The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-10-15
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS

POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS
Ii is probable that another vote
Oh the woman suffrage amendment
will be taken in the senate before
the beginning OF another year, for
il not submitted soon it will lose
its chance OF ratification by enough
legislatures TO enable the women OF
the United States to vote in the
presidential elections Of 1920. For
ty-three legislatures meet next win
ter and. with few exceptions. will
not meet again until 1921. This will
leave the women OF the east and
south still disfranchsed while those
of the west will again dominate the
situation.
I'm these days when congress is
appropriating billions OF dollars the
necessity OF what is known as a
budget syStem-a rational and COM
prehensive plan for dealing with ma
/ tional fnances-has become pain
fully evident. President Wilson has
repeatedly urged this reform. but
congress steadfastly refuses to grant
it. Some day public opinion will
manifest itself so strongly congress
will be forced TO recede from the
position on this issue ii has held so
long and so Stubornly.
Each OF the thirty senators who
voted against the Susan b. Anthony
/ resolution has received this message
/ from the New York Woman's Anti
/ Suffrage Association. which is head
ed by the vile OF Senator Wads-
worth: "Women with the ballot
which they had moi desired but
which has been thrust upon them
As we'll as the hosts in states which
/ have withstood the suffrage agita-
ton, are grateful ior your vote in
opposition to the suffrage federal
amendment. and will stand by YOU
Missouri "drys" are preparing Tor
the greatest drive TO place Missouri
in the dry column they have ever
undertaken. Organization OF the
campaign has been perfected along
lines which penetrate directly to
every nook and corner OF the state.
In every county there is a working
central committee, with captain
and staff in each precinct, estimated
TO be an average of one worker Tor
each ten voters. An organization
closely similar to this exists in each
OF the cities.
The Nebraska senator who SAID
that the war would put the dollar
sign on the American flag, and that
we were going to war "on the com
mand of gold. so that the blood OF
millions might be coined into
money" and who voted against war.
against the draft. against the eSplon-
age act and against other measures
ior the winning of the war, has been
renominated by his party
1t is urged in behalf OF Lyman n.
Newberry Republican candidate tor
the Michigan Senatorship. whose
primary campaign expenditures ag-
gregated more than $4,000. that he
had TO spend this barrel OF money
because he was running in the pri-
maries against the man. who next to
the kaiser. is the best advertised
man alive, to-wit. Henry Ford.
There may be something in that as
a justification.
That women. ii eniranchiSed. VIII
vote "as one man is mere pretense.
Election returns show that wherev-
er women have been giyent the bal
lot they have divided along the same
lines as the men, voting as Repub-
licaus. Democrats. Socialists or what
not. taking no orders from the lit
tie coterie OF women politicians who
arrogate leadership.
Ioseph w. Folk candidate for
senator from Missouri, is particular
~ unfortunate in that he, unlike
Judge Spencer his opponent, Is not
the father OF son who Is over
there" This is the big argument
OF the Spencer campaign managers
and Spellbinders.
Still waiting in New Jersey for the
soldier vote which will determine
who of the four candidates Tor the
Democratic nomination for United
States senator was the winner in the
recent primary.
The Michigan Federation Of La
Dor !, taking dip into the sea OF
politics by urging the enactment
OF state law to insure women equal
paw for equal work.
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