The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-21
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DEFEATING AMENDMENTS NOT ENOUGH
The defeat of the Townley amendments VIII not
be enough. North Dakota must also make certain
that it has a legislature which will serve the peg
nile of North Dakota and not a corrupt boss ring
which has it's headquarters in another state. we
must have a governor who will direct the leglsla-
ture along proper lines. Every eector who reg
siters his vote against the Townley amendments at
the polls November should also vote against the
Townley legislative ticket and the Towney candl-
date for governor.
It will profit us little to defeat Townleys social-
stic program at the polls it, at the same time, we
elect legislature which he can dominate and to|
which he can dictate the setting aside OF all con-
sttutional authority as he did to his hand picked
house of representatives in the last leglslatlVe|
assembly, With two houses controlled by Town.
lev, as he controlled the last lower house, there
is nothing at which he would stop to gain his ends.
l. WITH A TOWNLEY LEGISLATURE, IN
SPITE OF ANYTHING THE PEOPLE MAY Dol
AT THE POLLS IN NOVEMBER, ONE OF THE
FIRST ACTS OUT OF THE HOPPER WOULD
BE OLD HOUSE BILL "A, RESURRECTED AND
PASSED IN ITS ENTIRETY AND HANDED
OVER TO THE PEOPLE OF NORTH DAKOTA
TO SERVE THEM AS A CONSTITUTION. THIS
is NOT MERELY A PROPHESY-IT IS A
STATEMENT OF A WELL RECOGNIZED
LEAGUE PLAN.
Townley is chuckling to himself, down at St.
Paul eff can't get them coming I'll get them
going" says the wiley medicine man. AS a matter
:. of fact, Townley would prefer TO have the pro-
posed amendments defeated at the polls, for he did
not dare embody in any proposals to whose con-
sideration the people would have an opportunity
to give few weeks thought one half of the radi-
cal, socialistic bolshevik doctrines which were in
Guided in House Bill IA, and which will reappear,
reinforced and bolstered up with planks from the
St. Louis platform in the new House Bill IA.
Townley knows that with hand-picked legisla-
ture, which he can herd into an old hotel where
they can be isolated from all contact with their
constituents and with fellow citizens generally,
he can accomplish far more than he would dare
to ask from the great mass of the sober-minded,
thinking people of North Dakota.
so, REMEMBER, 1T IS NOT ENOUGH THAT
YOU ASSIST IN PILING UP A BIG MAJORITY
AGAINST THE AMENDMENTS AT THE
POLLS IN NOVEMBER. EVERYONE RECOG-
NIZES THE VICIOUSNESS OF THESE AMEND
MENTS. THEY ARE TOO UTTERLY ROTTEN
FOR EVEN so FAITHFUL A Lacquer AS
JUDGE J. E. ROBINSON OF THE SUPREME
COURT. 1T is A FOREGONE CONCLUSION
THAT THE AMENDMENTS WILL FAIL. BUT
WE WILL HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING
IF WE MERELY DEFEAT THESE AMEND
MENTS AND THEN TURN AROUND AND
ELECT A LEGISLATURE WHICH TOWNLEY
CAN TWIST AROUND HIS FINGER AND FROM
WHICH HE CAN ASK AND DEMAND THE
ENACTMENT OF A SOCIALISTIC CONSTITU-
TON COMPARED WITH WHICH THESE PRO-
POSED AMENDMENTS WILL BE AS A SUM-
DAY SCHOOL LESSON TO A CHAPTER FROM
THE DECAMERON.
WE MUST DOWN THE WHOLE SOCIAL1STIC
CREW
IN BURLE1GH COUNTY THAT MEANS WE
MUST ELECT F. O. HELSTROM, j. NJ THOMP-
SON AND VICTOR MOYNIER., .,-,~.
There is no republican ticket in Burleigh coun-
ty; there is no republican organization. The issue
is between Townleyism and the People. F. O. Hell
strom J. M. Thompson and Victor Moynier rep
resent the people. They should have the vote Of
every man who believes in government of the peo-
pie by the people opposed to government by
cfques, gang rule and bossism.