The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-07-27
BURKE'S ATTITUDE
CAUSING WORRY
POLITICIANS ARE ANXIOUS TO
KNOW INTENTIONS OF THE
CONGRESSMAN.
SOME POLITICAL GOSSIP OF STATE
Division Of State Into Congressional
Districts is Certain-SeveraI
Candidates for Senate.

A number of the candidates and
would-be candidates were anxious to
know what position Congressman
Burke intends to take in relation to
the s~enatorShip in the next campaign
and hoped for some expression from
him while he was in the state last
week, but he did not give out any
thing as to what his intentions are
says a Pierre dispatch. 1t is con
sidered as certain that he will be
either a candidate for congress again
to succeed himself or will try for the
senate.
Congressman Burke felt certain
that the senate will approve the house
bill which will give this state three
congressman and which will auto
matically. under the law, divide the
state into three congressional districts
for the selection of such officials, and
no longer require a vote Of the state
as a whole to select. While they
may not do so at the present special
term, they will no doubt act before
the time Of the primaries lex June,
With that possibility practically look
ed upon as a fact, the candidates for
congress in the First district at pres
cnt appear to look like G. II. Dillon
Of Yankton, T. w. Dwight of Sioux
Falls and O. S. Branson OF Mitchell.
This will mean a divided vote in the
district on location and a question as
to which would win. Dillon would
have the handicap of being in a cOun-
ty with a candidate for United States
senator and a candidate for governor,
if no more to contend with, and the
Sioux Falls man would have only a
ty tt contend with. OF course it is
possible that Gamble may not yet be
a candidate, but his political friends
in the state say that he will, without
anything coming from him directly
as to the matter. But counting him
as yet in the race, it is not likely to
help the political fortunes Of Dillon
in any way with such a multiplicity
of candidates in that county.
The question of a compromise can
didate for governor appears to be get
ting farther and farther in the back
~,o, UIA N1I ti.,a pra~.anc;,rAc
appear to be pinning their faith to
Byrne, who has been n Of their
leaders from the beginning OF their
move, and he can hardly be called a
compromise if anyone who has been
radical on either factional side could
be looked upon as such. The indica-
ton now appears to be that it will
be a free field with a lot Of entries
for the preliminaries and a tryout for
favorites. On that basis many Of the
would-be candidates are now wishing
that they had adopted the Richards
primary law last winter. With that
law in working order there would
have Of necessity been a conference
Of county representatives. one from
each county, elected by the primary
for that purpose, which conference
would have met at the capitol and
selected a majority and minority Re-
publican candidate as governor whose
name would have gone before the peo-
pie at the primary for their approval
not eliminated independent candidates
but the majority and minority" Sc
l~ections would have been the "Repub-
lican" candidates, and It would not
have helped the independent to any
great extent under such a plan. But
that law is yet up to the people for
their disposal, and the selection will
have to be under the old primary
where it will be free for all. That Is,
unless the practically impossible hap
pens and a compromise candidate Is
really decided upon in some manner
satisfactory to all.
In this n Of the latest names
which has been brought ~ the front
Is that OF A. J. Lockhart OF Deuel.
county as one OF the few men OF the
} state who could harmonic the war
ring factions. But It Is not likely that
/ anyone could fill out such a program
and the voters will be called upon to
select between Frank M. Byrnesr
: Loomis L. Gull. George Egan and A.
L. Van Osdal, as the record stands al