Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1902 — NORTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATS [ARTICLE]

NORTH DAKOTA DEMOCRATS

Nominate Candidate and Condemn the Railroad Merger. North Dakota Democrats assembled at Fargo and put a full ticket in nomination. There was considerable confusion owing to the fact that no slate had been arranged, and the party was very much at sea regarding its course. National issues are scantily touched upon in the platform, but decided language is used condemning the railroad merger and favoring a resubmission of the prohibition law. Prior to the opening of the convention W. E. Purcell of Wahpeton had been the favorite for the gubernatorial nomination, but he positively refused to permit his name to go before the convention. The following are the nominees of the convention: For congress, V. R. Lovell and L. A. Ueland; governor, J. E. Cronan; lieutenant-governor, S. K. McGinnis; secretary of state, John Quarum; auditor, John F. Morrison; treasurer, James M’Donald; attorneygeneral, M. J. Barrett; superintendent of public Instruction, V. Stefanson; commissioner of agriculture, O. -H. Will; commissioner of insurance, F. A. Willson; railroad commissioners Charles Peterson, P. L. Pritchard and Oliver Knudson; supreme court, left vacant, and Republican nominee, J. M. Cochrane, Grand Forks, indorsed.