San Antonio Daily Light

DEMOCRATS OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

There Will Be Two State Conventions Held This Year.

Huron, S. D., Feb. 24.--The political pot is going to boil at a lively rate in South Dakota this year, if the unusual interest manifested in the meeting of the Democratic state committee in session here today may be taken as an indication of what is to come. The purpose of the committee meeting is to decide upon the date and place for holding the state convention to elect delegates to the Democratic national convention. Two state conventions will be held this year, but as a Republican victory is conceded in the state election, the interest of the Democrats centers almost wholly in the convention which is to name delegates to St. Louis. Today's meeting of the state committee has been awaited with interest all over the state for several weeks and a lively contest has developed for the honor of entertaining the convention. Among the cities which have put in bids for the gathering are Yankton, Aberdeen, Mitchell, Sioux Falls and Huron. The rivalry for the convention city is not the only contest that is attracting attention. The Hearst boomers want an early convention as early as March, while those who are opposing the candidacy of the New York editor contend that May will be early enough for the convention to be held. The decision in regard to the convention date will show, therefore, the Hearst strength in South Dakota. Former Senator Pettigrew will ask to go to the national convention as a Democratic delegate from Sioux Falls. The state is entitled to eight delegates. Heretofore they have been selected by circuits, there being eight judicial circuits in the state, but the last legislature added the ninth circuit, which will necessitate a new plan for naming delegates.