Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1913-12-12
BYRNf SURE
OF PLACE
DAKOTA GOVERNOR SLATED TO
GET DENOMINATION.
RICHARDS may OPPOSE
STRONG SENTIMENT IN FAVOR OF
THE NOMINATION OF HURON MAN
IS SAID TO EXIST.

ID NAIU III fAISl.
Sioux Falls, 8. D.. Dec. l2.-Now
that the political mass meetings have
been held thruout the state and county
and state proposal committeeman of
the various tarties and fractions have
oeeh elected. interest will center large
" In the makeup of the majority and
minority 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
selected to head the majority republi.
can ticket is assured. One of the lead
ing candidates for nomination to the
office OF lieutenant governor ON the
majority ticket is H. P. Packard, of
Rsdfield, who for years has been prom
inent In political affairs In the state.
7. 8. Everitt, also of Red6sld, is can.
didate for the same office and is seek.
Ing the minority republican nomina.
tton. Peter Norbeck, Of Sphinx county,
also ts candidate for the majority
nomination to the office of lieutenant
governor. 1t is said that while the ma
jority state proposal committeeman
from Sphinx county is for the renomi-
nation Of Gov. Byrne and Senator
Crawford, he favors the nomination Of
II. & Packard to the office Of lieuten.
ant gosernor. II this report Is true
Mr.. Norbeck will not have the support
of the state proposal committeeman
from his own country, and this may
handicap him In winning the nomins.
tion.
It is conceded that State Treasurer
Ewert will be renominated by the ma.
jority 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 attorney general of the majority
faction may be either Bushfield, Of
Hand county, or Caldwell, of Miner
county. Ferd Reichmann, newspaper
man Of the Rosebud conntry, is max.
ing hard fight for the nomination on
the majority ticket for the position of
state auditor.
RICHARDS MAY BE MINORITY CHOICE.
A strong sentiment exists in anti.
Byrne and anti Crawford circles thru.
out the state in favor of the nomina.
tion 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 progressive republican candi.
date for governor, and since that time
has developed strength in all parts Of
the state. He was one of the original
progressive republicans OF the state
and to his personal work and influence
was due the FIRST progressive republi
can victory In South Dakota.
He is widely known as the father ol
the progressive republican movemen,
In South Dakota, and in the past has
spent bis money and time freely in sd
vsncinR progressive republican princi
pies and In boosting into Office me1
who stood for the principles espoused
by him. This is the first time he him
self has been candidate at the hands
of the republican voters of the entir.
state, and his friends advance man,
reasons why 1t would be the part ol
wisdom for the snti-Byrne republican.
to nominate him as the minority repub
lican candidate for governor, they OK
pressing the utmost confidence that b,
is the only man in the state who cal
defeat the denomination Of Gov. Byrne
Should he be selected as the candi.
date Of the minority for the office o.
governor, es now seems certain, ther,
would be clear cut fight between
himself and the present governor, ant
the battle to the finish will be vel
worth Watching by those who enjo,
strenuous political activity.
FIRST TEST OF NEW PRIMARY.
The county political mass meeting
furnished the first actual test of tn,
workings Of the Richards primary cleo
tion law. While In some quarters Their
have been criticisms of this feature O
the law. the voters of the state general
} ly appear to have been satisfied tha
the new law 10 vast improvement owe
past election laws which have been II
force in South Dakota.
County auditors thruout the state