The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-27
NORTH DAKOTA NOW SEETHINC
 IN POLITICS

BISMARCK, June 27.-With party lines broken and disregarded, North Dakota is approaching it's statewide primary tomorrow with the interest centered in the struggle between the present administration and the Non partisan League for the control of the state government Governor R. A. Nestos, the first governor in the his tory of the United States to be elect ed in recall campaign, is heading the combination of Republicans and Dem- ocrats aligned against the league. The latter is marshalling it's forces under the name of Republican, the Demo- cratic members of the league signing up as Republican for the purpose of the primary.
 The primary is strictly a North Da- kota affair. While candidate for United States senator is to be elected, the league and anti-league battle en- ters into this and the selection of the senator is one of the queerest angles ever presented to the people of state Lynn J. Frasier, recalled governor, is the candidate for the Non-partisan League. Porter J. Mc- Cumber is a candidate to succeed him. self, Ormsby McHarg, of JamestoWn a former private secretary of Sen ator McCumber, is also candidate. According to political observers the primary will not give line upon the trend of national feeling. Conditions polically, they contend are too chaotic, the party label too easily changed, for any stamp of pro or anti to be de- clared from the result. Something of the tangled conditions can be guessed from the fact that the names of the same men appear on petitions of candidates named for Democratic and Republican office No alignment has vet been made in this potpour1 ot politics stamping one side or the other as carrying the banner of progress, | immobility or reaction.
 Back of all these conditions trail the years in which North Dakota has been the experimental ground for economic theories, theories which needed a political party label for func- tioning, and still further back, are 1 the years in which North Dakota was attempting to align itself under the progressive banner upheld at that time by it's near native son, Theodore Roosevelt.
 Under these conditions six different elements entered into the campaign The elements, each one paramount to some certain group or alignment or section follow:
 1) Interested in the state ticket and the return of Governor R. A Nestos to the position he has filled since November 23, last. This ele ment has no candidate for the senat orship.
 | (2) The Non-partisan League, with it's members signing up as Republl cans. it's ticket headed by former Gov ernor Frasier as candidate for United States senator, and with a complete state ticket, headed by B. F. Baker of Glenburn, a farmer, for governor.
 (3) Democrats, supporting J. F. T, O'Connor for United States senator and a complete state ticket
 (4 Porter J. McCumber, senator ardently supported by former stal warts with followers in both the Re publican and Non-partisan camps.
 (5) Protest against the purpose oi the Democrats to align with the in dependent Republicans, following the primary upon certain candidates from each ticket. 70
 (6) Protest in Republican ranks against the industrial experiments the state has been trying.
 The preliminary campaign, up to the time of final filing for office, was g contest between the Independent Re publican and the McCumber forces The independents attempted to force the senator and his immediate follow CTS to ally themselves with the inde