The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1933-10-03
STATE OFFICIALS
BAND THEMSELVES
AGAINST GOVERNOR
Brand Executive as incapable
to Fulfill Duties Of His
Office
IGNORED PARTY PRINCIPLES
Assert He Attempted to Build
Personal Machine; Mulct-
cd Employees
IGNORED PARTY PRINCIPLES

CQlelS OF the NOupdILlSdu League, III"
Guiding members Of the state execu-
tive committee and elected officers,
Monday night at q meeting In Fargo
bound themselves to oppose any at.
tempt Gov. william LANCER may make
to seek reelection and branded him
as incapable to fulfill the duties OF
governor"
In substance, said statement from
the executive committee, the action
means that Governor LANCER has been
read out of the Nonpartisan League
as it Is now officially constituted.
All elected officials Of the state ex.
cept two were present, and spokesman
for the executive committee said these
two have Endorsed the agreement
reached.
For good and sufficient reasons"
these members Of the Nonparttsan
League took q stand against the gov
ernor. they said.
They charge that for mine months
he has failed to work in harmony
with the elected officers Of the state;
that he has ignored their repeated
invitations to consult with them on
matters Ct state policy; that he has
failed to consider them In any way"
Seeks Personal Power
They charge that from the incep-
ton he has attempted to build a per-
sonal political machine: has inaug-
urated ar autocracy alien to the prin-
ciples Of the Nonpartisan League, and
has perpetrated an outrageous exeor-
ton Of S per cent of employees wages
to create a personal propaganda news
paper"
They charge he has "misused power
granted him by the legislature for the
benefit Of himself and hts personal
CLIQUE" and that he has operated in
direct defiance of the bylaws of the
Nonpartisan League and has himself
repudiated every fundamental prin-
ciple of that party"
The elected state officials pledged
themselves to oppose his candidacy
for reelection and bound themselves
not to serve on Gny party ticket he
might head.
They branded the North Dakota
Leader personal propaganda news
paper, In no sense Of the word repre-
senting the administration"
His entire program is repudiated by
the league officers, who, In state
ment. said:
Bears Responsibility Alone
THE precepts Of the 'Nonpartisan
League are opposed to the concentra-
ton of power within the hands Of one
man. Governor LANCER has taken 1t
unto himself to champion measures
not in accord with the principles of
the Nonpartisan League and upon him
rests the sole responsibility"
Although declaring their repudia-
ton absolute, neither the executive
committee nor elected officials will
ask his resignation or sponsor q re-
call, regardless Of runor to that eff
feet. they said.
1.-THE elimination OF Governor
LANCER from the rolls Of the Nonparti-
san League Is complete" their state
ment said. Ills elimination from
office, however, will come about
through the regular channels, not
through a recall election"
Members Of the state executive
committee are John Nystul Of Fargo,
chairman; E. q. Larson, Valley City.
vice chairman. and 6. N. Lee Of
Dodge, cretary-treasurer.
While his opponents were meeting
In Fargo. Langer and his appointees
Ianvassed the situation Monday night
IN q meeting at the Patterson hotel
here. Among those attending the To-
cal meeting were Dell Patterson, war
den at the state penitentiary: .. H.
rIovniifn,o an AsnnlnvA ~ thu state