The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-04-12
LIVELY CONTEST
FOR DELEGATES
MARKS CAUCUSES
Majority Of Delegates Selected
In City of Bismarck Friendly
To Sen. McCumber
INFORMAL AND FRIENDLY
Friends of Judge Christianson,
Without Authorization, En-
ter His Name in Contest

delegates friendly to the candida.
cy Of Senator Porter ]. McCumbe,
carried majority of the seats
allotted to Bismarck in the Anti.
Townley, Anti4Socialist county con-
Yentlon called to meet at 2 Ps NJ. Sat.
urday in the court house. The contest
was close between the friends OF
Judge A. M. Christianson and the SEN
lor senator and good natured through
out. McCumber's friends secured "a
delegates friendly to his interests and
the Christianson workers named Is
delegates. ... ...,. I...
1t was the first time that Judge
Christianson'st name was used public
ly in connection with the Jamestown
convention. Posters. were circulated
Tuesday afternoon urging that he '1be
drafted" for the position and calling
upon his friends to attend the eau
cuses and send Christianson delegates
to the county convention.
At the same time a roorback an
onymous as to its source was dis
tributed attacking McCumber and So
called "McKenzieism." These cam
paign broadsides (which have become
familiar to this community put an
eleventh hour pep" into the caucus
contests, but the best of feeling pre-
vailed at all times and the work done
both for McCumber and Christianson
was voluntary.
More than 600 votes were cast at
the caucuses which showed the inter-
est aroused. No public statement as
to the intention of Judge Christianson
to seek delegation to jamestown
pledged to his candidacy had been
made previous to the printed ballots
bearing the popular jurist's name.
Neither on the other hand had there
been any public announcement that
MCCumber's organization would seek
delegates friendly to his nomination.
In Race to Stay.
Those in charge Of Senator McCum-
,ber's campaign in this state have
made clear their attitude toward the
jamestown convention.
Regardless Of the action at James
town, Senator McChmber will be a
candidate at the primaries June 28,
it is announced. -. His organization,
however, many of which have been
prominent in the fight against Town
ley and the Nonpartisan league pro-
gram will seek to have as many
friends as possible at the Jamestown
convention. g.
It has developed, they contend that
some who are directing the I. V. A.
organization are becoming more inter-
ested in eliminating Senator McCum-
ber than in continuing the fight
against state socialism and the
league.
McCumber's friends who have af-
filiated with the l. V. A. organization
demanded, it is pointed out, that no
organization should
be put up in the name OF the republican
party at jamestown and that it should
be understood that Senator McCum-;
ber,s friends will not allow such to
be done without a protest and that
the fight will be carried to the pri-
maries where the issues will be de-
termined finally by republican bal
lots legally cast.
Nothing has been done to date or
will be-. done, it is pointed out, to
jeopardize the interests OF Senator
McCum|ber. who has announced him
self as candidate and of course
will be candidate until the primaries
either name or eliminate him. :
Local McCumber leaders declare 1t
was this spirit that animated = the
action last evening. The friendliest
feeling is manifested by -McCumber
workers toward Justice Christianson,
whose long residence in this city, they
point out, has endeared him to
many. .o..'lla 1%E5a.
Delegates friendly to McCumber
were elected in the second, fifth and
sixth wards. Christianson delegates
were named from the first, third and
fourth wards.
{, Judge Christianson, it is known,
did not authorize or know OF the use
of his name on the poster.
In the Second ward, support to r.
G. Harrington, the service mems can
didate for the nomination for the leg.
isiature, was pledged by both sets OF
delegates voted upon.