Evening star., 1925-07-16
RADICALS SPLIT, BUT FIGHTING
TO STOP G.. O. p. IN NORTH DAKOTA
Non-Partisan League, Front Rent by Detection Still
Capable of Vigorous Defense against
/ Any Rival.

other things that make honest-to-
| goodness Partisan LeaguerS see
red. Eventually, his radical foes con-
| tend, Sorlie means to ride into the
! United States Senate on wave or
| modified North Dakota radicalism.
They fix 1928 as the date and Senator
| Lynn j. Frazier as Sorlie's prospective
antagonist. In such schism in
| Non-PartiSan League ranks Repub-
! lican conservatives admittedly see Il
| ray of bright hope.
Morse Accent General.
To have attended the little league
| convention in room of the Mckenzie
! Hotel at Bismarck was to see North
| Dakota radicalism in action. Men and
women were present. Though the
| presiding officer was an Anglo oSaxon
| farmer = white haired and distin-
guished-Iooking Dad" Walker-most
of the delegates bore Scandinavian
names and talked with unmistakable
| Morse accents. Nearly all the con-
! ventionites were farmers or farmer
folk. Some We're in blue jeans. Sew
| eral were minus collars or ties. All
were exceedingly earnest. Their skill
| in debate-knoWledge OF parliamen-
law and power of expression--was
astounding. l was told that this is
| one of the real blessings the Non-Par-
tisan League movement has conferred
upon North Dakota-that it has
taught the plain people how to com
port themselves in public assemblies.
The temper of the meeting was
plain. 1t demanded that Senator
Ladd's successor would be an out
and -out Progressive with no "har-
mony" nonsense about him. Roy
Frazier, the moving spirit, took the
ground that the man who succeeds
| 7 ic lv n
out Nom Partisan League policies as
Calvin Coolidge, in August, 1928, de-
clared himself bound to pursue the
policies of President Harding. I'VE
object to the announcement of Gov.
Sorlie," said State Senator Sorenson,
| that he is going to appoint SEN
ator who will be acceptable to the
United States Senate That is a
Slur on Senator Ladd'S memory and
an affront to the Nom Partisan League.
We have a right TO require that who
ever fills Ladd's uneXpired term shall
be a man who viii work with Sen
ator Frazier. no matter whether he
is acceptable to the United States
Senate or not. Otherwise. North
Dakota will have pair of Senators
whose votes will cancel one another.
That would leave our State, in effect,
unrepresented in the upper House of
Congress"
The conservative leanings of Gov.
Arthur G.. Sorlie reflect an undoubted
breach in the united front the Non
Partisan League once presented.
Sorlie is a Lacquer and declared him
self for La Toilette for President in
1924. but declined to take any active
part in electing the Progressive ma
tional ticket. He espouses the
league program, but is not a thick
and-thin supporter of it. Sorlie is
an uncommonly impressive person, in
language, bearing and general aspect.
If he ever attains the United States
Senate, as is said to be his ambi-
ton, Jim" Reed of Missouri will
have to look TO his beauty laurels.
With a shock of La Follette-like
wavy white hair, Surmounting a
young and ruddy face. and an i'm
posing physique, he cuts the figure
of a statesman, whether he is one or
not. Though a native Minnesotan,
Gov. Sorlie is of Scandinavian de-
scent, as are the Governors of Mime
sofa and Montana. The league plat
form calls for State hail insurance;
rural credits at cost; State-owned
mills. elevators and warehouses: ex-
taxation; State owned coal mines and
briquette plants and State grain
grading and dockage laws. The
league also demands heavier taxes on
the higher incomes; publicity for in
come tax returns; Federal stabiliza-
ton of prices of farm produce, and