Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-24
sALiNcER BALLOT STATUTE
NEEps PATCHING UP IN
MANY PARTICULARS.
NAMES OF TWO CANDIDATES
LEFT OFF IN SEVERAL COUNTIES
Many Complications Arise in Other Sec
tions Of stats-Les's Papers Badly
DEMONSTRATION Filed by Lee and
Savage DO Not Make Strong Show
ins-Msrsdith and Connolly Popular.
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Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, April 24.-The imper-
lection Of the Salinger law FOR electins
Judges on a separate ticket, without
party responsibility, was shown when
all papers were In the office OF secre-
tary Of state. Judge Prouty had thir-
s17ty names in all counties Of the state
but one In Tama county he fell snor'
lust a few names. AS a result MS
name will not go on the judicial pallo'
in that county. Seth Thomas Is short
two counties and his name will be left
off. The present judges got every
county as did Mr.. Salinger. AS the
biN was originally written. IT would
have barred both Prouty and Thomas
from any place on the ticket anywhere
in Iowa. But others revised the bill,
after Ben Salinger had got it the way
he wanted it, and so a candidate who
gets 5000 names goes into every coun-
ty where he has at least thirty sigma
lures.
Another complication arose IN Lee
county where one of the candidates
for judges failed to get 500 names,
which is the number required for
district Judge, but did get more than
the fifty required in the enc county.
and will claim right to a place on
the ballot. The law seems to be
equivocal.
Caleb r. Robbins, assistant attorney
general, filed as candidate for judge
S,,J; oil or three
present judges-Applegate, Fahey and
Hays-are candidates again. and Rob
bins the only other one. He has resi-
dence in Madison county.
Tho Loos Fiaseo-
The fiasco Of the Ben Lcos candi-
dacy for the senate is Illuminating.
Loos is chronic candidate. He had
Just four names more than enough on
the lists. counting everything. But on
one paper for Story county. some OF
the signers had written their names IN
and put down Perry as their postoftice,
and later the name Ames was penciled
over these addresses. 1t would seem
TO indicate the papers had been badly
botched. But the worst was that
Des Moines man had circulated papers
in Warren and Story counties. The
blanks in the affidavit on the back had
been filled out in both cases so that
the petition circulator ':swore that all
these signers have residence in Polk
county. This invalidates al that pars
of the petition, The field is thus left
clear for Art Savage to corral all the
anti votes visible. " VI H
y1Acidsntaalstsits might he noted that
the notary who fixed up thesl 1oos pa
pers, and permitted the irregularities
Indicated, is chairman Of the demo
cratic county committee and a candi-
date for congress.
Apti's Petitions Not Strong.
The papers filed by Savage and Lee.
of the anti ticket. were not very well
filled with names. In neither one was
there anything like all the state rep
resented and in many counties only
very few names were on the papers.
The papers filed by CONGRESSMAN
Connolly and E. T. Meredith were
large and both indicated much
strength among the democrats In the
state The filing by Rev. Stephen H.
Bashor, at the last minute, indicates
that the bull moosers Of the state are
not quite willing to accept the slate
for their ticket as made out in New
York and announced here last January.
On May 2 the secretary OF state will
certify out to the various counties in
the state the names of the candidates
for state. legislative and judicial Of
fees. The decision as to the validity
of any paper which is questioned need
not be made for ten days. For the
purpose of making investigation the
nomination papers on file are open to
the public It has been in other years
held that entire lists of names could
not be copied off Unfortunately.