The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1916-06-23
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 Halt Of Delegates to
Cinch a Nomination.

TAI HEN the Democratic conyen-
!" ton met in Baltimore in
1912 the delegates had been
instructed for various men
from different sections OF the country,
Every locality had its favorite SON.
The Republicans ut that time had nut
two possibilities. Taft aud Roosevelt.
This year the tables are turned. Ii is
conceded on all sides that Woodrow
Wilson will be the Democratic nomi-
nee. ON the other hand. there will he
at least a dozen possibilities before the
Republican, convention.
The question on the lips of every pol
jtician. both Democratic and Repub-
lican is. .'N'hom 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 an
other thing that is worrying the lead
els. The Republicans know that they
must name 4 maj acceptable 10 the
colonel anu the huil moose it they hope
to Wit.
Roosevelt is one of the leading posi-
bilities today. He has already been
president for seven and uilr-llalf years.
having served three and one-lalf years
Of Mckinley's second term. after the
Ohio man WAS killed. and having been
elected iii 1904.
Supreme Court Justice Charles f.,
Hughes of New York is another lead
ing possibility. although he has stated
time and again that he Was NOT a can
didate for the nomination.
Elihu Root of New York. Charles W..
Fairbanks OF Indiana. Samuel W. Nc
Cali Of Massachusetts. Senator Albert
r. Cummins Of Iowa, Robert NJ. La
Toilette Of Wisconsin, Theodore +.
Burton Of Ohio. Senator John w.
Weeks of Massachusetts and Henry ID.
Estabrool have all been mentioned as
possible Republican candidates.
Here are some facts about the two
great national political conventions Of
1916. which will meet to nominate an
didates for the presidency and vice
presidency and to adopt platforms for
the Democratic and Republican parties.
The Republican convention will meet
In Chicago on June =. its sessions to
be held in the Coliseum. where both
the Republican and Progressive CON
,ventions were held in 1917. The Colisc-
um has made more political history
than any other convention lall in the
country.
The Democratic convention will meet
in st. Louis on June II in the new
the finest and most modern in the
United States and which has never Yet
housed a national convention.
Both conventions will be unique il
this respect for the first time in 1heil
histories each will show a ma jority ul
delegates elected by direct primary
vote. Twenty-Five of the forty-ei@l'
states now have primary laws which
eliminate the selection Of delegates bA
the old system Of local and state con
ventions.
Republican Delegates Cut Down.
The Republican convention of 1915
will have 49,, delegates as against l,O.'
IN 1912. This reduction in the 1uta
has been accomplished hy cuttiIl!
down the representation of southern
states. which are habitually Demo
cratic and whose votes in Republican
conventions have been Il frequen
cause of scandal and disruption. Th'
reapportionment OF the Republican o
vention was decided upon by the ia
tional committee of that party in lie
cember. 1913. when ii met in Washing
ton. after several conventions had at