The Bismarck tribune., 1924-02-09
THIRD PARTY'S'
SPBCTRERISES
IN NO. DAKOTA
Plan to "SmOke Out" La Fol-
lette, Frazier, Others on
the Movement
LEAGUE FACES III!
Third Party Talk Not Ended
With League Convention
May Be Ticket

A movement designed to shake
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette from
a pedestal of uncertainty with re-
gard to his attitude on third poll
tical party was launched here as an
aftermath of the Nonpartisan Lea
que state convention. 1t is proposeo
BY the newly formed Farmer-Labor
party of North Dakota to learn JUST
how he stands. 1t also is proposed
70 find out where United States
Senators Lynn j. Frazier Of North
Dakota, Henrik Shipstead and Mag
nus Johnson of Minnesota and KEEP
resentative ]. H. Sinclair of North
Dakota stand in the matter of launch
( ing forth with third political par
ty in the 1924 campaign.
A group of the newly formed Farm
er.Labor Party of North Dakota, IN
session here, adopted a resolution
calling upon Senator LaFollette to
come forth and help lead the third
nartv movement. kilograms were
dispatched to Senators Frazier, Ship
|stead, Johnson and Rep. Sinclair ask.
ing hem to protest postponement Oh
the national third party conference
set for St. Paul, Minnesota, on May
80. according to Joseph Manley OIL
Chicago, secretary of the Federated
Farmer-Labor parties of America,
who assisted Tom Ayres of Mitchell,
S. d. in organizing the new party IN
North Dakota.
There is group of "progressives''
in Washington who want the confer
ence called at st. Paul to consider q
national third party postponed Until
y after the Republican national con-
vention, because some OF the pro
pressives"f in Washington do not
want to launch a new party unit
thew see what the Cleveland G. o. p
convention does, according to th'
Farmer-Labor party men here. Man
ley is against this delay, as were the
40 North Dakotans who Joined In the
new party movement, and they arr
demanding an answer from the offl
cials named.
Henry Martinson, elected secretar.
of the Farmer-Labor Party of Nortl
Dakota, will open headquarters il
the Labor Temple and begin recruit
ing members. The platform of tn
s new party says that 1--WE demand
system of land tenure that will eli
inmate landlordism and tenantry an
will secure the land to the users o
the land" proposed "that all ta
titles revert to the state" urged pub
lie ownership Of all means OF trans
portation, communication, public utl
lities and natural resources, mora
q torium of five years on farm indebt
edness.
The third party talk in the Nohpar
tisan League did not die with tn
end of the convention here. Befor
the convention several prominer
Nonpartisans, who opposed the Ingel
SON plan to have the league ente
the primary under it's own name, sal
it was more than probable that dii
pruntled leaguers would fill the thir
column on the ballot, and that som
4 Nonpartisan votes would 60 there.
Rumblings were heard here afte
the convention. Various names wer
heard in connection with such
movement. How far it will 60 is
question for the future.
One stumbling block is that whe
assessors go out to register peopl
this year they will, since there al
three parties, ask a person if h
belongs to the Republican, DEM
cratic or Nonpartisan League part
and it is natural that many will n
/ ply they are Nonpartisans.
Y Then there is the Farmer-Labt
party headed by R. D. dad" Wake
which will seek to recruit member
from the Republican and Democrat
parties.
The Minot Democratic conferen
endorsed these 10 candidates as del
gates to the national convention:
John Burke, Fargo; Judge C.
~Fisk, Minot; George Duis, Graz
Forks; ". R. Lowell, Fargo; T.
Rusk, Darlington; D. j.. O'Conne
Towner; John Ehr, Minot; Mrs. Ii
liam Lillibridge, Dickinson; Lesl
Burgum, Washburn, and Miss Cha
lottee Jones, Cavalier.
Presidential electors Endorsed az
B. s. Otis, Wyndmere; B. S. Blu
koff, Grand Forks; ]. F. Strauss, Ha
vey; A. G. Kennedy, Crete, and G.
Trimble, Elliott.
NOBLEWOMAN IS THIEF
London, Feb. "a lady of the n