Omaha daily bee., 1914-07-20
THREE FOR EACH NOMINATION
Fourteen Men Want to Act as
Sheriff of Douglas
County. A
OFFICE OPEN TT >OSSS HIT
Three Candid .cS succeed in
&c ~. Wire.
MANY FIlsN% THROUGH FRIENDS
wholesale Desire 20 obtain Prefer
mcnt IL Evidenced by Rush
to Get Place ThrouRh
Suffrage.

: with SO2 candidates for political NOM
/ nations filed for the primary race, the
campaign for tho latter is now in full
swing. The last chance for woud-be Of
ficoholders to file passed with the official
closing Of filings at midnight Saturday
/ The number of candidates in the field
for tho primary election TO be held
August is is the largest ever known in
Douglas county.
ON the four party tickets, there are
! fourteen candidates filed for the nom
ination for sheriff alone. Eleven men seek
the two party nominations for police
Judge in Omaha, while more than q dozen
desire that office in South Omaha. The
! field of would-be coronets justices of the
peace, constables and other elective Of
! ficers is similarly ruil to overfowing.
The average proportion of candidates to
available nominations in the republican
ana democratic parties is more than three
to one.
office Open TIL Midnight.
/ Filings for nominations continued TO
! pour into the office of the election COM
missioner right up to o'clock Saturday,
| In fact, the office was kept open short
time after that hour in order to accom-
modate lGto filers. Because of an opin-
/ ion by Assistant County Attorney Charles
Haffke, that filings might be made until
midnight, under the law, the offices at
the court house were kept open five hours
later than is usual on Saturdays.
! Just Get Under Wire.
After the filng offices In the court
house had been regularly closed, and it
was thought that no more candidates
would file, three late ones appeared at
different times between 1880 and 1880
o'clock, paid their fees and swore to their
! filing papers They were; S, r. Sprat-
! len, democrat. for county commissioner,
First district; Arthur c. Pancoast re-
publican, for state senator: Henry
Munsky, republican, for state representa-
tive. Their flinss were surprise, and
caused quite stir among the politicians
who had loitered around the court house
after closing time.
Two late candidates to pay their
filing fees to County Treasurer w. ..
IRE were County Commissioners Henry
c. Mcdonald and A. c. Harte. They ap-
peared just as the clock was striking
5 o'clock. Mcdonald swore out his fill
ing papers, while Harte rendered his fee
receipt to Moorhead, but was refused
per1nlSslon TO Ile.
| The Commission erships.
With the payment of filing fees by
Commissioners Mcdonald and Harte, all
the present county commissioners except
Frank Best had filed or attempted 20
file, although 1t was generally understood
that only the terms OF Commissioners
John c. Lynch and Thomas OConnor
had expired. The mix-up wac due to the
uncertainty of the existing laws gov
erning the terms of office of county Of
ficials in Nebraska,
! According to recent supreme court
decision Commissioners Best and Harte
still have a year to serve. However, the
supreme courts decision states that three
commissioners in Douglas county must
run for office this year. Commissioner
Mcdonald filed.
The fact that McDonalds filing was
accepted, however. indicates that the
election commissioner believes his term
will expire with this year. Commissioner
Harte's tender of a filing fee is regarded
merely as precaution on his part, taken
at the last minute after consulting a
lawyer.
Filings Through Friends.
| A number of candidates were filed by
! petluOnS OF lnelr IflendS. among these
petitions were two Saturday filed while
the candidates were out OF the city
Samuel G. Hoff. a republican member Of
the last legislature, is now in California
so his friends filed for him. The same
action was taken for James Walsh,
former republican member of the house,
who is now in Minnesota
! When refused permission to file on both
the republican and democratic tickets as
! candidate for the nomination for justice
Of the peace, Justice II. H. Claiborne
withdrew his papers as q democrat, filed
by his friends on petition. and entered
| his own sworn filing as a republican. The
matter had been referred to the county
attorney for an Interpretation of the
statutes involved, and he declared that
the laws could not be stretched to allow
! candidates TO run as both democratic and
! republican, although one might run as
I republican and progressive, or democrat
ana peoples independent.
HaverIey for Register.
Another late filing was that made by
u. NJ. Haverley, now chief clerk in the
county clerks office. At the last minute
he filed for the republican nomination for
register of deeds.
Leonard Holmberg, who had previously
I filed for the republican nomination for
state representative, changed his mind
Just before It was too late, and changed
tis filing TO that for the republican county
clerk nomination.