The Alaska daily empire., 1920-04-12
CALIFORNIA WILL
 GIVE MUCH OF HER
 TIME TO POLITICS
Two Hot Primaries Before General
 Election in Golden State; One May Determine Presidency

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 10.- California voters face an unusually
 busy political year There will he ! three elections, all of which are re- glrded by party leaders of being of
 more than ordinary importance. These elections and their dates. arc Presidential primary. May 1. -
 State Primary August 24
 General election, November ?. At the Presidential promarys the voters VIII be given an opportunity of balloting for candidates as deie- gates to the national c9nvehtions on one of three tickets Republican,
 Democratic and Prohibition On tho
 fwo latter tickets. the delegates of
 which there are 26, will be unopposed The Republican ticket will pre- sent a contest between rival delega- | ions pledged to support respectively, he candidates at the national con vention of United States Senator Hi am Johnson. Of San Francisco, and Herbert c. Hoover of Palo Alto. Cal, former Unified States Food Admin fstrator
 The ball5f will plainly indicate how each delegation stands on the
 natter of q preferred candidate
 Thus the Republican Ballot will con tain two parallel lists, and at the head of each will be printed a line
 indicating which candidate, the dele ga'tfon faxers for the nomination. Senator Johuson's candidacy for the Republican nominatica' is an avowcd
 one. Mr Hoover is, also al avowed
 candidate for tic Republican nomiii ation ">F
 This primary contest bids fair to Isbe, the most furious ever fought in
 the State and <spon it's outcome
 may depend the Presidential nom ination at Chicago
 No candidate for the presidential
 nomination. is excluded by reason of
 a non-residence in California from
 entering the state and seeking to elect list of delegates favorable to ~his own candidacy in the national conventions. The primary election machinery is available to all comers and getting the names of pledged candidates on the party ballots is largely a mechanical process.
 After the election of delegates to the convention comes the minor one
 of selecting alternate delegates. who
 will accompany the regulars and
 participate in the voting at the con vention only when the regulars are
 incapacitated through illness or other causes. The primary law provides that the delegates shall meet and select their own alternates. four at large and two from each of the states eleven congressional districts. A voter intending to cast his ballot at the presidential primaries is under no obligation to vote for the ticket of whose party he registered, state of ficials have held. If he registered as Republican he can demand and receive a Democratic ballot or the ballot of any other party that has candidates to be voted for This sit nation caused something of con troversy on politicel circles recently, but election experts contended that privilege specifically
 In August the state primaries will. be in the nature of an elimination con test with a United States Senator ship the most important of the var. ious positions to be voted on. Sen ator James D Phelan is a candidate to succeed himself, but half doz, en or more candidates have declared their intention of entering the race.
 Following this primary on the third Tuesday in September, the state con vention will go into action at Sacra mento, there to adopt platforms upor which the candidates Will make their campaigns; elect state central com mittees. and. as 1920 is a pational election year, they will also select thirteen presidential electors to go on ihe ballot at the November general election.