The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-10-04
THREE ASPlRANTS
FOR CONGRESS AND
8FOR House ADDED
Petition Method Resorted to
by Free. lance Nominees
for Legislature
COMMUNISTS ENTER SLATE
Name Seekers for Governor
ship, U. S. Representatives
and Other Offices

An intensive fight for legislative
offices in the forty-eighth district.
composed of Dunn, Mercer and Oliver
counties, is in prospect as the result
Of the entry of three candidates IN
the individual Nominations" column
on the November election ballot.
Charles Whitmer, of Yucca, and G.
B. Heinmeyer, of Beulah. have filed
petitions with the secretary OF state
as individual nominees for the state
senate in the forty-eighth district.
The regularly chosen nominee Is E.
W. Jones, Of Killdeer. who has the
endorsement of the Independent
Voters association.
In the race for state representative
In this district. Mrs. Sarah Motif. OF
Dunn Center, was entered in the In
diyidual nominations column under
the banner of Economy and reduc-
ton of taxes" This is thu same
slogan as used b. Heinmeyer. while
Whitmer is to be identified on the
ballot as a progressive Republican"
Triangular Senate Fight
Three representatives were noni-
mated at the June primary In the
forty eighth district. Matt Crowley,
Of Hebron, Charles Herman. Of Beu-
lah, and Gotlieb Isaak. Of Golden
Valley, being the choice Of the Re-
%publicans. Crowley and Herman are
Independents, while Isaak wal with
out endorsement of any major po-
litical group.
The contests will resolve them.
selves during the November election
into q three -cornered fight for the
one senatorial seat. and a four-sided
race for the choice Of three members
to sit in the house Of representatives.
In other districts, five candidates
have filed petitions to be entered In
the individual nominations column
as candidates for legislative office.
Two of these are communists.
Other Free Lances
J. w. Stambaugh. Darlington, filed
as a progressive Democrat. in the
thirty-second district. and c. T. Mol
timer. Of Valley City. Is q progress
sive Republican in the thirty-eighth
district, both fer the state senate.
Arvo Place, Of Bowman. entered the
race for representative in the thirty
ninth district with the slogan Mon
partisan League"
The communist individual nomi-
nees are Sophia Husa. Belden. repre-
sentative, and Otto Matiskainen.
Van Hook, representatives, both
forty-fourth district.
On the state and congressional
ticket. the communist party entered
six candidates in the individual nom
nations column. They ire: Alfred
Knutson. Bismarck, United States
representative, second district: An
drew Omholt. Minot, United States
representative: third district. p. ].
Barrett, Sanish, governor; Charles
Hill, Belden. lieutenant governor;
K. p. Loesch, Montpelier, secretary
Of state, and James Pearson. White
Earth. commissioner Of agricultural
and labor.
Slogans Limited to Five Words
Filings in the individual nomina-
tions column closed last week. Under
the state law, q petition bearing not
less than 800 names must be submit
ted to the secretary of state by those
who desire to become candidates In
the individual nominations column.
Each candidate in that column is
allowed to identify himself by . slo-
gan not to exceed five words. The
regularly nominated candidates,
chosen in the June primary, are
listed under the heading Of Re-
publicans or Democrats. with the ex-
ception Of candidates for the supreme
court and superintendent Of public
instruction, who are or the No-Party
ballot.