The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-08
MORE IS SELECTED
MEMBER STATE
COMMITTEE
He Says Time is Ripe for
Honest Republicans to
Organize.

With the selection of A. Y. More
OF Fargo and Wimbledon, as the
member of the provisional committee
for Mort Dakota. and signing of ths
call for the new party convention by
MIR, lore representing the Roosevelt
prosresslves of this state, the new
party movement. insofar as it relates
to North Dakota. takes its first step.
Formal announcement will be made
In a few days by Mr.. More. of definite
plans for the state campaign, which
will line up North Dakota for Roose-
Welt in the fall elections.
m selection of Mr.. More is a
happy one as he has large business
interests throughout the state. which
have given him a wide acquaintance.
He has always been allied with the
progressive branch of the republican
party, and though an uncompromising
Roosevelt man., worked hard to elect
the LaFollette delegates last March,
believing that they would go to
Colonel Roosevelt as SOC as 1t was
demonstrated that their candidate had
no chance of election in the national
convention. He opposed the ~so-called
Roosevelt delegation put up by the
stalwarts. as he believed the plan was
to turn them over to Taft. and not to
roosevelt, when the proper time ar
rived in the convention.
Statewide Ticket Here.
In an interview in Fargo last even
ing. Mr.. More said that a wide
ticket would be put into the field in
s~resslvfs, h We're selected in the
recent primaries and putting hone but
dHed-ln-the-wool progressives on the
firing line. The activity of those who
claimed to be supporting Roosevelt
last March. in the recent Chicago
convention in an effort to saddle Taft
upon the people of his state as their
candidate for president. in Mr.. More's
opinion, makes it imperative that only
those VINO We're entitled to the NOM
nation record can be supported by
the new party movement.
Mr. More. who represented the
league at the Chicago convention.
SAYS that the political thuggery which
ne witnessed and the bold theft of
the convention away from the people.
and from Theodore Roosevelt, Who
by a legal majority of the con-
and dishonest public act he had ever
witnessed. and hat this act ran be
condemned only by a general uprising
of the people. That while it is posi-
BILE to vote for Wilson and thus mako
a protest, the party government would
SUI! De le1t IN n hands of machine
politicians and the great progressive
work of these last few years would
be lost if organized work would not
be done by the republicans themselves
in the third party movement.
1t is the hope of Mr.. More that all
progressives who have so far been
named in the state and counties shall
be endorsed by this new movement,
and where men will take their place
as they should in the fight against
t%hievery, it is his belief that no an
didate will be put up by the third par
ty. to make a contest against recoe-
nized progressives.
In an interview last evening, A. M.
Baker Of Fargo. prominent in the
Roosevelt movement. and who took
part in several of the conferences at
the Chicago convention. claimed that
talks with leaders from the several
sections who We're at the Chicago con-
vention, led him to believe that Roose-
Welt would carry the following states
ment: Arizona. California. Colorado.
Idaho. Illinois. Indiana. Iowa. Kan
sas, Kentucky, Maine. MARYLAND,
Massachusetts,. Michigan. Minnesota.
Missouri. Montana. Nebraska. New
York. North Carolina, North Dakota.
Ohio. Oklahoma. Oregon. Pennsyl-
vania, South Dakota, Tennessee.
Washington. West Virginia.