The log cabin Democrat., 1920-08-06
HARPER DISCUSSES
 GOVERNORS RACE
RESULT VERY UNCERTAIN
Little Rock Correspondent Unable to Pick Winner From Field of Nine
 Candidates.
(By Clio Harper.)

, CouItlilS anu tle eApId4Il4liS' All other important after-t thought that : will hurt eight of the candidates fo1 governor and numerous other aspir- ants for office will be the paying. It has ben an expensive campaign, and rare good judgement has been shown by all the candidates in the liberal use of newspaper space for reaching the voters. Advertising bills in this cam paigm have been the largest ever known in the stae. Turn on the light" has been the policy, and very often it has been pitilessly observed.
 Who will Win in the election next ! Tuesday? Nobody knows. One ob- server is as much entitled to his guess as another. Within few days of the finish, any pred ction that is made, particularly With reference to the gov ernor's race, must necessarily be wild and reflecting bias. This is the truth, whatever mathematical athletics may be employed in arriving at pre-de- termined result.
  10000 to 180,000 votes cast, which will include, probably, 10000 women votes. If this estimate is correct, with nine candidates in the field, and three or four of them punched toward ] the lead, 35,000 to 10000 will be sui ficient to nominate the man who will succeed Governor Brough. Any can- dldate who can carry an average of 800 hundred votes to the county will be one of the most formidable con- tenders for the nomination. And there are at least three who may well be 1 considered in that class. Pick them out for yourself. It is not safe for an impartial observer to do so. He might pick the wrong ones and then the winner would never forgive him. and the losers would swear that the political forecast was what defeated h.m.
 There certain well known conditions that are safe for a neutral to die cuss.
 1 Tom J. Terral, secretary of state, was the first to enter the race and he has been making a thorough can vuss. His friends cla;m the nomina- tion for him by an easy plurality 1 His two-page speech, "The People Shall Know the Truth" many thou sands which have been distributed over the state during the last week has been one of the most talked-of de- velopments in the campaign. i Probably that which has attracted the most attention has been the state ment issued by Governor Brough re- nouncing and denouncing Smead Pow ell, and calling opon the people of the state to defeat him for the nomina- tion. Powell retorted that he expected this, and that he had never sought and did not desire the governors sup port. While the governors friends and Little Rock daily paper that has been fighting Powell think the gov ernor's action will defeat the Ouachita candidate, Powell and his friends think that it will work to his advan- tage.
 Colonel McRae is admitted by all to be a very strong man. Ills cam paign has been quite general and has been free from much of the personal rancor that has characterized those of some others. His friends claim that ] his success is assured.
 The friends of Floyd have figured it out geographically and politically, claim there is no way to defeat him. that he will get all of north Arkansas and enough in enemy territory to give him at least 60000 votes. It is sa d i that Floyd and McRae will draw large ly from the same element.
 John A. Riggs, whose multi-colored car has flashed across the state for months with it's motto of "God First, Arkansas next" is relying upon the vote of the women to give him the nomination, since he was the "fath- CT of suffrage" in the Arkansas leg islature.
 Harry Walsh says that he considers his chances as good as anybody's, since there are so many voters who agree with him in the stand he has taken in favor of more liberal construc- tion of the law on Sunday amuse- ments.
 Colonel Stroup was the last to get into the race, and he is now depending largely upon the soldier vote
 Chaplain Wells has been in the race longer even than Tom Terral and has made speeches and sold his books or "How we won the War with Germany in every county in the state. He in. sists that the only way he can be defeated is to "steal him out"
 And so it goes. Take your choice You know as much about it as the writer, and he knows nothing.
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