The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-04-09
BOTH FACTIONS /
SEE VICTORY IN
VOTE TOMORROW
Campaign One Of Throw Ras.
Gals Out Against Denial
Of Rascality
TAKE MUCH PRECAUT1ON
5000 Policemen Will Guard
Polls and Be Ready For
Any Violence

Chicago, April 9.-(AP) - Two
weeks ago tonight bombs exploded
at the homes of United States Sena-
tor Deneen and Circuit Judge John
A. Swanson, setting Chicago politics
on fire. Tomorrow half Z million
voters will decide who got hurt.
Those bombings were not the first,
but they were sharply significant
politically, for Senator Deneen is
leader Of the Republican faction
seeking to break the county control
of the Mayor Thompson States At
torney Robert E. Grove partisans.
Judge Swanson is the Deneer candi,
date for Groves job. !
There are state candidates, from
governor down, and United States
senatorial candidates to be nomin.
ated tomorrow, for it is a statewide
primary election for Democrats and
Republicans: but bombs and bullets
have concentrated Chicago voter in
terest on the local situation.
Deneen managers, tabulating re-
ports from downstate as we'll as in
Chicago, predicted complete victory;
but so, also. did the managers for
the campaigns of Governor Len
Small, seeking a third four-year
term; Frank L. Smith, asking for
new nomination for senator; and
Grove. who wants to perpetuate his
states attorneyship.
The Issues Involved
In its fundamentals, the campaign
between the Deneen group and the
Small -Thompson-Crowe Republicans
has been "throw the rascals out" on
one hand, and a most positive denial
of rascality on the other. Neither
side has hesitated to use sharp Ian.
guage against the other; the Deneen.
ers tearing at the administration Of
the states attorneys affairs under
Grove, with Grove and Thompson
retl mig the fitk by N)cturing crime
conditions in Chicago when Senator
Deneen himself was states attorney,
The Deneen candidate for COVER
nor is Louis L. Emmerson, now Sec
retary of state. He has charged that
Governor Small taxed Chicago heav-
lily to build roads downstate. He has
campaigned on promise of economy
Of state operation and a square deal
for the city of Chicago.
Prepare Against Violence
There was much preparation to-
day to forestall and to deal quickly
with election day violence or fraud
Except in their elaborateness, how
ever, these preparations were not
new. for a Chicago election invari-
ably is q strenuous experience.
One new measure will be the
holding tomorrow of an election
court" over which Chief Justice o.
son Of the municipal court will pre-
side. Into this court will be brought
all offenders against the election
laws, 50 that prompt disposal may
be made Of charges against them.
There will be 5000 policemen
guarding the polls, cruising the
streets in automobiles and held az
emergency squads at the offices of
County Judge Jarecki, under whose
supervision all county voting ma
chinery operates. Volunteer watch
ers have been assigned to each bal
loting place, and painstaking precau-
tions have been taken against fraud.
Easter sermons in many churches
yesterday carried interpretations on
tomorrow's election. Prayers were
offered for the rescue of the city
from what several pastors described
as a reign of crime and terror. In
churches, on the radio and in news
papers there was q persistent ap-
peal to all voters to exercise their
franchise.