Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-06
FIVE WEEKS MORE OF CAM.
PAlGNlNG BEFORE BAL
LOTS ARE CAST.
PERSONALITIES CONTINUE
TO ENTER CONTESTS
National Election Not Entirely Free
From Mud Slinging--voter Must
tiaI candidates-laymen Friends Of
Harding Preparing Statement.
Special TO Times-Republican.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Des Moines, Oct 6. Five weeks
more of political campaigning before
the voter will march up to the polls
and cast his ballot. The first Tuesday
in November falls on Nov. : this year
and it is first Tuesday in November
which has bsen set aside by law as
election day.
Personalities are entering almost a.
much into the state campaign as they
do in the average city campaign AND
it is generally conceded that typical
city election can develop about as
much personal feeling as anything that
ever happens. The national campaign
is also more personal than usual.
The secretary of states office has
practically completed the copy for the
state and national ballots which are TO
be sent out to the county auditors.
There have been a number OF changes
in the candidates for senator and rep
resentative since the primaries. Pro-
gressives generally have Withdrawn
from the ticket.
Strange as it may seem the secre-
tary OF state upon whom devoives the
duty % making up the election bal
lots. does not get any official notiica-
ton OF who is nominated for
president or vice president OF
the United States on the various
tickets. He gets official notification OF
who was nominated in the state pri-
maries or county conventions as the
case may be for presidential electors
1.-TWO
or anywhere else as to who was nom
mated al the big conventions for pres
iGent or vice president. Men go TO the
polls and they vote for their cand date
for president and vice president by
putting d cross before the names Of the
presidential electors. II is the presi-
dsH;:a. electors WIN carry out the Will
Of the voters and vote for president
so ii is the ballots cast for electors
which really count.
Candidates For Election.
The electors az large on the repub-
ilcan ticket are Bernard Murphy, OF
Vinton. and Ralph Pringle, of Red Oak.
On the democratic ticket Joseph F.
Beh, of Harlan, and (. P. Farr o.
Sioux City. On the progressive ticket
J. H. Wyllie, Of S!gourney, and VI. l..
Fuller, OF Des Moines and on the So
cialisI tickle. George NJ. Dowell, Of
Muscatine, and Martin Johnson, of Des
Moines. Then each congressional dis
trict has its nominee for elector.
The progressive party has no can
didate fer president but John u. Par
ker. of Louisiana, is its candidate for
vice president. He didn't withdraw in
favor OF Hughes and Fairbanks as did
Theodore Roosevelt when the progress
sive convention made its nominations.
He has been making some campaign
speeches and, being southerner,
wants Wilson for president instead OF
Hughes and speaks for Wilson.
Laymen to Make Statement.
A committee of laymen headed by b.
W. Garrett, clerk of the supreme court.
has been working for several days on a
reply TO the statement issued by the
ministers as 10 Harding's record. The
statement Is about completed and fills
some sixteen typewriter pages. II has
not as yet been given out however. as
there are TO be number Of signatures
TO it. Ii is TO be printed in pamphlet
form by the republican state central
committee and sent out over the state.
Several of the laymen are members
of the various churches whose min
listers signed the statement agains:
Harding They claim that only a part
OF the record has been used in some
OF these allegations and if all of the
facts are given Harding's reason fox
doing thus and so will be understood.