Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-22
DOES NOT FORCE
PARTISAN TICKETS
Attorney General Byers Busy
Interpreting Provisions Of
the Primary Law
TICKETS. PERMITTED
Also Rules That Nom,nar,on rapers
May Be Filed Any Reasonable Time
Prior to Thirty Days Before tho
Election - Shaw Still Has Presden-
tial Ambitions.
Special to Times-Repup1,can.

special to IimeS-HepODlCan.
Des Moines, Jan. 2a-Three points in
relation to the primary election law
generals office. They are points that
have been raised by several different
localities of the state.
In relation to the blanks that are
circulated for securing the names OF
petitioners the question was asked
whether the printed matter nomination
papers must be circulated and the sig
natures of electors secured before d
candidates name can be placed upon
the ballot. At the head of the sheet
according to the law there must be
written or printed statement and the
words Of that statement are provided
by the law. The law also provides
that the sheets shall be S12 inches
wide and IS inches long. The ques-
ton was whether the statement should
be at the head of each sheet or wheth-
er it could be at the head Of one sheet
and other blank sheets attached.
The attorney generals office holds
that the statement must appear at the
head of each sheet but that signatures
to several sheets or any number OF
sheets can be secured and all sheets
fastened together and considered one
nomination paper, and that one al
fidayit is sufficient to accompany such
sheets forming one nomination paper.
One question asked was whether or
not the nomination papers must be
filed exactly thirty days before the
primary or whether they can be f1led
before that. 1t is held that they can
be filed any reasonable length OF time
before thirty days, the law saying that
they must be filed ut least" thirty
days before the primary.
In relation to city elections the at
torney general holds that the law does
not force partisan tickets upon city.
Many cities of the state have been
accustomed to having non-partisan
tickets calling them "citizens" or "peo-
pies" tickets. The attorney general
holds that this can still be done under
the primary law.
Answering question from Dubuque
the attorney general holds that the
names of ward aldermen must not be
printed on the primary ballot but that
blank lines must be left for writing III
such names but that the names of can
didates for aldermen at large must be
printed on the primary ballot, the same
as candidates for mayor and other city
officers.
Secretary Shaw still has hopes Of
getting the Iowa delegation to the re-
publican national convention. He is
furthermore engaged in negotiations
looking toward securing the delegation
and has the promise of one element or
the republican party that it will sup
port him provided he can get the 9TH
err.
When George Wright, state commit
teeman from the Ninth district, sug-
gested the name of Shaw for tempor-
ary chairman of the first convention
and the committee turned it down and
selected Attorney General H. w. Byers,
a friend of Governor Cummins, it was
heralded as the final job that pune
tured the boom for Shaw for presi-
dent. 1t seemed quite a likely con-
clusion but it was not a logical con-
clusion in the estimation of Shaw for
he has since that time been conduct
ing correspondence and making efforts
in the line of getting the delegation.
1t was announced many months ago
from Washington that Shaw had op-
ened negotiations with Cummins in
which he asked Cummins to support
him for president. in return for which
he was to support Cummins for sena-
tor. Cummins turned down this trade
on the claim that he had no authority
from the people of Iowa to deliver the
delegation for president in return for
the vote Of the people for senator. He
intimated that he would conduct his
campaign for senator and that Shaw
could conduct his for president and
that if Shaw won out all right and
good. He expected himself to win the
nomination of senator whether Shaw
supported him or not
When Shaw came to Iowa the first
of this month to make couple of
addresses he renewed these overtures
to Cummins and the Cummins peo-
pie generally He was not given any
encouragement. On his visit to Iowa
there is not the slightest evidence
that ne found anything that encour
aged him in his ambition but when he
returned to the east he took his boom
with him and is tenderly caring for IT.
He has since gone farther in his nego-
tiations and it is understood would be
willing. nay anxious, to be classed as
a progressive if he can get the Iowa
delegation for president Having tax
en- pronounced standing against some
of the laws which the progresslves OF
this state have favored and worked
for and having especially journeNed
all the way from Washington to speak
against the primary election law ne
naturally desires to asoid prostratlns
himself in the dust, out It Is known