Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-09-23
STATE POLITICS
Predictions Are Made That Hughes Will
Carry South Dakota by $4,000
or 10000.

Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. ls.-In view
| of the present encouraging status of the
affairs of the republican party in South
Dakota, there are those who now have
gone on record with the prediction that
Judge Hughes will carry South Dakota
over Wilson by not less than from IS, 900
to 20, 600 majority
This state, to judge by the announce
ments of the national headquarters of
the republican and democratic parties as
to the strong speakers they will send to
South Dakota, evidently is to be a bat
tie ground in the struggle between the
two parties for the election Of presi-
dent.
That William J. Bryan and Senator
James Hamilton Lewis, OF Illinois, will
make series of addresses in South Ds-
kota during the latter part of September
is the latest announcement of the demo-
Gratis Previously it had been announced
| by the democrats that Vice President
! Marshall, Postmaster General Burleson
and Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky,
would come to South Dakota and make
| speeches in the fight to capture South
Dakota for Woodrow Wilson.
The challenge of the democrats has
been cheerfully accepted by the republi-
cans, who also will have a number Of
the leading republican orators of the
country in South Dakota before the close
of the campaign to make speeches in be-
half of the republican national and state
| tickets
The announcement is made from Aber.
deem that among these outside speakers
who will make addresses in Aberdeen
before the close of the campaign will be
Senator William f. Borah, of Idaho, and
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, with the
possibility that both Judge Hughes and
Theodore Roosevelt also will visit the
state before the polls close. 1t is pre-
sumed that these speakers or such of
them as will visit the state, will not con.
fine their speeches to Aberdeen alone,
but will make addresses everywhere in
the state
Said Hughes Will Carry South Dakota.
Regardless of the activity of the dem
ocrats, the republicans of South Dakota
are confident their state will be carried
for Judge Hughes. They base their
confidence on several grounds. In the
first place the two former republican
factions are in this campaign united up
on the national and state tickets of the
party This will strengthen the national
ticket by many thousands of more votes
than the republican national ticket re-
ceved in South Dakota four years ago
Again, it was asserted early in the cam
paign that quite proportion of the pro-
gressive voters Of the state-supporter
four years ago of Theodore Roosevelt for
president-were lukewarm toward Judge
Hughes.
But now that Theodore Roosevelt has
strongly endorsed the candidacy of
Judge Hughes there is said to have been
a significant change in the attitude of
the former progressives toward the can
didacy of Judge Hughes, and those
claiming to be in close touch with the
situation declare that practically every
progressive voter in South Dakota will
line up with the members of the two
former republican factions in the sup
port Of Judge Hughes,
Victory for Republican State Ticket.
The fact that the two former republi-
can factions are united and strongly sup
porting the republican state ticket which
is headed by Peter Norbeck for COVER
hOIy las NduHCu lNpubilIdb pOlillCdl
prophets to stick to their former predic-
tion that Peter Norbeck and the remain
der of the nominees on the republican
ticket are certain of sweeping the state
at the November election by large
sized plurality. They declare that not
single republican nominee is in danger,
and that the election will result in
clean sweep for their party. The repub-
icans also confidently expect TO elect
large majority of the members of the
state legislature which will convene next
January.
The republicans also expect to make
clean sweep so far as their nominees for
congress in the three congressional dis
tricts of the state are concerned. Con-
gressmen Dillon and Johnson are the
nominees respectively in the first and
second districts. In the third district,
which includes that part of the state ly
ing west of the Missouri river, John q.
Bartine, of 0acoma, is the republican
nominee. He has as his opponent Con-
gresham Candy, democrat, who was
elected two years ago because of a diyi-
sion in the ranks of the republicans of
the district, who, when united, have
clear majority of several thousand in the
district. This year the republicans are
united on John g. Bartine and expect
to bring about his election and the politi
cal downfall of Congressman Candy.