Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 29, 1912, Page 2

o ™ THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MAT- TER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT BE- MIDJI, MINN,, UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1879, In the City of Bemidji the papers are @elivered by carrier. Where the deliv- ery is irregular please make immediate complaint to this office. - Telephone 81. Out of town subscribers will confer a favor if they will report when they do not get their papers promptly. Every subscriber to the Daily Ploneer will receive notice about ten days be- fore his time expires, giving him an opportunity to make an advance pay- ment before the paper is finally stopped. Subscription Rates. One month, by carrier One year, by carrier Three months, postage Six months, postage paid One year, postage paid The Weekly Ploneer. Eight pages, containing a summary of the news of the week. Published every Thursday and sent postage paid to any address for 1.50 in advance. jority of the 120,000 vote, but by elimination it is found which candi- date is most acceptable. The votes lost are those cast by supporters of C, D and E, who did not vote for one of the two high men as second choice. Half of the A men voted for their friend E, but he was dropped out in the first elimination because of his low first choice vote, and the 20,000 second choice votes thrown to him by A men were wasted. The A men were not deprived of a chance to vote, however, for their first choice votes counted right up to the finish. In passing, it should be noted that a voter cannot “plump” his vote by voting for the same man on both first gets 10,000 of them, which doubt- less would have been cast for him, as first choice, had not E been a can- didate. In this case E is first elim- inated, then D and then B, by the following figures: First Second Third Elimination Elimination Elimination A 55,0 56,000 68,000 B 48,000 c 48,000 D .....26,000 ... In this case B, C and D represent similar ideas and principles, and their second choices are intermingled. Among them the three had 90,000 first choice votes, to 45,000 for A, or 60,000 for A and E together, and by the elimination process C finally ac- .|ond choice as to candidates. ' Ther and second choice. If he does, the cumulates strength enough from B tellers are to count his first choice |and D to win the nomination. vote, but not the second. In normal cases the high man on Another illustration will serve to the first choice will win at the finigh. Published every afternoon except Sun- day by the Bemidjl Pioneer Publishing Company, @. E. CARSON. E. 5. DENU_ HAROLD J. DANE, Editor. The Second Choice Vote. ‘With the approach of the state primaries, many of the voters are wondering just how the second choice provision will werk out, and how the votes are counted. The Pioneer took occasion to explain this feature of the primary law at the time the law was passed by the legislature. During the past few days, several persons have asked for an explana- tion of the law and in order that it may be understood by all the readers of the Pioneer, the following is print- ed. The information is furnished by ‘William E. Lee and the Minneapolis Journal: Here is the law: “(a) If any candidate for an of- fice received a majority of the first choice votes he shall be declared nom- inated for such office. “(b) If no candidate is thus nom- inated, drop the name of the one having the least number of first choice votes and add the second choice votes cast by his supporters to the first choice votes of the remain- ing candidates for whom they were cast, and “(e) If no candidate then has a majority, drop from the remaining candidates the one having the least number of first choice votes combin- ed with the second choice votes re- ceived through such elimination, and add the second choice votes cast by his supporters ‘to the votes of the re- maining candidates for whom they ‘were cast. “(d) Repeat this operation until some candidate has & majority or un- til only two candidates remain. Then the one having the greatest number of votes to his credit shall be declar- ed nominated.” It is simple. when once you under || stand it, but it takes a little illustra- tion to make the method clear. Sup- pose a contest for governor with five candidates, A. B. C. D, and E. The ballot, that part of it relating to gov- ernor, will look like this: | first choice [sec’nd choice | vote for one | vote for one HY QW Suppose there are 120,000 votes cast in the party primary, and A gets 40,000. He is high man, but as he does not have a majority of the first choice votes, there must be elimina- tion. E is the low man. The men who vote for him for first choice are entitled to have their second choice votes recorded for their second choice candidate, otherwise they would be disfranchised. The tally sheets from each precinct and each county show how the E voters stood on second choice. Their second choice votes then are added to the first choice votes of the other candidates. Suppose the totaled tally sheet for the state looks like this: First choice A B ~-[40,000]. . . .. 3,000[5,000[12,00020,000 +132,000/4,000]. .. . ..[8,000]10,000(10,000 +125.,000/2,000] 6,000].. . ..[12,000] 5,000 +]15,000]2,000{10,000{2,000].... . .. | 1,000 .| 8,000[4,000] 2,000]1,000] 1,000].."... ‘While A has the largest number of first choice votes, he is not acceptable to friends of the other candidates, who number 80,000 but give A on- 1y 40,000 second choice votes. The first thing the canvassing board does is to eliminate E, the low man. There was some common feeling between the A men and the E men, as the sec- ond cholce votes show. Of the 8,000 E voters, 4,000 favored A for second choice. They are added to A’s 40,- 000 first choice votes, and the sec- Second_Choice B C D HI QW show how even the third man on the{If he gets as much as 40 per cent of first choice vote might be nominated, | the vote he is practically sure to win. suppose the total vote worked out|For instance, take four candidates running and getting the following thus: vote: i d choic s Secqgd ehp First — Second chioloe choice T45,000] 5,000] 5,000] 5,000[30,000 Q 185,00 | 2.000}13,000} 3,000 |A . ~-140,000]. . . ..[15,000]10,000[15,000 C |30,000] 1,000/20,000. . . 7,000| 2,000(B . 125,000{7,000{ 10,000 8,000 D [25,000] 1,000] 6,00016,000]. 2,000|C - [20,000{4,000| €,000|......| 8,000 D +.115,000[3,000] 8,000| 4,000]...... E_[15,000{10,000] 2,000] 2,000] 1,000 ..... In this case A gets the worst of it Here A has 30 per cent of the first| o, go0onq choice votes, but wins out choice votes, and Candidate E is a|pe05u66 of his long lcad in the first “stool pigeon” for A. This assumes| yoice votes, D is first eliminated, a good deal of ignorance of the sec-|,,4 tyon ¢, the process being as fol- ond choice proposition, because it|; .. does not encourage the “stool pigeon game.” E is the low man and is Elimination Second 47,000 Elimination eliminated, his voters’ secona choices & - being added where they belong. A'c Il — 41,000 [CAN YOU WRITE There 18 just one manner in which the minority can be prevented from controlling primary elections and PAID ADVERTISEMENT ($5.00 for Serles). that is by registering a second choice: | ‘Where majority sentiment is divided among several candidates, minority; sentiment will win unless majority]| sentiment voters can state their sec: is no theory about this. Therexperi- ment has been worked out in other states and the “second choice” pro. vision was invented to protect the majority. An Error in Statement. In the short biography of Judge Stanton published in the Pioneer last evening, it was statcd that he was first appointed to the bench in 1907 | - when & new judgeship was created in this district. taken from the 1911 Legislative Manual but the book is in error as Judge Stanton was first appointed in April, 1908, to succeed Judge Spoon- er, resigned. Judge Stanton’s second when the third judgeship was created by the.legis- lature of 1909. appointment came “Were all medicines as meritorious as Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, the world would be much better off and the percent- age of suffering greatly decreased,” writes Lindsey Scott, of Temple, Ind. For sale by Barker’s Drug Store. The information was| ANNOUNCEMENT. I hereby announce myself as a can- didate for the nomination for the of- fice of Treasurer of Beltrami county to be voted upon at the Repnublican primaries to be held Tuesday, Septem- ber 17th, 1912. 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Three months’ subscrip= A NEW CHANGE EVERY THURSDAY tion for second choice. *fi{*{l&*{@ifik&#{k{ifik{i: KKK KKK KK KKK K : * x TURN * * * Ll * THE BEMIDJI LEAD * * * PENCIL X 3 X X +* Toda; ictures made from * the glmg you send in this ¥ The Best * +* morning. * NICKLE PENCIL * * Enlarging, Framing, Copying. : in the World : * x * X * HAKKERUP * ALL STORES * « Third St. Bemidji. : : * iR R K ifiiiifi%k*#{i{iiiiifii&%k: x KRR KKK KKK KKK KKK 1**{**#{*{*{4@*{*%)@!*: KAk khhkkhhhkkkhkk Kokdkkdkkkkkdkkkkkkk * AND' MARIN, * * oW e * Flour may be right and not X Prompt Attention Given to * be CREMO— * % All Phone and Mail Orders. * *x & Table Luxuries A Specialty. % But it can’t be CREMO and % * Fancy Groceries x not be right. - * * Flour * * *x Feed * Phone 374. * * Provisions. : o e : % Phone 33. ALLS IAMERON. * * Cog. 4th S?. & Irvine Ave. % & 314 Minn. 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If you receive your pay & * weekly, lay some aside each ¥ * week, if monthly do it month- % ly. The dollars will pile up ¥ + surprisingly. * x TRY IT. * & Now is the time to open a & % bank account with the x SEGUB&;Y STATE BANK * x i *x FFIIFIIRIFIIFIIFRIIKIIK fsaadadiidiid i AR KRR K :i**%k*i**iii{#{l*fil{i{l * X MEGROTH VARIETY.STORE MINNESOTA AVE. This store makes a specialty of 5 and 10c ‘wares. Other house- hold necessities for 10 cents and up. You'll find this “The Store that serves you best at all times.” FRKHERRIRIRIKIIRIRK KRR KK ii{i{*{{*iil*fl*fiflifli*: % ok o dek ok ok ok ok ok ok % % e d K Kk K ok ok ok ond choice votes cast for each of the other candidates by E voters also are added in. The result of the first elimination is: There are still 120,000 votes in the total, but no one has a majority. So ~ D is dropped, and the second choice votes cast by the D men for A, B and C are added to their totals. The re- sult of the second elimination is: A.. 46,000 44,000 ..28,000 C.. This shows B forging to the front, but still there is no majority choice, and C is eliminated. The second choice votes cast by C supporters for A and B are added in, and they give this result: A.. ..48,000 B. 50,000 There are only 98,000 votes in the final count. No one has a real ma- * * * ALBERT KLEVEN * * * e x % McCUAIG * *x FARMERS LAND CO. : : : * ¥ Northern Minnesota Lands ¥ & GENERAL MERCHANDISE % +* for sale. Information - re- ¥ & * %« garding land buying cheer- ¥ & * * fully given. + & Dry Goods, Shoes, Groceries ¥ x x X and Proy * ¥ Security State Bank Bldg, * & * *x 2 % & Third St. Bemidji & * Bemidji, Minn. : * * * * ARG R K i&t}*‘%’h&*fl*fl’fl%}*&tfi * * 2 TR E IR AR KK % Send your Mail Orders to % % _GEO.T. 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Mail ¥ Orders given that same ser- % vice you get in person. e ok ok ok ok ko ok ke *x x * BARKER’S * % Third St. Bemidji, Minn. : * AR IR RSS2 2SS S S S S eSS S S S St t] * x * HENRY MILLER, * ¥ MIDWAY GROCERY. x * Groceries *x % Smoked Meats * * Bottled Milk * x Cigars *x * Fruit * * Ice Cream * *x and *x * Con- * * fectionery % * Bread ¥ % Phone 295 814 Beltrami Ave. ¥ AR KK :****fil*fi#&ifi*kilfiiiffii: * ‘Wholesale and Retall. * * * ¥ Fresh candy, best in the ¥ % world, from our own factory. : * * Get wise. It will please ¥ % her to buy her a box of can- % ¥ dy or take her for refresh- % % ments to the x *x * +* BEMIDJI CANDY KITCHEN X 319 Beltrami Ave. * ik****i***ilifii#ii{#fi*k: FAHRHRRRRRR IR 4% MAKER OF SHOES TO b ORDER. ¥k * Repair work neatly done. First class ghoe shining parlors for Ladies and Gen- tlemen. WM. STAKIS: 310 Minneso& Ave. Bemidji, Minn. 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