The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-07-15
COMING ELECTION WILL
BE FIGHT TO FINISH

Severe reversals in legislative dis.
tricts were not the least of the several
sensational upsets suffered by tne
Nonpartisan league in the recent
North Dakota primary election, sur
vey of every legislative contest, COM
piled by the Forum, discloses:
In % legislative districts in when
the independent forces contested with
the leaguers for nominations for the
state senate, the independents noml-
mated ID candidates, and the Nonpar-
tisans nominated candidates.
In AZ legislative districts in which
there were 1909 contests for nomlna-
tions for the house of representatives
the independents won 81 nominations,
and the Nonpartisans won 5o nomlna-
tions.
In two districts, the Dickey county
district and the Third district in Walsh
county, there was no contest; the fac
lions nominating their candidates IN
the rival major parties, Democratic
and Republican. ..
Independents in Commanding Position
The inroads made by the indepen-
dent forces, and the majorities estab-
lished in the various legislative dis
tricts in the primary, put them in po-
sition to elect majority of the mem
hers of the house of representatives
in the next session, and to elect enough
senators so that the league, with its
heavy strength among the holdover
senators will have a margin OF only
five or six votes as compared with us
two to one majority during the last
session.
In the last session Of the legislature
the Independents started with only 50
votes; they have nominated 81 cand!-
dates, this time over league candl-
dates, and have nominated four addi-
tional candidates for the house with
out contest.
The league started the last session
with 81 votes. They have nominated
only So candidates for the house this
time. where they were opposed, and
four without opposition.
Finish Fight in Every District
4 finish fight in practically every
legislative district in the state is as
sured in the November election, as the
independent forces are prepared to NIL
their ticket with candidates nominated
by individual petition in districts
where they lost by narrow margins, OF
which there are many, while the
league can be depended upon to enter
candidates in the same manner in the
various counties in which the ocialists
believe they have a chance to regain
some Of the ground they lost in the
primary.
The state will elect 113 house men,
bers, and as the issue now stands, the
league has succeeded in nominating,
including the four who were permitted
to go on without opposition, just 81
candidates. 1t would have to elect
e,ery candidate to obtain the majority
CT the house membership.
On the other hand the independents
have nominated 81 candidates, includ-
ing the four nominated without oppo-
sitiun.
democrats Will Help
The independents, in the fall cam
paign, also will have the assistance Of
the democrats who are opposed to the
league and who remained out of the
Republican primaries this time, as
,nany did. there being more than 400
Democratic votes in Cass; PIG in Will
liams; SO in Pierce; 155 in LaMoure
and a proportionate number in other
counties
Only One Reversal
In only one instance-Sheridan
county-has the league been able to