Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-06-24
/. County Nominations.


for candidates for offices to b,
voted on in the primary election
closed this week. The nomination
complete are as follows:
Democrats Representative, W
?. FEEDER: County Clerk, C. F
YOunkin; County Treasurer, j
W. SOderStrOm; Register of Deed
E. E. EppersOn; County Attorney
James W. Clarke and Charles l.
Carroll; Probate Judge, H. A.
Hall County Superintendent, Miss
Jennie MOmyer; Sheriff, NJ. Dali.
ey; rorOner, DR.. F. L. McCauley
District Clerk, Frank Wells; COul
ty Printer, Roy Cornelius; County
Assessor, A. Schwager; Commits
SlOner First Dist, John DOherty
Matt Dick, Frank Batchman.
Of these, FEEDER, Younkin. Hall,
Daley, SOderstrOm, and Cornelius
are candidates for a second term.
GpperSon has served two terms,
ind filed be@auSe no other Demo
crat aSpired for the place. Clarke
also has served two terms, but
was brought out by friends.
The Republicans to file were
for the various offices, in the Or
der as given above, R. L. Hamil-
ton, Louis Hagen, Flora Smith, H
L. WOOdburn and Will BillupS, R.
c. Russell, ". H. Russell, Edward
Opie, and James Freer, j. S. Dal-
ziel and A. A. Wemmergren, no
complete filing for coroner, S. A.
NewcOmbe for County Surveyor,
9. NJ. Kellam for District Clerk,
W. L. TOwnSley and L. j. Gum
for County Printer, no complete
filing for Assessor, and Anton
Reif, ST., and W. R. Rinker for
Commissioner. Of these, Hamil-
ton and the two Russell'S have
been drafted. Hamilton issued a
statement last week declining un-
der any circumstances to run,
and Russell, for Probate Judge
expressed himself the same way.
Louis Hagen is also a draft, and
Flora Smith only became a candi-
date Tuesday evening, Opie is
2 candidate for a third term and
Kellam for a fourth. The peti-
tiOns of Hagen and Gum were
filed Thursday morning under a
protest. Petitions have also been
liled, but not in sufficient num-
ber or tfhe following. DR.. Ed.
Atkin, Jr., and DR.. Spiers for
Coroner, A. j. Reif., Jr., for
County Clerk, ThOs. DeWerff for
Assessor, A. H. Werhahn for
County Treasurer, and j. Q. Ra-
gan for Register of Deeds. If
other petitions come in before the
close Of today, (Thursday)
they will be received and filed un
der protest. The reason therefor,
is that there is a question about
a petition being filed on Thurs
day, the fOrtieth day before the
primary ell ctiOn, coming within
the law. The county attorney
says that the 22nd, Wednesday,
was the last day to file. The cOu
ty clerk als4 held that way, and
in answer to a wire to the AttOr-
ney General, the. latter said that
it might be all right to file on
the 23rd. but to escape any queS-
tiOn as to their validity they
should be filed the day before.
BY filing them under protest, the
case can go to the Attorney Gen
-eral; and if he then holds that the
-23rd is all right, well and good,
and if he says not, the petitions
are not on file. The only ques-
tion is as to the last day Of filing,
Petitions have also been filed,
but not in sufficient number to
be placed on the ballot, for the
following Socialists: Represen
tatiyes, AL johnson; County Clerl
J. R. Underwood; Treasurer, To-
bias MeGill; Register of Deeds
L. L. Scott; County Superinten'
dent, Mrs. Hedwig GrOsdiger
Coroner, C. W. Lehman; Surveyo
E. W. Chaffee; District Clerk, C
P. True; Sheriff, ". A. .Delap.
The Democrats have flied paper
for township Officers from the 70
lowing townships: Albion, Beaver
Buffalo Clarence Cheyenne Cleve
land COmanche Grant Great Benz
Homestead, Independent, Libert!
Logan, Lakin Pswnee Rock, SOutl
Bend and Walnut. ,.-....
The Republicans have filed from
the following townships; Eurek
lFairSiex. Gfeat Bend Homestead
lIrJnDauIny,f porruoo RAok an.