Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-11-13
NEW ELECTION LAW
SECRETARY OF STATE PREPARES
BLANKS FOR CANDIDATES
SEEKING NOMINATIONS.
MEASURE STRICT IN REQUIREMENTS
Nonpartisan judiciary Enactment as
Passed by Last Legislature Is
Causing Much Work to Department
of State in Issuing Notices.

Des Moines.-B ecause of the strict
and extensive requirements imposed
upon candidates for the judiciary by
the new nonpartisan law, blanks are
now Icing prepared in the secretary
Of states office for use of candidates
in securing their nomination papers
The law specifies: That candidates
for the supreme court must file with
the secretary of state petitions fav-
cring their nominations forty days
before the primary election.
That each petition must contain
5000 names of qualified electors. of
whom there shall be at least thirty
from each county.
That the candidates name shall be
left from the primary ballot in each
county in which he has failed to get
at least thirty signatures.
That candidates for the district
court shall file petitions containing
500 signatures, of which fifty must
come from each county in the judicial
district
That candidates for judges OF the
superior court must file papers car
rying ESQ signatures.
According to the provisions Of this
law, all candidates for the supreme
court must have their nomination pa
pers by April 90 next. Between now
and that date they will have to go
into every county of the state and
secure at least thirty signatures, and
ir some of the counties they will have
to secure a great many more than
thirty in order to make up the total
Of 5000 signatures required by the
law. II is expected that with this
task before them, prospective candi-
dates will be glad of the opportunity
to begin work at once.
The forms of nomination petitions
for the judges are OF necessity differ
ent from the ordinary nomination
forms. They will contain blanks for
filing in Of the county name and for
the signatures of electors and their
places Of residence. The customary
blank for the signing of political af-
fliation will be conspicuously absent
Prospect of administering that sec
ton of the law stating that the candi-
dates name shall not appear on the
ballot OF county where he has not
received at least thirty signatures to
his nomination petition is causing
some worry in the secretary OF states
Office. 1t will be necessary to check
over carefully the nomination papers
Of each candidate for each county and
then certify carefully to each county
auditor what names are to be printed
on the ballot. The former practice OF
issuing blanket certifcations cannot
be followed.
At the primaries names of all the
properly nominated candidates will
appear on the ballot OF each party
under head of "nonpartisan judiciary
ticket.
State Railroad Commission.
The Iowa state board OF railroad
commissioners has announced an in
vestigation on its own motion of the
Iowa distance schedule, which was
framed twenty-four years ago and
has not since been changed.
According to Commissioner Thorne,
the investigation does not necessari-
ly contemplate any substantial in
creases or reductions. 1t will attempt
to eliminate a number Of inconsistent
cies for which there is no justifica-
tion. The relation between the classes
varies for different distances without
any known reason for the same, and
the increases in the rates with the
distances are inconsistent for long
and short hauls.
These Inconsistencies are being
cited in other cases. Recently in the
Chicago hearing In the case brought
by Iowa against the railroads involv-
Ding rates to the western part OF the
United States, the relationship be-
tween the classes was under discus
sion and attention to the inconsistent
cies was specifically called. In the
Minnesota rate cases the same incon.
sistencies were cited as to the Iowa
schedules. Tho Iowa commission will
attempt TO correct this situation basis.
Commerce counsel. the railway COM
panies, and the traffic men Of the state
will be invited to participate in tie
investigation.
Labor Board Ends Session.
The executive board of the Iowa
State Federation of Labor closed its
semi-annual meeting at the Labor
temple. The most important business
transacted by the board was the set.
Element with the state whereby con-
victs from the Fort Madison peniten-
tiary will no longer compete with
free tradesmen In working outside the
prison.
state Roads Get $4,000.
The state highway commission will
receive approximately $500 this year
from the auto tax fund. This exceeds
the estimate OF the last legislature
when per cent of the auto tax was
set aside for the commission, b. about
s25, 900.
Speaker Cunningham. who fathered
eho hi1'oAbOhb " PaJ CAPOhsco U Inc
highway commission from a percent
age of the auto tax estimated the COM
missions share would be between $780,
600 and $4,000.
Sioux cltylans Support kepford.
A. E. Kepford, state lecturer on tu-
berculosis, received from Sioux City
several letters commencing him upon
the fight he IL making upon the
Woodbury. county board, OF supervis-
ors for their refusal to build the
100000 county hospital for which the
people voted bonds. In reply to let
tiers which he sent out last week ex-
posing the situation in that county
he is receiving numerous promises
OF support in the fight to compel the
supervisors to obey the statute.