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General election
Collins enters
After the Progressive coalition's preferred candidate William Lee did not win the Republican primary, the Progressive state committee organized to either endorse Republican Eberhart for governor or nominate a candidate of their own. Those in favor of nominating their own candidate won out, and attempted to endorse Hugh T. Halbert and J. F. Jacobson (both of whom refused the honor) before settling on Paul V. Collins, a newspaper editor from Minneapolis.[1] Collins claimed to be among the earliest Roosevelt supporters in the state, having been a potential Republican convention elector for Roosevelt and later serving as a Minnesota delegate to the Progressive Party's national convention. Progressives endorsed the Republican ticket for most other races.
Collins entry was highly controversial. Within days, multiple member of the Progressive Party's state committee resigned in protest[2] and Governor Eberhart issued a statement calling the party's decision to endorse a candidate the "most high-handed form of dictatorship ever exercised in the state."[3] Some losers of Republican primary vowed to stand by the primary results.[4]
- ^ "Collins Nominated for Governor after Jacobson Declined". The Duluth Herald. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ ""Bull Moose" Leaders Quit State Central Committee". The Minneapolis Morning Tribune. 22 September 1912. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Gov. Eberhart Condemns Action of Third Party". The Minneapolis Morning Tribune. 22 September 1912. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Prowler picks wrong home, and gets K.O." The Minneapolis Journal. 29 Jan 1934. p. 1. Retrieved 21 Dec 2022.