The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-01-20
PARTY CHIEFS Will /
NOMINATE men FOR
IMPORTANT OFFICE
Indications Are No candidat
viii Be Entered Against
Hoover in Primary
DEVISE PLATFORj
F. ]. Graham and Mrs. Minnie c
Craig Favored to Retain
Present Posts
lWILL DEVISE PLATF0Ri

Members Of the Republican Stat
Central committee met in BismarcI
Wednesday and indications wer
they would not endorse q candidat
for the presidency to run 1t til
preferential primary election il
March.
Most leaders Of the group regard
ed endorsement OF President Hooye
as an impossibility and there was I'd
one else to whom the committed
could turn II It were disposed to giv(
an endorsement.
This situation was further einl
phasized by receipt Of informatioI
from Senators Lynn j. Frazier md
Gerald P. Nye ct Washington, sugl
costing that action be delayed until
later. It was reported that SENATOR
johnson Of California and Borah 81
Idaho, each Of whom had been ask
ed by the North Dakota senators d
enter the primary, had either rel
fused to do SO or had not made
decision.
The official business Of the con-
venti0n was to nominate II candi.
dates for delegates to the Republican
national convention, four for Repub-
lican presidential electors ana one
each for national committeeman
and committeewoman Is well 6 ID
draft platform to be urged by the
delegates to the national convention
This declaration also will comprise
the official declaration Of principles
by the Republican party In North
Dakota.
II Open Proposition
The selection Of convention del
egates and presidential electors wa
an open proposition, although there
was some disposition to rsuomiuate
the men who proved successful cam
didateS four years ago.
Fred ]. Graham, Glendale. and
Mrs. Minnie d. Craig, Edmond, ware
regarded a. certain choices for re-
nomination as national committee
man and committeewomau, respec-
lively.
Reports that Graham might meet
opposition apparently were without
much foundation. Some delegates
said they sensed that certain men,
bers Of the party were not wholly
satisfied with Graham but that nc
rival candidates were being talked Of
Proposals, made in procession
conversations. that the COMMITTEES
endorse Joseph I. France, former
Maryland senator, for the presidency
seemed to get little support and In
dications were that the 'iavorite
son" movement, launched some time
ago for Senator Lynn J. Frazier, had
died q borning.
See Support for France
Members OF the Progressive Re-
publican party, who also are men,
bers Of the state central committee
saw in the prospective failure of the
committee to endorse q candidate
however, tentative support TO,
France. This idea Is based on the
thought that national convention
delegates selected here will be pro-
gressiveS and that they will prefer
France to Hoover. The Progressive
Republicans meet January Is at VAL
ley City and it was suggested that
they may endorse the same candi-
dates for the convention and the
same presidential electors as an
favored by the meeting here.
The list Of official committeeman
as issued by r. n. Thoresen, Grand
Forks. committee chairman, contain.
ed the names Of two regularly elect
ed members who ordinarily would b
expected to meet with the trump a
I. v. A. minority Of the committed
They were r. J. Hughes Of the 12th
legislative district, Wahpeton, and
Maurice A. Aker Of the 37th district
Wahpeton. Both are In Richland
county.
Other members Of the minority
faction had refused to serve with tn
majority Of the committee and theil
places have been filled BY appoints
ment, but Thoresen said Hughes and
Aker had indicated . Willingness "a
CONTINUED on pdgs seven)