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Show PRO-GERMAN VOTES IN DAKOTA ELECTION BISMAECK, N. D.( July 2. Charges made in an editorial in the Mandan Pioneer that 15,000 pro -German votes gave Governor Lynn J. Frazier the majority which re-nominated him on the Republican ticket in the primaries last Wednesday were reiterated before the state council of defense today by E. A. Tostevln, publisher. Tostevln, hailed before the council on tho ground that the editorial constituted an attack on the loynlty and patriot-lam patriot-lam of the stato declared when, questioned ques-tioned that he did not recognize the authority of the commission and would not suspend publication of his paper on its order. Tostevin recited a long list of active supporters of the Non-Partisan league which backed Frazier in his campaign, in his county, who he declared were of known pro -German sympathies. He will appear before the council again tomorrow. |