The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-28
WILL WONDERS
MEYER CEASE?
REAL SHORTAGE IN CANDIDATES
IN NORTH DAKOTA,
Petitions for Nominations Must Be
Filed by Tomorrow, and There Is
Nothing Doing-No Lack of Ginger
in the Campaign, However, for Both
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Sides Are Fighting Desperately.
Special to The journal.

Special to The Journal.
Grand Forks N. D., May 2s-This is one of
the most peculiar years In North Dakota poll |
tics. The primary election, when delegates will
will be held on June 10. and all petitions for
nomination for that election must be filed by
tomorrow, and yet there is scarcely whisper
concerning individual candidates Tor state office
Governor Sarles Is candidate for second
term, and has stated. OF the other state
officials 1t is assumed that those who have
served but one term will be candidates for a
second Secretary of State Porter and Auditor
Holmes have served two terms each,
and not expected to be active candidates
for nomination. Porter has said that he was
not candidate.
Treasurer Peterson is assumed to be a candi-
date but he Is not being talked of. Z. @.
Cooper, insurance commissioner, is candidate
for another term, but outside Of Grand Forks
county few know anything about it. W. L.
Stockwell, state superintendent of public in
struction. has served two terms and has given
an administration that is conceded to be
cellent. He has announced his candidacy for
nomina ton, and II there were no political COM
plications he would be given another term with
out opposition. Stockwell has tried to keep his
office out Of the political scramble
No Chase for Office.
Among the ''insurgents'' there is not can
didate who looms up largely. There. is not
an avowed candidate for governor but several
men have been mentioned as possibilities The
first was Professor Tinglestad of the state uni
versity. In a former dispatch it
planned that his admirers had signed petitions
asking him to be a candidate. and pledging
him their support If he should decide to enter
the race. These petitions have been presented
and Mr.. Tinglestad has had the matter under
consideration for time and has not yet
announced his decision. 1t is believed, however,
by those who know him well that he will not
be candidate.
H. T. Helgesen Of Cavalier county is believed
by many to possess the qualifications which are
needed in candidate for governor at this juno
ture, but he is not an announced candidate.
In fact, the only man in the state who has
announced himself a candidate for governor on
the insurgent side is Alfred Steele Of James
town. Mr.. Steele has not stated that he would
be candidate before the convention, but he
he would not be candidate without the assent
Of the members Of his delegation, and that the
nomination was an honorable one, and one which
could not we'll be refused. From this it is
assumed that if the delegation from his county
! looks favorably on his candidacy effort will
be made to secure the nomination for him.
No Apathy, Notwithstanding.
Because there are few announced state can
didates, and because the candidacy of those who
have announced themselves attracts little at
tention, 1t must not be assumed that there is
any apathy. There has never been campaign
in which the politicians were harder at work
The activity is confined chiefly to the warning
factions in the republican party, but the lead
ers of those factions are as busy as they can be,
and some Of their enthusiasm seems to have
been communicated to the masses of the voters.
The state will be in ferment before the day
| of the primary election comes.
Undoubtedly for the RELOCATING of
| individual candidates. into. the background by
! the machine element IS that it has such fight
this year it has never had before. Hereto
| fore the fight has been among candidates for
office, with the reasonable certainty that, no
| matter who won, it would be by making
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| leaders not so certain of their position.
! War Is waged not on the individual nominees
| of the machine, but on the machine itself. and
| the leaders Of the Organization which has con-
| trolled politics and dispensed offices fight
ing for their lives. Under these conditions the
interests Of individual candidates are secondary.
sarles' Fight at Home.
likely he will be supported by the machine for
another term. That is said to be the under
standing. But it Is by no means certain that
he will carry the county. Trail county is
peopled by lot of hard-headed farmers who
have not much for political machines or
machine politics. 1t has been center of pri-
mary election sentiment, and the people there
demanded a sweeping primary law, and are
very much dissatisfied with what they got.
The governor is held responsible for this in
no small measure, for it has been asserted that
he not only" acquiesced in the substitution OF
the present law for the bill which was popu
larry demanded, but that he made of his
official position to secure votes for that change
His signing Of the capitol commission bill is
another act Of which his home people com
plain. and his general affiliations with the ma
chine not pleasing to the farmers Of hi
county. If he comes to the convention withou
his county behind him he will in, all probabilit,
be left by the wayside, for the machine ha
need for all the votes that it can get, and l
has no special interest in Sarles.
, The insurgents in similar position will
referer ce to candidates. They not fghtin.
for candidates, but against the domination o
the politics of the state by ~Hansbrough an,
Mckenzie.
Steele County Insurgent.
; Finley. N. D., May 2s.-At mass meeting 0
the republican voters of Steele county at She1
: brooke the following delegates were chosen, sui
e ject to the primary election Of June 10,
, represent this county at the state repubica
:. convention to be held at Jamestown July Il
R. A. Lathrop. Hope; Ole Paulson,, Portland
e NJ. G. Duea, Sharon; C.. G.. Boise. Sherbrooke
= F. E. Curry. Finley; Ole Fosse, Hatton; F. {
Bnger, Portland, and B. T. Kraabel Hope. A
- | are insurgents. =1
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