The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-11-27
FACTIONS OF
s. D. REPUBLICANS
WILL BECOME TWO
Coalition Plans Divide
Them Between Two
Tickets.
WORK OF SYSTEM
Byrne Will Accept Crawford
Else Crawford Might Head
Third Party Ticket.
WORK OF SYSTEM

iilii0 4 oity ilNhSl.
Watertown, S. D.-WhiIe it Will
not be exactly visible to the public
eye for a month or two as yet, the
final alignment for the South Da-
kota primary election campaign has
been practically determined. To the
creditor discredit-of the new
Richards primary election system,
being tried out for the first time, the
various inc sundry factions and ele-
ments in the republican party in this
state are to be reduced to two and
onl ytwo classifications.
At the head OF one of the tickets.
1t is expected. will be United States
Senator Coe /. Crawford. At the head
of the other Will be, il is expected,
Congressman Charles II. Burke OF
the Second South Dakota district. In
the third column, the independent,
will be found all those who fail to
obtain positions in either one or the
other OF the two organized tickets
and who decide to continue their
campaigns by themselves. $3.50.
II constituent ITtS. !
That is has been 10 small ASK to
bring any sort of simple classifica-I
ton out of the political chaos of the
republican party in this state it evil
denced by the existence of the fol-
lowing separate and distinct factions
or elements:
The MISUNDERSTANDING progress
sive republican element.
The Byrne-Norbeck progressive re-
publican element.
The old "stalwart" republican ele-
ment.
The Loucks %ex-populist radical
element.
The Egan personal element.
The Dick" Richards and Scandi-
navian element.
The Bull Moose faction.
1t is now the expectation that the
first WI of the above and the last
will be rallied under a Crawford
Byrne ticket, while the other four
will be ushered into a combination
for the purpose of concentrating op-1
position to the successful Crawford
Byrne candidates.
Due to Primary System.
This amalgamation of conflicting
elements will be due in large part to
the peculiarities of the Richards pri-
mary election system. This plan re-
quires the selection of two proposal
committees" for each party. The state
proposal committees are to be made
up of one members from each county
in the state, and there is to be one
of these committees for" the major
ity' and n for the minority. The
~"majority" and minority" are to be
identified, under the law, from the
last preceding primary. That is to say
the followers of the successful candi-
date for governor i'll the last republic
can primary-who was Governor
Byrne-will be known as the ma
jority" faction, while those adhering
to the next in the g~ubernatorial con-
test in the last primary-who was
George w. Egan-will be known as
the minority. The avowed "stalwart"
candidate in last years primary cam
paign, Judge Gull, ran third, so the
stalwarts are given no place in either
the majority or minority factions.
Now as it happened, "Dick" Rich
ards, the author of the primary. be-
came a candidate for the minority
nomination for governor. This opened
the way to a consolidation of the var
ious elements in the "outs" in the
republican party. 1t was natural that
negotiations should be begun for a
coalition of the Richards, 'stalwart"I
and Egan forces in the minority cam
paign.
Anything To Elect Burke.
The "stalwarts' have been espec-l
tally devoted to their hope of land
ling Burke in the Senate and are will
ing to grant almost everything else
if they carry that point. Richards has
been without a strong Senatorial can
didate to head the minority ticket,
and Egan has been playing a lone
hand unsuccessfully. What more log-t
ical than an understanding to choose
Burse for Senator, Richards for gov
ernor and Egan for congress in the
First district. This, the well-informed
say, is just what has already been
practically determined. Richards has
an elaborate program of his own, but
it is understood hat he and the
others have agreed to allow tho mini
ority proposal committee " deter
mine what the factionai program of
principles shall be. This leaves only
the selection of candidates for CON
gress in the Second and Third dis.
%tricts. in order to complete the i'm
portant parts of the coalition. In the
Second, doubtless Judge McNulty
would be put on the minority ticket
if he would accept, but this is doubt
full. as he has always trained with the
progressive" bunch in this state.
The obvious fact that Attorney-Gen-
eral johnson is slated for the major
ity nomination for congress in the
Second, and the further fact that thel
minority will lay claim to as much
"progressiveness" as the majority,
may possibly induce McNulty to
change his mind.
In the Third it is understood that
Congressman Martin, whose health is
poor. will not be a candidate to sue
Gee dhimself. State Senator J. C. Bar-Il
tine of Lyman county. a proyressjye .