Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-07
NONPART|SANS N
ENTIRE CONTROL
OF COMMITTEE
Lemke Elected Chairman and Mo
Kaig Secretary Of g. o. P.
Central Organization.
ENDORSE COMPLETE
NATIONAL TICKET
Rural Credits Plank Fails to
Pass; Urge Exemption of
Farm Improvements.

The Farmers Non-partisan league
leaders secured complete control OF
the Republican state central commitr
tee which met yesterday at the state
capitol to organize.
Every plank which was advocated
in the platform prepared Tuesday at
the conference of the league delegates
and leaders at the Grand Pacific hotel
was incorporated into the Republican
state platform, save that urging rural
credit legislation. .'''s az j.
William Leln}te of Fargo, attorney
general for the Non.partisan league
and it's choice for chairman, was elect.
ed. No candidate ran against him.
Ray McKaig of Morton county, door
gender for the league, was chosen sec.
ytaay.
spfague Made Temporary Chairman.
Frank !Sprague, the outgoing com.
1nittee chairman, was made temporary
chairman. On motion of Mr.. McKaig,
a rising vote Of thanks was rendered
him for the fair and efficient manner
in which he conducted the meeting.
Considerable time was lost debating
over the temporary organization. AT.
ter tempest in teapot had waged
for more than an hour, Frank Spraguo
was selected as temporary chairman
and A. r. Leslie of Sargent county,
temporary secretary.
The name of K. J. Nomland of Trail1
county was proposed for temporary
chairman and a roll call demanded.
Mr.. Sprague received % votes and
Nomland 20. Following this action
the organization was made perma.
nent for the purposes of that meet.
ing.
1t was announced at this time that
Mr.. Sprague was not candidate for
secretary of the state central commit.
tee. Many were in favor Of his con.
tinuing in Office, but he explained that
for business reasons he could not &C.
cept.
The first action after the election Of
permanent officers was the appoint.
ment by the chairman of the follow.
ing to the resolutions committe: L. A.
Simpson, Treadwell Twitchell, v. A.
Corbett, Berndt Anderson, r. J.
Hughes, G. S. Reishus and H. W.
Green.
Amendments Moved.
The unanimous report OF the COM
mittee left out several Of the planks
urged by the Non-partisan elague and
Mr.. McKaig moved amendments, all
but one Of which were adopted, but by
a close vote.
A clause was inserted by the com.
mittee in the plank declaring for .
terminal elevator, which provided that
It should be erected within tho state.
The member from Morton county NOV.
ed that these qualifying words be
struck out Treadwell Twitchell and
L. A. Simpson opposed this. asserting
that the terminal elevator should be
built where it could be controlled by
the state and that this control was
only possible when it is built In North
Dakota. He said that the people did
not want a repetition Of the fight two
years ago, when lobbyists from anoth.
,r state swarmed into the capitol. Mr..
McKaig held that the legislature
should be left free to do as it thought
,est.
The amendment carried BY an
affirmative vote of rs, with "A present,
No Votes Against Normal.
E. l.. Richter of Larimore, Grand
Forks county, here put an amendment
striking all reference in the platform
% the location Of a normal school
IN the Missouri Slope.
This brought forth spirited reply
rom L. A. Simpson of Dickinson.
Stark county. He declared that he
lad mover opposed the giving Of mon.
" to The educational institutions
which Grand Forks had monopoli1ed
md that be dia not see why the mem.
yer of that county should object to the
upport of normal school in Z dis.
riot which was not now represented
" any similar educational institution
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