The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-09-05
THE RIVAL STATE PLATFORMS

! added another 100000 acres to crop
production; and for the enactment and
reinforcement of the Soldiers MOratOr-
ium Act; and we commend particu-
larly the loyal activities of the COun-
Gil Of Defense in promoting crop pro-
duction and in conserving crops pro-
! duced, and in protecting the rights
and interests of our soldier boys who
are at the front in the service of our
Government.
| T. We heartily commend the atti-
tude and expression. of the federal ad-
plinistration in seeking to repress mob
violence and the mob spirit, and in
seeking to repress activities in our
ma ton destructive of real Democracy
| for all the people.
/ And we affirm and say in the words
Of President Wilson that ANY Amer
lean who takes part in the action OF
mob O." gives it any source OF coun-
tenance is no true son OF the great
Democracy but its betrayer, and does
more to discredit her by that single
disloyalty to her standards OF law and
OF right than the words OF her states
men or the sacrifice OF her heroic boys
in the trenches San do to make SUI
fering people bssaeve her to be their
saviour
We condemn the acts and utter
ances OF Governor Burnquist of Min
nesota and of his associates which
have incidet mob violence and disre-
spect for the>law. and Of his public ut
terances in this state which have serV-
ell TO cast reflections upon the loyalty
as.d integrity of the people of this state
and upon our Governor
We publicly condemn the malicious
and vile SANDER and utterances that
have beer published and cast abroad
within and without this state, that
served to question the loyalty OF the
people Of the state of North Dakota,
that have served by their publications
to create diStrust concerning the cred
it Of this state, that have imputed at
tempts or desires for the state as
sovereign body to take over, own and
control every producing agency III
this state and that have Wilfully mis-
represented the loyal war activities OF
the officials of this state for purposes
of discrediting this state and its peO-S
pie throughout the nation. and Tor
purposes Of seeking thereby to gam
petty political advantage for offlce
seeking politicians.
5. We heartily commend the state
officials and particularly William Lam
ger, Attorney General, for his fear
less and energetic efforts In enforc-
ing the laws of this state, and par
ticularly our laws concerning the sale
and disposition of intoxicating liquor,
and concerning vice and immortality
We approve of the efforts in this d.
rection of the administration to clean
ND in this state conditions Of drunk
enness, vice and immortality.
6, The chief factor in successful
government being the education OF our
children, we are in favor OF greater
development of the public schools and
with special reference to the rural
schools where the majority of the chill
dren are enrolled and where the need
for development is by far the great
est We, therefore, endorse for re-
election our present State Superlnten-
dent of Schools, N. G. Mcdonald ana
heartily commend the activities OF MS
administration in promoting the de-
velopment of rural schools; and to
extend and hasten this development
we are in favor Of the necessary legls-
lation to make such possible.
We believe in the development OF
our state educational institutions OF
higher learning and with special ref
erence to the Agricultural College, to
the end that they shall be in a posi-
ton to give the most valuable infor-
nation to the citizens of the state and
especially as to the best methods OF
tilling and conserving the soil and
marketing the products of the farms
I. Easy and rapid means of COM
munication and ability to reach the
markets being OF vital concern to the
agricultural interests of this state, we
favor the building and maintaining OF
state roads, and the enactment OF laws
that will enable the state to continue
to receive its full share Of the benefits
under the national highway legisla-
ton. We also favor such change in
the states drainage law as will make
the law more practical and useful to
the people where drainage is needed.
8. We favor the building and oper-
alton within the state of state-owned
and state.controlled terminal eleva-