Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-01
COUNTY DELEGATES OF ALL PAR
TIES TO ASSEMBLE ON
4 SATURDAY. -
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WILL SELECT DELEGATES, :.
49, STATE AND JUDICIAL
Other Routine Work Cut Out For Con-
ventiens BY Primary Law-Not All
Will Pass MISUNDERSTANDING
Letter Endorsing Primary Law a
Bomb in Ranks Of standpattsrs.

opeSadl " 4 lHleSef tepuDllCan.
Des Moines. July There will be
held simultaneously in Iowa tomorrow
all meeting at the hour of IL o'clock
ninety nine republican county conven.
tons and ninety-nine democratic
county conventions: probably also q
few prohibition and socialist county
conventions. These conventions viii
all have certain duties. among them
Selection Of delegates to the state
conventions in every county.
Selection Of judicial delegates in ev-
cry district where judicial conven-
ton has already been called.
Election of a congressional distric1
committeeman for each county.
Election of a judicial district COM
mitteeman in many counties.
Election of senatorial, district com
Emitteeman in some counties
The nomination of county candidates
where there has been a failure OF
nomination for places over which there
was a contest.
1t is believed THAI there is no, sena-
torial district where a senatorial con-
vention will have to be held. There
are several judicial districts where
there will be no election of judges this
year. The county conventions can not
nominate for an office where there
has been no candidate voted for, but
only where there has been either tie
or failure of any candidate to receive
the 30 per cent.
There will be no credentials COM
mittees in these conventions. as the
ma tier Of credentials is passed on by
the county chairman who makes UP
the roll of delegates from the official
records as reported to him. When the
list of state or district delegates is
made up the chairman and secretary
certifies the same to the state or dis
trict chairman and he alone has au-
thority to make up the roll of delegates
for the state or district convention.
Very probably many of the counties
viii adopt resolutions of some form.
tho that has not been the general GUS
tom in either party in Iowa.
In the Polk county convention in
stead of selecting delegates to "a ju-
dicial convention the county conven-
ton will nominate the four judges.
There are four places to be filled and
willing to fill the four places so that
the problem Of what to do is not easy
Of solution It is certain that no mat
ter what the convention does there will
be some very sore spots left.
The letter of Theodore Roosevelt to a
New York legisla tor indorsins the pri-
mary system Of direct nomination of
party tickets resounded like dynamite
giant firecracker in the camp of the
Iowa reactionarieS 1t may even COM
pei hasty reorganization Of the lines
and abandonment of the plan to have
every standpat convention in the state
on Saturday demand repeal of the Iowa
law. The standpat leaders have thus
far kept up the appearance Of being in
line with the Roosevelt policies and
they fear to take action that will ex-
pose their true position. The Roose-
Welt letter makes it certain that Iowa
will not go back TO the caucus system.
$50
The temperance folk are very much
divided over the question of what to do
% get a constitution of Iowa with a
clause forbidding the sale of intoxicat-
ng liquors for any purpose. The anti
saloon league. which has worked in
harmony with Governor Carroll and
claims to have been instrumental in
his nom nation two years ago,
has taken the attitude Of opposition to
an amendment, and will fight that plan
n the legislature. The other organiza
ions. including the prohibition party,
will continue to fight for submission Of
IN amendment to vote of the people.
The alternative proposition is that Of
constitutional convention. The friends
If the latter claim that they should
lave the aid of the woman suffragiStS
md several other influential groups in
making a fight for that principle. AS
matter Of fact the temperance forces
ost some strength in the recent pri-
nary which they will hardly be able
o regain at the balloting in Novembe r.
The prospect for either plan is very re-
note, in the opinion of good judges.
Warden Sanders of the Fort Madison
prison, who was in the city a few days
lgo. made emphatic denial of the story
which had been printed in some of the
,ewspapers of the state stating that he
lad an encounter with a farmer and
vas pounded up. He showed no signs
# punishment. 1t seems that a local