Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-11-01
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The Independents Will Bolt
His Nomination.
THE TRIO CHECKMATED.
Which was Secured - Mis-.
representation and T1eery.

pendent party III this county are
severely criticising the action of
their party's executive committee at
its last meeting in Osnabrock in
substituting the name of Ole Gjevre
for that of their own party nominee.
IL. R. Bradley. Many Independents
have sought for information with
regard the reason for such
action on the part of the committee,
and upon learning the truth, have
resolved to bolt the committee nom
ination. There are others, how.
ever, who are ignorant Of the trick
cry employed to bring about such
action, and 1t is for the benefit of
those that the following facts
are made public:
1t is we'll known fact that Mr..
H. u. ALERT, the present county
auditor and democratic candidate
for reelection, is a hard-worklng
and conscientious official, doing his
whole duty to the people, whose
servant he is faithfully and impair
TALLY. In doing this, however, he
has made bitter enemies in 2 certain
clique in this city, who sought to use
him and prostitute his Office to their
own ends. They therefore deter
mined that they would have some
one for auditor whom they could
use, and would spare no effort to de-
feat Mr.. ALERT. Their first move was
to have Bradley nominated in the
independent convention, and when
Gjevre was nominated by the repub-
licans they thought they saw their
way clear to bring about the defeat
of Mr.. ALERT. Gjevre was "seen"
and certain promises secured on
condition that Bradley was sspulled
off, in favor of Gjevre. So far
everything ran smoothly, but when
the trio appeared before a. full exc
cutive committee of thetF inde-
pendent party at Osnabrock they
ran against a snag. The committee
declined absolutely to consider
Bradley's conditional" withdrawal,
but informed him if he wished to
resign from the ticket he could do
so, and the committee would substi-
tute such name as it saw fit. Fear
ing that Mr.. ALERT might be placed
upon the independent ticket, Brad
ley declined to resign and SO the
matter stood for the time being.
The second chapter in this Incl
dent opens when Attorney Doughty
expressed his intention Of resigning
from the independent attorneyship.
Then the trio again waited upon
certain members Of the Independent
committee and by assuring them
that they only wanted to substitute
the name Of w. F. Kessler for
that of H. B. Doughty at the next
committee meeting they were able
to secure three proxies. Two of
these proxies were placed IN the
hands of subservient tools in this
city, one of them going to VIM.
Fagg, a chore boy for Doc Dono-
van, and the other to one Fitzpat-
rick, neither of whom are
qualified to vote at the coming
election. Armed with these proxies
the trio again appeared before the
executive committee of the indie
pendents and demanded that Brad.
ley's resignation in favor of Gjevre
should be accepted. By the aid of
these proxies the regular members
of the committee were outvoted and
Gjevre's name placed on the indie
pendent ticket. The regular mem
bers of the committee are not to be
blamed for the action taken for
they stoutly protested against any
such action. Neither are the men
who gave their proxies so much to
blame as their consent was gained
by misrepresentation, lying and
treachery. The facts so stated here
in have become pretty we'll dissimi,
mated throughout the rank and file