The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-18
Politics EnliUe11ed
BIZ Race in Stretch
Candidates Turn Corner and
Start For Home; Election
II Days Away
DEMOCRATS STILL ACTIVE
Season For Roorbacks Opens
With !. v. A. Revival of
Drouth Aid Claims

Candidates in the election which
will be held a week from next We'd
nesday are turning into the home
stretch now and things are begin
ming to liven up.
1t is almost unprecedented for a
review of state politics to begin with
consideration of the Democrats but
they have been so lively lately that
the uprising deserves comment.
A week ago the "Jeffersonian'
Democrats were laid neatly in the
shade by court order barring them
from placing their candidates on the
election guide Card Friday, however
they held a meeting in Bismarck and
announced that everything looks fine
for them. They are attempting to
organize in Bismarck, Minot. Dick
inson. Grand Forks and some of the
other large centers in an effort to
land T. D. Casey on the ticket as gov
ernor Halvor L. Halvorson as senator
and w. E. Cook as congressman. Their
opponents within the party. however
have quit worrying about them and
are outstanding their resources in
anticipation of a stirring campaign
In the fall.
The chaperonage of John Gam
mons, L. A. Winter and Charles
Simon, all Republican appointees to
state jobs, leaves no doubt that the
"Jeffersonians" are those Democrats
who usually have regarded their
Democracy as secondary to the I. w.
A. Republican organization. The
regulars contend they are Demo-
Gratis first and will make strong
fight against whichever faction Of
the Republican party wins on June
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The next 10 days will constitute the
season during which "roorbackS" gen.
orally occur III state political cam
paigns. A roorback is that quaint
custom of making charges to which
the enemy will have no opportunity
to reply. The intelligent voter usual
|ly disregards them for the cheap
trickery which they are.
In this classification appears to
come the assertion, made at Grand
Forks Friday night by Mrs. Ethel H
Cooley. empress of the I. v. A. fac
ton, that Senator Gerald p. Nye as
serted the government could dc
nothing for the sufferers in the
drouth district and the best thing to
do was to call special session OF
the state legislature to vote a bond
issue to take care of the work.
The inference. of course, is that
Senator Nye laid down on the jot
and failed to do his share. It is ar
indictment of Senator Nye's ordinary
human feelings more than of his po-
litics. If the charge was to be made
at all it should have been made long
ago.
Few, If any, persons will take any
more stock in it than they take in the
ar crtion that Governor Shafer and
the Red Cross" saved the drouth suf
ferers in their hour of need. The
pnraseology is that used by the I
v. A. at their Valley City convention
and the fact that Governor Shafel
was mentioned before the Red eros!
would seem to indicate something OF
bias. The general impression is tina
the Red Cross. assisted by some hun.
dreds Of thousands of North Da
kotans, did noteworthy Job. Gov.
ernor Shafer and Senator Nye were
among those hundreds of thousands
Had the movement been billed as 9
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