The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-03-28
INSURGENTS HAVE
EYES ON SENATE
DETERMINED EFFORT TO az
MADE TO WREsT CONTROL
FROM THE sTALWARTs.

/ Special to The Minneapolis Journal
from Williston says: The senate will
De bone Of contention between rho
stalwart and insurgent republicans of
the state, the insurgents being hone.
lul OF gaining control this year, where
as the senate has been for years under
| the domination Of the staIwarts
| Ihat progressive republican candi-
oates VIII oppose the stalwarts for
nomination in every legislative dis
trlct In the state is practically assured.
EFFORTS at unseating democrats and re-
| placing them with republicans are tlso
10 DC made. In the second. fourth.
sixth, twelfth tweny-second and
twenty eighth districts, democrats have
held seats for four years. or this
number w. l., Purcell Of the twefth.
ID. ii. MvArthur of the twenty eighth
and James Turner Of the sixth win not
be- candidats for reelection. Holiday
OF the second and Cashel of the fourth
VIII probably be i'm the race again.
Both Of these districts are uncertain
elements, and the fight will. therefore.
be hard.
In the eighth district opposition has
developed to the re detection OF H III
Strom i'm the person of e. L. FIken
of Mayville. Mr.. Strom has been
member Of the senate four wears. hut
previous to that, in the nineties, had
served four years i'm the senate as
well as four years in the house. AT
the last session he was chairman OF
the temperance committee. In the sixth
district, no candidates have yet APP
peared
In the tenth district, e. r. Gilbert.
the present senator, is expected to be
a candidate for reelection Up to the |
present no candidates have appeared to /
challenge his claim. The fourteenth
district will probably find new sena- |
torial material this year, as Ed Pierce, |
who has represented the district eight |
years. has taken up his residence in |
Fargo. In the sixteenth district there /
is also a vacancy by reason of the
removal Of Senator Crane to Florida,
but the republicans are as yet without |
an active candidate there. Henry Nc I
Lean is due to be a candidate for re- /
election in the eighteenth district. He /
is president of the senate now. and
has served two terms.
The TWEEN tieth district must shift for
a new candidate, Theo. KoffeI. the pres
ent member, having removed to Bis /
The twenty second district al
ready has a candidate opposed to the |,
present democratic member. John KEEL Il
ly, in the person of A. S. Gibbons. II
Mr.. Gibbons was a member OF the
house last year, and is identified with /
the insurgent faction.
In the twenty fourth district, ]. r. II
Sharpe is said to have decided not to
enter the race this year., while in the
twenty-sixth district Alex Macdonald,
who resigned some months ago, is not |
a candidate for reelection. BUT is out [
Tor commissioner of agriculture and 6
labor. Ferd Luetz of the thirteenth {
district is another of the old time I
prominent senate members who has t
announced his decision to retire. and ]. I
II. Hanley is being considered as a /
republican candidate to succeed him. S
The thirty fourth district has al
ready opened it's campaign, f. L. Hook Z
way being a candidate against C. d.
Rice, the present member, while i'm the
thirty eighth district, the insurgents I
are preparing to fight X. S. Ramsett.
From other senatorial districts OF
he state little has yet been heard.
There are, however, rumors of APP
conflicts, and few republi-
ans will receive nominations without
having to fight for them. Just to what
Joint the factions will go is an un-
certain quantity. The insurgent lead
RS, however, have announced that
hey are out to secure control of the r
upper branch of the legislature.