The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-05-02


MUM in the 1886 political cam
paign today with the first pri-
mary 80 days away.
Up and down the state the
sound wagons continued their
:journeys-..ltkOugh there were
protests against the noise in some
cit'es-and candidates continued
to pour out t;'cir appeals for
votes.
| The first primary is June 2,
and in races yAere there are
more than two candidates, the
two receiving the highest number
of votes will enter the run-off
campaign which will end with the
second primary balloting on June
!23.
| BY law, the time for qualify
! ing ended today Saturday Nav
! p and qualification fees cannot
be paid after midnight.
Registration books for the pri-
maries closed Thursday at mid
night, and reports from counties
showed the usual last minute rush
which required registration Of
fees to remain open we'll into the
night. Figures, were not available
immediately, but political OBJ
servers said there VAS a record
registration. May 16 is the last
dav to pay poll taxes.
! Old age pension proposals at
/ tracted an unprecedented num-
Der of persons to registration of
| fees who are exempt from paying
poll taxes because they have pass
ed the maximum age!
Running Behind
Poll tax payments were running
far behind the number of regis
tration on the basis of incom-
plete unofficial reports, indicat-
. ing voters ere following the '.sual
practice of registering and then
paying poll taxes later.
Grand jury Investigations were
under way in some counties of
charges of fraudulent registra-
tons.
I Particularly in Dade and Dual
counties miami end Jacksonville)
the county commissioners studied
plans for special checkup of reg
istration books to strike off any
fraudulent names.
Every candidate for office ap-
parently was confident Of victory
! but here in Tallahassee some men
who have watched many political
campaigns said they were puzzled
by what appeared to be only sim
mering interest in the statewide
races. However, they forecast
quickened interest before the first
| primary.
List of Candidates
| Following is the list of Demo-
cratic candidates who have quail
flied in the various races:
GOVERNOR: Grady Burton OF
Wauchula, Stafford Caldwell OF
j Miami. Jerry w. Carter of ITALIA
hassee, Dan Chaopell of Miami,
Fred P. Cone of Lake City, ". C.
Hodges of Tallahassee, Amos Lew
is OF Marianne, Mallie Martin OF
Crestview, B. F. Patty of West
Palm Beach, Raleigh Pettew2y of
Tampa, ]. p. Yearwood of Winter
Haven.
| SECRETARY OF STATE:
Robert A. Gray of Tallahassee
! (incumbent).
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Ed.
r. Bentley of Lakeland and Cary
D. Lands of Tallahassee (incum-
| bent.)
COMPTROLLER: I. Muncy
Anderson of Jacksonville, ]. r.
(Trux) Bullock of West Palm
Beach. ]. NJ. Lee OF Tallahassee
! (incumbent), Murl E. Pace of
Mount Dora, and Van C. Swear
nigen of Miami.
! STATE TREASURER: Sam
uel W. Getzen of Bushnell, W. v.
Knott of Tallahassee (incum.
! bentl. and T. n T.ancaSter of
Ocala.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUB
Lie INSTRUCTION: F. W. Buch-.
holz of Gainesville, w. H. (BilD
Gates of Tallahassee, w. c. Cav.
thon of Tallahassee (incumbent) /,
and Colin English of Ocala.
| COMMISSIONER OF AGRI-
CULTURE: Nathan Mayo of
Tallahassee (incumbent).
ADJUTANT GENERAL: Wv
! ian B. Collins of ST. Augustine
(incumbent).
SUPREME COURT 1.-TWO to be
elected: J: B. Whitfield and
Glenn Terrell, both of Tallahas-
see, and both incumbents.
RAILROAD COMMISSIONER !:
W. B. (Babe) Douglass of Tai
lahassee (incumbent).
IN PEER AND WAL