The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-04-11
ELECTION DATE
TO Be ANNOUNCED
WITHIN 4 WEEK
Governor Frazier Will Issue Call
on Return From New York
Next Monday
CUTHBERT REGARDED =.
PROBABLE CANDIDATE
Devils Lake Attorney Who
Sought Nomination Last
Spring and Bangs Picked

Governor Frazier left last evening
for New York, where he speaks at
Cooper Union Friday evening, with
out announcing a date for the special
election which will be called for the
selection of 4 successor to the late
Congressman Henry T. Helgesen as
representative from the First district.
It is understood, however, that call
will be issued within a week, prob
ably Immediately upon the governors
return from the metropolis, next Mon
day or Tuesday.
The call will provide for a special
election to be held within 80 days,
and will, Of course, affect only the
First district, comprising Cass, Cava-
lier, Grand Forks, Nelson, Pembina,
Ramsey. Ransom, Richland, Sargent,
Steele, Towner, Traill and Walsh
counties, with population of about
100000 people.
Who viii Run?
There is much conjecture about the
capitol as to who the candidates will
be. Last June Frederick T. Cuthbert
opposed Helgesen for the Republican
nomination and received 6,29l votes,
to 13.34A for the incumbent George
Bangs of Grand Forks was Helge-
sens Democratic opponent in the
general election, and he was defeated
by vote of 2O,709 to 1926. Fred
Bartholomew, the Grand Forks hotel
man, put up a better fight against
Helgesen two years prior.
The question now is, will any OF
the old-time regulars" stand any
chance of election in a district where
the leagues strength is so largely
concentrated unless the league should
see tit, which is not probable, to favor
such regulars candidacy. Cuthbert
is Devils Lake attorney. Bangs is
in the law business at Grand Forks.
Bartholomew runs big hotel. None
of these three gentlemen is partMu-
larly pro-league. while down in Fargo.
also in the First, and with a lot Of
votes to bestoW, is Dill Lemke, cam
epaign manager and general legal ad-
visor for the league; Edward f. Cole,
who basked in the smiles Of the
Nul IIlN lCNVuI roSooioh1 "hNe
ever so many more who are, or should
be- in the good graces Of the league.
The northern part of the district
long has had the representation.
which may ;be used as an argument
for the advancement of some gentle.
man from Richland, Sargent, Ran
som or Cass. There's Senator Nc
Carten of Cogswell p veteran of many
years service in the state legisla-
tufe. and league leader during the
last session. And there's Senator
Drown of Page, trifle old, but still
in the ring.
Looking northward once more, Pc
terson of Towner. league floor lead
er in t'.r house y rhe Fifteenth as.
semniy, is a man who feels he has
some hing coming 10 him for the way
he handled ga" And 0. x. Lageson
of Grand Forks is likely man in the
eyes of President Towniey, who has
picked Lageson as one Of his possible
successors as chief proDhe: in North
Dakota. M. A. Hoghaug heads the
list of good Indians in Ramsey coun-
ty. and there's ever so many more
who might be mentioned.
viii Be Interesting.
The special election will be rartic-
ularly interesting for two reasons:
First. pacifism will be made an Issue,
and the district will have an cppor-
tunity to go on record. Helgesen was
an ardent pacifist. If the First Gis-