The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-12
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS.


ingston Beckman declines to be a
candidate for the Republican sena-
torial nomination, and urges the re-
election OF Senator lie Baron Il
Colt. He will accept. he says, a re-
election to the governorship.
The last poll OF the senate indi-
Gated that if the prohibition rider
to the Ford survey bill comes to a
vote it will be passed. The poll
shows that AZ senator's will vote for
the amendment. Is against it and
SO are noncommital, undecided or
absent
at is no time to attack the pres
ident or the administration for de-
fects in military preparation before
he war 1t was Taft, not Roose-
welt. who said that The President
! represents the people and the elect
orate will stand by him while he is
president
What was known in the last mu-
nicipal campaign as the New York
Business Mems League. the organ
ization that brought about the cleo
ton OF Mayor Hylan, is oiling up
its machine for the gubernatoria
campaign, and. the indications are,
in the interest OF William X. Hearst
for the Democratic nomination.
MisSouriS two senators are wide
apart on the suffrage question
Reed is uncompromisingly opposed
to the Susan b. Anthony resolu-
ton, while Whitley IS an ardent ad- .
vocate OF the measure. Reed is /
charged with having prevented u /
vote on the resolution the other
day, but Whitley travelled from ST.
Louis to Washington to vote for IT.
Massachusetts Democrats are be
ginning TO believe that it is posi-
bic for them TO carry the state this
tall and candidates Tor Democratic
are bobbing up. For
mer mayor of Boston ohm F. Fitz-
gerald will be a candidate for the
for senator and Rich
ard II. Long has announced his
for the gubernat orial
domination.
The Republican party in North
Dakota is still in the clutch of the
Nonpartisan League. In the re-
ent primary the leagues candidate
or governor won the Republican
domination, by defeating the
traight-out Republican candidate "
y at least 10000 majority. The II
eague attempted to capture the v
Democratic nomination. but failed, +,
straight-out Democrat winning by t,
substantial majority II
The Socialist party seems to be b
| the throes of dissolution. Many in
its leaders, including Allan l..
enSon, its candidate for president b.
1915, have repudiated its gener- st
attitude to the war and its non
merican policy and plans have et
zen laid for an organization the eN
lrpose OF which is to support the on
ar and to stand behind President Ii;
'ilson and to secure the adoption pr
the United States OF program Iy
Socialistic reconstruction after
{ war as set forth by the British li'
Dor party. 'u
In announcing his candidacy for OF OF
e Republican nomination for III
nited States senator, Gov. Samuel
. Mccall OF Massachusetts, appeals pc
the rank and file of the voters a. ~:
against the Reorganization" and ~. n-
c ''millionaireS." This is a fling -
Senator John W. Weeks. who W. W.
asking a renomination Mr.. Nc ~,
III served with distinction in the a,
use OF representatives for many an
ars, and as governor of Massa- ali
usetts for three terms. Weeks n,
5 long been prominent in Repub-
an politics and in 1910 was ch.
1didate for the Republican nom mi
ltion for president. The race be- mi
cen the two men will be inter of
ing to the whole country