The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-09
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS.

IPOLIiICAL OBSEKVALlONS.
The process Of rejuvinating the Re
publican party in Ohio is definitely un-
der way. New state headquarters have
been established at Columbus, and the
party advisory committee has given in
structions to "go ahead under full
steam"
The new Republican house steering
committee is a Mann committee, mas
much as il gives Leader Mann clear
control of the committee on committees.
The members of the committee, or rath.
er the majority, are men who have
heretofore followed Mr.. Mann in his
campaign of obstruction and have been
leaders of the pacifist group.
Foes of women suffrage in Indiana
have begun legal action to test the con-
stitutionaIity Of the constitutional con-
vention law passed by the last legisla-
ture and that part of the woman suf-
frage law which gives to women Of GER
tain age and qualification the right to
vote for delegates. to the proposed con-
stitutional convention.
Constitutional making will interest
the politicians to a large degree. for
some time. The Massachusetts consti-
tutional convention begins on June s.
On June 26 Arkansas will choose dele
gates to constitutional convention TO
be held in November. In July Tennes-
see will decide at the polls If she wants
such convention in October In Sep
tember the Indianians viii choose their
delegates. In November Illinois will vote
for or against a convention.
Suffrage tickets will continue TO flaunt
their banners in President Wilson's
face. The appeal which Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, head Of the National
Woman Suffrage Association. made to
Miss Alice Paul of the National Wo-
mans party to withdraw the pickets
for the political freedom of women.
which they are endeavoring by the an.
tagonism they rouse" was in vain. The
militants are in the saddle and propose
to ride TO victory-or TO their fall.
The New York mayoralty campaign
is growing in interest and promises to
be the most important campaign Of the
year. 1t has a city side. a state side
and a national side. Tammany is up
and doing and expects to oust the pres
ent fusion administration and to come
into power again. II Tammany should
win 1t will not only regain all the fat
offices Of the city but will resume its
leadership of the state Democracy and
will figure with former prominence and
influence at the next Democratic nation.
al convention.
Politicians are turning their eyes to.
ward the Sixth Indiana district. where
the congressional election viii be held
June 26 10 select a successor TO ID. w.
Comstock, Republican. who died recent
ly. The district went Republican last
November by us majority. and the par.
ty viii make a desperate fight to elect
their candidate, who will be named at
a district convention TO be held at Rush.
vile June 8. Numerous candidates are
already on the stump and the intention
is to flood the district with oratory and
literature after the nomination.
II is women against women in Mary.
land. The legislature will be in extra
session shortly and the suTfragists are
preparing for a strenuous fight 10 put
over a bill granting women limited suf.
frage. but the Maryland Association Op.
posed to Woman Suffrage is preparing
TO make an equally strenuous fight to
bring about the defeat OF the bill. This
organization contends that the legisla.
ture has no right to pass a bill 70 sat
isfy "a comparatively small number OF
discontented individuals" against the
WISHES Of "the contented mass"
Governor Whitman Of New York has
signed the bia authorizing the state in
dustrial commission 10 suspend the op.
Grafton OF the state labor laws for the
period OF the war. bill that WIN sweep
all the beneficial labor laws Of thirty
years off the books. This act OF the gov
ernor. II is charged. reveals the cheap
politician rather than the statesman.
This suspension bin is the kind OF a
measure that President Wilson warned
state legislatures against. declaring that
the present emergency does not warrant
such an overthrow OF social and indus
trial safeguards.
PURELY PERSONAL