Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-29
Blocking OF Recount in Dallas
County Probably Will Re-
suit in No Nomination
PRoUTY MAY RUN INDEPENDENT
Case Tied Up in Courts Until After
General Election, From Present In
dications-HuIl and Prouty Will
Both Be independent Candidates in
November.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 29.-Unless the
courts are able to grind quick when
they get to work In September there
will be no republican candidate for
congress in the Seventh congressional
district. Politicians doubt whether
Captain Hull and his friends really
knew what they were doing when
they started the proceedings in Dallas
county to prevent q recount which
they knew would give Prouty rs more
in that county than the first returns
gave him. Hull started the proceed
ings, but they cannot be withdrawn
now unless he Is willing to allow a
Prouty the nomination. Now that the
case Is in the courts 1t is doubtful
whether it will be decided in time to
let either name go on the republican
ballot next Fall. No contested election
has ever yet been determined by the
courts in time to let the contestant get
chance at the office he was con-
tending for.
There Is some difference between the
contest in this instance and that of a
contest OF the election in November
and this ds the first there has been
under the primary election law. In
inc cton t,a 70 In hn no11o q
county case are tied up and cannot
be certified to the executive council
and will not be till the lawsuits are
ended. If they cannot be certified to
the council then Hull's nominal 145
majority in Dallas county which he
must have in order to have a. majority
In the district are tied up and he Is
kept from getting the nomination.
Without Dallas county in it it is be-
lieved that there can be no nomina-
ton and both candidates will have to
get their names onto the ballot for
the November election by petition.
Politicians are confident that there
will be many more lawsuits sprung
and much more litigation before the
matter is ended and they are not SAN
by election day.
The polk county supervisors today
decided not to throw out Bloomfield
township. the precinct where the polls
were kept open after legal time. This
finishes the Polk congressional affairs
and gives Hull majority of Al in the
district unless Prouty gets al recount
of Dallas caunty, in which case he will
gain Is and will have majority in the
district.
A corps of school teachers invaded
the state house today. They came to
read and mark the examination papers
of great host Of school teachers of
Iowa who have taken the state exam
ination the past week in the various
counties of the state. The readers use
the senate committee rooms on the
second floor of the state house and
from the activity it might be suspected
that the legislature was in session.
There are all sorts of charming women
about the state house and few strag-
Cling men to do the work just as the
nice committee clerks with few
struggling Legislators indicate that
session of. the legislature is about to
open.
The school teachers are so numerous
that an East Side church has rugged
up lunch counter in the basement
of the state house just as 1t does
when the legislature meets here. This
will continue into next week when
most of the readers will leave. The
head readers will remain for few
days longer to finish up the work and
State Superintendent Riggs will then
have to sign his name a few
thousand times and Iowa will have a
new supply of school teachers from
year.
Leading democrats, who because
they were in the minority party, had
some misgivings as to the future of
the minority party under primary
election. are expressing themselves as
being more than pleased with the OUT
come now that the democratic state
convention is over with and the pri-
mary has assisted them in getting the
control of the party from the Ed Fl.
Hunter brand of corporation politi-
clan.
When the discussion of the primary
was up many democratic leaders who
were honestly for the best interests
of the people felt that under a primary
it would be difficult to get candidates
to run for office They felt that a
candidate would not go to the trouble
to have his petition circulated to get
on the ticket when there was every
likelihood that the nomination would
be an empty honor and thus the organ
ization of the minority party would
soon fall to decay and there would be
but one party in reality. They do not
feel so now The democrats polled
$4,000 votes when they had but one
candidate up for each office and the
result of the primary is that the rank
and file elected the delegates 70 the