The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-26
Republican Judiciary Convention
Which Opens Tomorrow is Depend
ing Upon Geography for
Some Points.
NINE SEEKING HoNoRs
Delegates Think They Have Majority
But There Seems to be Plenty of
Speculation as to Who
Will Win.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, July 26.-Nine
republicans are seeking state supreme
court honors, and two are trying tc
hold to high court honors already in
hand. Tomorrow in Cedar Rapids
1,O42 republican delegates will select
from the field of eleven candidates
three men whose names will appear on
the November ballot. And as the
hour draws near for distribution Of
political favors, the race for supreme
court judgeship shows every tendency
OF battling the political prophets.
While the respective candidates
Iseem assured of the delegate vote In
their own judicial districts on at least
the first roll CALL the twenty-one state
judicial districts are a hotbed of poll
Itics as opposing candidates invade ter
Iritory claimed by rivals.
Speculation at this writing takes
the form of geographical location of
candidates, and relates to the location
lin Iowa of candidates for state office
on the republican ticket Candidates
looming out of district not represent
led ON the state supreme court at this
time, or on the state ticket by can
didate for state Office, feel that they
have an edge on their rivals. How
good this logic may be, is for the dele
lgates to say tomorrow.
How Districts Stand.
| At present the sixth state judicial
district has representative ON the
supreme bench in the person Of Judge
Preston of Oskaloosal The eleventh
district has two members on the bench
at the state house, Judge Evans and
Franklin county and Judge Weaver,
who is seeking denomination, from
Hardin The fifteenth district has
Judge Stevens of Fremont on the
high court roll, and Judge Ben l. Sal
niger now a candidate, is from the
sixteenth judicial district. The twenty
first judicial district sees one of its
men, Justice Weaver, retire from the
state supreme court this year, while
Judge Gaynor still remains from Ply
mouth as the twenty-first judicial dis
trict member or representative.
The seventh, first, seventeenth,
eighteenth and fourth judicial dis
tricts are the only districts in the
twenty-one that have neither candi-
dates for the state ticket, or for the
supreme court, or representatives on
1.-THE supreme bench at this time.
The second judicial district is
furnishing Nate Kendall Of Abba for
gubernatorial candidate; the third,
Ben Gibson of Corning for attorney
general, and continuing ON across the
southern tier of counties, Stevens is
on the bench, while Harrison county
in the fifteenth district, furnishes
Arthur for supreme court candidate.
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Back on the Map.
Working back across a map of the
state, the fifth judicial district has
Judge Arthur of Guthrie as a supreme
court candidate; the ninth, Polk coun-
ty has Senator Cummins on the state
and national ticket and Judge Law
renee De Graft up for supreme court
nomination. The sixth district gives
Preston of Mahaska, already on the
bench while the eighth sends in How
ell Of Johnson county to seek nomi- i
nation for the bench. Dropping south !
ward, the twentieth judicial district, !
with no representation on the state |
ticket made by republicans recently, !
offers Withrow of Mount Pleasant |
who also has the backing of the first |!
district, Lee county.
Then there is that belt of counties, !
MuSCdClne, Scout, CllHlOu, JdCkSOH, l.
Jones, Linn, Benton, Tama and Mar
shall, with neither state ticket candi- /
dates or judicial candidates. Follow
ing this line westward, comes Judge
Albert Greene and in Carroll adjoin- ,
ing there is Salinger. This makes
Salinger, Albert and Apologize show
up in a triangle of adjoining counties
as candidates for the convention to-
morrow.
Faville is in the eleventh district
which has already furnished Weaver :
and Evans, and which has Ramsay 4
as secretary of state. The tenth dis
trict gives Burbank of Waterloo as a
candidate for treasurer but the dis
trict has no judicial candidate for to-
convention.
Going northward, Judge. Clark Of
Mason City shows up from the city
which gave Major Haynes as a candi- I
date for state auditor to the republi- {
can ticket In the fourteenth district ,
Hammill of Britt is candidate for
lieutenant governor, but the district |,
has no judicial candidate. The thir- ]
teenth district gives Springer for con.
tomorrow, without entang-
ling state ticket alliance. II
Villa May Surrender. I
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