The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1916-09-29
HUGHES TO
CARRY ALL
---GRONNA
United States Senator De-
clares North Dakota is
Solid for G. o. p.
Dem PLEA NOT SOUND
"Kept Us Out of War"
Theory Discredited by
Mexican Situation
dem PLEA NOT SOUND

Mr.. Hughes will carry every state in
the union, with the exception of the
deleven rock ribbed Democratic states
Of the south.
So declared A. j. Gronna, United
States senator from North Dakota, a
visitor in Fargo today.
"You can say for me-" said the sena-
tor to a representative of The Forum
this afternoon, that am willing to
stake my reputation as prognos-
ticator by declaring that Mr.. Hughes
will be the winner in every state in
the union with the exception of the
rock ribbed south"
And. too, there's another thing
when the votes in the November cleo
ton in North Dakota are counted,
John Burke, Democratic candidate for
United States senator, Is quite likely
to be the most surprised man in the
state" n
Senator Gronna, who has been at
Lakota, his home. for the past two
weeks, and who is we'll informed as
to the political conditions in the state
generally, is confident that North Da-
kota will name Hughes presidential
electors, and will return Porter j.
McCumber to the United States
senate.
"The Democratic plea that Presi-
dent Wilson should be returned to the
executive chair because he kept this
country out of war is not being as
cepted by the people of the nation, as
they study, more closely, the admins
tration record in that respect" said
Mr.. Gronna. -ya
At Actual War.
1T Is a fact that weswere at actual
war with Mexico when President Will.
son ordered the marines to seize Vera
Cruz-and the Democrats do not deny
that fact. 1t is a further fact that
Wilson came to congress only when
he got himself into the mess.
in seeking to tell Mexico who
should or should not be her president
the administration made another seri-
GUS international blunder. The United
States has just as much authority to
dictate to Mexico as to who should be
her ruler. as we would to dictate to
England.
Gas for getting into war with the
European nations anybody who sup
poses for a minute that the country
could have been dragged into the Eu
ropean conflict, is laboring under q
false impression. Nobody but a foo
could have involved us in that war
and for President Wilson and his
Democratic friends to promote the
plea that he kept US out of war, is
ridiculous
Il believe this-and / am not ar
admirer of Roosevelt in many things
but do believe that Roosevelt, had he
been president, would have laid down
course of action that he expected the
belligerent nations to follow, with re-
spect to recognition Of American
rights, that would have been followed
very ardently by those nations-be-
cause they would have recognized the
fact that Mr.. Roosevelt meant what
he said.
"The vacillating, laundering policy
Of the present administration, has
been taking advantage of by the Eu-
ropean nations-and we have been
compelled to suffer seriously"
Not a Real Act.
"As for the rural credits act enacted
by the present administration, Senator
Gronna sees little Of merit in it. The
provisions are so cumbersome; the
interest rates are so placed that the
land owners will gain but little, il
anything-and it gives no relief to the
tenant farmer problem-which is the
real rural credits problem.
'"The act gives credit to men with
unincumbered property-and they al.
ready have credit"