New Ulm review., 1920-08-11
N. P. CANDIDATES
RUN INDEPENDENT
PETITIONS TO BE CIRCULATED
FOR SHIPSTEAD, MALLON
AND SULLIVAN.
BIG CAMPAIGN TO BE WAGED
FOR ELECTION OF
CANDIDATES.

Minneapolis, Minn.-State head
quarters of the National Nonpartisan
league has announced that Henrik
Shipstead, Captain George H. Mallon
and Thomas V. Sullivan would be the
candidates of the Nonpartisan league
farmers and city workers in the general
election campaign, and would file as
independents by petition.
Just as the League did two years
ago after the primaries, candidates for
the principal three state offices will be
run in the fall election by the League
and labor. Thomas Vollom, c. A.
Lund and 2. /. D. Ostby, who were
on the League ticket in the Repu blican
primary, have withdrawn and will not
be candidates this fall
The most intensive and vigorous
campaign ever put on by the League
will be made to elect the candidates
for governor, lieutenant governor and
attorney general, elect the legislative
ticket nominated in the primaries in
almost every county of the state, put
over George L. Siegel, who won in the
primaries for justice of the supreme
court, and likewise elect the candidates
who have been indorsed by the farmers
and workers in the various congressional
districts, including Kvale in the
seventh.
According to League headquarters,
the decision to file the state candidates
as independents is due to the fact that
it is uncertain whether the Farmer
Labor candidates already filed will
withdraw to make room for Shipstead,
Mallon and Sullivan.
On account of thesshortness of time,
action had to be taken at once, it was
explained, although it is expected that
the Farmer-Labor party candidates
will all withdraw before November 2,
since it is not believed they will want
to stay on the ballot merely to help
the opposition by taking even a few
votes from the League and labor ms
dependent candidates.
Want To Be Fair.
There is also the proposition that
Shipstead, Mallon and Sullivan ran
as Republicans in the primary, and it
would not be fair for the League to ask
them to go back on their oaths as
Republicans and file on another party's
ticket, as they would have to do if they
ran as 'Farmer-Labor" party candi-
dates. AS it is they will run as In
dependents, not affiliated with any
party.
Another important consideration
entered into the decision to file for
only the three chief state offices in
the fall election. It will simplify the
campaign, confning it to three men
Shipstead, Mallon and Sullivan
whose names are easily remembered
| by voters, and furthermore this plan
| will not make it necessary for party
voters in Minnesota, whether Repub-
licans or Democrats, to sacrifice their
party affiliations by voting for the
League ticket.
The farmers and workers viii be
running Independent candidates oaEy
| for a MINORITY of the state Offices,
and in voting for them neither Re-
| publican or Democratic voters will be
sacrificing their party standing un-
der the law, because they can vote
for the League and labor independent
candidates and still vote for majority
Of their own party candidates, Thus,
two, years from now, whatever party
primaries the League, in it's nonpar-
tisan capacity, may want to enter, the
party voters of that party will be free
to vote in that primary and can not be
challenged successfully.
On the other hand, if full state
ticket was run by the progressive
forces in the fall election, those who
voted the ticket would disqualify
themselves as party voters in the
primaries next year. It was decided
that it would not be fair to ask party
voters, either Republicans or Demo-
Gratis, to sacrifice their party affilia-
tions in this election, particularly in
a presidential year, by voting the
League and workers ticket this fall.
The plan thus permits the League to
maintain its nonpartisan principles,
whereas to put up full ticket would
commit the League virtually to the
formation of a new party, because
voting for full ticket would deprive
all League voters of party standing.
Would Bar Voters.
shipstead, being a Republican, if
ne is elected this fall running as an
Independent Republican, will of course,
have to file for reelection two years
from now in the Republican primaries
DuIg League voters could not vote for
him two years from now in the Re
publican primaries if a full League
ticket was put up this fall and Leaguers
voted for all of them.
These considerations were considered
imperative by a majority of the can
dldates themselves and by those in
charge Of the state campaign. The
offices OF secreatry of state and treas
qrer would not help in carrying out the
League program anyway, as they are
merely administrative offices, and
there was chance to elect only one
man on the railroad and warehouse
com mission this year, as one seat only
was open-but there are three on the
commission and success in that office
would not give farmers control of the
| commission.