The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1918-05-23

cessfully baked the plans Of the
corporation hirelings down at
Bismarck and elsewhere. It's af-
fectionate parents used to tell
the poor benighted farmer he
was a "Six dollar Sucker" for
letting "Townley and his bunch"
organize them and according to
this picture of his dads" Off
spring, Townley is still the arch
enemy of the farmer and our
farmer governor is an associate
of prof. Germans and by cts"
rule of reasoning must be pro-
German also.
It does beat all what silly rot
some of these little 2x9 editors
can get off with. In it's last is
sue the Farmers Advocate says,
"The Nonpartisan bosses and
papers are now referring to
Lieutenant Governor Kraabel as
a banker and a merchant and not
as a farmer, although owning a
farm" Now, by the same tok-
en-, did not the late lamented
"News" and Herald knock Kraa-
bel, as well as all the other Non
partisan candidates, and now
Kraabel is all right because he is
not indorsed by the Nonparti-
sans. consistency, thou are a
Jewell" ,
The new Farmers Advocate,
figuratively speaking, holds up
it's hands in holy horror at the
supposed enormities of House
Bill "A, but has not thus far said
a word about the new constitu-
tional petition, though the two
bills practically embody the same
provisions, with the one excep-
ton of debt limit. Why all this
solemn silence about the new
amendments and so much noise
about a.? More camouflage.
Will Mat, or whoever is suppos-
ed to be father of the Advocate
editorials, please tell us why?
Why, Oh! why is any specific
provisions in a legislative petit
ton good and still bad when in
corporated into H. 3. "A? Stop
your rascally knocking and come
down to brass tacks and tell us
why.
As to Stair and Hagen's legis-
lative records, they are losing no
sleep over it and we farmers are
satisfied with it and you should
do all the worrying and appear
to be doin it, too.
The Advocate apparently en-
cages in pipe dreams sometimes
as witness this: "The fact that
such men as Alex Hill, president,
Ed. Chretian, vice president, J.
L. Glomseth, treasurer, and
Messrs. J. L. Gorder, Ed. Berry
and Geo. Fletcher, directors, are
back of the Advocate is having a
depressing effect on the Courant
crowd" Yes, Of course it's
enough to make a crocodile weep
to think he couldn't get in with
a bunch like that, and the Advo-
cate has seven more of the same
kind, in fact one in every four
townships in the county. Why
shouldn't the Courant feel de-
pressed. Perhaps that's the
cause of the depressing weather
conditions. One-half of them
past or present office-seekers,
too. Only a pipe dream, however,
what's the next Matt?
It seems to greatly grieve the
editor of the so-called Farmers
Advocate that some Of the Cour-
ant correspondents did not sign
their names to their articles and
he seems to think it takes a lot
of courage to do so, and it doubt
less does when he writes, if we
consider the idiotic drivel the
Advocate afflicts us with. We
do not consider it takes any cour-
age, whatever, and are glad to
give him our name and address.
Geo. r. White.
Bottineau, May goth, 1918.
NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION.
Section 982, Article Ia, Chapter II
of the Political Code, compiled laws
of North Dakota, 1918.