The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-25
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campaign is nearly three years away,
political fences are already being
made. Under the Oklahoma constitu-
ton all state officers hold for four
year terms with the exception OF the
supreme court and the corporation
commission. who are elected for six
years, and the result is that the only
state officers elected next year will
be one justice of the supreme court
and the corporation commissioner
although the campaign for United
States senator is expected TO furnish
enough interest TO make up for the
lack of a regular state compaign.
/ The result is that the slate-makers
are already getting ready for 1914 al
though their efforts have not GOTTEN
very far beyond the governors chair
as yet one of the questions which
all Of them are asking is whether Jus
/ tice Jesse J. Dunn of the supreme
court will be a candidate for governor
next time. Justice Dunn was strongly
mportuned to become a candidate
last year, but refused to do so as long
as Cruce was in the race. In addi-
ton 10 his record on the bench he
has shown his executive ability. by
the way in which he managed the first
statewide campaign in Oklahoma for
the democratic party. He was chair
man of the first state committee in
the election of delegates to the con-
stitutiOnal convention, in which the
democrats elected all but twelve out
of l09 delegates.
Many of the democratic leaders be-
lieve that Judge Dunn would be very
strong candidate, while others claim
that the fact that he comes from Kan
sas would be regarded as very strong
ly against him among the cordons of
the great unwashed" down toward
Red river. where the big end Of the
vote in the democratic primaries is
cast
Ginning to complain that It is time
for them to have a gubernatorial can
didate in Oklahoma, where they have
been furnishing a large part OF the
democratic majority with great regu-
/ larity. and are quietly starting a boom
I for John r. Williams, who managed
I -
nor last year, and is now at the head
/ OF the state school land department,
the most important place within the
/ gift OF the state administration. Will
/ liams understands the political game
I thoroughly and is also man of such
/ ability as to be regarded as legitimate
/ subernatorial timber.
Murray viii Run Again.
"Ril' Murray is practically certain
( run for congress at large next year
if the reapportionment bill is passed,
but that would not keen him from
runninE for governor in 1914. He he
leves that Cruces success last year,
after having been defeated by Haskell
in his first race. is a favorable omen
for himself, and that he can come
back as successfully in 1914 as did
Il Cucc in 1910.
state superintendent X. II. Wilson
already has laid plans TO glide into
the governors office on the strength
Of the record for economy made by
the new state board of education, and
one of his colleagues on that board,
state Treasurer Robert Dunlop, is
said TO be figuring on the very same
thing Congressman Scott Ferris has
been boosted by some of the country
papers as gubernatorial candidate, but
says that he is well satisfied with his
present Job Lieutenant Governor !.
J. McAcster. r. W. Dick. warden of
the Oklahoma pcnitentiary. and Rep.
resentatiycs W. B. Anthony have all
been mentioned as strong possibilities.
Very few candidates have even been
mentioned for the other state offices
AZ vet. although an ample supply can
probably be recruited after next year
from the unsuccessful candidates for
congress, AS there are at least forty
members OF the legislature, besides a
horde of others, who have congreS
sional ambitious. County Attorney
John \. Fain of l.awton has a boom
/, for attorney general fairly launched
as a result of his success in his suit
. for the dissolution of Swanson coun-
.ty. VI Z. France of Alva. now der
uty in the office OF the state examiner
and Inspector. is said to be in training
FOR a campaign for state treasurer.
and Hugh Gerner, chief deputy under
Charles g. TAYLOR. the present state