The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-04-04
GOVERNOR DIX ASKED TO
PROVIDE FOR y MEM PRIMARY
Characterize

New York City. Characterize
ing Tuesdays primaries in New
York county as a farce" Charles
Duell, chairman of the Roosevelt
committee OF the city Of New York,
after a conference with Roosevelt
leaders appealed to Gov. Dix to de-
clare the primary invalid and pro-
vide for a second primary. Samuel
S. Koenig. chairman of the %republi-
can county committee, and William
Barnes, Jr., chairman OF h repub-
lean state committee, both express
ed the opinion that a second primary
would he Illegal.
Leaders of the two factions of the
party cannot agree as to who is re-
sponsible for the failure TO deliver
official ballots at many of the pol
ing places Tuesday. Chairman
Duell insists that the republican
county organization was response
BILE, while Mr.. Koenig declares that
the board OF elections and the Off
cial printers had complete charge of
the printing and distribution of the
ballots.
Chairman Duell's telegram to Gov.
Dix read:
The newspapers without regard
to party or political affiliations, de-
clare that Tuesdays primary cleo
ton in this city and throughout the
state was a farcical breakdown OF
the election law. Great numbers oil
voters were deprived OF the %opportu-
nifty of casting their ballots. The
Official ballots in many election dis
tricts were not delivered at all, and
even in more numerous instances
were delivered shortly prior to the
closing of tne polls. The uneXam'
Piled length of IA feet and the com
plexity OF the ballot in New York
county makes the provision of the
election law for a substitution OF
informal ballots in the absence OF
the formal ballots look like con
scious irony. TIE fact tat where of
fetal ballots We're not supplied M
copy OF the official ballots contain
ing the names to be voted for was
at the polling places, made it physi
cally impossible to "substitute' in
formal ballots. n apter method o
knocking at the supposed rights o
the voter to signify his will at
party primar could not have beer
Devised"
Albany, N. Y.-Governor Dix ha
election in New York. The questio,
is one with which the legislHtur
and courts must deal. This is tn
substance of an opinion given t.
Gov. Dix tonight by Attorney Ger
cral Carmody.
The opinion of the attorney gen
eral was rendered after the govern
or had received a telegram frol
Charles III. Duell of New Yorl
chairman of the Roosevelt committee
protesting against the conditions q
the primaries yesterday and suggest
ing that another primary should b
held to abate the public sense of ou'
rage and to solve an intolerable 81
uation.
GUGGENHEIM HEADS TAFT
DELEGATION FROM COLORAE,
Colorado Springs. = The state +,
publican convention here today s.
lected eight delegates at large
the Chicago national conventio
and Instructed them to vote fC
President Taft, adopted resolution
indorsing the Taft administratic
and chose United States Senate
~Guggenheim as national committe
mar from Colorado. The Taft il
structfons and Endorsement We
adopted by a viva voce vote al
Senator ~Guggenheim was chosen II
tional committeeman over Phlll
Stewart by a vote of 65I to 241.
Never, after the first vote on tel
uorarv chairman. when Thomas
Devine. of Pueblo, the Taft cane
date, was elected over Ben
Griffith, the Roosevelt candidate,