The Minneapolis journal., 1904-10-26
TAME CANVASS
IN SOUTH DAKOTA
REAL GOOD FIGHTING IN ONLY
TWO COUNTIES.
Republican Division in Roberts and
Hutchinson Counties Leaves Results
in Some Doubt-Party Is Confident
of Making Clean Sweep in All
Judicial Districts.
Special to The Journal.

Pierre 5. D., Oct. 26.-With only two weeks
before the election leaders find 1t hard to work
Wo counss in Thcs hss
there is no apathy. These are Robs
erts and Hutchinson. In the former there
has been a fight since spring, when two re-
publican tickets were put In the field This
created bitter personal fight among the repub-
lican factions of that county, the one headed by
David Eastman, Frank McNulty and others, and
the other by j., @. Perkins, H. A. Babcock and
others. The Eastman ticket is characterized as
boxers and the Perkins ticket as ''grafters. -
The question of which was regular was taken
before the supreme court, which found for the
Perkins ticket This shut out the other ticket
unless nominated by petition. The petition was
at once circulated and the ticket presented to
the county auditor under the name Of "Roose-
velt independent republican, This, it Is al
legged, was to catch q heavy foreign vote, not
we'll versed in English but which is solid for
Roosevelt, and it it is probable that another ap-
plication will be made to the supreme court to
prohibit the county. auditor from placing the
ticket on the ballot with the word republican,
at its head however qualified
.... Split in Hutchinson.
In Hutchinson county, there a split Of
republican factions headed by D. D. Wipf, the
nominee for secretary of state, on the one side,
and John Schamber, eX-state treasurer, on the
other. The Schamber faction charged trickery
in the convention and bolted, and since has
joined with the democrats IN naming a ticket
composed of part republicans and part demo-
Gratis under the name of independent" The
former treasurer expresses his belief that the
ticket so named will win. But Hutchinson
county is strongly republican, and with can
didate for state office at the head Of the regu-
lar organization, that ticket will most likely
be successful.
For several years, until the death of Judge
Bennett, two of the circuit Judges have been
democrats; the on in the third Watertown
district in which Julian Bennett was twice
elected; the other in the seventh Rapid City
circuit. in which Levi McGee has also held the
office for two terms. The coming election will,
without doubt. place republicans the bench
in every circuit, as the election of McGee in the
last judicial campaign was made possible by re-
publican disaffection in the southern counties;
and the election of Bennett to second term was
account Of the personal unpopuarity Of the
republican nominee. 49,.
Legislature and Capital.
The legislature will be largely republican. The
country west Of the river has been sending more
but far Stanley and Lyman counties are
concerned, the influx Of new settlers seems to
have made them republican. In the Black
Hills section, some of the democrats who have
been successful in the past again candidates,
principal among them being John D. Hale, who
came from Meade county as representative
two years ago, and who is now the democratic
nominee for the senate from the Meade-Butte
district. On the east side of the river, Brule
county has generally sent one or more demo.
cratic representatives. with Bon Homme in the
same class. and citizens Of that county express
a belief that they will do the same this year on
account of local tangles among the republicans.
The capital question is being bitterly fought
on both sides, with both Mitchell and Pierre
claiming victory as certain.
Trespassers Closely Watched.
The state land department is busy looking
after trcsDasseTs state lands. Several mer
are kept in the field all the time, and every
part of the state is being watched In many
ceses the amount claimed by the state is paid
on demand, and in others those who have been
using the lands without authority have to be
fore they will settle. But the work is bringing
results. both in the way of increased revenues
and fewer trespassers. -.
The work of the department is kept well UP
and the fund Is in better shape than ever be-
FORE several counties having paid all the inter
est deferred payments up to the first of the
present year. Counties which have made this
record are Brown, Charles Mix, DAWSON Han
son. Miner, Sanborn Sphinx, Kingusbury and Bor
Homme. The permanent fund is kept drained
to the last cent. st.s -s.
The Roberts county political case has again
come to the supreme court. Two application
of them is to prevent the county auditor from
placing the ballot the ticket nominated by pc
tition as the Roosevelt independent republican
unless the names Roosevelt and republican are
stricken off. The other comes from third
county ticket. which has been nominated by
petition, and to which, it Is alleged. the county
auditor refuses to give any place on the ballot.
The promoters of this ticket are seeking to COM
pei that official to give them representation.