The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1912-03-28
AFTERMATH OF
STATE PRIMARY
Grand Forks Correspondent
Sizes Up Situation for
June Primary.
Tom Marshall "Came Back
and Is Nominal Head
of Party in State.

of Party in State.
Under Grand Forks date line the
following appeared in the Sunday St
Paul Pioneer Press:
COMPROMISE days are past for North
Dakota Republicans, and the Progress
ives holding the whip hand, very likely
will show no mercy towards the stall
warts, whom they haye been success
full in so completely ousting from state
control this week; in fact, they are al
ready laying their plans for the next
election-June 26th-the campaign for
which may be said to be already under
way.
Until the time Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt's candidacy appeared before
the Republicans of North Dakota, the
June primary held first place in point
of interest with the FIickertail politic-
ians. All their plans were devoted to
that primary, the presidential prefer
ence event being lost sight of in the
preliminaries which were being gone
through in anticipation of the state
primary there being no indication at
that time of any contest within the
party for the presidential Endorsement,
it being believed that Senator La Fol-
lette would be the only candidate con-
sidered.
Fight for State Primary Control.
Now the Progressives. satisfied at
their own strength as evidenced at the
polls this week, will enter into the
fight for the control of the state pri-
mary with renewed vigor. They will
not let up their fight at any point along
the line, and will probably go into the
fight with candidate IN the field for
every position on the entire ticket.
The greatest interest in the coming
election will be- the contest for the
gubernatorial honors, which now lies
between L. B. Hanna and James A.
Buchanan. That contest has assumed
new Importance as a result of the pres
idential contest, into which the guber-
material fight was drawn as an import
ant issue, the return to the state of
Mr.. Hanna to take up the chdgels Of
war for Mr.. Roosevelt being RESPONSE
BILE for the fact. His return created
the issue which the Progressives were
not slow in adopting, and the fight for
the presidential Endorsement will now
become part OF the state primary,
just as the state issues entered into
the preferential event Just ended
80 disastrously to the Roosevelt
Hanna cause.
After ALI State Offices.
The Progressives are surprised at
their own strength in the state. 1t is
greater than they had anticipated, and
they are confident that they will be
able to do everything they set out to
do in the state nominating primary.
HI tH0 SI1IS pIAlAdAy CdIAOAuatSS 4OI IAS
positions of governor, lieutenant gov
ernor, secretary of state, attorney gen.
eral. state auditor, state treasurer,
superintendent of public instruction,
commissioner of insurance, commits
sioner of agriculture, and three rail-
road commissioners will be nominated;
while at the same time a, judicial pri-
mary, non-partisan, will be held, in
which two candidates for the Supreme
Court bench will be nominated, their
names to appear on the general non
partisan ballot at the fall election.
Two candidates are nominated for the
Supreme Court, and they go into the
fall election, there being one vacancy
to fill, Justice Bruce's tenure in Office,
under authority of appointment by the
governor, expiring at the end of this
year.
Fllckertails IN Limelight.
Never in the brief history of North