The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-05-15
Are The League Dictators Afraid
OF The Outcome Of An
Election.
JUST WHAT We EXPECTED,

The following is taken from the Fargo CourierN News
the official organ Of Mr. Towney who is the real governor
Of this state It real betrayal of the rights of the vot
ers of this state who have asked by duly certified petitions
for an initiative certain bills passed by the last egsa
ture The during the legislative session profess
ed that he would play fair with the people and even went
so far as to say that the referendum OF the bills to
which so much objection has been made he would accept
petitions bearing sgners instead of the 10000 sign
ers as required by the constitution He knew haif less
than 10000 sgners presented that ne had those op
posed to the excessive league program Of taxation on the
hip and could deny the election These petitions have not
been filed as yet but those in charge of these petitions dd
not trust the and they have gone ahead and Sc
cured considerably than 100000 July 8was asked for
the time of the election The that June
26 will be the date. @
He has not passed on the referendum petitions yet
What he has refused is the initiative petitions that were
filed some time ago. 1t is base betrayal Of the peoples
rights and shows to what length the gang will go IN ORDER
to prevent the people voting these measures But right
will prevail in the end The governors excuse for doing
this is because he says the petitions were in bad tat
Anything is in bad faith with the bunch OF socialists who
are trying to put the most stupendos program OF
graft and high taxation that has been attempted If
the initiative petitions are in bad faith why can't he also
declare the referendum petitions in bad fath He seems
to be law unto himself anyway and it seems to be the
people be dammed Is North Dakota going to stand for
this grand larceny of their rights much longer? Here
the information from the Fargo paper:
Bismarck N. D., May 8.-Although g. the Independent
Voters association referendum petitions against seven OF
the laws adopted by the recent legislature to carry out the
farmers program have not been fled Governor Lynn D.
Frazier taking cognzance of the fact that the petitions
are in circulation and likely will be fled today announced
that the referendum election should the petition be hed
will be held Thursday, June 26.
This that the initiating petitions Of the v A.
proposing several laws along similar lines to take the place
of the legislators acts will be and no vote
the people will be had upon them The announc-
ed that he had purposey decided the date for the
referendum election with the view of nvadatlng the nl-
tiative petitions.
"The initiative petitions in bad faith and they
were Intentionally circulated by the Independent Voters
association to confuse the referendum ssues said the
governor II have decided date for the referendum
the legislatures acts early enough to nvadate the
tiatve petitions and to prevent hopeless confusion on
the part of the voters The referendum petitions place
before the people for vote adopted by
the legislature and the issues should and must remain
Clear that verdict of the people can be obtained