The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-03-26
R. A. NEST0S IN
GUBBRNAT0RIAL
RACE, HE SAYS
Minot Attorney Announces Can
didacy in Letter to l. V. A.
?, Headquarters

& R. A. Nestos of Minot announces hi;
candidacy for the republican nomina
tiOn for governor of North Dakota il
the following letter:
MinOt, No. Dak., Mar. rs, 1920.
Secretary, ....1
The Independent Voters Association
Fargo, North Dakota. .t E.,
Dear Sir I-e
During the past winter a considei
able number of people have asked MT
to become candidate for the republi
can nomination for governor. In ans
wer thereto i have stated that | was
not candidate but that if it should
appear during the spring that thel
was a general demand for my candid
lacy or that majority of those at
tending the state wide meeting, pro
posed, to be called prior to the prim
aries by the Independent Voters as
sociation,, should express q wish tha
| become candidate for the gOveru
orship upon platform opposed t.
Townleyism and socialism, that then
| would consent to make the race.
So many requests that I make tht
race have come in of late. and 81
many Of these have urged me to an
n0unce my candidacy at this time
even though such an announcement
be made subject to the judgment ol
the majority of those present at the
state wide meeting, that l feel it my
duty to announce my candidacy u,
this time and should appreciate it Il
you would lay the matter before your
membership.
ADOPTS I. v. A. PLATFORM
have therefore concluded to be
come a candidate for the republican,
nomination for governor subject TO the
will of the people to be expressed d:
the primaries in June. In substance
/ endorse the platform adopted at .tdt
convoE,ibn s0f the lndependent Voters
association at Grand Forks. and re-
spectfully solicit the earnest cO-Opera.
ton Of eevry member OF the indie
pendent Voters association, and VI
every other citizen who feels that the
best interest Of the state now de-
mands that Townleyism and socialism
no longer be permitted to parade al
republicanism in our state and Il
continue their administration of waste,
extravaganza and radicalism.
In connection with the announce.
ment. deem it proper at this time tO
state my position \On some of the is.
sues now before the people of the
state, leaving for future statement 4
more complete analysis of some of
those laws and statement with ref.
erence to the other matters OF inter-
est to the citizenship of our state.
'FERNINST THE BOSSES
am not now and never have been
a believer in bossism in any form, no
matter by whom exercised l was
opposed to Mckenzieism in former
days. have been opposed to Town
leyism in recent years. am unalter-
ably opposed to the political domina-
ton by the spirit Of McKenzieism OF
Townleyism or the combination of the
two in the years to come. | believe
that the intelligent, independent, Law
abiding citizenship of our state is
capablelo self-government, that they
do not need the domination or the
supervision of their political thinking
and activities by bosses residing in
and by agitators and workers import.
ed from other states, but that we have
enough intelligent, experienced anu
capable people within our own state
so that we could and should emphat,
lcally declare for home rule in North
Dakota
believe that the radicalism, the
preaching Of class hatred, the pro-
family and sacrilege that has beer
taught our people from the platform
during the last four years in the name
Of industrial liberty and political in.
dependence has done our state and
our people great harm and that today
the great majority OF our people long
for the day when the bitterness. the
class hatred and the vindictiveness Of
the contest Of the past few years shalt
have passed away and we shall in our
state secure an administration in the
interest of all our people and seek.
ing honestly and efficiently to pro-
mote the welfare of the whole state.
THINKS PEOPLE WANT CHANGE
The fact that an increasing NUM-.
Der of people desire a change and have
become dissatisfied with great many
Of the laws enacted and administra-
tive acts performed under the CLOAK
of farmers program is also indicated
by the fact that in the refefenluE.
election last spring an average Ol
about 10000 of the voters Of North
Dakota voted against the re-
ferred laws. Reports from every
part of the state indicates
that thousands Of others who
In June voted for those measures
have since become convinced thai
many of them are Of doubtful value
and some so obnoxious that they
should be repealed.
1t is my purpose, II nominated and
elected governor of this state, to elim-
mate as far as may be the factional
feuds OF the past and to disregard
wherever possible factional and party
lines in state affairs in order to give
the state an administration that viii,
insure harmonious development of all
state interests.
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