Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-11-09

der Of the German authorities.a Thus Z vel was drawn
over the happenings In the ~crunnbling empire, ana It
may be several days before the world VIII know what
has actually happened. One OF the features Of the dis
.cussions in Germany has been the revived talk Of forcing
the abdbcaton Of the emperor and his. renewed assur-
ances tfat he had not made up his mind to yield.
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Armastice discussions and reports, Of German. riots
have clssrned the greatest part Of attention during the
week. but whatever the effects may have beer, elsewhere.
the news had no deterrent influence as far as the Allied
and the American fighting is concerned. During the
first days OF the week it was reported that the British,
French. belgian and American armies had forced . new
German netreat on a 2oo-mile line. extending from the
Dutch btn;der to the Mouse, and that. smaller events
were haIUening, on the front between the Scheldt and
the Aisne- Allied troops entered the suburbs Of Client,
and a couple of days later, Americans fighting patiently
and persiztently, captured Sedan. At the end Of the
week, Ma ubeuge was taken.
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The eelction on Tuesday did not result in any situa-
ton which would indicate that the country had respond
ed very generously to the presidents appeal for a Demo-
cratic congress. At the time of this writing, while some
scattered pnecincts are still to be heard from in various
parts of the country, the personnel Of the congress is
given in the following figures: House Of representa-
tives: Republicans. 2ss: Democrats. 1915 Socialists, Il;
independents 1. In the senate it looks as though par
ties are just about evenly divided, for the latest unofi-
cial returns give the Republicans ~ seats and the Demo-
Gratis only 46, with one seat in doubt.
AS far as the state of North Dakota is concerned
the Nonpartisan major candidates were elected with the
conspicuous exception of N. C. Macdonald, candidate for
reelection as state superintendent Of public. instruction,
who was decisively beaten by Minnie j. Nelson of Valley
City. An interesting feature in connection with the
election was that the vote cast for Lynn j: Frazier as
governor was materially smaller than that which car
ried him into office two years ago, and even the morn
ing after election it looked as though he would have a
majority of probably, $4,000 votes as compared to the
10000 in 1916. Later land completer returns show,
however, that Frazier in all but three counties had 4s,42o
votes and S. j.. Doyle s3,345, thus giving Frazier a ma
jority of about one-fourth Of his 1916 majority. The
lesson to be learned from these figures is obvious.
At the election it was impressively shown that the
valley counties, formerly strongholds of the Nonpar-
tisans, were beginning to forsake their old ideals AS
far as Grand Forks county was concerned, all the indie
pendent county candidates were elected and, in addition,
the legislative ticket was carried-results which are in
themselves very gratifying. It must not be overlooked,
however, that the triumph here would have-been even
more complete had it not been for the fact that Presi-
paign and thus created considerable confusion.