The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-03-30
.ORTH DAKOTA POLITICS
and POLITICIANS

The next development Of state
wide Importance in the political field
viii be the conference in Fargo next
Tuesday Of the Democrats. They will
gather at the call Of Chairman w. -.
Byerly Of the state central commit
tee.
Members of the committee and
Democrats generally are invited to
attend under the call that has been
issued
Fargo Democrats plead Ignorance
of any plan OF action with relation
to the forthcoming campaign.
According to Mandan advices, State
Senator w. II. Martin of Morton
county, for many years in the legis-
lattfre, will be candidate for sher-
iff of Morton county. instead of seek
ing reelection.
Burl Carr, member of the state
legislature from the Fifteenth dis
trict, has announced that he is can
-didate for the Republican nomination
at the June 26 primaries.
Having already served one term
as the representative of this district,
and having made an earnest endeayor
to represent both the town and farm
interests of this district equally, in
the legislature of this state, respect
fully solicit your support of my can
didaey on the basis of my official
record, says Mr.. Carr in his an
nouncement.
Mr.. Carr Is engaged in farming
operations in Barnes county on an
extensive basis. AS a member of the
last assembly he opposed III. b. AZ,
introduced one of the important anti
!. w. w. bills killed by the league
caucus, and he was chairman of the
house educational committee.
Howard Wilson of Leal, who owns
farm property adjoining that of Mr..
Carr, is the league candidate for the
nomination.
Congressman George Young Of VAL
ley City has accepted the Nonparti-
san endorsement for congress, in the
following wire addressed to III. L.
Elliott, the Socialist state manager
Of the Nonpartisan league in Fargo:
81 shall stand for out and out,
through and through Americanism.
This is a time when responsibility
is heavy upon each citizen of the ma
ton, in official or in private station.
My feeling Is that the supreme issue
is the winning Of the war and
through il a lasting peace such as
was sought by the immortal Lincoln
and won a half century ago.
I'm the months to come my task
will be here, but there will be oppor-
tunity for the expression Of my views
in respect to the war. In doing so
there viii be no euuivOcation. There
viii be no counting of the cost. There
will be no hedging and no soft ped
aling. / shall entirely and unresery-
eddy support the government and.
people OF the United States in this,
our country's hour Of peril and des-
tiny"
Announcement by Justice A. A.
Bruce that he is not a candidate for
reelection is one Of the important
of the past week.
Andrew Alexander Bruce is one of
the northwest's best known jurists.
He was born in India in 1866, and
was educated az Holmsdale house,
Sussex, and Bath college in England
before coming to America, where he
took his A. b. degree at tho Univer
sity of Wisconsin in 1890 and his
LIB In 1892. He was secretary
to the justices OF the supreme court
OF Wisconsin from 1890 to 1892, and
attorney for the state board Of fac
tory inspectors Of Illinois from 1898
to 1895. From 1888 to 1902 he was
assistant professor OF law at Wis
consin. In 1902 he became professor
Of law at the University OF North
Dakota and later became dean Of the
law college. He was elected an as
ISOLATE justice OF the supreme court
Of North Dakota in 1912, and became
chief justice a year ago in January,
when former Chief Justice G. ]. Fisk
resigned.
Chief Justice Bruce since Ameri-
cas- entrance in the world war has
become notable for the patriotic in
huence which he has exercised in ad-
dresses delivered in North Dakota
and in the east.
Only about half the precincts in the
Dunn oliver legislative dis
trict were represented at the district
league convention. according to re-
ports carried by the-newspapers Of
that dfafriCt