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Show PHiYELECTl II SOUTH HOTS ' WATCHED BY ill Indorsement of Candidate For Republican Nomination is Overshadowing Issue HEAVY BALLOTING IS LOOKED FOR i Democratic Side of Primary i Lacks Interest Because of Few Strong Candidates SIOUX FALLS, S. D., March 23. Indorsement In-dorsement of a candidate for the Re-I Re-I publican presidential nomination is the overshadowing issue at the South Dakota primary election here today. Nomination o party candidates for, United States senator, congressmen from the three districts and state officials of-ficials from governor down was mado a struggle of secondary interest by .the1 spectacular " campaigns conducted! throughout the state by four candi-l dates for the ten delegates to the na-l ' tional convention at Chicago. 1 Under the Richards primary law, the i candidate receiving tho highest party! 'vote for presidential indorsement shall TilSJDnoi&exUbylifie gallon to the national convention. There are no ennnt.v. district nr tr.tr conventions to follow the primary. , Clear weather reported in this soe-' ' tion of tho slate seemed to be quite' general throughout South Dakota. Bad, roads caused by the spring thaw was considered the only serious obstacle to heavy balloting. The polls, which opened at S a. m., will be closed at five! o'clock. Women are voting for all candidates. Failure of President Wilson to qtlal- if y as candidate for Democratic indorsement in-dorsement eliminated interest from the Democratic, side of the primary sc j far as the presidential vote is con-! cerned. President Wilson was Jndors-!ed Jndors-!ed for a third term by the state proposal pro-posal convention at Pierre, December 2, but he did not file his formal acceptance ac-ceptance of indorsement and his name' (was not printed on tho official ballot. j The Democratic 'candidates arc James W. Gerard of New York, and James 0.1 Monroe of Maywood, 111. j The four Republican candidates who qualified for the primary Leonard Wood, who received the convention indorsement; in-dorsement; Hiram Johnson, Frank O. Lowden and Miles Poindexter have all toured the state. |