The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-06
Political Observations.

Wisconsin's attorney.general has rull'
ed that no mandamus proceedings can
force the governor OF that state To call
a special election OF United States
senator to fill vacancy In the senate
caused by the death of Senator Hust.
ing. "The governor can neither he com
PEELED to act. or not TO act, nor his act
called In question" according TO the at.
torney-general The question now
raises, should the Legislature. In spec
ial session, refuse to give the governor
power TO appoint successor TO the late
Senator Husting, could the governor
be compelled to call an electionY The
opinion of the Encouragement would
seem TO question such proceedings.
In some respects the most signifi'
cant and perhaps surprising action ever
taken by the senator OF the United
States was the adoption OF the resolu-
tion for n constitutional prohibition
amendment. II the house should con.
cur in the resolution. and It is now be-
lieved that II will. the amendment
must be submitted to the several state
legislatures and be ratified by thirty
six OF them within six years.
Speaker Champ Clark, predicts
long session. Regarding politics Speak
er Clark said: "As the situation points
up now, and unless something breaks
I'm congress. Democrats Will be Dem
ocrats and Republicans will remain
Republicans in the next election pretty
much as they did in 1916"
Prediction that Pennsylvania in the
s.s. ,la ~
states was made by Governor Burn
baugh in Thanksgiving address
There are now twenty.eight white
states in America. and the outlook Is
better now than IT has ever been for
Pennsylvania TO become one of the
white states in the very near future
said the governor.
Under the Democratic pan of nation.
al organization the forty.eight states are
divided into eight zones. The commit.
teemen of zone No. A. which embraces
the states of Kansas. Kentucky. MINI.
esota. Michigan. Missouri. Nebraska,
North Dakota. South Dakota and Wis
consin, have just perfected an organ
ization.
Thirty-two states must hold senator.
ial elections next fall. Twenty of them
are now represented by Democrats and
twelve by Republicans. To overturn
the present Democratic majority of ten
would involve the capture OF only SIX
seats by the Republicans, and the temp
tation to undertake to win them Is
powerful.
The appointment of Democrat ac-
ceptable to Tammany to $4,000 a year
office by Mayor Mitchell of New York
is accepted by republicans as estab-
fishing that the mayor has forsworn Re-
publican affiliations. The mayor, 1t Is
said. felt that he was betrayed by the
Republicans at the recent election.
The congressional campaign OF 1918
is beginning to take form. All the
members of the house of representa-
tives and a third of the members OF
the senate are TO be elected. In itself
and in its influence on the 1920 presi'
dental campaign the congressional
election of 1918 is a momentous mat
ter.
Final figures on the suffrage amend
ment in New York state are as fol-
lows: For suffrage. 673.3S9: against
5S4 $40: majority for SS.S40. These
figures show that there has been
switch of sentiment since
1915, the majority against suffrage
that year being 194.9S3.