The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-07-06
Ardmore, Monday July 6, 1914.
SURPRISES ARE COMING

SURPRISES ARE COMlNO
There promise to be some genuine
surprises in Oklahoma politics this
year. The election is little less than
one month off These four weeks will
witness some of the hardest campaign !
ing that has ever been done in the
state.
Bill Murray is back in his district
and will visit every nook and corner
of it to see the boys. Roddie of Ada
and Barrett and Smith of Shawnee are
after his seat in congress. Bill Muir
raw would have the advantage over
any one man in his district and with
as many opponents as he has, he is
given a decided advantage and should
be reelected with the lineup in that
district.
Charley Carter of this district is a
candidate for reelection without OPP
position in his own party.
Claude Weaver and Joe Thompson
are both in the state. Mr.. Thompson
opens his campaign today in Payne
county. Both of these men are well
known in this section of the state and
the race will be watched with much
interest although the people here can
not vote for either of them Claude
Weaver has taken the moral side of
national issues and some preachers
are in the same race and they take
the moral side of the issues. Thomp-
son is silent and hopes to gather all
the anti votes of the district while
he hopes to see the prohi forces di-
vided between Weaver and the preach
er candidates. While no one knows yet
the surface indications point toward
the advantage of Thompson in that
campaign,
The race for United States senator
is getting to the white heat point:
Gore for time was considered an
easy winner and not much interest
was manifested in the campaign. But
when Sam Hayes entered the race,
when nearly every county in the state
organized a Hayes club and began
to work for him, Senator Gore re-
turned to the state, and is doing more
than "whitsling at the stations He
is hunting votes in the old time seri-
Gus way. Men who have heretofore
STAYED out of politics, are in the cam
paign for Hayes. That Hayes stock
is going up, there is no question of a
doubt Whether he will be elected, is
another thing. Senator Gore is a most
pleasing speaker to say the least OF
il, he is an orator. He knows how to
make vote getting speech. On the
other hand Hayes is one of the clea,
est biggest Drained young men in
Oklahoma who has fought every inch
of his way from a barefoot boy in
Texas cotton patch to membership in
the constitutional convention and to
the chief justiceship of the state su
preme court Hayes is always AT
work. One Of his campaigners Satur
day night in Oklahoma City chal'
lenged the crowd to produce n mar
who had ever seen Sam Hayes sitting
around the lobby of the Lee Huckins
hotel where political dope is made
and dished out Hayes is not the or
binary politician and Gore is not an
ordinary campaigner. That race will
be one of intense interest until the
result is declared.
The race for governor is becoming
more interesting than It seemed il
could ever become when the campaign
started. Early in the race every coun
ty almost gave promise of a majority
for Bob Williams. That Judge vii
liams strength is slipping is the opin
ion of many, but with the vast MAORI
" which he once held he can afford
to lose many votes and then be elect
ed. Judge Williams has made a mis-
take in allowing Al Jennings to ruf
fe his feelings. Whom the gods
would destroy they first make mad
and Judge Williams is known to have
a temper that by no means always
STAYS placid. West and Robertson have