The log cabin Democrat., 1920-06-15
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FOR COUNTY JUDGE
FIVE NOW SEEK PLACE
County Politics EnIivens as Date for
Democratic Primary Election
Approaches.

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for county and probate. judge, bring.
ing the total number of aspirants fol
that office to five, will have the effect
of enlivening interest in county poll
tics, which had already begun tc
warm up. DR.. H. B. Hardy, former
representative of Faulkner county
who was mentioned as probable can
didate several days ago, today sent
his formal announcement for county
judge to be printed in the Log Cabin
Democrat.
A surprise entry in the same race
is that of j. S. Pierce of near Vilona.
A letter from him received by the Log
Cabin Democrat today states that he
expects to announce for county judge
and inquiries as to getting his formal
announcement published and his name
nthe ballot. Mr. Pierce is the first
world war veteran to become a can
didate in this county. He served nine
months overseas, eight months of
which was in the Argonne forest, and
the Log Cabin Democrat published
several letters from him while he
was in France. He states that he has
been detained by the illness of his
wife from coming to Conway to make
his announcement.
Judge J. w. Holt, Marvin E. Con-
nell and Judge E. L. Smith are the
three other candidates for county
judge.
In addition to the one for county
judge, there will be at least three
other races in the Democratic pri-
mary. Roy Rogers stated today that
he would be in the race for a sec
ond term as tax assessor, and J. S.
johnson and w. J. Snow had already
made formal announcement for that
place. Mr.. Rogers said he delayed
his announcement until he completed
the annual assessment, in or
der that there could be no suspicion
of mixing politics with his official
duties.
For county clerk DIR. J. M. Muse,
u. W. A. Wilson, Dr. J. A. Hutto and
Prof. j. M. C. Vaughter are candi-
dates. All of them are strong men
and the race will doubtless be a hard
fought one.
For treasurer j. E. Wofford, j. R.
Glddens, Elias Kuykendall and T. w.
Gavin have announced and politicians
look for this to be a closely-contested
battle, with all four showing consid-
cradle strength.
No one has as yet announced for
representative. j. w. Akin stated
some weeks ago that he intended to
run, and it is said that Representa-
tive |. NJ. Campbell will probably
seek TO succeed himself.
For circuit clerk and sheriff, Frank
Whiddon and W. NJ. Brady, respec-
lively, are candidates for second
terms and it is not believed they will
have opposition.
Although the primary date is just
eight weeks from today-Tuesday,
August 10-no call has as yet been
issued for meeting of the Democrat
ic County Central Committee to ar
range details of the primary, FIX fees
for candidates names on the ballot
and set time limit for receiving
names. AS the farmers are now get
ting caught up with their work, it is
probable that this meeting will be
called at an early date. The commit
tee elected at the primary of May
%, 1913, has never organized. When
the old committee met to canvass the
returns Of the primary it completed
its work so late that most of the
members had gone home
and it was decided to have a meeting
for organization later, but this was
never called. S. A. McHenry of Eagle
township and William J. drummer of
Cadron We're chairman and secretary
of the old committee and will issue
the call for the first meeting of the
new committee.
Interest in state politics here is at
a comparatively low ebb. Senator w
F. Kirby opened his campaign for re-
election here and J. c. Floyd spoke
in the interest of his race for gov
ernor at Conway and several other
points in the county last week. Con-
gresham T. H. Caraway, candidate
for the United States senate, will
speak at Conway Saturday afternoon
at l o'clock and at Greenbrier at