The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1956 Page: 2 of 16
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Comanche Chief
the wdapandant tick-
for rum
et in November
• •
There V some, leggl Queatton
to whether1 ODantol can get
hi* name on the Oooerai Election
ballot However. 0*Daiilel aay» he
and hli lawyers have looked into
the matter and all that H wlU
require is that he get e petit .on
L.gned oy 7.000 voters “who do
■ the runoff pri-
Sj»
Van Buren.
le salary of the Vice Preal-
U $35 000 per year, plus
(05 for expe;:*e> He to* to
Income tax On th$_ 638.000
_• -• '• .
Vice President# who have b«-
----come President because of the
have death of the President are> Ty-
ler. Fillmore. Johnson. Arthur.
Theodore Roosevelt. Coolidge and
Truman The last three were
elf Sled to an additional term.
not take
mary."
On All All Summer Dre
Wtiz
kf&.iu'O'
While both candidates for sher
! ol Comanche.......County ar<
President Andrew Johnson was
runoff primal lU
father was it ddltW
working a#
i orrsehsHon*1
l*eTi*r,»55
tiosal meetlr
uI>:i7Jk.ii seast
I'.STSiw »
&■
Saras
i^msOctobe:
sufficient number of votes No
* elected, thelr’s Is a clean Pr<
friendly race, which, la as aa
ould toe. But. that kind of do'
does not bring out as many Pr<
Washington were born in man-
A total 'X»f.3.749
nons.
the bitter Cmud-aling
votes were polled in Conaanche
Coumy In the r^0,^el^tl0 ju“
compared to
primary.
Shivers got 1.706 votes In Coman
In 1924 Frank O. Lowden de-
clined the nomination for Vice
President OB the Republican
borough received 2.3T7. In the
runoff. Shivers received 1,622 and
Yarborough polled 1,127.
frTr
from the
)n» the 8AA
fSweat. The »
. the new dlstrh
f pe Leon. E
, md Hsmilion.
' jour super in ten
and five co
business
mary. This year there are two.
that ior sheriff and for the cons-
table's position at De Leon.
• •
However, the interest and feel-
ings In the governor’s race la
not nearly so bitter locally m it
was two years ago when Yar-
W ashing ton went only as far
JSUSS i
into the presidency wno, school but all of them edu-
mav^be vtee prwident.'i cated themselves thoroughly, al-
vice nresi- though spelling used to trip up
" ?U«U i WMhUatM. .od J«toon eren o.
is unimportant/* # , presidents.
The only constitutional func-t Twenty-three of our 33 Presl-
tion of the Vice President is to dents practiced law. Teddy Rooee-
preside over the U. S. Senate, velt. Harding and Truman stud-
Even this Job is often taken over led law although they never prac-
whlch toy a Senator serving as Presi
ention dent Pro Tempore
• • I candidates who received the high-
Two things have occurred to est number of votes in the first
lessen the interest in the gover- primary were elected whether or
nor’s race. W. Lee O’Daniel has not they held a majority
announced that he is going to 1
be a candidate again in the Nov- ! In
ember Oer.eral Election, running we (
as an independent. Then too. the aboul
interesting Democratic confven- ;LniU
tion has to a certain extent tak- ' were
j jlr. Pricahr
Hr. Rowland
gdoission fe<
uj«:ti and 46c for
m csrhed Ther
grted seats for d
Johnson was the only tailor to
become President. Hoover waa
the only engineer, and Harding
Vice President Nixon, however,
has attended the cabinet meet-
State politics and those now In head Corporation
_»_____ J# Ct r> in rw»mArra f lr '
w lir. 8trlnge
Mr. Wchsrd,
jr'ttiw IS f*a
m school tor
charge of the State Democratic
committees seem anxious not to' We are presenting more
gestion of President Eisenhower, * * ' .
has assumed a more important More of our Presidents have
role in the administration. Prom belonged to the Episcopal church
this time on the office of the than to any other church They
Vice President may become more include Washington. Madison,
important. Monroe. William Henry Harrison.
• • John Tyler. Taylor. Fillmore.
The first President to ride in Pierce. Arthur, and Franklin D.
a horseless carriage or automo- . . . . .
mobile was William McKinley. ’ Continued on next to lasbt page
it was a Stanley steam model This Section
Stir up any more strife between these facts this week
the two Democratic factions in ( * *
order that the Democrats might \ Since 1640 every President
carry Teax* for Stevenson in the elected In a year ending in zero
General Election. * died in office. They were W H.
• • i Harrison, elected in 1840; Lin-
Then. too. O’Daniel carried Co- coin, elected in 1860; Garfield,
manche County in the July pri- 188Q; McKinley. 1900; Harding,
mary and he has recommended U-26. and Roosevelt. 1930. The
to h;s followers to vote for neith- only other President who died in
er Price Daniel nor Ralph Yar- office was Zachary Taylor, elect-
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 24, 1956, newspaper, August 24, 1956; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth904075/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.