The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-16

Notwithstanding the fact that Lieu
4 tenant.G .Govcrnor Edgar Howard of Ne
| braska. II shortly To move up pes
and become governor. he makes II
clear that he stil In anxious To serve
I'm the United States senate and viii
continue In the race for the democratic
nomination.
Courtney w. Hamlin, representative
In congress from the Seventh Missouri
district. brands AZ IA lie" inferences
that he was one OF the members OF
congress who had accepted money from
the German government Mr.. iiamlin
delivered an address in congress Janu
airy 10, 1916. In which he opposed mu
nitions exports.
Al an open meeting held the other
night the ST. Louis West End business
Mems Association adopted resolution
I'm which IL criticized United States
Senators Stone and Reed and asserted
that their attitude and conduct In con-
gress had not represented the spirit
of Missourians toward the nation and
the conduct OF the war,
Voters in Newark. y. j., declared FOR
commission form Of government at "A
special election October . by vote
of 1909 to 60j3, and that city thus
gains the distinction Of being the see
ond largest city IN the country To have
this system, only Buffalo being ahead
of her. The election of five city com
missioners To take over the govern
ment of the city from the present
mayor, a republican, and council, with
its democratic majority, will be held
Tuesday. November 10. one week after
the general election of county and leg
islative officials.
at Is unfortunate declares the st.
Louis Republic, the leading democratic
organ In Missouri that most of the
public officials. and former public Of
ficials whose names have been con
nected with the penitentiary and other
scandals. are democrats. As the Re
public sees IT, that is all the more rea-
son for letting the searchlight play up
on their records. If they are not guilty,
the sooner the fact is established the
better for them. II guilty, the quicker
they are unniasked and condemned to de-
served punishment the better for the
party"
Former Senator Jonathan Bourne,
president of the Republican Publicity
Association. protests vigorously against
the criticism coming from the Wash
ington bureaus of a number of leading
newspapers. of the character OF some
of the publicity output of that orgaii-
zation. and as vigorously denies that
there is anything "distinctivelv pro
German" i'm any matter sent ont by H..
I'VE challenge YOU" says Mr.. Bourne,
ito point out a single line of our mat
ter that could by any stretch or the
imagination be so characterized And
then he goes on to say: we We're
exposing shipments of goods from
America to Germany through adjacent
countries when President Wilson was
defending such shipments We were
insisting upon preparedness when
President Wilson was asserting that we
had not neglected preparedness. When
the Lusitania was sunk. we demanded
the maintenance of the national honor,
although President Wilson declared al.
most Immediately that we were too
proud TO fight We urge liberal sub
scriptions to the Liberty bonds. When
one of our staff of writers desired to
enter the officers reserve corps we con
tinued to pay him the difference be-
tween his salary with us and the
amount paid him by the government.
thus encouraging him To enter the ar
my. If this record on our part is CON
sistent with any pro-German sympathy
we fail To see where it is Perhaps
the fact that Senator Gronna and eX-
Senator Works are members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the publicity as
sQciation inspired some of the criticisms
of that organization.