The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-25

six election inspectors have been indlct'
ed. charged with fraud. ana the end OF
the investigation In not Yet IN sight.
Newark n. j.. which recently adopted
the commission form OF government. viii
hold an election Nov, 10, for five com
missioners Already forty Republicans,
twcnty.eight Democratic and one Socialist
are announced as candidates for five
places.
Although constitutional prohibition has
been defeated In Iowa the saloon has not
been rc-established. Iowa is now dry"
under the act OF the legislature and the
rejection OF constitutional prohibition
does not repeal that act only the legls'
lature can do that and the legislature
does not meet again until January, 1919.
Two negroes are candidates for the
Republican nomination for alderman In
the Second Chicago ward, each support.
ed by a faction OF the party. one u the
negroes was formally an alderman, but
rolnQuished his seat when he was in.
dicated on "a charge Of accepting bribes,
and Is now seeking vindication.
II Is expected that AT least "A thousand
women delegates viii attend the annual
convention OF the National American
Woman Suffrage Association 20 be held
in Washington in December, and inn
prove the opportunity TO urge on CON
gress favorable action on the measure
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at heart.
President Wilson castigated those
White House pickets in the most success
ful way open to him when he wrote
letter 10 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait the
other day expressing the hope that their
senseless antics would not influence any
voter TO cast his ballot against the wo-
man suffrage cause. with which he was
heartily in sympathy.
In his first prediction statement
Charles +. Murphy, leader of Tammany
Hall. declares that the contest for mayor
Of Greater New York lies between John
+. Hylan. the Democratic candidate. and
Morris Hillquit. the Socialist nominee.
Mr.. Murphy heretofore has made many
statements that proved TO be mere scraps
OF paper and this one may also be one
of that kind.
Republicans of the Fourth Connecticut
congressional district have nominated
Schuyler Merritt OF Stamford to succeed
the late Representative Ebenczer Hin.
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accepting his party's nomination Mr..
Merritt showed that ne was pa
triot, more than partisan. by saying:
I'm times like these ] presume that you
will not expect your representative TO
take n narrow or partisan course"
By the death of Senator Paul o. Hus
ting of Wisconsin the narrow Democratic
majority in the United States senate be-
comes still narrower. The governor OF
Wisconsin has the power to appoint
successor to Mr.. Husting and, being a
Republican. will, of course, appoint a
Republican. Senator Husting was the
very antithesis of Senator La Toilette.
being one of the leading supporters of
the administrations war program. His
term would not have expired until 1921.
Announcement that Frank W. McAllis. |
ter attorney-general. will not be a can.
ddate for governor of Missouri is con
strued in some political circles as an an.
nouncement that he will be a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for United
States senator in 1920 against William J. |
Stone, if that gentleman should seek a
Former Gov. Joseph W. |
Folk of course will make another try |
for the senatorship, and there is talk |
that Harry B. Hawes will enter the race. |
and friends of Charles NJ. Hay of St.
Louis. one of Missouri's dry leaders, |
are grooming him