The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-17
LEAGUE MEET
WILL DECIDE
FUTURE ACTS
Where Do We Go from Here?'
Questions Rank and
File
WANT FUND PROBE
Bitterness Results from Fac
tional Differences Shown
Up In Primary

Up In Primary
The future Of the Nonpartisan
League in North Dakota il to be
considered by its executive commit
tee meeting in Bismarck tomorrow.
Called ostensibly to wind up bus
mess in connection with the recent
primary election it was predicted TO-
day that it will call q mass meeting
Of the membership to decide itS
course in the Forthcoming national
and state campaign.
Questions to be submitted to the
mass meeting are who the organixa-
tion will support in the state for
president as between Herbert Hoov.
er and AL Smith, whether it will put
up Z full ticket in the state in the
fall, or whether it will put its sup
port behind the candidates nomin-
ated by the Democrats for state Of
flee.
"Where do we go from here! :" is
the question veteran members Of
. the League have asked themselves
ever since the divided verdict re-.
turned by the voters at the June
primary?
Newspaper View
The Bottineau Courant, edited by
Dave Larin, and with the Williams
County Farmers Press and Coop.
erstown Sentinel among the strong
League newspapers in the state, in
its last issue >penly suggested that
some such conference as the execu-
tive committee Is expected to call
should be held.
Meantime there have been rumors
Of coalition between Democrats
and the League, talk Of IN Inde-
pendent Republican ticket in the fall,
which would file . complete list Of
candidates for state office including
those Of League persuasion nomin-
ated at the June primary and other
considered strategy still in the neb-
ulous stage.
Only one thing seemed certain in
advance OF the executive committee
meeting today. That was that there
is . strong disposition to fight on.
Militant -1eaguers were not IN favor
Of taking . licking unless they, are
on their feet and fighting.
They probably will be found there
before the campaign goes much
farther.
Want Fund Probe
One proposal today was that when
the mass meeting Of Leaguers is
called, if it il called. that the United
States senate committee Of which
Senator G raid p. Nye is 4 men,
Der be asked to investigate expendi-
lures Of both the state factions in
the recent campaign.
As in al North Dakota campaigns
since the Nonpartisan League came
into existence it Is being declared
that q large sum Of money was
brought into tae state from outside
sources and used to defeat T. H.
Thoresen.
Thoresen first voiced the senti-
ment in his after election statement.
There have been developments since
which are causing some Of the
Leaguers to demand . senatorial in
vestigation. Letters have gone to
Senator Nyo suggesting that it be
made.
OF this, however, there IL little
possibility. The senate investigat-
ing committees engagement list ID
pretty well ....lled for the present. It
is pointed out that II it were willing
it would hardly reach the North Da-
kota case, If one were developed, in
advance Of the fall election.
Leaguers Divided
Leaguers have been analyzing the
cause Of their recent defeat. One
guess is as good a. another. Fac
tional strife is admitted. There ID
bitterness. Friends Of I. H. Thore-
sen feel that he was unfairly treated
and did not receive the support he
should have received from some OF
the League leaders. They are dis
posed to remember the incident. Just
how they will take to the proposed
mass meeting idea remains to be
developed. There are open threats,
however, that ct the proper time
there will be IN evening Of scores.
il this il true it seems fairly Ger.
tain the Nonpartisan League will
pass from North Dakota politics,
made ineffective by irrenconcilabll
factions.
This il one Of the delicate situa.
tions that will confront the League
executive committee when It 'lneetl
here tomorrow.
Friends Of Senator Frazier an
closely watching the situation. They
are strictly eschswing any direct a.
filiation with the League faction
row. for the senator II strong IN