The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-24
VICTORY |
IF TOWN PEOPLE
STAND BY STATE
Changing Sentiment in Country
Indicates Majority Against
Townleyism
ONLY TWO DAYS REMAIN
Socialists Working Tooth and
TOe-Nail to Hold Farmers
~ in Line

garded certain il the cities of North
Dakota stand by their guns and vote
their convictions. League support
has been slumping rapidly In the ru-
raj districts; Townley is aware OF 'hts
fact and he and his 500 socialist or
ganizers are working tooth and toe
nail to hold the country vote In l!Ie.
At the same time remarkable Influx
Of transients is noted in every town
and village in the state. 1t Is inti-
mated that large number OF these
transients expect to vote Thursday,
and election boards are warned to be
on their guard against illegal voting.
It was the importation OF several
thousand |. w. w., who were voted
in droves, that won the Minneapolis
city election Cor the socialists a few
years ago. North Dakota, 1t IS
stated, is face to face with the same
proposition, and it is contended that
unless everyone keeps his eyes open
and is on the alert Thursday Tor
fraud, the state may nave fastened
upon it regime OF extreme social
ism through the vote VI men who ara
not taxpayers, or even electCrs.
Cities UnorQan!xeo.
1.-The cities are handicapped through
ltck or organization. SO far as can
be learned no committees have been
named In any OF the towns or vii
lages in this section Of the state for
the purpose OF getting out the vote
Thursday. As a result, unless there
should be some intensive work during
the next two days, the city vote may
be much less than normal. On the 9th.
er hand, nothing is being LETT undone
in the country districts. Every loyai
Townleyite has been made commit
tee OF one to see to it that his neigh
Dor gets to the polls Thursday to
vote Yes Seven Times" No dis
tinction Is made between the seven
> measures to- be voted upon Thursday
ToWnley insists thatthe farmers swal-
low them whole, without discrimlna-
tion, and his organizers everywhere
are driving in the league slogan.
Tho Seven Bills. /,
The seven bills to be referred are:
House Bill II, creating an indus
trial commission Of three members
endowed with unlimited powers in
the management of state-OWned In
dustries and enterprises and author
ized to handle without check or &C.
counting the $17O00,0O0 capital to be
furnished through state bond issues
and the $5O,000,OOO or more in public
funds which must be deposited un'
der the law in the Bank OF North Da-
kota.
House Bill u, establishing Bank
OF North Dakota, in which must be
deposited without security all public
funds, including the school funds OF
the state, sinking and bonding funds
of the various counties townships,
school districts and municipalities,
and special assessment funds, such
as those provided for paving, sewer
construction and park purposes in the
cities, or for drainage districts in the
country.
Senate Bill 157, establishing new
political printing commission with
power to designate one offcal news
paper in each county to be the sole re-
cipient of all public and private le-
gal printing of every description.
Senate Bill 134, making socialist
mill out Of our public schools, taking
their management out OF the hands OF
the state superintendent of public In
struction, elected by the people, and
turning it over to socialist board
named by Governor Frazer.
Senate Bill 81, reducing the nem'
bership of the tax commission from
three to one and giving this one tax
commissioner sole authority over all
alton and taxation.
House Bill 1913, appropriati2s $780,
900 as league propaganda fund TO
be used in extending the power OF
Townley in other states.
House Bill 124, giving the governor
power 20 place three of his friends
on the district bench, increasing the
number of judges from twelve, which
has always been sufficient, to u, and
reducing the number Of districts to
six In order to effect an arrangement
whereby Townley will have one judge
upon whom he can rely in each dis.
trict.
Vote No Seven Times. g..
The defeat of Townleyism does not
mean failure for the farmers pro-
gram III 4<OItu DohOIu' ASCol AAASAua
of the farmer it is urged, will vote
"NO" seven times free the state
from the scourge of Townleyism and
then. in an initiative election, get SOL
idlv behind a real farmers program
which will give the farmer terminal
elevators and flour mills, rural cred
its and other relief which he has
been seeking and which will place the
innovations under the control of the
farmers and not in the hands of a
Bolshevist bund which has its head
quarters in another state.
The farmer down In his heart,
knows that the bills to be referred
next Thursday are not part of the
program fo.Awhich 'te has been bat
tling ten years; he knows that he,
the farmer, had actually nothing to
do with the framing of these bills,
but he has been misled into believing
that it is this doctored program or
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