Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-07
THE EXPECTED HAPPENED.

The results of the ommittee organization meet
ing at Bismarck were as expected. The majority Of
those elected to committee membership at the June
primary were of the Nonpartisan league faction.
They organized the state ommitt and ignored
the independent group. The latter, following form
er procedure, declared that persons elected to the
committee who owe allegiance to the league are dis
Qualified for membership in a Republican committee.
Ibe remaining members of the committee are d.
rected to fill the places thus declared vacant.
No other action was anticipated, and no other
would have been rational. The principles to which
the Nonpartisan league, through its central organ
%lzation, stands committed, and the policies which it
advocates, are Numerically opposed to the recogn-
lzed principles OF the Republican party, Where
those principles and policies are concerned there is
no common ground on which the two groups can
stand. Either those who are committed to the doc
trines Of the Nonpartisan league are not Republicans
or the independents are not Republicans.
AS to which of the two groups represent the
Republican party, agreement is impossible. The
%leaguers have not stressed their Republicanism in
the past, but so long as they happen to be in the
majority in a particular organized body which is
supposed to be Republican, they profess to see no
reason why, for the purposes of political expediency,
they should not call themselves Republicans, not
withstanding the fact that they have repudiated Re-
publican principles, abandoned Republican policies,
and at every opportunity have hampered the work
of the national Republican organization.
Alter all, this is a state. and not a national con-
test. { essential tnlnS is the continuation OF a
state administration which will, as in the past, con-
serve the resources, protect the credit, and develop
the resources of the state of North Dakota. That
means the reelection of Governor Nestos, and the
election of the state candidates of both parties who
stand on the same platform with him, and who are
prepared to support him in carrying out the wise
policies which have been inaugurated by this admin
%istration.
That result being assured, the thing next in i'm
portance is to send to the United States senate the
best man available for that position. In the present
instance it happens that that man. is a Democrat.
Many thousands of independent Republicans would
have preferred to vote for a man who not only had
been associated with them in the past IN their strug-
gle tor good government in North Dakota but who
had been affiliated with the national Republican or
ganlzation. That opportunity has been denied them.
he candidate who goes before the people bearing,
the label of their party is not a Republican and not a
Democrat. He is a representative of the ultra:radical
element whose membership is found chiefly in the
large cities, and whose activities are a constant
menace to the orderly development of American in
stltutions. That man is Lynn J. Frazier, who, after
tve years of maladministration was dismissed in dis
grace from the governorship of the state.
Mr.. OConnor, the candidate who is supported
by the independent voters of the state, has made a
record which commands respect and inspires con-
hdence. Vigorously and Increasingly he has advo-
Gated sound policies for North Dakota and the
soundness which he has shown in relation to state
affairs is what is needed in the handling of our ma
tlonal business, whether it's sponsors be known as
Republicans or Democrats.