The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-02-13
Official City, State and County Ncwspaper)
Not Ready TO Leave Republican Party

Not Ready to Leave Republican Party
1t was found following the flights Of oratory and
the flow Of soul at the Nonparisan League CON
vention that considerable ma ority Of the del.
egates regarded the Republican party label as the
most fitting to be used in the quest fer votes.
Less than twenty votes were mustered up for
Farmer Labor party. Some Of the eighteen tina:
voted to abarrion the Republican designation were
well known Democrats and who have been at
times identified with other than the Republican
party.
The platform adopted mild compared t.
what some Nonpartisan League conventions have
advanced 1t will be forgotten the campaign
progresses and the battle will be waged more or
less as a personal appeal for office.
1t foregone conclusion that Senator Nye
and Governor Sorlie would win the endorsement as
well as every ether state official identified with this
particular faction
Governor Sorlie showed Indifference as to the out
come. He has been fair and impartial in his adj
mnistration and has refused to listen to Of
the extremists in the party His conception of the
office has been more conservative than a Non
partisan. While sympathetic to the economic prob
lens CT the farmers ard seeking through sane
means to bring about better markets and better
rural conditions, he refuses to be the tool of radi-
Gals.
would cause some difficulty. They always do.
There are not enough jobs for all the faithful.
Somebody has to carry for the sheer pleasure
of the game.
just how important the Farmer-Labor movement
will develop depends upon the character of the APP
peal made. There are from six to ten thousand So
ciasts in the state who would like communists
program and as the Nonpartisan League has moved
to more conservative ground in the past two years
these adherents may not feel exactly at home
dad" Walker and A. c. Townley may lead them
into other camps fer the practice CT the kind of po
litca doctrine suitable to the crusading mind
of a Lemke, Hamilton Dell Patterson.
After all has been said it cannot be denied that
Governor Sorlie has Strcng following throughout
the state who admire his stand upon many issues
He has sought to bring the farmer and the mer-
chant into closer contact and to some of the
bitterness engendered by such leaders Lemke
Townley Hamilton and others
II he wins the Republican nomination. it will be
personal triumph His years Of adherence to- the
Republican party naturally compel him to view
state problems more conservatively than some
wings of the Nonpartsan League organization de-
mand. His attitude toward the convention this
week clearly demonstrated that if continued IN
power he will follow out the same policy of seeking
to- serve the whole state rather than section, a
particular class clique.
Governor Sorlie energies from the convention
really stronger with considerable element in the
state because he refused to make rash promises to
the extremists and also because he refused to in
ye return cf the bitterness that divided this state
for years into 50 many contending factions.
1t is well known that Governor Sorlie wanted an
endorsement Of his administration on the part oil
the representatives of the farmers and ne received
it, But what was important, he did not want
the nomination if he was to be forced to wage the
kind of campaign that Lemke and his extremists
desired.
Whether his course wise politically only tune
will tell Whatever the result, Governor Sorllc has
the personal satisfaction that he the nomination
on his own terms and not upon that Of men who DO
not have the welfare of the farmers at heart Most
of the opposition are disappointed job hunters who
failed to land themselves friends ut the public
crib.
Unless the political signs fail, the Nonpartisan
League convention indicates that many tired
Of the organization and its discordant elements and
would welcome realignment that would BRING
Republicans Of the state together functioning as
they did before the League organized. The
same is true Of the I. v. A. machine. No progress
will be made toward final settlement Of political
differences until Republicans find some common
ground which will make such organizations as the
League or the /. v. A. impossible.
The feeling that brought both organizations into
being has died down largely and the next campaign
will show that in neither organization is there the
unity of leadership or following that characterized
former elections.
Voters Of North Dakota are not going to be
stirred up as they in the past by class appeal
Many officials are going to win on their records
regafdless Of the endorsement tag they happen
to wear.
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