Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1913-12-13
BYRNE SURE OF PLACE.
Said to Exist Among Opponents
of Gov. Byrne.

Sioux Falls. s. D., Dec. 9.-Now that
the political mass meetings have been
held throughout the state and county
and state proposal committeeman of the
various parties and factions have been
elected, interest will center largely in
the makeup of the majority and min
ority republican congressional and state
tickets, which will be selected by the
state proposal committeeman at their
first meeting, to be held at Pierre during
the opening days of January.
That Gov. Frank NJ. Byrne will be Sc
lected to head the majority republican
ticket is assured. One of the leading
candidates for nomination to the Office
of lieutenant governor on the majority
ticket is Ii. p. Packard, of kedfeld, who
for years has been prominent in political
affairs in the state. T. S. Everitt, also
of Redfield, is candidate for the same
office and is seeking the minority repub-
lican nomination. Peter Norbeck, of
Sphinx county, also is candidate for
lieutenant governor. 1t is said that
while the majority state proposal com.
mitteeman from Sphinx county is for the
denomination of Gov. Byrne and Senator
Crawford, he favors the nomination of
| II. p. Packard to the Office of lieutenant
governor. If this report is true Mr.. Nor.
beck will not have the support of the
state proposal committeeman from his
own county, and this may handicap him
in winning the nomination.
1t is conceded that State Treasurer
Ewert will be renominated by the major
ity faction, as will also be the case with
State superintendent Lawrence and
other state officers, who are now serving
their first terms. The nominee for at
torney general of the majority faction
may be either Busbfeld, of Hand coun-
ty, or Caldwell, of Miner county, Ferd
Reiehmann, newspaper man of the
Rosebud country, is making hard fight
for the nomination on the majority ticket
for the position of state auditor.
Richards May Be Minority Choice.
strong sentiment exists in anti
Byrne and anti-Crawford circles through
out the state in favor of the nomination
of r. o. Richards, of Huron, to the Office
of governor on the minority republican
ticket. Mr.. Richards some months ago,
announced his candidacy as the progress
sive republican candidate for governor,
and since that time has developed
strength in all parts in the state. He
was one of the original progressive re-
publicans of the state, and to his person
al work and influence was due the first
progressive republican victory in South
Dakota.
He is widely known as the father of
the progressive republican movement
in South Dakota, and in the past has
spent his money and time freely in ad.
yancing progressive republican princi-
Piles and in boosting into Office men who
stood for the principles espoused by him.
This is the first time he himself has
been candidate at the hands of the
republican voters of the entire state, and
his friends advance many reasons why
it would be the part of wisdom for the
anti-Byrne republicans to nominate him
as the minority republican candidate for
governor, they expressing the utmost
confidence that he is the only man in
the state who can defeat the renomina-
tion of Gov. Bvrne.
Should he be selected as the candidate
of the minority for the office of Cover.
nor, as now seems certain, there would
be clear cut fight between himself and
the present governor, and the battle to
the finish will be well worth watching
by those who enjoy strenuous political
activity.