The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-03-18

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Editor Dickinson, OF the Steele
County Observer, published at Finley,
N. D., has been arrested for criminal
libel and is now on the high road to
fame When a newspaper editor IS
sued for libel he is on the high road
to success. Editor Dickinson is some
little fighter and we look for some
real hot stuff in the next issue Of the
Observer.
The editor of the Lisbon Free Press
says that the situation is not strain
ed one now SO far as himself and the
farmers are concerned. This IS
mighty comforting, old man, but your
county is either too dead to skin or
else you have not gotten hold of the
right. kind of dope. Right here in
Barnes. county We are just getting
nicely warmed up for the first heat in
the. great race for the state govern
naeut and it will be getting warmer all
the time from now on until next No
venher.
Now that Job Brinton has SHE'D his
hat into the congressional ring of the
second district We would suggest that
Congressman George NJ. Young get
congress adjourned and come back
home and nail up his fences. We opine
that with Mr.. Brinton and Mr.. Young
the only two candidates in the field,
that that young and eminent promoter
of high finance is going to get an aW-
full wallop from Mr.. Young in the
coming primaries. In the first PLACE
how is Brinton going to prove that he
is citizen of North Dakota and en-
titled to run in the second congresslon-
al district?
A new party is to be born to put
third presidential candidate in the
field a dispatch in the morning pa
pers today announces. Gov Lynn D..
Frazier is spoken of as probable can
didate for either president or vice
president. Senator Walsh, Of Mon
tana and Robt. LaFollette, Of Wis
consin are also prominently mention
ed as candidates to head this ticket
which is supposed to gather within its
folds all the disconnected ones and
radicals of the nations. There is al
WAYS room for one more at the top and
if this new party can get to the top
all we'll and good. but it Will have to
have more substantial men than those
mentioned for president if it wants to
make the grade.
Attorney Gallagher, the man who
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Ter in Golden Valley county some time
ago as result Of some political fued
and was afterwards reinstated by or
der of the district court, has SHE'D his
hat into the ring for attorney general
on the republican ticket and will seek
the republican nomination at the June
primaries Mr.. Gallagher has the en-
dorseznent of our old friend Editor
Cushing, of the Beach Advance, and
in view of this fact we shall have to
consider him pretty good man for
the Job. Well, all we have to say IS
"Let 'er go Gallagher
Herbert Hoover has again come out
with the statement that he does not
belong to any political party and yet
he is a candidate for the presidency.
Just why man who has spent most
of his life in another country and has
never voted in this country should be
even thought of as presidential can
didate is hard to fathom. He has
shown no particular interest in the
country in ali these years and now
that he has we'll served the country as
food administrator and is reaKfng
some of the glory from that record he
evidently imagines he would make a
good president. We want man Of
more pronounced .Americanism 49, one
who has had the interests Of his coun-
try more at heart than has Mr.. Hoov-
er We have too many men of medi-
OGRE caliber running for this import
ant Office on the wave of some popular
hysteria.
We received letter this morning
containing a check and an ad. favor
ing the nonpartisan democratic ticket
with Bryan as the presidential candi-
date We promptly returned the chack
and refused the ad. as we were asked
not to knock that ticket. In the first
place we are strongly against any
tlCNct tildL llNtS up Will IHC oOSloAioC
bunch now running this state and sec
ondly we are against William Jen-
nings Bryan on the ground that he is
rank out and out quittet He quit
the president of the United States at
the most critical time in our history
just when we were about to declare
wars on the Huns and that in itself
is enough to condemn him in the eyes
Of any real American citizen. If he
gets cold feet as a secretary of state
why would he not get cold feet should
he be elevated to the presidency if a
time should come for him to make a
decision that meant the integrity of
the nation Nay, nay, Willum. You
and Jeanette Rankin belong to the
nonpartisan socialist league.
After one Of the most exciting ses-
sions of any state legislature acting
on the woman suffrage amendment
West Virginia is entitled to the head
prize. For days this legislature has