Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-09-24
LOUCKS o. PENS HIS
STATE CAMP PAIGN
FOR U. S. SENATE
VIII Speak Twice a Day
Until Election Plans
WhirIwind Finish
THINKS RICHARDS WINNER
AT NOVEMBER ELECTION
Party Lash Has Lost It's Snapper in
South Dakota, Says the sen
lsS atorial Candidate.

{ b {af atoriai sCandldaTe.
z Hon. HI. L. Loucks, independent
candidate for the United States sen
ate, starts out this week for a cam
paign tour of the entire state. He
will enter upon u speaking campaign
and little later EXPECTS ito make
two speeches day. For the most
part he will speak in the school
houses in the rural communities
Progressive Endorsement.
Mr. Loucks, it VIII be interesting to
his friends and neighbors in Coding-
ton county to know, where he has
resided for SO many years. received
the unanimous endorsement OF the
progressive party committee, other
wise known as the bull moose com
mittee, and will be placed in the In
dependent-progressive column along
with the other progressive candi-
dates. #
r. e.. Dowdell, who was nominated
for the senatorship at The state con-
yention of progressives, has formally
Withdrawn i'll order that there may be
opportunity for the distinctiyely pro-
gressiye elements within both the
democratic and republican parties, to
concentrate their efforts upon a single
candi idate. Mr.. DoWdsH IN With
drawing, END dorsed the proposition to
substitute Mr.. LDueks FOR himself as
the party nominee 81
In this connection ii may be stated
that H A. Ustr,ud, who was state
sup erlntendenH Of Spu Sic 2ins truetion
for foul. years as a republican, but
who was nominated bg The progress,
siVes fol; congress, has also With
drawn and hat tIelil. A Nan0 0sdel,
Of ankton county the home os Con
aressman ;EI. Dillon tho republican
noraSpee, has l,een tsased FOR
Mr.. strtidS IL III t5sErud,s en-
dorsement.
NhirlWind i+inish, Says Loucks
Mr.. Loucks stated to a Saturday
News representative, Just before
starting on his campaign tour, that
the committee is planning a most
aggressive campaign \
ous see, me continued, through
the spirit of cooperation on the part
of those having true progressive
principles uppermost in their minds,
there has been an ANAL lgamation of
both wings of the genuine progress
sives Of the state within the lines
OF both the old parties. We shall
let the presidential matter take care
of itself when the tine comes. that
doesn't concern us Just now.
Roosevelt and LaFoltette Wings.
we have the cooperation of what
we may characterize as the Roose-
welt and the LaFollette wings of the
party, Mr., Loucks went on to say.
"Mr. Richards and Mr.. Van OsdeI,
with Mr.. Packard, not to say myself,
represent the aggressive LaFollette
element, referring especially to con-
tests that have passed into history.
The other portions of the ticket
represent the distinctivelg Roose-
velt element.
Predicts Richards Election.
aBut let me digress right here long
enough to say to you that, in my
humble opinion, Mr. Richards will be
the next governor Of South Dakota.
THE vote in the March primaries
WIS NSF y ssld SBly d y Glty siuus5st stOANil
vote The rural communities, as you
viii observe BY a perusal of the Of
fetal returns, were but very slightly
represented in numerical strength
Both factions within the party
obviously made strenuous efforts to
enroll all the republican electors, and
the result was that substantially
$4,000 were enrolled as republicans.
Out of these rs, 900 registered re-
publ licans, only about 45,000 attended
the polls, this representing the vote
on the head of the ticket for both
candidates for the United States SEN
atorship at the close of a very heats
led and A very aggressive campaign.
This leaves thirty odd thousand
republican votes unaccounted for.
They were the stay-at-home vote. If
they intended TO cast votes as re-
publicans the coming fall 1t IL reason.
able to assume that they would have
made some effort to attend the pri-
mary polls.
But be that as il may. the repub-