Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1914-07-14
County Candidates Begin to
File for Office = Four
Tickets Likely
LADY CANDIDATE FILES
Bessie Bacon Fills. for County
Clerk-Four Aberdeen Men
for the Legislature


Friday when the books were opened
for the filing of declarations of can
didacy for nominations at the Septem.
ber primaries, and a lively county
campaign is in prospect.
Present indications are that there
will be four complete county tickets
in the field for the voters to choose
from, the Democratic, Republican.
Progressive and Socialist, and the
Democrats will make a strong effort
to send a senator and three represent
atives of that party to the fourteenth
session of the legislature. In this eff
fort, the leaders of that party believe
they will have majority of the voters
with them, as the slogan will in all
probability be, uphold Governor Lis
ter in his struggle fov economy"
Announced Candidates.
Legislative candidates. SO far an
nounced are c. c. Quackenbush AMI
E. E. Boner, republicans, for state SEN
ator, while Judge j. M. Phillips is
said to be in a receptive mood con-
cerning the nomination for this posi-
ton on the Bull Moose ticket. Demo-
Gratis believe they have several avail
able men for senator, among whom
are mentioned, former Superior Judge
c. w. Hodgdon, A. S. Hodgdon. Of
Hoquiam, Eldridge Wheeler, of Monte
sano, and others.
For representative, 29th district, w.
O. McCaw and Dan Pearsall, re-
publicans. are avowed candidates.
For county commissioners in the
first and third districts, j.. B. Kirkal-
die, of Elma, and Ransom Minkler, of
Satsop, have filed in the first apd
E. E. Fishel is an avowed candidate
for reelection in the third. These
candidates. are all republicans, but
Frank Liesner, of Oakville, is Bull
Moose candidate from the first dis.
trict, with George Simpson, president
of the Chehalis County Fair Associa
tion, a probable candidate on the Dem.
ocratc ticket.
For the first time in the history OF
Chehalis county woman is candi
date for county office, other than
school superintendent, in the person
of Miss Bessie Bacon, young Monte
sano lady who has long been employed
in the office of the county clerk, who
has announced herself as a candidate
for clerk.
For county auditor, w. D. Campbell
former auditor and present deputy
is willing to assume the burdens OF
this office, as republican, and Sher
man Hoover, republican, of Hoquiam
is opposing ]. F. Myles, of Aberdeen
for the nomination for assessor, and
Chas. w. Smith, of Hoquiam, for
county attorney.
Sheriff Mathews will be a candi
date for reelection and will be hard
to beat. He, like Treasurer McGilli
cuddy, will seek to succeed himself
on the record of his office. His
speedy ending of the costly Tornow
hunt, his success in catching Grimm
ais, not least of whom were the
Elma bank robbers, will give Sheriff
Mathews prestige that will be diff
cult, if not impossible, to overcome.
J. E. Stewart, it is said, is a candi
date for reelection. He will NEE
opposition for the nomination from
several aspirants. Attorney Chas. w
Smith, of Hoquiam, is an announced
candidate, and rumor has it that Ir.
N. Gardner, of Aberdeen, is groom
ing himself for the place, while
friends of A. M. Wade are urging hin
to enter the race for the republican
nomination.
The successful republican nomine'
will no doubt have opposition at tn
general election. Attorney F. R. Con
way. of Aberdeen. and Martin F
Smith, of Hoquiam, are mentioned a
probable candidates, with. the Bul
MO0so vot m hoar from