Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-03


Das Moines June S.-The narrow
xnargiusd victory of Cassius .. bowel
of Des Moines. over Councilman ]. l.
Myerly and W. o. Payne, of Nevada
in the contest for the republican nomi-
nation for representative il congress
of the Seventh district, the triumph OF
Burton E. Sweet OF Waverly, over
both his opponents In the Third and
the defeat os Congressman SAINT XIX
patrick for the democratic nornina-
lion In the Sixth by ". Z. Hamilton
nrnved outstanding features Of the re-
suits shown by returns reported yes
terday on Mondays primary vote
ON q total vote IN the Seventh dis
trict OF 1T,l4s. DoweIrs plurality was
400 One precinct IN Madison county
was lacking IN making UP these totals.
Doweu was winner in Polk county oy
a plurality of nearly 500 votes and IN
Warren by nearly 200 votes. II Story
county he was slightly ahead Of Nyer-
". but both were very low in conpaTi-
son to Payne Myerly carried Dallas
by % votes and Marion by IS votes.
His only considerable plurality wss
In Madison. which he carried by 136
votes. The total vote for each OF the
candidates was:
DOWel 'ov-C-
Myerly .-........ %
Payne y, IL
Payne Secures Record.
The record for home popularity and
the only majority in the district were
recured by Payne with his 1928 votes
In Story county against the combined
total of seI for both the other candi-
dates.
DoweIrs vote was barely sufficient
to give him the nomination. Had II
been PSI votes less he would NOT have
had the necessary IS per cent OF the
total vote cast. Should Il happen that
The official canvass should cause Dow
ell to lose that many votes and they
should be distributed between the two
pther candidates 80 Myerly would not
get enough TO put him across the line,
the contest would have TO so into the
convention. There is no indication.
however that the count as reported
unofricially will be materially changed.
With the figures on the Cooter- dull
vaney contest still lacking so far as
Story county was concerned, the total
for the rest of the district was: Cooter
2.046, Nulvaney 202T. Cooter had g ma
jority of 10 votes n Polk county and
55 votes in Marion county but was be-
hind MUIvaney some IS votes in Dallas
and % In Madison. Coo-er has War
rem by "a majority. Returns from
Story county may settle The contest
a. oil
formal count Will be necessary to set
tie 1t.
Sweet Wins in Third.
After one of the most bitter contests
republicans Of the Third have ever
witnessed, Burton z. Sweet succeeded
in getting larger vote than both W.
r. Law and A. D. Sumner. OF Waterloo.
The contest has been fought chiefly
over the extent to which Sweet was
progressive He secured a toSl1 Of $3.50
votes against 1926 for Law and 2,075
for Sumner Detailed figures were not
avaiia BILE from Wright county on the
contest but Sweet was reported 70 have
in that county q plurality Of $50.
The defeat Of Congressman Kirkpat-
rick was not altogether unexpected tho
many democratic politicians had been
mary that the veteran cor gresham
could DO displaced The reports re-
ceived up to late last night did not
cover Davis county or Monroe county.
In the former 1t was reported. however,
that Hamilton had secured a majority
OF 50 and in the latter Kirkpa trick was
10 votes ahead Hamilton's greatest
strength was in Keokuk county, where
ne had $50 votes to the congressman's
1913. In Wapello containing the city OF
Otturnwa, Kirkpatrick was strong.
Hamilton Claims Nomination.
Mr.. Hamilton declared over long dis
trance late last night that there wa<
no question of his nomination. He
placed his plurality at 400 votes. He
said Congressman Kirkpat rick had
conceded him the nomination by 300
votes.