The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-10
HE RECEIVES MAJORITY OF
2,491 IN CAPITAL
VILLAGE"
ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL
RETURNS FILED
Murray, Thompson and Weaver
Three Chosen for Congress.
at-large

|
ator Robert l.. owen in this county
as shown by the official returns Civ
en- out Friday by the county election
board, Oklahoma county seems to ne
! beyond question the banner Owen
lcounty of the state. The returns give
/ haskell 1857 and Owen 4,34S.
On the Republican ticket Judge J.
/ +. Dickerson carried the county for
! United States senator. but by very
marrow margin, the vote showing
rcKerson 1890 Parmenter 10U5,
Perry 767 and Jones SIS
/ Next in interest locally to the sen
Iatorial race has been the contest for
the Democratic congressional nomina-
1 ton in the Second district The Off
Cial returns show J. S. Ross, of this
! city and Judge j. }. Carney, of Ell
Reno. the two leaders in the race
only ninety-hve votes apart. and leave
tGe result in the district as much in
ldoubt as ever. 1t had been expected
that the Oklahoma county vote would
probably decide as between the two
candidates
Checking the figures on an adding
machine this afternoon, it was found
THAT Carneys vote was ,702 and that
lei Ross ,607
In the opinion e. Judge J B. A.
Robertson, candidate for congress
Iman-at-large at this weeks primary,
the primary demonstrates that Dem
lOcratic candidate from the northern
half OF Oklahoma is under a great
handicap as compared with those
i,om the southern half Of the state.
II seems TO be impossible to get
Iout the Democratic vote at the pri-
mary in the northern counties, said
Judge Robertson, while in the soutn-
crn cart of the state, where a Demo
attic nomination is equivalent to an
election, that IS the time when there
Is the most interest and there are
often more votes cast at the primary
tnan in the general election.
In my own county, Lincoln there
are $500 Democrats but there We're
hardly more than l,400 Democraticl
votes cast at the primary. For most
OF the county Offices there was no
contest over the nomination. with the
result that there was little interest
and light vote. The candidates for
Ccngressmen-at large from the north
Crn part of the state made a pretty
GOOD showing on the early returns,
but when the big majorities began to
All in from the southern counties we
We're overwhelmed by them
Henry VI. Furman, presiding judge
OF the criminal court OF appeals. who
was renominated by the Democratic
arty at Tuesdays primary Without
opposition, has prepared for fling
With the state election board an affi-
davit which states that he did not
spend cent, and did not grant any
ie ors to anyone to secure his nom
nation. Judge Furman made no cam
lla'g and has kept up his court work
throughout the primary period
WeaVer's Race Helped Him
There now seems TO be little ques |
ton that W. II. Murray. OF Tishomin-
20 j. B. Thompson of Pauls Valley, |
and Claude Weaver, of Oklahoma City, |
are the three Democratic nominees |
~ congressmen-at- at-large
Weayer's nomination is TO a consid- |
e. able degree the result of the fight |
ahjch he made five years ago for the |
emOcratic nomination for congre $
a the Fifth district He was at that
lme a resident Of the district and the
eht lay between Weaver. Scott Fer
IS. Of LawtOn, and Reford Bond OF
hickasha. The nomination was
nade by a convention, the primary
aw not having been enacted at that
me and the fight was one of the bit
crest ever seen in Oklahoma. mar
owing down finally to Weaver and
'erris
Ferris was declared the nominee OF h
ne convention, but Weaver claimed
rat the nomination was secured by
harp practice and filed contest be
ore the territorial officials who had
barge of the preparation of the bal
DTS for the first state election. but
ne contest was decided in favor OF q
'erris.
Many Of the Democrats Of the Fifth
strict have always considered how
yer. that Weaver got d little the
.orst of Il in that fight and every
ounty in the district rolled up a tre-
iendous vote for him, in addition to ,
'e strong support which he received
q Oklahoma county, now his home
ounty. lnasmuch as the Fifth dis
net contains nearly onethrd of thel
emocratic votes of the state itsi
hluence I'm a Gght of this sort is
lmost Irresistible
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