The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-03

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| Nebraska Democrats have started A
boom for United States Senator q. NJ
Hitchcock for nomination for the presi
dency in 1920, Imagine, II you can
William J, Bryan supporting Hitchcock
Everything from a municipal Ice
house to the initiative. referendum, re.
call and home rule Is advocated for the
various platforms OF the several fusion
committees IN New York. II is any.
thing to beat Tammany.
Another mayor, George Freeman OK
McGregor, Iowa, has come to grief. He
was fined $500 for knowingly trans
porting liquor from Wisconsin into
Iowa. which b rbone dry" and his res.
ignation from office has been accepted
Massachusetts legislature is compos-
ed OF $50 members. making II body
too cumbrous for properly handling the
affairs OF the state. and a proposition
Ii. before the constitutional convention
now In session TO materially reduce the
membership. tr
Minneapolis Is city OF many pollt..
cal parties. Besides Democrats, Repub.
leans and Progressives there are other
politico-economic groups. such as SO.
oialists. Prohibitionists, anarchists, /.
W. W's. and hoboes. all fairly well
organized. The mayor is a Socialist.
AN such conferences are premature
and untimely and can lead 10 no good
purpose" This ~ the patriotic declara.
tion OF the American Federation OF
Labor expressed through its president,
Samuel Gompers. as regards the inter.
national confethnce OF trade unions call.
ed by the stockholm conference 70
meet September II In Switzerland.
The greatest achievement recorded In
war annals was the assembling and
20 France OF an Amerl
can army OF 1880 men without hitch.
For this unparalleled feat credit must
be given to Secretary OF War Baker
and Secretary OF the Navy Daniels.
And these are the two men who have
been the subjects OF world OF criti.
cism for ineffcienoy.
A successor TO United States Senator
George w. Norris (Repl Of Nebraska
Is 20 be elected next year and as Norris
belongs to the pacifst group OF senators
there seems little prospect that he viii
be renominated. Whom the Repuhls.
cans win name is conjectural. SO far
the only Democrat who Is talked OF for
the party's nomination Is Governor Ne
vile. and he-is Just now debating a
proposition to go into the army as colo
mel OF the new Sixth ,Nebrpska regl.
ment.
Minresota's war safety committee.
created by ths I'LL leeiSlatpre 70 solve
war time problems becAuse the state
forbade the legislature TO
in session more than ninety
days once every two years. is dealing
with the liquor traffic In thas
state. Under the orders OF the war
liquor drinkine-is TO be eo,,.
fined exclusively to tho male sex. No
woman can be served with liquor in
any licensed restaurant. cafe or hotel.
and no woman Is permitted TO enter
such a place.
Republican leaders see IN the result
Of two recent by.elections in widely
separate states. one IN New Hampshire
and one IN Indiana. drift which would.
should II continue. result in Republi.
can control OF the next house OF rep
But a good deal OF water
must pass under the bridge before the
next house Is chosen. sixteen months
viii elapse before election day. and
In that time many. things may happen
are likely 20 happen. We shall have
experience Of F1rstxpefienee' OF every,
lay politics: experiences OF other kinds.
Counting next house -chicks-now Is idle
Mayor Thomppr " Cnlcago mas been
by the council Judiciary com.
mittee and may be irnpeaehed by the
council In the debate leading up 10 the
vote for censure the mayor was de-
nounced as "the biggest double cross
IN Chicago and-the biggest hypocrlte
N town" In referring to the fact tina;
he president had taken away from
him the right 10 name exemption
,oaris Alderman Mccormick said: "E,.
,rything the mayor has said or dona
publicly has shown him 20 be a traitor.
He tried TO blast the liberty loan and
lraft" And only a little while aeo
lome Chicago people were hooming
Thompson for the Republican nomina.
ION for president.