Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-12
ROWLEY IS FIRST
IN SO COUNTIES
VAN BUREN, COUNTY CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR HEADS BAL.
LOT MANY TIMES.

state are greatly interested in the or
der in which the names of the candi-
dates will appear on the ballot in the
various counties under the system of
rotation provided in the primary law.
According to the law the secretary
of state was required to arrange the
names of candidates for an office alpha.
betically. He then prepared q list Of
counties for each of the political par
ties, placing the county having the
highest number of votes in first place,
the county having the next highest
number in second place, and so on
| The names of the candidates then were
! rotated, so that the name which ap-
pears first on the ballot in county No.
II, will be dropped to the next place
/ in county No. 2, and SO on in a game
which might be called progressive poll
tics.
Polk County No. 1.
| Polk county with S,608 republican
votes, is No. on the republican list;
Linn county with 5,941 votes second;
J Pottawattamie county with 4,288 votes,
; third.
BY this system Governor Clarke's
name is first on the ballot; Judge G.
| G. Lees name is second and John w.
| Rowley's name is third in the follow
| ing countless:
| Polk, Woodbury., Scott, Webster,
Benton, Story, Jasper, Hardin, Cerro
| Gordo, Marion, Taylor, Keokuk, JONES'.
Buchanan, Cedar, Dubuque, Butler,
| Madison, Greene, Iowa, Kossuth,
Union, Buena Vista, Crawford, Ring
gold, Grundy Howard, Bremen, Palo
Alto, Adams, Cherokee, Carroll, Dick
inson.
Lee is in first place. Rowley second,
and Clarke third on the ballot in the
following counties:
Linn, Black Hawk, Marshall. Lee,
Fayette, Winneshiek, Tama, Clinton,
Harrison. Allamakee, Guthrie, Warren.
Monroe, Poweshiek, Hamilton, Ply
mouth. Muscatine, Decatur, Van Buren,,
Franklin. Wayne. Sac, Calhoun, Chick
asaw. Monona, Shelby, Lucas, Han
cock, Worth, Winnebago, Audubon, Ly-
on and Ida.
RowIey Gets Many First.
Rowley is first, Clarke second, and
Lee third on the ballot in the following
counties:
Pottawattamie, Wapello Dallas. Des
Moines, Appanoose, Mahaska, Cass'
Page, Johnson, Clayton, Washington,
Henry. Floyd Sioux. Boone, Jackson,
Delaware, Montgomery. JEFFERSON,
Adair, Wright, Mills, Louisa. Davis,
Pocahontas, Fremont, Humboldt,
Mitchell, Clay, Clarke, Emmett,
O'Brien and Osceola.
The arrangement of the senatorial
ballot on the republican tickets gives
Senator Cummins apparently the best
position by reason of having first
place in Polk county.
Cummins is first on the ballot and
Savage second in the following coun-
ties:
Polk, Pottawattamie, Black Hawk
Scott, Dallas. Lee, Benton. Appanoose,
Winnishiek, Jasper, Cass, Clinton, Ger.
70 Gordo, Johnson, Allamakee. Taylor,
Washington, Warren, Jones. Floyd,
Poweshiek Cedar. Boone, Plymouth,
Butler, Delaware, Decatur, Greene, Jef.
ferson, Franklin, Kossuth, Wright, Sac,
Buena Vista, Louisa Chickasaw, Ring
gold, Pocahontas, Shelby, Howard,
Humboldt, Hancock, Palo Alto, Clay.
Winnebago, Cherokee, Emmett, Lyon,
Dickinson and Osceola.
Savage First in Linn.
Savage is first and Cummins second
in the following counties: Linn, Wood
bury Wapello, Marshall, Webster, Des
Moines, Fayette, Story, Mahaska, Ia,
ma Hardin, Page, Harrison, Marion,
Clayton, Guthrie, Keokuk. Henry, Mon
roe, Buchanan, Sioux, Hamilton, Du.
buque, Jackson, Muscatine, Madison,
Montgomery, Van Buren,, Iowa, Adair,
Wayne, Union, Mills, Calhoun, Craw-
ford, Davis, Monona, Grundy. Fremont,
Lucas, Bremen, Mitchell, Worth, Ad,
ans. Clarke, Audubon, Carroll, O'Brien
and Ida.
[ In the democratic senatorial fight.
Maurice Connolly of Dubuque gets first
place in alphabetical arrangement OF
names with Edwin T. Meredith of Des
Moines in second place. Therefore
Connolly's name will not only appear
first on the ballot in his own county
Dubuque, but 1t will appear first in
Polk county. He also takes first place
in the majority of the eastern counties
of the state which are heavily demo-
cratic and where he isNwell known and
can be expected to poll good vote.
Connolly's name is first on the bal
lot and Meredith's second in the fol-
lowing counties:
Is First In Dubuque.
Dubuque, Polk, Linn, Lee, Black
Hawk. Des Moines, Webster, IMusca-
tine, Carroll, Benton, Keokuk, Jackson.
Marshall, Fayette, Harrison, Whine.
shiek, Cedar, Bremen, Washington,
Buchanan, Fremont, O'Brien, Wayne,
Dallas, Van Buren,, Poweshiek, Sioux
Davis, Floyd, Pocahontas, Howard,
Story. Delaware, Ida. Calhoun, Jeffer
son, Adair, Adams, Greene, Grundy,
!, Mitchell, Audubon, Wright, Clarke,
Butler, Franklin, Louisa, Humboldt,
Dickinson, Winnebago.
Merediths name is first and Connol-
ly's second in the following counties:
Scott, Pottawattamie, Woodbury.,
Clinton, Wapello, Johnson, Clayton,
Mahaska, Tama, Crawford, Jasper,
Cerro Gordo, Jones, Plymouth. Marion.
Appanoose, Shelby, Chickasaw, Kos
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