Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-10-13
DEMOCRATS AND
B. MtSPL|1 UP
CANDIDATES OF THESE
PARTIES EVIDENTLY LACK
CONFIDENCE.
WITHDRAWING FROM RACE
Secretary of State Kept Busy
Taking Names Off Of
Party Tickets.
WITHDRAWING FROM RACE

b. 1t LOGS like the Bull Moosers and
Democ.a>s are having a hard time to
make their tickets stick together, for
from all over the state are coming
~refusals to run. and the office of sec
rotary Of state is busy making chang
es. Owing to the fact there are so
many OF these refusals, and the fur
ther fact that they are distributed
Wel,,sptcyer the state, it looks very
mC&. Ike there was not much faith
In .A~ possibility Of success on eth
err of these tickets this year.
ID Peculiar Conditions.
The old saying that politics makes
strange 'bed-fellows is again demon
strated in this subject, and may be
supplemented by the further claim
strange conditions and occurrences.
Over in Grand Forks county, where
there are probably as many and as
varied interests as in any county in
the state, and strongly republican, a
democrat, Henry O'Keefe, is the only
nominee for representative from the
Fifth dis riot.
In L-aMoure county, the Twenty
fourth district, w. C. Mcdowell, an
old-time senator, and A. ID. Raney,
have refused to run after securing
the nomination, thereby leaving e.
Kramer as the only legislative can
didatc.
Omits "Not."
Over in the Forty eighth district,
which is composed of Liver, Mercer
and Dunn counties, Ray Watson, Of
Center, notified the secretary Of state
by telephone that he had declined
ard would not make the race for re-
preventative on the Democratic tick
ct, Upon being informed that the Sec
rotary Of state could not accept a YER
bal message of this sort, and being
requested to write a letter stating
his wish in the matter, he complied,
stating 81 do wish to run" This was
Numerically opposite to his state
ment by phone and the secretary is
at a ~lossato know what 'he means.
1t is believed, however, that he mere
ly omitted me word mot" and the
secretary is unable to raise him by
phone. Victor, Of Ce or, socialist
candidate for the house has also serv-
ed notice of d%eclination.
In the Thirty-fifth district, McHenry
county, there was a tie between sew
eral progressive candidates for the
legislature. All withdrew in favor CT
Dalton Mcdonald, of Iowner.
Everybody's Doing 1t.
Emil Anderson, progressive candi-
date in the Forty-sixth district, Nc
Lean county, has served notice that
he declines to run after being noml-
mated.
ty-eighth district, Ed Berg has de-
clined to run after securing the dem
oeratic nomination for the house.
In the Thirry-ninth district which
is constituted of Golden Valley, Bill
ings and Bowman counties, A. J.
O'Keefe and ]. P. Smith, democratic
candidates for the legislature, have
withdrawn, leaving the ticket with.
out a candidate. The republican ard
socialist tickets are complete, how
ever
Mr.. Brockoff, of Grand Forks, re-
fused to run for railroad commissioner
on the democratic ticket aLl the
name of Oscar Greenland of Binford
was substituted.
J. M. Vatsvog and C. w. Hookway
Of McHenry county-Thirty-fourth
district-were tied for the nomination
to the senate, and agreed to decide
the matter by tossing a coin. Watts
vog won. One Knute Stevenson
then expressed a wish to run by petit
ton against Vatsvog, but the time for
filing his petition has passed with.