The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-07

J. A. Gray of Ransom county offer
cd an amendment, providing the res
olution should be read to the convcn-
ton before being referred to com
mittees, supported the plan.
Representative Frank Vogel of Nc.
Lean county also supported the plan
and referring 10 Peterson said, 81
believe the gentleman from Towner
said he believed in Dem ocracy-
You bet | do" broke in Peterson,
but this is not Dem ocracy"
Vogcl continued, declaring that the
matter was merely for the expedition
OF business and the plan was neces-
saly in the legislature. Mr.. Ter
! horst took the floor again to say that
! every delegate would have q chance
( t. talk upon the subjects presented
! hy committees.
With lIempcl refusing to accept Il
place on The committee on commit
/ tees, the convention approved the
! plan, with but lfcmpcl and Peterson
, voting against it. Members Of the
! committee on committees are: Il. +.
/ Baker, c. c. Lauder, Walter Wexford,
Robert Byrne. S. S. Mcdonald, c. A..
/ Fishcr, Frank Vogcl, r. J. Graham,
o. X. LaGrson, r. IL. II. Thorcsen and
Ralph Ingerson.
Delegates Seated.
The early part of the afternoon
! session was taken up with the seat
ing Of delegates. Four delegates rep.
rcsenting organized labor - Peter
Morgan Of Grand Forks, a. Hanson
OF Valley City, G. G. Harry Of Mar
marth and T. f. Bcals Of Dickinson
were seated on vote Of the conven-
ton and four members oil the Wo-
mems Nonpartisan clubs executive
committee also were seated. OF %
delegates accredited, excluding these,
- were present. There were three
counties 49, steele, Mcintosh an 1t
picrcc--without delegates.
Accept Report
The report of the committee on
committees was accepted at the night
convention. First-named on the var
ious committees were: Resolutions,
&. G. Talbot, Dickcy county; Finance
A. G. Sorlic, Grand Forks; Platform,
b. +. Baker, RcnvUlc: Order of Bus
mess, Lazicr Of McHenry; Cor,cc-
ton and Amendment of Bylaws,
Walter Wexford, Pembina; National
Party Relations, Mostad, Ward; Of
fetal Organ, S. S. Mcdonald, Bur-
leigh; each committee, however. was
given authority to elect its own
chairman.
The convention adopted recon-
mendation that no committee on can
didates be named, but that all action
on candidates be taken in open con
vcntion, using the secret ballot.
The list of offices for which candi-
dates be named include State Super
intcndent of Public instruction and
one Judge of the Supreme Court. 1t
was recommended that delegates
from each congressional district
name candidates, and delegates from
Judicial districts name candidates for
Judges, if they desired. -
Ayres Speaks
While waiting for the committee
on committees to report the conven-
ton heard kilograms Of congratulate
ton read from Senators Lynn j. Fra
zicr and f. +. Ladd and Representa-
tive j. II. Sinclair, and listened to
speech by Tom Ayres of Mitchell,
South Dakota.
Ayres, in his speech, urged the
league to become Il Distinct Farmer
Labor Party and affiliate with other
Farmer-Labor parties for National
political action. No action was taken
after his speech.
Ayres, concluding his talk, ckal-
lenged any Nonpartisans present who
were willing to say they still were
republicans ito stand. Roy Frazier
of Crosby, Chairman of the Republi-
can State Committee, was the only
delegate to stand.
Ayrcs asserted that political ac-
ton by "Prosressives" cannot be
bounded by state lines, and urged
the League in North Dakota to en-
ter into the National fight, joining
with the Farmer Labor party of Mon
tana, Minnesota and South DAKOTA.
He was at times given fair amornt
of applause. Ayres came to Bis
marck, he said, upon the invitation
of r. II. Walker and Ben Fedge,
leaguers.
Ayres declared that Eve cannot
longer look at the economic situation
from State standpoint, nor can we
look at it from National stand
I point, for the same forces are at
work throughout the world"
Praises Russian Sense
Declaring two percent Of the pco-
pie owned 9S percent of the wealth
of the country he declared that "The
same troubles exist in every coun-
try that has the Capitalistic System
except Russia which had the good
sense to throw off that system"
Stating that farmers cannot possi-
bly, pay their debts in the United
States, he said that when the insur-
ance sand mortgage companies take
the land there is only one thirg to
| do, and that is to retake it for the
users of the land"
He said the country would be bet
ter off if the Government had "never
sold or allowed to be stolen" an acre
of land west of the Alleghenies. urg-
cd support for the Fedge Lien Bill
and advocated a five-year morator-
ium on farm indebtedness, and ask
ed for L. S. ownership of railroads
taking them first and finding out
what We'll pay for them afterwards"
He declared that farmers were losing
their homes and that "the time is
coming when the farmers are not 60
ing to be taken out Of their homes
without resistance"
Ayres, who told the convention he