The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-06
NORTH DAKOTA
CAMPAIGN ON
The SLOPE OPENS
WESTERN COUNTIES DISPOSED
TO GO TO McCUMBER.

WESLEYAN SOON1lEo D1SfOSED
TO GO TO McCUMBER.
Local Contests Which Have Direct
Bearing ON the Big Battles Yet to
Come-Opposition to White Because
of Third-Term Precedent
County's Convention to Be Crucial
Affair.
Special to The Journal.
Bismarck, N. D., April 6.--The cam
paign on the Missouri slope and in the
western part Of the state Is on. With
the city elections held this week lines
were drawn and indications given Of the
nature of some of the battles. In Bis
marck the city administration. headed by
Mayor Register, the judgeship in the
sixth judicial district and other political
games to be played later on, furnished a
share Of interest that made the election
more than usually exciting. In two wards
Of the city, candidates who stood for re-
election were defeated by narrow MAORI
ties. M. P. Slattery was defeated in
the first ward by M. J. Mckenzie and H.
l.. Reade was defeated in the second by
Asa T. Patterson.
Patterson is an attorney with political
ambitions. looking, some say, to the dis
trict attorneyship, and others say to the
judgeship. That he will be a candidate
for the latter position this year is hardly
probable, from the fact that friends Of
Judge Winchester, who is also candi-
date for reelection, supported him to a
man, as against the Register candidate,
whose election it was said would give
Register too great a boom for the judi
cial nomination. Register has been q
candidate for judge for years and has
following Of independent republicans and
would also, it is likely, be satisfactory to
the democrats. Thus the judicial nomi-
nation was a side issue in the city cleo
ton and Winchester appears to have
scored the first fall.
The Fight for a Judgeshlp.
The judicial convention has been called
for May 81 at the courthouse in Mandan.
There will be thirty-five delegates in the
convention, Of which Morton will have
nine, the greatest number in any one
county. Burleigh, Stark, Mclean and the
other larger counties have five each. The
fight will be for the republican nomina-
ton, as that Is nearly equivalent to an
election. It has been stated that Register
would not be a candidate unless he re-
ceived the republican nomination. There
Is much interest among the candidates,
therefore, as to the complexion Of the
delegations.
Judge Winchester has heretofore re-
ceived the republican nomination with
out any great opposition in the conven-
ton. This year another effort will be
| made to wrest the nomination from him
A hot fight Is being put up in Morton
county by J. S. Green, Walter Parkin and
others against the r. M. Tuttle faction OF
| 49, 49, fIo,,
| to have scored first blood in the election
Of Louis Connolly for mayor over P. w
| McGillis, who was the candidate of the
| Tuttle faction. 5e- -...@
| The Green-Parkin fellows say this is 6
| straw showing the way the wind blows
while the other fellows assert it is only
l q local matter and not an Indication O.
! the way county politics are trending.
Mclean county is also said to be IL
| doubt. Mclean has always been at tn
pleasure Of "King John Satterlund
| whose will has been law. It is likely thu
judicial delegation there will go as h
says this year. Judge Winchester Is like
ly to have Burleigh, Stark, Mercer AM
oliver counties, but he should have Nor
convention. r.,
Emmons and kidder.
i There is some political interest in EN-
mons and Kidder counties. In Kidder
Pat Lyons Is candidate before the re
publican convention for denomination a
member Of the legislature, and in EN-
: mons county, Editor Streeter Of the En-
mons County Record announces himsel
as a candidate for the house. Both stan
on resubmission platforms. c. A. Pat
terson, Streeter's principal political op
ponent and rival newspaper publisher
was a member Of the house from that dis
trict two years ago and Streeter's candi
dacy ought to result in a lively contes
/ between them. There Is a new paper 1
Kfdder county, the Republican, which
generally credited with being Lyons pc,
sonal organ, that is stirring up thing
some and backing that side. Thus sew
.. eral of the slope counties have fights {
! more than usual interest.
Situation In RurIelah.
d In BurIeigh county things look MOI
harmonious than they did two years ag
at this time. Ed Patterson and L.
. McGahan, who were insurgents then an
fought the republican ticket, helping DE-
feat Ed Allen and Joseph Hare for tt
house of representatives, are said to hay
been harmonized, and the republican
= will probably go into the campaign wit
a more united front than two years ag
c. B. Little Is candidate for the nom
| natlOn the state senate, where ne I1c
represented Burleigh county since stat
hood, and will probably have the repul
lican nomination. The question Of tt
senatorial election will not enter so mut
into the campaign as the western part
the state will be generally for the r
election of McCumber to the Unit
States senate.
There will probably be spirited col
test in Stark county for the delegate
to the state convention, r. J. Turne
candidate for reelection as commission
Of agriculture, and l.. A. Simpson wor
ing in harmony, as they did two yea
ago, against A. G. McGillivray, the 9th
Stark county leader, who is now out
the Bismarck land office and has gone
his home at Dickinson.
AS to Governor.
State politics for the time being a
subordinated to local questions, altho t
situation as it affects the chances
! Governor White for reelection, is alwa
a fruitful topic Of discussion. The Barn
county convention will be held early,
the question of the delegation as betwe
White and Young will be soon dete
mined. The principal opposition to
] governor Is based on the 'anti-th
term" plank. This is being used
fectually in some parts of the state.