The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-09-08
GRANDFATHER CLAUSE
CARRIED LARGEST VOTE
Complaints Received From
Various Places In State Of
Shortage Of Ballots

Politically there were 2lS.s5S votes
cast In the primary election Of Au.
gust ., Of them l95,SiS being Demo.
cratic, $4,000 Republican lG,O54 Socla
ist aud IS prohlbitlor!sL Three
years ago, IN the first primary eec.
zion, the Democratic vote WAS los. 702.
All other parties that year made their
nominations by conventions. This
year but filty.two counties reported
any vote Tor the prohibition ticket
In each case the vote here gIyer
was that cost for governor. being IN
the aggregate the highest for any OF,
fee. There were cast for and against
the grandfather clause 2t0O7S or FL,
1870 more than were cast for the ten
candidates for governor on the -four
political tickets This may bc ac.
counted for In that the law permit d
nc escape from voting on the amend.
ment Every ballot east had to be
either for OF against the grandfather
clause aud, accepting the record Of
the state election board as authentic.
u means there We're 2l.720 voters
who paid attention 10 neither race
nor candidate. but voted only for
or against the suffrage proposition
Socialists and Republicans. both of
whom We're opposed TO the clause.
claim there was a shortage In their
precincts OF ballots, Applied TO many
precincts Democrats make similar
complaint II is asserted that So
ciallsts aud Republicans secured Dem,
0cratic ballots because there were
none OF their own and voted against
the grandfather clause without re.
gard to remainder OF the ticket The
same was also true To some degree
when voting their party ticket, which
had tendency To increase the grand.
fsther vote over that cast for heads
o. the tickets.
Democratic Vote For Governor
Records of the state election board
show the following vote for Demo
cratic candidates for governor:
Cruce 56.051; Kirk 2,0l0; Murray
10000 and Ross 210S7 Cruce lei
Murray l5.s5l The highest indiyia.
ual Democratic vote was 72GT2 for
Kate Barnard, commissioner OF char.
tiles and corrections. and her plnr.
ality over gaker was 3S,O7l. The ncxt
highest individual vote was for Char.
les Taylor, state examiner and In
spector, who received C4.S3t, with q
oNer lAndrum Of 32,3i1 Bill
Cross, deceased nominated for State
auditor. received third place with
5S,99S votes
Next to the Office for governor the
largest vote was for attorney gener-
al, with a total Of l0S si5. the third
being lieutenant governor, l0S,59g.
and the lowest for president OF the
state board OF agriculture, the total
being g1.377 Tae following was the
vote cast for candidates on the Dem.
acratic ticket:
Lieutenant Governor Davis g3,llG.
DuHy 1888: Ellis 9,7G2, McAlester
33,1Gl Notson sS9S; Postelle 1871;
Yeager 1854
Secretary Of State Harrison S.,
0Ol; Meyer 1890
State Auditor Blair 1879 Cross
5S.gsS Gllmer 1863. Tucker l5.ig8.
Attorney General~-Grabam Si.556;
Key 30,3S3: west 1905
state TreaTnFef- THnfOp 5E-7JH-
Trapp 1928
State superintendent Cameron A.
COZ: Wilson 57.32l
State Examiner and Inspector Ian
drum 32.4S6: Taylor C4.SJl
Chief Mine Inspector Boyle 81 .se3 !.
tanraty f7,622
Commissioner OF Labor Daugher-
Is s0.2s9 fno opposition
Commissioner Of Charities and Cor
rections Baker $3.50 Barnard r.
e27.
Insurance Commissioner Ballard
25.s76 Calvert i2.1I; cor,Ion =.
G0f Ebey 7,495: Lasater 1871, Mar
tin 2g.llf-
State Printer Farris 1904. High
ley 2l.sie, Lester 33.709
President State Board of Agrieul
tpre-- Bryan 55,7l2 Bishop z2,705;
Paschal 1880
Corporation Commissioner Bowles
1896, fIenshaw 29.95S: Lash tOgi;
Norman 1914: Strain 1868 Tuck
e. g.529: Wilson 1853.
Clerk Of the Supreme Court Camp
bell 3s,s1s Gardner i9.02f Gordon
1881. Taylor 25,2iG
Vote For Republican Candidates
Goyernor-fe Ferguson 22,743 Fields
IG,gSs. Jones 9,G77 McNea zs.96o
McNeals plurality over Ferguson 3.
an
ier'erant r~yerror--Dnkes II ~
(no opposition1