Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-12
NIMBsll BILL ADOPTED, 81 TO
~, AFTER WARM
DEBATE.
MEASURE CERTAIN TO
Sc APPROVED sY HOUSE
State Officers Below Lieutenant Gov.
erner Go TO cenventien-Fisht May
Provision-Rsdiesl Change IN Pres.
ent Primary System,
Special 10 Times. Republican.

Des Mo!nes Fe1. l.-Th, Kimball
primary election 5tn Sh.ch IN 5rIe:
provides Tor The nomination Of party
candidates Tor state uftc,s in conven-
'ion passed tne Iona :. nate Tuesday
0l q vol, u uIJy -Iour 10 eiel en. i've
geILs absent or .o; ,o,.us
Z ne t.4, HEicn Vas made a speCla!
y.UeI Tor coDs.UrraIIon at IL uclcCA
= uesIa4, AS suaJrcIcd ~ VARIOUS pro.
Jose. am,UdIl al the morning SEES
siun v..l one u which Was adopted
An- "u,u the .ruate adjourned shortly
4itr! ;He Eopn hour to convene again
at -.su Il aas - !depl mat The bill
MAS ss.y 10 r4ss In he afternoon
session there HAs abUG. lNO hours u;
debate and THIN the 1.. Mas passeu.
Under ;EIs al United States sena-
lJI. governor and NeuteusRt governor
and AL d4slr.,. md county officer wlIl
ge nominated n The pnmary. State
officers viii ~ nominated in conven-
CyE. As has been free ucutll explained
the gOin; ma Re sHd held =. by Senator
h.moaN In MS pT.mary reform was
That voters are NO, scle % select can
a!dates for STATE Offices, such as sec
rotary @. sta. auditor, treasurer, at
tOTney seaer4- superintendent Of pub
lie instruction y railroau commission
ers il the prirlsry in a satisfactory
manner - they are never informed
ABOUT the ca1 iidate. A convention can
eet,ersselecI these candidates. it Is
claimed.
I; Is argued laat When il comes 20
nominating candidates tCc governor.
Lieutenant governor. United States
senator and also the district and
county nominees the voters Know me
men who are Cut for these offices and
can therefore select ;her! with discre-
ton in the primary.
An amendment vas passed in the
morning session as introduced by Sem
aIC- BGser Of iusCatine county, which
provides that unless a candidate flies
MS ICm.naI.Oa papers ia line TO get
INTO the primary. the nomination ~ill
De vacant as The convention will not
be permitted 20 nominate as i me
case under the present Jaw. !: was
ars Jed that = = not fair Tor one man
10 ale and De subjected 10 The work Of
= comparatively long campaign while
another person can wall until con-
veniiou meets and get n nomination
and have al unfair advantage Of a
shorter campaign.
Debate on Bill.
In the debate on the Gill itself Sem
ator RaIkeTna opposed 4 saying the
proposed changes were such as 20 take
politics back 10 The old machine gov
erned convention.
We are again building that cid
machine We -ried hard 10 destroy" ne
said We are going right back into
the old caucus and OLD convention
system"
Senator Bal, Of jefferson COUNTY, re
scented the claim that i; vas the pri-
mary IL is present form which broke
up the old machine He declared that
when the republican party in COnven-
ton assembled in Cedar Rapids IN 1901
nominated A Is. Cumm!ns for COVER
nor the defeat o. the OLD political ma
chine IN his state was accomplished.
4 Mas Cumm:ns who broke the po-
l.Cal machine and not the primary"
h argued.
Senator in closing the debate de-
Clared that ne had been required to
fgh, twc diferen: political machines
in his political lie and that in mis-
judgment the DILL under consideration.
Il adopted ana enacted TITO }aT. would
help fgh- political machines. He said
he had a letter from Charles A Raw
son. chairman Of the state republican
committees, now overseas which de-
clared that all Of the members Of the
Iowa delegation al Washington favor
The changes in the primary Law adTo-
Gated in this bill.
The roll cal! resulted in vote Of
thirty four for the measure, eleven
against, with fTe absent or not vo.-
Ing. Those favoring the DILL were:
Adams. Anderson. Arney. Ball, Brox-
en-. Buser. Byington, Coourn. Evans.
Fellows. Foskett, Fra.ley, Greenell,
Haskell Holdoegel, Hor2hen. Kim oall,
Kimberly. lie Compte, Mitchell, Nelson.
N&wberry. Parker, Price Rainbow,
Ratcli~. Reed. Schaffter. Shane. Smith. |
Stoddard. Thompson, Van Alstine and
Whitmore. Those opposing. Balhema.
Brookbart, Cessna, Edwards, King
land. Meredith. RuIe. Scott. Stephen
son TAYLOR and White. Absent or
not voting, Foster, Hale, Pitt. Proud
foot and Wilson.
VIII Pass House.
The general prediction about the leg