The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, October 29, 1932, Page 7

ND. HAS BEEN OFF PRESIDENTIAL BAND WAGON ONLY ONCE Weaver Only Losing Candidate Ever to Win Victery in North Dakota (By The Associated Press) When. the ballots are counted in the general election next Nov. 8, the results of North Dakota's 11th presi- dential poll since statehood will be written into history. How North Dakota voted in 10 pre- vious presidential elections is told in dusty ite records which show that the state, with one exception, was on the “bandwagon” with the candidate who carried the nation. Admitted to the Union in 1889, North Dakota voted as a state for the first time in a presidential elec- tion in 1892. The People’s party, with John B. Weaver as its candidate, fused with Democrats of the state and carried North Dakota. Weaver won the state by a majority of 194 votes over Harrison, but Cleveland, not listed on the North Dakota bal- lot, won the national election. From then on, North Dakota was on the winning side, going Republi- can in seven of the presidential polls and Democratic twice. Woodrow Wil- son, who carried the state in 1912 and 1916, was the only Democrat to win North Dakota's electoral vote. McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt in his first bid for the presidency, Taft, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover re- ceived North Dakota’s favor as they did nationally. Here is how North Dakota voted in presidential elections since state- hood: 1892—Harrison, Republican, 17.506; Weaver, People’s party (fusion with Democrats), 17,700. 1896—Bryan, Democrat and Peo- ple’s (populist), 20,686; McKinley, Re- publican, 26,335. 1900—Bryan, Democrat, 20,531; Mc- Kinley, Republican, 35,898; Woolley, Prohibition, 735; Debs, Socialist, 520. 1904— Parker, Democrat, 14,273; Roosevelt, Republican, 52,595; Swal- Jow, Prohibition, 1,140; Debs, Social- ist, 2,117. 1908 — Bryan, Democrat, 32,885; Taft, Republican, 57,6830; Chafin, Prohibition, 1,553; Debs, Socialist, 2,421, 1912 — Wilson, Democrat, 29,555; Taft, Republican, 23,090; Roosevelt, Progressive, 25,726; Debs, Socialist, 6,966. 1916 — Wilson, Democrat, 55,206; Hughes, Republican, 53,471. 1920—Cox, Democrat, 37,422; Hard- g, Republican, 160,072; Debs, So- ist, 8,282. Coolige, Republican, 94,931; Democrat, 13,858; LaFollette, 922; Foster, Workers’ party, 370. 1928—Hoover, Republican, 131,441; Smith, Democrat, 106,648; * Thomas, Socialist, 842; Foster, Workers’ party, 936. Morton Commissioners Reject Petitions Again For the second time, the Morton county board of commissioners re- jected petitions to bring to a vote a Proposal on whether the county agent office should be discontinued. d rejected the petitions dismissal of mandamus gs in viet court at Man- dan by Judge C. Lowe of Mino’ The action was brought in an effoi to compel the county board to accept the petitions, but Judge Lowe held the proceedings should have been brought against the county auditor. Friday the county auditor certified the petitions to the county board as being insufficient. The board then rejected the petitions again. Previ- ously members of the board rejected the petitions on their own initiative. Consolidated League _ Elects Beulah Man Grand Forks, N. D., Oct. 29.—(@)— George C. Kadlec, Beulah, was chosen president of the North Dako- | ta Consolidated School Athletic league at its annual meeting Friday. Robert Moffet, Davenport, was “Patience, dear! | SIDE GLANCES - Install the Old Reliable ID as the G EXPERTS PLAY IT _THE RISMARCK TRIBUNE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1992 CONTRACT & CONFEREES RRJECT _——- BY WM. E. McKENNEY Secretary, American Bridge League To raise original bidder's suit bid of one to two, partner's minimum re- quirements are, first, normal trump support. Due to the fact that four-card suit bidding plays an important part in contract bridge, trump require- ments for normal support are four small trump or three trump headed by the ace, king or queen. Second, he must have some ruf- fing possibilities, holding either a singleton or a doubleton, and at least a side ace or king. With only three trump headed by an honor, the side strength should be either a single- ton and a side king or a doubleton and a side ace. A raise from one to two can hardly be construed as a constructive bid. It is in reality a weak bid. It is quite true that it has some substance, or body, but the original bidder must govern the future: bidding on the basis that partner may have held a minimum response. It is also classed as one of the sign-off bids. ee % To raise an original suit bid of one| to three is another of the important, bids in the one over one system. First and most important, it is a forcing bid. For partner to make this j bid, he is required to hold at least normal trump support and two to three: high-card tricks on the side. The quick trick requirements do not play an all-important part in supporting bids. Distribution, ruf- fing possibilities, the length of a side suit, and how quickly it can be es- tablshed must be given equal con- sideration in valuing the hand. | In a previous article I explained | that with normal support in the orig- jinal bidder’s suit, and tenace posi- | tions in the side suits, partner could bid two no trump to show that his ; hand could play the no trump. | By jumping an original suit bid of one to three, you now force the orig- inal bidder either io bid three no trump or four of his original suit. It seldom pays for the original bidder to show a second suit, espe- cially if the first suit agreed upon is a major, unless he is doing so far | the purpose of trying to arrive at a slam contract; therefore when part- ner supports the original bidder's | suit to three, he is stating that if the |hand is to be played at no trump, | partner's hand can safely become the dummy. * ke * However, the jump from one to three does not necessarily mean that partner is going to allow the hand {to be played at no trump. If the j original bidder now responds with ; three no trump and partner feels that his hand is better played at a | Suit than at no trump, he should take the contract to four of the original bidder's suit. ee eae named vice president, and O. K. Cline, Maxbass, was reelected secre- tary-treasurer. Superintendent Wheeler of Lan- kin; Clem Letich, University of North | Dakota basketball coach, and C. D. | Locklin, Grand Forks Herald sports editor, spoke. | Canadian Predicts Lower U. S. Tariffs | Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 29—(#)—The | House of Commons has suspended de- bate for the week-end on the Anglo- Canadian trade treaty alter an ex- change between speakers had brought the American election into the dis- cussion. W. D. Euler, former minister of na- j tional revenue, told the house that after the next election the States might “change its attitude” to- ward the importation of certain Can- ; adian products. He said: : “It may be that after the next elec- ion—and it looks that way—the Unit- ed States government may change its attitude and it may be found that {Governor Roosevelt, if he is elected, will make certain proposals, possibly allowing our lumber to go into that country. And our fish might be an- | other product.” Gloves have been manufactured in Czecho-Slovakia for more than 150 years. - + By George Clark | United | - Levs wait unt This brings up the question as to| Railroad Had Offered to Settle why partner does not immediately take the contract to four of the orig- | inal bidder's suit. A raise to four over an original suit bid of one shows tremendous) strength and is a slam invitation | bid. It may be made only with a McKENNEV as | $158,000 Tax Bill For | merits, $50,000 | In addi-|taxes was rejected at a conference Pgal remedy in state courts. ed by action. 5 REST State Tax Commissioner Iver Acker and his deputy, Lyman Baker. Strasburg Youngster levied by the state board of equaliza- tion. Payment of 75 per cent of the $608,000 levy was made by the rail- road under a court order which re- 00 LINE PROPOSAL ss: es iit # Officials of the line offered to pay $50,000 in settlement of the $158,000 that remains to be paid, but this was rejected and the state and county of- ficials decided to try the case on its the 16 children of Mr. and Mrs. Vin- cent Selzler of Strasburg, died in Bis- marck Friday from pneumonia fol- Court action is scheduled to come | lowing an illness of a week. up in federal court at Fargo Nov. 5, ah 5 fy when the contention of the state A compromise offered by the Soo/questioning jurisdiction of the federal Line to settle out of court an action |court in the matter is to come up. The hand containing three and one-half |involving payment of the line's 1931|state contends the company has a le- to four high-card tricks. tion it, requires more than normal | Friday of representatives of the coun- trump support—the support now re- ties affected, the state tax commission |the Soo Line has property are affect- quired is four trump headed by a/jand the attorney general. queen, three headed by king queen, or five small. schools. eight brothers and seven sisters. They are Joe and Sebastian, Glen- cross, S. D.; cent, Marcus and Pius, Mrs. Caroline Hague, Wakpala, S. D.; Mrs. Julius Locker, Canada; Mrs, Eva Litt, Timber Lake, Mont. Mary Fisher, Ipswich, 8. D.; Mrs. B.! expeditions in to Central America Approximately 30 counties in whick Representatives of a The Soo ‘Line early this yeay|majority of the counties were present brought action in federal court in an|at a conference with company offi- (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc.) !effort to obtain a reduction in taxes |cials, Attorney General James Morris, Bush, Strasburg, and Martha and Margaret, Strasburg. with using the mails Sunday at 11:45 a. m. from the Strasburg Catholic church, with Rev. Father Dies From Pneumonia August Fuchs | officiating. Johanna Selzler, 10, the Selzler child. Burial will be in the St. Peter and St. Paul cemetery at Strasburg. Souligeat of eries, Bismarck. ADVENTURE CALLS El Paso, Tex.—The call of adven- ture is still strong says Tracy Richardson, famous soldier of fort- une. When asked if he had any proj- ects in mind he said: “You never can tell, I may jump off at any minute.” | | She was a student in the Strasburg Besides her parents she leaves ods in combination, ton’s, Phone 130, jake, Hazen; Tony, Vin- Strasburg; As a machine gunner un- Central American revolutionists he earned from $100 to $250 a day. He Mrs.| headed several peaceful surveying! plete $3.50 and $5.00. YOU WILL BE ASKED TO TAKE THE PART OF A MEMBER OF THE LEGISLATURE At the General Election Nov. IF YOU HAVE CAREFULLY CONSIDERED ALL OF THE INITIATED MEASURES FROM EVERY ANGLE, YOU ARE IN POSITION TO ASSUME THE PART OF A LEGISLATOR AND VGTE FOR OR AGAINST PROPOSED NEW LAWS. IF NOT IT WOULD BE WISE TO.... AND LEAVE LAW MAKING TO THE LEGISLATURE IT SPENDS 60 DAYS FOR NO OTHER PURPOSE ‘THAN TO STUDY PROPOSED NEW LAWS. MEMBERS HEAR BOTH SIDES OF EVERY QUESTION AND MAKE DECISIONS AFTER CARE- FUL DELIBERATION. North Dakota’s experience in the matter of direct legisla- tion, under the provisions of the initiative and referendum, has been anything but satisfactory, anything but salutary. In the present year, our people have been called upon to vote on a great variety of issues which properly are the. busi- ness of the State Legislature, and which body is in position to give them the consideration to which they are entitled. Not that the people, themselves, are lacking powers of discretion, but under the peculiar operations of the initiative section of our Constitution it is not possible to give to proposed measures the type of consideration to which they are entitled. On November 8, next, when our voters go to the polls, they are going to be asked to vote the repeal of a law that they adopted less than four months ago, namely, the law that outlaws mortgages on growing crops. A certain substantial section of our people has come to the conclusion that that particular law is injurious to the welfare of the farming industry, and has ini- tiated a proposed law that would repeal the measure that we enacted in June. Thus we see one side of the operation of the initiative, as practiced in North Dakota. In the period since we adopted the initiative and refer- endum as a part of the law making machinery of this state, we have been required to vote upon a tremendous range of sub- jects—such subjects, for instance, as the definition of what con- stitutes bootlegging; proposed dissolution of the Bank of North Dakota; proposals for bond issues aggregating more than 30 millions of dollars; we have been voting on Sunday theaters and cigarets, on moratoriums and on salaries, on courses of study in our schools and on prohibition. Surely, in the face of. this experience, in the face of the record of the past, isn’t it time to call a halt? ‘ Isn’t it time for us, as a people, to “Thumbs down” the various and indiscriminate proposals that come from this or that faction or interest, with the thought of serving notice that the election booth is no place in which to settle such contro- versial issues. : The most effective manner in which to serve such notice is by voting against the several measures that have been ini- tiated and upon which we will vote in November. By so doing, we will, as a people, declare our independence of this in-season and out-of-season recourse to the initiative for the settlement of minor subjects that, by all theories of representative gov- ernment tested in the fire of experience, should be settled with- in the halls of the Legislature, the body that represents all of us. Next January, another Legislature will be convened, and we firmly believe that the people of North Dakota should look forward to that Assembly and commit to it the several issues that have been presented for our individual vote in November, Not that we, as a people, are not qualified to pass on these sub- jects—but it must be remembered always that a wrong deci- sion made in an initiative election, is virtually beyond cure. In addressing itself to the voters of North Dakota in this wise, this Association believes that it is serving the best inter- ests of the people of the state as a whole. The initiative and referendum, born of the theory that they should be employed only in the event of extreme emer- gency, has fallen to low estate through the experience we have had in the last few years, and the voters have an opportunity, on November 8, to record their dissatisfaction with the whole theory if they will but vote “No” on the various initiated measures that will be before them at that time. A Program of Tax Reduction With Equal Consideration for All Has the Wholehearted Support of the Newspapers of North Dakota THIS AD IS SPONSORED BY Tropic Air Heater More Heat Per Dollar. Prices Greatly Reduced. 520 Main Ave. Storage Rates Reduced. Reserve Space Now, Monthly or Dead Storage. NORTH DAKOTA PRESS ASSOCIATION (Political Advertising) Copelin Motor Company | Prepare for Winter Drivig Flush and refill differential and transmission winter lubricant. Special price now. 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