The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-06-06
CARL K0SITZKY
CLOSES TOUR IN
EMM0NS COUNTY
State Auditor Makes Many New
Friends in Section Where
He Is Best Known :,
CHALLENGE TOWNLEY MEN

DeIleS League OTSdHlLeTS Ill
Audience to Prove Asser-
tions of Treachery
Linton, June 6.-State Auditor Carl
Kositzky completed a speaking tour OF
Emmons county Tuesday. speaking in
both ends of the county. .r-
At Hazelton the speech was made
in the hall and there was not room
for all who wanted to hear him.
| At Linton, the tally was given in
the opera house before the moving
picture show. And that talk is still
the topic of general discussion. Rep
]resentatives from all parts Of the
county attended.
| Kositzky is not an orator, but
had most convincing manner Of ad'
dress He explained that he had
been promoted from office to office by
the voters of Burleigh county and the
state, and that he had been lauded to
the skies by Townley's string Of
newspapers and his vast corps of
speakers-until' he refused to stand
Flor four proposed laws that Townley
wanted, the education bill, the Judge
bill. the immigration bill, and the
newspaper bill
League Organizers WeIch.
Two league organizers were In the
audience, and he defied either Of
them to- show in one single instance
that any of the four we're league
measures. He singled out the organ
izer, Heck. and asked him personally
to prove these measures part Of the
league program, and called upon him
to- say before the meeting some OF
the things he had been saying to the
afrmers while organizing. Heck
| maintained vast silence. He called
| upon Argast, who attempted to put
up an argument at Moffit, but Argast,
too, was strangely dumb. -
Kositzky gave the history ;of the
| passage Of some of the measures, and
showed Just where, they were. head
ing us. To the remark often made
by the, league organizers to 'let's try
them once, he said: 1--WE know what
lighted match will do to keg Of
powder; it isn't necessary to try it
once, he showed the efforts that
Townley had made to force through
some Of the laws rhatswill beaefit the
| Townley inner ring He said that the
state payroll was increasing by
leaps and bounds and that from 3 us
ual salary of $4,000 per month the
4 payroll will, be more than $4,000
per month and that the Townley
gang had gone mnneY-mad. He, said
E'"That gang at the capitol don't know
the value of money. One man from
Ohio is now working there at a sal
ary of $1,000 per month" =
TownIey's Grab-6ag. e~r.r
But Kositzky explained to the au-
dience that the vast money.grab. OF
the Townleyites was coming through
their allied financial schemes. He
stated that a million and half had
been collected for Consumers stores
and that. thousands of that money
was being invested by members OF
the Inner Ring in bank stock
throughout the state.
OF the schools bill, his explanation
was short, concise and to the point.
He said: Il voted for and worked
for Neil MacoDnald. He was de-
feated and he didn't do the right thing
when he refused to give over the Of
flee like man. The law now pro-
vides that the. state superintendent
shall be in charge of school matters
of this state Under the new admin
istration law, a board Of five
the majority of them appointed by
the governor-is given that charge.
Will Minnie Nelson have voice in
school matters? Yes. Every time
she votes Yes the other four will
vote No Some voice. If she orders
some certain procedure in school af-
fairs today, tomorrow the Frazier, ap-
pointees can change it all"
Proves He's No Coward.
The charges made against Kositzky
are coward, fool and traitor That
he is anything but coward he showed
Monday night. That he is fool
may be so II jeopardizing his political
future in the interests Of honesty
makes him fool. That he is trait
or he defied the league organizers,
Heck and Argast, to prove then and
there. They answered not.
Strasburg and Hague were the laost
two points covered by the auditor in
his Emmons county trip.