The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-23
EARLY STATE
CONVENTION
SOUTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATS ALL
IS IN LINE FOR HEARST.
Martin, Late Candidate for Governor,
in the Race for National Commit
teeman Against johnson and Smith
Fractional Disputes in Evidence
Il Bowler y Tentative Candidate TOE
United States Marshal.
Special to The Journal.

81 9 s
Huron, S. D., Feb. 23.-The Demo-
cratic State Central committee meets
here tomorrow, night under the cali
issued by Chairman Johnson, Iof .lie
purpose Of fixing the date. and naming
the place Of holding the stale s CONVEX lsand
| the first perhaps In March or the first
week in April. to name de DELE gay 70
/ the st. Louis convention, and the sec
ond sometime in the summer, after the
national convention has adopted
platform and named the ea a.lq@
/ for president and vice preslde1nil. NJ,
The Hearst element will control the
| meeting Of the state central commit
l,tee to-morroW night, which means an
early state convention. The state is
solid for Hearst for president.
| Party Factions.
South Dakota has a handful of dem
! ocrats who style themselves reorganlz-
ers They are not the doWn-east re-
/ Organizers, for many Of them are
| numbered among the Hearst boomers,
who represent the Bryan element OF
the party They are men who nave
! a love for office and by kicking out
4 the populists, who are now aVoW vtsl
| democrats. hope to land close to the
/ pie counter in the event the democrats
| are successful in the national electlon.
These men are opposed TO ex-GoV-
ernor Lee, Chairman Johnson OF : the
| state committee, and his brother sen
! ator H. w. Johnson, B. H. Leln, fu-
sion nominee for governor in 1900; IL.
| w. SAWYER, secretary OF the pop rail
way commission: ex-senator Pettl-
grew, W. T. La Toilette, ex-member
of the railway commission; A. u
Hitchcock, nominee for attorney gen
oil inspector, and Senator DAILY, now
editor Of the Aberdeen Democrat
along with many others.
Martins Backing.
John Bowler, Pat Wickham ane
John B. Hanton are laborlng 70 pusI
John w. Martin in the race for ma
tional committeeman against E. S
Johnson. Martin was supposed TO D.
slated for chairman of the state com
mittee in the event of Johnson>s elec
ton to the position Of committeeman
, hut his aspirations for the place ina
!, Johnson is asking for may mean Tn
T election Of some other old-llne demo
q crat to the craftsmanship.
y Ambitions of Bowler and Smith,
4 John Bowler will ask for the posi-
4 ltion Of United States marshal in tn
+ event Of the election Of a democrau
s president, while H. IT. Smith will eS
: beet something equally as good,
e AGAINST that com DlnaIlOll, anu lilic
d up with the democrats who came Int
the party in 1896 by fusion, are sue
d old wheel horses Of democracy as
IS A. Ramsey of Woonsocket, harry n
i Westfall, chairman of the democrat
d club of Sioux Falls and probable non
e inee for governor on the democrat
n ticket; Major c. Boyd Barrett OF Ape
e deem, w. A. Lynch Of this city, e.
! Governor zeibach Of Yankton, Ed1t 6
d Taubman of, Plankington, and; Levi
If III men will be recognized in tt
If committee meeting and the CONVEX
n ton, along with their free SLY
it brethren. They are supporting JONI
is son for national committeeman {
n. the ground that he is entitled to re-
II ognition for the good he has "a ! aG ,ee
y pIished for the party, and that, belr
I'd :. man of means, will be able to plat
t. South Dakota on the map when II
the national committee meets:
ut much interest has not been manifesto
~ in democratic politics in this state
~ several years.