The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-11
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Democrats Holding
Political Spotlight
ton all Twichell and Shafer need
to do is to accept their designations.
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ton all Twichell and Shafer need
to do is to accept their designations.
x X
Many Democrats, filled with Wis
ions as to success, feel that the move
ment is an effort by Gammons, VIM
ter and others to find place on the
Democratic bandwagon after the /.
V. AS have gone down to defeat in
the general landslide which they are
predicting for November.
There was time when the I. ".
AS controlled the Democratic party
machinery and it used to be custom
airy for the Democratic overlords to
meet the day before the I. " A. state
convention and arrange their affairs
with view to what the I. v. A. S
wanted. Gammons was then secre-
tary Of the Democratic party and
served a very useful purpose. His
appointment to a public job by the
I. v. AS was generally credited to
the fact that he was useful to them
in their Democratic negotiations
But four years ago Gammons was
elected into the cold by the Democra-
tic militants and since then his use
fulnesS has been considerably cur
tailed. 1t may be that he was told
to do his stuff among the Democrats
or feel the axe, since there are plenty
OF I. " A. Republican brethren who
could use his job.
1t was Gammons. by the way. OF
whom Twichell admitted on the floor
of the house in 1927 that he was on
the state payroll as the political
agent OF the I. v. AS.
The I. " A. faithful, hungrier for
jobs than ever before, have not taken
too kindly to the thought of those
Democrats on the payroll. They can
not see where they carry water for
the camp AS result, demonstra-
ton may have been deemed neccs-
sary.
While the Democrats are staging
their legal setto, the Nonpartisans
have been bordering whether to drag
Twichell into court on another phase
of the guide-card business 1t is an
other case of new laws making new
lawsuits.
The records show that the I. v. A. S
did not indorSe Governor George F..
Shafer and Congressman O. B. Burt
ness and Tom Hall at the Valley City
convention. Action was taken and
then expunged from the record on
protest of doughty old Joe McGauv-
ran, q Democrat from Cavalier coun-
ty. The action by the convention was
unanimous.
Nevertheless the three candidates
for national office are being billed as
!. v. AS as well as Real" Republi-
cans and are so advertised on the
guide card.
The Nonpartisan suit, If one Is fill
ed, would demand by what legerde-
main this was done In opposition to
the expressed will of the convention.
Twichell Is said to have visited the
Nonpartisan headquarters and ex-
planned that the executive committee
was authorized, in one Of the last ac-
tons Of the I. v. A. convention, to
fill all vacancies on the ticket. This
Is true.
The Nonpartisans, however, may
file the suit in order to make Twichell
confess, in court and In public. that
he and the executive committee over
rode the expressed will of the I. v. A.
convention. Just what that would do
70 stimulate resentment within the
I. v. A. ranks AGAINST Twichell Is
problematical. Rumors that the
rank and file" are finding 1t difficult
to stomach his tactics are current
1gntu, rs they always are at this
stage Of state political campaign.
The Nonpartisans contemplate no
challenge at Endorsement Of national
candidates by the "Real" Republican
convention the only state meeting
which acted upon them.
out on the musings. Governor
George r chafer has come out some
what fiat footediy for President
Hoover and VARYING reports have