Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-03-08
FILING OF FURTHER PLEDGES PREVENTED BY CORRUPT
 PRACTICES ACT.
No ELEVENTH HOUR ENTRIES
Candidates Who Have Not Filed Pledges With the Secretary of State Will Be Ineligible,
 However.

Little ROck.-
 Candidates who are unopposed for nominations for state and district of fees breathed easier when the state ticket virtually closed, because no candidate could file pledges as requir- cd 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 a few minutes before the office of the sec. retary of state closed.
 The candidates for state and dis. trict offices who had filed pledges are:
 For Governor-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. J. Terral and V. A. Beeson.
 For State Treasurer-R. G. Nc Daniel.
 For State Auditor-M. F. Dickinson and Hogan Oliver.
 For Superintendent of Public In, struction-J. L. Bond and J. w Kuy, kendall
 For Associate Justice-Carroll D. Wood
 For Commissioner of Mines, Manu- factures and Agriculture-John H. Page and J. R. Gardner.
 For Commissioner of State Lands, Highways and Improyements-W B. Owen.
 For Railroad Commissioner-Nor east District, T. E. Wood; Northwest District, Oscar H. Winn, E. L. McFIa- ney and Walter Brasher; Southern District, Herbert R. Wilson, E. D., Chipman. c. L. Harvey, R. F. Bough- an, M. B. Muse and G. H. Grayson.
 For Congress-First District. T, H. Caraway; Second District, A. G. Gray, T. w. Campbell and w. A. Oldfield; Third District John N. Tillman; Fourth District, OtIs Wingo and J. R. Davis; Fifth District, H. M. Jacoway i; Sixth District, s. w. Taylor, T. Hav1s Nixon and L. E. Sawyer; Seventh District, w r Mcknight, ". s. Goodwin, J. 0. A. Bush and R. s. War 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 ot 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 Unofficially Mir 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 q chance to show why he should be con- sidered eligible as a candidate for the nomination for senator from the Thir. ty-first District. It is alleged that MT Emory was Republican candidate for nomination for county judge of Garland county in 1914. The State Central Committee, at it's meeting De cember 9, adopted a resolution declar ing him ineligible. MT. Emory has filed his pledge with the secretary oi state as a candidate, but the State Central Committee refused to accept his pledge.