The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-28
WOULD ENTER
OWN PRIMARY
IN NEW PLAN
Creation Of NOnpartisan
League Party at Last
Election Causes Action
DESERT REPUBLICANS
Senator Ralph Ingerson, Here,
Discloses Proposed Change
For League
DESERT REPUBLICANS

A third party movement, with the
Nonpartisan League of North Dako-
tn as the third party will be launched
before the Nonpartisan League state
convention which meets in Bismarck
| February 6. A straight-out demand
that the league desert the Republi-
can party column in the primary and
take the column of the "Nonpartisan
League party will be made.
Coupled with this there will be a
demand made that the league state
! convention do not endorse any cam
didate for state Office, but that the
various league candidates fight
among themselves for places on the
| ballot in the November election.
There already is i group of Mill
tant leaguers in the state backing
the idea. They assign two reasons
| that a man cannot be Republican
| and Nonpartisan League man at the
same time and that the 1st election
created the Nonpartisan League par
ty which will have u column on the
ballot, thus giving an opportunity
for split league vote if candidates
| are placed in the Republican column.
Division Of Opinion
There is division of opinion among
Nonpartisans who have discussed
the subject. Some want to remain
within the Republican party, and as
scrt they are Republicans.
State Senator Ralph Ingerson Of
Divide county is the leader Of the
movement. In Bismarck Sunday,
where he brought his wife for treat
ment in u hospital, Senator InGerson
outlined his plan and his ideas
II am organizing the third party
movement in the state" said Senator
Ingerson. IL want the Nonpartisan
League to be distinct political par
ty, and to put it's candidates in the
Nonpartisan League party column in
the primary. We will leave the Re-
publican party to the I. V. AS.
Il want the league to have its own
primary election on June 80 and I am
against the endorsement by the con-
vention Of IA single candidate for
state office. Let the different fac
tions and aspiring politicians in the
league so into the primary and then
we leagucrs can support the winners
in the fall election.
Not A Candidate
"For myself. am not candidate
for Governor and l would not accept
any endorsement from the conven-
tion. We have the Nonpartisan Lea
que party in this state-Tom Hall
told me SO this morning-and there
will be leaguers in that column
whether the convention decides to go
into the Republican column or not"
Ingerson broached the matter at
the last league state convention not
because it was Harmony conven-
ton" there was little discussion, he
said. At that time it was pointed
out that William Lemke ran against
Governor Nestos in the election Of
1922 in the individual column, sta
ing his principles as those of the
Nonpartisan League. He received
more than five percent Of the total
votes cast. The Nonpartisan League
party thus was created under the
laws, in the opinion of some leagucrs~
Ingerson said the Burke county
convention of Nonpartisans endorsed
this plan and that the Williams coun-
ty convention substantially support
ed it.
For La Toilette
Senator lngerson also referred to
the national situation. He was in
Washington few weeks ago as
witness before a congressional agri-
culture committee. He is for La
Toilette. He believe Coolidge is q
reactionary.
Regarding the presidential primary,
he said, he favored Senator La Fol-
lette if the latter ran on the Republi-
can ticket. If there is national
third party movement created with
LaFollette as the head he would fav-
or it. He expects that Senator La
Follette's name will 60 before the
Republican National Convention with
the Wisconsin delegation supporting
him, but said it was the opinion. Of
progressives in Washington that Sem
ator LaFollettc would not make a
fight for delegates in the various
states and did not desire to take any
action which might handicap him if
he wished to join third party
movement.
Chief Justice H. A. Bronson Of the
North Dakota supreme court will not
be candidate for reelection, he has
announced. He expects to return to
the practice of law in Grand Forks.
His term expires next January, the
only vacancy on the COURT to be fill
ed by election in the fall.
The Williams county league con.
vention adopted a Schedule" Of rates
for county office candidates. The
resolution said:
Be it hereby resolved, by the dele
gates of the Nonpartisan county con-
vention that part Of the campaign
funds for this year be raised ia the
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