Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-09
INDEPENDENT
VOTERS ASSN.
IS new NAME
Jamestown Meeting Selects
Executive Campaign
Committee.
Bismarck Will be Headquar-
tiers of Republican Or
ganization.

Lincoln Republican league, met at
Jamestown at s o'clock, p. M, May Z.
The committee perfected a permanent
organization ard adopted the name OF
the Independent Voters Association.
Mr.. n. T. Hedalen was elected chair
man; Theodore koffel, secretary, and
j. Il. Davis, treasurer. The principal
issue upon which the campaign will
be made will be representative gov
errment and patriotism. Bismarck
ters, and it was decided to open the
campaign at once. y The executive
committee consists of. one l from
each judicial district and three at
large, as follows:
District No. 10: p. Burtness,
Grand Forks.
District NO. c-Berndt Anderson.
District No. 3-Walter Read. Ame-
mia.
District No. 4-Robert Hughes,
| Wahpeton.
District No. 5-Frank Ployhar,
Valley City.
District No. 6-Theodore Koffel,
Bismarck,
District No. IN. T.. Hedalen,
District No. s-Walter Bond, Minot.
District No. 9-Mike Breen, VOL
ford.
District No. 100. A. Brown.
Dickinson.
District No. 10. A. Converse,
Williston.
District No. 12-w. J. Smith, Heb
ron.
Committeeman at Large-Christ
! l'agel, Kuhn; Theodore G. Nelson,
Dunn Center: Alec Hill, 'Newburg.
This organization and the ticket
named at the Minot convention, also
the legislative tickets in harmony
\ herewith, will be supported and
backed by the various Independent or
CARNATIONS known as the Lincoln
Republican League. the State Legisla-
tive Campaign committee, the Inde-
pendent Political association, and the
North Dakota Farmers League. The
services of these various independent
movements has been retained by the
Independent Voters association, and
particularly the leaders of these var
ious movements.
authority vested in it by the Minot
convention. filled the vacancy occa-
stoned by the declination of Mr.. Still
OF Beach. Mr.. Lyman D. Page of
! Ne;ra WIZ: substituted for the office
of secretary of state.
1t Yves the Sentiment that the
cipll,aign be conducted in harmony
8 now ~ A4AS1l . SAoCS LUZ
economy, that the campaign be made
with as little expense as possible. H.,
In declining to be a candidate for
the office of secretary Of state, Mr..
Still of Beach wrote the following let
ter:
Beach, n. D.. May g.. 1918.
The Executive Committee, Lincoln
Republican League of North Dako-
Honorable Gentlemen: I take this
opportunity to express to the Lincoln
Republican League of North Dakota,
through your committee, my appre-
citation of the high honor conferred
upon me by being selected in your
conference to make the ace for the
OFFICES Of secretary Of state.
#Due@sto my extensive farming oper.
available help to conduct my enter.
prises, and the world necessity for
the utmost production of the essen.
tails of life, it is with sincere regre1
that I am obliged to inform you OF
my inability to accept the nomina.
tion which our convention conferred
upon me-.
1 have always been a strong advo-
cate of the right of the farmer tc
representation in public life, and ir
the prosecution of this conviction
have been ever mindful of the rights
of others to equal representation, be.
lieving that, thereby, the highest anc
Epurest ideals of democracy may be
achieved.
After a careful perusal and consid.
; Grafton of the resolution adopted a,
your recent convention, I am pleased
to inform you that they are admir-,
ably calculated. to promote the bes
interests Of the North Dakota farm.
err, in my opinion, and represent tn,
standards for which we have Ions
striven.
know l can best serve the com
mon cause which we all have at hear
and interests Of the nation in thi
hour of its peril as. private citizen.
fighting in the ranks of my fellow
farmers to rid the state Of the auto
cratic, un-American, disloyal and So
cialist leadership Of Townley and hi.
kind. To this end my efforts and in
fluence will be- exerted SO that tn,
stigma of disloyalty and unpatriotfsn
cast upon our fair state by the leader,
of the Nonpartisan league, and no
Its membership, may be forever re
moved, thereby promoting the hes
interests Of the farmers p~olitica
moysment; Yours very truly;