The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 20, 1932, Page 3

a * a & ~ oe * e# * # & North Dakota's politics seethes and ‘bubbles in the old cauldron. What kind of a stew will be dished out for the voters in June is uncertain at this writing. Last week witnessed the opposition ‘on the part of some Nonpartisans to the gubernatorial candidacy of Wil- liam Langer of Bismarck develop into revolt. Leaguers, gathered at Grand Forks, want T. H. Thoresen to run on the Democratic ticket with or without convention endorsement. Thoresen, put in a rather embarrassing position, countered neatly and said he was seeking no nomination. The door is still open, however. If the Democrats seek him out and offer him the New Rockford nomination he will have an- other decision to make. To date, ‘Thoresen has said that he is not seeking any nomination and of course that is the absolute truth. The Grand Forks attorney has minded his own knitting. He evidently prefers private life to the hurly burly of North Da- kota politics. eee ‘Word comes from California that J, F. T. O'Connor, a silver-tongued or- ator and once a prominent Democrat as well as an I. V. A, will manage Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt's cam- paign in Southern California. Unti: recently O'Connor has been McAdoo’s law partner. McAdoo retired to write his autobiography but the two men are still closely associated in political matters. Evidently the McAdoo or- ganization is running in the direction of the Roosevelt band wagon. O'Connor was a popular figure in North Dakota politics. He resided for many years at Grand Forks and was elected several times to the state legislature. Those opposed to Sen- ator McCumber groomed him for the ‘United States senate. At the famous Jamestown convention, the “real” Re- publicans and the I. V. A. machine re- fused to endorse Senator McCumber, who was a candidate opposed by Lynn J. Frazier. Frazier had recently been recalled as governor and R. A. Nestos elected in his place. The I. V. A. or- ganization re-nominated Nestos at this Jamestown convention, but Nes- tos refused to endorse McCumber, al- though the Wahpeton statesman gave Nestos a yery nice endorsement. ee # Instead, the Twichell crowd, aided by other leaders who opposed Mc- Cumber's espousal of Judge Miller's appointment to the federal bench, ined up behind Frazier secretly and defeated McCumber in the Republi- oan primaries. In that election J. F. T. O'Connor secured the Democratic nomination for United States senator and Nestes was the Republican nomi- nee for governor. He endorsed O’Con- nor and in the fall elections Nestos and O'Connor stumped the state to- gether. Their pictures appeared together on the I. V. A. placards, but O'Connor could not carry the state against Frazier. In that election Gov. Nestos won. but he started a feud with the Mc- Cumber stalwarts, which retired him from politics. The remnants of the McCumber organization turned on him when he ran against A. G. Sorlle and defeated him for governor. Neith- er did they forget him when he came out for United tates enalie: * * Coneressman Burtness, now & candidate for re-election, was prob- ablv one of the few of the prominent I. V. A. leaders who stuck to Senator McCumber. Most of them wer either cold toward McCumber in the primaries or were openly for Frazier, Geclaring that they could beat the Hoovle farmer with “Jefty” O'Connor in the fall. The plot failed to work. McCumber was beaten and with him wert much political prestige for North Dakota as the senior senator was chairman of the finance committee and ranking member of the foreign relations committee. This state has rot as yet recaptured a prestige gainea through years of McCumber's service. ‘The wounds of that political battle have not completely healed and the ancient feud often comes to the sur- face. “Jefty” O'Connor's friends build- ed their hopes on that dissension to send a Democrat to the United States senate, but the McCumber crowd lined up behind Frazier in the fall and re- mained regular. The Twichell crowd, now posing as “real” Republicans, supported O'Connor and his Demo- cratic national program. Such are the vagaries of politics from which strange bed-fellows’ result, even in North Dakota. ss 8 So then there is plenty of political precedent for the Democrats if they choose to select T. H. Thoresen to run in their primary. This state, since the inception of the Nonpartisan League has not taken party labels seriously. Any party available has been seized on if that meant access to office. ‘Take a more recent example. Halvor Halvorson, a prominent Democratic candidate at times for state and fed- eral positions on the Democratic ticket, ran for the last session of the legislature as @ Republican with I. v. ‘A. endorsement. This year, he de- clined an endorsement at the hands of the I. V. A. Probably he does not want his Democratic record sullied any more at this juncture. It is a national election year and Halvorson probably will be at New Rockford with political art ons own, * In face of North Dakota polit- fcal history, no departed follower of Democracy will turn over in his grave 4f the Democrats should play practical politics at New Rockford and offer ‘Thoresen the gubernatorial nomina- tion, There are not even any surface indications that they will play such practical or subtle politics as the lead- ers of Democracy in this state have more candidates this year than they know what to do with. There will be at least one or maybe two behind every bush at New Rockford next week. + *% Sentiment among Democrats Is growing for the nomination of John F. Sullivan of Mandan for governor, Gullivan has kept his Democratic rec- ord clean, He 1s an avowed wet and hhas certain definite ideas on state af- fairs. There is no other attorney in the state more popular or probably etter known to the people. If Sul- livan were nominated as a result of a deadlock at New Rockford, he would give any Republican nominee a real run for his money. posing “Bill” John Sullivan 0) anger for instance would make for Political Cooks Are Watching Pot THORESEN PUT IN EMBARRASSING SPOT BY FRIENDS What Stew Will Be Is Big Question **# * ** % see xe e @ yery colorful campaign and when it comes to “color” on the hustings, Sullivan of Mandan has plenty of it. The Democrats could go a long way land not find any better candidate than Sullivan if they are seeking a man whose party fealty has not been badly mussed up by fusion for patron- age purposes. * ee P. L. Aarhus of Fargo, close associ- ate of Senator Nye, and concerned with the Junior Senator's political fences is dissatisfied with the Lange nomination. He has written a letter to the Fargo Forum reviewing political conditions. He is impressed by the changes wrought in North Dakota politics when a Nonpartisan League ticket can provide a place for Langer anda Lemke at the same time. He de- clares that Lemke cannot speak for Langer with good grace and that Langer will have a hard time to eulo- gize his running mate “Bill” Lemke. The two “Bills” are not exactly the Damon and Pythias of North Dakota Politics. Langer once left the League and joined the I. V. A. faction along with Thomas Hall and others because they claimed Frazier, Lemke, Townley, Mills and the rest were too strong for them. Langer later wrote some very hard things about brother “Bill” Lemke at that time. Lemke's friends claim that their “Bill” has not changed any politically since Langer bolted the League on his account. Aarhus ends his letter to the Forum with this comment: “Anyway, we shall see what we shall see.” * #* James Curran, editor of the Mc- Kenzie Countv Farmer, a Nonpartisan weekly, published in Gov. Shafer's home town, smells politics in the State ‘Taxpayers’ Association. He sees in its operation the guiding hand of “big business” and the selfish plans of pre- datory wealth.- He will have none of it and warns his readers to beware of tax reductionists who come in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves seeking to devour the poor and to shift tax burdens upon their widows and orphans. Curran declares that G. F. Lamb, the association’s president, is in the fight to ease his tax bill to the ex- tent of at least a third. L. B. Hanna of Fargo, he asserts, is in the associa- tion for the same motive, and as for Harold B. Nelson of Rugby, who filed the tax petitions with the secretary of state, Curran says he is an attorney for the Great Northern. In Curran’s opinion, the railroads, utilities and large land owners would be the chief beneficiaries if these measures passed. leaving the farmers and small busi- ness men holding the sack. A definite organization is being formed to fight the initiated laws. Ed- ucators through their various organ- izations are making a set-up of their own... Between this taxation issue and that of the wets, other old problems that have agitated the state in many past campaigns may be forgotten. * # % ‘The wets of North Dakota are busy organizing to nominate Usher L. Burdick, assistant United States dis- trict attorney, for congress. A com- mittee has been formed in Fargo and some money raised. A drive for the “Burdick for Congress Fund” will be started soon and promoters of Bur- dick’s candidacy hope to have a set- up in practically every county in the state. It is their prayer that the Demo- crats at New Rockford will nominate @ congressman who is wet and they even insinuate that if the Democrats are wise they will go down the line and name two congressional candi- dates who are wet. They would even welcome a senatorial candidate who leans toward the wets. Alleged Forger Is Brought to Bismarck John E. Haag, Elgin man charged with third-degree forgery, was brought here late Tuesday from Huron, 8. D., by Police Chief Chris J. Martineson and Sheriff J. L. Kelley to face prosecution. Haag, according to Martineson, has confessed that he stole five grain checks from the Occident Elevator company at Timmer and cashed three of them with forged signatures in Bis- marck. The police chief said Haag also passed worthless checks in New Salem, in Grant county, and at Aber- deen and Lemmon, 8. D. Hagg formerly lived at Linton. A preliminary hearing on the charge, originally set for Wednesday morning, was postponed until 10 a. m. next Monday by Police Magistrate Edward 8. Allen. Blind Musician to Give Programs Here One of the Salvation Army's na- tionally-known artists—a blind pian- ist, singer, and preacher—will pres- ent programs each evening this week and next Sunday and Monday nights at the local citadel. He is Envoy Walter W. Jeffery, who has been blind since childhood. Jef- fery is most noted for his baritone voice, according to Adjutant Herbert Smith, who arrived here last Satur- day from Rochester, Minn., to take charge of the Bismarck corps. Everyone is invited to Envoy Jef- fery’s evening programs of classical ‘and popular music at 8 o'clock, Ad- jutant Smith said. N. D. Seed Department Claims Saving Made Fargo, April 20.—(#)—North Da- kota’s state seed department already has effected a saving of 17 per cent of its appropriation for the present year, figures board of f Barks Like Dog and Is Shot by Mistake i that he’s dead. Driving up to a service station, he heard a dog barking. He mimicked it. The station operator ordered him eg and when he didn’t go, shot ‘TWO HORSE THIEVES ARE SENT TO PRISON|* @ ‘tHE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1982 ( M'Lean and Mercer County - Men Plead Guilty to Charge in Court Here Two men Wednesday morning Pleaded guilty to a crime which might have cost them their lives 50 years ago when hardy pioneers were accus- tomed to punish horse thieves by death from a hangman's noose. Having confessed that they stole four horses during the winter in Mc- Lean county, Cecil Wilson, Garrison, and Edwin Stelzmiller, Mercer county, were sentenced to penitentiary terms by Judge Fred Jansonius in Burleigh county district court. Wilson, 26 years old, who admitted he had been implicated in livestock larceny cases before, will serve from two to five years and Stelzmiller, 21, will serve 15 months, The pair was brought here from Washburn by G. A. Lindell and A. J. Loudenbeck, McLean county state's attorney and sheriff, respectively. The pair stole the horses from a McLean county farmer, took them across the Missouri river when the ice ‘was solid, and sold them for cash and @ cow in Mercer county. Glass may lose through dirt as much as fifty per cent of its efficiency in six months’ time. > ‘New’ Potatoes Are Eaten Here Mr. and Mrs. Carl Toliver, 1922 Avenue D, claim to be the first Bismarck residents using “new” home-grown potatoes this year. They already have eaten pota- toes which they dug from a gar- den plot near their home this spring. The potatoes, however, are “holdovers” from last year’s crop which never were harvested. They were well preserved in the ground over the winter and Toliver dug them from the ground a few days ago. He said the tubulars were pro- tected during the cold months by @ deep snow bank. The potatoes are of the Early Triumph variety. Montana Schools to Cut Their Expenses Helena, Mont., April 20.—(P)—Re- duction in salaries of faculty mem- bers and units of Montana university will be necessary to meet the 10 per cent budget cut ordered by the state board of education, the executive council has decided. Cuts of 5 to 7 per cent in the lower salaries, 10 per cent and upward in the higher brackets were suggested. In addition, Chancellor M. A. Bran- non said, the experiment station a: Hamilton probably will be abandoned, work of the Bureau of Mines curtailed and kindergarten work discontinued at the Egstern Montana Normal. | Wings = Schilling | Wren the coffee is good, | What a breakfast! Wha a morning! When the coffee is good. of the morning! The Hat & Novelty Shoppe Mandan, North Dakota Dresses Prints and Plain Colors In Two Groups Good Size Selection ty farmers had received federal seed loans totaling $46,010 at the close of business Tuesday, Fred Swenson, reg- ister of deeds, sald Wednesday. NOTICE time, Mrs. Pred L. Conklin, chair-|@/dwin, and Regan. The loan payments to the farmers| Garden plowing, fertilizer,'man of the Burleigh county chapter, i Gre made ‘through the register of/ black dirt, rubbish hauling. 5% Wednesday. Cash in With a deeds office. $150.85 to each applicant. lost of season be icant. Mt to furnish enough feed loans are smaller than those re- their hungry livestock, Mrs. Conklin quested. They range in size from $16 said, and declare the relief feed for to $400, the maximum limit. cattle and horses is coming “in the All sections of the county are shar- nick of time.” ing about equally in the loan privi- Local Red Cross officials ate con: } lege, Swenson said. A few farmers fident that more relief food will be applied for the maximum loans and shipped here in the near future. several were granted. Eight carloads already have arrived 305 Burleigh Farmers Have Re-| Nearly 600 Burleigh farmers have|Farmers Say Free Cracked Id Pott ae here is expected ceived Checks Already; — /made applications, according to Ht. O°) — Wheat Will be Great Help Nay moke ian tat r 1 . , Burleigh county ik et the. S8the, erage $185 agent, and about 90 per cen we ii age $ en acproten Goa torctha ts: to Hungry Livestock cording x 2B, Jackson and Lather maining approved loans are expected here within the next few days, he said. Three hundred five Burleigh coun- Burleigh county farmers receiving free cracked wheat from the Ameri- can Red Cross are “extremely happy” to get the grain, particularly at this Farmers deny that the grass has had sufficient growth so far this Tribune Want Ads The average size of the loans is| Phone 62. 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