The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-25
NEW DEFECT IN
RICHARDS PLAN
FOUND LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL
MEN MUST BE IN TWO PLACES
AT UNt Il.

Aberdeen, S. D.-The most seriou.
defect yet discovered in the Richard,
primary law, has been found by at.
torneys of Dewey and Ziebach coun.
ties. and it is stated that an action
may be brought to have the statute
declared unconstitutional, as depriv.
ing the two counties named of their
right to representation at county pro
poSal committee meetings.
Section ga of the Richards law
states that:
Committee Proposal, Legislative
District Meetings in Legislative dis
tricts composed of more than one
county, the members of the majority
and minority proposal committees OF
each OF said counties in said legis-
lative district shall assemble in the
county having the largest vote at Tic
last general election. and at tho
places fixed for holding the county
meetings as provided for i'm section
% of this act, and on the first Fri
day in January of each even nll-
bered year. at one o'clock p. NJ. ana
dt SAID meetings so held. the mem
bers thereof present shall propose
the legislative candidates of said leg
'oNii1 j II tIlC lOiIl pIONl(tO
for proposals OF candidates i'm section
SO OF this act, and file said proposals
with the county auditor of the county
OF said legislative district where the
meetings are held as part of the COM
mite proposals OF the majority or
minority committees of said countics
II for said district"
AS shown by chapter II of the
In uS nt 1N ,.,...:J .-.-
Al, consists of the counties
OF eMade IL Iiebach, and is cntitl-
led to II senator. and the county
proposal committeeman of Zinhach
county. under the provisions Of the
richards law. are required to I've ~
Sturgls, on the second day of Janu-
airy, 1914, 1T one O'Clock p. Nj. or he
deprived OF their representation,
Must BE Elsewhere.
The same statute, however, states
That representative district No. 5S,
consists of the counties of Dewey
and Ziebach, and that the same pro-
posal committeeman from Iiebach
county, to be entitled to a choice for
representative from that district,
must be in Timber Lake on the sec
ond OF January, at the same time,
ma IL is manifest that ii is impossi-
bic for them TO be in both places,
hundreds of miles apart, at tho
hour of the same day.
Inc same chapter provides that
district NO. SO SHAH consist OF the
OF Dewey, Faulk and Pot
er, and as Faulls, at the last cleo
ion, had the greatest number OF
votes, the precinct proposal commit
eelnen from Dewey and Potter
counties must be at Faulkton on
January second, at one p. NJ, to en-
torse candidates for senator. This
makes 1T necessary for the precinct
proposal committeeman of Wal
worth county to be in both Faulktor
Timber Lake at one o'clock p
W., on January second, and lit j.
that this is impossible; vet.
they are not in both places, tlic1
will be deprived of a right
VI choice or either representative @!
enator.
Again. it is pointed out that zic.
zach and Walworth county precinc,
proposal committeeman are required
o be in Bison, 60 miles southwest
IT Lennon, on the first Saturday Of
anuary, January 3rd, or their u |
les Will be given no voice in the
holce of a circuit JUDGE. mi it is !
lain that it is impossible for. 1e~,,
o be II either Faul5ton or Tila6,-l
lake, as the case may be. AZ enc
clock Friday afternoon, and - =,
at II O'Clock Saturday af,cY-