Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-01-28
K0sitzku After the ScQndinavidns

hOSlk2ky AFTER the ScQndInQUiQnS
Roy Fyles, in his Minor Teller, takes a fall oMt
of Carl Kositzky, political secretary of the North
Dakota AK Commission, in the following editorial.
Carl X. has been very ,diligent since assuming office,
in writing articles on, North Dakota ,%politicsirhi
kind, of course-to a German paper in Aberdeen;
which is ABOUT the: only paper. in the 7cdnntry which
will publish his rot. Mr.. Fyles takes Carl to task
thusly: ENE.
'Kositzky, who draws $4,000 a year and expenses
from the state, for acting as secretary to the tax
commission, is insistent that Scandinavian office
holders shall give way to men of German nationality.
To accomplish this end he is vigorously boosting
three Germans for. the railroad commission, thus
doing away with the Scandinavian member now in
Office. He has a German candidate for state treas
urer to take the place of Gunder Olson, and he wants
to remove State Auditor %Jorgenson to make room
for a German state auditor.
Kostzky;s attacks on State Auditor Jorgenson are
vile, %scurrilous attacks-and as the tax commission
is we'll acquainted with the political work its secre-
tary is doing, it is pretty well understood the mem.
bers of the tax commission have no friendly feeling
toward the Scandinavians of this state. else they
would stop his dirty political work and ask him to
perform the duties for which the people are digging
up a handsome salary.
The? libelous letters published in the South Dakota
Freie Presse of Aberdeen, signed by Kositzky, are
no doubt favored. by the members of the tax commits
sion, and the members of our tax commission should
take due pride in having in their employ a person
so commonplace as to write letters of this kind.
In a recent issue of the Freie Presse, Kositzky
makes the statement that the state auditor had,
during his first. eight, months oyerdrawn, his salary
account $500. This statement is a lie ~ The records
Of the state auditors Office show that1at all times
during 1913 State Auditor %Jorgenson was paid his.
salary at the same time all the other state officials
were paid, and at no time during the year before
his salary was due.
I'VE would like to ask this Kositzky if the so
called Progressive ticket published in the Sunday
Courier-News of January 4, was not fixed up in the
tax commission offices at Bismarck? We're not the
cuts used in that article borrowed by you? Is it
not true that last week, while out in the guise of
secretary, and travelling on the expense Of the state,
you we're carrying a copy of this paper for exhibition
purposes. and boosting the candidates named there
in? Is it not true that you have continually talked
politics while travelling on the expense Of the state,
and while you were. out on tax commission business?
%Jorgenson has proven a good state auditor and
Kostzky's letters won't change our opinion. 1t was
Jorgenson who asked for the retirement of $4,000
worth of capital bonds due in 1923, thereby saving
$4,000 of interest and making available $4,000 for
farm loans, and purchase of school bonds.
7. 1T was a%Jorgenson who insisted on the printing
bills Of the Devils Lake Journal being checked by
an expert printer before being allowed. 1t took a
fght-but the bills were checked and the printing
company had to agree the bills as filed were exces.
sive in the sum of $1,000. Is Kositzky square? We
believe not-he hasn't published such facts as the
above.
More than, all this, .Jorgenson has kent faith with
the people and has attended to his duties. faitafdty'i
IT ds very seldom yon& iind, him away from the office
and rumor has it, it is not unusual to find him
working.
"Kositzky should worry" i. ~.
The naturalist who paid $4,000 for a rare and in.
teresting sea lion flea viii. not balk at the additional