The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-09-08
THE PRIMARY ELECTION LAW.

~ tue hepuhllcHn legislature OF Min
nesota ut the last session the nomina.
lions Of candidates for the judicial,
legislative, county and city offices will
not be made this year in the county of
Hennepin and city Of Minneapolis as
in the past. Heretofore nominations
We're made by the delegates assembled
in conventions, but this year, on the
18th day OF the present month, the
candidates will be voted for. by the
electors at the polls, and those who
receive the highest number of votes
for the respective offices will Ike the
nominees OH general election day,
which occurs OH the 9th day of No.
vember.
The candidates for the various Of
fees are in Il Quandary as to the out.
come. for the reason that the voters
are likely to make mistakes in mark.
ing the ballots. The intent Of the
law is that Republicans shall vote for
Republican candidates and Democrats
for Democratic candidates. That is
how candidates were nominated at
conventions and that is how they
ought to be nominated at the primary
elections. But the electors may not
vote as required by the new law and
hence the anxiety on the part of the
candidates and the uncertainty as to
the result.
To enable the legal voters to mark
their ballots intelligently the follow.
ing facts must be borne in mind: If
they vote on more than one party tick.
ct, the votes count only on that tick.
ct on which the most candidates are
voted for. and the votes Oh the other
ticket will not be counted ut ALL II
the same number of candidates are
voted for OH separate tickets, neither
ticket will be counted and the vote is
lost. Section 90 Of the Primary
Election Law reads as follows:
I'm the examination of the tickets,
should it appear that some Of the
electors have marked names upon diff
ferent tickets, or some names upon all
the tickets, then the judges shall ex.
anime them all and shall accept only
to be counted the ticket upon which
the largest number of names are
marked, and in case the same mum.
Der or like number shall be marked
OH two Of, the tickets bearing the high.
est number of marks. then neither
ticket shall be counted"
The safest thing for Democrats to
do is to vote for their favorite ,candi.
dates on the Democratic ticket and
let the Republicans select their own
candidates for nomination. If they
vote fer half dozen candidates on
their own ticket and for one, two.
three. four or five on the Republican
ticket. their votes for the Republicans
will not be counted, and the candi-
dates unmarked OH the Democratic
ticket will lose vote each without
benefiting those marked on the Repul,
lican ticket.
1t is unjust and unfair for any
Democrat to refuse voting for the can
lidates on the Democratic ticket in
order to nominate some candidate OF
candidates on the opposition ticket.
1t is said that a certain candidate for
mayor, who was formerly Demo.
crat but is now Republican, expects
that thousands of Democrats will fool
islily vote for him alone and vote for
nobody Mt all on their own ticket.
That is expecting too much of the
self-respecting followers of Jefferson,
Jackson and Bryan. If men Of the
party he affiliates with want him for
mayor of Minneapolis, let them vote
for him. Why should men Of the
party that he has abandoned vote for
either his nomination or election. We
trust that the voting subscribers Of the
Irish Standard will act sensibly as u.s.
ual and help to place in nomination
the Democratic candidates of their
own choice who are opposed to trusts,
Imperialism and goldocracy and be-
lieve in preserving the American re-
public from becoming an empire by
the Vaccinations Of the plutocratic
gang of which Dollar Mark Hanna is
the high priest. The result Of the
election this fall will determine wheth-
err the republic which threw off the
shackles of monarchy one hundred
and twenty-four years ago and has