Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-10-24
VALLEY STRONG
FOR REPUBLICAN
BAT TIE CHIEFS
Hughes aud M'Cumber expected
to Poll Biggest Vote Ever
Given Party
EXCELLENT REPORT FROM
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
Reversion in California Excep.
tional- Montana Only Doubt
full Western State

River valley has convinced a Tribune
representative that so far as North
Dakota is concerned 1t may be relied
upon November 7-"Hughesday, No
vember T., they write 1t at the Forks
Ito do its duty by the entire Republic
can ticket, national, state and legis'
lative. Opinions vary as to the exact
extent Of the Republican majorities
which will be polled in November
All are agreed, however. that the
party vote will be the largest in the
history Of the state.
Busy at Headquarters.
Everyone Is busy at the Republican
headquarters in Fargo and Grand
Forks. Reports are being received al.
most hourly which indicate healthy
trend toward Republicanism through
out the state. State Chairman Lem
ke has proven himself very much on
the Job, from the first, and the fruits
Of his, hbors are being revealed In
growing sentiment for the party and
its candidates everywhere.
nute Nelson In State.
A ma1ter stroke for Lemke was the
bringing here for a follow-up over Bry'
ans tracks Of Senator Knute Nelson
Of Minnesota, probably one Of the
strongest men in the northwest. Sen
ator Nelson entered North Dakota al
Grand Forks this morning and he will
cross the state on the Great Northern
speakingiat all points covered by the
former secretary Of state in his re.
cent tourn Nelson, II is predicted, viii!
make more votes for his party than
any other man who could have been
assigned to this territory.
From National Headquarters.
Warden Frank S. Talcott and At
torney General Henry J. Linde return
ed Sunday night from a several days
visit in the east. They spent Satur
day at the Republican national head
quarters in Chicago, where encourag
ing reports were being received from
all parts of the country.
THE greatest drift toward Republi'
canism is noted in California" said
Mr.. Talcott, enroute home. "The
change there is really remarkable
Montana is regarded as doubtful al
national headquarters, but the com
mittee reports that 1t has good two
listed fighting chance for Kentucky
and number of other important Dor
der states"
100000 Travellers for Hughes.
Every commercial man in the
United States will vote for Hughes,
asserted the representative of a prom
inent New York importing house
while on his way to Fargo on Satur
day. "The commercial men are unit
for a Republican administration, and
they are working for the ticket every
where. In my opinion their influence
will be an important factor. Free
trade has never helped commercial
man. It is difficult, as every salesman
will tell you, to sell goods on declin'
ing market, and that is what Demo.
cratic administration puts us ny
against every time"
What Will Labor Vote Do?
81 believe Wilson is over-estimating
his pull with the labor vote," chimed
in another traveler-a railway tele'
grapher from western Montana. "His
stand in the recent eight-hour case
has helped a very small percentage
of the railway laborers at the expense
of the much larger percent who were
better entitled to shorter hours and
more pay. do not believe that Will
son in helping the three brotherhoods
to bigger slice of the railway earn
ings has gotten anywhere with the
telegraphers, the shop men, the track
men and the hundreds of poorly paid
clerks who see their chance Of ever
getting raise reduced just so much. .
Incidents of he tour which have no
real bearing on the political crisis ap
preaching its crux were friendly
meeting between Jerry Bacon and for
mer United States Senator Henry Clay
Hansbrough, In the lobby of the Hotel
Dakotah at Grand Forks on Sunday
afternoon, and a Fargo chat be-
tween Dave H. Macarthur, Democrat
ic candidate for governor, and Porter
J. McCumber, nominated by the Re-
publicans for reelection to the United
States senate. Mr.. Hansbrough was
in the Forks territory seeking to ele'
vate a Democrat to the high Office in
which the votes of his Republican
friends placed the Honorable Henry
Clay. There is a serious question in
the minds Of prominent Democrats as
to the value to their cause of Mr..
Hansbrough's apostasy.