The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1912-02-17
THOMAS VANLEAR MAY
!. HEAD STATE TICKET
Socialists Will Meet in Mime
apolis Sunday and Monday to
to Select Candidates.
NOTED MAN TO BE SECURED
FOR LOCAL ENGAGEMENT
Local Party Members Hold Coun.
ty Convention and Choose
Delegates to Meeting.

Thomas Van Lear, who made
great run for mayor in Minneapolis
on the Socialist ticket and who will
probably be Socialist candidate for
governor, will speak in Duluth about
Feb. 20.
Mr.. Van Lear is business agent for
the International Association of Ma
chinists and his route brings him to
Duluth about this time. Socialists
will prevail on him to speak and ar
rangements have already been made
for his appearance at Great Western
hall. -t-t> ...
About 80 delegates attended the So
cialist county convention held Mon
| day evening. Delegates were selected
to attend the state convention which.
! takes place in Minneapolis next Sun
! day and Monday. The MINNEAPOLIS
meetings will beheld in the Trades
and Labor hall. A state ticket will
be selected at that time The party
convention will be held Sunday and
the nominating covention on Monday,
Candidates. will be nominated for
offices from governor down and it is
thought that Thomas Van Lear will
| land the highest honor in the gift of
the party.
| At the county convention held
Monday, NJ. J. O'Rourke was selected
as county chairman for one year. w.
E. Towne was chosen, secretary Of
the county committee.
At the state convention an attempt
will be made, it is thought, to get the
Socialist Labor party to come into the
folds of the regular. Socialist party.
There will also be a resolution adopt
edit Is stated, asking that the party
be known as the Socialist party in
stead of the Public Ownership party
as 1t is now referred to. It is prob
able also that the matter of having
three paid Socialist organizers work
in Minnesota. will be brought up for
| discussion at the state convention.
1t was the sense of the county con-
vention that the delegates to the stats
convention vote as a unit but no In
structions as to who to vote for here
given. ,- ... %
M. A. Brattland Of Ada, the Socialist
county attorney of Norman county has
been suggested as a possible candidate
for governor. but his friends, it is
thought, will not allow him to enter
the race as he is wanted to make the
run for congress from his district.
St. Louis county will probably be
given a place on the state ticket.
There has been some talk of John A.
Keyes as a candidate for attorney
general, but Keyes' friends are anx-
ious to have him make the run for
congress in the Eighth district and
they will ask that he be not placed
on the state ticket. NJ. S. Hillman,
the Socialist representative in the leg
islature from the Fifty-first district.
may be the candidate for secretary Of
state or state treasurer.
Morris Kaplan was chairman of the
convention and William King, secre-
tary. The following delegates were
chosen: A. r. Scofield, Morris Kaplan.
Richard Jones, A. S. Osborn. George
Walz, William King. w. e. Towne,
NJ. ]. O'Rourke, D. NJ. Robertson,
c. P. Carlson, e. B. Oss, Thomas
Myhre, L. Carlson, o. Arland, J. Kin
gren, o. Larson, M. Haugenson, p.
G. Phillips. Edward Blackwood, j. A. y
Johnson, w. T. Steinber. H. Lack
some. = ,az--.5
The Socialists, are as active at the
present time as they were before the
recent election. Morris Kaplan spoke
at Cloquet last Sunday evening in the
theater to packed house. The Du-
luthN speaker was well received.