The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-03
OKLAHOMA WOMEN INDICATED

THE women did it. They elected S c. Durbin mayor
| OF Chickasha on the last day OF 1918 by the
biggest majority received by candidate
in that city. While the writer does not know Mr..
Durbin personally, it is gathered from newspaper
comment prior the special election that he is
OF high civic merit and was the best candidate before
the voters.
Last Monday in this space we published an edi-
torial headed oklahoma Women Trial" We ex-
pressed the belief that the women of Chickasha first
OF their to vote in this state under the consttu-
tional amendment adopted last November conferring
citnzenship upon women, would prove that the bal
lot placed in their hands was misplaced. 1t ap-
pears that the women of Chickasha have proved it.
Let analyze the vote briefly. The total vote
was lO55. There five candidates for mayor the
only office to be filled at the election which was held
to choose successor to the men-elected mayor who
had been removed from office for wfu malfeasance
Mr.. Durbn got 69l votes, than two-thirds Of
the total His nearest competitor got only 45 His
clear majority all 344 And we are told in the
dispatches from Chickasha that the women did it.
We told also that $50 women were registered
for the election Equal suffrage leaders had expected
only about 500 registrations. And the women went
to the polls in raging snowsorm, with cold wave
coming and a considerable part thereof already ar
rived. They got up early in the morning and voted
early, but not often lust one vote to one woman
Heretofore it has been the habit Of a certain set of
men to vote early and as often as possible without
being caught i'll the act OF repeating. We venture the
guess that there was no repeating by the women OF
Chickasha. History may be so foolish as to repeat
ITSELF but an Oklahoma woman has better sense
And right here and now permit us to make an
other prediction. When the women begin voting
throughout Oklahoma, as they will at the general
election and at the spring municipal elections there
Will be much less repeating by male animals than
there has been in the past. Why? Because already
the neWfedged citizens OF the other sex have begun
organizing for civic bcttermcnt
SapuIpa, we believe started this movement imme-
diatcy after the suffrage amendment carried The
movement is spreading to other cities 1t will be taken
up by the OF Ardmore just as soon as they have
time to get together and talk it over That will mean
for Admorc and for Carter county better local GOV
ernment than has been known heretofore There can
be not the slightest doubt as 10 that The women
Of this city and county in the main are higclass cit
zens' They will vote only for high-cass candidates.
on may stick your little stckpin right here brother
and LET it stay stuck until this statement is verified by
the events.
The women did it at Chickasha. The women will
do ]. throughout Oklahoma when they get the oppor-
unity you may mark that we'll They are going TO
contribute largely to that part oi the making Of the
new world which has to do with Oklahoma The
old regime OF plug uglinc,s in municipal and state
politics is passing. The old order is giving place to
the new. The dawn of a brighter better noblcr day
i'm local scli-goyernmcnt is reddening A few wears
from now nobody with good reason can call Oklahoma
a rotten borough in any respect, and the women will
do more To bring that situation about than any other
element OF the electorate.
Our CUES, is that we can bank on the women OF
Oklahoma.