Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-11-02
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR

- w GAN L i 0oINO1ND i LA.l
GEORGE E. NICHOLS is one name on the
republican state ticket which ought to run
ata gallOp. MIR. Nichols, though young
and not a politician, has twice filled the
treasurership of Cass county, giving per-
feet satisfaction and pleasing all who have
met him, personally or officially. The fact
is, he is popular, as he deserves to be, and
the ballot marks for him ought to be scores
and hundreds outside OF his party lines
CasseltOnian.
AS to MIR. Nomland
Grand Forks Herald: The people
elected Knud Nomland state treasurer
in 1892 because they believed he would
turn the interest on state funds into the
state treasury, for the benefit of the peo-
pie. Nomland had promised the people
that he would do SO. He so promised at
the Valley City convention when he was
nominated. He SO promised all through
the campaign. His party leaders made
the same pledges. These pledges were
the shibboleth of the "reformers." If
there was one thing more than another
made prominent as state issue in the
populist campaign it was that Knud
Nomland and the popullst reformers
would obey the constitution and cover
all interest on state funds into the treas
ury. Nomland was elected on this issue,
because the people believed him to be
man of truth. They took him at his
word and relied upon his honor, his man
liness and his veracity. After being in
stalled in his Office Nomland continued
to play the role of hypocrite and de-
ceiver. He still affirmed his purpose to
obey the constitution, to keep his prom
ises, to tell the truth, to turn the interest
on state funds into the treasury. After
the legislative assembly had enacted the
law requiring Mr.. Nomland to do his
duty, requiring him to do the thing he
and his party had promised the people
he would do, Mr.. Nomland still asserted
his intention to obey the constitution
and the statute. Even after instituting
the suit to contest the constitutionality
Of the statute, he still maintained his
intention to turn the interest into the
treasury. But he did not do it. Mr..
Nomland had simply lied, and lied sys-
tematically for months and for years, lied
to the people who had repeatedly hon
ored him with election to lucrative
offices. And, with this infamous record
as "reformer," Mr.. Nomland's bonds
men, Leistikow and Baker, sell and
barter away the democratic party, body
and soul, for what-for the reorganization
of Knud Nomland for the office Of treas.
urer. The democratic convention was
merely the means of selling out the dem
ocratic party to Leistikow, Baker and
4 Nomland. Nomland is not democrat
and never was. Leistikow and Baker
have no interest in the election of Nom.
land, a populist, to Office, except as his
election would again put into their
pockets the interest on the peoples
money, which the constitution, the peo-
ple's representatives in the legislature
and the people themselves demand shall
be turned into the peoples treasury.
And what interest have the democrats
in electing populist to an Office wherein
Leistikow and Baker can continue to use
the peoples money? And what interest
have the populists in eleoting hypo-
crite and decelver to Office that he may
have a second opportunity to use
the peoples money for himself and for
two democratic bosses? A hypocrite
who has betrayed his own party, violated
his own personal pledge and the pledges
Of his party, and who now is knitting his
party's nominee for governor, that he
may thereby secure his own election
for himself, for Leistlkow and for Bak-
er? Is it any wonder that his own
county Of Traill, which had twice elected
him to the Office Of county treasurer, and
which two years ago gave him majority
of 40 for state treasurer, has now re-
volted in disgust, and will this year give
q majority for Nichols? Is it any won
der that democrats and populists alike
throughout the state are in-revolty
The statute which Mr.. Nomland con-
tested in the supreme court was q repub-
lican measure, introduced by republic
an and enacted by republicans. The
populists and democratic platforms in
this campaign are significantly silent on
this issue. The republican platform,
upon which Geo. r. Nichols stands has
this declarations:
We recommend that at its next session,
the legislature enact q law requiring state,
county and municipal treBsurers to account
for and cover into the treasury, all interest
and earning OF the public funds.
And Governor Miller, IN his message
to the Legislative assembly, delivered