Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-12-30
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@88@WHOS ELECIS lie DELEGATES9 #
The Mitchell Republican, which, unfortunaately for The SATURDAY
4 couple Of questions. the chief and more important of which is us
WIZ are T. select the delegates under this
system Of doing away with the primary
We presume the Republican refers e the April primary, for IA
no effect to- do away with the June primary, if ON
Mitchell contemporary viii pardon Us for offering an answer apart
from that returned by the Aberdeen publication:
,a The suggestion for sd,,a agrss aps sa. upon The 5ma aslsg g e. involves INVOLVES
factions within the party, thus avoiding ! contest and enabling tie
party to know il advance who the delegates are to be, assuming
~ But But going J step further, perhaps the Republican query could
best be answered after the fashion Of the Irishman, by asking an
other. Who selects the delegates, generally speaklngf
Theoretically, Of course, the people do the selecting, but, prac-
ticaly speaking, the selections are made n advance by the sozcalled
observations have been keen enough for it to havesalready compre-
hended this phase Of practical politics
original selections were made by themselves they would do well TO
Be s undedye A.. Our eTs governors ns1ss4 our y congressman ssass en- our aaf.r other : state state
Tor fachonal managers or manipulators, Or by whatsoever name they
mary OF the old-fashioned caucus and convention. The Distinguish
ing difference in the proposals is that they are made with q greater
degree Of care, having reference to the popular vii, when the selec-
ltions are to be passed upon at a primary.
Sometimes the people select a ticket from among the various
case, the original proposals were not the result Of elaboration on
Ithe part Of the people. but rather the result Of an agreement on the
because Of this recognized principle in party government that
Dick Richards incorporated into his primary law that !, provision revision
1as would be made in the open and BY constituted authority,
Our Mitchell IT. lsl. contemporary s,pas4ng AZ I. must ! a,1 be q aware gsars. that d aaIiaIsss, t 1na
40 primary has yet been able TO avoid. The best that we; the PEG
IDLE, can hope for, under existing regulations and methods, rs to be
privileged to make a choice among the proposals that our leaders
ihave thrust upon us.
If men like Jack Lockhart and G H Burke and Governor lsyrns
land Peter Norbeek and Royal G. johnson are willing to trust one
another for square dealing at the. national convention, with. ar
agreement upon a set of proposed delegates then the party within
1.-THE state may be on the highway TO uni6cation. But # those who
1persist on having a fight carry their program through, the sooner
THE different factions get into that form Of preparedness which
IS essential for hard fighting the better for them5-and the worse
for them at the polls in November, 1916. With Mr.. Egan ON one
#Yae, Peter Norbeck on the other, and Dick Richards wherever
lhe wishes to be, for he won't be elsewhere, and the devil not YET
.rai1# fhara * d chance "a Som hpPyvnrkS dnunp the latter part OF
1876.
The Saturday News can express itself thus plainly and unnis
lIakably for the reason that politics does not constitute Its chic
element Of support, and we think in this respect that we can speal
Ifor a large portion of the press of the state. If it were depending
upon political patronage and failing sups''it might insist on
continuation ofathe fight.
And if the fight continues, it may be depended upon, IN on
|opinion, that it will not altogether cease this side Of the closing Q
1.-THE polls next Novemebr.
If that's what the factions want we are in favor Of giving tit
lem and letting 'em have their fill of it while they are at IT.