Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-07

the democrats. All these Oils Will 20
to appropriate committees and 90 thru
the regular chapneis. This fact adds
to the Importance Of the personnel OF
the elections committees Of the two
houses. for these committees will have
the duty OF shaping up the bills ~
they are to appear.
Aftsr The Dss Moinss Plan.
II 10 now supposed that the stand
pat special elections bill will provide
for the primary after the Dies Moines
plan." which Is the kind Of a primary
the democrats in the legislature Few
years ago tried to secure for Iowa.
This will abolish the declaration or
parry affiliation and permit anyone to
vote at the primary for any candidate,
democrats for republicans or republi-
cans for democrats. Out of this re-
suit would be the selection OF a re-
publican candidate chosen by the votes
of both democrats and republicans
who would thus become the repnbN-
can caucus nominee and there would
be the same obligation upon the part
Of each republican to vote for him a.
would be the case If he had been desig-
mated In caucus composed wholly OF
republican members. The same would
be true of the democrats being under
obligation to vote for the man desiE-
mated at the open primary.
Primary Would Not Bind.
In neither case, however could there
be by any possibility any binding OBJ
legation upon the part OF any member
to vote for the man designated In this
way any more than requirement that
the caucus nominee shall receive the
full party vote. The members are now
elected and under no pledge to vote
for anyone designated at primary.
while practically all are under direct
or indirect pledge to vote for the party
candidate as designated at the opening
Of the session.
The bill which will be framed up by
the progressive republicans. to be
adopted only when the session has de-
veloped that no election Is possible.
will follow the lines of the present
closed primary system.
The bills for amending the state pri-
mary law to include the OREGON plan
for general elections will have to be
entirely separate.
Situation Still Complicated.
While the situation in regard to the
senatorship has undergone some not
able changes in the few weeks since
the campaign was recognized as on.
there has been at no time opportunity
for an Intelligent prediction as to the
probable outcome. Within a few days
after the death of the late Senator
Dolliver 1t became known to certain
ty. and was so published not only here
but everywhere in the state. that it
would not be possible to secure an
agreement as to who should be the sue
cessor to Dolliver. and it became
known also that anywhere wrom six to
dozen good republicans of the state
were favored by republican members
of the legislature. Prior to the election.
it was known and accepted by all in
telligent observers that among those
who would surely be urged to accept
by members of the legislature We're
Messrs. H. w. Byers. James A. Smith.
George w. Clarke, Warren Garst. A. B.
Funk. C. w. sPickett. E. H. Hubbard.
LATE Young, sB. F. Carroll, Walter L.
Smith. A. F. Dawson. and some others.
A number of these took themselves
out of the range of probability, and to-
day the list has been reduced and
changed to the following: Byers. Young,
Garst, Funk. FRANKIE Feely, Pickett and
Kenyon. In case it is found impos-
sible to secure harmony by selection
from this list, George Curtis is willing
that his name be ;usedt
All Of these men are republicans.
They have public records which form
the basis OF their strength with the
legislators. They are all men in middle
life and with sufficient experience SO
that few of the members will be I'M
familiar with their work and their
leanings when time comes for voting.
Younq's Sole Claims.
The standpat contingent Is support
ing Senator Young because Of his des-