The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-11-14
SAYSE ELECTION
HITS SHARDING
ALSO WILSON
Senator Ladd in Statement
Gives His Views of the Re-
suit of the Elections
SAYS LEAGUE GAINS

There is little satisfaction to Sc
gained out of the recent election
by either the Republicans or Demo
Gratis, Senator E. F. Ladd declares
in a review Of the election, forward
ed to North Dakota papers.
Viewing the election results frora
. national standpoint and the speci.
fic registering of public opinion,
there is little out. Of the whole stu
alton for the leaders Of either tho
Democratic or Republican parties,
to obtain much satisfaction" he de-
claredv 1T was simply rising up
and protest of the masses against
the continuation of the present eco
nomic order and condition of things.
Wherever the voters had fair op.
portunity to clearly register their
opinion there was a clear:cut disap-
proval Of the Harding administra-
tion and an emphatic stand against
Wisconsin"
Senator Ladd says that in Ohio
the people had a chance to pass on
both Harding and Wilson, and de-
feated a personal friend Of President
Harding for governor and defeated
Senator Pomerene, a friend Of Ex-
president Wilson. He declared the
Lodge vote in Massachusetts was an
anti-Harding vote, that the vote
against Hitchcock in Nebraska was
anti Wilson, that Reeds victory in
Missouri was clear-cut victory over
wisconsin that Poindexter was
beaten in Washington because he had
been too regular under the Harding
administration, and Brookhart in
Iowa defeated the Wilson candidate
for Senator.
OF Minnesota he says: I'm Mime
sofa the people also tired Of being
bapdied about and took a terrific
waNop at both Harding and Wilson.
They elected their own man, Ship
stead. Kellogg g-Harding, and Mrs.
Olesen- Wilson, went down to defeat.
This was another state where the
people had an opportunity to register
their displeasure with both Harding
and Wilson, and they did it in no un-
certain terms" ~Er
Got No G. o. P. Support
Senator Ladd, opening his state
ment, said:
II want to avail myself Of the op-
portunity to congratulate the people
of the country in general and North
Dakota in particular on the splendid
victory of the farmers supported by
labor and the independent forces of
the state on November the 7th. 1t is
certainly encouraging to see how te-
naciously the farmers fought all
these years. No cause had supporters
more brave, earnest and devoted than
those who espoused the cause of the
agriculturists of North Dakota. They
have fought, from conviction and
with all the zeal that conviction in
spires. Their contests have been wa
ged under great embarrassments and
against terrible odds, with open hos
tility from the Democratic organiza'
tion national and state and the fail
ure of the Republican national or
ganization to lend moral or financial
support. Their program has met with
such signal success that their sister
states of Minnesota, Iowa, Wiscon-
sin, Nebraska, Michigan, Montana,
Washington, California, Wyoming,
have joined hands with the farmers
Their cause has prosper
ed most where their program has
been longest discussed among the
people. During the next two years it
will be studied all over the nation
and thousands who are now luke
warm will become militant support.
ers."
He congratulated Governor Fra
zier, declared that "Mr. Townley and
Mr.. Lemke will always occupy a
prominent place in the future history
of the country as the pioneers in this
great movement they have laid
foundation of a movement that is
destined to sweep the country"