The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1919-04-24
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THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
The Weekly Times-Record enters
upon it's forty-frst birthday tomor-
row SO that it can be truthfully said
that it has gotten out of the kinder
garten class. This is one of the pa
pers that the league through the
manipulations of Mr.. Brinton is try
ing to say cannot print or publish a
legal publication of any description.
It would be raw deal if it was put
over, now wouldn't it? This law is
known as the "printing graft or pork
barrel bill" The Weekly Times Rec
ord has been a visitor in many Barnes
presume will continue to be a weekly
visitor in these homes for long time
to come
THINK IN 1NTEREsT-sAvE-
While in Fargo yesterday the edi
tor called at the headquarters of the
Independent Voters Association to
take look at the piles of referendum
petitions they have there. In vault,
nicely tabulated and piled up ready
for transmission to Bismarck we saw
petitions bearing the names Of over
10000 signers on these referendum
petitions-and these in spite of the
fact that the league leaders had put
up a campaign asking the voters not
to sign up. Failing in this the league
bosses are trying to inaugurate cam
paign to try and get the signers to
withdray from the petitions but they
might as we'll try to stop the tide of
the ocean from ebbing and flowing
The petitions are coming in all the
time. The funniest thing about the
whole business is that the administra-
ton bill is getting the most signers,
then comes the educational bill and
the printing bill. From the way the
people are waking up the whole seven
bills referended are going to be
slaughtered.
-TH1NK IN 1NTEREsT-sAVE-
After waiting for a couple of weeks
and until Attorney General LANCER
had compelled the promoters Of the
American Exchange Bank of this city
to return $15,026 wrongfully extract
ed from the pockets of the people, the
Courier-News in a maudlin and Wob-
bling manner admits that all this
graft is true and tries to give the
credit for making these high finance
artists return the money to Bank
Examiner Walters. The fact of the
matter is that Waters has deliberately
refused to allow the proceedings Of
the state banking board in this case
to be made public and has done all he
can to cover things up if reports are
true. To Mr.. LANCER personally is
due the credit Of saving the stock
holders of the institutions this fifteen
odd thousand dollars and their at
tempt to take this credit from him
will fall flat. Anyway AN admission
from the bunch that all this dope is
true shows to the people that there
is something crooked in this deal
somewhere or it would not be neces-
sary for the C. N. to try and tell how
the bank examiner has come to the
aid of the those interested in this deal.
SOMETHING BESIDES A CANDI-
DATE NEEDED
Honorable Clifford Pinchot, one of
the progressive party leaders of the
country is appealing to republicans
to nominate progressive candidate
for the presidency, and assails the at
tempt, If such may prove to be the
case, to nominate a candidate who is
not an ideal selection from the view
point of the progressive faction 1t
is manifest that what the country
needs at this time is not a political
contest between factions of the party
These contests in the past have been
adverse to the best interests of the
whole country, as they divided most
useful party organization once, and
nearly split it in two second time
Practical men see that the country
needs a program put into operation
to aid in a self determination of our
financial and industrial difficulties
instead of contest between factions
as to parties or parts of parties Mr.
Pinchot says both factions of the re-
publican party agree on one PROPOSE
ton, that the present administration
is too erratic, domineering and cost
ly for the best interests of the coun.
try, and that change must be had
or there will be no abatement OF
many abuses of the legislative and
executive power.
The independent element of bot
men and women of the west who will
decide the election of 1920, as they
did in 1916 want civilian and not
military policies to control the next
administration. Sound business
methods are demanded more thar
any particular candidte for the pres
idency. A progressive, businesslike
administration with liberal views as
to the compensation of labor as well
as actual working capital, must be
had. The old factions of the republi-
can party should agree on such a pro-
gram first. The choice of can
didate becomes less important mat
ter-Jamestown Alert.
THINK IN 1HyEREsT-sAvE-
FOR SALE-I have a few hundred
bushels Of real good barley for sale
D. O'Malley. 16-6td-3tw