The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-09
the Seventh district, and thus cripple.
his candidacy in other parts of thu
state

the Seventh district, and thus cripple.
his candidacy in other parts of the
state.
The supreme court put sudden
termination to the administration of
Mayor William H. Mcbride of Fergus
Falls, who was elected after a rather
warm contest April 2. The order of
the court was that E. T. Nelson, his
rival, was entitled to the job. Ac-
cording to the judges the election was
tie as far as the mayoralty was con-
cerned. . This was brought about by
giving to Mcbride number of disput-
ed ballots and when lots were cast Nc
Bride won. The disputed ballots had
the cross mark placed opposite a
blank line which was directly under
the name of Mcbride. In giving the
disputed ballots to Mcbride the idea
of the canvassing board was wholly
one of intent and in passing on this
question the court delivered itself of
few things that may have a marked
effect on ballot counting in the future
It holds that when apparent or grossly
mismarked ballots are involved the in.
tent of the voter must be clearly as
certainable from the ballot itself and
without indulging in strained effort or
speculation. This means that when
there is any doubt whatever the ballot
is to be thrown out
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When L. c. Spooner of Morris threw
his hat into the Republican guberna-
torlal ring he made it clear he still
retained the right to run for his old
job as member of the house from his
oN-1 district if he saw fit. While that
right has not been disputed, G. P. Carl
son, a townsman of Mr.. Spooner, has
announced that the Morris man can
not exercise his advertised right with
out fight and has accordingly filed
for the Republican nomination for
representative. Carlson is not known
IN this neck of the woods, but those
who are acquainted with him say he
will be a worthy successor of Mr..
Spooner. The Morris representative
is now engaged in an effort to capture
the elusive voter in Hennepin county
and he claims that he is satisfied with
his efforts to date. AS I have stated
before Mr.. Spooner is a fighter worthy
of any mans steel and while his can.
didacy may be regarded by some in
the light of a joke as far as Hennepin
county is concerned he is liable to-
make few that know of set up and
take notice before the contest is
closed. Quite a few have full knowl--
edge of the Morris mans scrapping
abilities.
St. Paul has been so taken up with
its own political linen that state and
national arguments have been lost in
the local scramble for place, but now
that it is over it is expected that the
big game will open with lots of color
and renewed activity. For the past
two months Taft headquarters have
been in operation at the Ryan hotel,
a Roosevelt banner has advertised
like headquarters at the Merchants
hotel and Lieutenant Governor Cor
don has endeavored to pilot friends
to his rooms at the same hosiery
though the medium of we'll posted
placards, but for some unexplained
reason the visitors in each case have
been few. Possibly the absence of
the railroad pass was possible in the
case of outsiders and those in town
had their own political troubles. The
same condition of apathy, it is said,
prevails in Minneapolis, where all the
presidential candidates and those
seeking the governorship have head
quarters.
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If Frank A. Day, late of Montana,
now back to his first love, Minnesota,
does not again get into the political
game it will not be because of any
lack of the managerial Itch The one,
time Democratic king maker has been
dividing his time of late between Fair
mont, his old home, and St. Paul and
While he denies any connection what
ever with the political game he never
overlooks a bet to discuss conditions.
IN Mr.. Days opinion Democracy now
has the chance of it's life to prevail in
nation and state In the matter of the
national situation Mr.. Days opinion is
shared in by many and they include
prominent Republicans at that. Frank
has many enemies and it is probable
that any attempt on his part to grab
the leadership of the Democratic party
will be vigorously fought, but it has
to be said for the Fairmont man that
he was some king maker when he
was on the job. The Republican ma
chine would congratulate itself today
II it had his equal.
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Quite a little newspaper comment
has been INDUCED in regarding the
reciprocal feature of the present in
heritance tax law. This reciprocal
of11ro in,