The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-04-03
a SCRAP is BREWING

The following dispatch from Sioux
Falls gives some interesting state po'
litical gossip:
For several weeks South Dakota
politicians have been setting up the
pins for the fight over the United
States ~senatorship, which will culmi-
nate next year, when Senator Craw,
ford will seek to succeed himself. The
senator has been visiting his friends
in different parts of the state and get,
ting them actively at work in his be-
half. 1t is generally acknowledged
even by his opponents that he will
have the strong support Of Governor
Byrne and others identified with the
progressive republican state admins
tration.
There has been talk that Governor
Byrne would be the progressive repub-
lican candidate against Crawford, but
in usually well-informed quarters these
reports are not taken seriously. How
ever, it is practically certain Senator
Crawford will have an active progress
siye republican as an opponent. This
Will be one of the developments of the
now celebrated case of Charles l..
Hyde, the millionaire real estate man
of Pierre, whose prison term for using
the mails to defraud investors in town
lots was revoked. 1t has been shown
that Senator Crawford wrote a letter
to President Taft in behalf of Hyde,
and there was no secret about the
work which Congressman Burke did
in behalf of Hyde, he being one of the
p,nct notiun -, roo,,rin~ n Dorlo, 50
far as the prison portion of the sen
tenCe was concerned.
1t is believed that Congressman
Burke will come out for the senator,
ship to succeed Crawford, and will
make his campaign as a stalwart re-
publican, with which faction he always
has been identified. Inasmuch as both
himself and Senator Crawford took the
same position with regard to the Hyde
pardon, both will be glad to have it
eliminated so far as they are con
cerned.
But there are others who promise to
make full use of the Hyde case in pro-
noting their own interests. The pro.
gressive republican who is mentioned
in some quarters as an opponent of
Senator Crawford, has from the first
been on the opposite side of the Hyde
case and made a strenuous fight to
have Hyde's prison sentence stand. 1t
is expected that when he enters the
he will make the cas- n of the
principal issues of the campaign.
That Edwin S. Johnson of Yankton,
who last year made a magnificent run
for governor on the democratic ticket,
be the democratic candidate for
United States senator next year is
said to be reasonably certain. AS the
election will be under the Oregon
plan Of electing United States sena-
tors, a division of the progressive re-
publican vote might permit Johnson to
slip under the wire.
Other candidates who are likely to
make a fight for election to the senate
as Crawford's successor are R. O.
Richards Of Huron and George w.
Egan of Sioux Falls. The former was
a candidate last Year for the United
States senatorship to succeed Senator
Gamble and rolled up a good vote,
while Mr.. Egan made a phenomenal
run in the June primaries for nomina-
ton as the republican candidate for
governor and for a time had all the
politicians guessing, being defeated
after one of the most spectacular con-
tests ever waged for the office in South
Dakota.
Robert P. Stewart Of Deadwood, who
is stated in Washington dispatches to
be certain to be appointed to the office
of United States attorney for South
Dakota, Is one of the best known attor.
neys in western South Dakota.
Thomas w. Taubman of Plankinton,
slated for the office of United States
marshal, Is editor Of the Plankinton
Herald, and has gained a wide reputa-
ton for fearlessness in the conduct OF
his paper, being an outspoken and per-
sistent opponent of crookedness in pub
lie and private life.
James Coffey of Aberdeen, slated
for the office of collector Of internal
revenue for North and South Dakota,
is chairman of the democratic state
committee. Judge L. E. Cummings OF
Highmore, stated to be certain Of ap-
pointment as receiver of the United
States land office at Pierre, is a pion.
eer resident of Hyde county and has
been an active democrat all his life,
Harry l.. Candy, said to be slated for
the office Of receiver of the land office
at Rapid City, is a lawyer and ranks
high in his profession in western South
Dakota.
Edwin M. Starcher Of Fairfax, who
will be appointed receiver Of the Unit.
ted States land Office at Gregory, is
one Of the best known residents Of the
Rosebud country. Daniel F. Burkhold
er of Chamberlain, who will be register
of the land office at Gregory, was
about twenty-five years editor of the
Chamberlain Democrat, retiring from
active newspaper work only a little
more than a year ago.