The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-12-27
CANDIDATES LINING
Up At THE WIRE
WAITING FOR THE WORD go"
IN THE NEXT COUNTY AND
STATE CAMPAIGN.

From present indications there VIII
be opposition to every Office holder
| in the county in the next campaign,
for a time il was thought that many
would have no opposition, but that
thought has been dispelled within
the past few days and it begins 10
look like battle royal at present
County Attorney Mathers is going
to have at least one opponent and
perhaps more, but one is already
in the running r. f. Turner is the
man who aspires to that office. He
was a candidate before the first pri-
mary, but withdrew before the race
was finished and now he maintains
that he is entitled to .ho office.
In the sheriffs race this too prom.
ises to be interesting. There were
nine candidates before the people at
the last election, and it was any
body's race up to the very last Buck
Garrett finally won out, and as he
made a good officer he thinks he
is entitled to an endorsement term
1t has been hinted that D. S. Back
burn, Dick Hignight and Ben Stev-
ems would ask the people to elect
them to the office.
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ponent for the office of county treas
urer. He has been in the office of
Major Rumph, who declines to run,
ever since statehood, and is a COM
petent man. I. r. Best has intimated
that he might oppose him.
b. w. Duke will probably have an
kopponent for the office of county
clerk, and Fred Haynie will also be
compelled to make a strenuous cam
paign for the office of clerk of the
district court, as it is whispered that
several want to succeed him. Like
wise the race for register of deeds
will be warm.
The county judges race is another
proposition that promises to lend eX.
citement to the campaign. The pres
ent incumbent, Judge Winfrey will
be candidate but there are three
others who will offer to serve the
people in that capacity, and every
one have a following to be reckoned
with.
Taken by and large, this should
be about the warmest race in the
county and it would be a case of the
survival of the fittest sure enough.
In the state senatorlai race there
have been heard rumblings and rum
blings and it has been a hard mat
ter to get an expression from any
but one who has declared himself
That man is 7. A. Bass, one OF the
prominent attorneys of this city VIII ,
says frankly thai he will accept the
honor and will make the race for il.
On the other hand, the other prom
inently mentioned are as dumb as an
oyster when approached on the sub
ject, and whether they really want
to represent this district in the state
senate or are "iust kiddin'," it is hard
to determine. Way down in the
bailiwick of Love, is an auburn
haired individual who has shot across
the political firmament of the new
state like a blazing meteor; he is
r schooled in all the arts of the politi
clan, he has run the gamut from
!, delegate to the constitutional con
} ventlon, on down (or up. if you wild
, through the upper house and for a
, brief period was the governor OF
; the state (but didn't know it). Now
: Clint Graham is power in politics
, in the state, but it is hard to be
lieve that he will relnquish the pos
sibility of again being a candidate for
' attorney general to occupy a seat
| with that august body known as the
state senate.
However, We shall see what we
shall see. The boys at the forks
of the creek may rest assured OF
one thing, they will be served with
plenty of oratory during the coming
year, and will of course be expect
ed to furnish barbecue" in return
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