The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-01-20
CONVENTION CALL RILES UP RED
RIVER VALLEY G. @. P, CHIEFTAlNS.
FARG0PAPER CHARGESTREACHERY
Although Similar Nominating
Meeting Was Held Four Years
Ago, Sinister Purpose Seems
to Be Scented in Olson's Rally
ing of the Clans in Bismarck
on January 28-All Factions
Coming Prepared For Fight

-Four years ago, on January 25, in
Fargo, was held Just such republican
convention as National Committeeman
Gunder Olson Of Grafton has called fol
Bismarck on January %. The prin'
cipal difference was that in 1916 the
republican state central committee
which had then not yet fallen under
the domination Of Townley, called the
convention and bossed things at Far
60. while today. the meeting is being
called by the national committeeman
-Four years ago North Dakota republi
cans met at the call Of the republican
state central committee, and endorsed
delegates and presidential electors
Managers for Senator Cummins OF
Iowa, then prospective candidate fol
the presidency, addressed the state
convention, but no presidential candl
date was endorsed for the March prl
maties. One week earlier the Nortl,
Dakota progressive republican league
met in Fargo under similar condl.
tions and endorsed committeeman
delegates and presidential electors
The league went one step further than
the regular republican organization in
that it picked Senator r. NJ. LaFollette
Of Wisconsin as its candidate for the
presidency. That was more than q
year before the famous con
vention which Townley conducted in
st. Paul, and at which LaFollete spoke.
The republican state central commit.
tee prior to the presidential primaries
In March carried display advertise
lnents in the press Of the state announ.
cling the slate endorsed at the, Fargo
convention and urging the SUPPORT OF
the party for these candidates. The
Committee believed by making selec.
tons in this manner that, every inter
est and section would be recognized
and represented; that all republican
forces of the state would be unified
and that In carrying out the mandate
Of the voters as expressed at the pri-
mary. March q, North Dakota will all
in bringing about complete victory
for the party at the next general elec
anon, said F. H. Sprague Of Grafton
who signed these notices as chair.
man Of the republican state central
committee.
FORUM SCENTS TRICkERY
Despite this precedent. TIC calling
by Gunder Olson Of a similar nominal
ing convention to meet in Bismarck or
January % appears to have creatcd
CONSERVATION in republican ranks
This seems to be especially true al
Fargo. where The Forum, speaking TO-
a number Of Gate City leaders has this
to say: &
''The fact that the convention cal
is dated January 3: that it was NOT
mailed until January 16; that the date
Of the convention has apparently bee,
changed from that originally proposed
and that penciled inscription send
bill to Grafton, n. D. at the foot OF
the call, quite evidently not the hand
writing Of the national committee
man, have aroused curiosity as to the
real nature of the gathering contem
plated in the call.
''The silence of the Nonpartisal
league newspapers and agitators on
the call, and the conference held in
Minneapolis on Friday, December 26
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