The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-07
HOOVER SHOWS
CONFIDENCE AS
COUNT Is MADE
Republican Presidential Can.
didate Watches Weather Re.
ports With Interest
RETURNS ARE WATCHED
Count Is Charted from Ma
tional Radio HoOkup in Cali
fOrnia Home
BY w. 3. RAGSDALE
ASSOCIATED Press Staff Writer)

(Associated Press Staff Writer)
Palo Alto, Cal, Nov. 7.-(P-
Resting his cause in the hands Of
the American people at the polls,
Herbert Hoover waited to see il it
is their will that he should become
the nations chief executive.
After exercising his own right of
ballot. the Republican presidential
candidate spent Tuesday in the quiet
comfort of his home atop San Juan
hill on the Stanford University cam
pus. surrounded by members of his
family and few personal friends.
The confidence that he has ex-
pressed several times during the
past several weeks appeared undi-
minished as the day dragged
past, but he watched with interest
the weather reports from the middle
west and upstate New York and
read with avidity the returns that
slowly began to trickle into his home
over the wires Of the Associated
Press.
Casts His Ballot
He made but two brief excursions
from his home yesterday, the
first to go with the four other voting
members Of his family to a polling
precinct on the Stanford University
campus. There, while university
students scrambled for a view and
cameras clicked, the nominee faced =
battery Of Kleig lights to vote.
Hnnvor col ma fret ,,~J>. A.
OF the lights, recording his name
and marking his ballot in the privacy
OF . canvas booth. Mrs. Hoover
followed him and behind them in
order came Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr..
her husband, and Allan Hoover. Al
though the last of the family to
enter the booth, Allan dropped his
first ballot in the box immediately
after his father had deposited the
yellow sheet in the container.
Leaving the polling booth, the
family reentered their automobiles
to be driven back to their homes.
but Immediately afterward the NOM
lnee and his wife, accompanied bv
their elder son and his wife, de-
parted for a short automobile ride
into the hills.
Although the skies were overcast
early in the day, before the Hoovers
had returned from the two automo-
bile excursions which filled their
morning the clouds had disappeared
and the sun was shining brightly.
Several friends, including George
Barr Baker and Lewis T. Straus of
New York, who accompanied the
candidate on the journey to the
coast, were guests of the Hoovers at
luncheon.
Watches Returns
He spent much of the afternoon
in his study, watching the early re-
turns with interest, but little later
he had two blackboards set IN IN
the Brown gold living room. There.
after dinner to which he had invited
DR.. David Starr Jordan, president
Emeritus Of Stanford, and several
trustees Of the university, he planned
to instruct two students in the art
Of charting election returns for the
benefit Of his guests. =
A CHEEKY wood fire was laid in
the broad fireplace in the liyinrroom
and his radio was tuned in Tor the
reception Of returns that were being
broadcast over . nationwide hook
W Of radio stations.
IA his study the long table that
- uses - desk had been moved 80
thAt from = seat near the fireplace
q which : wood fire burned most Of