The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-06
GREAT INTEREST BEING
MANIFESTED IN PRIMARY
OF STATE
RAIN ON WEST SIDE
BRINGS OUT THE FARMERS
Day for Most Part Marked By No
Unseem|y Scraps Some
Forecasts

The people of the state OF Okla
homa are Interested in but one thina
today--the primary.
Today thousands of ballots are be-
Ing deposited in boxes in the 5000
precincts throughout the state. The
most intense interest is being man
ifested
Locally the day is ideal for cleo
tion purposes
Reports for The Leader from over
the state show rainfall in the west
and parts of eastern and southern
Oklahoma.
II Will be we'll toward midnight
before any returns are received. The
ballots are many and the count VIII
be slow. County tickets are long
as we'll as the state consressloha'
ticket.
It viii be well into Thursday
night before any definite returns
can be announcedi
From all reports received up 10
3 o'clock this afternoon order pre-
walls at most all election precincts
in the state. At Oklahoma city, tn"
milling is fierce. Tulsa and Musko-
gee voters are also highly wrought
up.
The statewide primaries are being
held in Oklahoma today for the nom
ination of state, United states sen
ator, congressional, district, county
and township officers. Between 6Oe
and 700 candidates are making the
race for the 1876 state and legisia
tive offices alone. over $50 repre-
sent the democrats, while ITO are
republicans, 100 Socialists, and
prohfbitionist He is Thomas T.
Hopey of Enid. candidate for con
gress in the first district
light congressman are to be nom
mated one from each of the five
districts and three at large, ana
there are four general state Offices
to be filled. For the three congress
men at large there are rs demo
cratic candidates. 13 repunlcan, ana
3 socialist. Twenty five seats In
the state senate are to be filled, and
full legislative house of 8 mem
bers, Forty. seven members OF the
last legislature are candidates fqr
In the seventysiX
counties of the state all county and
township officers are to be noml
mated
The five Oklahoma congressman
are candidates for nomination
Bird Mcclure first district. and Dick
r. Morgan, second district, repub
licans; James Davenport, third dis
trict, Charles d. Garter, fourth, and |
Scott Ferris, fifth, democrats. All
are opposed,
The main campaign has been be-
tween Robert l.. owen. United states |
senator and Ex-Governor Charles N
Haskell for the democratic nomi- |
nation for United States senator
There are Ave republican candi-
dates for United states senator: A
f. Dynamite" Perry of Coalgate. |
c, B. Douglas of Muskogee, j r
Dickerson of Edmond, J. J Jones
OF Sapulpa and B. NJ Parmenter OF |
Lawton
Col Jack Love, state corporation |
commissioner. has no opposition for |
denomination by the Democrats, and |
the only Republican candidate is p |
j. Loewen of Cherokee. For Justice |
of the supreme court, John B. Turner
of Vinita is a Democratic candidate |
for denomination and is opposed by |
Judge Napoleon r. NaXey of Musko |
gee The Republican candidates are |
Charles A. Cook of Muskogee. former
" of the North Carolina supreme |
bench, and ]. T. Rails of Coalgate,
Judge Henry NJ Furman of Ada
member of the state criminal court of |
Is a Democratic candidate for
and is opposed by |
George T. Ball of Coalgate.
In the First congressional district |
Congressman Bird Mcclure is opposed |
by John P. Hickam of Saltwater. who |
is running as a Roosevelt" candidate |
Congressman Dict T. Morgan, Second |
district, is opposed by Nels Darling OF |
Oklahoma City. a Progressive"
Many in At-Lsrge Race.
1t has been the rule in Oklahoma to |
arrange the names alphabetically on |
the primary ballot, and in the past
many men have been nominated be- |
caHse their names happened TO begin |
with the letters A, b. and c, thus Civ
ing them first nlaces on tie ballot |
In the Democratic race for congress |
are IL As, Bs and Cs filed, of whom
bur two have been before the public |
in the past. The last seven names on |
the pallot are of persons OF statewide |
acquaintance Il is estimated that