The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-07-09
STATE POLITICS
WARMfD Up FOR
CLOSING EVENTS
Governorship tilt Rocks Along
Without Much Change;
Attorney General Card
Attracts Notice.
Especial to the Ardmoreite)

M OKLAHOMA CITY-The Oklahoma
state primary is bat three weeks dis.
tant and candidates for state and coun.
: ty offices are beating the brush as
never before. There are more candi.
dates this year than ever in the hfs-
tory of the state.
The real contest. of course, is over the
governorship. The candidates are, for
mer Chief Justice Thos. II. Owen, State
Superintendent of Education r. II. VII.
son, and Mayor Jack Walton, the chief
executive OF Oklahoma City.
Mayor Walton, while always demo
crat, this year is running as the can
didate Of the Reconstruction League
an organization patterned utter the
non.Partisan League of North Dakota
and officered, to a large extent. by
prominent socialists. He stands square.
~ on the platform adopted at Shawnee,
advocating the socalistic program OF
the NonPartisan League OF North aD-
kota- He is making an intensive cam
paign. The socialists are practically
Ai ioA puA Il low vi illt ldllnlui
have put ticket in the field in the
hope OF maintaining their organiZa-
ton.
Candidate OF klan?
superintendent X. II. Wilson, who
hys claim to the support OF the teach.
ers Of the state is also posing as the
candidate OF the X. X. ks. but has,
as yet failed to secure an official en-.
dorsement from that organization
Thos. II. owen is being supported
very generally by the democrats who
believe in party organization, and who
feel that Judge Owens services in the
past to the democratic party are such
as to entitle him to conside e-atlon. A
recent poll by the Oklahoma Farmer
-tockman is said to have shown more
han 40 per cent Of the farmers to he
e. owen and the remainder are split
about evenly between Walton and vii.
SON Everyone admits that the Owen
organization is much more complete
than that Of either OF the other caandi.
dates for governor. The men who do
ahings in the state in a political way
are almost unit for Judge Owen.
Owen Organizations.
The Owen committee has perfected
branch headquarters at 'Muskogee, Tul.
IA. McAlester, Ardmore, I.awton and
Clinton. and are sending out corps OF
speakers from each of these headquar.
ters. The Tulsa headquarters is in
charge of Judge T.. c. West and IL is
said the leaders OF all factions In that
city are solid for Owen. The same may
be said as to McAlester and Muskogee.
On Attorney General.
There is a hot fight on for the noml.
nation for attorney general George
Short, the present attorney general
ex-senator Robert Burns OF Oklahoma
City, and Senator Hill Of McAlester
are the candidates, and this race is
attracting q great deal OF attention.
Senator Hill has the Reconstruction
League endorsement.
The fight for state treasurer is a
complicated one. Mark Louthan OF
Chickasha, Billie Barrowman, 10 Pur.
cell; Joe II. Strain of Mann, and \.
5. j. Shaw Of Frederick, are the can
udates. II appears TO be any one
race at this time. Joe Strain has the
league endorsement
Probably the most spectacular con.
test from some angles IS the one for
state superintendent OF public instruc.
ton. 1t is being openly suggested that
NJ A. Nash and Bob Wilson are run.
ming a combination campaign. Up un.
I'll this week. A. s. Lever of Coalgate
was In the race. but he has withdrawn
ostensibly in favor of Nash. President
Battenburg of the Alva Normal is
the candidate against Nash and Is
making the campaign on the slogan
stop the school book graft" He has
the League endorsement. but is also be.
ing backed by many strong democratic
leaders OF the state.
During the next week. politics In
oklahoma will reach blood heat.