The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-11-07
League and Anti-League Atti.
tude, on Result in Several
States
REMAINS STATE FIGURE
Nonpartisan League Still Iso-
lated with North Dakota As
Only Home

aspirations to create a party that
| would sweep through the entire NORTH
west and become a national factor at
the next presidential election.
The elecllon in North Dakota has
not attracted SO much attention of
newspapers outside the state as tn,
defeat Of the Nonpartisan league ir
Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana,
Colorado, and Nebraska, in which
states the league was counted a strong
factor in the elections.
The League leaders say RepubN-
can landslide was responsible for the
condition. There are also political
observers who believe that Governor
! Lynn j. Frazier is elected by Senator
Warren G. Harding. The refusal nf
thousands Of Republicans to go over
in the Democratic column undoubtedly
cost O'Connor enough votes to have
elected him 1t doubtless also beat
some other independent candidates fol
state offices. 1t helped Steen, Hall
and Stutsman. This and the religious
issue raised by the league were the
determining factors, in the opinion OF
men close in touch with the situation
for O'Connor's defeat. g..
| In Minnesota DR.. Henrik ShipsteaG,
who came near winning in the pri-
NARY was showed under by 125.000
votes by IA. 0. Preus, Republican
candidate for Governor. The league
ace" Rev. 0. j. Kvale was defeated
for Cohgress.,hE -
| The Minneapolis Journal says that
few -Nonpartisan league candidates
will be seated In the legislature. This
! is an indication that the detection
from the Nonpartisan league ranks in
June was general over the state. In
deed, Preus' lead increased as the
rural vote came in, and the -Nonpar-
tisan ogre disappeared in Minnesota
for two years at least. The league
had hopes that Thomas Sullivan
would be named att3ney general but
he, too, was badly beaten. .&
Montana Situation
In Montana the lead Of former
Senator Joseph Dixon, Republican.
over 3. X. Wheeler, the Democratic
Nonpartisan league candidate, was
sc, 900 with comparatively small
number of precincts to be heard
from. The league was really ex-
lDected to win in Montana after Wheel-
er captured. the Democratic nomlna-
zion in the primaries. The Montana
reborts said that no Nonpartisan cali
didates for Congress were elected ana
few, if any, to the legislature
The Nonpartisan league has a ar
Picult row to hoe in Montana, though
it apparently was very strong III the
summer. The league was dominated
by the Butte radical group, men VINO
are against the policy Of Samuel
Gompers and the American fedeEatloh
of Labor. Their effort to rlde mo
mower with farmer support met with
failure. and it is said that regular
union labor does not support them
The defeat of the league in South
Dakota was even more severe IMAM
was expected. Norbeck was elected
~ the senate by $4,000 votes. Just
before the election the leaders OF tne
( anti -Nonpartisan league group III
! south .Dakota.~was appealing to leac-
ing independents in North Dakota 10
come into the state, fearing de1eat'
The majority of the farmers in Sou'a
Dakota rejected the league.
II Lose Colorado
In Colorado, where the league trl-
umnhed in the primaries on inc
nomocratic ticket, the flush of victory
uss shortliyed.' The Republicans
we're victorious. Meager reports from
Nebrask aml Washington lndlcas'
,hat the league failed to count IN the
election. In Iowa the league has new
er gained a ,foothold and mas not nai
much luck in Kansas;
La Toilette Victory
In wisconsin, Blaine, the La Foiletle
candidate for Governor, who TRIUMPH
ed in the primary, was elected ! ne
league leaders point to this as great
7 victorv for the Nonpartisan league
the only claim Of victory made outside
the state. Reports from Wisconsin
indicate. however, that Blaine, Wh1le
, radical is not Townley radical
He is a La Toilette man, and was
not nominated by the Nonpartlsan
(.1oague. Rather, the Nonpartlsa':
league endorsed him. The victory
was regarded as a La Toilette VIC
tory, ana not a league victory Sena-
tor Lenroot, bitter opponent OF inc
league and La Toilette, was re-elec'-
| eH ~ 49,, .,,,+ tho
,eaeue leaders had their eyes To- 10,
ward a national campaign in l9zo'
Thev have frequently talked OF Gov
ernor Frazier sitting in the "nlep
House in 1924. Whether the reverses
IN the elections this week are merely
matters of circumstances no one can
saw: it is certain, however, that 'ne
league has suffered terrific Dlo" III
it's national aspirations. ,.
~ While Governor Frazier rode lnc'
office in North Dakota on HarolnS;
victory and most of the leaguers vote1
for senator Harding, the league or
cans condemn the election OF Sena.
tor Harding. The Courier-News' ch1eI
organ in North Dakota, 1lnds III u
nearly tragedy, and calls it the sue
noss of reaction. The MinnesotasNal-
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