The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-07-14
Democrats Meet In st. Louis June
IA. Which Is Just a Week After
the Beginning Of the Republican
Convention-The Former In st.
Louis Requires Two-thirds Vote
to Nominate. While the Latter
In Chicago Asks For Only One
More Than Half Of Delegates to
cinch a Nomination.

TlTHEN the Democratic owen
wv ton met In Baltimore in
1912 the delegates had been
instructed for various men
from different sections Of the country.
Every locality had its %fayorite son.
The Republicans at that time had bur
TWO possibilities. Taft and Roosevelt.
This ear the tables are turned. 1t is
conceded on all sides that Woodrow
Wilson will be the Democratic nomi-
nee. On he other hand. there will he
ut least a dozen possibilities before the
Republican convention.
The question on the lips of every pol.
ltician. both Democratic and Repub-
lican is. "Whom will the Republican
party name to oppose Woodrow VIII
SON" And no one can answer.
The attitude Of Theodore Roosevelt
and his Progressive followers Is am
other thing that is worrying the lead
ers. The Republicans know that they
must name a man acceptable to the
colonel and the bull moose If they hope
to win.
Roosevelt Is one of the leading posi-
hilities today. He has already been
president for seven and One-half years,
having served three and one~half years
OF Mck1nley's second term, after the
Ohio man was killed. and having been
elected in 1904.
Supreme Court Justice Charles Il.
Hughes OF New York is another lead
ing possibility. although he has stated
time and again that he was not a can
dldate for the nomination.
Elihu Root of New York. Charles w.
FAIRBANKS of Indiana, Samuel w. Nc
Can OF Massachusetts,, Senator Albert
b Cunm1ns of Iowa, Robert NJ. La
roulette OF Wisconsin. Theodore F..
Burton OF Ohio, Senator John w.
Weeks OF Massachusetts and Henry u.
~Estabrook have all been mentioned as
possible Republican candidates.
Here are some facts about the two
great national political conventions Of
1915, Which will meet to nominate an
dldates for the presidency aud vice
presidency and to adopt platforms for
the democratic and Republican parties.
The Republican convention will meet
IN Chicago on june Z. its sessions to
ne held in the Coliseum. where 10Th
the Republican and Progressive con-
Tentions held in 1912. The Colise-
nm has made more political history
than any other convention hall in the
country.
The Democratic convention will meet
IN St Louis on June IA in the new
convention hall, which is said to be
the finest and most modern in the
United States and which has never Vet
housed a national convention.
Both conventions will be unique in
this respect-for the first time in their
histories each will show a majority of
delegates elected by direc, primary
vote. Twenty-Five of the forty-eiyht
states now have primary laws which
eliminate h selection of delegates by
the old system OF local and state con
yentions.
Republican Delegates Cut Down..
The Republican convention of 1916
will have $50 delegates as against LOIS
IN 1912. This reduction in the total
has been accomplished by cutting
down the representation Of southern
states. which are habitually Demo
cratic and whose votes in Republican
conventions have been Il frequent
cause OF scandal and disruption. The
reapportionment OF the Republican CON
yention was decided upon by the ma
tiOnal committee of that marty i'm No.
cembcr. 1913. when it met in Washing
ton. after several conventions had at
tempted Ae same thing without result.