The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-05-06
Yes Headquarters Gives Sur
vey of Counties; Claim the
Votes to Carry the
Amendment.
SAY PENDULUM HAS
SWUNG AFFIRMATIVE
Predict That Campaign in Last
Few Days Has Enlightened
Voters on Road Value to
the State.

Oklahoma City, May 6.-Thc road
bonds will carry. By what figure
it would be difficult to estimate but
survey of the counties of the state
shows that the pendulum has swung
to the affirmative side. Neither
state headquarters had figures upon
county votes available yesterday nor
today and both sides are claiming a
few debatable counties. This was
the statement given out at head
quart of the $50OOO,O00 read bill
this morning
At the headquarters of the pro-
ponents of the fifty million dollar
good roads bonds issue it was de
clared that the eastern half of the
state is more than safe and the com
bination of several of the more pop
ulous counties, it was said, will be
sufficient to overcome the vote
claimed in certain west side counties
which the opponents claim is being
against the bonds by a large margin.
Tulsa Ai-lskogee. Pttsburg, Car
ter, Ottawa, Nowata, Washington.
Atoka, Coal, Bryan, LIE Flore, Cleve-
land, Oklahoma, Garfield, Hughes,
Sequoyah, Adair, Creek Usage
Payne, Marshall, Kay, Noble, Lati
mer Haskell, Seminole and John
ston. are regarded as certain of
returning substantial majorties for
the bonds These represent not
only more than one-third of the
counties of the state but include
practically all of the populous cent
ers and might be considered as car
rying nearly one-half the popula
tion of the state.
In the southeastern portion of tho
state it is admitted that the vote
will be heavily in favor of the bonds |
This includes McCurtain, Pushma-
taha, and Choctaw counties Cher
okee, Mcintosh and Okfuskee. coun-
ties are considered reasonably safe
and Vinita in Craig, Claremore in
Rogers, Wagner in Wagner, Paw
nee in Pawnee, Perry in Noble, New
kirk in Kay, Guthrie in Logan, Ok
mulgee in Okmulgee, and Ada in T
Pontotoc, are claimed to be suffi- |
GENTLY strong to stand off any |
heavy vote that might be cast
against the bonds in the rural dis
tricts of those counties. This leaves |
only Lincoln and Pottawatomie coun-
ties of those east of the main line
of the Santa Fe railway that can
be considered debatable Portions
of each of these counties are strong
for the bonds.
Love and Murray counties, togeth-
er with Johnston, Garvin, Jefferson,
stephens and McClain, can be fig
ured as yes counties. Grady county,
with Chickasha as its principal
town and Pottawatomie with Shaw
nee as the county seat, have been
claimed heavily by the opponents,
but each will return a yes vote that
will surprise those who have been
campaigning against the movement,
Robertson headquarters claim Al
falfa and Major counties are perhaps
unknown quantities and the same
might be said of Blaine and Dewey.
Caddo is probably debatable but
there is a strong sentiment for the
bonds at Anadarko. Lon Morris, a
member Of the house who lives at
Walter. regards Cotton county as
safely in the yes column and Fred
erick people are cetrain that Till
man will vote yes. Jackson and
Harmon are dominated by farmers !
who. it is conceded. are still unin .
formed and probably will note no.
There has been considerable oppo-
sition in Kiowa but Hobart is dis
posed to make a fight to overcome
the country sentiment and Greer
county wound up a whirlwind cam
paign Saturday which leads the ad-