The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1919-10-16
REPUBLICANS LINE UP
TO GET MUGENT'S SEAT
BOISE DOPE MENTIONS DAVIS,
COOLING AND CONNER IN
RUNNING.

Colonel E. G. Davis, whose friends
say will enter the race for the repub
hcan senatorial nomination, is caus
cal circles where he is known we'll
Colonel Davis left here a captain
shortly after the United States enter
ed the war and entered the judge ad-
vocate's department at Washington
He has been there ever since and has
twice been promoted. He is a grad l.
uate of West Point but some years
ago was retired on a pension because
of injury that he received to one of
his feet. However, he is a native son
of this state having received his APP
pointment to West Point while a res
dent Of Oneida county.
Colonel Davis is looked upon as a
likely contender for the nomination
in the race which Ex-Governor Frank
r. Gooding says he will enter Good
ing, form the republican standpoint,
is considered the .favorite in the race
so far, many republicans feeling they
are in duty bound to support him,
However the entrance of Davis is
bound to make things interesting.
Another man whose name is being
freely linked with the senatorial nom
ination is Major Edgington of Idaho
Falls, former mayor of that city He
was closely identified with the affairs
of the republican party prior to enter
ing the service. While mayor of
Idaho Falls he resigned to enter the
officers training school and at Preside
was given commission of captain.
He was later sent to the university
of Idaho at Moscow where he took
charge of the student training army
corps and made a decided success of
the work Later he was transferred
to Montana. Major Edgington rep
resented Bonneville county in the
Legislature as member of the SEN
ate and at one time was prominently
spoken Of as congressional timber.
The fourth prospect is Captain A
H. Conner of Standpoint, who since
he returned from France where he
saw active service at the front, has
also been with the judge advocates
department. Captain Common was
wounded while in the trenches but
managed to assist during the last vic
tory loan drive by giving number of
speeches in this state. TIE served in
the house Of representatives of the
Idaho legislature both as member
and speaker. His friends, particularly
in the north, want to bring him out
as a candidate. That section is now
without representation in the United
States senate, both of the present
senators, Borah and Nugent, being
from Boise in the south. The north
lost its representation on the death
of the late Weldon B. Hepburn. Since
then it has not had a senator. Every
effort will be made by the party lead
ers there next year to push a north
Idaho candidate to the front.
Conventi~- Again.
The situation will be eptierly |
changed in the matter of selecting
candidates for the senate, house and
state offices next year due to the fact
the last legislature repealed the direct
primary law insofar as 1t applies to
them. For that reason there is early
fixing of political fences and the ma
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Instead of going directly to the peo-
Pile with the respective cases. candi-
dates for these offices will have to
go before state convention. That |
able maneuvering prior to the time
the convention is held to line up their
friends in the hope that favorable |
delegates can be selected from the |
various counties. Primaries are held |
to elect the delegates to county con-
ventions and they select the delegates
to the state gathering.
Davis for Reelection.
There have ben reports in circu-
lation that Governor Davis might en-
ter the race for United States senator
but the close friends of the states
chief executive are inclined to the |
opinion that he is more likely to be-
come a candidate to succeed himself
as governor, especially after having
given the state new system of state
government which so far has proven
very successful. They assert that ne
believes the showing of the new gov
eminent during the two years VIII
bring about an Endorsement by the
people at large and two years longer
win perfect it to such an extent that
it will become permanent insofar as
the government of the state is con-
cerned. Many states in the union are
watching the Idaho experiment ana
not a few of them are anxious to try
it, believing that 1t is decided I'M
provement over the old order OF state
management. So far there has prac-
tically been no hitch in the program
for state commission or cabinet form
of government and those responsible
for it's Inauguration are more than
pleased over the showing that mas
ihao,, voo1o Nraafar efficiency and |