The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-30
THORESEN and RUNNING MATES WILL
GET BIG MAJORITY IN M'LEAN COUNTY
People There Specially Inter-
ested in This Years Cam
paign Because Frank Vogel,
One Of Their Fellow Citizens,
Is Candidate for Lieutenant
Governor
BY A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Garrison, N. D., May 30.-Snake
Creek is a township in Mclean
county. Twenty-Five years ago it
was rolling prairie range country.
Today it is country of farm homes.
1t is a typical cross section of rural
life in western North Dakota in all
it's aspects. Here are coming true
the dreams of the prairie pioneer.
In the primary election of two
years ago Snake Creek gave Gov
ernor Sorlie 48 votes and James M.
Hanley Of Mandan, 2. There you
have another cross section of Nc
Lean county significant at this stage
of North Dakota's 1928 primary
election campaign.
Blue Hill and Snow townships are
other Mclean county townships. In
1926 Blue Hill gave Hanley ! and
Sorlie IS. Snow gave Hanley 6 and
Sorlie 72.
All down the line it's like that
in the voting precincts of Mclean
county. It has been for years. 1t
is going to be like that in 1928.
Mclean county will give Thorstein
H. Thorescn and his running mates
on the state ticket a big majority.
That is generally conceded.
Political Education
What makes Mclean county like
that? a good many folks are going
to ask. The fairest answer is a
decade. of education touching the
economic interest of the farmer and
the realization of many of the bust
ness men in its thrifty towns that
the interest Of the farmer and the
town dweller is mutual.
Those who sell North Dakota
| short are not popular in Mclean
county. Everybody in Mclean
county believes in his state no mat
ter what his politics. There
are more than 1000 independents
| in Mclean county on the basis OF
the vote cast for James NJ. Hanley
two years ago. They are most
positive in their views and most
loyal to their state.
There are evidences here too Of
an era of better feeling. The old
bitterness is passing. You get proof
of that in the case of the Wood
men and Royal Neighbors lodges in
Coleharbor.
They qualify as the towns most
important social center contact.
The Woodmen lodge has IS mem
bers. It's meetings and its social al :
fairs are always well attended,
Neighbor meets neighbor on COM
mon ground. They have some
mighty good times. .r
A few years ago Coleharbor foiks
will tell you that would not nave
been possible. 1t is a distinct EVIL
dence that times are changing. view.
noints are being mellowed and that
bitterness is passing to the limbo OF
! forgotten things.
| Vogel Is Leader
Mclean county is specially inter
ested in this campaign because one
Of its citizens. Frank Vogel. is a
candidate for lieutenant governor.
No one cares to talk much about
Senator Frazier. He will sweep
this county. He is popular lido
Of most of its farmers. They are
organizing Frazier for Senator
clubs.
He will get as big vote as Vogel
in this county and Vogel is going tc
register what amounts to a knock.
out among the home folks.
A large section Of North Dakots
thinks of Vogel as a banker. He is
that, Of course, for he is cashier Of
the Farmers State Bank Of Cole.
harbor. 1t has 704 stockholders
among farmers and business mer
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