The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, July 12, 1920, Page 4

{ % i f { { | | | What Is the NeXt Move in M1nnesotaP‘"" L.eaguers Meetmg in aneapolls to-Decide Upon Attltude of = _ Farmers in the Fall Campalgn e £ S THIS issue of the Nonpartisan Liéader is being printed, Minnesota Leaguers are meeting in Minneapolis, July 7, to decide what the organization shall do in ‘the fall campaign. Official.election returns, compiled since the last issue of the Leader was printed, show in still" stronger terms the strength.of the League and the narrow margin by which League candldfites for state office were defeated. When the last issue of the Leader was pnnted the election returns showed Tom-Sullivan, League- labor candidate for attorney general, leading his field, with votes ‘sufficient to give him 'a plurality of 2,500. It appeared that Sullivan was nominated, alone of the League candidates for state office. The St. Paul Dispatch and Minneapolis Jgurnal admit- ted ‘Sullivan’s’ nomination in their. afternoon edi- tions. But the next morning the sfl:uatmn was changed The St. Paul Pioneer Press: and Mlnneapohs Tribune came out, in their morning editions, with the statement that a “mistake” of 4,000 votes had been-found in St.” Louis ' county, the stronghold of the steel trust. The result of this “mistake” is to give Hilton the nomina- tion for attorney ‘gen- eral by 1,622 votes. St.~Louis 'county 'is known in Minnesota as the source [of ~many “mistakes.” = In past elections it has been the rule to hold: :back :St. Louis. re- turns until all.the rest of the : state ~had reported, then, if the gang found ‘that more votes were needed to win for any office, St. Louis county generally furnished them. b How many frauds there have . been in this year’s primary there is no telling. 'There have been reported to the Leader numerous instances of voters favorable to the League:-being refused Republican ballots. On the other hand, the results of the election 'show - plainly that thousands ‘of Democratic -voters went. into the Republican "pri- maries to vote for Preus, just as the old-line Democrats ‘went-into the Republican primaries two /i years ago to vote for./Burn- quist. R ¢ -DEMOCRATS ‘VOTED : TO BEAT LEAGUE The “normal Democratic vote iu Minnesota ranges from' 70,000 to. 100,000.: 'On the other hand, in the recent primary, a total of-only 28,-: - 663, Democratic votes were cast among the seven Democratic can- didates for governor, and Demo- crats in’private conversations and in letters to anti-League papers have . boasted, since. the primary, that they voted Republican tickets to defeat the Leagué candidates. Besides the “mistake” of 4,000 votes in the St. Louis’ county vote on attorney general, numerous ir-:, regularities have beendiscovered in the election, sufficient to sustain a contést if it is.decided to fight: the issuein the courts. In Luverne re- ports from one ward are that.no’ balloting booths were provided; so that voters had no chance {o mark their ballots i private; as reqtired by law, while in both’this’ precinct and the otlier Luverne precmct, ad-~ ? the 1918 primaries. visory ballots markeé for Preus ang_l other steel trust _candidates were given out in wiolation of the law. “In Pine county Bert Cole, League candidate for thé legislature, was reported to have lost the nomi- nation by one vote on the face of returns, although Shipstead carried the county. Cole has already dis- covered one “mistake’” of nine votesin favor of his opponent, which will give the League man-a lead of cight votes'if it can be rectified, and is preparing ta bring a contest, As reported in the last i Jssne, the League carned 54 counties for Shipstead for governor and in 78 counties has candidates for the legislature on the fall election ballot, which apparently insures a leg- islature controlled by the people, ' i The questlon that the Leaguers are decxdmg at Minneapolis is wWhether an independent ticket of state candidates shall be put in the field ‘to work with the people’s legislators. The narrow margins by which League candidates Thm map shows at a glance the tremendous gains made by the Le&gue in the last election. The 30 counties shown in black were carried by Lindbergh, League candidate for governor,.in In-the 1920 primaries: Doctor _Shipstead carried all these counties and | in addition the 24 conntxes marked with cross lmes, a total of ‘54 of the 86 countles of the state.” HOW MINNESOTA VOTED were defeated, in splte of the Democrats votmg the Republican tlcket, is_shown by :the official retums_ for League candidates, as follows: Govemor—-—Shlpstead -125,087; lost by 8,499. ¢ Ljeutenant governor—Mallon, 137,905;- lost by 17,196, - — Secretary: of State——Vollom, 111 422' lost by 32, T 998, State Treasurer—-—Lund 136,249; lost by 16,639. ~Attorney General——Sulhvan, 117 061' lost byf 1,622 «. In the : second congressxonal d\stnct Fuller, League, lost by only 2,067 out of 29,000 votes cast. In' the ninth congressxonal dlstnct Thormodson, League, lost by only 843 vyotes, w1th over 80,000 votes cast. . RETURNS SHOW LEAGUERS CAN WIN IN FALL ELECTION Yn 2ll of these would“have won, but for the anti-League Demo- crats who voted in the .. The question-that ILea- _ . guers are now determin- ing is whether they shall . publicans and Democrats @ will be voting their own. and with the = tickets “farmers and labor men -/ behind ‘a“ ticket of their ~ seem to be assured. "~ Of the League’s win- = ning candidates Rev. O. - congress-in ‘the seventh district, beat Congress- man Volstead on the official re- supreme court justice, also wins.a . ‘man nearly 4,000 votes. the League ticket: are shown ‘on-the map on - this page, by Shipstead. . ‘In addition Sullivan for at- torney general home of Judge Dean. andE H. Nxcholas, and othier counties. - Of ‘the 54 counties eamed by thpstead Brown county; with a plurality of 1,462, and Kandiyohi county, with a plurality of 1,445, gave the League ticket the biggest leads, Pennington "county, with ‘a vote of 1,418 “for Shipstead to 375 for Preus—nearly 4-to-1—gave: _the League ticket the largest proportionat€ vote. - Sibley, with 1,454 for Shipstead and 464 for Preus .~ petter than 3-to-1—Was next, and Brown county; 2,172 to 710, also better than 3-to-1, was third. . Seven other’ counties — Chippewa, = Clearwater, Douglas, Isanti, Kandiyohi; Mahnomen and Swift ——gave Shlpstead better:than a 2-to-1 vote. With results like these who can doubt what thef';" answer of the Leaguers will be as to the advxsabxhty o of gomg on with the fall campaign? Twin Cities. £ for the pubhcatlon of the :Minne- mary switched from the /= machine "column to the Twu.y Cltles be ‘7 races League candidates probably * Republican primaries. run candidates for these offices in the fall election on an independent ticket. . ““In the fall old-line-Re- ; “holding their vote solidly = own, its. success would,, ' J. Kvale; candidate for - turns 17,369 ‘to 15,059. S1egel for place on the ticket, beating the next he These are .the counties carried » carned Jackson ~county, Besides all other advantages which the TLeaguers will have in the fall will be that" of having’ their own daily paper inithe - Plans’ are being made' ‘apolis Dally Star’ in the early ' fall, in plenty of time_ to - be a big force in the cam- paign.- County after, ‘county in the recent pri- - League column on: .ac-: ‘count of a fnendly local paper, What will theef- = “fect of a big: dally in the S Y \ " The 54 counties whlch gave plurahtles to i 7 : . . ’ PAGEFOUB A (e Snd e -