The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-07-31
3 CANDIDATES
NOMINATEDT0
FILL TICKET
LANCER Chosen to Make Race
for Position of Attorney
General
DEMOCRATS IN SADDLE
Bottineau Man Endorsed for
Commissioner Of Agriculture
and Labor

jamestown. N. D., July 31.-CP--
Decision to place candidates in the
field for the positions Of governor,
attorney general, and commissioners
Of agriculture was the principal re-
suit Of the Nonpartisan convention
here Monday.
The convention adjourned last
night at 1890.
Whether the candidates shall run
as Democrats, in the Independent
column, or on stickers as Republi-
cans, was left to the candidates
themselves and the Nonpartisan ex-
ecutive committee.
A motion to bar the convention en-
dorsees from running in the Demo-
cratic column failed, and the general
assumption was that the Democratic
wing Of the Nonpartisan league had
scored q victory.
Almost from its inception the
league has been wholly Republican
and has made its fights for suprem-
acy in the Republican primary elec-
ton.
The endorses for the three offices
are: DR.. L. S. Platou, Fargo, for
governor; D. j. Acheson, Bottineau,
for commissioner of agriculture and
labor; and William LANCER, Bis
marck, for attorney general. LANCER
was the Nonpartisan candidate for
this place in the Republican primary
election last June. Platou and Ache
son are said to be democrats.
Page Endorsed
The Democrats scored another VIC
tory when delegates from counties
IN the second congressional district
endorsed j. L. Page of Bottineau,
the Democratic nominee, as against
Thomas Hall, the Republican incum-
bent and allied with the faction op.
posed to the Nonpartisan league.
The fight against fusion with the
Democrats was led by Fred j.
Graham, Glendale, Republican ma
tional committeeman for North Da.
kota, Peter Garberg and Ole
Gunwaldson, Fargo. All are friends
or appointees of Senator Lynn j.
Frazier, who also opposed any CO.
alition with the Democrats.
Talk of joining with tho Demo-
Gratis was based on the idea that the
latter would be willing to withdraw
their candidates in order to get Non.
partisan support for the men selected
by the convention today. State
ments made today indicated differ
ence of opinion as to whether the
Democrats would favor the idea.
Opposition to the movement Is
join the Democrats was based on the
idea that such arrangement might
give support to the Smith campaign
for the presidency and might imperil
the candidates. Of Frazier for the
senate and of Congressman j. H.
Sinclair, Nonpartisan Independent.
in the third district.
Post-Mortem Held
It took the convention long hours
of argument to accomplish this.
After the main job had been accom-
plished q session was held in which
enmities and animosities were aired
and all the soiled linen in the Non
partisan political closet was ex-
posed.
A post-mortem was held to place
responsibility for losing the primary
campaign last June. but neither side
Of the argument was convinced.
An expression that both the Nom
partisan executive committee and
the manager Of the last campaign
were equally to blame seemed to
have the most support.
An effort to fire the executive
committee failed when its members
took refuge behind tn Nonpartisan
league bylaws which prescribe the
manner in which any member Of the
executive committee may be recalled.