The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-09-19
Political Observations.


A call has been issued for a meeting
of the national committee Of the Prohi
bition party on October by Virgil G
Hinshaw, its chairman.
Now we know who dragged the United
States into the war. II was the Demo
cratic party. Senator Jim Watson of
Indiana says so.
There is a growing belief that Miss
Rankin is serving her last as well as her
first term in congress. The lady from
Montana seems to have got off on the
wrong foot"
At the recent meeting of the Ameri-
can Bar association at Saratoga Springs
N. Y, the association authorized fur.
ther investigation by a special commit.
tee of proposal to change the date for
the presidential Inauguration from
March to January.
If it were not the few Socialists
like John Spargo, Charles Edward Rus.
sell and other Americans who have been
compelled to quit the party because they
could not remain in it and be loyal Am.
orleans. the word Socialist" today
would be synonymous with traitor"
That parade in Washington in honor
of the new recruits was the greatest
patriotic demonstration in the history
Of the United States 1t was headed by
the president and behind him marched
the members of his cabinet and practi.
cally every member of the senate and
house. one senator, however, was con.
spcuously absent-Robert NJ. La Fol.
lette Of Wisconsin.
Riga was not captured by Germany.
Riga was captured by Robert NJ La Fol.
lette, Bill Stone and Senator Gronna.
They captured Riga. If Petrograd is
captured it will be by La Toilette, Gron-
ma. Stone and pro-German mayors, who
lend their assistance to antiAmerican
movements" Such is the declaration Of
Charles Edwards Russell, Socialist mem
Der Of the Root commission to Russia.
Virginia Republicans having placed a
| state ticket in the field for the purpose
of preserving the party organization,
Mr. Muncey, the party's candidate for
governor, has indicated an intention to
20 on the stump and start a drive that
will sweep the old commonwealth from
the Cumberland brakes to the pebble
washed shores Of the Atlantic coast"
Which would surely be some drive in
Virginia, and will be watched with great
interest
Today is primary day i'm New York
city, and Immediately at the close Of the
polls the regular campaign will open
with "a flourish and be kept going until
election day, November 6. Undoubtedly
the candidates for the mayoralty will
be John Purroy Mitchell, fusionist and
John f. Hylan, Tammahy Fusion lead.
ers and the New York newspapers. with
few exceptions, express confidence in
the reelection of Mitchell Tammany
leaders predict for Hylan a record ma.
jority
In recent address, which stirred pat.
riotism TO its deepest depths DR.. Robert
McNutt McElroy, head of the depart
ment Of history of Princeton. denounced
German philosophy as black as hell"
and quoted this old hymn to the Ger
man sword: 81 have slaughtered the old
and the sorrowful, ] have struck OFF the
breasts of women; and have run
through the bodies of children who gazed
up at me with the eyes of wounded
lion"
b So many nAy political and semipo.
litical parties are being organized il is
ia difficult task 10 keep track of them
The newest Of these new parties. pre-.
sumably to be called the National La
Dor party" it is said viii be launched
LAT "a convention probably 10 be held in
Chicago in October, this party to be
formed of Prohibitionists. the portion Of
the Progressive party that supported
President Wilson at the last election. the
Socialists who are dissatisfied with the
.pro-German tendencies of their leaders.
and labor unions