The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-01-21
H0LT.FACTI0N
BEGINS FIGHT
ON H. H. PERRY
Replying to G. S. WOOledge,
He Asserts Perry Has
Sought Political Deal
CHARGES LEAGUE AID
Democratic Secretary Goes
Ahead with Call For Val
ley City Meeting

Grand Forks, N. D.. Jan. IA
light is being launched in the Demo
cratic party of the state against the
reelection of II. H. Perry Of Ellen
dale as national committeeman. This
is made plain in letter dispatched
by Henry Holt, secretary, to G. S.
Wooledge, state chairman. defending
the call of a state committee meet
lary 25 after Woolcdgc had refused
to call it, Holt also had dispatched
the formal call to delegates.
In the letter he declares indirectly
that Wooledge is supporting II II.
Perry for national committeeman and
asserts that n deal is being made
whereby if Democratic President
were elected Perry would work with
Senators Frazier and Ladd to save
"their machine from collapse" He
also charges that the. attitude of
san League.
Mr.. Hollis letter follows:
Mr.. c. S. Woolcdge, Chairman,
Democratic State Central COM
mittce.
Minot, North Dakota.
Dear Sir:
am surprised that you oppose the
call for a meeting Of the Democratic
State Central Committee sent out by
me yesterday. Your attitude is so
extraordinary that feel attention
Oh ~ I1 diva - tosv For re
which, though of recent occurrence,
may be overlooked by democrats who
do not constantly think in terms of
patronage and politics, like some of
your friends and associates. 1t will
be easy then to understand the real
Motives underlying your refusal to
call the meeting, although you an
nounced last December that you
would call meeting "early in jan
uary" for the very purpose l sug-
gcst in my call.
You say that l have been imposed
on and that the call is in the inter-
est Of persons who are not much con-
cerned with the success Of the party
in national affairs. If l can help it,
/ intend that no democrat shall be
misled into following the leaders
whose political and personal ambl-
tions you now represent, by this
hypocritcal assumption on your part
of the role of u Knight of the Ma
, tional ocracy. L am going to
show you before l close this letter
that you are tied up with the very
leaders who have publicly avowed
their opposition to the dem ocratic
party and pledged their support to
the present republican president and
his policies. The fact that these as
sociates and allies of yours may have
pledged their support to Mr.. Cool
id.e from motives of expediency
rather than conviction, is beside the
point Anybody who knows the SEM
ior senator from this state, the cam
, didate for Ambassador to Mexico -
l as if Mexico had not suffered
the chairman of the Nonpartisan
League wing of the Republican state
committee, will understand that ex-
podiency, not principle, had always
been the controlling motive of their
lives,
Says Call Legal.
You are opposed to meeting be-
,cause it is contrary to the primary
election law. My dear Gay, l un-
derstand you are lawyer. 1t can
not be possible that you had not
heard of this primary law last De-
cember when you said you would
call meeting for the very purpose
/ mention in my call. In March,
1920, you took part in just such
meeting in Fargo, were endorsed as
candidate for delegate to San Fran
cisco, and with the rest of us put up
strenuous fight for the candidates
endorsed, against some of the very
hen with whom you now are working
and who then shouted, with simu-'
lated horror, "the action of the meet
ing violates the primary law" In
May, 1920, the democrats again met
in conference in Fargo and endorsed
candidates for all state Offices; you
were a member Of and reported for
tn nominating committee. Surely,
you would, not be a party to action
that "violates the spirit of the pri-
mary law" In May. 1922, you again
took part in conference at James
atown, where the democrats endorsed
complete ticket from U. S. Sena-
.or down the line: Had you then
forgotten about the primary law?
Let us be frank. The people of
his state know that conferences
have been necessary in the past and
are necessary still, in order to hold