The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-22
BOWMAN IN RACE
Prominent Kansas Ex-SOIdier
Out for Congress in Second.
q. b. Snow, Oakland, for Gov
ernOr as Farm LabOrer.

c. A. Bowman, Kansas City, Kan,
attorney, today filed his nomination
petition in the office of L. ]. Petit
john. secretary of state, as a Demo-
cratic candidate for congress in the
Second district.
Bowman is one of the most promi-
nent ex-service men in the state. He
entered the first officers training
camp at Camp Funston on May 10,
1917, and was commissioned a first
| lieutenant of infantry on August IS,
1917. sailing for France September z,
1917.
After one month at the British sec
ond army school he was assigned to
the Eighth infantry regiment, unit
of the First division, and served with
it at Seicheprey in Picardy. at Sois-
sons and in the Laizerais sector. Dur
ling the Meuse-Argonne offense he was
on duty at G-1, First army headquar-
! tiers.
Bowman returned to the United
States, June %, 1919, and was dis
was elected in 1916 to the presidency
of the Kansas Baptist State B. Y. P.
L. and Sunday school convention.
Bowman received an A. 3. degree
at the University of Michigan in 1911
| and an LII. B. at the same school in
1913. He has practiced law in Kan
sas for the last seven years, excepting
during his service in the army.
Oakland Man for Governor.
George b. Snow, Oakland, has filed
as a Republican candidate for COVER
nor. He used the check route in
filing and deposited a $50 check to
have his name put on the Republican
ticket at the primaries.
Snow says he is a farm laboror and
a bachelor. At the present time he is
living at the home of James Lathrop,
! n Winfield street, Oakland. Snow
says his platform will be the same as
that adopted March %, at Emporia,
J by the labor and farmers congress
called by w. E. Freeman, president
of the state federation of labor.
81 don't say that any organization
| is backing me-" Snow said. II am
running a a common farm laborer. L
worked in the harvest fields last sum-
mer and sold apples on the streets of
Lawrence last winter. 1 start for the
, harvest fields again next Friday"
I Snow denies he is running on a
strictly labor party. He says inquiries
among farmers reveal that they will
not stand for any attempt of organ
| lied labor or the Nonpartisan League
to run the state. However he says he
did go out in the state for ]. o. Stevic,
state manager for the Nonpartisan
League, to feel out sentiment and that
recently his candidacy was endorsed
at a union meeting.
Dunno to Oppose Ayres.
Carey Z. Dunno of Wichita filed
nomination papers today as a Repub-
lican candidate for congress in the
| Eighth district. AT the same time. the
nomination papers of William T.
Ayres, present Democratic congress
| man in that district. were filed.
A. A. Graham, Topeka attorney,
| filed nomination papers as a candidate
J for justice of the Kansas supreme
J court. Socialist candidates for con-
gress also filed their papers today
The list of candidates who filed today
follow:
]. C. Ruppenthal. Russell, Demo
crat, congress Sixth district.
! A. W. Webster. Baldwin, Socialist
congress Second district.
C. A. Stebbins. Marion, Socialist
| congress Sixth district.
Reed -Crandall. Newton, Socialist
| congress Eighth district.
Carl r. White, Topeka, Republican
| state treasurer.