The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-02-05
BIG SWING FOR
BILL, SAYS NACEL

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President state federation of Ian
ger clubs, prominent farmer, says ag
riculturists are leaving Townley, real.
izing he has failed to put through
program for them.
Fight will be intense, says Haymarsh
man, with self-seeking Office holders
and red revolutionists all lined ul
with autocratic machine exploiting
tillers of the SOIL
"There is a big swing throughout
North Dakota for Attorney General
LANCER, declared Simon j. Nagel
president of the State Federation OF
LANCER for Governor clubs, who was
in Bismarck last week.
"The farmers realize that Townley
isn't going to make good with the
farmers program. Whether this is
because he never favored it except as
a handle to get into political office
with or whether later he got side
tracked through affiliations with red
radicalism on one side and old gang
reactionaries on the other, they do
not know or do not care. The fact
that he has failed them after doub-
ling their taxes and taking from
them thousands of dollars besides, is
what concerns them.
"But we must not forget that while
we have every chance to win with a
progressive independent like LANCER,
yet we must realize that it is going
to be stiff fight and that each of
us must put )ur shoulder to the
wheel and do our part in the cam
paign to free this state from the
rule of revolutionary carpet baggers.
"Bill Langer's talks are doing Won
ders. He is being received every
where with crowded houses. He is
breaking the road and it is up to US
to follow with live organization.
"All the reports We get indicate
that the people are unanimously be-
hind the attorney general as the
only man who can defeat Townley.
"Some people refer to Bill Langer's
outstanding public career as luck" l
have followed him closely in his work
ever since he was assistant states
attorney of Morton county and l
want to tell you that it is not luck
but work, work and more work.
Il never saw a man like him. No.
body can keep up with him. He does
three Or four mems work. l have
seen him leave Mandan late in the
evening and arrive. at New Leipsig
the next morning and try a case that
day. He works day and night.
Another thing besideh his tremen-
dous energy that has made him the
strongest man in North Dakota po-
litically today and that is his abso-
lutte fairness and honesty. Take the
men of Morton county, who have
done business with him and everyone
is live, aggressive supporter of his.
bill never would permit himself
or permit any of his clients to take
any advantage of a man in bad
straits financially.
The fact that man is a friend of
his or that he has worked for him
politically does not give that man any
special privilege with him to violate
the law. In his fight for law enforce
ment in Morton county he showed no
favors,-rich or poor, politically
strong or weak, looked the same to
him. He has always been a cham
pion Of the man who someone was
trying to take an unfair advantage
of.
"He is a fearless prosecutor but
ne has always tempered justice with
charity. Once he convicted man of
a minor crime and when he found
that the man was broke and couldn't
pay his fine he Clipped in with his
friends to help him do so. He is cour-
ageous and aggressive but friendly
and courteous.
"He respects his oath as few men
do.
"He will always be remembered in
Morton county by his campaign
against the blindpiggers and his 9th
er law enforcement activities.
Long before war was declared he
that the Stars and Stripes
De displayed from every schoolhouse
IN Morton county and as soon as he |
;ook office as attorney general he
1A1uC CAc SdHlC ucliIduu OIl every
school board in the state.
can example of the thorough way
le does things and the way he doesn't !
spare himself, is his campaign in
Morton County to insure that every
parent obeyed the state laws regard /
ng the attendance of childrn at |
school: He made a trip to every
in the county and per-
onally inspected the school registers.
lie sent a personal letter to the par
'nts of every child not in attendance.
t didn't make any difference wheth-
r these parents were school direc-
ors or not.
Zone farmer township in Morton
ounty: former league stronghold,
las signed up every voter for Bill
anger. That indicates the way he
tands at home. He will carry Mont
:omery if he runs for governor by
hree to one vote"