The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-05
Safe and Conservative Predic-
tion of What Will be Result
of the State Elections to be
Held Tomorrow-Entire Re-
publican Ticket Will Win.
A COMPLETE CANVAS HAS Been
MADE IN EVERY COUNTY
Some Figures and Estimates
Which May Prove Of Inter
est to Voters.

~ ldI DIS Iu6 ENOCln la
kota is concerned for the present year
there remains practically nothing but
the registering of the votes. There
can be but little doubt as to what the
story of the ballot boxes will be on
tomorrow. If the normal majorities
in the state were nearly equal there
might be some room to believe the
contentious of the democrats that they
would elect a part OF their ticket.
They concede that every republican
candidate on the state ticket with the
exception OF those for governor and
supreme judge will be elected by
overwhelming majorities. The only
contention is in reference to the two
candidates indicated. An analysis of
the political conditions in the state
on the eve of the election will show
that any pretensions of that character
are absurd.
In the campaign two years ago the
republican vote for governor was
4s.o26 and the democratic vote was
1874, giving the republican ticket a
majority over the democrats of 31,3%2
votes. That majority must be over
come by Burke and Fisk tomorrow
before either of them is elected. 10
do this means the changing of approx
imately $4,000 votes. even If the 1.33".
votes cast for the prohibition can,li-
date two years ago. are cast solidly for
the democratic party. 1t is conceded
that those who have heretofore affili-
ated with the republican. party, but
who were at heart democrats, will vote
against the candidates for governor
and supreme judge. That this will
reduce the majority Of these two candi-
dates is certain. But according to
the most conservative estimates it
can not defeat either. The democrats
claim, and this is practically true,
that their gains have been made in the
counties which lie in the valley. These
of course include Pembina, Cavalier,
Walsh, Ramsey, Nelson. Grand Forks,
Griggs, Steele, Trail, Barnes, Cass,
LaMoure, Ransom, Dickey. Sargent
and Richland. The total republican
majorities in these counties last
election was 1926. The majority in
the rest of the state was 1906. Major
Hamilton OF the republican state
central committee, who has had many
years. experience in the state politics,
and is thoroughly familiar with the
present conditions, calls attention to
the fact that east of line drawn ap-
proximately through Devils Lake is
$4,000 votes, while west of that line
is 10000. West of that line there is
not sufficient opposition to the republi-
can state ticket within the party to
give any serious consideration. The
1906 majority ftwo years in that
portion of the state will remain in
tact. The majority two years ago in
the valley counties for the republican
ticket was 1926. and to elect the
democratic candidates that majority
must be converted in a democratic
majority 1906, difference in re-
suits of 81 ,2S2, to overcome the major
ity which the republicans will bring to
the division line indicated from the
west. 1t must not be forgotten, too,
that the democratic ticket in these
counties where 1t is expected to ac-
complish the greatest results, will not
be unanimous. The democrats have
refused to give out any figures as to
the relative number of those who have
heretofore been accounted as republi-
cans who will vote for the democratic
candidates, but taking the entire
section indicated. one in six is decided
ly liberal. In Grand Forks county 1t
will be more than that. But on the
whole 1t will be below rather than
above that estimate. The returns of
the state central committee Of two