Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-06-26
TINT eAN NOT YIN
ELECTORAL COLLEGE.
|GLEcTloN or NEXT PREs,DEhT
MAY GO; TO HOUSE OF REPRE-.
sENrATtvEs.
POLL OF HOUSE SHOWS
VOTE WOULD De TIE
Psnnsyivania and Perhaps Other
States Will Cast Their Electoral
Votes For. Roosevelt - Many Com.
pi.eations May. Arise = Wisconsin
!. L,w Nay Lose atats 70 Taft.

| Baltimore. Nd, June 2e.-Politicians
! in Washington and Baltimore who are
conversant with the election laws OF
the various states and the law govern
ling the selection and duties of presi-
dental electors said that. regardless OF
the action Of the democratic conven-
ton, Mr.. Taft can not get majority
Of the electoral vote. A poll OF the
house. said to have been concluded by
Taft men. shows there would be 4 tie
| vote.
| The situation IL one which has
driven the advisors Of the president to
|, the law books and court decisions. with
the result that they are said to have
admitted that. II Theodore Roosevelt
IL a third party candidate. the election
OF the next president will be thrown
into the house Of representatives.
According to men who have studied
the situation the president can not get
the thirty eight electoral votes OF Penn
sylvunia. and there IL extreme DOUBT
II he can get the electoral votes from
( five other republican states. which, Al
together, will lose him 100 votes In the
electoral college These states are
Kansas. Nebraska, North Dakota, New
] Jersey, al. "":::ccnatn
Tell Keystone state Case.
The names Of the presidential can
didates are not printed on the ballots
v,ov,ohar nf cor.
sress who has capvassed the whole
matter said yesterday. The republi-
can electors who have been chosen IN
Pennsylvania have been instructed for
Theodore Roosevelt, and they will vote
for him.
III is the intention Of the Roosevelt
men in that state to name the same
men for election on their party ticket.
That means that both the third party
electors and the republican electors
will be against Mr.. Taft. Many OF Mr..
| Tafts friends admit he can not be
elected without Pennsylvania"
In Kansas, where the Roosevelt sem
timent is strong, Mr.. Taft may not get
; his name on the ballot in many coun-
! ties. In that state 1t 10 within the dis
erection OF the county clerk to place
| the presidential nominees name on the
ticket or leave 1t off. The ten electors
from the Sunflower state are likely to
| be all Roosevelt men. There is ques.
! ton whether or not. under the state
! law. there still is time to get third par
| ty candidates on the national ticket by
petition.
Nsbraskans Named for Colonel.
In Nebraska. which has eight In the
electoral college. the republican elector
| nominees already have been named for
1 Roosevelt The Taft forces may get
| their candidates electors on the ticket
,by petition, but those OF authority say
the new list of Taft electors would
have to be placed in the Independent
i ticket column, for the Roosevelt cleo
| tors nominee will occupy the republic
/; can column.
! In North Dakota the five elector
nominees occupy the same position.
! New Jersey republicans also have
nominated electors, all Of whom are
pledged to Roosevelt. They are coil-
| stdered AZ too securely bound to the
colonel for the Taft forces to care TO
leave them on the ballot In the re-
publican column.
wisconsin Law Hurts Taft.
/ The thirteen Wisconsin electors are
] going to be doubly hard for Mr.. Taft TO
iget because of a new law that provides
for d separate ballot for the presiden-
1 tial tickets, say the men from that
j state.
I, Looking toward the possibility Of Mr..
Traits nomina ton, the republican lead
ers Of wisconsin had Law placed on
the statute books that provides that
1.-The ma mes of presidential nominees and
presidential electors shall not be placed
Lon tile same ticket with the nominees
4 for congress and state officers.
1.-THE presidential elector for the hrst
\ time in the history Of the country has
j become the most handing figure in
ift,s said one man. summing up dis
cussion OF the presidents chances OF
Il election. #"I think that 1t might be
Isaid with certainty that II the big re-
stpublican state leaders who have left
tine parts reservation remain out that
There 10 no possibility Of Mr.. Taft'a
4 re-eiection in case Of q progressive
candidate being In the field.
Is ELECTORS Above Any Law.
"washington's best constitutions
lawyers agree that the presidential
telector il the one officer of the United
4 States who is in no wise amenable Il
!. any law. He is superior to the courts
TO congrsss, and to the president. He
bean not be prosecuted for contempt
or for corruption. He can not be en-
& jcined to do his duty or change hii
& vote. He Is supreme and no one car
Il question his decision.
Il .sConse4uently the best MI. Taft car
hope-fof. some Of the republican cleo.
tors are not going to vote for htm-ii
that the ELECTION may be thrown into
fthe houd1 or representatives. Here
II the politicians' poll IL correct, there
: lie q tie vote. and It II this conSrssl
That would have te elect the next pyesi.
dent. That would mean that the only
hope for the presidents reelection LIED
IN the death Of congressman. What
Q -nationSl political contest there Meqld
De- II O. vacancy occurred and . new
; eensresspaan had 20 be named!"
orinn0ll and Vicinity.
Special TO mes-Republican.
Grinnesl. June 3s.-The librarian o.
1iho enl1S6e T.. I. DickerDOn left Aarll