know that to sweep away those
wise rules of restraint would not
be progress but decadence. You know
that the great declarations of prin-
ciple in our constitution cannot be
made an effectual guide to conduct
in any other way than by judicial
judgment upon attempts to violate
them; and you maintain the indie
pendence, dignity and authority OF
the courts of the United States. You
are for progress along the lines OF
national development. but for prog
res which still preserves the good
we already have and holds fast to
those essential elements of American
institutions which have made our
country prosperous and great and
free You represent the spirit Of
kindly consideration by every Ameri-
can citizen towards all his fellows,
respect, for the right of adverse opin-
ion, peaceable methods of settling
differences-the spirit and method
which made order and peaceful self
government possible, as distinguished
from intolerance and hatred and vio-
lence.
In respect of all these things our
country is threatened from many
sides. It is your high privilege to
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
To Arbitrate Price of Ballots.

Oklahoma City, Okla, July 3l.-The
price to be paid for printing the pr
mary ballots under the contract
awarded by the board Of affairs TO
the Warden Printing company of Ok
lahoma City is submitted to an ar
bitration board. composed of Roy T..
Johnson. of the Ardmore Statesman,
John heplar, of Lawton and Mr.. Cook
of the Oklahoma Printing company.
Two years og the ballots cost
3,lOO while this year the price
was $4,000. Complaint was made 10
Governor Cruce and he directed that
the reasonableness of this price
be investigated by the board OF af-
fairs.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
ATTORNEYS SUBMIT ARGUMENTS
OF KANSAS ELECTORS CASE TO
SUPREME COURT.
OLMSTEAD REPRESENTS TAFT
Roosevelt Forces Are Represented ~
keplinser and Jackson-Ear'y De,
cision on the Case is Confldenf
Expected.

New York, n. u. August l.-lhe
kansas electors case, involving :
uniuue point of great importance u
our Lational election machinery, was
TODAY Submitted to the justices OF the
supreme court with the expectation
that they will settle ii finally whether
the Roosevelt electors will have TIER
names on the Kansas primary ballot.
The attorneys representing the
Roosevelt side included l. w. Kep-
finger and F. S. Jackson, while Rep'
resentative Olmstead of Pennsylvania
appeared for the applicants.
Justice Vendeventer sat with Pit
ney in the case.
Representative Olmstead, who
omen the argument, laid stress upon
the fact that if the Roosevelt men
were allowed to stay on the primary
ballot. the citizens who signed the
petition putting them there would be
deprived of their right of free choice.
This case involves more dynamite
,han any that has been handed mp u
this court since the period of re-
construction" declared Representa-
tive Jackson for the defendants. ut
involves the broad question of state
and national authority. Speaking OF
the promises of the candidates for
electors, he said, "These are political
promises and not such as are in this
courts power to enforce
Jackson declared that the petition
ers are not injured because if they
didn't wish to vote for the eight
Roosevelt candidates, they could vote
Tor the Taft candidates, if both acts
were on the regular ballots. He said
that any decision by the two JUS
tees would settle it and there would
he no danger of further contests.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
Notice to Union Men.

A special meeting of the United
Trades Council of Ardmore is called
for Friday evening at 8 o'clock at the
Labor Hall. over the Wonder Store, on
West Main street Business of in
portance and election of officers for
the ensuing year Every member IN
good standing of all affiliated locals
requested to attend.
]. RI. SMITH, President.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
SANTA FE IS LOSER;
CAN'T INCREASE RATE

Washington, d. c., Aug. 1.-The
proposed advances by the Santa F'e
Railway of freight rates on coal
from the districts of Colorado to
Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, were
suspended by the interstate COM
merce commission today, from Aug
ust ~ to February II
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
Notice to Unicn Men.

! special meeting of he Cnite0
Trades Council of Ardmore is called
Tor Friday evening 1T o'clock al the
Labor Hall, over the Wonder Store, on
West Main street. Business OF i'm
portdnce and election Of Officers foi
the ensuing year Every member il
good standing of all affiliated locai'
requested to attend.
Y. II. SMITH, President.
]. W. TER, Secretary.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01

Hear VIM r. Freeman at the sec
ond ward school campus tonight.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01

The ladies' are invited to hear Free
man speak at the second ward school
tonight.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
ALLIED FORCES IN
CONTROL OF SENATE
DEMOCRATS AND PROGRESSIVE
REPUBLICANS CONTROL SEN
ATE NOW.

Washington, d. c., Aug. 1.-The
senate today gave the democratic
progressive republican tariff alliance
complete control of the senate con-
ference committee on the wool sugar
and excise tax bills. This is the first
step in carrying out the agreement
between the democrats and insurgent
republicans.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01

be the standard -bearer for the cause
in which you believe; and in that
cause of peace and justice and liber-
ty the millions of your countrymen
who believe as you do will stand
with you, and the great party which
was born in the struggle for consti-
tutional freedom will support YOU"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
PRESIDENT TAFT
~ IS NOTIFIED
BY SENA\ FOOT OF HIS NOM
NATION L.HE CHICAGO CON-
vENTIoN AS PRESIDENT.

Washington, Aug. 1.-"Your title
to the nomination is as clear and un-
impeachable as the title of any can
didate since political campaigns be-
gan"
That was the keynote of Senator
Eliuh Roots address to President
Taft here today, when, as chairman
of the committee of notification, he
formally advised the president of his
nomination by the Chicago conven-
ton.
Surrounded by the members OF the
committee and a hundred or so in
vited guests, the chairman OF the
convention in brief speech deliver
ed the official announcement.
"The committee of notification"
said Senator Root, here present,
has the honor to advise you formally
that on the 22nd day of June. last,
YOU were regularly and duly nominat-
ed by the republican party, to be
the republican candidate for president
for the term beginning March 4th,
1913
For second time in the history
of the republican party part of the
delegates have refused to be bound
| by the action of the convention.
New, as on the former occasion, the
irreconciliable minority declares its
intention to support either your DEM
ocratic opponent, or third candi-
date The reason assigned for this
course is dissatisfaction with the de-
cision of certain contests in the maxi
ing up of the temporary roll of the
convention Those contests were de-
cided by the tribunal upon which the
law that has governed the republican
party for more than forty years i'm
posed the duty of deciding such con-
tests.
so long as those decisions were
made honestly and in good faith all
persons were bound to accept them
as conclusive in the making up of
the temporary roll of the convention,
and neither in the facts and argu-
ments produced before the national
committee the committee on creden-
tials and the convention itself, nor
otherwise, does there appear just,
ground for impeaching the honesty
and good faith of the committees
decisions. Both the making up of
the temporary roll, and the rights ac-
corded to the persons upon that
roll, whose seats were con-
tested, were in accordance with the
long established and unquestioned
rules of law governing the party, and
founded upon justice and common
sence. Your title to the nomination
is as clear and unimpeachable as the
title of any candidate of any party
since political conventions began.
Your selection has a broader ba-
sis than a mere expression of choice
between different party leaders rep
resnting the same ideas. You have
been nominated because you stand
pre- -eminently for certain fixed and
essential principles which the repub-
lican party maintains. You believe
in the rule of law rather than the
rule of men. You realize that the
only safety for nations, as for indi-
viduals, is to establish and abide
by declared principles of action. You
are in sympathy with the great prac-
tical rules of right-conduct that the
American people have set up for their
own guidance and self-restraint in
the limitations of the constitution
the limitations upon governmental
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-08-01
Speaking at Airdome Tonight.

W. F. Bourland, candidate for coun-
ty Judge, ]. S. Clarkson for county tax
assessor and Virgil Johnson for reg
lister of deeds will speak at the Air
dome tonight at $50. Everybody,
especially the ladies, invited.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
THE INFLUENCE OF THE sLAy
Following the Natural Law of Inter-
 mixed Races

From the Hartford Times Dem)
 Biologists have determined that where two related varieties of race are crossed the offspring are apt to exceed their par ents in bodily-and presumably intellectual --vigor. Where two highly differentiated varieties are crossed, however, there is marked tendency to revert to the charas- teristics of the original race from which both sprang. The deduction rests largely on the results of crossing two highly diff ferentiated, artificial breeds of pigeons, the pouter and the fantail. The offsDrlng of these showed at once the marks of the wild rock pigeons. the ancestor of all mod ern varieties. We may notice the same phenomenon in the chance mating or snr common doves of the white and reddish varieties. The blue color with the black barred wings at once reappeared in the young.
 This tendency 10 revert to the original type may appear as the result of the m-x- ing of races in. this country. The original settlers in our country were al or nearly all from closely related families of Teu- tonic race, English. Scotch, Scotch-Irish, Holanders and Germans, with a few Scandinavians. Men of the genera ton which fought the revolutionary war, though the mixture of races were then far from complete. were superior to sn equal number from the old countries in bodily vigor and intelligence. The ifu- guenots of South Carolina and New York though shade further removed from the common stock, were also near enough to show marked improvement in their chil- dren wherever intermarriages took, as is by the eminence In our early history of men bearing French names. To this it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
iOUEEN MAY SOON
 ENTER A CONVENT
Duchess of AOsta Not Re- covering Health-Buried
 Alive for Four Days
By CLEMENT J. BARRETT

Rome, March 16.-Queen Margherita soon is to leave the world and spend the remainder of her days in a convent, if stories current in the inner social circles of Rome are to be believed. Her majesty is said to have renounced society. 'I am so tired of everything" she recently said Since the assassination of King Humbert Queen Margherita took up motoring and for years was rarely out of her car except when she slept. She has GOV cred something like 10000 miles, her trips covering all parts of Italy and q goodly share of the continent. She gen erally drove at a high rate of speed "The wild race of the car makes me forget in some measure she was wont to say.
 Another royal lady is interesting Roman society. The Duchess of Aosta does not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

You'll be among the best dressed yo, in the Easter parade if you'll drop in a you up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
MANY CANDIDATES
 FOR PRESIDENCY Hot Contests Among Demo-
 crats and Republicans TO LOP OFF S25,00 Democrats Plan Attack on Presidents
Democrats Plan Attack on President s Expense Appropriatiop-Women Voters of California Are
 Strong for MT. Taft
By RALPH NJ. wHITEsIDE

Washington, March 16-tSpecial .)-h has been a good many years since there were as many serious candidates for the presidential nominations as there is thu year. and it will be necessary to go back to find as much heat in campaign as there is in this one
 In the republican camp the active en- try of Colonel Roosevelt into the fight has upset the apple cart and has turned what appeared to be nice comfortable walk over for MT. Taft into a..red hot battle in which there is shown much bit- terness with good prospect of more.
 What the result of the fight will be depends in large measure on the southern states If the Taft forces can hold the southern delegates in line the President will be renominated on the first ballot early. The Roosevelt managers realize that and are making their principal fight at this point .r.s4s
 Even if they split the south it is no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

might be objected that many of the ablo | Americans of the early period were of pure English or Welsh or even French blood, but after making all the allow ances for the cases of Adams. Washington and q few others. il Is evident that the ad- mixture of kindred races produces a su- perior breed of men.
 Tn our country there is likely to be in the present century a large infusion ef Slavic and southeast European blood into the body of our citizenship. These races are not so nearly relatedeto the peoples of northwestern Europe as those peoples are to each other. We may sec more or less of a reversion to the original savage man in cases when members of these dis- tantly related races intermarry. At prcs- ent they keep distinct as a rule but if is impossible that in time they should s.os melt into the body of citizens. Nobody knows exactly what were the bodily pe- culiarities or the mental and physical traits of this original Asio- European. Is must have been dark and pretty strong physically. He was no doubt a fighter and possessed of considerable latent abil- ity since he Is the progenltor of tho Greeks. the Romans, the Germans and tho French. But he was primitive and if he reappears in this country he will bring with him primitive strength and primitive passions. He may be violent in his ac- tions and dangerous criminal but, again. the environment may subdue him to decorous behavior. It would seem quite possible that a new kind of great man may appear in America before the century is over. a reversion not to the cave dweller. but to his remote descend ant, who was strong enough to lay ths mudsis of modern Europe, tho pre- IIomeric man who made Homer possible, the later Adam who did not fall because he began at the bottom and dug up out of his inner being the roots of law and liter ature and music The modern '4blue roclS' will be a man of natural power: he may be a man of genius. But he will be for Iis new kind of man, though, in reality, q very old one.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

recover her health. It will be remember ed that at the beginning of the war with Turkey. her royal highness volunteered as nurse and worked faithfully in the hospitals in Tripoi. She worked hard in fact that her health broke under the strain and she was compeleld to return to Italy.
 Not only the hard work she did but the terrible sights she saw in the hospitals, caused her nerves to break and her re- coyery is woefully slow.
 The duchess was particularly affected by the sight of some of the Italian sol diers who had fallen into the hands of the Arabs. Few of these were subjects for the hospital when they were re- covered but those who were in condition to try the nerves of the most hardened army surgeon. to say nothing of an anna teur nurse who knew nothing Of hard ships and nothing of human suffering.
 An accident in which five school boys lost their lives has taken place at San Reno on the Corso Frederico Guglielmo, beautiful promenade skrting the sea and named after the i'll fated German Emperor who lived at the Villa ziro here Forty-five school boys of a San Reno primary school were taking their usual morning walk along the Corso when the roadway suddenly collapsed with a deafening crash and huge chasm appeared. About thirty of the boys were swept off their feet and dis appeared amid shower of stones and great clouds of dust.
 The masters, with the assistance of the police and soldiers. organized the rescue work and all the boys were withdrawn from the chasm. Five were dead and eight severely injured. On the land side of the promenade lies the railway. and just the boys were marching up the avenue a train was passing The boys had been trained by their masters to march in step. and their tramps. added to the shock produced by the train, Is believed to have been responsible for the landsip. The victims are all Italians.
 After being buried for four days in a well. a mason named Maccacaro was res cued by soldiers
 The well was a deep one, and Mac cacaro and his son were working at the bottom when the sides caved in. Mac cacaro had seen indications of the dis aster and had peremptorlly ordered his son to tho top. After the accident the young man ran off to the barracks and sappers soon got to work. but with small hopes of reaching the victim alive
 They were obliged to excavate a species Of amphitheatre to depth of forty feet. In the process no less than 300o cubic metres of soil and stone were removed: in other words, as much debris as . sang of twenty diggers would normally ex- cayate in couple of months hard work.
 The rescue corps had got well into their fourth days exertions before Maccacsro was unearthed. unconscious and half frozen. beneath heap of fallen scsf- folding which had chanced 10 form an archwork over his bruised and prostrate body, and so save his life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
A Tasty Sandwich

It was the memory of a childhood appe- tte which inspired worpan to serve brown bread sandwiches spread with horseradlsh and sugar seth her afternoon tea. The snappy pungency of the horse radish was very delightful. The horse radish had, of course, been mixed with vinegar, the slightest possible amount used. and it was sprinkled lightly with powdered sugar The brown bread was made of whole wheat and graham flour and was cut as thin as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
CYRENE COMMANDERY

THE SIR KNIGHTS OF CYRENE: AND OF ALL CON- WANDERERS IN TUE STATE AND VISITING SIR KNIGHTS ARE RE- QUESTED TO ATTEND 4 SPECIAL TUESDAY, MARCH 10, AT : .3O F. M. OFFICIAL INSPECTION BY RT. EM. SIR LOUIS |. WRIGHT, GRAND COMMANDER. WORK IN OR- DER OF KNIGHTS OF MALTA.
 ARTHUR BARTON. EM. COM. CHARLES j. GEOHEGAN.,
 RECORDER.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17
WesIey's "Narrow Neck of Land

From the Boston Transcript.
 The actual First and Last house in Eng land is shed where woman sells spcc.- mems of rock. Just below this, one goes down the zigzag path between The rocks, on the neck of the peninsula. is a flat stone about two feet-sauare and rising six inches above the ground. This. tra- diton asserts, is that upon which John Wesley sat when he composed the hymn: Lo. on narrow neck Of land
 'Twixt two unbounded seas stand,
 Secure. insensiDle.
 IL is also stated that Wesley wrote other hymns there. Apparently he had t this time July 35, 1783) experienced bad spell of weather at Lands End. for he writes: ''f saw a strange sight, the sun shining in Cornwall"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-17

be led into foolish excesses which would damage tho very cause he champions. In MT. Taft. we have man who com pines all of these qualities to a degree which no other man in our public life since the civil war has surpassed There are about 20o0 words in similar strain contained in the letter.