The Caldwell tribune., 1916-09-01
THE PRIMARY ELECTION
WILL Be HELD
TUESDAY

The. primary election will be held
Tuesday next. AT that time the two
political parties will elect their can
didates. 1t is clearly the duty of every
citizen to vote at the primary election.
The power to nominate the state and
county ticket has been placed in the
hands of the electorate and no mem
Der should neglect his duty. The
minor political parties will nominate
their tickets at conventions of the
party
In addition to placing in nomina-
tion the candidates of the political
party to which he belongs the voter
will also elect two candidates for JUS
tice OF the Supreme Court. The ju-
dietary has been taken out Of politics,
SO we are told, and the political affil-
iations for justice of the Supreme
Court should not be considered.
Three Men in Field.
There are three candidates in the
field for the nomination of justice of
the Supreme Court They are Judge
John c, Rice, of Caldwell; Judge Rob
ert n. Dunn, of Coeur d'Alene; and
Mr.. Justice |. N. Sullivan who is
candidate to succeed himself Not
that it makes any difference but as an
item of interest we might say that Mr.
Rice is a Democrat and Judge Dunn
and Justice Sullivan are Republicans.
The court, as at present constituted,
consists OF one Democrat, Mr. Justice
Morgan, and two Republicans Mr.
Justice Bulge and Mr.. Justice Sulli-
van. At the primary election the
voter votes for two of the three can
didates. The justice will be elected
at the general election in November.
Democratic Politics.
The Democrats are not greatly in
terested in the primary election. For
the state offices and for most of the
county offices there is only one can
didate for each office. The candi-
datures were quietly burked as they
were born leaving the membership of
the party free and untrammeled at the
primary election.
In Canyon county Mr.. H. A. Grit
fiths and Mr.. M. H. Eustace are can
didates for the Democratic nomination
for prosecuting attorney. Not know
ing much Of Democratic politics it
would be useless for The Tribune TO
try to pick the winner We are of the
opinion that Mr.. Griffiths has little
edge on Mr.. Eustace.
Mr.. G.. T. Moore of Nampa is con-
testing with Mr.. C. Q. Adams for the
Democratic nomination for county
commissioner in the first district. We
feel that Mr.. Adams will be the nomi-
nee of his party.
Iota
for state senator. They are w. P.
O'Conner of Nampa and Representa-
tive Ingard of Payette. 1t makes no
difference to The Tribune who is
led to the slaughter. We predict the
nomination of Mr.. Ingard
Republican Candidates.
Either there are more Republicans
who want office, or else the chances
of election is considered better in the
Republican party. There are two or
more candidates for nearly every state
and county office. When it comes to
picking winners on the Republican
ticket The Tribune is hopeless.
The candidates for the different
offices are a high class Of men in
every respect as far as we know them.
We do not believe that a serious mis-
take will be made whoever is nomi-
mated Undoubtedly some candidates
would make better officers than others
but we cannot pick them out.
The candidates in the field arc:
State Ticket.
Governor-George +. Crum of
Lewiston; d. w. Davis of American
Falls; Captain F. G. Davis of Boise;
Herman H. Taylor of Standpoint
Secretary of State-George R. Bar
ker of Standpoint; Erv Johnson of
Boise; CLANCY Wallace of Nez Perce.
State Auditor-George w. Lewis of
Boise: w. S. Parkhurst of Richfield;
Melvin J. Barrows of Hazelton,
Treasurer-John w. Eagleson OF
Boise; Fred z. Fisk of Parma.
Superintendent of Schools-Cather-
inc T. Dryden of Moscow; Ethel Red
dield of Lewiston.
Attorney Capitalization Fox OF
Wallace; M. J. Sweeley of Twin Falls;
Charles A. Sunderlin of Buhl.
Inspector of Mines-Robert N. Bell
of the state of Idaho.
Congressional Timber.
1t is easy to pick the winners for
the nomination for representative in
congress- There are four candidates
in the field The winners will be
! Congressman Addison T. Smith and
| former Congressman Burton l.
French. Mr. F. Elliott has not made
much headway in his campaign.
The local review of the Womens
Benefit association of the Maccabees
are rejoicing over winning the state
pennant. This pennant is given once
a year to the review gaining most new
members. This is doing we'll as the