The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-04-25
other state would be serious to them.
Getting Too Strong.

Getting Too Strong.
If they are defeated in North Da-
kota, it will not be because of what
NAV be properly termed the ".league
program" legislation, but it will be
such legislation as the board of ad-
ministration law, (the immigration
grab, the newspaper publications law,
judicial re-districting bill, the taxa
ton program by which the state taxes
have been increased by over 200 per
cent, and various other measures
which they obtained the enactment of.
The present quiet in the state po-
litical arena probably doesn't mean
that forces are very much at work. In
the state house, for instance, the break
in the league forces has resulted in
the establishment of two hostile camps,
and the fight there is extremely bit
ter. No longer do the rival forces
dine at the same tables in the capitol
lunch room; separate "Monday cab
met luncheon are held, and the whole
group of state officials from top to
bottom are divided on very distinct
lines.
Governor Frazier is absent from
the state. while Attorney General Will
liam LANCER has been more or less out
of the running with a case of chronic
tonsilitis. Oliver Morris, the repre-
sentative-extraordinary who was re-
Gently established in the capitol as
secretary of the industrial commits
sion, also seems to have dropped out
of sight temporarily, and the whole
scene has taken on a somewhat less
torrid aspect-at least o nthe surface.
Trouble Coming.
But there is reason to believe that
it is the "calm before the Storm"
Messrs. Lemke and Townley have been
actively engaged for several days in
framing a new assault on Attorney
General LANCER, but just what will be
the nature of the new offensive, isn't
at this time clear.
On the other hand it is likely, too,
that Mr.. LANCER will soon come to the
front, and will be heard from ON sew
eral points of interest.
The debate that has been slated to
be held in Bismarck on Saturday.,
April 26, between Carl Kositzky, in
surgent state auditor, and Walter 1Iig-
gett, n Of the group of paid Nom
partisan league lecturers and writer's,
is attracting considerable interest. 1t
is the result of a challenge that Mr..
Kositzky delivered to Mr.. Liggett, and
state tax laws, and several of the laws
passed by the legislature which have
proved so obnoxious to the people of
the state, will be debated.
Mr.. Kositzky is very much in de-
mand as a speaker over the state, and
he expects to fill a number of dates.
Plain Talk.
There is one thing that can be said
of Mr.. Kositzky, and that is that he
doesn't seem afraid of the cars. And
he has a way of checking up the
league papers that also is interesting.
When the Fargo organ attempted to
answer Kositzky's charges with re-
spect to the state treasury being emp
ty, and undertook to quote some fig
ures. Mr.. kositzky wrote to that
newspaper in about the following man.
ner:
"Any person who will carry out the
instructions of Archbishop Townley
and lie like a horse thief needs to
be pitied, and you have my sympathy
"In your issue of the Courier-News
yesterday you stated that the state
general fund, according to the books
of the state treasurer, was overdrawr
$4,000 on March 80, 1915; $4,000 or
December 1, 1915, and $67 900 or
March 21, 1916. This statement is
absolutely false"
In support of his declaration, Mr.
Kositzky quotes from the records anc
shows that on March 80, 1915, there
was a balance of 1851 1928; on Deem.
Der 1, 1915, a balance of $4,000, and
on March /, 1916, $542,308.20.
1t seems too, that l.. L.. Stair
speaker Of the house, has been at.
tempting to "get rough" with Mr.
Kositzky, and that he wrote a letter
to the auditor taking him to task fol-
his failure to stand by the radical
legislation, Mr.. Kositzky says he is
coming up Bottineau way soon, and
would be pleased to see Mr.. Stair on
the platform and talk things over.
Stair hasn't responded.
The t-Baggers.
The n important thing about land
ing a paying job at Bismarck seems
to be no~n-residence. There is Oliver
Morris of St. Paul, secretary of the
industrial commission; there is Fred
eric Pike, Of Minneapolis, attorney
for the industrial commission, and
there is John Brown, whose home now
is Bismarck, secretary of the compen-
sation bureau. John has been secre-