Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-09
Gov. BuIoW, HumoriSt Rival
of Senator, Making Bid
for G. o. P. Votes.
NEW TARIFF MEASURE
UNPOPULAR IN STATE
Republicans Seek to Regain Gov
ernorship as Well as to Win
National Races.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

SIOUX FALLS, S. Oak, October g.
South Dakota voters are trying to make
up their minds whether to send Will
Rogers-like humorist, Gov. w. j. Bulow,
to the Senate in place of Senator ill
liam H. McMaster, Progressive Republic
can and more serious-minded. Bulow
Is a Democrat as well as a humorist
He has been elected Governor of this
Republican State twice, each time be-
cause OF a split in the Republican party.
The campaign is just getting under
way. Circumstances may arise in the
next three weeks which will materially
affect the election, but today McMaster
appears to have better chance of cleo
ton than Gov. Bulow. South Dakota
is a Republican State. Two years ago
1t went for President Hoover over Al
Smith by $4,000 votes. 1t has two Re-
publican Senators of the Progressive
variety and three Republican members
OF the HouSe-the entire congressional
delegation. 1t has a Republican Legis-
lature. Gov. Bulow represents the one
bright spot for the Democrats. He has
been elected Chief Executive of the
State solely by Republican votes. The
registration this year shows about a
four to one ratio in favor of the Re-
publicans. In his race with Senator
McMaster this year he is up against a
real campaigner for the first time.
Seeks Republican Support.
Gov. Bulow's hope rests entirely with
the Republicans. He is angling for
Republican support, particularly the So
called stand-pat Republican vote, which
was opposed to McMaSter in the Repub-
lican primary last Spring. McMaster
won over his regular Republican OPP
ponent, Dan Forth, a lawyer, of Sioux
Falls. but only by about 10000 votes.
In other words, the regular Republican
protest vote against McMaster was
large. McMaster, for example, lost
Minnehaha County, which contains
Sioux Falls. and is the most populous
of all the counties by 5000 votes.
Indications, however, are that many
of the most bitter opponents of Nc
Master IN the primary are coming
around and will vote for him rather
than Bulow in the November election.
Bulow, who is not only humorist
but shrewd politician, has played his
cards cleverly during the last four years.
His object has been to keep as many
friends among the Republicans as he
could When he became Governor, in
stead of throwing all the Republicans
out of high Office, he kept nearly all of
them on the job. Today many OF these
same Republican Office holders are in
Office, and quite naturally they may be
supposed to have a feeling of graft de
to the Democratic Governor. The SUI
perintendent of Banks, the chairmen Of
the State Highway and the State Tax
commissions, the warden OF the State
Penitentiary and many other heads OF
State institutions are Republicans who
have been retained in office by Gov.
Bulow. There is, of course, reverse
side to this picture, for some of the
Democrats are sore with the Governor
for not turning the Republican office
holders out and substituting deserving
Democrats.
McMaster Joined Insurgents.
In his effort now to line up as many
anti McMaster and regular Republicans
as possible Gov. Bulow has put forward
the suggestion that If he is elected he
may give the Republican President
greater measure of support than has
been given by Senator McMaster, who
Joined the Republican insurgents in
their coalition with the Democrats In
the Senate. McMaster was one OF those
who voted against President Hoover on
the farm relief and tariff bills. To sup
port the suggestion that he might prove
more acceptable Senator to the Re-
publican administration than McMaster,
Gov. Bulow said in his opening cam
paign address at Mitchell: Holding
the view that do, If 1 become MEM
Der of the Senate, would regard 1t as
my duty as a Senator to support the
President, be he a Republican or a
/ In that
he might want to inaugurate for the
general good"
The Republican State Committee,
however, has come right back at Gov.
Bulow. 1t issued a statement calling
attention to the fact that when Presi-
dent Hoover called on all the Governors
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