Evening star., 1924-09-27
RESULT OF VOTE
IN NORTH DAKOTA
UP TO FUSI0NISTS

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the farmers were high on the wave
of prosperity throughout the country.
Therefore, although the fact that
farm produce prices have gone high
this year. and the farmers are in
much better shape. will doubtless aid
the Republicans in the election, this
is not likely to have so much effect
here as in States where the farmers
have not so long and SO strongly or
ganiZed.
Conditions Are Excellent.
There is no doubt but what condi-
tions financially in the State are i'm
proving, and they cannot so improve
unless the farmer finds himself in
better shape. One OF the leading
bankers of the State said today that
excellent conditions prevailed. He
pointed to the reopening of some OF
the smaller banks, which had loaned
money on farms and whose assets had
become frozen" when farm prices
went down.
The price of wheat is much better
than it was d year ago For number
1 northern a year ago the price was
s1.02 a bushel in Fargo. Today Ii
is s1.24. In addition the yield of
wheat in North Dakota, which is a
wheat State above all else. has been
very much greater, so much greater
that the wheat crop is nearly twice
what it was last year. The farmers
have done well on other crops, too
This is the bright side of the shield
from the Republican point of view.
The Republicans are pointing out
that State industries are not
blessing. The State bank, estab-
1ished by the Non Partisan League
while in power, failed to werk well.
1t is being used now practically en-
tirely for rural credits. The league
established grain elevator and
-four mill at Grand Forks at d cost
to the State of more than 1000, 600.
| They are running at loss to the
State. The claim that the farmers
would get more for their wheat and
pay less for their -four has not ma
terialized into facts. They get the
same price as they would get in Min
neapolis or Duluth and pay just as
much for -four.
The Republicans are taking
crack at La Follette's railroad Gov
ernment-ownership proposal on the
ground that it would be a greater
fizzle even. The La Toilette pro-
posal to hamstring the courts when
it comes to determining the consti-
tutionality of laws is an object of
attack here, too. But that is a two
edged weapon among the farmers.
who remember with distaste the
6-to-3 decision of the Supreme Court
declaring the North Dakota grain
grading law unconstitutional.
Coolidge Is Strong.
The cities of North Dakota, includ-
ing Fargo, probably will give Cool
| idge strong support. l have talked
| with bankers, business men, drum
| mers, clerks in stores, workers, and
| they praise Coolidge and denounce
| La Toilette.
1t is out on the farms and among
some of the lahoring men that La
Toilette must hope for support. In
| this State, too, there is a large num-
| ber of voters of German descent and
| of German birth. They are friendly
| to La Toilette because of his war
stand The vote in North Dakota in
| 1916 gave Wilson the State by a rar-
row margin over Hughes on the slo-
gam He kept US out of war"
In 1920 by a vote of l60,072 the State
| went for Harding against Cox, who re
ceived 81 7,422 votes, partly because of
| the resentment of Americans
against the Democratic party on ac-
count of the war and partly because
| of dissatisfaction with the fixing of
grain prices by the Government dur
| ing the war. Some of the people here
complain bitterly because the Govern
ment liked the price of wheat at S2.26
a bushel, when 1T might have gone as
| high as IS. They are not confined to
| the ranks Of the Nom Partisan League.
| In 1912 the State went Democratic be-
cause of the split in the Republican
ranks due to the Bull Moose party.