Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-03-26
GOVERNOR BYRNE PROB
ABLY RENOMINATED
Dillon, johnson and Rice Win the Congressional
Nominations by Safe Margins The State
Ticket in Doubt, With Chances Fayoring
Representations From Both Sides.

cured a very satisfactory majority
over his competitor, so far as this
county is concerned.
Burke for senator -. 1858
| Crawford :. observation-disclosures. 544
Burke's majority ;. :. ......5..,...2 224
| Anderson for governor ........ 655
Byrne for governor ...., ,......... 476c
Richards for governor ......... .1S4
Anderson's plurality 49,. 179
McNulty for congress ...:.5.5..... .703
Johnson for, congress ......... 500
,McNulty's majority ......... .104
The candidates on the minority"
ticket. generally speaking, ran along
about together, varying from 100 ma
jority up to 200.
Lockhart for chairman of the state
committee carries the county over s..
X Way by about the same majority
as that received by Burke for SEN
ator.
Hildebrandt for county ommittee
man defeats Sasse of Hepssy
NJ. R, Baskerville is cbg4sen propos-
al committeeman FOR the y minority
and John B. Hanten for the major
| ity."
| Former Judge Dick Hane.s defeats
Thomas Thorson in the county for
national committeeman.
The tabulated statement of the vote
as officially counted will be printed in
| the next edition of the paper.
The Headquarters Views. :.
On state matters interest centered
| on two offices-those of United States
senator and governor.
It was expected early in the cam
paign that the contest would be ex-
ceptionally close on the senatorship,
but as the day of the primary ap-
preached it became evident in the
Burke Anderson headquarters at the
capital that Burke had the battle
practically won, but that the contest
between Anderson and Byrne was
likely to be very close. This was es-
pecially so regarded because of the
feeling that Mr.. Richards as an in
dependent would probably draw heav-
Tier from Anderson than from Byrne.
Ut was not believed at the Pierre
headquarters that Byrne would secure
a complete majority over both Rich
1 ards and Anderson, but it was thought
4 possible that he might get a plurality
over Anderson because of the seem
ling likelihood that Richards would be
able to make but little impression
upon the distinctiyely Byrne follow
1 ing. The returns indicate that the
Pierre headquarters had placed about
the correct estimate upon the result.
The Huron headquarters, on the
other hand, may be said to have some
what neglected the state ticket, be-
Ilieving from the first that it was abb
solutely safe. 1t seemed to center
Its fight on the senatorship, and, IN
stead of conducting an aggressive
campaign, jumped to a defensive one
from the start, confning its main
efforts to an attempt to discredit Mr.
Burke rather than to strengthen wan an
ling confidence in Crawford.
i . - 90 } s n ri
/ Another feature that complicated
the situation from the standpoint OF
1 the majority was that not candi-
date, with the possible exception OF
Caldwell for attorney general. for a
state Office actively participated IN
the the effort to save Crawford Dur
ing all OF Governor Byrne,s extensive
speech-making tours he Is said not
/ TO have mentioned the name Of craW-
ford in d single speech.
The same may be sad Of Norbec *
and Johnson, and Of the other men
lengaged in behalf Of speech-naking
for the so.called majority ticket, ex-
cepting Mr. Preston Of the tax com
mission, who Is reported to have