The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-25
n. D. DELEGATES TO
DEMOCRAT MEETING
LEAVE FOR CHICAGO
Nine Will Support Roosevelt and
10th Will Support Alfalfa
Bill Murray
(By the Associated Press)

(by the Associated PreSS)
North Dakota's 10 delegates to the
Democratic national convention were
Chicago-bound Saturday, nine of
them ready to give their unqualified
support to Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt of New York.
The 10th delegate, George T. Muir
ray of Berthold, N. D.. is pledged to
his brother, Governor William alfalfa
Bid Murray of Oklahoma.
All of the states delegates are ex-
pected to be in Chicago by Sunday
and in the evening will hold an or
ganization meeting at which a chair
man will be selected.
Several of the delegates have par
ticipated in previous national con-
ventions.
r. B. Murphy, Bismarck, attended
the San Francisco convention in 1920,
and represented the state on the plat
form committee. He served as ma
tional committeeman for North Da-
kota from 1924 to 1928, when he re-
tired to work for a United States
delegation to the national convention
to support Former Governor AL Smith.
Murphy is an indorsee of the state
Democratic convention for one of the
two nominations for congressman.
From 1922 to 1881 he was a member
Of the state board of administration.
Lanier Is Repeater
P. w. Lanier, Jamestown, the DEM
ocratic party'S indorsee for U. S. sem
ator, will attend his second national
convention. In 1923 he was a dele
gate and was named member of the
national platform committee. Lanier,
Tennessean by birth. served in the
lower house of the legislature of his
native state in 1911 and 1912. He
came to North Dakota in 1923 to prac-
tice law and has been active in DEM
ocratic politics. In 1880 he was can
didate for congress.
For Jonathan c. Eaton of Fargo,
his attendance at the convention will
recall the days when he acted as a
page at Democratic national con-
vention. That was in 1904 and was
the only previous convention he has
attended. His father was delegate
to the 1896 convention when William
Jennings Bryan was nominated, and
served as national committeeman
from North Dakota from 1900 to 1904
j. E. Carney, Cavalier, lawyer, was
candidate on the Democratic ticket
for congressman in the first district
in 1880. At the 1882 state convention
he was advanced as candidate for
congress again, but withdrew. He has
been a member of the Cavalier school
board. was city attorney and mayor.
Dickinson Man Goes
A. G.. Pagenkopf, Dickinson. was a
Democratic candidate for lieutenant
governor in 1925 and for state audi
tor in 1880. He is now candidate
for representative in the 31st district
on the Democratic ticket.
The only woman delegate, Miss
Gertrude Dwire, Minot, has been &C
tive in several political campaigns.
She taught school in North Dakota
for two years, worked on the editorial
staffs of the Great Falls. Mont, Trib-
une and the Minot Daily News, and
now devotes her time to the manage
ment of property she owns in Minot.
DR.. r. H. Leavitt, who practices
medicine at Carson, was delegate
to the national convention in 1924.
He has been prominently identified
with Democratic politics in North Da-
kota and is a member of the state
central committee.
The other members of the slate
are Leo j. Mcdonald of Mandan, en-
gagged in the hotel business there, and
David Kelly, a Grand Forks automo-
bile dealer.
Miss Nellie Dougherty, Minot, ma
tional committeewoman, also is at
tending the convention. She was one
of the first two women representa-
tives to sit in the North Dakota state
legislature.