The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-05
DEMOCRATS SAY
STATE Is FACING
GREAT MENACE
OF S OCIALISN
Declare Position On North
Dakota Issues At Com
mittee Meeting
BYERLY AGAIN
HEADS THE BODY
But -Four Members Rallied
TO Nonpartisan Leader,
John Bloom

Bismarck, N. D.. Sept. 5.-OnIS
four votes were registered against
, the reelection of w. D. Byerly, OF
tic state central committee We'd
nesday afternoon. John H. Bloom
the Devils Lake league publisher
who led the attack on Byerly, com.
manded his own vote and that o.
} three Nonpartisan league associates
on the state central committee. They
were c. P. Peterson of Bisbee
author of the resolution attacking
Red Cross workers and others en-
gagged in patriotic activities who
were unfriendly to The league and
which the house was forced to rejec
in the special session last winter;
Nels Magnuson and Dell Patterson
Of Donnybrook, a league house mem.
Der sitting as member of the
Democratic central committee who
campaigned the third congressional
district for J. H. Sinclair Of Ken
mare, a Republican. Patterson nom
mated Byerly's only opponent, Geo
o. Nelson Of Ray.
DR.. R. A. Bolton Of jamestown
was elected secretary. On the reso-
luttons committee were named H. D.
Albert, J. H. Mann, M. H. Avid, j.
E. Campbell, E. j. Hughes, A. J.
O'Keefe and r. A. Johnson. The
| platform committee named consist
ed OF John B. Fried John Peterson,
J. N. Kelley, Charles Simon, Edward
Garvey, George A, Bangs, 8. J.
Ratcliffe. The COMMITTEES on com
mtttees, to which was left the choice
Of an executive committee, consisted
Of r. J. Murphy, E. J. Hughes and
A. c. NSigurdson. The committee on.
credentials, A. G.. Sigurdson, Will
liam Schutt, George Standish, S. J.
Doyle and r. B. Murphy, seated all
the delegates and proxies present.
Thirteen committeeman were rec
ognized by proxies all Of whom
were recognized.
Resolutions adopted by the Demo-
cratic state central committee
pledge the states unqualified sup
port to the President and declare it
the first duty Of every American
citizen in this crisis to lend all pos
sible aid to the federal government
in the conduct of the war The COM
mittee expresses unalterable opposi-
ton to the program Of state social
ism as outlined in the provisions of
House Bill A: 1t opposes every at
tempt to remove all debt restrictions
from the constitution Of the state,
and the proposed constitutional
amendmen for raising the state limit
OF Indebtedness from 100000 to.
$10,0O0,O0O. 49, r'7
Unjust to Agriculture.
The resolutions oppose the ex-
emption of permanent improvements
and personal proerty from taxa
ton, believing the 1evying of all
taxes upon lands and the elimina-
ton Of personal property from taxa
ton to be unjust to the people gem
orally and especially Injurious to the
agricultural interests of this state.
The resolutions oppose anv
amendment to the state constitution
which will remove the safeguards
now surrounding the school funds of
the state, and express unalterabIe
opposition to any program favorinE
the Investment of these funds in
other than gilt-edged securities. or
In farm mortgages not to exceed
one-half the valuation of the Sc
curity.
1--WE vigorously object TO having
our political affairs controlled by a,
Socialist autocrat living outside
the state and having no interest here
with a program of state socialism
to the detriment of the citizens OF
North Dakoa."
The resolutions favor a state
owned terminal elevator; the sub
mission to the people Of a constitu-
tional amendment providing for the
erection of a. state owned flour mill.
The committee urges an energetic
and efficient program for the bet
terment Of our rural schools, urges
the extension Of the present Nom
partisan judiciary and school ballot
so that it may apply to all county
and legislative Offices and urges that
the next legislative assembly give
careful consideration to the present
primary law, that it may be so
amended that the will of the voters
Of the state may be clearly carried
on, in the simplest and most direct
manner possible.
An amendment to the constitution
providing for state hail insurance
to be provided through an acreage
tax is approved, and cooperation
with the federal government in the
development of a comprehensive
system of state highways is en-
dorsed. &
With a view to bringing ali the
arabic land in the state under Gull
tivation, an idle land tax is approx
ed.
Fail To Keep Pledges.
The present state administration
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