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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24
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PUTTING GORE ON THE MAP

| HAT the republicans of Oklahoma want the
democrats to renominate Senator Thomas
P. Gore is about as plain as anything can be.
This is not saying that the republicans want to
elect Gore to the senate again, but they want
the democrats to renominate him. Doubtless
they have plans to defeat Gore with their own
candidate.
Gore is placed on the map by Republican
National Committeeman McGraw, who COM
pares the senator's opposition to the league to
that Of Henry Watterson and others. "Presi-
dent Wilson is facing in Oklahoma just what he
is facing in Missouri and to a considerable eX
tent in Kentucky-Oppositio in his own party"
says McGraw. "In Missouri he has Senator
Reed. In Kentucky he has Henry Watterson
and his associates, and in Oklahoma he has
Senator Gore"
There may be some who think this is plac-
ing the senator above his class, in putting him
alongside of Watterson. 1t is all right to class
him with Reed, for they are birds of feather.
On the other hand the president has with
him in this matter good many sensible repub
licans. A good many are keeping alive the
statement made by Roosevelt, who said "It
would be a master stroke if those great powers
honestly bent on peace would form league Of
peace among themselves, not only to keep the
peace among themselves, but to prevent, by
force, if necessary, it being broken by others.
Borah was notified by republicans in his
state that if he persisted in opposing the league
he need expect no help from them. The John
son campaign committee has importuned the
senate to ratify the league. The state repub-
lican committee in California wired singing
rebuke to Knox. Half hundred of the lead
ing republican newspapers are for the league.
Taft, Hughes and Hays and thousands of other
clear-thinking republicans are for it.
Reed and Gore are against it, They are fol-
lowing the lead of the republican senators and
the republicans everywhere would like to see
them renominated, knowing full well that they
cannot be elected.-Tulsa Democrat.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24
PATCHED TROUSERS

\ ND NOW some fellow with a nose for news
Il and head for statistics, has discovered
that the Secretary of the United States Treasury
wears patched trousers.
The information has been impaired to the
press agencies and the news has been fired to
the four points of the nation.
From the marble halls of the country's cap
ital, by telegraph, telephone and mail across
the fertile fields of the middle west, over the
tops of the inhospitabe crags of the eastern
coast, over the forests Of Maine, into and be-
yond the states of Michigan and Wisconsin and
on to the land of the DakOtas, and on and on be-
yond the countrys northwestern confines, into
the AlaSkas and back again to the states, thence
down the California coast, buZZing across the
sandy wastes of Arizona and New Mexico play
ing a while with the zephyrs Of Utah, pausing
for a moment in Sunny Colorado dancing
across the plains of Kansas and into the state of
Oklahoma and then across the Red river into
Texas, there to flirt with the festive cowboy
and rough-rding ranger before it drops to Lou
isana and other southern states this news has
been waited, this news telling to all the peo-
pie of the u. S. A., even to those who dwell with
in the borders of the state of Arkansas, the
state whose name shall never be changed, tell
ing the sad, sad story that the staid and digni-
led and aristocratic treasurer of this grand
and of the free and home Of the brave wears
patched trousers.
A wonderful thing is news, as the different
information bureaus Of the news syndicates see
t.
Senator's digniied and all-sef-impO in
heir monumental ignorance, may prate of the
eague of nations and the peace pact and speak
mr. hOurS at n time i'm futilp efforts TO LET the
gorld know Just how little they really under
tand the situation princes and potentates may
5ass from this land of sorrow, trouble and
,cavail into that land which all true believers
ell us is better than this, yet seemingly fear to
o to Villa, the star villain Of Mexico. may rob
en- roosts and ranchmen, as in days of yOre
loods may come and go and going leave their.
rail of death and destruction; trains may be
Jrecked, ocean greyhounds find Watery graves
}orlds may clash and pass into the infinite mys-
cry of the unknoWn-yet all of these, even the
trikeS of the dissatisfied, must step from the
.ews wires of the news agencies long enough
or weary editors to pass upon the copy before
Jassing to the news-hungry public the aStound-I
ng information that the secretary of the treas
Ivy Of the United States has for the moment re-
turned to the halcyon period of his youth and
donned pair of patched trousers
And yet, right here at home, or over at your
home, we meet men who day after day and
week after week, year in and year out, wear
patched trousers, patched Overalls, patched
shirts, patched unions patched socks and never
lhink it of enough newsmoment to run the
chance Of having our heads Dashed by passing
the information along through the columns of
tie local papers.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

more than summer fishing resort.
In 1853 Russia sent an ambassador
to Nagasaki and a band Of troops to
Saghalien. While the ambassador con
Quoted negotiations, the troops built a
fortress, but, after repeated attempts,
the boundary question was still unset.
tled
BY 1875 the sea-going Japanese gave
up all rights in Saghalien to the Rus.
slams in return for full rights in the
kurile Islands and this condition of
affairs continued until the Treaty of
Portsmouth which gave southern Sag
halien, up to the 5Oth parallel, to Japan.
Japanese Saghalen has little agri.
cultural land but has large forests of
both deciduous and evergreen trees
amounting to more than 5000 900 acres.
Japanese paper mills are situated in
Otomari and elsewhere and an effort is
being made to develop the papermaking
industry.
But it is on fishing that the ma.
jority of the japanese inhabitants de-
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24
Saghalien-Whch KOlchak Would Trade for Aid

Washington, ID. C.-The report that
4 ADMIRAL Kolchak has offered the Rus
sian portion of the Island of Saghalien
tJ Japan in return for military and
economic aid, lends timely interest to
The following bulletin issued by the
ltional Geographic Society:
The Island of Saghalien has been a
oiitical perpleXity both to Russia and
pan for many years. Soon after the
grim Fathers landed on the east
asst of America, a Japanese feudal
ron dispatched an agent to this far
.rthern island of the group that swings
luth from Siberia, at the mouth Of the
mur, to Formosa and Fukien on the
nina coast. Within twenty years af
that the Russians had landed on
Ighalien.
The Japanese subsequently made
yeral trips of inspection but a small
ndful of Russian colonists remained
"a today the majority of the perma-
mt inhabitants of Saghalien are Rus
-.-.A while to the japanese it is little
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

Prince Freeing, in recent address deiv-
cred in one Of the many churches of Oklahoma,
characterized the crucifixion of Christ as "iu-
dicial blunder." There can be no doubt, there
never has been a doubt of this. Even those
who profess to doubt the divinity of Christ, are
willing to admit that his death upon the the tree
of infamy was grave and serious error upon
the part of the Roman governor of the people
from whose ranks came the cries against the
innocent man." But why should we delve into
the musty pages Of divine history and stress the
blunder made by Pontius Plate 1000 years
ago, when today the memory of the One who
gave his life for the children of men, is crucifed
many, all too many times, under the dissem-
bling cloak of Christian charity?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24
What Happened September %.
Copyright 1919, New Era Features)


Allies on Aisne drive back German
right wing eleven miles; German
center bombarding Nerdun-Rus-
slams seize Nislok cutting Austrian
retreat from Przemysl-Nilla de-.
clares war ON CaTanza.
1915
Germany pledges visit and search
in new note on Frye sinking Greece
mobilizes in reply to Bulgarian mob
ilization--Allies strive to reconstruct
the Balkan League"BuIgarian crisis
acute-Third German War Lean a
complete success; Germans rejoice
as subscriptions total $4,000 .O0U 600.
1916
Austrians successful in Trentino
region-Two Zeppclns brought down
by anttaircraft guns in vicinity Of
London, dozen airshps in raid kill
ing % and injuring 80.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

Alfalfa county, with not large city within
its boundaries is one of Oklahoma's richest
counties, in point of taxable wealth. A strong
argument in favor of paying more attention to
the agricultural possibilities by which we are
surrounded.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

for the laws be breathed by every American
mother to the lispmg babe that prattles on her
lap; let it be taught in schools, in semnaries and
in colleges; let it be written in primers, in spell
ing-books and in almanacs; let it be preached
from the pulps, proclaimed in legislative halls
and enforced in courts OF Justice; and, in short,
let it become the political religion OF the nation"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

With all shoe dealers advising us that the
prices Of shoes are going still higher and with
the ultra-fashionables advocating the adoption
of wooden footgear, may we not expect to note
a serious advance in the price Of cord-wood at
an early date?
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

The Sherman Courier asserts that speeding
is fast becoming lost art in that city. Speeders,
the Courier says, are fined from $50 to $100
per each offense.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

We are satisfied now that the old man with
his lantern was not really searching for an hon
est man, as tradition affirms, but that he was
looking for some lost opportunity whose knock
ing at his door he had failed to hear.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

Seven individual births and the advent of
two sets Of twins is chronicled in the Davis
News, of recent issue, under the caption "Popu-
laton increasing"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

General Pershing has lost neither friends
nor prestige through his refusal to appear be-
fore a republican Investigating" committee
and apologize for winning the war in Europe.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

Harking back, possibly to the days of his
very early boyhood, the editor of the Sulphur
Democrat remarks, ut is impossible to judge
the size of slipper by its looks"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

including appendlcltis' on n,ronoe
convince or money refunded. frame
Drug Co.-adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-09-24

declared that reports to the contr
were wholly unfounded
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
SAYS HARRISON
IS OUT OF THE RACE

James s. McInerney, clerk of the
Appellate court and one of the prin.
cipal hackers of the movement to
make Carter II. Harrison an indie.
pendent candidate for mayor, declared
for Thomas Carey for the Democratic
nomination for mayor.
Mr.. McInerney's statement follows:
THE situation in Chicago at this
time IL OF such nature that have for
a long time seen the necessity of hav.
ing man of large capacity fill the
mayors chair and in view of this
thought was of the firm opinion that
Carter II. Harrison was that man;
as his great experience in municipal
affairs and his patriotism and ability
having been established and his hon.
esty unquestioned myself with
large number of other good citizens
Of Chicago felt that this construction
period after the war, when great
questions of public and vital impor.
lance to the people of Chicago will
be solved that he was the man to fill
the bill.
However, since have just received
letter from Mr.. Harrison advising
me that his duties in France will not
be finished until after April /, and re.
questing me not to bother about the
mayoralty in his behalf, and after
looking over the situation in the Dem.
ocratic field, comprising two aspirants
and their respective abilities to fill
the position and the condition under
which their candidates. were launched
have concluded that Thomas Carey,
with his vast experience in the city
council and as substantial business
man, is better fitted to discharge the
duties OF that Office than his oppo-
nert, and I have therefore concluded
to give him my humble support and
request my friends and all good citi.
zens to do likewise"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
SWElTZER PLEDGES
BETTER TRANS.
PORTATIOk

Robert NJ. Sweitzer, Democratic
candidate for mayor, I'm a speech be-
fore the Chicago Lawyers associa-
ton at the Morrison hotel made the
definite and unqualified promise that
his election for mayor would mean
the improvement of the transporta-
ton service in the city within ten
days. He outlined the plans he in
tended to inaugurate on the day he
took Office to bring about this imme-
date betterment of the service.
Mr.. Sweitzer's speech in part fol-
lows:
"You ask me why I believe In the
Chicago spirit. I answer I have seen
1t demonstrated, and demonstrated
within the last two years. have
seen the city of my birth arouse from
lethargy at the call of nation.
who that has seen these things
ran doubt that the old Chicago spirit
exists and all that It is needed to
bring It forth is incentive and leader
ship.
"All the things which ! have men,
toned were brought about without
the leadership to which the city was
entitled. There was no encourage
ment to the city from its executive
I'm fact, there was discouragement.
There was no help offered from the
mayors Office to the citizens who were
displaying the old Chicago spirit
only criticism and interference. Chi
cago proved her greatness in spite
of its city administration, not because
OF It,
what. then, can we expect from
the city when there Is in the mayors
chair a man who will encourage the
Chicago spirit instead of discouraging
IT."
Taking up the traction question, Mr..
Sweitzer said he did not intend to
promise miracles. Then he added:
81 do say that will better the
transportation service while am
seeking my solution. Not In my
first year in office, not In my
first six months in office, not even in
my first month in office, but In my
first ten days in Office | make that
promise because I know the provi-
sions now in the traction ordinances
that call for better service, because
know that those provisions can be
enforced by mayor who has the
will to enforce them, and because I
know that the provisions are not be-
ing enforced and that the service can
be improved immeasurably."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
THE CITY TAX RATE.

For several years the city of Chi
cago has spent more than its revenue.
IL is now proposed to raise the tax
rate to make good deficit that was
bound to occur sooner or later.
There would be more disposition to
sanction an increase in taxes II the
past record OF the city government
gave more evidence Of economical
administration. It may not be true
that the finance committee OF the city
council or its chairman is to blame
for this situation; but II is obvious
that they have not been able to pre-
vent the city administration from
overlooking the municipal budget or
from spending more than could be
obtained from the revenues.
In asking for an increased tax rate,
Mr. Richert, the chairman OF the
finance committee, suffers from the
misfortune of the past record of the
city council. The city council has the
power to put a check on expenditures;
but its attitude has not been suf-
ficiently energetic to prevent the
administration from using the public
revenues for its own purposes.
In order to justify request for a
higher tax rate the city council and
it's finance committee must demon.
strate a greater degree Of independ.
ence. II the public revenues are to be
disbursed by the city administration
without regard to question of economy
and without regard to the desires of
the city council, we shall not be will
ing to indorse an increased rate.
It is probably true that the city re.
quires more revenue. When the city
council demonstrates that it is cap
able of administering city funds In an
economical manner there will be no
disposition to withhold whatever rev.
enues are necessary.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
GEO. B. HOLMES
FOR JUDGE
Popular and Able Lawyer,
Strongest and Best Man in
Field for Municipal Court
Judge.

The republicans will undoubtedly
nominate George b. Holmes for Mu.
nicipal court Judge, as he is the best
equipped man in the race.
George b. Holmes is an able law.
yer, respected by bench, bar and
public. He should be elected Judge of
the Municipal court at the April cleo.
ton, and he deserves the votes OF
men of all parties on account of his
fitness for the position.
To show his standing with his fel.
low lawyers, 1t is only necessary to
call attention to the fact that he was
endorsed by the Chicago Bar Asso.
citation in the last Bar primary, when
he was placed eighth in a list of
thirty-six in the ballots cast.
Mr.. Holmes is very popular with
all who knows him. He is affiliated
with a number OF organizations, in
GLIDING the South End Business Mems
Association, Society Santiago de
Cuba, Sons of American Revolution,
Thirty-Second Degree Mason, Fern.
wood Lodge, No. 23s. l. o. o. f.. Coun.
ell N. u, No. 312, United States Re.
volver Association, Illinois State Rifle
Association and is Past Division Com.
mander Illinois Division, Sons of Vet.
Grams.
Mr.. Holmes war record: April 20.
1898, to November II, 1898, in the
trenches, siege and capture of Santi.
ago de Cuba; sergeant Co. II, LIST iii.
nois Volunteer Infantry; wears two
war department medals; in recent
Mexican trouble, on staff Of adjt, gen.
eral; Joined Illinois National Guards
on September I, 1890, as a private in
LIST Regiment Infantry, and was pro.
NOTED to corporal sergeant lieutenant,
and served on Major Abel Davis stan
for five years.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
TO SUPPLANT TURKISH MISRULE

President Harry Pratt Judson of
the University Of Chicago, back from
a carefully planned trip through Persia
and European Turkey. says that the
establishment of totally new civiliza.
ton and a government structure for
the near East to supplant Turkish
rule should not be overlooked among
the many problems to be considered
by the proposed league of nations. He
says: "There were thousand pictures
one could see Of conditions In Turkey,
or what, God willing. will never be
Turkey again. We found all society
broken down; all les foundations worn
away; people wandered In the noun
tains, sleeping under wintry skies and
dying by the thousand. This Is the re-
suit Of centuries Of tyranny. We must
reconstruct society from the founda.
tions. The problem Is not simply
shifting society or government where
there Is one already established; 1t is
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
A GERMAN WHO SPEAKS HIS MIND

Macmillan Harden, editor of
Die Zukunft In Berlin, seems to be the
only responsible man In Germany who
dares speak his mind. He writes in
an issue of his newspaper now ut hand,
among other things:
"And must add the fact that one
Of them, the all highest, ut once be.
took himself to foreign land. Even
the supreme war lord, before the con.
clusion of peace, chose the deserter's
path. This fact must ut last have
opened the eyes Of even those who still
believed In that shimmering idol.
"Now all the secret plottings and
writings must be brought to the light.
Hesitate no longer, We who
now rule, to publish the unambiguOus
proof In the archives, to unmask the
liarsl
Germans, you shall not, as yes.
terday you did for princes, excellencies.
bank presidents, ministerial directors.
today fawn upon the favor of work.
ers and soldiers councils. You shall h
determined nv yaiir Lnnnsf c,nyi,ti,,,.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
AN AMERICAN RED CROSS LEADER

No one Is better qualified to speak
of the American woman's service In
the war and of the Red Cross as Amer
ica's initial instrument In carrying the
message of her sympathy and cO-opera-
ton to the people Of France than Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt, who has re.
turned home on a furlOugh Of two
months after having been IN the war
zone for nearly fsur years.
She was in France at the time Of
Germany's invasion. 1t was she who
was responsible for the founding of
the American Ambulance hospital, at
Neuilly, now United States Military
Hospital No. 1. What she accomplish.
ed during those first three horrible
years of the war Is past telling. 1t is
sufficient to know that Mrs. Wander.
bits name has become, throughout
France and Italy, the symbol of Amer
ica's highest type Of wOmanhood.
Mrs. Vanderbilt has run the gamut
OF women's war service, having known
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
OBITUARY
JACOB A. HEY.

Jacob A. Hey, for ten years a men,
Der of the city council from the 23rd
ward, died Wednesday at the Chicago
Osteopathic hospital, Four months
ago he contracted influenza, and dia.
betes with complications developed.
Mr.. Hey had been prominent in Re.
publican politics for years. In 1915 he
was a candidate for the Republican
nomination for mayor.
Mr.. Hey was unmarried. He was a
prominent Mason and also was a
member of the various German clubs.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-02-22
ELECTION CALEN.
OAR FOR 1919
Feb 25-Primary for city Offices.

Feb 25-Primary for city Offices.
March /, 19l9-Last day to file with
the county clerk Independent petit.
lions for Judge OF the Superior court
OF Cook county and commissioner Of
park districts.
March 7, 1919--Last day to file with
the city clerk independent petitions
for mayor, city treasurer, city clerk.
Judge OF municipal court Ito I'LL va
cancy), and aldermen.
March 11--Registration for city
election.
April City election and the cleo
ton Of one Superior court Judge In
Cook county.