The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-03-28
POLITICAL BLAZES
| SIGNAL TROUBLE IN
RED RIVER VALLEY
Action Of Barnes Nonpartisans
Is Evidence of New Tenn.
per Of Electorate
LANCER is IN DIFFICULTY
Will Have to Answer Many
Questions Before His Can.
didacy Is Accepted
Especial to The Tribune)

Especial to The Tribune)
Valley City, N. D., March 28.-Not
since such time-honored events as the
injunction to North Dakota farmers to
go home and Slop the hogs" and
the subsequent organization Of the
Nonpartisan League have politics
been in such a state Of chaos in this
section of the state.
The best evidence of a new tenn
per on the part of many voters was
the action Saturday Of some Barnes
county Nonpartisans who demanded
that William LANCER resign as the
Nonpartisan candidate for governor
LANCER managed to get the Barnes
county convention Strengthened out
members Of the organization said
Monday. but political observers &C
cepted the fact that the idea was
voiced openly at any time as proof Of
the fact that the LANCER candidacy
will encounter trouble In this section
LANCER has sent out letters an
nouncing that he will come into the
Red River Valley April for q series
Of meetings but there are plenty Of
indications that he will be thoroughly
snubbed by many of his party leaders
The only alternative to his Slaugh-
ter, apparently, is for LANCER to make
satisfactory explanation of som {
events which occurred at the Non
partisan state convention at which
he was endorsed. by one-vote mar
gin, over T. H. Thoresen, Grand
Forks attorney and the endorsee fol
governor In 1928.
+, One gets it in mumblings and
rumblings and without exact verifica-
ton, but in politics belief Is as good
as fact. especially II 1t is supported
by appearances and is sufficiently
widespread.
'Sell-Out' Is Charged
To put it BADLY, Nonpartisans In
this section are charging there was
"a sell-out" at Bismarck. They charge
that LANCER won the endorsement by
devious and unfair means and this
is the cause Of such proposals as that
voiced Saturday at Valley City. The
belief is SO widespread and SO thor
oughly established that such things
are the spontaneous result.
And. incidentally, Gerald p. Nye
junior senator from North Dakota
may have some explaining to do be-
fore the imbroglio is cleared up. He
will be asked to say why 1t was that
so many OF his appointees to federal
office did everything possible to
bring about Langer's endorsement
It may be that they didn't. but the
belief prevails that they did. One
reason for this. perhaps. Is the fact
that Frank Vogel. Bismarck, deputy
collector Of internal revenue. was
Langer's floor manager at the con-
vention and generally Is credited Tor
accused as the case may be- with
bringing about his endorsement.
Into the picture. too. comes the
charge that Langer's endorsement
was aided by interests friendly to GER
tain men In the I. v. A. faction who
are willing to place Governor George
F. Skaters head on the block as a
candidate for the q. s. senate in order
to insure their control Of North Da
kotas state government.
The NonpartiSans hereaboutS gen.
orally have no sympathy for Shafer
but it is the belief Of many in this
section that he Is to be sent to
slaughter by the I. v. A. leaders who
feel he has served his purpose, that
he has no chance to win anyhow. and
that his defeat would be less of q loss
than defeat Of the I. v. A. state
ticket.
Leaders Of the anti-I.anger move
ment in the Red River valley are
charging that money was unfairly
used at Bismarck. They say that
some delegates, who had been known
for years to be unfriendly to hangers
aspirations, suddenly changed their
position and worked for him in the
convention.
Don't Blame Him
But. curiously enough. the same
persons express belief that LANCER
had nothing to do with the payment
Of such money. If any was paid. Their
opinion Is that this part Of the al
legged deal was handled by q rep
resentative OF interests whose head
quarters are outside Of North Dakota
and without Langer,s knowledge. The
theory upon which such action was