The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-03-13
PR(GR[}}|T[} WIN
PRIMARY BATTLE
ENpECT TO HAVE 2a6 OUT OF
.isg DELEGs sTi3S IN THE
CONVENTION.
Result Was Unexpected in Many
Quarters, StaIwaits Apparently
Holding Upper Han
Result Was Unexpected in Many

In the face of the big lead the
Stalwarts had through the action of
the county central committees in
choosing solid kittredge delegations
to the April convention, the results
of the primary election held Tues
day was so decisiyely in favor OF the
turned and the convention is safely
in the hands of the Insurgents by a
comfortable majority, almost trhec
hundred out OF the four hundred and
eighty-nine delegates being Claw-
ford men. The Sioux Falls Press
has the following account of the bat
tie, which is probably accurate with
a few minor exceptions.
With reports from all but five
counties at one O'Clock this morning,
the progrcssiyes al yesterdays pri-
maliaS elected 255 delegates to the
republican state convention to .c
held at Huron April 7. This Is a
majority Of nineteen.
-Four Of the remaining counties
are expected to report progressive
delegates, giving the progressiyes a
total of 274, q a majority of So
The Stalwarts carried but six Of
the thirty nine counties holding pri-
maries.
With 100 delegates appointed by
county committees and needing only
t, oh, Al,
first convention, the Staiwarts have
failed. They were able to elect only
55 OF the 223 delegates chosen by the
primaries held yesterday.
The result OF yesterdays primaries
forecasts q sweeping victory for Coy
ernor Crawford over Senator Kilt
redge in the June primary which is
to nominate a republican candidlte
for United States senator.
At one o'clock r. G. Richards. Of
Huron, chairman of the executive
committee of the Roosevelt league
having the progressive campaign in
charge said:
We have in sight 275 delegates
We have swept the state. Our con-
trol Of the first conyention cannot be
disputed. WAen the roll is called
at chat convention ! will not be sur
prsed ii we have as many as 500 del
cgates.
Early in the evening the headquar-
ters OF The Stalwarts i'll Sioux Falls
claimed the state by so majority
-, II 4,
nedy manager OF The l<iytradge
forces, admitted tnat the state was
very close and would give no figures.
This was equivalent, Of course. to
saying 'that the progressives had
won.
Beadle county was all one way and
in Bon liomma the insurgents OBJ
tanned so OF the Is delegates to the
county convention. The city of
Brockings went insurgent and the
county the same way.
In Brown county the result was
very close, and, and though it seems
likely that the total returns viii
show popular majority for the
Crawford forces, the carrying Of
Aberdeen for the stalwarts by small
majorties gave the county to the
stalwarts. The closeness Of the vote
in Brown will be blow to the can
didacy OF j. L. Browne OF Aberdeen
Tor governor
Brule county, considered safe by
the Staiwarts, went insurgent by
something like two to one. Coding-
ten, the home OF w. S. Glass, was
all one way, the 'Tait-Glass' da1c-
gates sweeping the county.
In Deuei the progressive vote is
ooub!e that OF the Stalwarts, the pro
sfessives carrying both wards in
Cleaf Lake.
DAVIDSON county showed a major
lty Oh III the county convention ioI
'Ae otai"arts. me StalWart dele
sa'eS from Mitcheil We're Illegally
llieu' ana 'he pfosfessiyes can OBJ
eain 'ie county II they desire 10y
n lnaA'ns eon,es' n,, ,na' VIII stand IN