Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-18
Failure to Send Election Re-
turns to Executive Council
Causes a Mix-Up
BARRED FROM CONVENTIONS
Counties Not Reporting Will Not Be
Permitted to Send Delegates to State
convention-May Delay Holding of
Several County conv.ntions-Ballot
and the Alphabet.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June lS.-Further COM
plications are developing as a result
of the delay in some counties to get
their primary election returns to the
executive council. There is no surety
that Polk and Dallas and Story Will
have their returns in by next week,
when the republican state convention is
held, and if not these counties Will
probably be without representation in
the state convention.
In Polk Dallas and Story the coun-
ty auditors have not notified the dele
gates to the county conventions OF
their election, due to the fact that the
canvass of the votes has not been COM
pleted, and unless this is done in time
these counties may have no legally
qualified delegates with which to hold
a county convention on Saturday, as
the law provides must be done 1t Is
more than likely that the next legis-
lature will have to amend the law in
some respects to provide. for these UNI
foreseen contingencies. !. M
The returns were all in today with
the exception of Guthrie, Keokuk and
Muscatine, where the county auditors
claim they did not receive the proper
blanks. They used other blanks that
did not meet the requirements of the
law and so these had to be sent back
for corrections. These will probably be
in the hands of the secretary of state
soon. Oseeola's county auditor claims
to have mailed the returns from that
county but they had not reached the
secretary Of state this morning.
In Dallas county the canvass Of the
returns is tied up by the Injunction
proceedings on the part of Capt. Hull
ITO prevent q recount and these pro-
ceedings will not be heard till Friday.
In Polk county the canvass is not com :
pleted and in Story county recount of
seven precincts has been ordered which
has not been concluded.
Carl Johnson of Mitchell county, will
be the republican nominee OF that
county for the legislature. Party pol
itics in Mitchell county seems to have
been all one way for Johnson's name
was voted for by all the political par
ties and he was nominated by them all.
Republicans, democrats and proh1b1.
tionists all nominated him for the leg
islature. On the democratic ballot ne
received four votes and there were
three scattering. On the prohibition
.icket he received one vote and there
were none for anyone else. He has
elected to go on the ballot in November
as the nominee of the republican party
and unless the other parties make
nominations at their county conven-
ltions he will be the only party nom
sinee.
Unless the next legislature changes
the primary election law in regard to
placing the names Of candidates on the
ballot in alphabetical order there may
be stampede OF politicians to have
their names changed and probably all
persons with names beginning with
"A" will be in the field as candidates.
The results Of the primary law shows
very clearly that a man whose name
begins with "A'' or who Is the first In
the list stands an enormous advantage
over the candidates farther down the
list.
The legislature a few years ago
changed the law as TO persons chang
ing their names. Under the new law
it is not necessary to go before a
court or to get special act of the
legislature or anything Of the kind.
A man does not even have to hire an
attorney. All he needs to do is to go
to the county auditor of the county
in which he lives and to the county
auditor of each county in the state in
which he holds property and file a
written sworn statement that he has
changed his name. 1T is easy. and in
expensive. A man whose surname is
Aaron" stands big chance Of being
nominated by the primary no matter
who his opponent Is or for what office
he is candidate The man whose
surname is Zwisler {the last name in
the Des Moines city directory has a
handicap that would seem to be hard
to overcome and his only hope would
seem to be in persuading all other cam
sQludt0S " stay Out VI llC liCAu. Ills
nomination would seem to depend on
whether anyone else wanted the office
or not.
The stacks for the books on the sec
ond floor of the new Iowa state IL
brary have been put in place and the
employees of the library are busy put
ting the books in place. The second
floor of the library is to be devoted
quite largely to periodicals OF which
the Iowa state library has one of the
most complete collections there is
anywhere in the United States. It now
has practically all of the important
Periodicals of all classes that have
been published in America since the
first publication. Beginning with The
Columbian Magazine which it has
complete, the library now has the
Port Folio which was edited by Oliver
Oldschool and which is on the style
of the Gentlemen's Magazine and is
complete with the exception of one
volume. The Southern Literary Mes
senger which was edited for a time
by Poe is complete with the exception
Of one volume and the Gentleman,