The Monticellonian., 1916-03-09
STATE ELECTION
TICKET CLOSED
FILING OF FURTHER PLEDGES
PREVENTED ~ CORRUPT
PRACTICES ACT.
NO ELEVENTH HOUR ENT3leS
Candidates Who Have Not Filed
Pledges With the Secretary OF
State Will Be Ineligible,
However.
Little 4ea..

Candidates who are unopposed Tor
nominations for state and district OF.
fees breathed easier when the state
ticket virtually closed, because no
candidate could file pledges as requir-
ed by the corrupt practices act OF
1913. There were no eleventh hour
entries and one candidate for a state
Office narrowly missed filing his
pledge. He was E. L. McHaney OF
Little Rock, candidate for railroad
commissioner from the Northwest dis
trict His pledge was received lew
minutes before the office of the Sec
rotary of state closed
The candidates for state and dis
trict offices who had filed pledges are:
For Goyernor-Earle w. Hodges,
Charles H. Brough and Lewis c.
Smith
For Attorney General-John D. Ar
buckle and Lewis Rhoton.
For Secretary of State-T. ]. Terral
and V. A. Beeson.
For State Treasurer. G. Nc
Daniel
For State Auditor-M. F. Dickinson
and Hogan Oliver.
For Superintendent of Public In
struction-J. L. Bond and ]. w. Kuy.
kendall.
For Associate Justice-Carroll D.
Wood.
For Commissioner of Mines, Manu-
features and Agriculture-John II.
Page and ]. R. Gardner
For Commissioner of ystate Lands,
Highways and Improvements-W. B.
Owen.
For Railroad Commissioner-Nor
east District, T. E. Wood; Northwest
District, Oscar H. VIM E. L. McHa.
ney and Walter Brasher; Southern
District, Herbert r Wilson. E. D.
Chapman, c. L. Harvey, r. F. Bough
an, NJ b. Muse and G. H Grayson.
For Congress-First District. T, H.
Caraway; Second District, A GkTray,
T. w. Campbell and w. A. CAfeld;
Third District, John \. Tillman;
Fourth District OTIS Wingo and j r.
Davis Fifth District, H. NJ. Jaeoway;
Sixth District, S. w Taylor, T. Hav1s
Nixon and L. E. Sawyer; Seventh
District, W F Mcknight. W s.
Goodwin, J. O. A Bush and r. s,~ar.
mock.
The last date for filing campaign
pledges and paying fees TO the Demo.
cratic State Central Committee has
expired Candidates who have not
filed pledges with the secretary of
state will be ineligible. however.
Woodbridge for Delegate.
The only fee received by June P.
Wooten, assistant secretary of the
committee, was from w. T. Woold-
ridge of Pine Bluff. a candidate for
delegate to the Democratic national
convention from the Sixth District.
Unotficially Mr.. Wooten learned that
Abe Collins of DeQueen, prosecuting
attorney of the Ninth judicial district,
will withdraw as a candidate for dele
gate from the Fourth District There
are five candidate for delegate from
that district.
The Executive Committee of the
State Central Committee will give
Houston Emory of Hot Springs
chance to show why he should be con-
sidered eligible as a candidate for the
nomination for senator FROM the Thir-
ty-first District. tits alleged that Mr..
Emory was Republican candidate
for nomination for county judge of
Garland county in 1914 The State
Central Committee, at its meeting De-
cember g. adopted resolution declar,
ing him ineligible. Mr.. Emory has
filed his pledge with the secretary of
state as candidate. but the State
Central Committee refused to accept
his pledge.