Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-11
BIC CROWDS
. Greet HUGHES
At ALL Al. STOPS
Special Agents Guard Presiden'
tial Candidate Very
Closely .H...
FRAZIER WITH HUGHES
>.. ON SPECIAL TRAIN
Candidate Made Splendid impress
sion at Grand Forks, Say
No S:I>A>
Candidate Made Splendid 1mpres
sion at Grand Forks, Say
Gubernatorial Candidate
HAD TO MAKE BILLINGS.
Fargo, Aug. 10-FaiIure to fig
ure on the Billings evening meet
ing scheduled for tonight caused
the eleventh hour change in the
Hughes North Dakota program.
Helena was to3have been the first
stop In Montana. .,.,........ .....

Fargo, N. D., Aug. 10.-Fargo and
southeastern North Dakota extended
an enthusiastic welcome to Charles
Hughes today, hundreds greeting the
Republican candidate on his arrival
from Grand Forks, while other hun.
dreds participated in the informal re-
ception held at the Gardner hotel,
immediately OH the arrival OF the dis
tinguished candidate.
During his tin from Grand Forks
to Fargo, MI fiuyhsgy spoke az Eeyn-
olds, Buxton, Cummins, Hillsboro and
Grandin, the train making short stops
at all those places aind in each in
stance, big crowds were on hand.
In the reception line that was form
ed in the lobby of the Gardner hotel,
where the party is housed, were
United States Senator Porter J.
McCumber, Governor L. B. Hanna,
Lynn J. Frazier, candidate for COVER
nor; A. T. Kraabel, Gunder Olson,
national committeeman, and Mayor
H. F. Emery Of Fargo. Throughout
the reception, special agents with the
Hughes party guarded the crowds
closely, as against the possibility OF
attack on the candidate-persons
passing down the line being forced
to leave parcels, etc, outside the no.
tel.
The participation of Lynn J. Fra.
, zier in the reception of Mr.. Hughes is
regarded as specially significant, and
that his participation will have a
tremendous influence upon the rura1
vote of the state in the presidential
situation, is generally understood.
1.-THE candidate certainly made 9
splendid impression at Grand Forks
and everywhere he spoke" said Mr.
Frazier. "He has a manner of ex
pressing his facts and his convictions
that is entirely convincing-and his
earnestness lends strength to his ap
peal"
| Because of weather conditions
Mr.. Hughes asked that arrangements
for this evenings meeting be made
such that the session would be helG
indoors, instead of in the open air, al
originally planned. AS result, the
evening address was delivered at the
auditorium.
Failure of the Progressive party
leaders of North Dakota to endorse
Mr.. Hughes here today for the presi
dency, arose from the desire of the
leaders to reetain their party organ
ization intact, according to the explain
alton made by those participating ir
the conference. They contend that il
they had indorsed Mr.. Hughes, they
| would have surrendered their ident
ity as an individual party-and they
are not yet ready to do that.
Practically every one of the Pro
! gressive party men who attended the
session here, however, dclared him
! self III favor of Hughes for the presi-
dency.
A SECOND Progressive party con
| ference viii be hslG in Fargo Oh
| August 80, at which time plans for
the maintenance D! th', permanent
! party orgar zation VIII ." '',,tr
Prominent politicians gathered here
today as result of the Hughes visit.
| One feature was a meeting of the
three leading candidates for the Unit
ed States senatorial nomination in the
Republican party-Governor Hanna,
r. A. Nestos and the successful can
| didate-Porter J. McCumber. If any
of the defeated candidates bears any
resentment toward the successful can
didate, there was nothing to show
that fact.
Congressman P. D. Norton, of the
Third district; William Hangar, of
Mandan; W. R. Bond, of Minot; John
E. Paulson, of Hillsboro, were among
othrr prominent politicians here.