Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-01
Attorney General Rules That
Candidates May Withdraw
After Filing Papers
BALLOTS ARE BEING PREPARED
Republican Ticket Comes First, With
Democrats, Prohibitionists and So
cialists in Their Order = Ballot Not
Unusually Largo and Country Print
ers Can Handle Them.
Special to Times Republican.


Des Moines, May According te
EAttorney General Byers it is possible
for a candidate after filing his nom
|sination papers with the secretary OF
state to still keep his name off the bal
Hot at the June primary. Two legisla-
tive candidates have already asked the
,secretary of state to withdraw theil
names. According to the law, how
ever, the nomination papers cannot be
withdrawn after they have been filed
A candidate may merely keep his name
from going on the ballot and hence Is
out of the race.
The two candidates who have with
drawn are W. A. Dowell, a republican
candidate for the house in Cass coun-
ty, and l.. g.. Richmond, a democratic
candidate for the senate in the Marion
Monroe district.
b.. Copies OF. the official ballot are be-
Ing prepared now and mailed to the
county auditors Of Iowa by the secre-
tary of state. The ballots for the four
state tickets are printed with blanks
for the district candidates. These are
put in by typewriter and the ballot GER
titled then to the county auditor. There
will be four tickets in the field at the
primary election in June. These will
be the republican, democratic, prohibi-
ton and socialist.
The lists certified to the county aud
itors by the secretary of state are
merely lists Of candidates and are all
printed on one sheet Of paper for all
parties. From these lists the county
auditors prepare their ballots, printing
separate ballots for each separate par
ty. The blgbear about the ballot be-
ing SO large that county newspapers
could not print it on their presses be-
cause the presses would not be large
enough, amounts to nothing. The bal
lots will all be about IA inches wide
by % inches long. The law provides
that the ballots must be uniform in
size, kind Of paper and so on. There are
more candidates on the republican
state ticket than on any of the others,
the other parties for the most part hav-
ing but one candidate for each office.
The number of candidates on the re-
publican ticket therefore govern the
length of the official ballot.
First on the ballot in the upper left
hand corner on the ballots of all par
ties comes the. names Of the caf1di-
dates for senator of that party. Next
under it in the same column the cam
didates for presidential elector-at-large
and under that the candidates for state
offices in the order Of the offices. All
candidates are arranged alphabetically.
: The ballots are in four columns. In
the second column are placed first the
candidates for district elector of the
district in which the ballot is to be
used; under that the candidates for
congress: under that the candidates for
state senator, and under that the can
.didates for representative.
In the third column are placed the
names of the candidates for county
offices and in the fourth column the
candidates for township offices. At the
foot of the fourth column is blank
line for party committeeman and below
that blank lines for delegates to the
county convention.
The ballot will be great deal small
er than the ballot to be used at the
election and smaller than
the ballots at past November elections.
When the voter enters the polling
place on election day he must be either
republican, democrat, prohibitionist
or socialist in order to vote. The pri-
mary election law provides that when
he enters the polling place on passing
the guard rail he must indicate the
party ballot he wishes to vote and one
of the judges shall give him the ball
lot Of that party and provides that
1.-THE voters selection shall constitute
his declaration Of party utilization"
All persons are entitled to vote at the
primary who are qualified electors at
the time the primary is held. The Sc
lection of the party ballot on the first
primary election day becomes the yot-
er's party and he is affiliated with that
party from that time on unless he
serves notice in writing on the coun-
ty auditor.
For instance II after voting at the
first primary voter desires to con-
tinue his affiliations with that party
when he goes to the polls the next
primary day he Is given the ballot OF
the party he selected at the first pri-