The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-11-29
NEXT TUESDAY
Lake County Voters Will Meet
at the Court House to Select
Proposal Committees.


tion law of this state will become oper.
alive for the first time next Tuesday,
Dec. 2. On that date, in accordance
with calls Of the majority and the
minority, the voters of Lake county,
and other counties of the state, afili-
ated with the republican party, will
meet at the court houses in the several
county seats at 9 o'clock in the after
noon as provided by the law. The
majority faction, or element. of the
affiliated republicans comprise those
who approve the existing state admin
I istiation and presumably voted ut the
last state election for the officials com
prising the existing state administra-
ton. On the other hand the minority
element of affiliated republicans is
made up of voters who are opposed to
the existing state administration and
presumably did not vote at the last
election for the officials of the exist
ing state administration. The two
elements of affiliated republicans will
meet at the same time and place in
the court house aud divide into two
bodies in adjoining rooms or ether
wise = majority and minority. Each
body will proceed to elect one member
of the state proposal committee and
also members of the count proposal
committee. one member from each
voting precinct of the county. The
majority body, of course will elect a
member of the majority state pro.
posal committee and members of the
majority county proposal committee,
the minority body electing a member of
the state minority proposal committee
and members of the minority county
proposal committee, making two official
elements of affiliated republicans.
Under the requirements of the
statute the two state proposal com
mitteemen. composed of one member
each from the majority and the minor
ity elements of each county of the
| state, will assemble in the state
house at Pierre on Monday, Jan. 5,
1914, in accordance with the present
ensuing primary election where they
shall meet In separate rooms and pro-
coed to propose majority and minority
candidates for United States senator,
governor and all other state officials.
In Lake county, and likewise ether
counties of the state. the majority
and the minority county proposal
committees, each composed of one
member from each voting precinct of
the county. and elected at the mass
meetings to be held next Tuesday, Dec.
e. shall meet at the court house on
Wednesday, Jan. z, 1914, for the
purpose of proposing majority and
minority candidates for county officials
to be voted upon at the ensuing pri-
mary election to be held in March
succeeding.
There has been some difference of
opinion regarding the unit Iepresen-
tation provided for in the primary
election law, but a recent holding of
the state attorney general is to the
effect that each proposal committee
man, majority and minority. is en-
titled to cast the full vote of his
county cast at the last primary cleo
tion, at the state proposal meeting,
and each precinct proposal committee
man, majority and minority, is en-
titled to cast the entire vote of his
precinct at the county proposal con.
vention. The state proposal commit
teemen from Lake county to the state
proposal convention in Pierre do Let
simply cast one vote each, but they are
each representative of all the republi
cans Of Lake county who voted at the
primary election in Lake county il
1919 for all the republican candidates
for governor that year.
1t has been frequently published Of
late that only enrolled voters could
participate in the proposal meetings
to be held in the several counties oil
the state next Tuesday, but this il
not the case, according to a recent
ruling of the attorney general Al
the meeting to be held in the court
house in Madison next Tuesday, every
republican voter in Lake county il
entitled tn participate in the bushes;
of selecting proposal committees, but
none but enrolled voters are eligible
to serve as proposal committeeman,
either state or county.
The above summary it will be OBJ
served refers to the republican major
ity and minority elements only. Blu
the same rules govern. in the case o
all other parties democrat, prohibi
ton. socialist and otherwise. All ar
required to meet at the same time AM
place and each party and its faction
parcel off and select its proposal com
lmitteemen by the same method, thei