Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1917-07-19
days had elapsed. The case was ia
ken to the supreme court.

days had elapsed. The case was ia
ken to the supreme court.
The supreme court held that the re-
publican convention was regular ard
that Burtness should have been the
republican candidate-but for the fact
that the convention was held less than
thirty days before the election. In
other words, Burtness was denied the
legal rights of being the republican
candidate for congress, and the re-
pub!icans were denied their legal right
OF having a candidate simply because
the governor jumped in with his pro-
clamation calling the election less than
thirty days after the call had been is
sued for the republican convention.
1t is refreshing to see fellow bob
up in politics end stump the entire
state during campaign on political
reform ticket. He dcvotes hour after
hour on the platform to deriding the
existing administration for political
manipulation, end promises honest
and clean-cut political administration
if elected. Then, after election, all is
suddenly changed. The simon-pure
political reformer steps into Office. At
once, the widest political manipulate
ing and smoothest campaign tricks are
resorted to. The power of the Office
is at once prostituted in desperate
effort to hold his gang in power, and
to gain added political advantages.
And so it goes.
North Dakota has an example of
man in the governors chair whose
reputation in private life is unsullied.
At election time he is looked to for
relief from unfair political manipulate
ing in high Office. He wins. At once,
all is changed. The people wake up
to find that their new officer is a doz-
en-fold more manipulation than his pre-
decessor. No wonder it causes loss
of faith. No wonder voters throw up
their hands in disgust and wonder
what's the use.
From the time L. J. Frazier took
the oath of Office as governor of North
Dakota he has at once become the pro-
fessional politician type Every move
has been q case Of might makes right.
Depending on well-oiled machine to
make his schemes stick, he has tried
the most notorious stunts. Banking
on majority of the supreme court
being pledged to his gang he ATTEMPTED
to bodily overthrow the state board of
regents. Only for the fact that one
of his own machines refused to stand
for such coarse work did the COVER
nor's attempt prove abortive.
1t is fact that every move of the
state administration has been so in
keeping with the desires of the bank
rupt Townley that either Frazier is
debating Towley's course or Townley
is debating Frazier's course. From
the conditions that have developed in
the last two years, no sane thinking
man can doubt that Townley is the
leader and the boss of the roost. 1t
therefore follows that Frazier is allow
ing the machinery of the state to be
run by the demagogic financial failure,
A. c. Townley, the adventurer that
has finally hurled himself into the lap
of luxury in manner perhaps never
even dreamed of by himself.
And, in the meantime, the promised
advantages for the farmers are mere
myths. The outfit that are bleeding
them day and night are taking care of
their own individual interests. But,
further than that, the people still pay
the bills and furnish the soft jobs
and more jobs each year, at that.