Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1916-10-07
REPUBLICANS TO
BE AGGRESSIVE
The Republican Campaign in the State
This Fall is to be One of Aggres-
on.-P,onounced Boom
for Hughes.
BY ALE. BuRKHoLDER

Sioux Falls, S. d., Oct. 2.-That the
campaign of the republicans in South
Dakota will be an aggressive one is in
dicated by the prominence of the speak.
ers who thus far have been assigned
dates in the struggle to carry South Da-
kota for Judge Hughes for president and
win an overwhelming victory for the
congressional and state ticket If the re-
publican party
The speakers thus far arranged for by
Charles b. Powers, chairman of the re-
publican state central committee, and
Major John H Scriven, in charge of
the speakers bureau of the state head
quarters in Sioux Falls, include Charles
w. Fairbanks, of Indiana, republican
nominee for the Office of vice president
of the United States; Senator Albert ]
Beveridge, of Indiana Senator Ken
yon, of Iowa, and Congressman Sidney
Anderson, of Minnesota.
Senator Beyeridge is scheduled for
one address, which will be made in
Sioux Falls on October 7th Charles w.
Fairbanks will enter the state and make
an address on the issues of the campaign
at Aberdeen on October l4th. Senator
Kenyon will speak to the voters of Nit
chell on October 2nd, at Rapid City on
October 3rd, Hot Springs on the after
noon of October 4th, and at Edgemont
on the night of October 4th. Congress
man Sidney Anderson is scheduled to
make addresses at Canton on October
2nd, at Madison on October 3rd, and at
Woonsocket on October 4th At all the
places to be visited by the speakers
named above the local republicans have
arranged to give them enthusiastic well
comes, and large crowds are expected to
be present to hear them discuss the is
sues of the campaign
Claim state for Hughes.
Republicans not connected with state
headquarters who have recently visited
parts of the state bring reports to Sioux
Falls that recently there has been a pro-
boom for Hughes among the
republican voters Of South Dakota, and
that there is no doubt that the electoral
vote of South Dakota will be cast for the
republican candidate for president of
the United States. Members of the two
republican factions are lining no practi-
cally sohdly in support of Judge Hughes
and the republican congressional state
ticket.
Say Republican State Ticket Safe
The republicans, with only about
month intervening until the election in
November, appear to grow more conf
dent day by day that they will elect
their entire state ticket, their three
nominees for congress and big major
ity of the members of the state legisla-
ture
The only Office which has been in the
slightest doubt was congressman in the
third district, but persons who recently
have visited the chief points in the dis
trict, which embraces all that part of
South Dakota lying west of the Missouri
river, report that within the past week
or two there has been a constant rise in
the stock of John @. Bartine of Lyman
county, the republican nominee, an
that everything now foreshadows his /
election by anywhere from 1000 to 1000 |
majority over Congressman Candy, dem
ocrat, who was renominated by his party |
to succeed himself
While Congressman Candy has been |
popular in the district, the popularity of |
Mr.. Bartine is said to be greater and it |
is believed by those in close'touch with |
he situation in the district that he will |
prove an easy winner over his demo
cratic opponent.
Bartine an Old Timer
The fact that Mr.. Bartine was pio. |
neer resident of the district and with
stood all the early hardships, bringing |
him into close touch with the home
steaders and other residents of the dis |
.rict, is said to be proving great source |
Of strength to him in his present cam
paign.
Congressman Candy is com mparatively |
a newcomer, having resided in the state
less than half the time that Mr. Bartine |
has been resident, and the fact that he |
has held some official position nearly
constantly from the time he came to !
South Dakota until the present time.
also is said to be resulting to the benefit
Of Mr.. Bartiue.
MIR. Bartine has represented the peo-
Pile of his part of the state in the state |
legislature, and they declare that he |
voted right on all measures for the re-
lief of the people and at all times battled |
for reform which the residents of the
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