Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-04-15
HARMONY AGREED ON
Republicans Select Compromise List of
Delegates for Chicago National
Convention.

Mitchell, S. D., April l0.--FollowinI
an exceptionally strong harmony speech
by National Committeeman Charles II
Burke at the republican conference here
Friday afternoon, the report of the com
mittee which reported compromise lis
of names to be placed on the ballot OIL
May 23rd was adopted without dissent
ing vote. During the early part of the
meeting a movement was started TO pu
up a candidate for national committee.
man against w. c.. Cook, but the Mime
haha delegation, thirty strong, stood
against it to a man and nothing was
done. 1t now appears likely that Mr.
| Cook will have no contest. Mr.. Burke
early disposed Of all talk in connection
with bis name declaring that he not only
did not want and would not accept a
place on the Chicago delegation but that
he would not be a candidate for national
committeeman. In his speech Mr.. Burke
reviewed the issues which would be
raised against the Wilson administra-
ton, then explained the primary trou-
bes which have come to South Dakota
by reason of the date of the national
convention and closed with one of the
strongest and most manly pleas for har-
mony ever heard
f. f. Wagner, of Sioux Falls, was pres
ent with resolution reciting that the
statewide primary had been a failure
and declaring in favor of the return to
the state convention. He was persuad-
ed not to introduce the resolution and
accepted this advice, but announced that
the resolution would be introduced in
the state convention following the pri
maries. 1t is the purpose of those who
are growing tired of the chaotic condi-
tions which exist in South Dakota to put
the question up to the legislative candi-
dates.
The delegates to the national conven-
ton were selected as follows
Delegates at large Gov. f. NJ Byrne,
Faulkton; United States Senator Thos.
sterling, Nermillion; c. ~ Herried,
Aberdeen, and A. 0. Ringsrud, Ek
Point.
First district VIM. Hoese, Spencer,
and Hans Demuth, Sioux Falls.
Second district S. II EIrod, Clark,
and Charles Howard, Aberdeen.
Third district: J. q. Stanley, Lead,
aud s. +. Wilson, Hot Springs
Discord Avoided at Meeting.
Sioux Falls, S. D., April 9,-In poiti-
cal circles hostile to the republican party
Of South Dakota it was hoped that the
meeting at Mitchell on Friday of repub-
licans from all parts of the state would
result in the reopening of the fight be-
tween the two factions into which the
republicans of the state formerly we're
divided, but the hope was vain one.
Instead of the party being split asun-
der, the effect of the meeting will be to
more closely cement the two former fac
tions. The gathering of republicans
concerned itself only with placing in the
field list of leading republicans OF
South Dakota whom the republican vot
| ers of the state will be ed to select as
the delegates from South Dakota at the
republican national convention in June.
The matter of the congressional aud
state ticket of the party was not touched
upon during the meeting, showing that
the republicans generally are well salts
fed to make their selections at the May
| primary election from the list of candi
dates now in the field.
The stock of Peter Norbeck lieutenant
governor and candidate for nomination
to the office of governor on the republi-
can ticket, has very materially risen
since the meeting, and il now is gener-
ally conceded, even among his oppon-
ents, that he will, at the May primary
election, receive the great bulk of the
votes of those who were members of the
two former republican factions.
Another result of the Mitchell meet
ing was the practical uniting of the two
former factions upon Willis c. Cook, of
Sioux Falls, for election at the May pri-
mary election as the South Dakota
member of the republican national com
mittee.
The chief interest of the democrats Of
the state continues to be centered in the
contest between two rival candidates for
nomination to the office of governor,
and in the fight for two opposing lists of
delegates to represent the state in the
democratic national convention.