Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-29
Each District In College.

Each District In College.
Some confusion has arisen regard
ing the method Of voting for Presi- !
Dental electors on Nov. 3. Attorney
General Byers has given the law In
the case.
Each congressional district must
have an elector in the electoral col
lege. But the vote on all electors
is by the entire state.
Therefore, the candidates will be
elected who get more votes than the
opposing candidates in their districts.
The candidate in the First district
who gets more votes than any other
candidate in that district will be
elected, even though his vote is less
than the candidate Of some other
party in some other district. The
candidates for electors are nominated
by districts, must be elected to rep
resent individual districts, and in
fact are running against each other
in districts, but are voted for by the
state at large.
For instance, the republican candi-
date for elector in the First district
might be elected fy getting more
votes than his democratic opponent
for that district, though he received
less votes than the democratic nomi
nee in some other district.
The candidates for electors at large
are on slightly different basis. The
two who get the highest number OF
votes will be elected.
This is the first presidential elec|
ton since the circle was removed
from the official ballot in Iowa. Hith-
erto the electoral tickets have been
voted as whole, as rule, and al
together by use of the circle. Now
the voters must vote for each can
didate for elector, separately. 1t will
not do to vote for the candidates for
elector at large and one or two dis
trict electors because the vote at
large in the state counts on all,
therefore every voter is being urged
by the party arrangements to vote
for thirteen electoral candidates sure.
Foes of Saloon Disagree.
Enemies of the saloon in Des
Moines are divided as to the proper
method of using the initiative feature
of the Des Moines plan to drive Thorn
from the city. j. B. Hammond, chair
man of the prohibition state commit
tee, IL radically opposed to the plan
'spouscd by Sccrsta;g w. q. Barber
Of the anti-saloon league.
Mr.. Hammond POINTS out that there
is no provision in the Des Nloines plan
law giving the people the right to
say what resolutions shall be passed
by the council. The initiative only
applies to ordinances, he declares.
And as the saloons are allowed 10
operate by resolutions of consent.
Mr. Hammond does not see how the
voters could instruct the council not
to issue further liquor permits.
Although disagreeing as tn methods,
the prohibition chairman believes
with Mr.. Barber that the saloons can
be driven from Des Moines. His plan
is to allow the people to vote on an
ordinence fixing a prohibition saloon
tax. In other words, he would require
them TO pay license fee and impose
other regulations that would make 1t
improbable for the liquor dealers to
remain in business.
81 am in favor of the initiative
movement as suggested by the anti
saloon league, but desire one that can
be maintained in the courts," said
Mr.. Hammond. "The point of diff
ference Is that the league proposes
to prevent the city council from pass
ing resolution of consent provided
by the state law. end I propose to
reach the saloons through an ordi-
nance for which the state law has
made provision"
Vote at Primary All Day.
Attorney General B"c<l has receiv-
ed several letters from different
counties relative to the question of
whether the senatorial primary cleo
ton will continue throughout the day
November g. Some of the county
auditors have instructed the election
Off Gals that the senatorial primary
country precincts, as provided In
those precincts at the regular primary
election in June. This Is mistake.
The voters may vote in the senatorial
primary of November from the open
ing to the close of the polls for the
general election. General Byers in.
terpreted the law on this point for
the county auditors, instructing them
that the primary law provision fixing
the limited hours for the regular June
primary does not apply to the pri-
mary election of November 8. At the
latter the republican voters vote
simultaneously at the general cleo
ton and at the primary election, and
the POLLS for both open and close at
the same hour, under the general
election law and the new primary law.
Any other practice would be extreme
ly unfair to a portion of the voters,
for then no republicans could vote
at the general election in county pre-
cincts before o'clock in the after
noon.
Given and Bishop Remembered.
Memoir services in honor OF the
late Judges Bishop and Given and
Galusha Parsons were held in the
supreme court, Oct 20. Many beauti-
FIJI tributes to the memory OF these
DISTINGUISHED Iowans were paid by
the jurists who smoke of the exemplary
lives and enviable careers of these
three men.
Inc state law library or Iowa Is
becoming more comrlete daily. A
new volume translatipg the laws of
the Sun Cod from an obelisk found in
1906 by psychologists has been added
Election Supplies Sent Out.
Secretary of State Hayward has
completed the sending out to the
county auditors of the state the
sample ballots which viii be used to
prepare the official ballots for the