Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-03-02
ANOTHER ANGLE
IN The NORTH '|'H||'
.D!A! X
Hall 4 Must Show Cause Fol
Not Giving Women
Place on Ballot.
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more angle was injected into the |
much mudd1ed North Dakota presi-
dental Preferential primary cam
paign late Monday evening when just
"a the time for filing nominations
was about. to close. the supreme
with an order to give Mrs.-M. A.
Rudd of fargo, q place on the ballot
as a league republican candidate for
delegate to the republican national
convention, or to show cause at 10 o..
m. March 3, for his failure to do 80.
Secretary OF State Hall was also di-j
rected to notify all county auditors
that such order had been served up
OF him. Mr.. Hall stated Monday
courts order to constitute an in
junction restraining him from hav-
Ing the official ballots printed and
distributed before the court has rul-
ed on the question Of Mrs. Rudd's
eligibility. As a result copy for 500.-
600 ballots will not go to the printer
until Wednesday o = later, leaving IN
" a trtfie more than a week for their
printing and distribution.
LANCER, at the request Of state gu
perintendent Of Public instruction
Minnie j. Nelson, nominated dele
to the republican national convention
by the second republican state con-
vention held in this city, handed
down an opinion to the effect that
inasmuch as Miss Nelson was not
qualified to vote for delegates to
the national.convention she was not
league immediately dissented from.
14anger's ruling, and last week when
1t attempted to Ale Its blanket petit
ton for delegates, the name Of Mrs.
M. A. Rudd. n Of the candidates
nominated at Hillsboro, was includ-
ed. The secretary OF state declined
to accept the petition for the double
reason that It was fled in blanket
form. whereas he %contepded the law
vidually, and further because it CON
tanned the name Of a woman who
was not al elector for the Office
sought and therefore. he held, in
view Of the attorney generals ruling,
disqualified.
The leagues contentious in detail
were explained last evening by At
torney Geo. Foster. who ~petitioned
the supreme court in behalf Of Mrs.
NJ. A. Rudd. He holds that the attor-
ney generals ruling to the effect that
to which he Is not an elector does
not apply this instance for the
reason that the position Of delegates
to a national convention is not q
state or national office, but Is merely
a favor which is within the gift of q
voluntary political association which
is not of a public or official nature
select for such position. n other
member Of such association whom
they may choose.
Any member Of any party has Z
right to become q candidate for any
position which that party has to I'LL.
regardless Of whether he or she i
an elector qualified to hold state or
national Office, Mr. Foster insists.
His contention would appear to In
a continuation of the old convention
system, in which members Of the
Various parties met and&s5 selected
from within the ranks of their party,
without respect to eligibility for pub
1ict office, delegates whom they wish
ed to represent them at their nation
\ al conventions. IS
president Of the league and chair
man Of the republican state central
committee, has further held that In
asr1uch as North Dakuta's limited
franchise act gives women the privt-
lege Of voting for. presidential cleo
tors 1t must have contemplated Civ
ing them the right OF voting for dele
gates to represent them in the selec-
ton of presidential candidates.
Should the supreme court hold
that women are entitled to become
candidates for national delegates
Miss Minnie J. Nelson also will be
entitled to a place on the republican
ticket. She IA nominated by the
second republican convention. Inc in
gency her nominating petitions were
left with h secretary Of state Mon
day under the same conditions az
those prevailing in the case of the
league nominee. Should the supreme
court rule favorably on the question
Of eligibility. there seems to be NO
question that North Dakota will be
represented for the first time in q
national convention by a voman del
egate.