Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-07-07
'THORSON SAYS
CAMPAIGN HAS
BEEN VICTORY
Chairman Of the Campaign
For Burtness Fully
Satisfied.
WERE SUCCESSFUL
Statement at Close Of Work
Says Issues are Fully
Known tn Voters. "a

N .'SEZ I.FrHrGEtE HL'.Hr# ".N.t
p. o. Thorson. chairman Of the
Burtness campaign committee, this
noon issued. a statement in which he
characterised the congressional cleo
ton campaign, now about to close, as
n of the hardest fought races in
the history of the First district. Mr..
Thorson summing UP the brief cam
paign, was glad to call attention to
the fact that ''the battle has been
only object OF the Republican, pro-
paganda. has been to present to the
voters Of the district a candidate of
ability, honesty and integrity
there has never been any doubt. "On
the whole" Mr.. Thorson said in CIV
Ing out the statement, lit has been a
gratifying campaign because of the
lack of personal aspersions and bit
n isolated attempt made by char
.acterizing Olger 3. Burtness as a
gang candidate who had been nom
mated for the chief purpose of break
ing up the league. But the voters by
this time know that this Is not So"
Issues Plain 10 Voters.
The Republican campaign has
cleared the air, and there is not now
a voter In the district who does not
have a plain conception of the issues
" IAAC NA0IA I1lS SIAIS, dIlu I1lS IA.
ton. Every voter has been told who
Olger B. Burtness Is and what he
stands for. The campaign committee
has thrown the full and honest light
OF wide publicity on the record Of
Mr.. Burtness, and in SO doing the
committee feels It has nothing to apol-
ogize for.
Chairman Thorson asserts quietly
and confdentially that the reports
c0mfnD from oil coottorS of tho A3o
trfct indicate that a decisive Repub-
lican victory will be recorded in the
political annals Of North Dakota next
Tuesday, and ne has no doubt hat
Olger B. Burtness will be elected as
the of the late Henry T.
Helgeson. @
The chairman of the campaign
committee calls attention to the in
~teresting and highly important fact
that three other nominees whose
names were placed on the ballot
whence they cannot now be with
drawn, are working for and support
Ing Olger B.. Burtneas, and Mr.. Thor
son also has the firm impression that
the political fight has simn red down
to a race between only two candi-
dates. Olger B. Burtness and John
feated, is the Arm conviction Of the
Burtness campaign committee as rep
resented by its chairman.
The statement issued today reads,
as follows:
Chairman's Statement.
Cone of the shortest but hardest
fought campaigns In the First dis
trict is now over and the issue rests
with the voters. On the whole, I
think 1t must be said that the battle
has been fought on tho square. This
COMMITTEES was, from the start, de-
term1ned not to indulge in PERSONAL
tiles but to try to communicate to
the voters throughout the district its
faith In the ability, honesty, integrity
and general fitness Of the Republican
candidates. proven by the excellent
record of Olger B. Burtness in public
Office in the past.
Il am also willing to admit that our
opponents in the main have dealt
squarely with us; the only exception
which has been brought to my notice
ts a general statement thai Mr.. Burt
ness Is a gang candidate put into the
field with the one and only purpose to
beat h league. That this ID not true,
Is s~elf-evident. II there had been q
concentrated effort to down any
league candidate. the forces oppos-
matters would have united on one
maj against the nominee OF the
league leaders.
1t Is, IN this connection, well to
bear In mind that Mr.. BuBtness was
a candidate for congress long before
the league leaders had picked their
man. When ne entered h held az a
prospectlve candidate, 1t was under
5000 una the league would adhsre to
us Lormer decls1on or not mixing In
national matters, not to speak OF hav-
ing = specla candldate OF their own,
esei.L WI. burtness hilasel, nos
ms committee, have any
tnli.ns 70 apoioglze Tor IN tnls cam
palBu. we nave tried to put the tg-