The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-11

Political Observations.
God did not raise Washington to
achieve the Union and Lincoln to save
it on any haphazard plan. Nor did He
raise an obscure schoolmaster within
less than a decade to the greatest place
on earth for nothing. Henry Waiter
son.
Possibly it is none Of the country's
business whom New York city picks for
its mayor, and yet there is nationwide
interest in the coming election in that
city. The country at large is interested
because Of the bearing the result viii
have upon the presidential campaign in
1920
The New York AntiSaloon League
has discovered what it calls a plot on
the part of the trafIickers in liquor to
defeat Governor Whitman for re-elec-
tion as a penalty for the part he took
in promoting the passage OF the local
option bill for cities, and to retire SEN
ators and assemblymen who voted for
the measure.
Labor has no real grievance against
the lawmakers this year. According to
a summary Of the labor laws enacted
so far in 1917 in forty-four states, with
few exceptions state legislatures have
maintained or strengthened labor laws
since the country's entrance into the
war. And this has been done on the
correct theory that higher standards
meant productive efficiency in the long
run
There is promising prospect Of an
exceedingly interesting senatorial race
TO Michigan, the contestants being two
former governors, Chas. S. Osborn and
Woodbridge n. Ferris. In recent state
ment Ferris said: There is a certain
man likely to run for the senate and
if he does | shall again forget that |
am a school teacher" The certain
man" politicians of both parties declare,
is Osborn.
Remember the bitter partisan
speeches made by Senator Lodge of
Massachusetts during the presidential
campaign and the harsh things he said
about President Wilson? Lodge has
dropped the harness Of politics and to.
day is a real patriot. No man in con.
gress is rendering the administration
more loyal support than Senator Lodge.
1t is such incidents as this that makes
one view partisan politics with resent
ment
The German vote in New York city
is going begging since William r.
Hearst eliminated himself from the
mayoralty contest Had he remained
in the fight. his friends believe. the
bulk Of the German vote would have
been cast for him. The only open bid
der for German support at present is
jeremiah OLeary president Of the
American Truth Society. who wa.
branded by President Wilson during the
national campaign last year as the typ,
of american whose support he did not
want.
There is not another instance Of the
kind recorded in political history
There is an official in Georgia-or ther,
was; he died recenty-who went nearl,
two years without collecting his salary
This revelation came in the house OF
representatives the other day. when &
resolution was introduced providing
that there shall be appropriated the sun
OF $4,000 to pay the uncollected SALARY
Of the late Amos Fox. superintendent
Of the Old Soldiers Home. who had no
collected his salary for nearly two year.
lt'ior to his death
Politicians who think they may gair
popularity by catering to the pro-Ger
man element in the population shoul,
take TO heart the lesson Of the episod,
, at Enid, Okla. the city in which Sen
ator Gore received his first popular in
dorsement for the position which h,
holds. Enid had until recently a publi
pleasure ground called Gore park. Tn,
name Of the park has been change,
To Wilson park. Indignant citizens o
Enid demanded this change because O
their dissatisfaction with Senator Gore
attitude toward the war. Senator Cor
has stood with Senators stone. Hard
wick. la Toilette and others in In
long struggle TO embarrass the govern
ment IN its efforts TO give real ee
cheney to American participation In In
war
I To the American Poets of Today.
ltBy Robert Underwood johnson Of Tn
Nigilantesl
Comrades mine Of Muse and Land.
When the wanton war-drum sounde
and the world fell back astounded
At a fate so lightly planned.
Heralds OF the Right in song.
Were YOU silent at the wrong?
Comrades mine OF Land and Muse.
! When the mailed and naughty giant
Crushed the weak hut uncompliant.
Did YOU falter which to choose?