The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-04-29
LANCER MAKES |. '.
|. A. FOES CONE TO TIME
FORCED TO RESTRICT
MINOT MEET TO ELECTED
DELEGATES

10 those who follow the develop
ments in the l. v. A. camp Bill LANCER
seems to be on top so far as the
scramble for the nomination is con-
cerned. The pronouncement of the ILL.,
starred COMMITTEE Of 21" rather put
crimp into the LANCER boom. But
the tireless seeker after the limelight
marshalled his forces and trained the
guns of the Bismarck Tribune on the
scheme of the Young Nelson faction
to pack the Minot convention and cheat
him out of the nomination. For few
days Young and Twichell were defiant
-Treadwell even burning the wires to
Bismarck with profanity which
shocked the staid editor. 1t was not
long, however, before LANCER forced
them to, come to time. They gruding-
ly changed their plans and announced
that only duly elected and accredited
delegates will be seated at the Minot
Convention.
The abandonment Of the plan to seat
members of the re-organized McKen-
zie- Young Republican State Central
Committee and the executive commit
tee of the l. v. A. as delegates at
large" in the Minot convention is a
notable victory for LANCER as it was
by this means that the anti-Langer
reactionaries hoped to throw him out
Of the race. The Fargo Forum pro-
tests that there was no ulterior motive
in the "21" plan but comedies that
those Of less generous disposition
might so interpret it and admits that
it was we'll to modify the scheme. It
piously hopes that the county con-
ventions will see fit to name not only
the members of the central committee
but also the Republican,. V. AS as
delegates.
Here and there new "Langer for
Governor" clubs are being formed. A
number of Fargo business men have
launched a Cass County club. The
prime mover is the Fargo representa-
tive of the Northern States Power
company-a public utility corporation
which has interests in many parts of
the state. Farmers are conspiciously
absent from the club membership.
William is nevertheless meeting
with strong opposition in the I. v. A.
| ranks. The Normanden, the Norwe-
gian I. v. A. paper, continues to at
tack the attorney general as self
seeker who is building up political
machine for his own personal ends.
It. recalls Langer's treason to the
farmers program and in no uncertain
terms suggests that he may turn
against the I. V. A. in the same fash
ion. "Two-Bit" Nelson in long letter
to the Bismarck Tribune practically
reads LANCER and his friends out Of
/. " A. and roundly scores the Trib-
une itself. His lament is that there
is too much talk of candidates and
too little of "principles." He is appre-
hensive lest personal ambitions OBJ
scure the vital issue of the hour-the
enactment of an .anti-red flag law.
LANCER, he says, is the chief offender
in this direction. If this red-flag law
is not enacted walls Nelson, "North
Dakota and North Dakotans will be
forever disgraced."
Nestos is still running tho it is i'm
possible to perceive any considerable
number Of I. V. AS running with
him. He favored Fargo with visit re-
Gently but no "Nestos for Governor"
club loomed on the horizon to COM
memorate his visit. The conflicting
candidates within the reactionary Re-
publican ranks make it more and more
apparent that the opponents of the
farmers program will make their big
stand in the fall election. They will
swing all their votes to the Democratic
nominee-provided, of course, Herr
Joe Doyle fixes things so that the
Democrats nominate an acceptable
candidate. Joe will not fail them if It
is within his power to deliver the De-