The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-04
BLOOM FAILS
TO BREAK UP
DOYLE |; UNITY
Democratic State Committee
Goes Into Convention in
Close Accord ~
Lacquer MAKES TALK
Dell Patterson, who Campaigned
for Sinclair, Poses as
Democrat
Lacquer MAKES TALK
BYERLY WINS.

. Democrat
..s. RYERLY WINS. ~.
There were only four dissent
ing votes against the election Of
We. syeriy Of veIva as chairman
Of the Democratic state central
committee. Four Nonpartisans
voted for AT Nelson Of Dunn Gen.
ter, the Towniey-Frazier candidate
In the democratic ranks. IT,
4 William Lemke who resides in
St. Paul but holds his league
residence in Fargo was unani.
mousIy selected to succeed him
self as chairman Of the Norparti-
san state central committee, some.
times known as the Republican
state central committee.
The Nonpartisans held an exec. "
utive meeting after unseatinq e.
L. Peterson Of Dickinson who
holds proxy for Stark county
member.
Harmony prevailed in the dem.
ocratic meeting while the usual
Townley Lemke leSueur steam
roller was working nicely in the
Nonpartisan coneIave.
John H. Bloom. the Devils Lake
newspaper man and state fish COM
missioner by grace of Governor
Frazier, who has hitched his
kite to the Townley machine, had
failed to inject one element of discord
into the smooth-running Doyle machine
when the democratic state central
committee convened in formal session
at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Blooms
and Lemke's heads have been rather
close together for the last 4S hours,
but no indications that they had
achieved anything were apparent in a
very harmonious caucus held at demo.
cratic Headquarters In the Grand r.
cific this morning
Bloom was not in evidence but c P.
Peterson of Bisbee. league floor lead.
or in the house Of the last assembly
and author, of the Red Cross resolu.
ton which the house SO promptly vot-
ed into oblivion was there. He sat
committee ringingly applauded Fred
Dakota must send to congress from
the first district representative who
will not take his orders from Townley
and LeSueur and fellow socialists; he
did not applaud when Bartholomew
stated that he wanted to 20 to Wash
ingtOn to stand squarely behind Will
son in the trying days that are COM
ing; Peterson sat with folded arms
when others expressed their approval
of FarthOlomew's statement that A. c.
Townley, a registered solialist, made
John Baer congressman in the first
district and Lynn J. Frazier governor
Of North Dakota, and that both are
creatures of Townley. .s
Dell Patterson was also there. Rep.
Patterson will be remembered as the
league house member who campaigned
the Third district with J. H. Sinclair
of Kenmare a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for congress. 1t
was Patterson from whom the state
council of defense asked an apology
for things he said of the Slope coun-
ty council of defense when that body
endeavOred to bar political meetings
in Slope at time when public senti-
ment there was in an effervescent
state. Patterson claims to be a DEM
ocrat although he is not. so far as
can be learned. member Of the state
central committee. He was allowed
to give a rambling disconnected dis
course dealing with letter in which
he is alleged to have written to Lieut..
O'Leary Of Minot in response to the
latter's letter from France in which
he stated that he had always been
democrat but that he wished he was
home in order that he might support
Steen and Norton in the primaries
against Townley's machine. Patter-
son is charged with having written to
..eary letter which would not read
we'll in any American community.
What purports to be Patterson's sig
nature is attached to the Photographic
facsimile of this letter which is In the
hands of the democratic state central
committee. Patterson consumed a
great deal of time this morning to say
that he did not write the letter and
that he knew nothing about it.
Are you going to support Doyle in
this campaign, or, as a democrat are
you for Frazier" Patterson is said to
have been asked during the caucus.
II can't say who I'll support until
see the resolutions is said to have
been Patterson's response. %
Bartholomew for Doyle.
II am not a speech-maker. My way
of campaigning has been to go out un-
officially among my people and to ex-
plain to them the issues as l see
Them said Fred Bartholomew OF
Grand Forks. democratic candidate
(Continued on Page Six.)
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