The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-06
POLITICAL OBSERVATIONS

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and Norris is against Senator PEN
rose, who, unless the seniority rule is
abrogated or modified. would be-
come the chairman OF the senate
committee on finance In the house
the fight is against Representative
Fordney, who under the same rule,
would become chairman of the house
committee on finance, and is led by
Repre- Gillelt Fess, Mad
den and l.ongworth. What the op-
position to PenroSe and Fordney
hope To prevent, according 10 Wash
ington advices is the enactment ot
"Fordney-PenroSe tariff law
Such a law. they fear, would prove
10 be as disastrous 10 the republican
party as was the Payne Aldrich law.
The end OF the sixty-hfth con
grcSS will come on March \, 1919,
but the sixty-sixth congress will not
convene until the following Decem-
bcr unless the president calls a
special session. While the Demo
Gratis are opposed 10 special ses-
sion, il is evident the republicans
are planning to force one. They fore
see a possible period OF legislative
suspension, if they do not compel
the president to act. They appre-
hend that he will find no good rca-
son for assembling a hostile house
and senate in Washington after
March !. and will wait until Decem-
ber 1910, when the regular session
convenes, thereby leaving his ad-
ministration unhampered by clamor-
Gus opposition unit 1.-The very eve
OF the 1920 campaign itself.
1t is claimed that so per cent OF
the membership of both houses OF
the Missouri Legislature to assemble
in January favors the repeal OF the
state primary law. The conviction
has been growing throughout the
state that the primary law has been
a failure and should be repealed.
Experience has demonstrated that
the primary system admits OF polit-
ical trickery and has failed TO pro-
vide the opportunities for election
reforms that its supporters said It
would. Representative men in both
the republican party and democrat
ic party have declared themselves
against the law and the newspapers
throughout the state are pleading
for its repeal.
Leaders in the present congress
have decided that alien voters should
be dealt with by the states that are
directly interested. Two bills relating
70 this class of voters have been IN
troduced, but neither has got be-
vond the committee to which It was
referred. the disposition ot congress
seemingly being to pass the respon-
sibility of legislation TO the states
There are ten states where aliens
are now permitted to vote, viz; Ala
bama. Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas,
Michigan. Missouri, Nebraska, Ore
yon. South Dakota and Texas. AT
he recent election the results in
several congressional districts were
decided by alien voters.
Mavor William Hale Thompson
Of Chicago who has been 4 storm
center OF criticism ever since ms
election. has announced that he VIII
,e = candidate to succeed himself
# the spring election. Notwithstand-
ne the criticism that has been
leaped upon him, Mr.. Thompson
,wept Chicago in the recent primary
Election for the republican nomlna-
ion for senator, and has built up
Is powerful a political machine as
an be found in any American city.
lis candidacy for second term
means as stirring a campaign as
chicago has ever known.
By strict party vote the hnance
committee of the national senate mas
iecided to make the revenue pro-
gram OF 1920 part of the pending
iscal bill, which primarily provides
or the taxation to be levied in l9l9.
rhe republican members OF the COM
nittec voted against this proposal.
The democratic members, however,
laving a majoriay, carried the day.
Iow a bitter fight is threatened on
he floor. and filibuster that may
,revent the passage of the bill be
ore the sine die adjournment OF
congress on March is probable.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis,
or whom a good sized boom for
mayor of Chicago has been launched
avs that he is not seeking the dem
,cratic nomination for mayor that,
n fact, he sought no public office
fter his term as senator expires
Iext March, and that he hoped to
,e able to return to Chicago and
id in reconstruction problems as
private citizen.
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