The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-26
THREE SIDED GOvERNORSHiP
FIGHT
In the G. o. p. Primary-Anderson,
Byrne and Richards as
They Appear

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They Appear
Like the primary election contest Of
two years ago, the republican guber-
material campaign in this state this
year is a three-cornered affair. But,
unlike the contest of two years ago,
the factional lines will not be laid
aside because of the injection Of a
new issue into the campaign. In the
republican nomination for governor,
State Senator Frank M. Byrne of
Faulkton, George w. Egan Of Sioux
Falls and Judge L. S. Gull of Rapid
City. Egan was lea the height of the
projectory of a meteoric political
caree and his candidacy furnished a
temporary diversion from the onven
tional Observation-Disclosures be-
twee the so-called "stalwart" and pro
gressive" factions of the republican
majority of nearly 5000 over both OPP
ponents and a plurality Of 5000 over
Egan. The vote, to be accurate, was
30,628 for Byrne, 29,242 for Egan and
1851 for Gull. Gull was the recog-
nized "stalwart" candidate.
This year Byrne is a candidate for
reelection and is opposed by Henry
B.. Anderson, of Mitchell, present state
auditor, nominee of the minority" or
stalwart faction, and R. o. Richards
of Huron, author of a kale doscopic
political record including the promo
ton of candidates in both camps of
the republican party and the final de-
velopment of an independent move
ment of his own.
Stalwarts United
Largely because Congressman
Burke is a candidate for the United
States Senate, it is a fact hat the
"stalwart' element of the republican
party in this state is much more evil
dent in the campaign for the governor.
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something in the fact that this is a
crucial campaign for the stalwart
crowd. Congressman Martin has re-
tired from. politics because of ill
health and Burke announced some
time ago that he did not car for fur
Their service in the house. This means
that unless Burke can win for the sen.
ate, the South Dakota delegation at
Washington will be without a single
member of the old Kittredge-Burke-
Gamble aggregation that once was
wont to control in South Dakota poll
tics with sweet supremacy. Therefore
there is a new rallying of the old
forces and the recruiting of all posi-
BILE new strength in the hope of upset
ting the progressive ticket and obtain
ing a new and larger hold upon the
republican party in South Dakota.
Henry Anderson is probably the
strongest candidate that the Burke fol
lowing have selected for it's guberna-
torial candidate. In the first place,
Anderson is a Scandinavian and when
it is considered that the Scandinavian
vote in South Dakota is a very large
one and that it has in recent years
gone largely with the progressive"
wing, this is an asset not to be over
looked.
Anderson's Record
But of far more strength to Ander-
son than his nativity is the record that
he has made as state auditor. Nothing
like it has we been known in the his.
tory of the state. Anderson Is not at
all a %pretentious sort. He doesn't
make public speeches and is not given
to long statements about what he pro-
poses to do. But he has great respect
for the law and the one determination
of all his official life seems to have
been to see that his every official act
complies literally with the law. This
is why he has scrutinized every claim
filed in his office; why he has sent
thousands OF them back for alteration
or correction; why he has kept the at
to~rney-general busy rendering opin-
ions on the validity of bills filed
against the state; why. in a word. he
has been responsible for the rejection