The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-11-04
COUNTY RECORDS
TRUE LANDSLIDE
COMPLETE RETURNS GIVE RE.
PUBLICAN TICKET 5 TO
PLURALITY
{. O.P. TICKET WINS STEM TO STERN
Three Amendments and One Referred
Law Are Defeated - County
Agent Loses Out.

The republican ticket from n end
to the other carried the election which
was held in Brookings county last
Tuesday by the extraordinary large
ratio of S to l. A very large proper
ton of the voters put a cross in the
circle at the top of the republican
column. Figures from the classified
returns at the office of the county audi
tor from all precincts give a total vote
for the presidential candidates as fol-
lows: Harding 2,7OO, Cox SOS, Chris
Jensen 600, Watkins S3. For United
States senator, Norbeck got 2,460,
Cherry $50. Ayres S38, Richards 1872.
Governor Norbeck, the republican can
didate. received a majority of the votes
cast in all but six Of the precincts IN
the county. u. S. G. Cherry, the demo
cratic candidate, received a majority
in but one precinct. Parnell township.
The vote there was: Norbeck, q,
Cherry %, Ayres 10, Richards 8. The
non-partisan candidate carried five pre-
cincts, Argo, Eureka, Medary, Oak
Lake and Sherman.
The total vote on congressman from
this district for the county was Royal
c. Johnson republican, 1888; l.. w.
Bicknell, democratic, 484; Frank
Whalen, non-partisan, TIT. The total
vote on the governor was w. H. Nc
Master, republican, 1865; w. w.
Howes, democratic, 480; M. p. Bates,
non-partisan, 1856.
Every candidate for county office on
the republican ticket won out by tire
mendous majorities. None Of the con-
tests were close enough to be called a
race. 1t was, indeed, a republican
landslide in Brookings county like it
was in South Dakota and the nation.
The vote was not as heavy as eX-
pected, only about fifty per cent of
the voters in the county visited the
polls on election day. In Brookings
city LOIS votes were cast. The total
registration was 1000. The weather
conditions no doubt played an i'm
portant part in making the vote light.
The most interesting contest Of the
election in this county was on the
amendments and the referred laws.
Amendments A, b and c lost out by
narrow margins. Referred law No. 2
was also lost. The question of the
appropriation of $500 for agricultural
extension was defeated by a narrow
margin, 1855 favoring the proposition
and 1888 voting against it. The total
vote on the amendments was as fol-
lows: Amendment A, 1,646 yes, L,653
no; amendment B, 1902 yes, 1877 no;
amendment {, 1,450 yes, 1,458 no;
amendment d, 1.755 yes, 1859 no;
Amendment e, 2,067 yes, LII no.
Amendment e was for the soldiers
bonus and the majority it received
was very gratifying to the service
men. Referred law No. l., 2,O21 yes,
1,574 no; referred law No. 2, 1.454 yes.
l,69l no. A few Of the precincts failed
to send in returns on these PROPOSE
tons so that the exact totals will not
be known until the c~anvassing board
meets.
In the Bookings city election the
bond issue carried with a large plu-
rality. The results of the general cleo.
ton in the city were, Harding, 1,OO6,
Cox 213, Christensen IS, Watkins IS,
The contest for governor, senator and
other Offices ran in practically the
same ratio as the above. The coutny
agent proposition carried in Brookings
city.