The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-03
Contest for Governor on tho Republic
can Ticket, Thornc-kennedy
Fight and Suffrage Ballot
Mako it-lnterestInn
SIZE OF VOTE PROBLEM
Suffrage ORGANIZATIONS Are Going to
do Personal Work At Polls to
Insure Favorable
eaIloting.

PRIMARY FACTS AT A GLANCE.
Polls open from Z o'clock a. m. to
o'clock .. nn., In the cities and from
o'clock a. m. to o'clock p. m. In
the rural districts.
Voting places In keokuk will be
First precincts North Fourth
street.
Second peecInct-32S Main street.
Third Observation-Disclosures school,,
7 1926 North Ninth street
Fourth preeinct-226 3 street.
/ Fifth precinct-314 North Four
! teenth street.
! sixth precinct-1o24 Main street.
| Seventh precinct-Keokuk Electric
company's car barn.
The state primary and special
election will be held in Keokuk and
throughout the state of Iowa on Mon
day. The election on Monday will
have special interest in this part OF
the county due to the triangular fight
for the nomination for governor on
| the republican ticket the Kennedy
Thorne contest, and the balloting for
| the constitutional amendment which
will give the vote to the women OF
the state if it passes.
| On the democratic ticket there is
| three cornered contest for state rep
resentative, waged between q. II.
Dickey of Keokuk, John w. Stewart
OF West Point, and c. NJ. Storms OF
Fort Madison. Another fight that is
being waged Is in the supervisors
list, with G. E Maxwell OF heokuk,
present member of the board. oppos-
ing Fred MAYHEM, ON the democratic
ticket, and w. E Patterson opposing
Charles Shafer and A. P. Fletcher
opposing L Hosier, present member
OF the board.
The democrats have to make
choice in the office of treasurer and
in that OF county recorder, two can
didates being in the field for the
former Office and three for the latter.
| William Reimbold, present treasurer,
is opposed by the deputy at Fort
Madison. T. s. Harrington. Francis
Hayes and F. A. Rumbaugh are the
three who want to be recorder.
| Governor Fight Is Hot.
| On the republican state ticket, the
lHarding-Co sson-Allen fight for gov
ernor is attracting the most atten-
ton. Harding supporters are expect
ing to get out a big vote here. There
are plenty Of candidates for attorney
general. too, on the republican list.
| Charles A. Kennedy is opposed for
his nomination for congress by Cliff
ford Thorne. This contest has at
tracted no little attention and has
been a hard fought affair.
| The Suffrage Vote.
The vote on the constitutional
amendment will be a figure In this
primary Monday. The ballot will be
printed separately from the other
ballot, and should be asked for by
every voter. The ballot Will be PRINT
ed on yellow paper.
| The women's organization which
has been pushing the fight for the
ballot will have workers stationed at
every polling place, and the men will
be reminded again that they should
vote Eyes" The organization plans
to meet all of the voters as they go
to the polls and a request for faV-
orabIe vote will be made. While the
women haven't the right to vote-as
yet-they are going to make every
nossible vote count for them, and are
| hopeful of carrying the amendment.
Returns Will be Shown.
| Election fans will have to be pa
t1ent as the polls will not close until
s o'clock Monday evening. This is an
hour later than usual, and the count
ing OF ballots will be delayed just
| that much longer No definite re-
turns will be at hand before Tuesday
morning, and it is doubtful IL much
will be known then, except from
| few scattering precincts.
| Another matter which will have a
bearing on the count is the size OF
the election 1t is likely that an
unusually large number of voters
will be out in the cities. The rural
votes depend entirely on the cond1-
ton of work on the farms.
Every voter is entitled to vote at
this election who was registered in
1912 or has registered since that
| time. Some one Is distributing the
| information that men in the rural dis
tricts cannot vote until November.
There Is absolutely nothing to this,
as all voters have the right to vote
at the primaries. and registration Is
not necessary outside of cities.
| The registration boards are In
session today and will be until 900
o'clock tonight, to register any who
have changed their residence, or who
are new voters, or whose names are
not on the poll book for any reason.
| David Corkey of Wayne, Neb., has
eight sons, ali OF whom are minis
tiers.