The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-24
PETITIONS ARE
CIRCULATEDIN
STATE FOR HIM
Would 60 on the Ballot as q
'LaFOllette-W Wheeler Pro-
gressive" in Election
MEET IN JAMESTOWN
Assault on A. G. Sorlie Is
Followed by Circulation
of The Petitions
MEET IN JAMESTOWN

Fargo, Sept. 24.-Petitions
nominating William Lemke
of Fargo as the "LaFollette-
Wheeler Progressive" candi-
date for Governor of North
Dakota were placed in circu-
lation today simultaneously
in four cities, following the
nomination of Lemke as a
candidate for Governor at a
conference Of Nonpartisan
Leaguers in jamestown.
Lemke, seen at his office in
Fargo today, declared he was
not a candidate but could not
control the action of his
friends.
Lemke. prominent member of the
Nonpartisan League and who was
defeated by Governor r. A. Nestos
in the gubernatorial race in 1922 in
discussing whether he would accept
the nomination said:
II am not candidate for Cover
nor. or any other office, but cannot
prevent my friends from urging it."
In regard to the four avowedly La
Toilette supporters who are bracket
ed on the Republican, ooldge ball
lot, Mr.. Lemke declared that early
last summer he advised them to
withdraw and seek place in tho
Independent column. He has given
that advice, he said, upon numerous
occasions since, both to the electors
and to the men who are running the
LaFollette campaign.
MEETING AT JAMESTOWN
Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 24.-The
name of William Lemke was advanc-
ed for Governor here at conferences
yesterday afternoon and last night.
Determined opposition to A. G. Sor-
lie, Republican-Nonpartisan League
candidate for Governor. prompted
the movement.
Charges were made that the Nom
partisan League convention last
March ignored the guiding hand of
the late B. F. Baker because he was
too poor" and put Sorlie in the field
instead were made. Sorlie was NAM
ed, it was alleged, as result of
deals made in advance of the conven.
tion.
Sorlie was charged with having
lodged the issue of LaFollette, it be-
ing alleged that his Endorsement of
him was made in a statement stolen
for publication and not intended to
be released, that within six months
after he is elected he will be with
the /. V. AS and that his election
would be a setback to the progress
sive movement. 1t also was declared
the question of his relations with
the Ku Klux Klan had not been sat-
isfactorilly answered.
The meeting here was called as a
LaFollette mass meeting by a group
of leaguers who are out of harmony
with the policies of the present state
CASSuIlNc COIuIullLSc. lnVlL0ClOnS
we're sent out to 40 or as, but some
did not attend.
c. c. Lauder Of Jamestown, open
ing fire on Sorlie, said that Sorlie
was the kind of a candidate no real
LaFollette man could vote for. He
asserted Baker was not nominated
for Governor because he was "too
ooor.' Sorlie also, he said, had TAX
IN no stand on league issues, and he
said he would rather be defeated with
Lemke than win with Sorlie.
Mariner Cook of jamestown opposed
Sorlie. Lauder, in the discussion, de-
:lared Lemke got $1,000 votes in 1922
and he would win with $4,000 votes
his year.
letter was produced written by
he Rev. G. Halsey Ambrose of Grand
forks addressed to N. H. Dimond Of
Grand Forks, close to Sorlie, advis-
ng Sorlie against declaring for La
toilette and urging him to support
Coolidge.
J. A. McGovern, former manager Of
he mill and elevator association, al
10 declared for Lemke.
A complete set of LaFollette inde-
pendent electors were urged.
DECLINES COMMENT