Show l NATIONAL POLITICS III II l I JOHNSON STANDING I ALONE IN NORTH I i DAKOTA I Complications in Politics Leave Him Sole Candidate Candidate Candi Candi- I date for Presidency j BISMARCK N. N D D. March 15 North i Dakota faces the unique situation of a aj presidential preference primary on March 16 with but one candidate en- en j en-j Senator Hiram W. W J Johnson I stands alone in the field I delegation contests pivoting pivoting- about the Nonpartisan league constitute the I chief barbed wire entanglements on the v voters voters' battlefields I I Major General Leonard Wood and Governor Frank O. O Lowden of Illinois I refrained from filing nominations In in inthis j this state after a second Republican state convention had voted that delegates delegates dele- dele i I gates to the national convention should 1 go uninstructed William Jennings Bryan Bran withdrew I his name as Democratic candidate leaving the California senator a a. challenger challenger chal chat I lenger longer without opposition I I 1 Political observers declare the ranks of both Republicans and Democrats I within the state have been divided on the issue of the Nonpartisan league Voters of pf ot each party have before them I candidates t s declared d to be Informally I supported by the farmers farmers' organization tion as opposed to old line nominees nomine I s. s |