Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-06-05
KosITzKY SPEAKS AT LINTON
Deals Townleyism Load After Load
of Hot Shot to Packed House
at Opera House

State Auditor Carl Kositzky COM
pleted speaking tour of Emmons
county Tuesday, speaking in both
ends of the county.
| At Hazelton, the speech was made
in the hall and there was not room
for all who wanted to hear him.
| At Linton, the talk was given in
the opera house before the moving
picture show. And that talk is still
the topic Of general discussion. Rep
ressntatives from all parts of the
county attended.
Kositzky is not an orator, but he
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
for four proposed laws that Townley
wanted, the education bip, the Judge
bill, the immigration bill, and the
newspaper bill.
Two league organizers were in the
audience, and he defed either of
them to show in one single instance
that any of the four were 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
farmers while organizing. Heck
maintained vast silence. He called
upon Argast, who attempted to put
up an argument at Motif, 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 league organizers to "let's try
them on:e," he said: eve know what
a lighted match will do to key 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 that will benefit the
Townley inner ring. He said that
the state payroll was increasing by
leaps and bounds and that from US
ual salary of $4,000 per month the
payroll will be more than $4,000
per month and that the Townley
gang had gone money-mad. He said
''That gang at the capitol don't know
the value of money. One man from
Ohio is now working there at sal
airy Of $500 per month"
! But Kositzky explained to the au-
dience that the vast money-grab of
the Townleyitss was coming through
their allied financial schemes. He
stated that . million and a 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
tnfOugnOuC Che state.
OF the school bill, his explanation
was short, concise and to the point
He said: 81 voted for and worked
for Neil Macdonald. He was de-
feated, and he didn't do the right
thing when he refused to give over
the Office like man. The law now
provides that the state superinten-
dent shall be in charge of school mat
tiers of this state. Under the new
administration law, board of five
the majority of them appointed by
the governors 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"
The charges made against Kositz-
ky are coward, fool and traitor"
That he is anything but coward he
showed Monday night. That he is a
fool may be SO if jeopardizing his po-
| litical future in the interests Of hon.
esty makes him fool. That he is a
traitor he defied the league organic
ers, Heck and Argast, to prove then
and thsre. They answered not.
Strasburg and Hague were the last
two points covered by the auditor in
his Emmons county trip, where he
spoke in both English and German.