Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-09-07
N ARTHUR TELLS
DEMOCRATS THEY.
CAN CO ANYWHERE.
Gubernatorial Candidate Vitriolic
After Central Committee
Elects Mclean.
ASSERTS HE WAS LEFT
OUT OF SECRET CAUCUS
Members Deny They Attempted
to Freeze Out Any Democrat
on State Ticket.

Stormy sessions marked yesterdays 8
meeting Of the Democratic State Cen
trail committee. From the moment
that Fred Mclean of Fargo, opponent
Of D. H. Macarthur, candidate for gov
ernor, was elected chairman, all at
tempts to inject harmony into the
proceedings failed, abjectly.
The gubernatorial nominee asserts
that he was ignored entirely in the
selection of the chairman, while the
leaders of the opposing faction in
sist that he and his supporters were
invited to a conference yesterday
morning, at which three names were
presented and MIR. Mclean received
the majority Of the votes cast. Mr..
Macarthur emphatically declares that
ne knew nothing about. any calleus
until after the committee had elected
tue Fargo man.
Other Candidates.
J. Nelson Kelly of Grand Forks
and e. II. Stenvick of Minot were the
two other names brought before the
conference. Mr.. Mclean is said to
have received Is of the "a votes cast.
The candidate for governor was not
in the room when the committee vOt-
ed for chairman, not arriving until
after a recess had been taken to al
low the resolutions committee to pre-
pare it's report.
Defies Members.
He paced up and down the aisle
back of the seats in the senate cham
ber, delivering a vitriolic trade at
one Of the members and then another,
until he had read practically all of
them out of the party. In strong Ian
guage, he told them that they could
go wherever they wished, that he
was through with the whole pack Of
traitors that he would 60 before
the Democracy of North Dakota and
ask reputation at the polls of the
men who put over the "most con-
temptible, underhanded, cheap pOliti-
cal trick ever perpetrated in the
state.
His friends tried to console him.
They urged him to be less emphatic
in his statements. But the pleas for
party harmony were not listened to.
After he had completed his wholesale
attack on the committeeman, he left
the hall and refused to have any
thing to do with them. Their invita-
tion to appear before the platform
committee with suggestions was
spurned.
Platform Of His Own.
While Mr.. Macarthur did not last
night repudiate the platform adopted
at the evening meeting, he intimated
that he would do so and soon an
nounce one of his own, on which he
would make single-handed fight
Some of the gubernatorial caHdi
dates charge the action of the COM
mittee to their willingness to sacrifice
for the election of John
Burke as United States senator IT
was hoped by subordinating the CUB
ernatorial fight to secure support fra1a
Non-partisan league members for
Burke.
The Macarthur men, on the other
hand, believed that their only hope
of success was through an appeal to
the conservative element Of the vot-
ers and had planned a program that
steered shy of state-owned enterprises
and other radical moves that are op-
posed by many.
Platform is LibertaI.
But the platform brought in by the
committee, composed of George T.
Murray, ]. Nelson Kelly Oscar Green
land, Charles Simon, f. J. Hughes,
Judge Nuchols and S. J. Doyle, was
more extreme than the one adopted
early in the day by the Republicans.
In no instance was there bait for the
vote.
But despite heated discussion,
with Judge Nuchols leading the con-
and Mr.. Murray the radi-
Gals. it was passed with only one dis
senting vote.
Main Features Of Platform.
It's main features are:
Endorsement Of TOrrens system Of
and titles, to aid in the conduct Of
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