The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1920-10-19
YET CONFIDENT
OF BIC VICTORY
SOUTH DAKOTA REPUBLICANS
EXPECT TO MAKE CLEAN
SWEEP AT NOVEMBER
ELECTION.

Sioux Falls, Oct. 19.-With only
about two weeks intervening until
the election on Nov 2, the republi-
cans of South Dakota continue abso-
lutely confident that they will make
practically clean sweep in the
! state.
That the plurality for Senator
Harding in South Dakota will be up
ward of $4,000 they assert is as
sured.
The republicans also claim that
they are likely to elect a solid con-
gressional delegation, with Peter
Norbeck as United States senator,
and with Congressman Christopher
son and Royal G. Johnson and Judge
Williamson as the three representa-
tives in the lower house of congress-
The onl ydoubt is as to the out
come of the fight between Judge Will
hanson, the republican nominee, and
Congressman Harry L. Candy, dem
ocrat. in the third district, which in
cludes the Black Hills.
The only doubt is as to the out
publican by several thousand plural
ity, and if Judge Williamson re-
ceives practically the united republi-
can vote-as he is expected to do
his election Is assured, and for the
first time in several years South Da-
kota will be represented at Washing
ton by solid republican congression-
al delegation.
This result would be particularly
pleasing to the republicans of South
Dakota in general, who for some
weeks have been urging the selec-
ton of a full republican delegation so
President Harding will have repub-
lican senate and house behind him in
order that great republican policies
for the reconstruction of the country
may be enacted into law, and the
country brought back to normal
condition after seven years of dem
ocratic mismanagement and waste.
The republicans of South Dakota
endorse the stand taken by Senator
Harding in opposition to the league
of nations. Many who favored the
league idea at first, now are oppos-
ed, feeling that for the United States
to enter the league on the plan pro-
posed by President Wilson would call
for continual sacrifice of men and
money in settling the squabbles of
European countries, great and small.
The republicans of South Dakota
recall that President Wilson, upon
his return from Paris was asked If
the American draft for league of
nations was adopted, and that he re-
piled in the negative, admitting that
it was the British draft which was
adopted.
They further recall that some
weeks ago a committee representing
an English peace society called upon
Premier Lloyd George and asked
him concerning the possibility of or
ganizing an internationally army to
enforce the DEGREES of the British
Wilson league Of nations.
The premier replied in substance,
as reported in the newspapers at the
time, that the countries now in the
league were so situated that they
could not furnish the men for an in
ternational army; that the only coun-
try which could do SO was the United
States, but that it, of course, was not
in the league, adding significantly
that it might be at some future time,
and intimating that then the creation
of an international army would be
solved.
All these and other matters bear
ing In the league of nations have
created suspicion in the minds of the
republicans of South Dakota, and be
cause of this and the outspoken
stand taken by Senator Harding. they
are determined to back up President
Harding with q solid republican con-
gressional delegation from South Da-
kota.
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