The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-05
JOHNSON MAY
PUT HIS NAME
ON n. D. BALLOT
Sending Secretary to North
Dakota to Look After
Interests, Report
OPPOSE COOLIDGE LIST
Much Opposition to G. O. P.
Committee Action-Nel-
son To Leave State
OPPOSE COOLIDGE LIST

The only fight in the Republican
presidential primary of the state is
not going to be simply, who shall be
Coolidge delegates. For Senator
Hiram Johnson is going to throw his
bat into the ring, in all probability.
Dispatches from Cleveland say that
Roy A. Burr, Johnson's private Sc
cretary, is coming to North Dakota
to look after his interests. Johnson,
following his militant Cleveland
speech, has indicated that he wiki
enter the primaries of all western
states.
That there will be two sets of
Coolidge delegates in the field is
certain, alt fugh it is possible that
some of the same men will be plac-
ed on both delegations. The recent
action of the Republican State Com
mittee meeting in Bismarck in COM
mending the candidacy of Coolidge
and selecting a delegation generally
listed as seven Nonpartisans and six
anti-Nonpartisans to be voted on in
March is meeting with stiff opposi-
ton from many newspapers and poll
tical leaders of the state.
The Real Republican State Com
mittee, "hcaded by Burleigh Spald-
ing, will hold meeting soon, and it
is more than likely that either this
committee will select 13 delegates to
go on the ballot or will call con-
vention at which delegates will be
selected.
The action Of the Republican COM
mittee, which is controlled by Nom
partisans, may have taken the wind
out CT the sails of the Nonpartisan
League state convention, which meets
here February 6. This convention
was planned for February, it is un-
derstood. SO that the question Of put
ting delegates in the field in the
March primary could be considered
as well as to nominate candidates for
the state primary, which is not un-
til June 80. There is said to have
been opposition registered among
some Nonpartisans to the action Of
Roy A. Frazier, the committee chair
man, in endeavoring to put through
what he called a "harmony program"
on the delegates. J. w. Hempel,
who was one of the resolutions COM
mittee which presented resolut: :ons
to the state committee endors: ng
Coolidge, now says that he did not
favor this. Mr.. Hempel did not op-
pose the resolution with a minor ity
report, however. William Lemke al
SO is said to have opposed the Fra
zier action.
However, if the choice lies between
Coolidge and Hiram Johnson with La
Toilette not in it, the Nonpartisan
leaders generally will favor Coolidge.
Patronage, matters make this desir-
able on their part.
North Dakota politics will shortly
lose figure who has been much in
the limelight in the last few years.
Theodore G. Nelson, former chair
man of the l. V. A. state committee,
has informed friends that he plans
to leave soon for the Pacific Coast,
his physicians having decreed mild.
er, climate and a long rest. This in
formation is held to set at rest
rumors spread about that Mr.. Nelson
gave up his position as /. V. A. head
because of dissatisfaction with the
present administration.
While number of Nonpartisans
are urging various candidates for
Congress in the Second district, in
the event of Congressman Young's
resignation, John F. Randall of Min
newaukan has proposed new candi-
date. He urges w. J. Church, state
chairman of the Nonpartisan Lea
que, for the position. He declares
that Mr.. Church, whose personal pop
ularity has never been questioned,
would be satisfactory to all progress
sives in the state.