Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-06-17
TEXAS READY
FOR HOT RACE
Party Committees Verify
Names Listed With
Few Exceptions

(By the Associated Press
Texas hummed with political talk
today as candidates for office en-
tered in the primary on July %
planned intensive campaigns to get
votes and the voters contemplated
completed ballots.
Throughout the state yesterday
county executive committees Of both
the Democratic and Republican
parties passed upon names Of can
didates for the state. county and
precinct Offices to be placed on the
official ballot. Their actions in the
case OF candidates for state offices
had previously been determined by
the state executive committees
which met last week on certified
names.
AS a rule. the meetings passed off
harmoniously. The committees
merely certified the names Of the
candidates who had paid the req
uisite fees. apportioned the cost OF
holding the primary among the
candidates. and perfected details or
election machinery.
HoovercratS Barred
At Wichita Falls. however. the
Democratic committee G, refused
places on the county ballot to j.. r.
Ogle, candidate for Wichita county
Democratic chairman. and to As
other persons. candidates for pre-
cinct chairman, on grounds that
their petitions did not say what
the petitioners were. Unofficially il
was stated that all had supported
Herbert Hoover in 1923. In a pre-
vious similar action against Is So
called boilers Of the Democratic
ticket in 1923, the committee was
upheld by the supreme court.
The Dallas county Republican
executive committee seized on the
occasion 70 rebuke a district exec
utive committeeman, Heber Page.
for what 1t termed a breach Of
party custom in a patronage affair.
Page recently sent an endorsement
Of Federal Judge William H At
well Of Dallas TO a circuit court Of
appeals post direct to President
Hoover. and in resolutions the COM
mittee deplored this action as un-
friendly 10 the state and county
Republican organizations. The COM
mittee. nevertheless, endorsed Judge
AAtwell.
The Travis county Democratic
committee adopted a resolution
barring negroes from voting in the
primary. and the McLennan county
committee tabled n request from a
group OF negroes which sought
permission to vote In the Demo-
cratic primary.
Wives Filed
Two candidates for county offices
at FL Paso. Bob S. Fletcher and
Frank d. Scotch, seeking respec-
lively nominations on the Demo-
cratic ballot for tax collector and
assessor. filed the names OF their
wives when a question as to their
eligibility was raised. Fletcher and
Scotch are retired army officers.
and opinion was voiced by some
that they were not eligible. They
prepared TO seek a ruling from the
attorney general.
What was termed the first publi-
civ attended drawing in many
wears In Hidalgo county resulted in
the Democratic executive commit
tee Of that county Of the names Of
5 candidates. said 70 be the largest
number Of such candidates in the
history Of Hidalgo.
The luck of the draw in Dallas
county placed United States Senat-
or Morris Sheppard. co-author of
the 18th amendment. IN close op-
position to former Representative
Robert l.. Henry az Houston. oppos-
ing Sheppard on a wet platform.
Mr.. Henry drew first place on the
ballot and Senator Sheppard second