Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-11-17
SENATOR LAID IS PLEASED

In a letter from Washington, Senator Ladd
expresses himself as greatly pleased with the cleo
ton results throughout the country, and he analyses
these results and their causes at some length.
Senator Ladd is listed as a. Republican. He receiv-
ed the support of a great many North Dakota voters
two years ago because he had pledged himself to
cooperate with the Republican organization in the
senate it he should be elected. The fact that such
a pledge was exacted from him was due to lack of
information on the part of the party managers as
to just how rock-ribbed DR.. Ladd's Republicanism
was. The evidences of Republicanism which he had
given prior to his nomination had been unconvinc-
ing, but the assurances which he gave prior to his
election, were accepted as satisfactory.
In his present letter he DISCUSSES the situation in
a manner which might be taken to indicate that he
has repented of his decision. to be a Republican, as
the only evidence which he gives of leanings in that
direction is contained in the statement that in North
Dakota Senator McCumber and his friends could
not be drawn away from the support of the nonli-
ganda of the unholy alliance"
In the general results the senator finds much to
hearten him. He reports gleefully that it was an
anti-Harding-Lodge vote" that brought Senator
Lodge almost to defeat in Massachusetts,, and in
order to rub in his conclusion that the Massachu-
sets slump was due to anti-administration senti-
ment he points out that it could not have been due
to pro-Wison sentiment as Lodges opponent was
an anti Wilson man. .zs, vi 4.i
In Indiana the nomination Of Beveridge was at
lllOutcu ny Tile duu-dQWlNlSCTd group dS d vote
of want of confidence in Harding, but Senator Laid
now finds that the defeat of Beverage was a direct
slap at the administration. .a~ .,
He rolls under his tongue as a delicious morsel
the defeat of Senator Kellogg, Republican candi-
date for reelection in Minnesota by the candidate
of another party, and he finds like pleasure in the
election of a Democratic senator in Montana and
the defeat of the Republican candidate in that state.
OF the Missouri result he says, that Reeds ma
jority of $4,000 is a splendid testimonial to the fact
that in Missouri the people do not approvefof Will
son, and neither do they approve of Harding"
That observation-disclosures warns the cookies, of Sen
ator Ladd's heart. r
So the senator proceeds down the list. He ex-
tracts happiness from everything that he can inter
pref as a slap at the Republican administration of
which he is officially supposed to be a part. If
Senator Frazier's Republicanis1n checks up closely
with that of Senator Ladd, the support that the Re
publican administration will receive from the pair
from North Dakota will be of a queer sort.
There is one feature of the election that. Senator
Laid treats with digniied Indifference. In fact, he
does not mention it at all. That is the fact that the
decision of the voters of North Dakota to r%epudiate
and reject the state administration with which he
had been identified, a decision made ia year ago and
ratified at the primary election in June, was over
whelmingly approved at the November election.
1t will take a little more time for Senator Laid to
find anything gratifying in that, which was the
issue OF supreme Importance in North Dakota.