Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-07-10 | Page 8 | Mix up in North Dakota Politics

1 Seven Candidates Running for Office in Special Election to Be Held Tomorrow. FARGO. N. D., July 9. A complicated compli-cated congressional campaign will end tomorrow in a special election in the First North Dakota district to choose a successor to the late H. T. Helgesen. There arc seven candidates resulting from a mixup in Republican circles and the entry into politics of the Nonpartisan Non-partisan League, tho farmers' organization, organi-zation, which swept the state on a public ownership campaign last fall. Its candidate is John M, Bacr, of Far go. George A. Bangs, of Grand Forks, is the Democratic candidate and H. H. Aker, of Fargo, is running as a "nonpartisan "non-partisan Progressive Republican." There are four names on the Republican Repub-lican column, Henry C- Vick, of Cavalier; Cava-lier; Olger Burtnoss, Grand Forks; F. T. Cuthbert, Devils Lake, and Charles W. Plain, Milton. Their names were presented by petitions to the secretary of state. Lator they agreed to abide by tho decision of a convention which chose Burtncss, but mandamus proceedings pro-ceedings in the supremo court failed to force omission of tho other namos from tho official ballots. Tho campaign of tho Non-Partisan League on behalf of Baer has been vigorous vig-orous because of tho organization's attitude at-titude toward the Liberty Loan and other war revenue measures.