The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-10-23
Ballot To Be
Large --- Six
Natl
Also a Column For Independent
Candidates-NOnpartlsan
Judicial Ballot.

Observation-Disclosures
Judicial Ballot.
The official ballot for the gen.
real election to be held one week
from next Tuesday-November 3
will be the largest of any election
in recent years. Six national par
ties will have candidates and in
addition there will be a column
for independent candidates, head
ed by Joseph P. Monaghan for
United States senator. Big Horn
county will have n candidate
under that heading-O. S. (Bert)
Fergerson, a St. Xavier Stockman-
farmer, who filed a petition for
nomination for county commits
sioner on the independent ticket,
Saturday, Oct. 8. His petition
contained a total of 1875 names,
mostly from the st. Xavier COM
munity.
Eighty-one candidates were in
the running for national, state,
and non-partisan judicial Offices.
There are % state senate and lO2
state representative seats to be
1ll1Cu. ~ WILL NC tI1C O1SSCoV C1CCe
ton in the history of Montana
politics.
In addition to the Roosevelt
Garner combination heading the
democratic ticket and the Landon-
Knox pairing of the republicans,
other parties have filed on the
Montana ballot the following
choices for president and vice.
president: Union, William Lemke
and Thomas c. O'Brien; socialist,
Norman Thomas and George A.
Nelson: communist, Earl Browder
and James W. Ford; prohibition,
D: Leigh Colvin and Claude A.
Watson.
Only the two major parties have
candidates for the office of United
States senator from Montana,
James E. Murray of Butte, incum-
bent, is the democratic candidate
and T. o. Larson of Choteau is his
opponent on the republican ticket.
There is one other senatorial
candidate. howeverJoseph P.
Monaghan of Butte who is not a
nominee of any party but an in
dependent aspirant. His name
oAo4AS WALL dPpCdA U1l Vic Ud1lOC
under the heading independent"
Monaghan is United States repre-
sentative in congress at present
and was defeated in the primary
when he sought the senatorial
nomination on the democratic
ticket. He represents the First
Montana district.
The democratic, republican and
socialist parties are the only ones
with candidates for the offices of
representatives in congress from
two Montana districts.
The democrats nominated jerry
j: OConnell of Butte as their first
district candidate and James F.,
OConnor of Livingston in the
second district. Republican candi-
oates are H. L. Hart of Helena in
the first district and T. S. Stock
DIAL OF Billings in the second. So
cialist nominees for congressional
seats are Charles r. Schneider of
Whitefish in the first district and
Bert CheSner of Great Falls in the
second district.
Five parties have entered can
d1dates for governor. The NOM
lnees are Roy E. Ayres of Lewis
town, democratic; Frank A. Hazel
baker of Dillon, republican; David
J. Ryan of Great Falls, union:
J: P. Cavanagh of Whitefish, So
cialist; Arvo Fredrickson of Butte,
communist.
There will be printed on the
regular ballot the constitutional
amendment Ito prohibit consolida-
ton of counties except by vote of
the people of each county affect
ed;;"also two referendum measures:
NO. 50, known as the "Gin Mar
rlage" law, and No. 81, IAN act
to provide for state insurance of
public buildings and contents"
Both these measures, passed by
the last legislature, were made IN
operative shortly after the ad-
!ournment of the legislature bv
the filing of estoppal petitions by
the people of the state.
a constitutional amendment pro-
Wdlng for an eight-hour day for
everyone save farmers and Stock
men will appear on a separate
ballot.
A separate non-partisan judicial
ballot will contain the names of
candidates for supreme court and
district judgeships.