The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1919-07-10
HOW new YORK
GOT THE NEWS
NEW YORK MAN DESCRIBES THE
REPORTS OF THE RESULT
OF ELECTION

REPORTS OF THE RESULT
OF ELECTION
New York has been keeping it's eye
on North Dakota and the result OF
the special election, June 26, has been
watched with an unusual eagerness.
A new York newspaper man, who has
visited this state and who is pretty
well acquainted with conditions here,
writing to a friend in North Dakota,
describes rather wildly the method by
which the effect of the election was
annulled as much as possible in the
east, by the publication of reports
that the farmers had defeated the sew
en- laws by a vote of two to one. It
is evident that the great newspapers
and the interests that control them
rather fear the spread of the indus
trial democracy from North Dakota
to other and to eastern states, and to
this end, keep from~their own people
as much as possible the facts.
In New York Limelight
"New York, June 26.-Like Russia,
North Dakota is very much in the lime
light of these days, and especially
have we been on the alert the last
two days, looking for the results of
the referendum vote on the laws that
were passed by your last legislature
Again, like the Russian situation, re-
ports are conflicting. 1t seems to de-
pend on what newspaper n consid.
ers reliable, whether the Nonpartisan
program won out or whether it did
not.
Some Say Program Beaten
"Such papers as the Times, Eve
ming Post and Tribune carried dis
patches from their Fargo correspond
ents, telling that the league measures
were defeated by a two to one vote
These are the same papers that have
repeatedly announced the downfall of
the new Russian government and the
defeaet of it's armies. They are the
same papers which carried the news
to the world that the Lawrence, Mass.
strike had collapsed, when the strik-
ers won every point they were strik-
ing for.
The Other Side of 1t.
"On the other hand the Hearst pa
pers, which have been somewhat
friendly towards the Nonpartisan
League, tell us that the vote on the
League measures, OF an early count
was running about even, with a small
margin in favor of the measures, anc
with the rural vote yet to hear from
To one who knows plute journalism
as we'll as I do and who knows NORTH
Dakota at all, there is every reason
for confidence that "the New Day" i:
safe. In fact, I have never doubted
it, or felt any apprehensions. Our on
ly statesmen today are farmers ant
workers.
Our Only Hope These Days
ut would have been a tragedy in.
deed, had the farmers of North Da'
kota turned down the League meas.
ures. The farmers and the workers
are the only hope of the nation, these
days. It is to them that all thinking
men are now turning for sound rene
dies against reaction and against VIC
lent revolution. AS one who tries tx
keep his finger upon the pulse of cur
rent events, I simply could not con
, ceive of such a thing as the farmer
OF North Dakota going to the poll
and voting against their emancipation
from a financial and political oligar
chy.
Inverted Whiskers
1.-THE press correspondent that tel
| eg,aphed to New York that the farm
ers we're voting two to M agains
themselves, has whiskers inside hi
| head, instead Of out, and these whisk
| ers make a poor substitute for think
ing apparatus. I suppose he stoo'
around a polling place in Fargo ant
saw a. few hundred respectable bust
ness men in line waiting to vote mo
end conr,uded: eve win, hand
down. and Immediately telegraphe'
the news to the New York Tribune
and the Tines. He must be something
like the correspondents in Stockholm
and Copenhagen, who get their lates
news from the bartender, round tn
c rner, a. to the situation in Europe
III. ytlig.ug bartender knows tE
kind of news the good customer want
and believes is pleasing his customers
if he has to make the news. Seeing
| that North Dakota has no such new
institution as the bartender, it is pos
sible that the Fargo correspondent
vas in the situation Of the man VIII
had a fearful toothache, and knowing
the extraction would hurt badly, tool
gas. Thus he missed all the agony o
| the operation and never knew whe1
the tooth was taken. So the Farg'
corr espondent must have inhaled
few shifts of gas to deaden the pail
he sustained over the farmers victor!
and was thus able to send in to New
| York, while under that happy in
| fuence the report that the farmer
were voting two to one against tn
laws they themselves had passed, les