Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-28
MOULD JUDGE By CHANCE BE
NOMINATED, PARTY WOULD
az WITHOUT CANDIDATE.
DEMOCRATS WOULD OBJECT
If REPUBLICANS DID NOT
Courts Would Be Resorted To II Sal
lot Board Ruled FavorabIy-Gover.
nor Clarke Sums Up Tax lssus-Ex-'
eeutivs Council Merely Corrected
Gross inequalities.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Ilm0S-RopuOllCdIl'
Des Mones, May 2S.-1f perchance II
should happen that distinctly mega
tive candidate should be named to lead
fthe republican party on a platform OF
reputation Of everything in sight, and
&C. C. Lee, of Ames, should be the man.
his name will never be permitted to 60
son the ballot in November. The re-
publican party would be forced to the
selection OF some other candidate Tor
governor or permit the place to go by
default.
While no republican was willing to
make a test Of his eligibility 1t Is now
known for certain that democratic
leaders would file protest, and If need
be go into court to prevent having Lee
name printed on the ballots. They
twould secure injunctions all over the
state to prevent auditors from certify-
ing the eligibility Of Lee during the
term for which he was elected" At the
very least this would tie it up In court
until late in the fall
Would complicate Matters.
the ballot board, Of which the attorney
is a member, and protest against
reorganization Of Lees eligibility. 1t
would have to be settled on the legal
phases Of the matter. Nobody knows.
of course, exactly what would come OF
q contest OF that kind. The attorney
general has not ruled on the Lee case,
because 1t was not before him. but ne
did make & ruling on another case
which came properly before him, and
there held that. under conditions IN
practically every detail like the Lee
case, a Judge is not eligible for office
turing the term for which he is elected.
Shrewd lawyers have been asked 10
point out the difference between the
case decided and the Lee case and not
,one has ever been able to point out
the slightest difference.
But even II they could get past the
ballot board the courts would still have
to be reckoned with. 1t has been pub
lished In some OF the papers that Judge
I Deemer has decided that Lee rs ellglole
Judge Deener has done nothing OF the
/, sort. The matter has not come before
the supreme court in any way. NC
case Of any kind has come before the
supreme court involving this question
since the primary Ia" WAS III ioAS
Some Of the Lee hackers are also
saving that Lee resigned In order tc
make himself eligible. This has noth-
: ing to do with the case. The ineligl-
I hility Is for the term for which ne
was elected" and that IS an indefinite
( term which ends when his successor
&c elected and qualified" He might or
I he might not be eligible next January
but as a matter Of law he cannot now
assert lust when his eligibility would
: commence.
The question Of eligibility may be
, negligible now. but under certain con-
ringencies Il would be live question
Sums Up Tax Issue.
In the interview yesterday upon the
| taxation matter. which has played an
important part in the Iowa primary
I campaign, Governor Clarke termed the
euualizat ton effort of the executive
council "the most conscientious effort
possible to bring about equality Of tax
alton in Iowa" In obedience to the law
he said. the council eliminated gross
INEQUALITIES existing between counties
IN the assessments upon live stock ano
farm lands
ITO illustrate the wide differences in
assessments returned to the executive
council on farm animals 1t may be not
ed, for instance, that in one county
horses were returned at an average
valuationof s1oS.75 per head. while ir
another the same class Of horses was
returned at less than $50 per head.