The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-20
Challenges LANCER
To Declare Himself
DePuy Tells Bismarck Audience
Opponent Is Evasive on .
Presidency
WOULD CUT STATE COSTS
Plans Non.PoliticaI Conference
to Devise Plan in Advance
Of Session

Cnallenglng MS opponent 10 say
whether he is supporting Herbert Hoo
yer for the presidency. H. c. DePuy,
Grafton, Democratic gubernatoria;
candidate, reiterated In q speech
here Wednesday night his support Of
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
presidential nominee.
The attitude of the leaders of the
Republican party in the state and OF
William LANCER, Republican guberna-
torial aspirant, makes Langer's posi-
ton on this question uncertain, De-
Puy said, and asserted that the voters
have right to know where all candi-
dates stand on this important issue.
If he is elected, DePuy said, he viii;
not wait until he takes office to de-
wise ways Of reducing the cost of gov
eminent, which he said IS one OF the
crying needs in North Dakota today.
Instead. he said, he will call q non
political conference, In which all po-
litical parties will be represented and
In which representative farmers, mer-
chants, bankers. lawyers and laboring
men will sit down together to see
what phases of government can be
eliminated or curtailed in order to re-
duce costs and return to the simpli-
fled form OF government which the
Democrats are advocating.
John Burke, governor from 1906 to
1912 and now a member OF the SUI
preme court, was cited as the STAN
Iord of nov,o ocro f;o ey,,horro or;ol a.
ficiency in the state. A member Of
the audience, he was asked to stand
and was cheered by the approximate
ly 200 persons who braved the storm
to attend the rally.
Has No Prejudices
Asserting that he had been called
from his role OF private citizen to
run for governor, DePuy said that
he was not politician and viewed
the state situation without political
Asserting that the times
are serious and that many persons
are discouraged, he sounded call
to voters to take serious stock Of the
situation and abandon political view
points and prejudices.
He believes, he said, that the people
are tired of political pickering and
and want to return to a
government, operated in
the interest of the people and with
the least possible cost to the tax
payer.
Asserting that the voters of the
state have an opportunity on Novem-
Der to declare for a new deal and to-
end the political turmoil of the last
IL years, DePuy said he appeals to all
regardless of previous politi-
cal affiliations, to assist in putting
across the program which the Demo-
Gratis feel Is for the best interests of
the state.
If they fail to do so, he said, the
state will be in for continuance of
present conditions for the next two
years. Affairs can hardly be worse
than they have been, he asserted, and
expressed confidence that If the DEM
ocrats are elected North Dakota will
feel the impetus caused by the restor-
alton of confidence in North Dakota
BY the outside world.
Outlining the principles upon which
the Democrats stand. DePuy said:
I'VE seriously doubt the wisdom of
using the machinery of government
and the money Of our taxpayers to In
iulge in experiments not Of a govern
mental nature, and we would limit
our governmental activities to those
by our scheme of gov
namely to that of governing,
10 exercising authority, and to admin
STEERING the law through the medium
of the. constitutional legislative, judi
:ial and executive branches of the
And We prefer not to
have our state engage in business and
delve in affairs not Of governmental
nature, thereby bringing into politics
those matters which have no place
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