The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-09-15
ROOSEVELT AS
A ONIZER
Ex-PREsIDENT'S VISIT HELPS RE-
PUBLICAN
FACTIONS TO
AND PRESENT A UNITED FRONT
IN COMING CAMPAIGN.

1t can be stated upon authority that
the leaders of the republican party in
South Dakota, members of both fac
tons, expect the party ticket to be
elected in the state this fall by the
usual plurality, says an Aberdeen dis
patch. This mears By from 5000 to
80, 900 over their democratic oppo-
lnents, and it includes the entire tick.
ct, the candidates for congress, who
are stalwarts, as we'll as the candi-
dates for state offices.
w. w. Soule, democratic candidate
for congress-, and Chauncey Wood
democratic candidate for governor, are
attempting to spread the impression
that factional differences in the re
publican ranks will cause the sta
warts to bolt Wesley, on the one hand.
and the progressives to bolt the con
g~ressional candidates on the other
hand. This is Shrewd politics IN the
part Of the democratic candidates, of
course, but republicans who are in
touch with the situation declare there
is nothing to it,"
A few progressive newspapers have
shown a tendency to kick over the
traces so far as the candidates for
congress are concerned, but the mem
hers of that faction show little in
clination to follow their advice, and
most of the editors themselves have
since said their attitude was misun-
derstoOd.
Sioux Falls last Saturday has had a
tendency to add to the get together
feeling on the part of the ]factionists,
for, in addition to explaining that in
surgents are "proGressivCS with the
bride off" he told a 81 ux Falls news
paper man, who repeated the advice
to the readers of his paper that a
party primary is supposed TO solve
factional differences, and all members
of the party should accept in good
faith, the result of the primary cleo
ton.
Except for the few progressive
newspapers noted, the republican
papers have generally expressed a
desire to drop factional disputes in
support of the whole ticket.
Such stalwart papers as the Dead
wood Pioneer-Times, the Pierre Dako-
tan, the Aberdeen News and the Sioux
Falls Argus-Ieader have been out
spoken in their expression of the be-
lief that it was time to drop the fac
tional dispute and give earnest sup
port to the entire ticket. and progress.
sive papers like the Yankton Press
and Dakotan and the Mitchell Rapub-
lican have given expression to similar
views.
The republican party Of South Da.
kota is more harmonious, in truth,
than it has been at any other time
since the fight between Coe ]. Craw'
ford and A. B. Kittredge.
The state central committee does
not intend starting an active cam
paign until about Oct. 1. In the mean
time, the committee is compiling its
campaign book and is securing and
routing speakers. Early in October
the campaign will be actively on and
the democrats, who profess extreme
hopefulness, will be given all the en-
tertainment they want until the No
vember election.
The state central committee, while
made up Of a majority OF progressives
will conduct the campaign in the in
~terests Of Congressman Burke and
Martin as enthusiastically as it viii
for the state ticket.