Gunnison news-champion., 1912-08-02
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sssembly 70 be ksld in Aeatsose.
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A county ticket esnssstlRs 81 clerk
and recorder, sssessos. treasurer,
Sheriff, Judge. superintendent of
scheois, eososer, surveyor, eommis-
ssoaers fes the 6rss sad second dis
tricts, . representative in the state
legislature, precinct officers, precinct
eosD Daisteemen and commlt,eewosnen,
viii he chosen.
GsnHssoa eosnty is joined with Pit
kla eosnty in the Eleventh senatorial
district and bot too candidates. have
sanoanced themselves for this Office,
| nsnely, John y Pearson and John
A. Lehrritter. Gunnison county 10
sstitled to eleven delegates and Pit
hin county 10 ten. II hes bsen the
esstom to alternate the senator be-
tween the two counties, sad THE year
il falls TO the lot OF Gunnison county
10 make selection.
Gsnnison county is joined with
Osray, hontrose, Delta and Mesa in
the Seventh Judicial district.
Several names have been mentio1ed
for the judpeship but no formal an
nosncement Of candidacy hes been
made recently. r. N. Logan Of
Delta, at present district attorney,
came oct for the nomination through
the News s-Champion some months
ego. Reports had it that he had
Withdrawn. When here recently,
Mr.. Logan Informed News Champion
that the reports we're erroneous. 1t
10 stated q considerable element in
the party has agreed upon T. j.
Black OF Montrose for the nomination.
For district attorney Vim. Weiser
of Grand junction formally an
noanced his candidacy through the
western slope press several weeks
ago. 1t is stated that County Judge
Geo. Hetherington of Gunnison is
seeking the support Of the assembly
for this Office, but News Champion
only has current rumors on which to
base the assertion, the Judge having
made no reference to the matter in
person.
For the different county Offices to
be voted upon, the present incum-
bants are all candidates for renomi-
nation. They have been working
more or less vigorously in the past
few weeks and have had much to do
with selecting the delegates to the
assembly tomorrow.
jos. H. Block appears to stand
alone for representative. He is the
only one who has made open an
Douncement of his candidacy. At
first he aspired to be senator but
sher brief preliminary campaign,
Mr.. Block centered his attention TO
representative.
At .ornorrow's assembly any per-
son receiving ten per cent of the
vote Of the assembly shall be entitled
to have his name go upon the
primary ballot. The one receiving
the greatest number of votes shall
precede the rest on the list. Only
one ballot snail be taken for candi-
dates for any Office.
Any member Of the party desiring
to become a candidate for an office
may also have his name placed on
the primary ballot by petition in
substantially the same manner as
independent candidates are now
placed on the general election ballot
. An office for the state or district
larger than a county requires 800
petitioners. County officers require
100 petitioners. All petitioners