The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-11
POLITICIANS L
WILL BE E
RESERVATIONS WITH
PIERRE HOTELS FOR MEET.
INGS OF PROPOSAL CON-
MITTEE in JANUARY.

Pierre, S. D.-From different
counties over the state the indica-
lions are that most, ii not all the
county proposal committee will take
advantage of the provision of Sec
ltlon l5 of the new primary Act,
which grants TO such newly selected
committees the authority to meet
Officially on the last Friday in De-
icember OF each odd numbered year
Ito propose principles and endorse
candidates for state and congression-
al offices, and to instruct the state
committeeman as to county commit
tee preference for state and
sional places. While this meeting is
made optional, it opens the way to
la lot of political play as the state
proposal committeeman are presum-
ed under the law to carry out the
instructions which come to them
from the county committee Just
prior to the state meeting, as to
choose for state and congressional
places. This meeting has not beer
generously listed in the schedules of
meetings under the law, the general
line up having been a skip from the
mass meetings in December to the
state meeting in January. And in
that connection hotel men say that
they are making daily reservations
of rooms wanted for headquarters by
different delegations or candidates
for the first week in January, which
promises to be a busy one in polti-
cal affairs under the new law which
covers selections of state, county.
Legislative and judicial tickets all
within the compass of one week ON
different dates.
The first meetings for the coming
January will be on the second of the
month being the first Friday of the
month, for the selection of legisla-
tive candidates where the legisla-
tive district is composed of more
than one county. The next meet
ings will be the judicial meetings to
be held in the county of the circuit
which cast the largest vote at the
last election, on Saturday the third,
the first Saturday in the month. The
next will be the general state meet
ing on the first Monday. or the fifth,
with the county meetings on We'd
nesday the seventh. The whole pro-
cedure will keep the proposal COM
miteemen of the different counties
pretty we'll OF the go from Friday
the second OF the month up to We'd
nesday the seventh, to make all their
appointments.
The judicial question promises
some excitement as the holding of
the encouragement appears to have
been that the law could not exact
the impossible of anyone, but in case
it is complied with the candidate
complying to have the right of way.
For instance, if n judicial candi-
date from any of the circuits of the
state is able to secure the required
signatures and get them in for fill
ing in the II day allowed, then any
candidate in that circuit could have
done the same, and the compliance
with the law vas not an impossibility
and it must be complied with. Judi
cial candidates in several circuits are
Arranging to get into line, it being
alleged that n candidate in the
southern part of the state has al
ready arranged an automobile relay
to get his petition to the secretary
of state, and that another has COM
pleted his arrangements for a spec
ial train for that purpose.