The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1916-02-17
PRESIDENT MAX ERS
Many MinnesOtans Eager to Assist in
Naming Candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice-President.
Minnesota Democrats Are All for
Woodrow Wilson-Republican
Not United on Any Candidate.

The republican national convention
to nominate candidates for president
and president is to convene in
Chicago on June 7, and the democratic
national convention convenes a week
later in st. Louis.
The presidential primary election to
choose delegates to the national con-
ventions Of all political parties is held
in this state on town meeting day, the
second Tuesday of March, which this
year is the 18th Of March.
The intent of the fool primary law
was to give each Individual voter an
opportunity to express his preference
for a presidential candidate, at least
that is what was claimed for it by the
faddists who pushed it through the
legislature. But it does nothing of the
kind.
In the first place, under the provis-
ions of the law a petition, to which
not less than 500 signatures of voters
is attached, must be filed with the Sec
rotary Of state for each presidential
candidate. Candidates for delegates
must file an affidavit with the secre-
tary of state and in that affidavit ex-
press their preference for a presiden-
tial candidate, but their choice must
be confined to the presidential candi-
dates whose petitions have been filed
as above related. For instance, a
large number of voters may favor
Roosevelt, but they cannot vote for
Roosevelt delegates as no petition has
been filed for Roosevelt in this state.
Root has many supporters in Mime
sofa, and in at least two congressional
districts he would be the first choice
of a majority of the republican voters
thereof, but Root cannot get dele
gate from this date because his
friends have not filed petition, and
voters who favor Roosevelt and Root
have no means of recording their pref
erence.
There will be only two republican
candidates voted on in this state
Cummins and Estabrook. Cummins
is United States senator from Iowa
and has considerable of a following in
this state, but we do not for mo-
ment believe he is the first choice of a
majority of the republicans Of the
state. It is our deliberate judgment
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lican favorite in Minnesota. Estabrook
who the duece is he, anyhow? Not
one in a hundred citizens of the state
ever heard of him before. But he has
some money and his agents came to
Minneapolis. and hired some young
fellows to circulate his petition, and
men were secured in each con-
gressional district and in the state at
large to file under his name. AS only
the requisite number of candidates
for delegates have filed under Esta-
brooks name it is not impossible that
he may get some delegates from this
state. To illustrate, four candidates
have filed for delegates at-large under
Estabrook's name, while 10 have filed
under Cummins' name. Now the four
delegates receiving the highest num-
Der of votes will be declared the duly
elected delegates from the state. The
Cummins vote will be divided between
10 candidates and there is only four
to elect. Every vote cast for the Es-
tabrook group of four will count. Then
through ignorance or inadvertence
= there will be undoubtedly many votes
cast for the Estabrook delegates.
AS a matter of fact no one fully
conversant with the political situation
expects that either Cummins or Es-
tabrook will be nominated. Then the
only thing to do is to vote for the
best men as delegates and trust them
to do the right thing at Chicago. Men
like Henry Rines and William Henry
Eustis in the Tenth congressional dis
trict, and in the state at large men
like J. F. Jacobson, Marcus Johnson,
Frederick C. Stevens and A. A. D.
Rain.
The democrats of Minnesota are
united for Wilson, but there are Lynch
and anti-Lynch democrats. Fred B.
Lynch is the democratic national COM
mitteeman in this state, and many of
his brother democrats are sore at him
because he did not have enough offices
to go around. But all the candidates
for delegates to the St. Louis conven-
ton are fighting under the Wilson
banner.
y. Annexed hereto is a list of the re-
publican and democratic candidates
for delegates-at-large, and also the
candidates for delegates from the
Tenth and Sixth congressional dis