Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-04-18
NEW WRINKLE IN GETTING eUsl.
NESS FOR BONDING COM.
PANY REVEALED.
NorARIEs SOLICITED DAY
BLANKS WERE RECEIVED
Other Concerns Dislike Recommends.
ton Made by Governors son-M any
Imperfect Nomination Papers Com.
ing In-Raes in Iowa Between Clark
and Wilson ia. Doubt.
ecial to Times-Republican.

De-s Moines. April 1s.-A new wrinkle
in getting business for bonding COM
pany was developed here this week in
connection with the business of COM
| missioning the seven or eight thousand
notarieS public whose commissions all
expire June 80 next. The blanks have
been prepared in the governors office
during the past month and addressed
| to all present notaries, but not mailed
until this week. The fee for a notartal
commission is IS for the three-year
period, payable to the governor direct.
| 1t transpires,, however, that on the
very day that the blank applications
and bonds We're received by the Iowa
! notaries, they all received by the same
mail d letter from an Omaha bonding
company, stating that an arrangement
| had been made so that the IS notary
| fee would be payable to that company
/ in Omaha instead of to the governor
| in Des Moines, and asking that the
bond be forwarded there with the 50
fee and SO for fidelity bond. Accom-
panying this is a fac-simile OF a letter
from Paul Carroll, the governors son.
approving the plan. The agents Oh
other bonding companies are some
What disconnected by the sudden move
| in behalf of an Omaha company ana
planning to see how they can get their
usual share of the business before all
thu fees are paid to the Omaha COM
pany. They admit that the Omahi
company has executed coup 'nat VIII
probably take most of the business
there. but they promise a prett5 fight
to divide the same.
Secretary Of State Hayward hnds
that a great many of the candluates
send in their nomination papers imper-
| feet. The commonest defect is lalture
to accompany the petitions WIN th4
necessary affidavit as to Willingness
! and desire to be CANDIDATE. No
papers can be filed without this state
ment. A great many Of the papers are
| also defective in that the affldavit OF
1.-The person securing the signature re-
fers to only one sheet and many addl-
ton sheets are sent in with no astloaVlt
accompanying them.
| Half the counties Of Iowa have held
their democratic conventions and no
body has been able to figure out ex-
actly how the race for delegates
stands. Whether Wilson is ahead 81
Clark is ahead depends on VINO
keeping the count. There will be sew
eral conventions today-Dubuque, va!
Buren,, Greene and Clayton. It is GER
1 tain Gov. Wilson will get big buncf
out of the list. On Friday the Buchan-
an convention will also go for wilson
On Saturday the following will be heid:
Plymouth, Lucas, Ida, Humboldt, Gutn-
RE. Fayette and Davis, also the Henry
| county caucuses. The Wilson men are
| confident they will go beyond S25 be-
| fore the week is over with their dele
gates.
| A committee of the most prominent
democrats of Sioux City is sending
out a letter signed by them with al
enclosure showing newspaper &C
counts Of the manner in which the
anti Wilson democrats are alleged tc
have stolen Woodbury. county by the
most high-handed methods and by
open bribery Of persons to go to the
caucuses and work against delegates
favorable to Wilson. The showing Il
one we'll calculated to start the dem
ocrats in the direction of a presidential
preference primary in Iowa in support
| Of Senator Cummins' position taker
a year and half ago and maintained
ever since. It is stated that thous'
ands Of these circulars have been sent
into Nebraska for the benefit Of the
| democratic voters there.