The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-03-09
PRIMARY ELECTION
Candidates for Delegates to be Voted
for on Town Meeting Day,
Next Tuesday.
) Polls Open and Close as Usual for
Town and Village Oficers-Un-
til 8 D. m. for Delegates.


sofa will select delegates to the sew
eral national conventions to nominate
candidates for president and vice-pres-
ident.
For the first time the presidential
primary law will be in operation in this
state and the voters will be afforded
the opportunity of voting direct for
delegates
There is only one democratic can
didate for the presidency-Wo Woodrow
Wilson. But in this state there is lively
opposition between the Lynch and anti
Lynch wings of the party, and in the
state at large as we'll as in each of the
congressional districts there are two
sets of delegates
AS far as the republicans of Mime
sofa are concerned they are obliged to
vote for delegates favorable to either
Cummins or Estabrook. Under the
provisions of that beautiful piece of
fad legislation-the presidential pri-
mary law-they have no choice in the
matter; they must vote for delegates
ostensibly for either Cummins or Esta-
brook. Thousands Of republican voters
may favor Hughes or Roosevelt, but
they have no means Of expressing
their choice.
AS matter of fact no one who is
at all posted on the political situation
expects to see either Cummins or Es-
tabrook nominated at Chicago-neither
of them stands one chance in ten.
Then the only thing for the republi-
cans of this state to do is to vote
for delegates to the republican national
convention who can be trusted to ex-
ercise good common sense in the Chi
cago convention and act for the best
interests Of the party and the nation,
for the probabilities are that if the
right men are nominated for president
and vice-president they will be elected
- in November.
But who are the right men? That is
for the members of the republican
national convention, after mature de-
liberation, to determine. Let us send
delegates whose advice and counsel
will be of some assistance, in these
deliberations. Delegates who will be
consulted and advised with by delegates
from other states. We realize that II
would be hardly possible to select "a
DELEGATES of this caliber, but there
should be at least three or four mer
on the delegation who are known out
side the confines of Minnesota. Mer
for instance like Frederick C. Stevens
who has served 10 years in congress
Hon. ]. F. jacobson who has on two
previous occasions creditably repre-
sented his party in republican nationa
conventions, William Henry Eustis
whose speech nominating Blaine in thu
Minneapolis convention of 1892 gave
him national reputation, and March,:
Johnson, who also has wide acquain
lance among public men outside tn
state. There are other capable AM
deserving men not as we'll known per
haps as those above mentioned, VIII
would like to go as delegates, men lik
Hon. Henry Rines of Mora, forme
speaker of the Minnesota house of rep
resentatives, and Hon. James Mana
han, former congressman-at-larg
y. from this state.
.< There are only four delegates to b
elected at large and two from eac]
congressional district. If the vote
votes for more than four delegates-a
large his vote does not count. He ma
vote for less than four delegates-at
large and his vote counts for the dele
gates for whom he votes, but if h
votes for more than four he has spoile
his ballot and his vote does not coun
for any of those for whom he ha
voted.
For congressional delegates tn
voter must vote for two only. Their
are only two to be elected from eac
Congressional district.
The Union will not attempt to die
tate who should be sent as delegates
Z but from our personal knowledge {
the men we have no hesitation in say
ing that the republican voter who vote
for such men for delegates-at-large g
r J. F. jacobson, Frederick c.. Steven
James Manahan, Marcus johnson an
, o. J. Larson will make no mistak
y. Zone of the five mentioned must
-, dropped as only four can be elected
5 Men like these would represent. til
state intelligently in the Chicago COZ
vention.
f. In the Tenth congressional district
seems to us that our neighbor Ho
i Henry Rines of Mora, and Villa