The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-03-25
FRAZIER BOOM STARTED

FRAZIER BOOM STARTED
Fargo, March 25.-The first open
indication Of support for any candi-
date at the state primary came at the
: opening Of the afternoon session of
{ the state League convention when
many of the delegates returned to the
hall wearing ribbon badges inscribed
Lynn j. Frazier for Senator" A
motiQ taken as an attempt to prevent
the appearance of Mr.. Townley before
the convention was made in the OPEN
ing moments Of the convention here
{ today when a delegate moved that the
convention proceed Immediately to
nomination Of candidates for office.
The motion was tabled by small ma
jority.
Fargo, March 25-5efore adjourn.
mont at noon the North Dakota Non.
partisan league convention passed a
motion by an almost unanimous vote
that it would convene at 1880 o'clock
to debate a resolution for the appoint
ment Of a new state executive commit
tee.
The fight on the present majority
of the committee, though over-shadow-
! ed iby A. C. ToWnley's dramatic speech
of resignation, held by some to be a
strategic move on the part Of the. lea
que chief rather than desire to quit
his post, has been growing since the
convention started.
All day yesterday the meeting was
taken up by the reading of the min
utes Of the executive committee meet
ings and Liederbach's defense, as we'll
as his attacks on the little soviet"
Opponents of the committee grew in
power during the day.
Today the fight approached climax
with the resolution demanding the
committees resignation. Members of
the majority faction are A. A. Lieder-
bach, Christ ,Levang and Ole Kaldor.
Minority members are r. H. dad"
Walker and Walter Maddox.
Liederbach's Report
Mr.. Liederbach, when he began the
reading of his report, opened his talk
with the statement that 1t would be
his purpose to read toe minutes of the
committee from the time of organiza-
tion down to the present time, and to
give the delegates all of the, facts
that they might act intelligently upon
the issues that were raised. These
facts, Mr. Liederbach said, would
show that the little soviet" body had
fastened itself upon the league and
that some members of the executive
committee had been persuaded and
led astray by the leaders in the So
bviet.
,s The committee, said tie chairman,
began it's work on Sunday, March 13,
1921, and at that time Mr.. Liederbach
was elected chairman and P. L. Aar-
hus was elected temporary secretary.
Mr. Aarhus was called at that time
and discussed with the committee the
affairs Of the service bureau. At that
time or on the evening of that day
the election of Mr. Liederbach as per-
manent chairman took place, the
original vote being three for Mr..
Liederbach, two for Mr.. Maddox and
one for Chris Levang, the six votes
being accounted for by the fact that
Mrs. Howard Wood was permitted to
function as a committee member un-
der the impression that the Bismarck
convention Of the league year ago
had extended the president of the
Nonpartisan Leagues Woman's auxil-
iary the power Of voting as a commit
tee member.
On the final vote for chairman, Mr..
Liederbachs, election was unanimous,
the minutes indicated as they were
read by Liederbach. Mr.. Walker was
elected vice chairman; Mr.. Maddox,
secretary and Mr.. Levang, assistant
secretary.
At meeting of ine committee held
late in March the members discussed
the question of obtaining lease of
the Courier-News for one year, to get
such lease from the executive COM
mittee which had control of the in
stitution.
At a meeting on April 4, the af-
fairs of the Grand Forks American
were discussed and it was brought to
the attention of the committee a. that
time that the newspaper was in a
bad way financially and also that
there was every likelihood that the
farmers who had signed accommodation
notes for the institution would find
themselves obliged to pay them, ana
so the committee told the American
management that it would undertake
to take care of such accommodation
rl1tes up to a maximum of $4,000 The
letter that was addressed to the Amer
ican made it clear that the commit.
tee members accepted no individual
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