1912-08-27-sr-p10-dr-green-runs-for-coroner
August 27, 1912 Spokesman-Review Page 10:
WOMAN: AUDITOR’S SEAT
MRS. IDA H. KNAPP, CANDIDATE IN LINCOLN, MAKING CANVASS.
House to House Visits With Primary Two Weeks Away—Other Job Hunters Are Busy.
DAVENPORT, Wash, Aug. 26.—With the primary election two weeks off the candidates who have opposition are interviewing the voters, Mrs. Ida H. Knapp, candidate for auditor on the republican ticket, Is making a house-to-house canvass over the county."
Jim Goodwin, county clerk and candidate for reelection as a democrat; D. D. Campbell, assessor; J. L. Thayer, engineer, and William U. Neeley, school superintendent, and all candidates for reelection have no opposition. C. C. Leete and Scott Graham are striving for the democratic nomination for auditor and R. D. Anderson, treasurer, and Mrs. Ida H, Knapp are candidates for the same office on the republican ticket. Charles E. Ivy and Milo Brink are candidates for the republican nomination for sheriff, while the democratic candidates are W. B. Brockman, incumbent, and James G. Tate. Tate |s a 280-pound coal dealer and is making his canvass over the county with a team of mules
A. G. Mitchum of Harrington and C. C. Gibson of Davenport are candidates for the democratic nomination for treasurer, while E. H. Oswalt, deputy in the treasurer's office, has no opposition. J. W. Brislawn of Davenport and E. L. Farnsworth, democratic candidates for the legislature; N. Russell Hill, candidate for the same office on the republican ticket; C. W. Bethel of Harrington and Charles E. Myers, candidates for state senator on the democratic and republican tickets, respectively; Dr. O. A. Flanagan of Creston, democrat, and Dr. G. H. Green of Reardan, republican, candidate for coroner, have no opposition within their party.
The superior judgeship fight between F. K. P. Baske, incumbent; Joseph Sessions and R. M. Dye, all of Davenport, is attracting attention and all three candidates are making a thorough campaign, Baske is the youngest judge in the state. Dye has served two terms as prosecuting attorney and Sessions has practiced law in Davenport for 15 years.
