Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-07
AL BALLOT NAMES
MUST Be PUBLISHED
Attorney General Makes Ruling
Pertaining to Township
Candidates
BALLOTS MUST BE UNIFORM
Auditors Notified That Publication of
Fac Smiles Is Not Contemplated
Under Law - Des Moines County
Poor Farm Under investigation by
Board of ControI-Iowa Politics.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. May 7.-Names of
township officers placed upon the pri-
mary election ballot by affidavit must
be printed in the published notices
OF the election by the county auditors.
This is the ruling of the attorney gen.
eral. Mr.. Byers is preparing furth-
law. During the early part of the
campaign he prepared an opinion COW
ering the points of the primary that
concerned the early campaign and the
conduct of the campaign He is now
preparing for Secretary of State w. c.
Hayward an opinion covering the 9TH
er detail matters of the report that
concern the county auditors and other
officials in the publication of the cleo
| tion notices and lists of candidates,
the preparation of the ballots. and
such points.
| He has, however, let it be known
that the opinion will hold that town
/ ship officers names must be published
with the rest of the ticket in the news
paper notices. Because of the fact
/ that the law does not require these
candidates to file petitions. it was
thought by some county auditors that
+. their names would not have to be pub
lished
I IL f,oll <l,r ri
mary election ballots must be of uni
form size. The primary election law
specifically says as much. 1t was
| thought by some county auditors that
| because the minority parties do not
have as many candidates in the field,
their ballots could be smaller than the
Republican. The attorney general
holds that there must be blank lines
on which names can be written In for
| the different offices. This and the
| specific requirement Of the law itself
| will make it necessary to have the bal
| lots of uniform size.
The executive council, acting on the
advice of the attorney general, has no.
/! titled the county auditors that it is not
necessary to publish fac SMILES of the
primary ballots in the newspapers, but
only lists of the candidates on the four
| tickets. The secretary of the council
| has mailed to the auditors a letter
suggesting the form of the primary
| election notice and giving the lists of
\ the candidates of all the four parties,
republican, democrat, prohibition, and
socialist, in the order named. In this
way they will not take up nearly SO
much space.
This action of the executive council
| is considered Furthermore as dispos-
J ing of the situation at Council Bluffs,
where it is reported the county audi
tor has taken the position that the
prohibitionists and socialists can not
get their county ticket printed for the
primary because of not having the
proper percentage of votes in that
county, tho having the proper per-
| centage in the state at large. 1t Is un-
derstood that the attorney general
takes the position that the percentage
of the vote in the state governs the
privilege of having county ticket in
the field, and the council has taken
that position in directing the county
auditors to print the county names.
| The state board of control today
| took up the examination of the testi-
mony in the case of the Des Moines
county insane hospital at Burlington.
1t will be some days before the board
is ready to give an opinion in the case.
Complaint was made to the board OF
the treatment of the insane patients
there, and the investigation followed.
Since the creation of the board of con-
troll, when the state provided that the
board must investigate every institu-
ton in the state where insane are kept
at least twice a year, and provided
that on hearing of evidence the board
can close up all institutions that are
not properly conducted, the board has
closed seven county asylums. 1t is
possible that the board may close the
Des Moines county asylum
Until the board was given control
in such matters and began instruct
ing the boards of supervisors the plan
followed in many counties of the state
was to treat the insane patients much
in the same way that prisoners are
| treated, but worse. In some OF the
institutions the board found the in
sane patients alive with vermin. Many
unfortunate persons who had Lived in
| comfortable circumstances in life We're
found in these county asylums living
in filth and in conditions under which
they never could recover their mental
euuilibrium For the most part this
condition has been entirely changed.
but occasionally a board of supervisors
moved by considerations of economy,
will not properly provide for an asy-
lpm and will not engage large enough
force of attendants or attendants of
proper character and the result Is
cruelty to the inmates and lax con-
dition about the asylum generally.
w. f. Oder of this city. will go into
northeastern Iowa to make number
Of speeches for Cummins. He will
! speak there next week. Mr.. Odell has