The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-01

Stop talking and signing petitions and
picketing, and go TO raising potatoes, is
the advice that some of the wise ones
Of the woman suffragists are giving
their more militant sisters.
Rivers and harbors' legislation, over
which there is always a political row
in congress, is given a new aspect by
the war 1t has strengthened the ar
guments for many projects.
There will be junketing galore in Mas
sachusetts if a proposition before the
legislature is accepted Nine recess
committees to investigate different prop
ositions whose salaries and expenses
( are asked for.
Until the United States supreme
court passes on the ruling of an Ohio
court that vote buying is not a violation
Of federal law, the cases of the 125 con-
fessed vote buying conspirators in In
diana have been postponed.
Singular as it may appear, Tammany
is doing more effective work in making
the liberty loan a success than any 9TH
er political organization. Tammanys
politics may be crooked, but nobody
ever questions its loyalty.
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton dipped lightly into the pool of pol
itics at their recent congress. They de-
manded that the states require full nat
uralization before permitting aliens TO
vote, and indorsed national prohibition
during the war.
Tabulated returns Of the election of
1915 show a big decrease in the Social.
ist vote. In 1912 Debs, the Socialist
candidate for president, received 9OO,672
votes. In 1916 Allan j. Benson, the So
cialist candidate for president, received
only 56S,377 votes
Shepherdstown, w Va. claims the
champion officeholder In 1876 voters
of this magisterial town elected Daniel
S. Rentch, justice of the peace, and
every succeeding year thereafter he
was reelected. Ninety-seven years old
now, he is still holding the office and
is candidate for reelection, without
opposition.
Based on the act Of congress, dated
March 3, 1917, the postmaster of De-
troit, Mich has made a ruling prohib-
iting liquor manufacturers and dealers
from using the mails to send out ad-
vertising matter of any kind after Ju-
ly /.
A Socialist bill to establish a mini.
mum wage scale before the Wisconsin
Legislature has been killed. Opposition
to its advancement was based on the
fact that the state has adopted the poll
cy by leaving the minimum wage to the
industrial commission.
Conservatives Of all parties have raj.
lied to found and maintain The Conserv-
ative Review, which is TO be published
at Washington by the National Associa.
ton for Constitutional Government. The
special aim Of the organization and the
journal is to prevent radical cahnges in
'NNNN HAA ANA'AeAl Alll0AANuAlOHh.
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The local option bill for cities which
caused one Of the bitterest fights in the
New York Legislature has been signed
by Governor Whitman and is now a
law. The bill provides that a city may
be made dry" by a majority of its vot.
ers. the election to be held on a petition
signed by not less than one-fourth Of
the voters. The election is to take place
in April, not oftener than five years
in New York and three years in other
cities.
Ugly charges in connection with the
collection Of the big Republican cam.
paign fund for the last election have
been made. According to information
that has just leaked out. two men got
a rake OFF, Of 100000. The charges are
so serious It is proposed TO call meet
ing Of the congressional committee at
an early day for an investigation and
a reorganization.
a tusion committee composed OF 122
Republicans, SO Democrats. 20 Inde.
pendents. IL Progressives and II La.
borites. has been named TO conduct the
mayoralty campaign against Tammany
and keep the fusion administration
headed by Mayor Mitchell In office in
New York City. The mayor. however
has not yet given his consent 10 accent
a denomination.
While most Of the liberals" who
claim a majority Of the delegates TO the
Massachusetts constitutional conven.
tion' favor the initiative and referen.
DUN, which is likely to be the leading
issue In the convention. there is con.
siderable difference in views regarding
the form Of the proposition. II is IN
this difference OF opinion that the "an.
It's see a way TO defeat the proposed
Initiative and referendum amendment.
and they are understood to be laving
their lines accordingly.
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Scissors and Paste
Lawton Constitution: Many NAV be
bond holders but the same old few win
be bloated.