The Calumet news., 1912-08-21
CANDIDATES IN
The STATE BUSY
Convention Workers Are Prepar-
ing to Cinch Delegates

Detroit Mich, August 2l-With the
primary election which viii settle the
gubernatorial nomination only q week
away the various candidates for Of
fees nomination to which will ne
made at the state convention are be-
ginning 10 get busy.
Practically all the county conven-
tions which viii select delegatos to
the state convention viii be held with
in the next three weeks and the cam
didates will nearly all DO the most Of
their work between the primary and
the state convention.
Not in wears has the interest I'm the
campaign for state office been as
light as This year. Eespite he entry
Of third party into the field old Gem
eral Apathy is in command oflall the
forces and not even the candidates
seem To have the usual pep.
The jobs Tor which nominations
will be made at the state convention
are Secretary of State, state Treas
urer. State Land Commissioner anu
Auditor General.
For Secretary Of state Senator
Coleman G. Vaughan OF ST. Johns ap-
larently has pretty easy going George
Lord was to have been a candioate
but he pulled down nice job ~
tax commissioner of Wayne county
and won't contest Var,o1s other
names have heen tentativeiy suggest
ed but it appears that When the con
vention meets there viii he no real
opposition to Senator Vaughan.
There are three active candidates
for state treasurer, John w Harrer.
of Ann Arbor who has been deputy
treasurer for the past s Years, SEN
ator \. =, Kingmar Of Tatne Creek
and Rep. John y. Perry of Tustin.
Word received in Detroit gives Har-
rer the best of the race now with
l<ingman In second place riarrer
has made an excellent record i'm the
reasurer's office. He was deputy un-
der Frank p. GlaZier and when the
blow off came it was largely through
his excellent work hat the affairs
OF the office were straightened out.
lie held the jolt of treasurer until the
place was filed and Treasurer Sleep
CT thought 50 well Of his work TINT
he continued him as deputy
Senator bingham is banker Of
Rpttle Creek aud has a great deal of
support among the business mon of
the state There is nUthin8 against
him but Harrer has none u political
friends which nakes hlsu Campaign
look the bestai- rtinte.
Perry has heen a member of the
house for throtllerms. fIeisrhe own
er of string @f private banks in
Osceola and nearby counties and his
principal claim tc ftmdoln'dhe legis-.
iatur- has beeil the'wae' Ire has bats
lied to keep private 'bahRs from be
ing brought under the control of The
state banking departments
Gus Carton. present rseCretary Of
the public domain commission is lc7d-
ing aspirant Tor the nomiration IA
and commissioner His candidacy is
unique in that he declares that the
ciIice of land commissioner should be
abolished and its' wdrl, turned over
to the public domain ctmmission and
he will labor with the next legsla-
ture to take this step. 'Fne'-
Glenn Munshaw, present deputy. un
der Commissioner IIlntlpy Russell.
has also been candidate but has not
been working very hard. He has
done excellent work In tho office as
deputy.
1t looked for q considerable period
Of time as though Auditor General
Fuller was going 10 get away without
OPPOSITION for a third term but now
Doc Scidmorc, former member OF the
house is an active candidate and re-
ports indicate that he is going TO give
Fuller a race. There are ,,lso rumor1
that Herbe Baker. speaker of the
house in the last two sessions, is also
going 90 contest 70 the nomination.
Hcrbie has had hard time crasins
the Office bee around. lie had his
eye on toe Auditor Generals job for