The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-03
CAMPAIGN ENDS
ASCANDIDATES
MAKE LAST BID
Both Parties Forecasting Land.
slide With Predictions Over.
tapping
NORTH DAKOTA DOUBTFUL
Hoover and Smith Partisans in
Violent Conflict Over Va
rious States
NORTH DAKOTA DOUBTFUL
BY BYRON PRICE
(AssOciated Press Staff Writer)

ASSOCIATED Press Staff WriteI)
One Of the memorable political
campaigns Of history is ending in q
dizzying burst Of effort and en-
thusiasm.
As Hoover swings through the
west, Smith makes his final rounds
among his neighbors in New York,
millions Of their fellow-citizens join
in noisily to lift the drama to its
proper climax. Party rallies are in
progress in metropolis and hamlet,
and party workers everywhere are
lavishing advice on every wayering
Most Of this tumult will end to-
night, when Smith speaks in New
York city and Hoover at Pueblo,
Colo., while scores Of the lesser fig
ures Of the stump wind up their
speaking tours and turn homeward
to cast their own ballots on Tuesday.
It will remain for the nominees
themselves to sum up the argument
in radio addresses Monday night.
Both Predict Victory
As they prepare to close their
doors, both Smith and Hoover head
quarters are predicting victory. As
put out for publication, these pre-
dictions on either side sometimes 60
the length Of forecasting . land
slide. When they talk privately, the
estimates Of party lieutenants are
less sweeping, but even then each
insists that enough votes have been
won to insure the election Of his cam
al -
earnestly and defended warmly,
whether made on behalf Of Hoover
or Of Smith.
OF course the details Of these
forecasts overlap, and both cannot
be correct. It has been the sort Of
campaign to arouse unusual expec-
tations, and party leaderA down
along the line have made surpfiotAg
reports to t'.eir superiers, ,--sonQfte
which even the most enthusiastic a.
the politicians hesitate to believe.
Some Democrats even now are
claiming Pennsylvania and Michigan;
and some Republicans are claiming
Georgia and Arkansas. When such
predictions are voiced in the pres
ence of any leader of the opposing
party, they are greetd with redi-
cule. Yet they illustrate the vague
hopes which are afloat upon the
twisting currents of this campaign.
Forecasts Analysed
Even though they are SO conflict
ing that one set or the other must
be regarded as untrustworthy, the
more studied predictions Of the poll
ticians, as made privately, meet at
certain points and are worth analy-
sis.
They disclose q general agreement
that expectations of q Hoover VIC
tory are based on the promise Of
Republican sweep through the east
and west, enveloping the border and
perhaps q part Of the south; and
that expectations Of . Smith victory
rest on supposition that he will
hold the south, take Z good part Of
the east, and pick up few addition
al states here and there along the
border, in the farm country, and in
the far west.
North Dakota Doubtful
The overlapping aspects Of these
calculations point to certain states
as highly important factors in the
result,-states earnestly claimed by
, both sides as part Of the quota Of
victory. They forecast . particular
ly determined battle, in the very
last hours Of the campaign, in such,
eastern states as New York, Massa-
chusetts, Maryland and Rhode
Island; in the border states Of Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Ok
lahoma; in hotly debated midwest
ern and northwestern states like
Nebraska, Wisconsin and North
Dakota; and in the far western
states, notably Montana, Nevada,
Arizona and New Mexico.
This list does not, Of course, in
clude all of the states in which the
hopes Of the parties overlap. It does
fCon&int1ad an Raaa Tzal