Grand Forks herald., 1919-12-20
FRAZIER Due
TO run AGAIN
Hagah May Be Candidate
For United State Senate
Is Late Rurnor.

Bismarck. N. d.. Dec. 2o.--lf Will
liam LANCER or @. g. Burtness be-
come candidates for the Republican
nomination for governor at the pri-
maries next June, their principal op-
pcnent no doubt will be Governor
elected by the league on the Repub-
lican ticket. The Republican. state
central committee is headed by Will
liam Lemke. vice president Of tho
league. and all of the Republican ma
chinery is in the hands of the Non
partisans. The Nonpartisan candi-
ttaies are picked in an old-time party
caucus, hut are formally nominated
al the primaries. The one effort Of
the league to elect state candidate
on the Democratic ticket failed, all
though in the legislative districts the
organization has succeeded in elect
Ing some candidates.
The fact that Governor Frazier. Is
generally conceded to he the league S
choice for a third term Would indi-
cate that he no longer seriously en-
tertains presidential aspirations, al
though the governor has been men,
toned as the possible nominee of
both the Labor-party and the recent
Liberal" organization formed at 81.
Louis 1t also leaves Il question us
to what the league will offer John n.
Hagan. commissioner Of agriculture,
ard considered fully as valuable TO
the organization as Mr.. Frazier.
Earlier, when it was thought that
some other honors( would be found
for Frazier, 13agau was popularity
considered in league circles as Non
partisan gubernatorial material
Now it seems probable that u United
States senatorship will be used to ap-
peaso Mr.. Hagan, should he be un-
willing to accept a third term as
commissioner of agriculture, in which
capacity he. is a dominant figure in
the leagues industria! program.
Throw Gro1na over.
To make John n. IIagan United
States senator it wou!d"'be necessar ry
ilrs. to sacrifice AISLE j. Gronna. wlso
is expected to be q candidate for re-
election in 1920, Although Gronna
and the league appear to have parted
company, Gronna still has large
following among the farmers. and
those within the league hint thai
William Lemke, who refrained from
opposing John NJ. Baer, league con.
gressman from the First district. a
the last league convention, only ir
the interests of harmony, would like
to go TO washington. While MIR
Lenke is vice president of the league
and has been for more than Il yeal
its most active manager in North Ia
kota, and while he has a way of get
ting what he wants, should there bt
. a clash between his ambitions anc
those of John n. Hagan. or the lat
ter's friends, it might! prove seriou:
for the Nonpartisan league in Il bat
tie in:.which the organization will
more than ever before need to pre-
sent a; solid front to the enemy.
Young at Outs.
Congressman George M. Young, o.
the Second North Dakota district, Al
though reelected q year ago will
the endorsement of the league, ha'
never openly espoused the. leaEu
cause and he has differed with tn,
Nonpartisan leaders seriously in: hi
opposition to the Plumb plan. Th
league press of this state has severel!
criticized Young, and, unless Their
should be a change of heart on on
side or the other, lit now seems prob
able that Young will have oppositio,
for the Republican nomination at tn
next primaries. Young original.
was Progressive: better known il
the early days of the movement il
this state, as a ''dynamitcr," and h
and the .offshoot of the Republican
party which elected him we're the an
cestors:. politically, of the presen
however. has moved so rapidly, tina
it has left many of the progressive
of yester-year in the shoes of stand
patters today. There is no inkling a
to Young's probable opponent in tn
Second congressional district. Ther
are number of league legislators il
this territory who would appreciat
an opportunity to go to Washingtol
and sit there with John NJ. Baer o
the First and J. H. Sinclair of tn
Third, who are out-and-out Non
partisans.
Should the old-line Republicans. il
cooperation with the insurgent Non
partisans, succeed in nominating a