Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-24
ll[S, D[V|NE AND
EMES LEAD IN VOTE
ONLY THREE VOTES BETWEEN
TWO LEADERS IN STRAW
BALLOT CONTEST.
JONES GETS s1s, pEvINE
$40 AND EMEs $50 VOTES
For Councilman Six Highest Are Derby,
Lester Williams, BrintnalI, Zines,
Sheen, aker and Fred Wibu-Totals
For Each Office and For o8th-No
Committee Recommendations.

The last OF the straw ballots were
counted Monday afternoon and the tab
ulations made today. some SAT ballots
having been returned ou- OF 1000 let
tiers sent out A few votes came in to-
DAY too late TO be counted.
For mayor, W. II. Jones. W. S. De-
vine and E. +. Zines are the three high
men in the order named, with Merritt
Greene fourth. counting the sum OF
arst and second choice votes.
For councilman L. Derby, Lester
Williams, II. c.. Brintnau. E b Emes.
r. ]. Shoemaker. and Fred Wilbur are
the six high men in the order named.
On the total OF first and second
choice votes received. both for mayor
and for councilmen. indicating more &C
c,,rately the popularity of each candi-
date. the score stands: W. H. Jones.
313. w. s. Devine SO. E. 3. Ernes go,
l.. Derby 226 H. G.. Brintnall PA. Ner-
rift Greene 1876, and Lester Williams
1875.
The result shows that the names sug-
gested on the ballot were given a pref
erence, but no one received a majority
of the votes cast for any one office and
the scattering vote Went 10 the four
winds.
Scattering Vote.
Those receiving ore or more votes
and less than ten for mayor We're: j.
E. Stanton. George Lyon. w. w. Doc
little, Theodore Johnston, f. z. Sears.
F. L. Meeker. G. IA Van Law. George
.Humlong c. c. St. Clair I. s. Fsnkle, a.
"A. Moore, H. A. Kinnan, c. H. E.
;Boardman, James MCGEE. J. H. Eyer
mayer. E. e. Benedict. JEFF Wilson, I. S.
Millard, e. T. Austin ". S. Ruhee, WI
liam Battin, E s. Ketchu,n. Lacey Pat
terson, Frank Northup. B. F. Cumnins,
r. W. McCreery, a. D. Meeker. W. A.
Davis, Peter Mayer, G. L. Andrews A.
NJ Friend. A. C. Daily. P. s. Balch,
George Wilton. ". ], vanDevee-, T.
I. WATSON. G. A Smith. ". T. Smith
G. F. Kirby. I. D. v.tek, T. P. Marsh.
d. j.. Hole.
Those receiving one or more votes
and less than ten for counctlrnen were:
F. E. Peek, E. E. Benedict. F. J. Young,
George Lyon. c. NJ. Wheeler. II. a. Kin
nan. f. 6. Wallace, ". r. Rubee, A.
Novotny. J. J. Bills, Jesse Williams. NJ.
Alexander J. T. Pound. H. ]. Howe c.
II. Van Law, 3. F. Cummings. J. G.
weatherby. r. z. Sears. F. r. Benedict.
w. z. Smith. c. II. Hull, B. W. Sinclair.
D. e. Hole. S. W. Rubee, George Ow-
ings, George Tun-ee. ". W. I1.xson.
George LaPlant, r. W. McC-eery. E. T.
Austin, D. S. Good. JEFF Wilson. George
Brown, D. ". Norris. A. A. Moore c. c..
ST. Clair, o. L. 1agiedue. John Hobbs,
j. P. Cooper. II. V. Speers, s. W. Nor
gan. NJ. Z. Mundy. ]. T. Jackson. John
Sieg, John Bell, w B. Elliott w 2.
McLeland, l. s. siil,ard. A. F. 8alch,
George Reynolds, Fred WeiIes. David
Lennox. Dorr Lamb, ]. H. Eger-naver.
c. A. Lands. ]. c. WEIGH. S. NJ. New
land, J. E. Stanton. f. T. Worden.
James Tug, L. Vitek, F. W. Carl. C. c.
Thine, H. L. Dobson. NJ. T. Melvin. G..
Tate. A. II. Simon. Ham McGoogan. w.
F. 1nnes, W. W. DoolittIe. l. T. Forbes,
A. p. Bratt. c. H. Smith. T. P. Marsh,
w. e. Smelling. W. G. Kane, VIII Glenn
ems. H. r. Miller. r L. Meeker, j. G..
weatherby. w. A. Miller. Roy Grimm.
o. Rosengren. George Patton. Ross
Sheetz. w Workman. w G. Stricken
Wildrnan, L. F. Kellogg, w. F Koontz,
d. L. Liant. D. B. Shollen berger w. P.
MaulSby, J. B. Harmon. J. B Troutner
No Reeommend ation.
The straw vote committee meets to-
day to consider the state OF the nation
and It was rot known today whether
there would be anything more done
than the announcement OF the vote or
not.
Norman puts Ono Over.
George Herman. while circulating
his legal petition 70 file in order to be
come a candidate for councilman. put
ono over on Hon. G. A. Turner and is
having no end Of fun over It. He ap-
preached Mr.. Turner with a request te
sign hts petition. Mr.. Turner replied
that he might want to support anothe.
ticket but that he had no objection t
Herman and IN fact had admired tn.
integrity Of the Fourth ward member s.
az an evidence Of his good will he sign
ed. Herman was quick to make tn
most Of the fact that he had the chair
man Of the straw vote committee on hi
pst3tion. The Joke was on Turner 70
other members Of the committee want
ed to know whether Turner like Green
had sprung candidacy without wait