The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-22
Young Democrats of
State Are in Session

Both factions in the Kelly Brown
w. !. Armstrong fight for the presi-
dency of the Oklahoma State
League OF Young Mems Democrat
ic Clubs lined up this forenoon ir
the preliminary skirmish. Bo' 4
sides are confident Of victory w :
the election is held late this
noon. &
The convention was slow get
ting started this forenoon the
spirit injected into the ~ pro-
ceedings was taken as harbinger
of spirited activities later in the
day.
After the congressional district
delegations had held their caucuses,
the convention was called to order
by the secretary, !. b. Lucas, of
Checotah. The band played Amer
ica," while the audience sang. The
invocation had been pronounced
and the secretary had begun an
nouncing the program when George
Short made a motion that tenn
porary chaorman be selected, and
Immediately the noise and confu-
sion began. Before Mr.. Short had
completed his statement he was de
clarcd out of order by the sccre-
tary. The latter said he had par
liamentary preccdents for his posi-
ton. The president and yicc-presi-
dent elected last year were both in
the army. For this reason Mr.. Short
asked for a temporary chairman.
When he was declared out of order
he appealed from the ruling OF the
secretary and the convention sus-
tained the secretary, who continued
to preside. There was so much
confusion and cheering during the
controversy that it was hard to tell
what was being done.
The acting president introduced
II. II. Brown OF Ardmore. who vel
coined the delegates. lie told them
their fathers remembered Ardmore
when it was only the 700 ranch. He
said Ardmore had furnished one
governor; that it had furnished one
and never wanted an
other so long as he lives. He spoke
OF the good women of Ardmorc who
have sent their sons to France and
OF the great work those women are
doing for the Red Cross. He said
Ardmore has a newspaper which
told of the shame of Oklahoma.
disclosed the skeleton in the closet.
when every day, at the top of its
first page, told of the mistake Ok
lahoma had made but insisted that
in 1922 the people would correct
the mistake they made in 1916. He
said Ardmorc is the greatest cotton
market in the world; that there is
more money and more government
bonds in Ardmore than in any other
city in the United States Of equal
population; that Ardmorc has the
first High School that has a visit
ing teacher; that 1t is the first in
which the Senior class has self
government; that it is the first city
in which all pupils of the schools are
members of the Red Cross; tht it
is the first in which every child in
school is the owner of war stamp
and that it has more automobiles
than any city OF equal size in the
United States. He said the men
who are going TO control Oklahoma
and the United States are either in
camp, on the road 70 France, or in
France; that they will rule when
they get home. The speaker de-
clared that formerly woman suf-
frage was considered impractical.
Now, he said, women are in the
convention taking notes and OBJ
serving the methods of a conven-
ton, and suggested that they should
organize the first Democratic wom-
ems club,
George Wyatt OF Shawnee, who
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