The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-09-25
LANCER REPLIES
TO CRITICISM BY.
WILBUR; CLAIMS.
GOVERNOR LOYAL.
Attorney General, In Let
ter To The Forum, Takes
Up Patriotism Issue
CLAIMS POLITICS
BACK OF ATTACK
Insists State Officials Have
Periodically Supported
The Government

William LANCER. attorney genera
OF North Dakota, whose charges
against attorneys who in the past
have prostituted their honor are GO
ing about under the cloak Of patriot
ism and deliberately seeking to mis-
lead the public about this man (Gov-
ernor Frazier)", and that at is those
men and that press, under the guise
OF patriotism and the pretense OF be
ing the only sirpon-pure patriots
whom you carefully need to watcn'
the charge being made in the couI s.
Of an address at LaMoure, N. D, to
men of the draft army, makes reply
in a letter to The Forum, to the
challenge made by Harry Curran
Wilbur. executive secretary of the
North Dakota Red Cross, to become
specific, and abandon generalities.
It was in his LaMoure address that
Mr.. LANCER made an attack upon
newspapers which had the temerity
to publish the resolutions recently
adopted by the United Commercial
Travellers Of Minot. which were con-
demned by the Nonpartisan meeting
in Fargo. and which have since been
endorsed by three organizations of
railroad men-the B. of r. T., the B.
OF L. E., and the o. r. c., Of Grand
Forks.
Mr.. LANCER comes forward with a
statement mentioning the names of
Atty. Tracy r.. Bangs, Grand Forks,
who, at a recent mass meeting OF the
Red Cross in Jamestown, took to
task certain officials of North Dakota
who he charged had failed to give
the nation their patriotic support
In conclusion. Mr.. LANCER devotss
himself to discussion OF bloody,
unpatrfotic profits OF concerns like
these that ] appear to have incurred
the displeasure of the kept press and
the kept politicians Of this state,
and he takes up the cry of the
demagogues, which had full sway in
the now thoroughly discredited Nom
partisanN conference of last week at
st. Paul.
Mr.. Langer's letter follows:
Bismarck, N. D., Sept. %, 1917.
The Editor of The Fargo Forum,
Fargo. N. d.
Dear Sir: My attention has been
called to a statement published in
the issue of The Fargo Forum, FRI
day evening, Sept. 21, 1917, in which
you report one Harry Curran Will
bur, executive secretary of the North
Dakota Red Cross society, as chal-
longing me TO name the attorney or
attorneys whom in a speech at La
Moure, l charged with making a great
cry of patriotism for political profits.
This man is also reported to have
placed $1,000 in the First National
bank of Fargo but IL he has done so
/ have had no official notification OF
it and even If / had had frankly
confess than 1 have in the past not
been representing big Business"
and 1 therefore am rather hard up
However. without the forfeiture
of his 81 900 / am perfectly willing
and delighted to name to the people
of this state and to Mr.. Wilbur one
man of the legal profession who /
am convinced has been going up and
down the state making a display Of
patriotism as a cloak for political
purposes.
/ name Tracy r. Bangs Of Grand
Forks, who has been lecturing under
the auspices OF the state Red Cross
society of which Judge N. C. Young
OF Fargo is state leader, and of which
Mr.. Wilbur is executive secretary,
with using the cloak of patriotism
and the Red Cross to attack the pres
ent state administration.
In a speech at jamestown, under
the auspices Of the Red Cross So
ciety, as reported in the issue of The
Fargo Forum of Sept. 4, Mr.. Bangs
affirmed in the course of his speech
that it was up to all persons to be
right in this war;" and his statement
that certain state officers will have
to get in line with the rest of us"
brought forth enthusiastic applause.
In q report Of this same speech
In The jamestown Alert Of Sept. 8,
Mr.. Bangs made a bitter attack on
state officials in the following Ian
guage: THE state has been adversely
advertised because OF those in au-
thority who have raised their voices
in defense Of the Peace Council and
the pacifists, and have not raised
their voices in behalf Of such great
works at the Red Cross society"
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