The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-02-08
COMMUNICATION.
Editor Courant:

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Would you please allow me through
your valuable paper to correct some
of the rank misstatements made by
the News man and others about what
is going on at Bismarck and else
where.
! The News man tries to make case
of graft out of the fact that some Of
the Senators and Representatives
went around by Fargo to Bismarck
and charged for the additional mile
age. Of course we couldn't expect
Falky to tell the whole truth and
state that it was on account Of the
trains on the cross lines being stalled
and out of business. When Falky
travels 100 miles out of his way to
get to an appointment on time he al
ways pays the extra expense out of
his own pocket. Moreover, if my
nannorv doesn't fail me, this little in
,;ident happened in the senate and not
in the house at all. He also tries to
insinuate that Tom Hennessy is hired
as a political boss and gets $4,000
per month, both of these statements
are false. Tom Hennessy and every
other organizer gets paid so much for
each members name they enroll or
help to enroll and if they are good
organizers and are lucky they may
make $4,000 and nobody but Falky
is sore about it. They are not polit
ical bosses but simply organizers. AS
a pious Christian gentleman, Falky,
you are a peach.
Then he says "Townley and his
gang propose to amend the constitu-
tion so as to give us woman suffrage"
but other clauses are much more
important and can be legally
amended a quicker way" He knows
perfectly we'll, of course, that our
farmers Legislature and not Townley,
passed these suffrage bills and also
tried to. amend our state constitu-
tion, which procedure was declared by
our attorney general to be perfectly
constitutional, legal and proper. Of
course Townley and his gang should
be hung and quartered for this,
though not guilty.
We should elect Falky Attorney
General next time, he knows what our
constitution can stand, also what laws
are good for us. Then he wants us
to tell him if any of US would like to
have Townley, Bowen or Coates run
our private business. It seems nova
days that we have revised the old
Bible and that we should 'Heap our
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failures and not to be trusted. Ac-
cording to this rule, Abraham Lin
coin wasn't fit for the office, as he
failed in business and lived in power
ty most of his life. Jesus, also, ac-
cording to this wise guy, was another
failure, as he didn't have even shack,
to say nothing about rent roll and
moreover, had he lived in this day
and generation, they would have
called him an I. w. w. and run him
out of town or put him in the coop
because he had no visible means of
support. I, for one, would rather
trust my private business to any one
of these men than to some of these z
by 9 editors who don't know how to
do anything but act as political lick
spittle to the grating politicians and
their corporation masters.
I want to tell you right now, Fal-
ky, that this insinuation and misrep-
resentation isn't going to get you
anything except perhaps the poor
house and, moreover, you should re-
member that half truth is generally
whole lie. And you are going to
get full credit for them every time,
so hop to it old man.
Geo. R. White.