The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-03-13
Sunday, March 13, 1921.
TIME is AT HAND TO
OVERTHROW MAL-ADMINISTRATI


OVERTHROW MAL-ADMINISTRATIO
Election day is upon us. Under the laws
Of our state we have the privilege Tuesday
of choosing for ourselves the men who are
to have charge of this city. 1t is an oppor-
tunity guaranteed under our constitution
which has been sustained by the blood Of
our men and when we give serious thought
to the matter it is really wonderful privi-
lege Of exercising our own thought in choos-
ing for our city the men who will give us
the4best government.
The lines are so clearly drawn in the
city that it seems useless to speak of them
On one side we have campaign of
treacherous attacks upon The yArdmoreite
and upon hundreds of good citizens who are,
without stint, giving their time and money to
build Ardmore, and who are not making any
effort to control matters farther than good cit
izenShip demands.
On the other side we have business man
who places his candidacy before the people.
He has said that he will appreciate the op-
portunty to serve, that he will leave his
business and give his entire time to the
people of this city. He is not arraying one
class against another he is not appealing to
ative attacks upon people who are giving the
best that is in them to the welfare of this
city to elect him.
The auditor who some months ago checked
up the accounts of Ardmore as a business
Institution, said if the people could under
stand what shape their business was in that
they would rise in their power and take over
their government and run it. To have done
so at that time would have been of revo-
lutionary order, but under our constitution we
have that privilege now at the ballot box.
Our tax rate has been high, property val
nations have been high, vast sums have been
paid in taxes, and still one bond issue after
another has been added to our Indebtedness,
all because our resources have been wasted,
because they have been handled as politicians
do things and not as business men would do
them.
When Ardmore was thirsty last summer,
when every piece of property that makes up
our fair city was in hazard for lack of water,
when we were drinking mud-laden fluid
that was sufficient to have caused an epidemic
that would take many of our people from us,
this city was without funds to lay a pipe line
to water supply
When an election was asked, the reply
was made that there was no funds to pay
for holding it,
When the charter amendments were out
and when the people had a right TO expect
their city to place these amendments in their
hands for study, there was not a dollar to
pay for that service.
1t matters not what emergency confrontS
this city, there is not dollar in the treasury
to care for it.
There is no doubt in the world but what
the time for overumng Ardmore's present
system of mal-administraton is here. If we
are ever going to do anything, if we are ever
going to build city, if we are ever going to
conserve our resources, that time is now at
hand
We are not worried over the attacks of
Mayor Freeman on The Ardmoreite. We do
not believe that there is so much as one bust
ness man, or any other good citizen, that gives
heed to his words of attack. We know that
We do not want one dollar that we do not
earn; we know that we do not desire to pun.
ish any citizen of this city; we know that we
are inspired with desire to serve; we know
that we give every hour of the day to this
city and to the things it is doing to make
Ardpore grow, and we have no fear from
any source whatever.
We have no interests that are not the
interests of every other citizen of this city.
Just as no man can work when he knows
shat he earns is wasted, just so no city car
work when it knows its tax money is frittered
away by men who profess great power a.
stump speakers, but are devoid of executive
ability.
1t is our sincere belief that Ardmore vii