The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-08-08
MANY CANDIDATES
OUT FOR OFFICE
Only Three More Filed After Press
Time of The Silver State Last
Saturday and Stage Now
Set for Big Events

Two men and one woman made
known their desire to become can
didates for public Office last Satur-
day evening, in addition to those
reported in the issue of this news
paper for that day, filing their dec
larations with County Clerk J. w.
Davey. These were Mrs. Georgia
Rutherford, who is a Democratic
candidate for the office of county
treasurer, to contest in the primary
election against the incumbent, Mrs.
Cora Hoenstine, also a Democratic
candidate; H. Warren, who will run
against District Attorney l.. G. Will
son in the Democratic primary; and
N. P. Moore, incumbent Democratic
constable, who will contest with
X. G. Lamb, Republican, for con-
stable of this township.
All other candidates have been
announced in these columns from
time to time, but for the purpose
of making the contests clear The
Silver State today, in other columns,
presents concise list of candidates
which will readily inform readers as
to who the candidates are to be in
the coming elections.
Persons who are registered as
Republicans vote only upon elimina-
tion of Republican candidates at
the primary election. The same is
true of people who are registered
as Democrats, they only being al
lowed to vote upon Democratic can
didates at the primary election.
Names of candidates for non-parti-
san offices, where there are more
than two contesting for the same
office, will appear on both Republi-
can and Democratic primary ballots.
People who are registered but who
have not stated their politics, as
well as Socialists, Prohibitionists
and Independents, have no vote at
the primary election to be held Sep
tember s. The winners in the pri-
mary election, and independent and
non-partisan candidates, will all be
voted upon, by all voters, at the
general election to be held No
vember z.
One of the features of the clos
ing hours last Saturday night, which
WIS the last time for candidates to
file and also the closing time for
voters wishing to change their dec
laration of politics, was the fact
that many Republicans hurried to
the court house to change their po.
litical designation to Democratic, in
order that they may participate in
the Democratic primary election
several heated county contests oc.
curing in that political division
The election law was changed al
the last session of the legislature
compelling all persons registering
to vote to take oath that they in
ttht W SuPPoit nidJollty VI CdIi-
didates of the political faith an.
nounced at the time of registering
While thus it would seem that many
men and women hold such an oath
of slight Importance, it is only one
Of the weaknesses of the primary
election system, and such register.
ing to participate in primary elec.
tions is common to people of al
parties and in all parts of the
United States.
-Four Humboldt county officers
are the same as reelected to office
for the ensuing term, for the rea.
son that no candidates announced
themselves Saturday as opponents
These are District Judge j. A. Cal.
lahan, Assessor Chas. G. Smith
County Clerk j. w. Davey and
Public Administrator Chris Wolf