The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-03-05
49, 1850 I'm -Hr"F~s PC
.GUENTHER. PUT OUT
OF STATE OFFICE
BY BYRNE'S ORDER
Dismissed For Bill For
Candy and Theatre
Tickets.
IS SCORED
Governor Passes Lie to Him
For Saying Items Were
Allowed to Guenther.

Allowed TO Cuenther.
Pierre, S. D.-Goyernor Byrne to-
day called for the dismissal of Emil
Guenther OF the insurance depart
ment. His statement is:
amy officer or employee OF the
state who will submit for approval
a voucher for candy and theatre
tickets cannot remain in Office while
l am governor of the state OF South
Dakota. IT. makes no difference
whether such practice has been fol
lowed in another state. 1t will not
tolerated for a moment in this
Deputy Murphy Called Liar,
Pierre, s.. D.-Goyernor Byrne to-
day made The following statement:
1.-THE following published in tho
Argus-Leader, is from a purported
interview with j. d.. Keller, stalwart
for state auditor.
i note that You have publish
- ~ tAS btN VI thc NolliilGi
sent in by an employee of the
insurance department. in which
the state was charged for laun-
dry, candy. theater tickets, and
h pressing OF a suit, of clothes.
This voucher, as stated by you,
was given an O. k. III the insur-
ance department and approved
by Governor Byrne. Deputy Au-
ditor Joseph Murphy told me
himself that the offending items
were in the voucher when it
came to the state auditors Of
flee where they were eliminated
exactly as stated i'll the Argus.
Leader OF Saturday
IF Deputy Auditor Joseph Muir
ply told Mr.. Keller what is stated
above, he lied willfully, Intentionally
and m~aliciouslys Not only didsthe in
surance department and Governor
Ryrne' not %. k or pass the items in
question, but they we're cut out and
from the total amount OF
the Nnuclepit befcEe thesIauditorise of
ifice, or even the goyernor,s5 office,
saw the bill. The total amount of the
voucher in question as submitted by
Guenther was $130.75. The law
provides that vouchers of this kind
shall be approved by the commits
of insurance and the COVER
nor. The regular custom is for the
office of the commissioner of insur-
ance to first pass upon such vouch-
ers, then send them to the governors
office for approval, and from the
governors Office they go to the audi
tors office. When the voucher in
prevail, it, had red ink lines drawn
through six separate items, and the
total of these items, $21.25, was
written in red ink below tlhe.total
and deducted from it, the voucher
thereby being reduced from $13O.T5
to $1O9.50. Thus it went from my
office and was presented to the au-
ditor's office for S109.50 and not
,$130.75, and was allowed by the au-
ditor in that amount without qucs-
.tion.
Says Anderson D%isapproves.
For a long time there have been
going out from the auditors office
false, misleading and garbled state
ments. Henry Anderson, the state
auditor, has repeatedly told nc that
he, personally, had nothing to do
with giving out such statements; !
am told that he vehemently condemns
the false statements put out in regard
to the matter now in question. Per-
.sonally, l acquit Henry Anderson OF
any connection with this libelous
%falsehood. / shall not believe he
would be a party to it. From the
statement OF Mr.. Keller, the source OF
the mendacity is revealed in the
deputy, Murphy.
THE falsehoou in regard to the
voucher in question is no worse in
fact than many others that have
come from the auditors office. When
a man is caught red handed in a deli
.berate falsehood i'll regard to one
matter, his other statements in re-
gard to similar matters are impeach.
ed. Under his guidance the office is
run on a purely political basis. The
worst charge that is and can be made
against Henry Anderson is that he
has not the sc~lf-assertion to u the
auditors office himself, but allows
Murphy to make him a mere figure
head. Each Of the many political
statements put out from the auditors
Office is as false as this one. though
in the case of some of them il, cannot
be SO clearly shown"
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