The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-12-10
PROPOSED COMMITTEES
Primary Election Law Requires
Them to Meet on
Dec. 26th

Pierre, Dec. 10.-From reports from
different counties over the state the
indications are that most, if not all
the county proposal committees will
take advantage of the provisions of sec
ton fifteen ct the new primary act,
which grants to such newly selected
committees the authority to meet
officially on the last Friday in De-
cember of each odd numbered year to
propose principles and endorse candi-
dates for state and congressional
Offices, and to instruct the state com
mitteemen as to county committee
preferences for state and congressional
places. While this meeting is made
optional, it opens the way to a lot of
political play as the state proposal
committeemen are presumed under
the law to carry out the instructions
which come to them from the county
committees Just prior to the state
meeting, as to choose for states and
congressional places. This meeting
has not been generally listed in the
schedules of meetings under the law.
the general lineup having been a
skip from the mass meetings in De-
cember to the state meeting in Janu-
arv, and in that connection hotel
men say that they are making daily
reservations Of rooms wanted for
headquarters by different delegations
or candidates for the first week in
January, which promises to be a busy
one in political affairs under the new
law which covers selections of state,
county. legislative and judicial tickets
all within the compass of one week
on different dates.
The first meetings for the coming
January will be on the second of
the month, being the first Friday of
the month. for the selection of legisla-
tive candidates where the legislati We
district is composed of more than one
connty. the next meeting is to be the
judicial proposal meeting to be held
in the county of the circuit which
cast the largest vote at the last cleo
ton, on Saturday the third, the first
Saturday 10 the month. Next being
the general state meeting on the first
Monday, or the fifth, with the county
meetings on Wednesday the seventh.
The whole procedure keeping the pro
posal committeemen of the different
counties pretty we'll on the 20 from
Friday, the second of the month up to
Wednesday. the seventh, to make all
their appointments.
The judicial question promises some
excitement, az the holding of the at
torney general appears to have been
that the law could NOT exact the i'm
posi- BILE of anyone. but in case it is
complied with the candidate complying
to have the right of way. For in.
stance, if IN judicial candidate from
any of the circuits of the state is
able to secure the required signature s
and get them in for filing in the one
day allowed, then any candidate in
that circuit could have done the same,
and the compliance with the law was
not an impossibility. and it must be
complied with. Judicial candidates
in several circuits are arranging to
get into line, it being alleged that
one candidate in the southern part OF
the state having already arranged an
automobile relay to get his petition tc
the secretary Of state. and that an.
other has completed his arrangements
for a special train for that purpose.