The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-07-13
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Did the recent primaries sound the
death of the state wide primary act !?
Advocates of the convention system
for the selection of party candidates
for state and congressional offices
are of that opinion and in substanti-
alton of their viewpoint call atten-
ton to the fact that in the recent
primaries party voters in every in
stance but one gave overwhelming
support to those candidates having
opposite their names the designa-
ton Endorsed by party convention
The one failure was in the case of
the Third District Republican congress
sional fight where C.. R. Dayis, the
present Republican incumbent, won
out over Rueben Thoreen, the conven-
ton candidate, by the narrow, margin
of S53 votes. This convention feature
even prevailed in the only Farmer
Labor contest listed, that for congress
in the Ninth District where Knut
Welfald armed with the Farner-La-
Dor convention endorsement for con-
gress distanced his anti-convention
opponent, Us. Barnett, by vote of
f,ccAs W f,1ffs IL IllS dCL
served any purpose at all itw as in
the case of the party offices where it
operated to the extent of reducing
the number of contestants to the re-
quired two. What it dit for the tax
payers and the candidate is guess
but it is a safe bet that 100000 will
not anyway near pay the bill. So con-
WINGED was Governor Preus that the
Republican state convention which
named him as the party standard
bearer was the last word that he alb
solutely refused to make any active
primary campaign. The same was
the case with United States Senator
Kellogg who consistently stuck to his
post at Washington all through the
campaign. On this point they had
the backing of G.. r. Adams, chair
man of the Republican state central
committee who steadfastly adheared
to his position that any undue pri-
mary activity would be wanton
waste of money and an imposition on
the voters. That the primary find.
ings fully sustained the stand taken
is not open to argument. 1t was the
most cheaply conducted campaign in
the history of the state Republican
organization. Incidently too, it car
ried an element of adroitness as in
accepting the endorsements of the
state convention as final it left the
opposition high and dry in respect to
much needed campaign thunder and
the best the ants could do was to hol-
Ter, Machine" Yes, it does look as if
the primary act was badly hit.
If Mrs. Anna Dickey OIeson, Demo-
crat, or DR.. Henrick Shipsted, Farm
who will battle Frank B.
Kellogg for the U. S. Cenatorship
in the fall can figure out victory
from the primary returns they can
do more than a majority Of the wise
ones. The same applies to others on
tickets who will contest the Republi-
can nominees next November. In all
478,689 votes were cast for the state
candidates and of this number 49,
S29 were Republican ballots. The
Democratic candidates received g.
300 votes. The Farmer-Labor crowd
as a party did not participate. In
the contest to come it is presumed
that the senatorship will be the one
and only scrap as the other Repub-
lican candidates are regarded as
having cinch. If those behind the
for a change can get any
comfort out of the primary returns
on senator they have better insight |
into things than the average state
King Maker. In the primaries Frank
b. Kellogg received 216,816< votes to |