The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-04-29
TALK DWIGHT
FOR CONGRESS
SIOUX FALLS MEMBER OF BOARD
OF REGENTS MAY OPPOSE
DlLLON'S RENOMIN. ALTON.

Sioux Falls, S. D.-Although poll
teal affairs in South Dakota probah-
ly will not become active until the
latter part of the summer or during
the early fall months, a great deal
of interest is being taken in the pres
ent p~reliminaries to the big contest
at the next primary election. The
primary election campaign will active
ly open some months before the pri-
mary election.
The preliminaries which now are
being arranged will have important
bearing on the coming primary con-
test. Already the names of a num-
Der of men have beef mentioned for
various state offices on the republic
can ticket, for congressional posi-
lions and for their places which will
he at the disposal of the voters OF
South Dakota next year.
Thus far several candidates have
been mentioned in connection with
the office of congressman from this
(the first) district, which embraces
the more p%opulace counties of the
state, and which contains a number of
cities and towns of Importance, such
os Sioux Falls, Mitchell. Yankton.
Parker, Canton, Nermillion, Center
Vile, Beresford, Elk Point and Ar
mour. The present congressman is
Judge C. III. Dillon, of Yankton, who
is affiliated with the republican parry.
Congressman Dillon has not yet pub
licly stated whether or not he will
be a candidate to succeed himself.
The latest to be mentioned in con-
nection with the office of congress-
man from the district is T. w. Dwight
a prominent business man of Sioux
Falls and one of the leading repub-
licans of the state. He is Il memDei
of the state board of regents, and as
his official duties take him to all
parts of the state he enjoys a wide
acquaintance, especially throughout
the first congressional district. He
has been actively identified with the
commercial interests of the south
ern section of the state for a period
of more than twenty-five years. He
is Tery popular among a wide circle
OF acquaintances. and is especially
strons with the hundreds of travel
ing men, who each week day visit
every town and city in the district.
and who it is said. if he decides to
become a candidate for the congress-
ional nomination on the republican
ticket. will do valiant work in his
behalf.
Prohibition and Equal Suffrage.
Now that the anti-saloon forces
have received new announcement
from the result throughout South Da-
kota of the recent city and town cleo
lions on license, at which the drys
made great gains in every part of the
state, the anti-saloon forces will with
renewed energy take up the fight
in behalf of the proposed amendment
to the state constitution providing
for statewide prohibition, which will
be submitted to the voters of South
Dakota at the general election next
year.
The anti-saloon forces, with more
than a year intervening until the vot-
ers of the state express themselves
on the proposition to make the entire
state dry. are exceedingly confident
that when the voters have an oppor-
ltunity to express themselves the state
will take it's place with other prohi-
bition states of the union.
With the object Of bringing this
about the anti-saloon forces will from
this time until the polls close at the
general election of 1916 wage an UNI
~ceasing fight in behalf of statewide
prohibition. 1t is expected that those
who oppose statewide prohibition
will accept the gauntlet thus thrown
down, and also will in the near flu
ture open an active campaign hav-
ing for it's purpose the defeat of the
proposed statewide prohibition amend
ment.
The fact that South Dakota has an
unusually large proportion of Ger
man-American voters, who are al
most solidly opposed to prohibition
will leave the fight for statewide pro
hibition in doubt until the votes cas-
at the election next year are counted
and III result of the balloting OF
statewide prohibition announced.