The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 18, 1918, Page 8

‘ lican, he is, ‘certain of a majority from . Politicians Wonder How Many of .showing which will convince the na- ‘EIGHT BISMARCK DAILY ‘'TRIBUN! ‘SERVICE ---That’s Our Middle Name EVERYTHING FOR THE AUTOMOBILE 47,000 SIGNERS OF PETITIONS ARE PROBLEM These Signatures Repre- sent Stickers 10,000 VOTES LOST STATE Petitions are coming in for state of- ficers later than usual this year, and, inasmuch as three full tickets will be placed in the fi€ld, the number of petitions wall be at least a third ere er, than or inarily. At the. pri- ae ‘there will be the Nonpartisan ant" in nomi Voters’, association tickets nomination on the Repub- lican ek ns and, the Democrats will have in the field. an almost complete ticket which will. have no opposition. The only candidates upon whom two organizations have doubled up is C. J. Fisk of Minot, candidate for justice of the supreme court, who jhas been endorsed by: the’ Democrats and the Independent Voters’ association. Fisk will be opposed for the non-party nom- ination. by Harry A. Bronson of Grand Forks, the Nonpartisan candidate, but if the Minot, man should fail to receive a majority of votes from the Repub- the Deuiratts and {n.any event, the nonp; ptiean judicial ballot system provides for the nomination of two cdidfdates, and it is certain to be Fisk versus Bronson in, the finals, next Novenmber. The Nonpartisan league is seeking to nominate on the Republican ticket James H. Sinclair of Kenmare, a demo- crat, for congress, to oppose Pat Nor- ton of Hettinger, Republican candidate for reelection. The Independent Vot-| ers’ association, which will do most) of its fighting at the primaries, will endeavor to put Norton over again. | Fisk is the Independent Voters’ asso- clation’s only democratic nominee. ‘The League has endorsed for nomina- tion on its ticket Congressman John M. Baer of the First district, who is @ democrat. The League Strength. The fact that the league's initiative petitions through which it is seeking to submit to the voters at the gen- eral election ten radical amendments to the constitition contain aproxi- mately 47/000 signatures ‘is givag opponents of the Nonpartisans food for thought.. The league’s famous ten amendments embody all that was most revolutionary in the Nonpartisan house Bill 44 which created such a furore at the last regular session. The adop- tion of these amendments would en- able the legislature and the state ad- ministration to open the money bags of the commonwealth and to invest these funds in oil wells, gold mines, chain stores, packing plants, terminal! elevators, newspapers or any other bu- siness venture in which private capital may engage. At the regular session in 1917 when the conservative element in the house atempted to fix the max- imum which the state might invest at $15,000,000, a league leader on the| floor sounded the Nonpartisan slogan when he said, “We'll make the sky the limit.” Virtually this would be true, were the ten amendments to the constitution which the league is pro- posing adopted. Will They Stick? It is reasonable to believe that only the deepest dyed Nonpartisans, the; most radical faction of the party, signed, the petitions proposing these amendments, as they are considered the most socialistic doctrine ever) propounded in an American common-| wealth, say conservative opponents | of the league’s new constitution. It is doubtful whether 90 per cent of all| the league members in the state back- ed ‘up these resolutions with their sig- nature, and if this is the case, the} league must have a voting strength of nearly 60,000. Two years ago 121i, 00 votes were cast in North Dakota. The war. has taken from the state 10,000 votes, the vast majority of them from the cities, where the league} strength would be less than in coun- try districts. The democrats are mak- ing a determined effort to make a tional administration that the North Dakota machine is worth perpetuat- ing. Even with the Nonpartisan land- slide two years ago, when Frazier ‘polled 87,665 votes, D. H. McArthur, democratic candidate for governor, captured 20,351, and if the democrats with S. J. Doyle, U. S, Marshal for North Dakota, as their leader, retain anything near. that strength this spring, with 10,000 votes, mostly Re- publican, out of the state, the 47,000 Nonpartisans who have signed up for a new state constituion represent a very dangerous voting strength at the June primaries. The Loyalty Issue. The Independent Voters’ association has made the claim that the league, through practices of leaders which have resulted in criticism of their loy- alty, has lost at least a third of its strength. League opponents insist that their greatest task is not to con- vert the farmers but to arouse the city voter from his lethargy. If this can be done, campaign managers for Steen declare he can be nominated with a safe margin as the Republican candidate. There is, of course, the possibility that good citizens who are wiling to endorse an. experiment in applied so- cialism’ might not, feel equally free to lend their support to a movement which has been branded with a sus- picion of disloyalty. The fact that newspapers which Mr. Townley con- trols have been busy for several weeks past explaining away these charges of disloyalty, which in the past have either been ignored or reveled in, is the best indication that this line of offensive has made an impression. The cancelling ‘of all’ engagements in North’ Dakota for N.S. Randall, league organizer convicted of obstructing the draft, is another straw which shows which way the wind is blowiag. The State Leader, official organ of the league, published a three-column :crit- icism, of Randall’s conviction at Red Wing, Minn., on its front page, with a story in which it linked his name with Gov. ernor Frazier and Leo Horst of that of Gov. Frazier and Leo Horst, a North Dakota organizer held to ans- wer to the next federal grand jury for alleged sedition, and with Walter Thomas Mills as a premier corps of campaigners who were to carry the truth to the people of this state. The Leader published Randall's itinerary in full, and'it was not until after the state had been heard from ‘that Gov- ernor Fragier, received advice that this was a mistake on the part of the paper, and that L, L. Stair of Bot- tineau, a league house member who recently failed to get S. J. Doyle’s job as U. S. marshal, had been sub- stituted. The League Foozled. There is not much question in the minds of anyone in North Dakota that the league intended to use Randall and Horst—and it has not yet renounced Horst—for the appeal they would make to a certain class,- while the Nonpartisan campaign managers would rely upon Frazier’s personal following and his patriotic addresses to keep in line league members whose Ameri- cansm is not diluted. Whether the league leadership is loyal or the re- verse, the fact that it has been able to sign dp 47,000 voters for the most revolutionary part of its legislative program cannot be explained away If the Independent Voters’ asao- ciation fails to defeat the league at the primaries, it is done, unless it can go out and obtain the signatures of 300 voters of any or all of the several parties who will make afidavit that they did not participate in the primary nominations. If this is done, the ticket can go on the ballots next fall as an independent choice. Vegetable plants ready at Hoskins. —Advertisement. 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