The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-14
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS.

lfOLllICAL OBSkKVAIlON
Colonel Roosevelt has drawn the ire
Of the National Young Mems RepubH
can League NO loyal Republican.
white or black. can subscribe TO Colon
el Roosevelt's utterances in his cor
troversy with President GOmpers Of the
American Federation Of Labor regard
ing the East St Louis race riots" de
clares Lin William Price, president Of
the league.
In Massachusetts, where there is a
state election every year It is taken
for granted that Governor Samuel W.
Mccall Rep will be renominated. Two
Democrats. Frederick W. Mansfield. the
party's nominee last year, and William
F. Fitzgerald, who for years was known
as a copper king" have filed for the
Democratic nomination.
Massachusetts has a constitutional
convention, well organized and in ses-
sion. but the people are manifestins
/ little interest in its deliberations. The
cause Of this apathy may be in the
fact that there are much greater things
! 70 occupy mems minds With a word
on fire there are other things TO 90
Of much more importance than fran
/ ing a new constitution.
The Republican enrolment in New
York City by boroughs just published.
IS as follows: New York County. s7507.
Bronx county, 2s2sS: Kings county,
l0s1s7; Queens county. 20,552; Rich
mOnd county. 1906. Total Republican
enrolment, 25O,O0o. This total is about
l250O0 less than the total Democratic
enrolment. and explains why the Re
publicans are so anxious for fusion with
the antLTammany Democrats.
The Appeal TO Reason, the SocialisI
organ published al Girard. Kan. has
been haired from the mails. Among otL-
er publications. one or more issues of
which have been barred by the pos;
office department. are Tom Watson's
Jeffersonian. Georgia. the Four Lights
organ Of Woman's Peace party Of New
York: the American Socialist. Socialist
the Blast. Alexander Berkman's anaT.
chist periodical, and Mother Earth, En-
ma Goldmans mouthpiece
Gov. Frank o. Lowden. Of Illinois
makes no attempt 20 excuse the race
riot In East ST. Louis. Il know OF no
outrage perpetrated in the south that
has equaled that at East st. Louis.
said the governor. we cannot wipe
out the stain. but II the people Of Ini-
nois will get together unitedly for law
enforcement such a thing will neye.
be possible again. There must be in
every nation some supreme power In
a monarchy IL is the king but in a re-
public IL is the law"
Information that comes from the in
ner circles Of the Kansas Democracy
Is that Senator Howard Thompson vii!
be dumped. and the nomination in 1915
given TO someone who can measure up
TO the standard Of Arthur Capper. who,
according to present indications, viii
be the Republican candidate. Senator
Thompson Is regarded as a failure by
the Democrats Of the west. generally,
and Il is claimed that the Democratic
senators from Nebraska, Missouri Ok
lahoma and Colorado-all Joining Kan
sas-want 70 see Thompson displaced.
A battle for control OF the next New
Jersey senate Is already on. Eight sen
ators are 10 be elected next November.
some Of them TO fiji vacancies and 9th
ers in succession to men whose terms Of
office expire January !, 1918. In the
present senate the Republicans hold
fifteen seats and the Democrats six. As
six Republican senators retire. that
party will have 20 elect two senators
only to retain control The Democrats
must elect seven Of the eight senator's |
to be chosen TO give them a majority. |
With two Democrats retiring, they viii |
have only four holdovers.
New attacks on the governments war
policies are made weekly In The Repub-
lican. known as the official organ Of
Mayor Thompson Of Chicago. In its last
issue The Republican says: And be-
cause we also believe that the great
mass Of American people are not now
In favor OF sending our young mel
without their consent TO foreign battle
fields we shall continue to discuss the
war It's causes. consequences and pros
able duration without fear or favor
The Republican Is under the scrutiny
OF federal officials and there Is proba-
bility that Il may be suppressed on the
ground that It's pronouncements are &C.
dItious.