The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-07
N0NPARTISANS HAVE
CONTROL Of G.. 0. P.
PARTY MACHINERY
Independents Organize Separ.
ate Committee When Five
Vote Minority Is Disclosed
EACH CLAIMS RECOGNITION
Breach Between Two Factions
OF Republican Party in North
Dakota Is UnheaIed

OF Republican Party in North
Dakota Is UnheaIed
Nonpartisans retained control Of
the machinery Of the Republican
party in North Dakota at meetings OF
the Republican state central commit
tee yesterday.
AS usual, there we're two meetings.
the Nonpartisian committeeman
meeting in the house chamber at the
capitol while the Independents met
in the senate chamber.
Continuing the lines of demarca-
ton within the Republican party
which became apparent shortly after
the organization of the Nonpartisan
League, each committee laid claim To
being the true representatives of the
Republican party in the state.
A n%ose-count. however, disclosed
that the Nonpartisans had q reo,,-
larly elected central committeeman to
% for the Independents.
Neither committee recognizes the
right OF the other to function and the
preach which has existed between the
Two factions was just as wide after
the committee meetings as before.
With the continuing fight within
the state each committee will func-
ton separately and no decision will
DC reached as to which is the real
Republican committee unless the ma
tlonal party organization should need
something done in North Dakota. IN
That event the national party chiefs
would recognize one or the other In
the past they always have recognizes
the group with the largest number r.
regularly elected committeeman.
Draw Up Two Platforms
Each group adopted resolutions and
a platform. the law requiring them
to draw up the latter for the Rep,Ib-
lican candidates to run upon in the
fall election. AS a result-and pro-
vlding the Nonpartisan. committee
gets official recognition :. Governor
Shafer and other Independent candi-
dates nominated at the June primary
election would technically be running
upon a platform drawn by Ncnpar-
tisans.
Because they were in the majority
and asserted that they were speak
Ing for the party as a whole. indie
pendent committeeman endorsed all
Republican candidates, Independent
as well as Nonpartistan, and urged
their election.
The Independents contented them
selves with soliciting support for the
Independent candidates.
T. H. Thoresen, Bismarck was
chosen chairman Of the N~onpartisan
group. succeeding w. A. Thatcher OF
Bottineau. r. r. Smith. Bottineau.
was continued as secretary. Mrs
Minnie D. Craig, Esmond, was re-
elected vice chairman and J.. r. L.
Kelly. Garrison. was named treas
urer.
The Independent group elected A.
w. Fowler. Fargo, as chairman and
Michael Tschida, Glen Ullin, as Sec
rotary. William Stern. Fargo, was
elected treasurer.
Democratic committeeman held a
harmonious meeting and continued
their present officers. They are H. n.
Perry. Glendale, chairman; F.. w.
Mclean. Grand Forks, secretary. and
G. s. Wooledge. Minot, treasurer.
Democrats Seek Victory
At the close OF the meeting Demo-
cratic chiefs announced they will
make a real campaign" in an effort
to swing North Dakota into the DEM
ocratic column this year.
Resolutions passed by the indie
pendent Republican group criticized
the Nonpartisans and praised indie
pendent candidates. Among other
things they commended that the Nom
partisans had held a secret meeting
Wednesday morning at which the
committee was organized.
Smith. who called the Nonpartisan
meeting, admitted that he had noti-
fled the Nonpartisan committeeman
Of the meeting and said the Inde-
pendent group had apparently over
looked a revision of the law which
changed the time Of meeting from
September to August. AS a result. he
said, the Independents Just missed
being represented at all and that
their committee was gathered to-
gether at the last minute by a series
OF long distance telephone calls. The
Wednesday morning meeting. he said.
was merely q aucus Of Nonpartisan
committeeman and the formal organ
ization was not perfected until the
afternoon session.
The text of the resolutions and
platforms adopted by the two Repub-
lican groups and by the Democrats
appears elsewhere in The Tribune to-
dow