Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-03-27
AfterthOughts On The
League Convention

League
(By STAR Correspondent /,
low that the fame and smoke
Itch surrounded the Nonpartisan
gue convention at Fargo have
lred away there are certain points
eh stand out clearly. in the minds
hose who stood on the side lines
watched the tussle.
4premost among these is the con-
Patton Of how the action Of the
1kle in endorsing Lynn j. Frazier
Bathe United States eenatorship
PES two. of the other candidates
q have already announced them
%ps for that office, namely A. j.
INA and p. j. McCumber.
5MMMa5 GronnA's Failure.
my of Gronna's friends fully ex-
Ia that he would get the league
S6sement, and for the first day or
@$Ethe convention 1t really looked
HDugh this would be the fact. But
@NSonditions which developed we're
Rsnuch for the Lakota man.
M1Nthe first place Mr.. Townely, aft
&ANsHsaW that he had no chance to,
glr the league support for Nc
(G6GNter, did the next best thing for
oEEsSEA Cumber-McKen1e interests.
&ggNEHprevented the nomination of
lS6afa, who Is thoroughly disaked
moth Of the Macs"
Al stands, however, the nomina-
&gnEMsofk Frazier would seem to spell
H8kSter for both McCumber and
unless by some miracle one
.a$hSm Is endorsed at the Independ-
HSK&Republican convention at James,
6Nen..3HgThe fight will be between
SHEkknaersand whoever may be endorsed
fsa1aEnestown.
EpNMgEsSsSSNp McCumber Sentiment.
SHNGAHNgInle there was some very strong
Dnn GSsentiment in the league ranks
&sTasHHNas practically one for Nc
S1Mt AN except perhaps on the part
6eSseonStsor two of the leaders of the
9rpyWIn&SSy faction.
NsasA1t1it developed the support given
E6sySHronna by the kederbach faction
ei&8Ned against him when the land
Ssagainst that faction got into mo-
396bslSSH M ost of his support came from
kAtSSseAstern part of the state, and it
6191AAthe western delegates who final
4@sRSSontrolled things.
22HSNNNghether or not the men who sup
146Nte4 Gronna can be held in line
4S~tSssEsrazier cannot be forecast at this
lSaaNaS LANCER "All Dressed Up"
#2SlAlSSIot Of funny situations developed
3&ssthe course Of the convention not
humorous being the situa-
tti{nEIff OF former attorney General Will
&SAd LANCER. Mr.. LANCER was very
automatically in the position Of a man
'ISSS6G1l dressed up and with no place to
5SMkRSi8y declaring himself to be lin IA
'&a38HE. of the league program" Mr.
Xp&nger got into the convention hall
md secured a set Of credentials as a
t$SSntials committee however refused
sSSSaa5t seat him as a delegate or give
Nm the right to address the conven.
$tDn, although he was permitted tc
xSSfnain in the hall.
sN#s4Mr. LANCER wanted to speak and
widowed the fact to be now In nc
terms. In fact he allowed
~ to be known that If permitted to
make that speech he would be will
ing to release the Courier-News in
part at least, from the agreement tc
print 80, 900 extra copies Of the IA
nous retraction of the charges
against him. \
u No Fitted Calf.
Oh ooL ~ NSAO6"SOo ~ "~AAS Ava
Lanser. There was no fatted call
for the prodigal son, and Mr.. Ian
gers speech remains undefivered.
Bowen There.
A. E. Bowen, A. G.. Divet's "cock.
eyed son of JezebeI' was also among
those present, and he also had q
speech which he wanted to get off hi.
chest. He wanted to tell what hi
thought Of A. c. Townley.
The cause , of Bowen's rancol
against .Townley is said to lie in tn
fact that Townley sidetracked hin
two years ago when Bowen wantet
to run for congress n Minnesota" I
$500 per month job in North Dako
Ia was promised Mr.. Bowen it is said
He got out of the congressional race
and got the job, but only for a month
or two.
Hence his wrath.
Iiedcrbach Failed.
A large part of the blame for tn
defeat of the Liederbach factor
must rest on the poor g~eneralshil
shown by that leader. By the TIM
he got through with his day-lone
address of Friday most Of the deie'
safes were pretty well disguised will
him for being so long winded. ant
the women were angry over his at
TACK OIL MESs VoSNs'
AS a general L~iederbach compares
with Townley about the same wa!
Mack compared with Napoleon in tn
Ulm campaign, and the results were
pretty much what might have beef
expected.
Some Surprises.
There were few surprises in thu
nominations. One Of them was thu
endorsement Of Judge M. J. Engler
for Justice of the supreme court. An
other was the nomination of ODER
Olson for state treasurer, and a thru
was the placing of Peter Garberg OF
pthe ticket for attorney general.
{ Harry Lashkowitz of Fargo wa
understood to want the attorney gen
yeralship, but his connection with tn
ii lederbach bunch defeated him.
\ It had been thought likely tina
Seth Richardson Of Fargo would b.
scndorsed for the supreme bench. HI
failure to receive this endorsement
was probably due to the telegram
read by Liederbach as sent by Georg'
Totten, Jr., to William Lemke, which
indicated that Richardson while I
candidate for the federal jugdeshil
had had relations with Senator NC
Cumber.
HEARING ON CHARGES
AGAINST ARMOUR CO..