Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-24
THOSE 46l9l NEW REPUBLICANS.

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were ever cast before in the largest
republican primary ever held in this
state Where did they all come from /!
democrats who voted in the republi-
| can primaries in seven wet counties
gave Harding more votes than his en-
! tire lead over his two dry opponents
<ho Harding's nomination, of course.
would have been assured without DEM
ocratic aid with the dry vote so evenly
Alien. But as an evidence of the class
that was most interested in Harding 5
/ success comparison of the vote i'll
wet counties with that in dry counties
( is OF Importance.
/ The Clarke Lee Rowley republican
primary OF two years ago is OF little
use in comparison for the vote all over
the state was light then but the Car
roll Garst Hamilton primary of 1908
offers a fair comparison. This was
the year of the Cummins- Allison sena-
torial fight which polled large party
vote and the contest between Carroll
and Garst for governor was a fierce
one too, but in that year with two
memorable contests on to bring out the
republican vote the entire vote cast in
the republican party for all three cam
didates for governor was 1915 while
the vote for all republican candidates
this year was 22S,O5i. Where did a
sudden increase of 1871 votes come
from in a republican primary" Why
should this years vote have been So
much larger than the vote III that year
when the primary contest was so
memorably fierce in 1908? 1t was S.
AS greater than the Clarke -Lee-Row-
ley primary but that was light vote
then. Waive it and compare with the
largest vote ever cast for nominees for
governor in any republican primary in
this state and tell us where those 49,
191 additional votes came from.
1t would be tedious job to analyze
ninety-nine counties but few VIII tell
the story. Scott county and Davenport
cast 1891 votes for governor on repub-
lican ballots this year and only 1850 in
1908. A gain of all votes and $50
per cent.
Polk county and Des Moines, where
$4,000 was spent, rolled up a total of
1850 republican ballots this year
| when only l,40o was all that were
| cast in 1908 for governor. In the 1905
primary Des Moines was running its
own townsman, Hamilton, for governor
and irst citizen, Cummins, for senator
and yet Polk county could not get
can votes by 1850 as were cast this
year. Even the Cummins contest failed
by 2.9l9 ballots to equal the republican
vote this year. Where did all those
republican votes come from? Ask the
wet democrats.
Linn county and Cedar Rapids cast
1929 republican ballots this year, but
there were only 5,l61 republicans vot-
ing in the primary in 1908. Where di:
an increase of 2,16s republicans como
from this year?
Woodbury. county and Sioux City
could muster only 4,763 republican
voters in 1908 and only $3.50 in the
primary two years ago, but this year
mighty host of 1887 marched up to de-
mand republican ballots. Where did
all these new republicans come from
The seven wet coutnies containing
the cities of Des Moines, Davenport,
Sioux City, Cedar Rapids, Burlington,
Keokuk, and Clinton polled 1892 re-
publican votes this year as compared
| to 2s.sS2 in 1908. This is an increase OF
81 per cent.
So much for the wet districts. How
was it in the dry counties? Howard
county a rural county, was carried by
Cosscn and It's total republican vote
this year was within four votes of that
vote in 1908. Appanoose county, an
| other rural county, was carried by
Allen and the difference in the repub-
| lican vote was only 81. Humboldt
county. a rural county carried by Allen,
actually cast 512 fewer republican bal
lots this year than in 1908. Likewise in
Sioux county, a rural county carried
| by Cosson, 2l3 fewer republican bal
| lots were used this year than in 1908.
| Five strictly rural coutnies which
were carried by Allen cast 9,4S7 repub-
| Hcan ballots this year and S,966 In
| 1908. This is difference of only
| sci or 104 to the county. Four strictly
rural counties carried by Cosson cast
7,540 republican ballots Ibis year and
1884 in 1908, a difference of 1855 or
314 to the county. In those districts in
which the average sentiment is dry
very little gain was shown in the total
republican vote in the primary this
| year as compared to the vote in 1908
whereas in the cities where. there is
| a wet vote to be modified the gains
! this year We're enormous, unprece-
| denied and almost unbelievable. AS an
evidence of the certainty of this rule
we have but to turn to Marshall ana
Johnson counties, both of which were
carried by Ccsson but which contain