The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-06-17

by the fact that sixty-four democratic
candidates. twenty-nine republican and
no socialists have filed their names
with Secretary VIII Lynn of the state
election hoard for various state offices.
Candidates for either branch Of the
state legislature or the district courts
are not included. The last number,
well into two hundred, with the demo-
Gratis outnumbering the republicans
more than two to one there also Only
one socialist has filed for any place
whatever, to date; he is from Pitts
burg county and wants to run for the
lower house of representatives.
OF the state officers the most desira-
Bile is apparently that of corporation
commissioner from which Col ]. J..
McAlester retires. Ten candidates
are out for that place. Seven each
have filed for governor and congress
from the second district; six each
have filed for encouragement and
clerk Of the supreme court; four each
for president of the state board of
agriculture and state auditor.
The gubernatorial candidates to date
filing, are: democrats. Lee Cruce, J. B.,
A. Robertson. w. H. Murray and Leslie
P. Ross; republicans, J. W. McNeal,
John Fields and T. B. Ferguson. Nc
Neal is Guthrie banker-Fields runs
an agricultural paper at Oklahoma
City. Ferguson lives at Watonga and
was once governor of Oklahoma terri
tory. There are two other announced
democratic candidates who have not
filed. F. Z. Herring of ELK City and
Brant Kirk Of Oklahoma City.
For lieutenant governor the follow
ing democrats have filed: Or. Frank
P. Davis, OF Enid, secretary of the
state board of medical examiners; A..
H. Ellis of Orlando. who distinguished
himself as a member of the lower
house Of the first legislature; Robt. l..
Morrison OF Harrah; State Senator p
]. Yeaker Of Tulsa: Corporation Com
missioner ], j McAlester; P, p Duff
fey of El Reno. editor OF the Ri Reno
Democrat and secretary to Lieutenant
Governor George w Bellamy. The
only republican who has filed for this
office is Gilbert w. Dukes from far off
Talihina, in the Choctaw hills.
The democratic candidates filed for
attorney general are Attorney General
Charles West himself; States Senator
]. C. Graham of Marietta. who seized
through the constitutional convention
and both legislatures; Representative
Swan G. Burnette of Cardell, member
Of the second legislature. and George
d. Key, Lawton attorney. Republic
cans filing for this place are Cornelius
Hardy OF Tishomingo. lawyer.politi-
clan of old Indian Territory days, and
p. G. Hughes of Oklahoma City
For clerk of the supreme court w
H. L. Campbell. the present incumbent
is out. also other democrats as follows:
Neil B. Gardner Of Supply State Sena'
tor L. X. Taylor Of Chickasha, and N
A. Gordon of Oklahoma City. reading
clerk of the first and second legisla
lures. Amos A. Ewing of Guthrie
with an ante-statehood record as a re
publican politician and Charles c
Chappell of Asher. are the republican
candidates.
Ten out for one job.
OF the ten men who would be corpor
alton commissioner, six are democrats
and are as follows H. P. Bowles Of
Durant; George A. Henshaw, attorney
to the corporation commission; J A
Norman. a Muskogee hotel keeper;
State Senator Joe Strain of Wann;
roted for his pipe line legislation;
Representative George Il. Wilson oi
Mangum. and Representative G w
Tucker of Comanche. The republi
cans contesting for this place are
State Senator Emory d. Brownlee o.
Kingfsher Of the first and second leg
islatures; State Senator ]. Harry
cloonan Of Bunch, of the second legis
lature; ]. R. Queen of Perry. and Rep
resentative ]. A. Humphreys Of Atoka
the latter being one of the republican
legislators who filed charges agains
the democratic state administrator
during the special session of the legis
lature.
For secretary Of state the following
democratic candidates are out: Assist
ant Secretary of State Leo Meyer an,
Representative Ben II Harrison Of Cal
vim, the latter having served through
both legislatures, being the speake
pro TEN of the last. Don R. Fraser o
Wewoka is the only republican film
here.
State Examiner and Inspector c. A
Taylor Of Pond Creek, who has filed Z
succeed himself, has only one oppor