The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-12-08
IDAHO POLITICS
GETTING STARTED
MANY NEW FACES EXPECTED TO
BE SEEN IN RACES FOR VARI-
GUS STATE HONORS.
Clifford May Not Seek Reelection as
Secretary Of State-Others in
the Race.

| BOISE, Dec. Sit has become rea
sonably certain that some of the statt
officials will not be candidates to sue
ceed themselves and that large mum
Der of new candidates shortly will bs
in the field seeking these offices.
Present state elective officials are
Governor, John M. Haines; Attorney
General, j. H. Peterson; Secretary O.
State, w. L. Gifford State Auditor
Fred L. Huston; State Treasurer, o. V
Allen; Superintendent of Public In
struction, Miss Grace SHEPPARD; State
Mine Inspector Robert N. Bell.
Governor Haines will be candidate
for reelection. Whether or not he will
have opposition within his own party
at the primaries remains to develop
His friends declare that he will have
less opposition at a primary election
than any other republican guberna-
torial candidate since the adoption OF
the direct primary law That he will,
however; have strenuous opposition at
the general election is generally-con-
ceded
The names of two other men promi-
nent in the republican party have been
linked with the governorship by their
friends. They are d. w. Davis, of
American Falls, state senator from
Oneida county, a banker and prominent
business man, and Charles l.. Heitman,
of Rathdrum, former republican state
chairman. Neither have given public
expression to their political ambitions.
First-Termers to Run.
Attorney General Peterson and State
Auditor Huston will be candidates to
succeed themselves. Like Governor
Haines, they are first-term officials.
Secretary of State Clifford will not
be a candidate for reelection, it is
said by those in a position to know.
State Treasurer Allen is serving his
second term and his friends assert that
he will be a candidate for third term.
That official is known to have con-
sidered a third term seriously, but
whether or not this consideration has
decided him to announce his candidacy
for another term is a matter of some
little speculation in political circles.
Whether State Treasurer Allen be-
comes a candidate or not there will be
/ scramble for the office, it is said.
The last legislature created state
BOARD of education to have supervision
,yer all state educational institutions,
his power having been conferred to
he legislative body through the ap-
,rovaI by the electors of a constltu-
ional amendment. This board in turn
elected a commissioner of education
NE nurpose of this amendment and the
avs enacted by the legislature was to
ransfer educational supervision to
,oard and virtually to eliminate the
of public instruction.
Proposed Amendment Loses.
A constitutional amendment was
ubmitted to the last legislature eliml- |
ating the office of state superintendent
f public instruction. This proposed
,mendment was lost in the house OF
The office therefore
) left intact, although state educa-
ional board and an educational COM
missioner have been provided.
1t will be possible for a candidate to
un for this office, both at the prl-
laries and general election in all par
les. 1t is understood that the incum-
ent, Miss Sheppard, does not intend
, be a candidate for reelection.
The name of the present mine IN
pector is linked with that office for
mother term, while the question OF
ling the term of Chief Justice Ailshie
!, creating not little interest. Charles
!. Heitman, of Rathdrum, is spoken OF
$ a possible candidate.