The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-10-01

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MACDONALD VS.. NIELSEN,
Neil c. Macdonald must be very badly frighten-
when he will resort to such tactics as he is using
in his campaign against Minnie c.. Nielsen of Val
ley City, his opponent for superintendent of public
instruction.
Mr.. Macdonald says of his opponent, through
the sycophant press which carries his campaign
material, - -. ..... =
"Ths woman candidate is not qualified to be a
state superintendent. She has not even a COM
plete high school education. You will not want to
employ her to teach even your own older children"
Again, he says: School supply men who are
anxious for fat contracts intriguing to secure
her election" r. 49,.
He uses in opposing the candidacy of Miss Mel
sen the terms political jackpot" and Financial
graft" t; .Ts>sh>
These are quotations from one Townley paper
supporting Mr.. Macdonald. The same language
may be found in political advertisements inserted
and paid for by Mr.. Macdonald. They have his
approval and his endorsement He is backing them
up with his money f.
In another Townley paper we find this typical
insinuation and cheap attack by innuendo: Il
| mo great amount of inquiry by any candid
person will be needed to establish the fact that
| Miss Nielsen is not fit for the position she
seeks. There is no personality about this
| statement and no reflection upon Miss Nielsen +
| herself in any other capacity than as an as
| pirant for the position of state superintendent
! The women Of the state owe it to themselves
| to find out the actual facts regarding Miss
| Nelson's accomplishments and ability as an
educator a.4 ~, 81. -, = -, =;
The facts are that after completing the grade
and high schools of Valley City, which President
George A. MacFarland of the Valley City normal,
recently deposed by T0wnley because he would not
truckle to the teachings of Kate Richards O. Hare
and Walter Thomas Mills, has made the intellectual
center of North Dakota, Miss Nielsen took adj
vanced work in the universities of North Dakota.
Michigan and Chicago; she taught for two years
in the rural schools of Barnes county, and she has
always been thoroughly in accord with the rural
schools. For thirteen years she taught in the
grades and high school of Valley City, which have
been adopted by the state educational department
as a standard for it's model school work in the
training of Teachers and she has been for the past
IL years county superintendent of schools in
Barnes county, position to which she has been
elected six times by preponderant vote of the
people who in all North Dakota are best qualified
to judge of her qualifications. She has travelled
(extensively, and she has held many positions of
responsibility where ability in leadership and or
ganization were demanded. AND SHE HAS MADE
GOOD. She is now and has been for many years
a member of the executive committee of the
North Dakota Federation of Women's Clubs for
four years and chairman of the department of edll-
cation of that organization for six years. She
has been member of the state board of education
and chairman of the Womans Library Loan COM
mittee for North Dakota during the second and
third drives she is also state chairman of the War
Victory commission. \ .... 81. -.
Miss Nielsen has no husband to place in the posi-
ton of deputy superintendent of education should
she be elected to succeed Mr. Macdonald. She may
be depended upon not to practice the nepetism Of
which Mr.. Macdonald stands convicted. Whether
she wins or loses she will enjoy the reputation of
having conducted clean MANLY campaign, and
The Tribune believes, that because Of the very
nature of the fight with Neil C. Macdonald has
made against her that she WILL WIN, and that
it will be for the best interests of the public school
system of North Dakota .las
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