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

Political observations.
Send LaFollette and Stone TO Ger
many, shouts Colonel Roosevelt. Their |
place is in the reichstag and not in the
senate of the United States. Besides it
would be a way of retaliatlng upon Ger
many for use Of poisoned gas"
William Jennings Bryan anticipates
at least another twenty years in public
life The three-time Democratic presi-
Dental nominee, former secretary of
state, former congressman, political
savant and chautauqua lecturer de-
clares he is just beginning to enjoy
himself.
Another proof that political leaders
can forget politics in the face of ma
tional peril! The $1l53S,9 AGO war
bond revenue measure-the greatest in
the worlds history-was laid before
congress with a unanimous bipartisan
report for its immediate passage.
A classification of the men who sign
ed petitions asking William r. Hearst to
run for mayor of New York shows that
of the 1859 signers there were: English
914; Irish, LII; Russians 43; Poles, 5O;
Teutons, 663; Scandanavians, 107; Ar.
menians 5; Serbs, 2; Jewish sos; Hun.
garians 113; Swiss, 30; French 6; Hol-
landers, 5; Danes 2; and undetermined,
SO.
Comment of the newspapers of the
| United States on President Wilson's an.
swer to the peace note of Pope Benedict
emphasizes and approves the two points
That America is fighting for world
liberty and that the military leaders Of
Germany are not TO be trusted. That
there shall be no peace with Prussan
autocracy--utterly abhorrent TO Ameri.
can democracy-is a keynote sentiment
echoed almost without exception.
The more important political events
scheduled for this off year are the mu-
nicipal election in New York City, the
gubernatorial election in Massachusetts
and the elections on woman suffrage in
New York state and Maine. There will
also be a gubernatorial election in Vir-
ginia, but so far only one ticket, Demo
cratic, has been placed in the field. In
all Indiana cities there will be elections
for municipal officers,
In Massachusetts the campaign for
the Republican nomination for governor
the candidates being Governor Mccall
and former LieutenantGovernor Graf.
ton d. Cushing. has reached the straw
vote" stage. Here is an interesting
straw vote" taken at Lake View Park
near Lowell: Total 1877; Republicans for
| Mccall 80; Republicans for Cushing 63;
Democrats for Mccall T. Democrats for
Gushing. 80; Democrats for Mansfield
80 Republicans for Mansfield 4; Social
lists /; no choice, II.
President Wilson's capacity for stat
ing great truths in few words has been
repeatedly demonstrated in the course
of the war; but ii has been shown no
more forcibly than in the reply to the
pope's peace proposal. II is typicaly
Wilsonian in diction and phraseology,
but II even surpasses in power of logic
and reasoning anything that the presi.
dent has ever said or written upon the
issues in the war or the doctrine Of
liberty and popular freedom. No better
answer to the question What are we
fighting for?' was ever written or spok-
len.
| Although admitting that the militant
pickets in Washington have hurt the
cause in general. the New York suffra-
gists express the greatest confidence
that they will win the ballot at the
November election, They have won the
} support Of such men as Governor Whit
} man. former Senator Root and Mayor
Mitchell. and furthermore have planned
a red fire campaign In every county
= and town in the state. Their program
includes the opening Of headquarters
In stores, offices. and shops, and person
. al appeals 10 the voters by means OF
cards, posters and bands and banners
Senator James Watson Of Indiana is
one of the few men In public life az this
) time whose strain Of talk is altogether
, different from that OF the great leader.
Of his party. In a ranky partisan
speech the other day he charged the
& president although reelected on "a plat
, form declaring for peace, with "im
mediately punging the country int
war" OF course, everybody with q
E grain of common sense knows thai
, President Wilson went 20 lengths thai
! few statesmen would have gone to keeI
the country out Of war and that IL coulC
have kept out only by an unparalleled
4 exhibition OF cowardice. But littl,
. thing like the accuracy OF history does
] not bother a real partisan like Jim
e Watson.
PACIFIST PROPAGANDA
, IN AMERICA CAUSES