The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1911-11-09
Senator from the 2Nh Explains q
Few Things-Says There Are Some
Who Would Hurt His Chances for
Recollection.

Editor CT the Independent:
Some of my friends in Minot have
advanced the argument that the
trouble about the Normal School
site Is due chiefly to the demand in
my bill of a sixty acre site for the
school uo be donated 70 the state
by the citizens of Minot. Now, why
this argument is advanced is easy for
me to explain. In the first place,
those who feel themselves guilty
for the trouble about the site are
using this argument to wash them
selves of their own guilt Their in
tention is also to hurt my chances
for denomination for the State Sen
ate, in case l should again apply to
the people for that position, by lay
Ing the blame to the law which
was partly instrumental in placing on
tho statute. Now, to settle this once
and for all let us see how much
there is in this argument 1t is
matter Of fact that the Normal board
experienced no trouble in procuring
a site. There were several sites
offered free. There has not been the
least trouble in that respect. Some
Of those who had sites to offer have
even gone so far as to compel the
board by process Of law to accept
their site and those are the ones to
blame for the trouble. heard one
Of those who had sites to offer that
made the remark that this was the
f1srt time that he had to fight to give
valuable property away. am not
afraid to assert that some of those
who have started MS trouble by
serving injunctions on the board have
lost sight of the school; all they
have on their minds are pecuniary
gains in the form of an increase in
value of their real estate. When
there has been such a scramble to
give sites away with only pecun,ary
gains In view, how much bigger
scramble would there have been hao
the board been authorized TO pur-
chase site? If these parties ex-
pected to gain financially by giving
q site away how much eas1er would
1t not have been to gain financially
by selling their property direct to the
State for good price. No sane per
son will believe Chat these parties
would have lost all their seltishness
i .n"re had been an appropriation
for site. Anyone can see how
their argument is in laying tho blame
for this site trouble on the law.
Let me say further that the last
site which was selected by major
tty OF TN people on the North Side,
H. the lest site 70 be IA in Mirol.
For that reason the peo',., selected
It and We owners dcedeC it to the
state. y::out a mur nur But did
that satisfy those who blame tre law
for the trouble? No! Instead &C.
cepting the verdict OF the people,
which they should Nave 06ne, these
same parties who My the blame to
the law go to work and serve an
Injunction on the Normal board to
stop further progress with the school.
This Is the reason, and the Only rea-
SON for the present trouble and de-
lay in the progress OF the erection
OF buildings.
Now, as far as my connection
with the selection OF the site Is con-
cerned, let me say chat 7 am not
ashamed OF the part that I have
taken IN 1t. My only motive has
been to secure the best possible,
location for the school. To those
who are worrying about my becda6-
Ing canidate again for the State
Senate let me say that II chose
to apply for that position again /
will do 80 on my own record, ~
Guiding my action IN the 1enatyf1-
gardins the normal school site.
'f~%.+ i.'~ JOHN WALLlN.