The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-06-22
North Dakota Primary Election Holds Center Ballot DGNo1
Will North Dakota Cities
Take NeD UIn1,s Mantle and
Vote the T0Dnleyized Ticket ?

was going to feed our armies or the
army of our allies.
VIII the communities in western
North Dakota in which there are
large numbers of men Of German
birth or German descent knife their
government in the back2
Won't such people stop and
think, ask themselves where it is
going to Lead to, what you hope to
accomplish by voting as the Kaiser
would have you vote. Is the gov
eminent Of tho Kaiser 80 much bet
ter than that under which you have
made your money? Do you want this
to become a dependency of Ger
many. and see the signs ''verboten'
plastered everywhere where you
now are at liberty to come and go?
Would you go back to Germany If
you could with the same amount OF
money as you arrived with, or as
your father or grandfather arrived
with?
Yes, you know, most OF you that
you care not a whit for Townley,
for Frazier, or for the socialistio
doctrines they advocate. The peo-
pie Of North Dakota who know how
you voted two years ago know 1t
also, and there will be but one in
depreciation put on the vote Of such
communities as vote for The Fraz-
ier- Townley ticket this year. pro-
Germantsm.
Can you who expect to remain in
this country, to continue to be the
recipient Of the benefits Of our free
institutions, to bring up your chill
dren here-can you afford for any
-
the rest Of your life bearing the
label Of disloyalist, and having the
finger Of scoFn pointed at you and
your children?
Can you face the 1000 boys
those of them who come back by
the grace of German frightfulness
with eyes to see-and have them
know that when the nation they
were fighting for was in peril you
tried to deceive your neighbors in
to believing that you wanted anoth-
er two cents a. bushel for your
grain, and that was why you voted
for Townley's ticket. Can you face
them, and have them know that you
drew a knife when their back was
turned?
There is coming a day Of reckon
ing, and 1t will be a sorry day for
those who were against the boys at
the front, or who tried to play a.
11fty-fifty game. You know that the
1000 boys who have gone from this
county would today cast 1000 votes
against the ticket of disloyalty.
It's yours to answer, and it's your
privilege between now and the day
of the primaries to take of your
coat, and say that by all the powers
that are in you, you are going to do
what you can to trample down every
vestige of disloyalty, that you are
going to forget the promises made
you of a cent or two more for your
grain, when you parted with your
$16 for a membership in the league
and that you are going to throw
every ounce Of energy that is in you
TO vote and have others vote the way
your soldier boys shoot.
Let's not have the stigma that
attaches to New Ulm cast on any
community in western North Dako-
ia. There is no community IN the
state OF North Dakota that can
so lily afford to cast its vote for the
Socialist ticket as a community
made up Of people Of German de-
scent.
If you are a pro- German come
out in the open and proclaim it.
You can't camouf1age the American
people-the loyal people.
BY their votes ye shall know
them.