Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-11
CAST MAJORITY OF THREE
-; VOTES FOR PRESIDENT IN
BORDER POLL.
FAKE NEWSPAPER STORY
GIVES PRESIDENT LEAD
Brownsville Papers Circulate Story on
Eve Of Election That iowans Are to
Be Sent Home at once-SpeciaI
Election Commissioners Return and
Mako Report to Governor Clarke.

Des Moines, Nov. 11--Woodrow Will
son received three more votes from the
Iowa soldiers on the border than did
Hughes and he owes that majority to
the desire Of the guardsmen to ge!
back to their Iowa homes, combined
with political ruse OF two democratic
papers in Brownsville, according to
+. NJ. Hoeye, editor of the Perry Trib-
une, and one of the republican MEM
bers Of the election commission which
presided over the Iowa election in
Texas.
Mr.. Hoeye reached Des Moines las.
night after journey interrupted by a
wreck on the Katy" and we'll tired
out after the execution of his duties,
an informal account of which he pre-
scented to Governor Clarke this morn
ing. The ballots are being shipped to
Des Moines by express.
Strenuous Job For Board.
The commission. according 10 Mr..
Hoeye, found its labors much more
strenuous than it had anticipated and
found them complicated by wide sep
arations OF the troops over whose ball
loting they had jurisdiction and by the
necessity of pursuing with the ballots
certain attachments detailed to scout
duty at considerable distances from
Brownsville.
The commissioners discovered also
that there were many among the Iowa
soldiers who were too young to vote
and that there were few who had at
tanned their majority after enlisting.
They ruled that these were entitled to
the ballot tho one Interpretation Of the
law would have denied them the privi-
lege by requiring that the voter should
have been of age SIX months previous
to enlistment.
Take Report to Clarke.
The entire commission will present
to Governor Clarke unofficial common
!dations for the excellence of the condt-
lions under which Iowa's men live and
perform their duty on the border. Mr..
Hoeye himself declared last night that
no better single piece Of education
could be offered to the state than to
enable 1t, after the guard has returned
from the border, to see them in review
at several different points in Iowa be-
fore they are mustered out.
u
missioners were Immediately beset by
guardsmen eager for Inside dope on
the situation in Iowa. Each wanted to
know what the state wanted done IN
the matter Of selecting president and
just what the prevailing opinion was
az to which candidate would be most
likely to return them at an early date
to their homes. The commissioners
were under strict prohibition against
offering advice to the voters as to how
to cast their ballots and had to disap-
point all questioners.
How They figured It.
They had two ways OF figuring on
the situation" said Mr.. Hoeye last
night. They would argue with them
selves that Wilson had kept them on
the border and did not deserve their
vote. Then they would reason that il
he were re- elected he would feel good
and might send them home. And final
Nv they feared that II Hughes were
elected Wilson would pass the buck to
him and would do nothing further for
them or with them before he left office.
but would leave them to the mercles
OF the new president and they would
have that mucth longer to wait.
And to help along the impression
that had begun to prevail. the two
democratic newspapers, morning ana
evening paper published at Browns
Vile, came out the day before election
with q faxed story to the effect that
Wilson had ordered relief for the Iowa
troops and that they might soon be
sent home"