The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-06-30
STATE CONVENTION GOSSIP.

A Sioux Falls dispatch says that
political interest in South Dakota, now
that the primaries are over with, cen
tiers in the republican state conven-
ton, which will be held in Sioux Falls
on July 5 for the purpose of adopting
a party platform and t~ransacting such
other business as may lawfully come
before it. The date for the conven-
ton is fixed by the primary state law.
The convention will be called to
order at four o'clock in the afternoon.
Will the convention indorse the Taft
administration? This appears to be
about the only questi n of Importance
to come before the convention.
IT. is generally believed that there
is not the slightest doubt that the
convention will indorse the admins
tration of President Taft. Thus far
not a single man Of prominence in
either the stalwart or the progressive
factions has publicly said a word in
opposition to such Endorsement.
That the platform adopted will in
dorse the national administration, and
that it will be adopted without a dis
senting vote appears certain at this
time. But what is known as Cannon
ism will not, of course, be Endorsed by
the progressive republican majority in
the convention. If Cannonism is re-
ferred to at all in the platform 1t will
be denounced. 1t is possible that the
platform will be silent on this issue.
There is expected to be little or no
friction between the stalwart and pro-
gressive republican delegates to the
convention in agreeing upon a plat
form which will be satisfactory to both
wings of the party, and if this proves
to be the case it will be the first i'm
portant step toward uniting the re-
publican factions n South Dakota and
enabling the members of the factions
to unite and wage an aggressive fight
for re~publicanism.
Political matters, following the con-
yention on July 5, will remain quiet
i'm South Dakota until the latter part
of August or beginning of September,
when the campaign eliminating in the
election in November will open. That
the republican ticket nominated at the
primaries on June Z, and which Is
made up of both stalwart and progress
siye republicans, will sweep the state
is assured. The only question is as
to the size of the majority by which
the republican congressional and state
ticket will be elected.
AS an outgrowth of the June prlmar-
les, when thousands of democrats
openly voted the republican ticket Tor
the purpose of aiding in placing VIVA
they regarded as the weakest candl'
date at the head of the republican tic
ket, in order to better their nance
of their own candidates at the NO
yember election, there Is a strong SEN
timent among republicans in this state
in general favor Of the amendment by
the next legislature Of the primary
election law so as to reduce to the
minimum the number of democrats
who at future primary elections Will
be able to take part in the selection
of republican tickets. Just how this
can be prevented has not yet g de-
cided, but 1t is likely that before the
legislature meets some statesman Will
evolve a plan by which democrats In
general can be made to play In their
own back yard and not interfere In the
future with the making up Of republi-
can tickets.