The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-03

ton caused by the death Of Senator
Husting and the activity OF Senator La
Toilette, is the center OF discussion
among politicians at this particular
time.
Money Is not always the potent fac
tor In politics. More than half mil
| lion dollars was expended In an effort
to re-elect Mayor Mitchell In New York
but. nevertheless, he was the worst
beaten mayoralty candidate In the his
tory OF the city.
Negroes are TO hold national con-
! ference In New York City. Dec. ~ TO
| 80, TO consider questions affecting the
economic and civic status OF the negro
and his relations to the country now
and after the war. Delegates from all
parts OF the United States are ex'
pected TO attend.
| More than 1863 900 women over
twenty-one years of age In New YORK
state are foreign born and have now
had the right of suffrage conferred up
on them. OF this number thousands
cannot read or speak English. This
brings up the question as to what is the
attitude of these women toward the war
and whether they viii back the presi'
dent in II,
! The German and pro-German eie'
ments of Wisconsin, which are as
strong today, If the truth be admitted,
as they have been at any time since
the United States entered the war, un'
der the leadership OF Senator La Fol
lette. are making terrific drive to name
a successor to the late Senator PAU o.
Husting, according to advices to sthe
, New York sun.
A recount of the 1891 votes cast in
| Plainfield, n. j., on Nov. o, on the
question of whether the citizens wanted
the city council to refuse to continue
TO license drinking places disclosed
that 400 ballots were cast against the
present licensing system, and 1.5Ol III
favor of It, The vets won by ma
iority OF II. The recount overturns
| the report of election inspectors, VINO
gave the election to the drys by a ma
| jority of one.
Republican leaders in New YORK are
much disturbed over reports that May
or Mitchell, embittered by what he mas
| referred to as the "treachery" OF or
panized Republicanism, is going to dc
what he can before leaving office, te
establish himself in the good favor OF
the Democratic county organization
The Interpretation they put upon the
mayor's course is that he forsees 9
long period of minority existence fol
Republicanism in New York and wants
To conciliate the Democratic organiza
ton.
| Judging from expressions of party
leaders and the party press, large
majority of the Republican party II
| New York is thoroughly dissatis1iee
with the direct primary, and an error
will be made to have the Legislature
repeal the primary law. The conteh
| tion is that the primary does not Inn
prove the quality of the Candidates
| that IL increases the cost OF campaigns
and elections, and that the bosses
whom il was to unboss and depose, ruf
IL. love il and own it. Former Cover
nor Hughes is the father of the New
| York primary law but in the recen
municipal campaign in New YORK Sit.
he repudiated his child.
| A conference of Democratic nauona
committeeman and the state chalrmei
| from twelve states in the upper Missis
sippi Valley has just been heid
Chicago. 1t was the third conference
that has been held under the new reg
ional" system planned by Delnocrati'
National Chairman Vance McCormick
The problem presented to the confer
ence was that of electing eight Demo
cratic senators in 1918 fromN the state
of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota
Nebraska, Kansas. South Dakota an'
Kentucy. Four of these states are nov
represented in the senate by hepuoii
cans and four by Democrats.