The Princeton union., 1902-09-04
PRIMARY BALLOTS.
They Are Completed and Ready for
Inspection by the Voters of -.
lille Laos County.
There Are twenty-five Candidates
> on the Republican Ballot and
Two on Democratic.

The UNION presents this week the
primary election ballots containing
the names Of the candidates who
have qualified as candidates under the
primary election law. The law states
that the sample ballots shall appear
twice before the primary election in
the official paper in each county. Vot-
ers should study these ballots and
familiarize themselves with the names
of the candidates and the arrange
ment and makeup of the ballots
Here in Mile Laos county the Demo-
cratic ballot will contain the names of
but two candidates for office, and they
are both congressional candidates.
One of them is Marcus L. Fay of Vir-
ginia and the other is Chas. 'Autre-
mont, Jr., who at one time was mayor
of Duluth. There are no Democratic
candidates for local Offices. The
womans' ballot will contain the two
candidates for county superintendent
of schools for which candidates women
are allowed to vote. The Republican
ballot contains the names of all the
Republican candidates for Office, with
the exception OF those for State Offices
as candidates for State officesssdo not
come under the provisions of the pri-
mary election law, and were nominated
at regular State convention held un-
der the old system of nominating can
didates. The ballot contains the
names OF all primary election candi-
dates grouped together and over. each
groupe it plainly states how many can
didates a voter can vote for. The bal
lot is arranged on the Australian sys-
TEN plan and the election is conducted
the same as a general election, only
remember that you are to vote for men
whom you want as candidates at the
general election. The primary elec-
tion candidates who receive the high
est number of votes will be declared.
the candidates fer the general election
next Novem ber.
In Mile Lacs county this fall there
are two county commissioners to elect
one in the Second and one in the
Fourth district. In the Second district
no candidates qualified for the primary
election, and hence voters in that dis
trict will have no candidate to vote for
at the primary. Candidates for county
commissioner n that district will have
to qualify for the general election as
independent candidates and that will
be by petition. In the Fourth district
the ballots to be used there will con-
tain the name of the candidate for
commissioner who is E. I. Davis. Pri-
mary ballots in all other commissioner
districts will therefore be the same,
and have no county commissioner can
didates. There will be no blank spaces
on the ballots for voters to write in the
names of candidates as they are not
allowed to do so under the law, and
any such names written on the ballots
will not be counted. But the way the
ballots are arranged it will be hard for
voters to write any names if they de-
sire to.
The candidates whose names appear
on the primary ballots have duly quail
fled as candidates and solicit your
votes, and it is now up to the voter,
each one being a stockholder in the
firm of 1--WE, the People," who have
been given most excellent opportun-
ity to do business with the candidates
at the primary election on Tuesday,
the sixteenth day of September from
o'clock in the morning until in the
evening. The primary election is in
large measure what the people make
it. AS J. Adam Bede, candidate for
congress, says in his "Budget." Under
the primary law or Marconi system of
wireless politics, the people have a
chance to do stunt themselves"