The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-10-27
RUMOR SAYS
RECALL COMING
NO DEFINITE STATEMENT WILL
BE MADE BY LAW AND ORDER
LEAGUE. HlGNIGHT'S CONDITION

If current rumors are correct, anC
there is little doubt but what they
are, there will be something doing al
the regular meeting of the city com
missioners Tuesday night 1t is whis
pered that the Law and Order League
have prepared an interesting docu
ment to present to the mayor and
commissioners for immediate action
said document asking for the removal
Of certain police officers as incompe
tent and unworthy. This is eXpested
to raise a storm cloud on the horizon
and for fear that some of the com
missioners may hesitate to act favor
ably upon the suggestion of the Law
and Order League, there is a yelled
threat that the recall will be invoked
in their case, and the commissioner
who fails to vote according to the
wishes of the league will face a pro-
cess for getting him out of office,
"pronto." All this is the result of a
shooting affray that took place in an
alleged resort on south Washington
street last Thursday night, in which
Officer Hignight was shot through the
breast while assisting in making a
raid and is now in the sanitarium in
very serious condition. The Law
and Order League, organized during
the recent Bulgin meetings, immedi-
ately took the matter up and decided
that if they ever intended doing any
thing along the line of law enforce
ment and the suppression of the law
less element, now was the time, one
member who is very influential in the
organization, stated yesterday that II
was time the law did something
before the citizens of the city
took affairs in their own hands
and enacted another scene such
as was staged at Ada a few years
ago He stated that the city hoped
to escape such disgrace, but the cit
liens were determined that this ele-
ment had to leave or something would
happen.
1t was not learned just who the Law
and Order League have marked for
the axe, whether one, or two, or the
entire force, but this much is certain,
they have hung the Indian sign on
some of them and when the charges
are read Tuesday night, there may be
surprises in store for those who hith-
erto have thought themselves above
reproaCh, at any rate if present ru-
mors are well grounded, the meeting
of the city commissioners Tuesday
night ought to be interesting.
DR.. Gray's Statement.
DR.. Gray, pastor of the Broadway
Methodist church, was seen this NOR
ming concerning the matter to be ia
ken before the commissioners. He
stated j. r. Pennington, Rev. F. M. |
Masters and himself were the commit
zee on publicity, that the committee
lad nothing to give out, that many ru-
norS were afoat, but that none of
hem had come from a reliable source |
'or the reason that no statements of
any kind had ever been given out.
The sentiment of the citizens of
he town are for law enforcement |
they feel that the shooting of Hig- |
hight was uncalled for, and those |
who are not members of the league |
ire in hearty sympathy with law en-
orcement, but just what measures |
will be resorted to, are not known.
The league is working quietly, the |
public has not been taken into their
confidence at this time, and some of
he best men of the city are working
tut plan of solution for the prob
EN-.
Hlgnieht's Condition.
DR.. Walter Hardy stated this NOR.
ing that Hignight was doing very
veil, but the wound is still bleeding,
nd that it will be necessary to open
he wound and to tie an artery to
top the bleeding. The wound was
ressed this morning, and consider
ble amount of blood was wasted in
he dressing.