Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-03-04
HALL ORDERED BY
COURT TO PLACE
WOMEN ON TICKET
Given Alternative of Arguing
Matter Before Supreme
Court Wednesday-Decis-
ion Will Affect Mrs. M. A.
Rudd and Miss Nelson.

Bismarck, N. d., March 2.-(Spe-
cial.)--One more angle was injected
into the much muddled North Da-
kota presidential preference primary
campaign late Monday evening when
just as the time for filing nonina-
tions was, about to close, the supreme
court served Secretary of State Hall
with an order to give Mrs. NJ. A.
Rudd of Fargo a place on the ballot
as league-republican candidate for
delegate to the republican national
convention, or to show cause at 10
a. m. March 3 for his failure to do
SO. Secretary of State Hall was also
directed to notify all county auditors
that such order had been served
upon him. Mr.. Hall stated Monday
evening that he interpreted the
courts order to constitute an injunc
ton restraining him from having the
of1lcial ballots printed and distribut-
ed before the court has ruled on the
question of Mrs. Rudd's eligibility.
AS a result copy for 100000 ballots
will not go to the printer until We'd
nesday or later, leaving only tri1e
more than a week for their printing
and distribution.
Contention of League.
Two we eks ago. Attorney General
LANCER, at the request of State Su-
perintendent Of Public Instruction
Minnie J. Nelson, nominated for del
egate to the republican national con-
vention by the second republican
state convention held in this city,
handed down, An opinion to the effect
that inasmuch as Miss Nelson was
not qualified to vote for delegates to
national conventions she was not
eligible to hold such Office. The lea
que Immediately dissented from Lam
gers ruling, and last week when it
attempted to file its blanket petition
for delegates, the name of Mrs. NJ. A.
Rudd, one of the candidates nomi-
mated at Hillsboro, was included
The secretary of state declined to
accept the petition for the double
reason that it was filed in Blanket
form, whereas he contended the law
required each candidate to file indi-
vidually, and further because it con-
tanned the name Of woman who
was not an elector for the office
sought and therefore, he held, in
view of the attorney generals ,rul-
ing, disqualified.
The leagues contentious in detail
were explained last evening by AZ
torney George X. Foster, who petit
toned the supreme court in bhalf Of
Mrs. M. A. Rudd. He holds that the
attorney generals ruling to the ef-
feet that no one can qualify for
state, office to which he is not an
elector does not apply in this in
stance for the reason that the posi-
ton of delegate to a national con-
vention is not state or national Of
fee, but is merely a favor which Is
within the gift of voluntary office,
but is merely favor which is within
the gift of a voluntary political as
sociation which is not of public or
official nature and whose members
have a right to select for such posi-
tion any other member of such asso-
citation whom they may choose.
Any member Of any party has a
right to become candidate for any
position which that party has to I'LL,
regardless of whether he or she is an
elector qualified to hold state or ma
tional office, Mr.. Foster insists. His
contention would appear to indicate
the stand that the primary is con-