The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-25
New Men Must Be Chosen to Fill
These Two Offices, Whatever May
Be Done With the Others
in Lee County.
LITTLE INTEREST SHOWN
With the Primaries Not Far In tho Fu-
ture, Only the Candidate, Exhibit
Any Concern About the
County offices.

Il never in all my life saw 20 little
interest in any election as there is in
the election Of this year. said an old
timer in q cigar store this morning. He
continued:
1t is not very long until the pri-
maries which will select the candi-
dates Of both parties for state and
county officers.
Nobody but the candidates seem
to have the least interest in the pri-
mary, and it looks like they would
take just Is little interest in the cleo
ton next fall"
Nobody Cares But Father.
With this war on our hands, county
officers and even state officers seem
rather trivial" said another man, "and
you won't find anybody getting worked
UP about a county office with big bat
ties on in Europe and our boys getting
into them more and more every day"
The routine formalities OF getting
some names on petitions which are
filed before . given date and put the
mans name on the primary ballot,
have been attended to, or are being at
tended to, by the candidates That is
about all the political activity there
is in Lee county today that can be
discovered.
| Most of the county officers will be
up for reelection, and they seem to
believe they will be returned to their
respective jobs. A few, in both par
ties, however, rather hope that they
will be unopposed even at the cleo
this Is expecting too much even OF
General Apathy.
Two Certain Changes.
There is a real vacancy in the Of
fee Of county auditor, the best paid
one In Lee county. Auditor Clarence
E. Hull has gone to war and will not
be a candidate for reelection. A halt
dozen and more men are after that job
about equally divided between the two
parties. Each of these will try to get
as many votes as possible, and they
may inject little semblance of inter
est into the election next fall AMONG
the candidates for auditor at the pri
mary will be A. P Myers, long deputy
auditor and now clerk Of the exemp
ton board, r. A. Gardner, formerly
postmaster at West Point and promi
| rent In republican politics for many
! years, w. A. South, who once was
an incumbent of the office, and Chun
Martin, a merchant Of Fort Madison.
> Some Other Offices.
For supervisor, A. T. Cruikshank. Of
Donnellson and Pickard, republi
cans, and Richard Warson, democrat
!. OF Primrose, are candidates to succeed
De Rosear in the upper district ant
, Glen E Maxwell is a candidate with
. out opposition so far to succeed him
| self in the southern district.
| The voluntary retirement Of Judge
!. Henry Bank introduces an entirely
new phase into the judiciary polite:
OF this county and district History
!. records thai as long as Judge Banl
expressed desire to stay on the
bench the voters kept him there, anc
this was a situation accepted by mos
aspirants for the judicial robes. Witt
Bank definitely out OF II. somebody
else is going on the bench here al
last John E. Craig and A. L. Par
sons are both candidates. Judge Ham
ilton is conceded reelection by mos
people. but he will have a new asso
ciate on the frst district bench mex
: year.