Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-06-25
MO0SERS TO FIGHT
PRoGRESsIvES WILL CARRY CASE
FURTHER UNLESS ALLEN
CHANGES RULING.
C0SSON GIVES OUT OPINION
Claimed BY Leaders of Minority Party
That Legislative Candidates May Be
Nominated In Convention Regard.
less Of Vote Cast In 1912.

49,
Des Moines.-Progressives will ap'
peal TO the courts If Secretary OF
State Allen rules that legislative can.
didates whose names were written in
on the ballots of the late primary
must have received 10 per cent of the
vote cast for Judge Stevens for gov.
ernor in 1912 in order to make them
eligible to nomination in the county
and senatorial district conventions. At
least that is the opinion expressed by
prominent progressive leaders in Des
Monies.
]. e. Holmes, who has been acting
committeeman for the Seventh dis
trict, declared that progressives would
contend that the law gave them the
right to nominate in convention
wherever a candidate received any
vote at all, II he received thirty-ive
per cent of the vote that was cast. He
said that II court test should be
necessary, the progressives would
make their stand that way.
Casper Schenk pointed out that At
torney General Ccsson takes the view
that the progressives can nominate
the legislative candidates in conven
ton If the names of candidates were
written in at all. regardless of wheth
er anyone got 10 per cent of the vote
cast for Stevens.
Mr.. Schenk suggested that the sec
rotary Of state might be confusing the
law which covers the canvass and rul
ings to be made by the board of su
pervisors with that to be made by the
state board OF canvassers. The sec
tion covering the canvass by boards
OF supervisors deals only with county
officers, he pointed out. while the
vote for legislative candidates is can
vassed by the state board and is sub
feet only to such provisions and re
strictions as are contained in the sec
tion covering the canvass by the state
board
In the latter section there appears
not word to the effect that a candi
date must have 10 per cent of the vote
cast for governor in the preceding
election In order to be eligible to nom
ination in a convention. The only re.
quirement is that the candidate must
have at least 80 per cent of the vote
cast for the office. The attorney gen.
eral has ruled that this is the only
requirement with respect to the eligi
bility Of candidates who have been
nominated by having their names writ,
ten in on the ballots.
Progressives are wondering IL the
secretary Of state CONSTITUTES the law
to mean that members of the general
assembly are county officers, On this
point, Casper Schenck gave his opin
ion to reporter that legislative dis
tricts are separate entities in the eyes
Of the law and that representatives
and Therefore state officers represent.
ing their districts, not county officers
representing the counties as counties.
After Private Bankers.
Owing to the failure OF a number
OF private banks in Iowa this year, a
number of candidates for the state leg
islature have announced that they will
cooperate in preparing a bill for the
legislature next winter to force the
private banks to organize under the
corporation laws of the state or 60
out OF business, according to informa-
ton received at the secretary of states
office
The state banking department prides
itself that there has not been a fail.
nre of state or savings bank in Iowa
since 1897, period OF seventeen
years. The state banks are required
to make five statements Of financial
condition to the state department each
year. In addition the banking inspec.
tors drop into the institutions several
times each year to go over the books.
The banks are not notified of the time
to expect inspection.
At present there are no laws which
give the state any control over the
private banks. the state officials say.
There is no way of forcing the owners
of these institutions TO incorporate. 1t
is evident that the bill to abolish the
private banks will get considerable
support on the part Of the state off
cials.
Reject New Compensation Law.
Plans are being discussed by the
coal operators to form mutual insur-
ance organization to protect their EN-.
ployes under the Workmen's compen-
sation act which becomes effective on
July list. II is expected that the big
operators OF the state will leave the
legal status of the employer as at
present. His liability will stand as
now in the case of accident. Among
the companies Of this city which ex-
pect TO reject are the Enterprise anu
the Empire Coal company.
Made Federal Officers.
State dairy and food inspectors are
now federal officials with power to
prosecute violations OF government
pure food laws. They will be power.
less no longer to keep shipments of
eggs and other foodstuffs from other
states. out of Iowa.
Commissioner Abbott, head of the
outside field OF the federal pure food
department, has commissioned w. B.
Barney as a federal officer and given
him the authority to commission all
his deputies to enforce the federal
pure food laws.
Risk Department Warns Employers.
The state insurance department has
issued a warning to Iowa employers
against placing Industrial insurance
in unauthorized companies.
Agents for companies which are not
approved by the state arrived In Des
Moines within the last few days to
solicit business. Employers are com.
PEELED by the workmen's compensa.
ton law to carry industrial Insurance
The state further requires that the
Insurance he placed with safe compsn.
les which are authorized to write risks
within the state.