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Show SOCIALISTS LOSE A PROMISING CANDIDATE According to the following letter from M. J. Blackburn he must have been nominated without being tested as to his attitude on tne issuer as set out in tne socialist platform. Mr. Blackburn writes as follows: "I noticed in ths Fast issue of your paper that I ha 1 been nominated county school superin endent on the socialist ticket. I nave been rather a quiet man in politics, but now that my name is published I beg. to inform my friends tnat 1 am a democrat. However I thai'k my socialist f nen Is for the honor they wished to confer upon me." |