The L'Anse sentinel., 1916-03-18

The first application OF Michlgan'
presidential preference primary las
came when Secretary OF State Cole
man c. Vaughan officially declared thu
/ list OF names for the various party bal
lots closed.
| The tallots which will be given ts
the people April 3. will contain the
following names:
For Observation-Disclosures. William
Alden Smith. Grand Rapids; Henry
Ford. Detroit: William Gerald Simp
son. Detroit.
Democrat. Woodrow Wilson OF New
Jersey.
Prohibition. William F. p. Ferguson
OF Pennsylvania.
For national committeeman:
Republican. Charles B. Warren. De
troit.
Democrat. Edwin o. Wood of Flint:
William A. Comstock OF Alpena.
National Progressive. Gustavus D.
Pope of Detroit.
Petitions for Colonel Roosevelt were
the only others filed and Colonel
Roosevelt promptly asked that his
name be withdrawn.
In the case of Henry Ford two dis.
tinct notices were sent.
All parties will have ballots at the
election, no matter whether any can
didates have filed petitions or not In
the case of the Socialist. the Socialist
Labor and the National Progressive
parties. blank ballots viii be circu-
lated so that voters who want to vote
In those respective organizations can
write in the names Of candidates.
The same condition of affairs will
obtain in the selection of the men for
the national committeeships., Those
parties which were not represented in
the filings will be given blank ballots.
for each party, despite the fact that no
names will be printed on many OF
them
In the number of signers to petit
ticns filed. Senator William Alden
Smith easily leads
Old Soldiers Sell Shoes.
Persons in the vicinity of the Mich
igan Soldiers home at Grand Rapids.
who have made it a practice to pur-
chase from the inmates supplies is
sued to the Il by the state. are violat-
ing the law and will be criminally
prosecuted unless they stop this busi-
ness.
This opinion was rendered by At.
torney General Fellows to George w.
Stone of Lansing. a member of the
board of control of the Michigan Sol.
diers' home, who asked for an opin-
ion upon certain information given by
Gen. William T. McGurrin. command.
ant at the home.
A few days ago General Stone re-
ceived letter from General McGurrip
in which the commandant complained
that l.. c. Williams, storekeepcr
near the Soldiers home was buying
shoes from the veterans. Il found he
had five pairs of shoes which he said
he bought for one dollcr per pair"
said McGurrin. Il told him the shoes
were state property and he had nc
right to buy or sell then"
Wants Prison Camps.
Governor Ferris and the legislature
OF 1917 will be asked by the Citizens
Welfare league to establish prison
camps in the northern part OF the
state in which oak and pine trees
may be raised. to employ no prison
Official who does not believe in the
honor system for convicts, and to
segregate the feeble-minded prisoners
from those of normal minds. The
league has named committee with
Bishop Williams as chairman, to in
vestigate conditions and to submit
report to the governor and the iegis-
lature.
The camps to be established would
provide for the diseased and mentally
deficient prisoners of penal and cor
rectional institutions OF the state that
they may be separated from those of
normal minds.
Two-Cent Fare Law Upheld.
Michigan. through Attorney General
Grant Fellows won the first of the so
called "two-cent rate cases" to be
tried solely OH it's merits-the suit of
the Ann Arbor railroad to compel the