The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-19
Battles Develop at
Precinct MEETINGS
langer's PaYroIIers Turn Out in
Force to Express will OF
the People
MANY FIGHTS WERE CLOSE
Prize Affair Was That at Cooks
Garage Where M'Don.
aids Led fight

AsSIl8CI . p6yIOllSIS CO1ltEOQeO
most Nonpartisan precinct meetings
In Bismarck Saturday and elected
delegates to the county convention to
be held In the court house In Bis
marck Feb. ~. Anti-Langer forces
elected rival delegates In most pre-
cincts and will either hold q county
meeting Of their own or make fight
to seat their delegates on the ground
that several Of the LANCER delegates
have never before been known as Nom
partisans or that the precinct meet
ings were rugged with non-residents.
Employees In every LANCER controll-
ed office were given printed or mi
meographed slips with the names Of
the delegates they were told to vote
for printed on them. Some depart
ment heads we're polite In telling en-
ployes to 60 to the precinct meetings,
but most Of them bluntly ordered
them to do their stuff-or else. Only
the janitors held the fort ut the state
capitol building as most OF the en-
ployes went off to the political wars.
Same Story Elsewhere
Ward county reported that friends
of the LANCER administration claim
they elected all but one delegate at
the precinct meetings. State Sena-
tor @. A. Jones, aligned with the anti
LANCER faction, was among the del
egates selected Ut the precinct meet
ings.
p. q. Miller. chairman Of the RAM
sey county Nonpartisan League exc
cutive committee. said wide support
for Gov. LANCER was manifested at the
precinct meetings. Miller said that
while complete returns from the
precinct meetings are not available.
he believed there was little question
that the LANCER forces will be In con-
troll at the county convention.
In Grand Forks, LANCER forces
claimed complete sweep Of the coun-
ty precinct meetings. Two commit
tees, each claiming to be the Nonpar-
tisan League executive committee,
have functioned In that county, but
the anti-Langer group announced
they would hold q separate county
convention Feb. n and elect delegates
to the jamestown convention.
G. G. Snyder. Fargo. claimed for the
administration all but eight precincts
In the city Of Fargo, Cass county.
Quieter In Country
Reports from country precincts in
dictate that IN some Of them the an
ti-Langer forces refused to take any
part In the meetings and stayed away.
In futile seven attended the meeting
which was run by Joe Gulderman, en-
ploye Of the Game and Fish depart
ment, Clifford Cleveland, son Of H. B.
Cleveland, on the payroll Of the Lead
er; and Mr.. and Mrs. Emory White
head. Whitehead Is q highway MAIN
tainer out Of Tuttle.
A fierce battle developed in the
third precinct Of the first ward In
Bismarck, where the anti-Langer
forces elected . chairman and secre-
tary and adopted . resolution con-
demning LANCER, but were outvoted
when delegates were elected. EST
mates Of the number at the meeting
vary from 30 to over 100.
When the meeting was called to
order by Mrs. G. q. Boise, county
secretary Of the Nonpartisan League.
the autt-Lauger crowd Immediately
elected Harlan Poindexter, chairman,
and oenevieve Parsons, secretary.
Both are employees Of the anti-Langer
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