The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-01-19

run for congress and advised me to
run for lieutenant governor. I told
him ! would do so. Later, he decided
to pull out of the congressional race.
Tuesday. the progressive meeting was
held. with about seventy present. In
the evening. there was another meet
ing with about tw~enty-six present. and
the majority Of these were candidates
for Office I was unable to be present,
and some one came to me with a story
to the effect that Burdick was to be in
dorsed for lieutenant governor. I told
them / did not believe it and then I
was told that they came from Bur
dick.
"The Endorsement was given and
Burdick was asked what position he
would take. He said he would accept
but it would have to be with the sane
ton of Hanley. A committee waited
on me at my room. and I told them my
story. They reported back to the or
ganization meeting and. all of the in
dorsement with the exception of that
of Marshall and Buchanan and the DEL
egates were withdrawn. I was asked
what ! might do. and / told them that
there were three things that I might
do, n of them was to run for the Of
fee of governor, and the other was to
call a meeting OF the pr~ogressives of
the legislature which elected me speak
er and which would at least be a rep
r~esentative body and the third was
that I might VI for congress in the
third district
The assumption of the right OF the
Progressive league to dictate nonina-
lions is in violation of the spirit of the
primary law and men are taking adj
vantage of the progressive organiza-
ton to advance their own fortunes ait
the expense Of the principles of the
cause. There was evident indication
that the young progressive leader Of
the house was deeply stirred by what
he termed gang methods of ruling
him out and that he regarded the. SIT
uation as an attempt to buid UP the
power OF Thomas F. Marshall. There
has been considerable mutterine
among the ,progressives over the in
dorsement Of James Buchanan for the
republican progressive nomination fol
governor. They claim there Is nc
chance Of nominating Buchanan ovei
L. b. Hanna. They r g that Buchan-
an, honest and sturdy though he may
be, does not possess the elements Of
popularity necessary to defeat Hanna
and that the nomination Of any one
but a strong progressive is bound Il
end In a democratic victory, for the,
claim the state is 60 per emit progress.
sive and that the -progressives will 81
for Hanna. This Is not shared by al
the progressiyes who oppose the in.
dorsement Of candidates by the Pro.
gressive league and the assumption q
the right OF that Organization to say
who will be and who win not be can.
didates. Many Of them declare tina
Hanna, lie nominated, will be elected
and that the next governor is sure ii
be republican.
Much Of the trouble is due to tn,
fact that in the past the progressive
have been out r1anuvered by the stal,
warts. The ataIwarts confined them,
selves to one candidate and cast al
their strength In the primary for tina
candidate. The progressive cerdidatel
were limited oIity by the number a
progressives who regarded ~thepasefye'
as cS official size ana who had the fat
ing fee. Ry this way. 1t was claimed
the minority candidates were in man.
cases nominated. 10 obviake thii
tronble the progressive league I'm
dertook the task Of eliminating candi
dates. This to be done through In
dorsements as attempted here. Th
Progressive league was organized las
auxnmer and 1t lii understnod tina