For the second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's...
POLITICAL NOTE: Incomplete Impeachment
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