The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-28
Political Observations.

Political Observations.
A bill that II is safe to say VIII never
be passed by either house OF congress
IL one 10 reduce salaries OF senators
and representatives from SI'ooo '"
sb 900 during the war. introduced 10y
Senator Kenyon OF Iowa
Senator James u. Watson OF Indiana
has accepted an invitation 10 speak at
the Kansas day banquet In Topeka jan
20. Senator Watson has spoken nt
previous banquets. lie Is an eloquent
and forceful speaker and favorite
with Kansas day club members.
According to John Spargo. publicity
director of the new National party. the
first convention of the party, which
will be held In Chicago the first week
i'm next NAV. will be attended by from
2.5O0 To 5000 delegates. He says that
reports from all parts OF the country
show that there Is "A great rush TO JOIN
the party.
Illinois "drys" opened the campaign
for ratification of the national prohibi-
tion amendment TO the constitution the
Washington was flashed to Chicago
They started planning definitely for a
battle to elect dry" Illinois legisla-
ture In November 1918. and obtain
ratification from II In Springfield in
1919.
Non.partisanship I'm war receives
powerful impulse from President VIII
sons admirable letter to the Democrats
of Minnesota recommending the re-elec-
ton of Senator knute Nelson Repub-
lican. This Is "A well deserved recogni'
ton of the senator's long and useful
public service. beginning as soldier
of the union. and embracing "A distin-
guished career as governor and in con-
gress.
Senator Lewis of Illinois has sounded
"A warning against fever of investi-
CATION" into war activities. These in
vestigations are inspired by disappointed
contractors, jealous government offc-
ials and politicians. and, the senator
declares, are creating false impress
sion regarding Americas preparations
abroad and are designed to besmirch
high officials of the government for po-
litical effect.
slave of the pro-German interests"
is an accusation now hurled at Senator
Penrose of Pennsylvania by the Penn
sylvania woman suffragists. He Is
one of the very few men in the senate
who voted against national prohibition"
said Mrs. John o. Miller. Pennsylvania
suffrage president. And these liquor
interests that are his masters repre-
sent German interests, as we learn from
read in the senate. or
course he obeys them in regard to the
suffrage vote as well as that on prohi-
bition.'
A boomlet for Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, president of the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage association, as
in congress and two
years later as a senator from New York
to succeed Senator Wadsworth, assumed
quite large proportions before il was
punctured by the lady herself. Any.
how, the New York suffragists are de-
termined to defeat Senator Wadsworth
for another term. first. because he has
been their bitter foe all along. and sec
the Womens Association Opposed TO
Suffrage
Thanks to the Wisconsin Loyalty Le-
gion which now has a branch in every
city town and village in the state, anti
La Toilette sentiment is growing. Even
Milwaukee, pro-German as it is, is be-
ginning to assert its patriotism and
join in the fight against La Toilette
and his followers. When the special
session of the legislature convenes next
month the fight not only will center
against Governor Philip to force him
to call a special election to name
successor to the late Senator Husting,
but the battle will be carried directly
against La Toilette and he will be put
on the defensive.
Now that the prohibition amendment
is up to the states for ratification or
rejection, there is a question that will
be debated with much interest. II
Legislature rejects the amendment, can
a later legislature ratify it? The best
opinion has been that the amendment
is alive until it receives the necessary
three-fourths vote of the states. and
rejection does not affect it, while rati-
fication does. So that though a legis-
lature once rejected il. later legis-
lature could ratify, but once ratified
for that particular state. it stood, and
no later legislature could rescind the
states ratification.