The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1912-05-24
YOUNG DE ENOCRATS
Of SOUTH DAKOTA
QUIT THE BOSSES
Inside Report OF ihe Mitchell
Neutrality-suspicious. Ey-
posed Is Party
Enemy.
CLARION CALL SENT OUT
Aim Of Johnson Democrats Is
TO Free Party From Bosses
As Explained BY One Of
Them.
CLARION CALL SENT OUT
Special Correspondence to The Sioux
City Tribune.

Special Corre spondcncc TO The Sioux
City Tribune
The dispatches TO the outside paDers
covering the meeting OF the democratic
state committee held at Mitchell on the
second day OF May cid net tell the in
side story of the situation IN the ranks
OF that party.
The meeting resulted In the complete
and final separation OF the young. pro-
Rressive democrats Of the state from
the old leadership under Pettigrew,
Wlckhenn, Bowler and Lee. Heretofore,
and for years Pettigrew has been
served by the young aemocracy, head
ed by Ed Johnson and others, who
have responded TO his every coil with
fortitude and loyalty seldom
equaIled. but these young democrats
have determined to mobilize their
forces irto new and greater eemoc-
racy which shall mean something bet
ter than subseIviency to few out-ot-
date leaders who have ranaged and
still desire TO manage party affairs for
their personal ends. Lee was the IDOL
or this young element In former years
because they believed him sincere, but
within the last three months he has
been first for Bryan. then for Wilson
and now as a result OF a. midnight
trade with PcttiGrew, has become q
vacillating attitude appears 10 have
lost him the conndenoe md respect OF
those who were HIS former friends and
supporters and his late humiliating
surrender 20 the dictation Of PettiGrew.
brought about through HIS unaccourt-
able conversion TO the Wickhem- Row
Ter faction. and aRitated bv his auli-
tton TO become United States senator
~ Pettigrew is chosen n member of the
Clark cabinet has placed him firmly
in the ranks OF his fo~rner foes
pettiqrew Called the Meeting.
The committee wns called together on
the peremptorv ordar OF Pett.grew who
paid for the 1ith hour tolorra'nc sent
out by Chairman Lyons. PcttiErew had
neglected 20 make arrHnge,ncrts 10 get
q set Of straight Clark delegates filed,
presuming that he could command
either block of delegates previously 2 Sc
lected when he was ready. lie de-
mandcd that n preferential primary OF
the democrats he called TO rcttlc the i9-
sue between Wilson a-a Clark. This.
however. was makeshift 20 save Lee
the humiliation os floppinG. for It IS
well known that before the committee
meeting was called Pettigrow had tho
pledge of Lee to flop 10 Cork IL the
committee tailed or refused TO fur
l.sii IEe former goVerno. means OF
escape from the fatal mistake Of de-
tlering for wilson before he had heard
from the boss.
On the floor during the committee
meeting Pettigrcw placed hillsef and
the power OF the Hearst political ma
chine with its money. literature and
speakers on tho auction block by de-
clsring twice that he would support
the Delegates who would renounce VIII
son for Clark. 1t is doubtful sc a more
pragen piece OF political merchamdis-
Ing was ever before Witnessed 1t was
pot done with the expectation that tho
Wilson men would come to him, fo1
Pettigrew bfmself was responsible foI
the inception OF the Wilson Increment
in South Dakota He wrote letters Il
many OF his old rtipporers. after HIS
visit TO Wilson last Novomber extoll-
ing the virtues cf the New Jersey gov.
ernor, and expressing qualification that
his old friends in South Dakota had
taken up Wilson's cause Later hi
suflcred a change of heart al the cal
~ Hearst. His discovery of wilson:
alleged unhiness was an after thought
Cor II does little credit TO his intelli
kence TO say that he was not familiar
with Wilson's writings and speeche!
until after he had announced his in
fention TO support Wilson. No soonc
ksd he taken his Job with the Hears
machine than he began a campaign il
eorth Dakota for an uninstructed dele
cation 10 Baltimore. At the Pierr,
conference his strikers worked consist
emily TO that end. The motive for thii
NAV be explained by the fact tha
Pet.iSrew for the last eight years ha,
bee Hearst walking delegate. An un
''rcted delegation from South Da
~ might therefore mean Clark. =
:. f desired II. or Hearst h.msel
II we're wanted, but 1t would be q
nfs a trading delegation to b.
or Psttigrew ana tre Hearst ma
The present situation shows that