The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-03-19
JOHNSON MEN
''S0RE" AFTER
VOTE BATTLE
Claim North Dakota NOnpar.
tisan Refused to Publish
Advertisement in Issue
FRAZIER is ASSAILED
banded LaFOllette Sucker
Campaign, Statement of
c. ID. King in Letter

hafEcS THAT the editor of tine
Nosth Dakota Nonpartisan. John
BHom. declined to run an advertise
Y mcnt for Hiram Johnson in the state
!. presIdcntIal primary campaign and
4 allegations that one Of the members
q OF the league state executive commit
tee (Roy Frazier) sent out LaFolletto
d "stickcrs' without the consent of the
4 other members of the committee were
made by former State Senator c. D..
. King of Menoken, Nonpartisan and
Hiram Johnson follower, in form
letter broadcast to league precinct
workers throughout the state.
The letter was answered by +. A.
Nogel Of Colcharbor. league repre-
sentative in the legislature in tel
cgram to many county league CHI; If
lg.N. which aasailed the King letter
as a clever deception.
The close of the primary campaign
found many Lacquer leaders divided
on the question of the states presi-
Dental choice. A. G.. Sorlic, league
candidate for Governor, was John
son man, the latter's supporters
claimed
King, in his form letter. decla ed
that:
'One of the members of our exc
cutive committee, a Coolidge suprL TT.
or. without the consent of the other
members of the committee, is con-
dHsting Il sticker campaign. He is
sending out from his office stickers
and literature under Mr.. Vogels
name King referred to Roy Frazier.
Without Authority
Continuing he said
''The article on the first page of
the Dakota Nonpartisan this week
urging voters to write in the nrme
OF .LaFollette was published without
the cor. ent, knowledge OF authority
o. the League executive committee,
which committee immediately met
and condemned the publication of
.y;,id article, and S. S. Mcdonald, the
secretary treasurer of the Nonparti-
san League, issued the follow ing
,stateemert
The executive committee Of the
Nonpartisan League, in accordance
With the action and the instruction
of the state convention has taken no
action in the presidential primary
election in sending out literature or
inf any c.her manner supporting any
presidential candidate.
The only activity of the commit
tee in connection with the presiden-
tial primary has been in urging the
defeat of the election laws and the
bank tax bill.
Mcdonald and Ole Knutson, two of
the three lncmbcrs Of the league state
cXccut we committee, were understood
tc be Johnson supporters. :. :. =.
King letter, which was sent March
l2, ais, included the advertisement
,sh:.tn' he said the North Dakota Non
!, lrtis, declined to run. The North
IL Dta Nonpartisan isuc referred
to cunt ined as a political advertise
1fcnt the ticket of the Wooledge-
erry Democrats and pleas for the
candidates, and carried the LaFoliettc
ticket
FOrcwOrd Given
The foreword of King to the ad
vnrtiscment for Hiram Johnson fol-
lows: "This is the advertisement
which the editor of the North Dakota
Vonpartisan, after he had accepted it
refused to run, despite the facc that
he had been given instructions by the
League Executive Committee to be
absolutely fair to all presidential
candidates. The committee immcdi
:tely called the editor on the carpet
and the editor had no explanation to
make for his refusal TO run it. The
advert isement, as you will note, re-
ferred principally to the McNary
Haugen export corporation bill to put
the farmers of North Dakota on their
set and which bill has the endorse
ment of Senators Frazier and Norris
and Congressman Sinclair. No other
newspaper in North Dakota refused
to run Johnson advertising"
F.. A. Vogel, in his telegram to
workers after the King letter went
out, said: "Carrol King with ship
ping board Lasker's money trying to
steal LaFol'ette supporters votes for
Hiram Johnson. Notify all your pre-
cinct committeeman at once to see
that eyely voter has LaFollette stick
CTS and uses them. Kings lette. of
twelfth most clever deception ever
written and lie from top to bot
TOM"