Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-03
SIX STATES HOLD
PRIMARIES TODAY
Liquour, Khan, Court, Farm
Aid Among lssues-West
Virginia on List.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, August 3.-A haze
of campaign oratory on prohibition,
| the ku klux Khan, World Court.
farm relief and varied sectional is
sues lifted today over four Western
and two Southern States as voters in
vaded primary election polling places
to select National. congressional and
State Office nominees.
In Missouri. Oklahoma and Kansas
nominations will be made for the
United States senatorship. The three
incumbents, all Republicans, George
II. Williams, Missouri: John w. Har-
reid, Oklahoma, and Charles Curtis,
Kansas. seek denomination. With
no senatorial contests slated, Mon
tana voters will make nominations
for the States two seats in the Ma
tional House of Representatives,
while West Virginia win choose
nominees for the six congressional
posts and Virginia for it's 10 member
ships in tha Lower House.
Complete State Tickets.
Oklahoma and Kansas parties have
complete State tickets. more than
900 office seekers being registered
under five banners for the Sooner
State races. In Missouri there are
but few of the lesser State offices
to be filled. Montana and West Vir
ginia states call for election of half
the membership of the State Senate
and the entire lower house personnel,
as well as numerous county and dis
trict offices.
With the wet and dry debate the
outstanding issue, seven candidates
are out for the long and short term
Missouri senatorial nominations.
Senator Williams is seeking both
nominations and has declined to make
prohibition an issue. Blodgett Priest
of ST. Louis. an avowed wet. opposes
him for the short term, while Priest
and David Proctor of Kansas City,
n dry, are Williams opponents for
the long term.
The Democratic senatorial nominal
ton for both terms is sought by Rep
resentative Harry B. Halves of st.
short term by Willis H. Meredith of
Poplar Bluff and Robert I. Young of
st. Joseph. and for the long term by
Young and Judge Ewing Coekerell of
Warrensburg. Halves is the only Mis-
souri, Democratic senatorial aspirant
flying wet colorS. The short term race
was made necessary by the death of
Senator Selden p. Spencer The Khan
was not an open issue.
Khan Debate I'm Kansas.
A Ku Klux Khan debate has been
the feature of an otherwise listless
Kansas campaign. with the Republic
an candidates for the attorney gener-
alship and secretary of state oppos-
ing referendum to place the Khan on
a hos In, D.
publicans and two Democrats are out
for the office vacated by Representa-
tive J. n. Tincher, Republican, of the
seventh district. Senator Curtis and
Gov. Ben s. Paulen are conceded to
have little opposition for renomina-
ton. Former Gov. Jonathan NJ. Davis,
twice acquitted of charges of pardon
selling, is after the Democratic guber-
material nomination.
Prohibition, the Khan and teaching
of evolution have been argued in Okla
homa, where the senatorial race is re-
garded as the outstanding contest.
Senator Harreld is opposed by six Re-
publicans, while j. c. (Jack) Walton,
deposed governor. has four Demo-
cratic opponents in his effort for the
senatorial nomination, for which he
was defeated in 1924.
Twenty-Five are seeking the guber-
material nominations on the FIVE tick
cts. The rush for this nomination re-
suited when the Supreme Court ruled
that Gov. M. E. Trap was ineligible
to succeed himself after taking Wal
tons place in 1923.
Partly cloudy or unsettled weather
was predicted for Missouri and Okla
homa. where the largest vote was ex-
pected to follow the spirited cam
paigns. Observers in the other states
forecast light baIloting.