The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-24

According to the campaign expense
statement Of John +. Hylan. mayor
elect OF New York. he received nothing
and expended nothing.
| A feature OF the annual convention OF
the New York state suffrage party was
a sacrifice table," where women of
fered Jewels and silverware to be turned
into money for the cause.
Since political control OF North Da
kota went into the hands OF the Non
partisan League. the state has won
the distinction OF being the only pro
| German state In the union. II is the
Fstate from which Senator Gronna halls
| That the Republicans are planning
a hard fight TO obtain control Of the
senate Is admitted by party leaders
Delaware, New Jersey. Illinois. New
Hampshire and Kansas are the states
in which they propose to make their
most strenuous campaigns.
In the special election In the sixth
Massachusetts, congressional district tor
successor to NIL the vacancy caused
by the resignation Of Representative
~ uB uStuU N8t0uCts ntn oVSsV V~@sy 80
many years, w. +. Lufkin. Republican
was an easy winner.
William Randolph Hearst has added
another INK to his chain OF Newspapers
by purchasing the Boston Advertiser,
which was founded in l74S and has been
issued as daily since 1913. Presum.
ably The Advertiser will carry the
same yellow brand Of politics as the
other Hearst publications.
The wet or dry issue will unquestiOn-
ably be a leading issue in the 1918 po-
litical campaign. There will be state
wide prohibition contests In California,
Nevada Wyoming. Minnesota. Missou'
ri, Florida, Kentucky and Ohio. and To-
cal option fights in many states, IN
Guiding New York, where the women
have Just been given the ballot.
The Republican field is open. Senti'
ment points to nobody in particular for
the party's leadership three years hence.
Hughes, Whitman and Roosevelt In New
York; Mccall and Weeks in Massachu'
setts: Fairbanks and Goodrich in Indi'
ana; Borah in Idaho; Cummins in Iowa;
Edge in New Jersey all continue in
the limelight, where some of them have
been for some time.
Kansas is preparing to make big
splurge at the convention OF the Anti
Saloon League of America to be held
in Washington on December 10. ii and
H. The Kansas delegation. headed by
Governor Capper, will make the trip
to the capital in a special train and its
,.,.ll l.a 70.
ito show the nation where to head
in at on the prohibition question"
Assuming that the women of the two
races in Virginia would qualify to vote
in the same proportions and that the
white and negro male vote would re-
main as they We're shown to be by the
returns Of the last presidential cleo
ton, the negroes would have absolute
and immediate control Of twenty-seven
counties. That's why Virginia Is op-
posed TO woman suffrage.
Congress will be in session when the
convention of the Anti-Saloon League
of America convenes in December and
it is the purpose Of the drys to gather
such q mammoth convention that the
house of representatives will thereby
be impressed with the notion that the
time is ripe to submit to the states the
national prohibition amendment already
passed by the senate by two to one
vote.
Mayor. e. House of Topeka. the cap
ital of Kansas. takes this slam at the
people of that state: I'm Kansas the
human nut attains its richest, rarest
flavor 1t is a state in which petty
personal prejudice is often exploited as
great moral issue. Narrowness be-
tween the eyes has been so long and
so often extolIed by the politicians and
the press that there are those who be-
lieve il to be a virtue"
Former President Taft and former
President Roosevelt are quite different
In every public speech Mr.. Taft makes
he calls upon all Republicans to stand
behind President Wilson. In every
public speech Mr.. Roosevelt makes there
is thrust at the administration. In
his latest speech Mr.. Roosevelt is quoted
as follows: There was not so much
sense shown in the handling of our
army as would have been shown in
handling a bush league baseball nine