Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-08

Below we print the republican tick
ct nominated at Sioux Falls Tuesday
of this week:
Senator-R. j. Gamble, of Yankton.
Congress Philo Hall, of Brookings,
Col. w. II. Parker, of Lawrence.
Governor-Coe l. Crawford, Beadle.
Lieut.. Gov. H. G.. Shober, Hyde.
Treasurer-C. II. Cassill, Lincoln.
Secretary--D. d. Wipf, Hutchinson
Atty General IS. w. Clark, Sphinx.
Superintendent III. A. Ustrud, of
Minnehaha.
Auditor John Herung, Campbell.
Com. of School and Pub. Lands
O. G. Dokken, Deuel..
Railroad Com'r.- Geo. Rice, Of
Moody.
Lack of both space and time pre-
vent us from giving a complete story
of the convention. There were three
~contesting delegations present. The
committee on credentials made a
thorough investigation and gave Cod
ington and Fall River to the machine
and Gregory to the insurgents. The
Codington delegation were entitled
to be seated, but they expected to be
turned down like Robests county was
two years ago. They were probably
more surprised than anyone else, but
as ii made no difference in the result,
and to show they appreciated fair
treatment, they voted the insurgent
ticket from top to bottom, with the
exception of casting their vote for
Corey for congress against Parker.
The Fall River boys voted straight
machine clear down the line.
At the beginning of the campaign
the INDEPENDENT predicted hat the
end would see a lot of broken polit-
zeal machinery strewed around ON our
prairies. We take it back now. There
isn't enough left of the machine to
identify.
We will say to the credit of Con-
gresham Martin and Gov. Elrod that
they are game losers and took defeat
like gentlemen. Each made a neat
little speech which did much to wipe
out any bitterness against them that
had grown up during the campaign.
Burke was given a chance but he
stopped over" Burke always did
carry the bulk of his stock in the
show window.
Now, a word as to the work of the
Kingsbury county delegation. During
the campaign the insurgents claimed
that they could do more for G. Z.
Swanson than could his machine
friends. The insurgents claimed that
the machine cared more to carry this
county by the use of Swanson's name
than for Swanson's personal interests.
They used Swanson's name on their
ballots because they were afraid to
stand on the issue as between Craw-
ford and Elrod. The insurgents as
a matter Of self protection, were fore
ed to put Mr.. Swanson's name on
their ballots. Having done so and
recognizing Mn. Swanson's ability as
an educator and his worth to the
state, set to work to make good
their promise to the people to do all
that was possible for Mr.. Swanson.
All recognized the fact that it was
impossible to land q nomination for
him after it was known how the coun-
ty conventions had ended. To make
a long story short, the best the Kings
bury insurgents could do for Mr..
Swanson was to secure the deputy
ship in the office Of the superinten-
dent Of public instruction, which pays
a salary Of 81 1900 . year, which was
rendered Mr.. Swanson without any
strings attached it. The deputyship
Mr.. Swanson will have if the nominee
"a tne iou rails convention Is elect
Cd. This is just a two-years job al
$1,000 more than II would be possible
"a have landed for MI. Swanson if the
machine had carried Kingsbury com
" The probability y that il means
d position Tor four years. The ma
chino ii the state never did intend Ii