Hurley Family Tree

Although numerically the weakest party in the state the Prohibitionists experienced the greatest difficulty in the nomination of a state ticket. One faction, calling itself the National Prohibition party, nominated H. L. Douthart for governor; E.lark, for lieutenant-governor; T. S. Walter, for secretary of state; Levi Belknap, for auditor; James Murray, for treasurer; J. T. Merry, for attorney-general; Mrs. Virginia Greever, for superintendent of public instruction; J. R. Silver, for chief justice; and M. Williams, for Congressman-at-large. Another faction named HORACE HURLEY for governor; George Hollingsberry, for lieutenant-governor; H. H. Geyer, for secretary of state; T. D. Talmadge, for auditor; John Biddison, for treasurer;. H. Vance, for attorney-general, but made no nominations for superintendent of public instruction, chief justice, or Congressman-at-large. A third faction of the party nominated A. E. Kepford for governor. At the election on Nov. 3 the Fusionists carried the state by pluralities ranging from 7,500 to 12,000. The highest vote received by any Fusionist presidential elector was that of Sidney Hayden-171,675. The highest polled for any Republican elector was 159,345 for John R. Hamilton. For governor, Leedy received 168,041 votes; Morrill, 160,530; Douthart, 756; HURLEY, 2,347; Kepford, 703.