The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-06-27
CAMP Align ENDS IN
| BURST OF SPEECHES
AT MEETINGS HERE
Mye, Cain and LANCER Are Chief
Speakers in Bismarck
Tuesday Night
ADMINISTRATION FLAYED
Senator Calls for Cleanup;
Cheering Section HowIs
for Incumbent

mary election campaign bla1ed to it
finish Tuesday night With Bismarck
the center Of interest.
Gathered here were two Of the
candidates for the gubernatorial NOM
nation and Senator Gerald p. Nye,
chief campaigner for r. H. H. Thore-
sen in the closing days OF the pre-
election drive.
Nye spoke ct the City Auditorium ia
an interested crowd which applaud
ed little except for . rousing ovation
at the finish.
william LANCER spoke next door, q:
the World War Memorial building
to q crowd which included q cheering
section. It interrupted him frequent
~ with violent applause, although q
large section Of his audience, consist
ing Of the curious. was patiently un-
moved.
]. p. Cain talked over the radio, as
did Nye and LANCER.
On the platform with Nye were most
Of the candidates on the Thoresen-
Olson ticket, endorsed by the James
town Nonpartisan convention. Lang
er was nanked by . number Of his
cohorts.
Olson Introduces Nye
State Senator w. Z. MatthAei Wa
chairman Of the Thoresen- Olson
meeting and speakers, In addition tc
Eye, were Congressman ]. II. Sin.
Clair and Q. H. Olson, lieutenant gov
e-nor and claimant Of the governor.
ship since hangers conviction on 4
felony charge In federal court. Olson
Introduced Nye.
Warning that government must be
clean and decent in purpose and in
ception, Nye said he was sick in heart,
mind and spirit at the division In the
Nonpartisan League but that It had
to come lest it, along with the state
as . whole, become prey to ruthless
and corrupt political machine such as
few persons can envision.
Tracing the history Of the LANCER
administration. he said he supported
LANCER two years ago with misgivings
but relied on the assurance Of good
men that he had abandoned his old
ways.
No sooner had he come to power,
however, than he conceived the idea
Of . political machine and the need
for "otl" to keep it running smoothly.
That oil, Nye asserted. was money and
LANCER started out to get 1t even
though he and the men elected with
him had come into office without
heavy expenditures.
Although the money professedly was
for the support Of THE Leader" and
the Leader" was established to tell
the truth about the administration, -
Nye asserted that many truths about
the administration had never appeared
In the Leader"
Raps Independent Move
Asserting that there would be NO
question Of the outcome Of the guber-
Material contest were It not for the
three cornered fight for the place,
Nye asked his audience to rally to
Thoresen's support since he Is the one
man who has . chance Of defeating
the LANCER machine. Thoresen, he
said, has the qualities Of mind and
heart which will enable him to give
the state clean, efficient and honest
Asserting that be was unhappy that
LANCER should have been convicted,
Nye said he had only himself, his In
sane desire for power and his greed
for money to blame. When the pur-
pose Of political machine Is to get
money, he said, It inevitably leads to
either the destruction Of the party or
to untold political corruption. The
danger to the Nonpartisan League in
the present circumstance, he said. Is
that the people Of the state viii turn
against it II It doesn't clean house.
Commenting on collections alleeedly
made for the Leader" Nye explained
that the only business be knows much
about is publishing . weekly news
paper and added, BOY what . news.
pepper ! could put out II had eighty
~ ninety thousand dollars . year"
Asserting that even had Laneer
been acquitted In federal court he
would be appealing Tor his defeat.
Nye asserted his record u clearly not
n the Interests d the State Of North
Of its people OK it. future o.
D the Nonpartsau League which has
always done well In the past without
tremendous campaign funds"
Mefatoeaum Inellootive
Giving attention to the moratorium.
Nye asserted those really In favor Of
It had to kick the eovernoe In the
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