The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-05-26
G. 0. P. CHIEF
TO CAMPAIGN
AGAINST LADD
Senator William M. Butler
To Visit North Dakota
This Fall
PEACE MOVED PLANNED
Republicans May Make Visit
of Leader Attempt to
Unite Republicans
PEACE MOVED PLANNED

Senator William NJ. Butler of
Massachusetts,, chairman of the Re-
publican national committee, will
visit North Dakota this fall accord
ing to a Washington dispatch to the
Twin City Press.
"He wants to make certain" runs
the story, shat real Republican
is elected in North Dakota in 1926 to
succeed Senator Edwin F. Ladd, one
the radical quartet read out Of the
party by the organization caucus of
the Senate last December"
Republicans in this state doubt
less will make the occasion of Sem
ator Buffers visit here an attempt
to get together in the interests of
straight Republican delegation at
Washington. That such job is no
mean one is known by political lead
ers because in an off year it is going
to be hard to divorce state from ma
tional issues.
Senator Ladd's flier in the LaFol-
lette campaign probably has not an
tagonized any Of his old supporters
in North Dakota many Of whom are
blind followers of LaFollette. Even
the doughty R. A. Nestos used to be
an ardent LaFollette fan in the days
when the Wisconsin idea or rather
the Madison, Wis, political labor
atory guided the North Dakota pro-
gressives. Others now seeking the
white ermine Of Republicans have
followed LaFollette, but they qualify
their political peregrinations by say
ing they followed him, but not out
Of the party as did Ladd, Frazier,
Sinclair and others.
Sinclair evidently went into the
LaFollette campaign with mental res
ervations or rather he kept few
footbridges behind him and rumor has
it that he is not an outcast in the
House Republican organization.
Interests are busy seeking a divi-
sion of league forces. Congressman
Sinclair is being famed by some in
the hopes that he will enter the lists
against Senator Ladd. My. Vogel of
Mclean county is reported to have
aspirations for congress in the third
district. The !. V. A. wing of the
Republican party have groomed Jo-
seph Kitchen, commissioner of agri-
culture and labor, who is reported to
have no compunctions of transfer
ring his activities to Washington.
With the Ladd, Sinclair Vogel triangle
developing, a real contest in league
circles may result.
But the dopesters must all reckon
with Ladd's strength. The Mclean
County organ of the league dismiss
es the rebellion against Ladd as a
tempest in teapot and predicts his
election by stupendous majority.
In Richland county Tom Noodle who
sits on the editorial tripod of the
Richland County Farmer has It doped
out, that Ladd cannot be beaten. He
has q "half nelson" and Feed d
Wheat" strangle hold on the farmers
of the state, in the estimation of that
vivacious editor.
While the political pot is just
simmering, L. B. Hanna, the hope Of
the "real Republicans" is cruising in
Venice. Lolling in a gondola beneath
the shadows Of St. Marks or the
Bridge of Signs, he pens few
special communications to the Fargo
press. They are interesting pen pic
lures and politics seem as far from
the Cass county political leader as
the Atlantic can separate him. But
that his friends are urging him to
declare himself soon after Senator
Buffers visit is we'll known.
Not 80 long ago L. B. Hanna had
lunch with Calvin Coolidge in the
White House. He conferred with
Washington leaders and doubtless
the senatorial question was discuss
ed. Word comes from Washington
that Sen. Hanna would be much more
acceptable than former Gov. Nestos.
There are surface signs at least that
the federal machine under Jim
Shea's manipulation may swing to
Hanna although in the halycon days,
"Jim" and Louis B., merely nodded
when THEY passed. But that may all
be water that has passed under the
bridge since Alexander McKenzie's
death sent the Stalwart organization
seeking new affiliations.
But Hanna, it is generally believed,
will not make the race unless the
regular Republican support is unani-
nous for him. He has no ambition
to 60 up against a political "cold
deck" With Nestos, Shafer, Jerry
Bacon and others as possible aspir-
ants, real elimination contest un-
der the supervision Of Burleigh
Spalding or "Late" Twichell seems
urgent"
The National Republican commit
tee stands ready to assist q regular
Republican if the clans can get to-
gether. Former Senator r. ]. McCum-
Der practicing law in Washington is
still a factor to be reckoned with in
the political councils Of the nation.
Any attempt to throw support to
Nsstos will be fought bitterly by
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