The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-07-18
LEADERS WARY
OF THIRD PARTY
FeWEndOrSe Movement Launched
by Colonel Roosevelt.
STATE CANDIDATES Qu|zzED
Majority Opposed to Any Action That
VIII Disrupt the Republic
an Organization.
Especial Correspondence

St. Paul, July 16-1n week or so
admirers of Colonel Roosevelt will
meet in convention in St. Paul and Sc
lect twelve delegates to the national
Progressive convention to be held in
Chicago Aug. 5. The whole thing is
for the purpose of launching the much
talked of third party movement, with
Mr.. Roosevelt as it's patron saint. The
leading spirit in Minnesota is Hugh T.
Halbert, young ST. Paul attorney.
He is the self-constituted leader. Pre-
held in st. Paul Mr.. Halbert has been
endeavoring to place the various can
didates for the Republican nomination
on record as far as the third party
movement is concerned and some of
the answers are interesting reading,
that is from the few who have &C.
knowledged his right to quiz them. OF
the three who have made answer so
far S. Y. Gordon of Browns Valley is
the only one to endorse the move
ment and he uses it for a vehicle to
relieve himself of his feelings regard
ing the "steaT at Chicago. E. T.
Young, with more caution than his
rival, says that while he is heart and
soul for the new deal yet he cannot
actively join in the call. He does not
want it to obscure the real issues in
the gubernatorial campaign, which, in
his opinion, some people that he knows
of are trying to do. Nothing DOING"
is Governor Eberhart's answer. "Un-
til you show me otherwise 1 am for
the regular nominee, Mr.. Taft" What
other answers have reached him Mr..
Halbert has failed to make public,
which is pretty good evidence that
they have not been received. With
fiat refusals on the part of Speaker
Dunn of the house of representatives,
K. G. Dunn of Princeton, Congressman
Halvor Stevenson of the Ninth dis
trict and others prominent in the po-
1itical field to have anything to do
with the scheme, thus stands the third
party movement in Minnesota today
and there is no indication that it is
going to show any improvement. All
this, however, must not be taken as
meaning that the North Star state is
is going to be there. On the other
hand the feeling is the reverse and
men like R. G. Dunn, Speaker Dunn of
Albert Lea and others are not back
ward in saying so. They do not want
to see the party disrupted, however,
for in their opinion it only means the
elevation of Democrats to the state
offices now held by the G. o. P. They
argue that there is absolutely no
chance for Mr. Roosevelt now, that a
new party would only mean throwing.
the state to Wilson and that if such
Is to prevail it can just as we'll be &C.
cOmplished with Mr.. Roosevelt out
of the way as in. The preservation of
the party in the state appeals to them
first and if it has to go down they
want it to 90 down with flying colors.
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When prospective candidates for of.
flee are not the topic the statewide pri-
mary law has the boards at the state
capitol and the gossip now runs to
what the latest thing in progressive
legislation is going to cost the state
Secretary of State Schmahl advances
the opinion that the cost is not going
to be far short of 100000 for the first
primary and others say it will be in
excess of that figure Whatever the
cost may be it is going to be a heavy
one and the big howl, fear, will come
from the counties, which will have to
put up the money. Each district un-
der the new law will have to pay it's
own bills and there will be no aid
from the state treasury. This ex-
pense will Include the printing of bal
lots, the tabulation of votes and even
the printing of the ballots in the off,
clal paper. This alone will be a big
Item and the paper having the conces-
sion stands to add considerable to it's
bank account. This time the state
ballots will have to be printed in the
official paper in each county and as
there is ballot for each party lots of
newspaper space will be consumed.
X
Two St. Paul papers, the Dispatch
and News, and the Daily News of Min
neapolis have complied with the news
paper provision of the new primary
law to the extent of filing with the Sec
rotary OF state list of the holders of
stock in the same, but the forced pub
l1city does not bring anything new to
light What each owns is not given.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Thompson figure
principally in the stock ownership of
the Dispatch and the Asbaugh family
in the case of the Minneapolis and st.
Paul News. I have bunch that this
provision of the new law will be gen.
orally violated until it can be tested
In the courts. This includes the plac-
ing over political advertisements the
cost Of the same and the name of the
person authorizing the advertisement.
Lawyers, have been told, have heen