THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



followers to vote for Frazier, who won by 

 about sixty-five thousand plurality. 



All of the League's selections, with the ex- 

 ception of the good man with the Irish name 

 who ran for state treasurer, went in with him, 

 including three members of the supreme 

 court, now for the first time filled by the 

 choice of the farmers instead of the oicking of 

 lawyers. 



In the same election President Wilson, on 

 the Democratic ticket, carried the state by 

 about 1,400 a result no one had expected, 

 not even the most sanguine Democrat, and 

 marking a strange innovation in North Dakota 

 affairs. On state treasurer the vote was close, 

 the League candidate, who was on the Demo- 

 cratic ticket, receiving 51,149 votes against 

 51 ,349 for his opponent. The vote on supreme 

 court justices may be taken as a fair index of 

 the League's normal voting strength at the 

 time. The first League candidate received 

 62,675; the second, 61,109; the third, 51,170: 

 votes for the others were 44,028, 43,442, and 

 37,980.! 



As to the legislature, it was seen tiiat the 

 League had won in significance an overwhelm- 

 ing victory, and yet that the fruits of that 

 victory would be largely lost to it because of 



1 There vrcre six candidates. Under the law, the three receiving 

 the highest vote were elected. The three League candidates ran 

 against the field. 



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