The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1912-09-19
THIRD TICKET TANGLEFOOT.

find themselves hopelessly buzzing
with one foot deep in their own
tanglefoot concoction. Their anxiety
TO put a third state ticket over before
Colonel Roosevelt was out Of the
state resulted in nominating dis
qualified candidate for governor.
The parapharsing of scripture by
Colonel Roosevelt, 81. you are not for
me, you are against me- coupled with
his privately expressed desire for a
third state ticket, so intoxicated the
over-zealous enthusiasts that they
plunged like the famous six hundred,
madly, blindly and recklessly on
Colonel Roosevelt and DR.. Creegan are
old friends, which is not to the dis
credit of Mr.. Roosevelt, so, when Mr..
Roosevelt named DR.. Creegan, leaders
of the third state party fastened to
concur in convention assembled.
Now it develops that DR.. Creegan
is disqualified, if the constitution of
North Dakota is correct, because the
educator has not lived in the state
five years. There was no calm delib-
Grafton in naming DR.. Creegan. The
nomination was in direct line with the
perfunctory and cut and dried pro-
gram that had been framed in ad-
vance of the gathering of delegates, a
committee was on hand ready to has
ten to notify" DR.. 'Creegan, who had
already been assured the nomination,
and the trick was turned.
Undoubtedly the nomination of DR..
Creegan was satisfactory to those del
egates who went home on the early
trains and entrusted the carrying out
OIL the program to incompetent hands.
Probably the selection of DR.. Creegan
to head the third party state ticket
was as good as could have been made,
but the glazing neglect to ascertain
his qualifications is inexcusable to
those delegates who paid their ex-
penses to the convention and intrust-
ed the all important matter of nomi-
mating a candidate for governor to
its managers.
The law clearly specifies that when
a vacancy occurs, as in this instance,
it can only be filled by action of the
same representative body unless the
nominating convention expressly au-
thOrizes the state central committee
at the nominating convention to fill
such vacancies as may occur. II the
minutes of the third state party con-
vention in Fargo are correct, and it is
presumed they are, the convention
took no such action. 1t did expressly
authorize the committee to nominate
a candidate for the office of commits
sioner of agriculture and labor, and
1This action in itself is prima facia evil
.dence that it was not the intention of
the convention to empower the COM
mittee OF go beyond it's specific in
The result is that the managers who
were entrusted to safely pilot the
third state party through this falls
campaign and whose duty it was to
see that the proceedings of the con-
vention were according to Hoyle,
have not placed a third state party
Bull Moose candidate in the field, but
have ''bulled' state convention and
made it impossible, if the law is ad-
hered to. to have a candidate for gov
ernor at all.
What if the candidates on the Pro-
gressive Republican ticket should re-
fuse to accept the honors thrust upon
them at Fargo? But then, the third
state committee still has authority to
go ahead and nominate a third candi-
date for commissioner of agriculture
and labor.