Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-04-08
STATE POLITICS
The Republicans Generally are Well Sat.
isfied With the Outlook.
cratic Situation.

Sioux Falls, S. D., April 3-With
| only about seven weeks intervening un-
| til the primary election on May 23rd
| when complete congressional aud state
ticket and candidates for county Offices
will be placed in nomination throughout
South Dakota, the republicans generally
are we'll satisfied with the present har-
moGious condition of the party.
This is the first primary campaign for
eight or ten years in which the two fac
tions of the republicans have not been
arrayed against each other, each with a
full list of candidates for state places in
the field. This year there are no regu-
lar stalwart republican candidates, the
two factions having united upon Peter
Norbeck, lieutenant governor of South
Oak kota, for nomination to the office of
governor. Practically all of what are
known as the stalwart republican news
papers of South Dakota now have come
out in support of the candidacy of the
lieutenant governor. The latest news
paper of this faction to indorse the can
didacy Of Mr.. Norbeek is the Webster
Reporter and Farmer, which in past
campaigns has been one of the most ag-
gressive and most influential of the
newspapers OF luls IaCtlOn.
1t is generally believed that the state
gathering of republicans called by Ma
tional Committeeman Charles II. Burke,
to be held at Mitchell on April 7th, will
have no bad effect on the present har-
monious conditions which prevail among
republicans of South Dakota in general,
as the gathering will not affect in any
way the congressional or state ticket of
the party, the purpose being, it is under
stood, to contine itself solely to the ques-
ton of delegates to represent the repub-
licans of South Dakota at the republican
national convention at Chicago.
Democratic Situation.
There have been no developments
during the past week in democratic cir
cles throughout the state, interest of the
democratic voters being centered in, the
contest for nomination to the Office Of
governor between two candidates, +. ID.
Morcom, of Sioux Falls, and 0rvIlIe V.
Rinehart, of Rapid City, state represent
ative from Pennington county.
o. ID. Anderson, of Plankinton, who
formerly was mentioned as democratic
candidate for nomination to the Office Of
governor, has been indorsed by the
democrats OF his home county (Aurora)
for nomination as the democratic candi-
date for congress in the first district.
A number of the democratic candi-
dates have as yet done little in the way
of campaigning but it is said they will
in the near future commence an active
canvass of the state.
A proposition made by Editor Dayen-
port, Of the Vermilion Plain Talk, one
of the leading democratic newspapers OF
the state, that state convention of dem
ocrats be held to promote better har-
mony among the members of the party,
has not been strongly indorsed else
where in the state as yet, and may be
entirely ignored by democrats of the
opposing faction.
1t is expected the two democratic fac.
tions will make an aggressive fight for
the opposing lists of national delegates
which they have in the field, but the
division in the democratic ranks on this
feature of the campaign will not adverse
ly affect the interests of the national
democracy, as both sets OF delegates fa-
yor the denomination of President Will
son, and the delegation elected will so
vote at the democratic national conyen-
tion at st. Louis.