The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-11-01
BALLOT
BATTLES HOLD
STAGE i'..l;!|: { CENTER INT
Doyle VS.. Frazier; Nelson VS..
Macdonald; Fisk VS.. Bronson,
49,: the Card:
NO CONGRESSIONAL RACE
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First Only District in Which
Bout is Expected to Prove
-. Real Interesting.
NO CONGRESSIONAL RACE

In addition to the main bout sched-
uled next Tuesday, Lynn ]. Frazier,
title-holder, versus S. Joseph Doyle,
for,y the heavyweight political cham
pionship OF North Dakota, there will
be several preliminaries which will
prove only second in popular interest.
Chief of these. is the ,Macdonald-Niel-
son battle. Neil G.. Macdonald, the
incumbent, has been connected in an
official public capacity with the ad-
ministration of North Dakota educa-
tional affairs for many years. Miss
Minnie ]. Nelson of Valley City. his
opponent, has been equally promi-
nent as an educator in a career ex-
tending over a quarter of century,
and is also very we'll known as club
woman and as leader in women's
patriotic enterprises. Macdonald has
waged a very bitter fight against his
opponent, attacking her on every con-
ceiyable ground. and Miss Nelson has
parried every blow. The women of
the state particularly have rallied to
Miss Nelson's banners. and it is ex-
pected that the women's vote in next
Tuesdays election will be the largest
North Dakota ever has polled, and
THAT it will decide the issue.
= Then there is Fisk versus Bronsan.
Charles ]. Fisk of Minot. former chief
Justice. retired two years ago in the
league landslide. is seeking to come
back as candidate endorsed by the
independent republicans and the dem
ocrats on nonpartisan judiciary bal
lot. His opponent is Harry A. Bron-
son. formerly Of the University. OF
North Dakota law school; member
of the senate for several terms and
how serving as first assistant attorney
general under William LANCER. This
campaign has been dignified as com
pared with any of the others. The
league. which is supporting Bronson.
has advanced arguments similar to
those which defeated Fisk two years
ago. Fisk is running on his record
and his standing as jurist Of a quar-
ter century's experience. Fisk, per
sonaNy, had only begun his speaking
tour when the flu halted all public
meetings. This fact may cost the MI
not jurist some votes which he could
have won by personal contact. but his
friends believe his chances of nosing
first under the wire are very good.
There is really NO congressional
fight except in the First district,
where the battle lies between Fred
Bartholomew, Grand Forks hotelman
and democratic nominee, and John M.
Baer, league cartoonist, former demo-
cratic postmaster at Beach, and who
had resided in Fargo just long enough
to establish legal residence when,
as the leagues choice, he crowded out
all the old stalwarts in the First dis
atrict in the special election necessi.
tated by the death of the late Con-
gressman Henry T. Helgeson. About
three thousand democrats voted for
Bartholomew in the primaries. while
Baer led Judge Henry G. Wick of Caya-
lier by only 1900. The Grand Forks
boniface's friends have it doped out
that II all the republicans who voted
for Wick vote for Bartholomew. con-
gress will be short one cartoonist.
George NJ. Young seeking reelection
to congress in the Second district, &C.
|cepted the leagues enforcement for
nomination on the republican ticket,
Continued on Page Two.)