The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-03-25

Bismarck who will be called upon,-
but Justice H. A. Bronson won't have
anything to do with it. .~
To the casual observer who watched
the hearing in the supreme court on
Thursday, the decision of Judge Bron-
son to disqualify himself was most
unusual.
Attorney J. W. Murtha of Dickin
son opened the argument against the
constitationality Of the law. He was
one of the minority members of the
Legislature and originally opposed the
i bill on the floor Of the Non-Partisan
league loaded legislature. Judge
Bronson started a rapid fire of ques-
tions. However, the judges questions
were met and met again. Gradually
he ceased his questioning. Murtha has
convincing argument to offer.
Judge Bronson, after the case had
been in progress for an hour or more,
land after the strength Of the Press
I associations case had been shown)
suddenly discovered himself to be the
! holder of one share Of stock in the
!. Grand Forks American one of the fif-
! ty-fve Socialist papers which would
be affected should the law be found
unconstitutional. He declared HIM
self disqualified.
{ Court was adjourned and Attorney
j. F. Sullivan and J. w Murtha and
| A. J. Heder for the Press Association
and the Grant County board of COM
missioners came to an agreement with
Attorneys Geo. K. Foster, Anderson
and Lanterman that the argument con
! ,v,I In h. c,1h
briefs to the fifth Judge to be called
in on briefs.
! The case took up the major portion
of the day before the supreme court.
! Attorney J. F. Sullivan, chief counsel
for the respondents, cited ruling after
ruling pertinent to the case. His argu-
1nent in brief was:
| First: Chapter 1873 of the 1919 ses-
sions laws, was never properly pass
ed or enacted by the Legislature:
; (a) The Bill for said act was so
altered and amended in its passage
through the Senate as to change it's
original purpose;
(b) The title to said Act is not
broad enough to cover the designation
of official County Newspapers;
| (c) The said act contains more than
one subject.
Second: That said act is unconsti-
, tutional and void in this:
! (D That said act violates the So
called Home Rule sections of the Con-
stitution giving the Counties a certain
element of self government, and fix
ing the powers and duties of certain
county officials including the County
Commissioners.
: Third: That said act is unconsti-
tutional and void in this:
, ~ That said act violates the 18th
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. The trial Court sus-
tanned the demurrer, and plaintiff has
appealed from such order sustaining
. the demurrer
! Further indication and additional
proof of the specialization of the Non
Partisan League has developed with
! the appointment of Jules Anderson,
| St. Paul, as the sole head and general
manager of the Publishers National
Service Bureau.
Anderson has long been promin-
ent socialist in St. Paul and was So
cialist candidate for mayor few
years ago. Defeated, he went to Du-
luth and was socialistic leader there.
He is now the chief in control of the
newspapers in the various states
where the Non Partisan League is
! working and more or less controls the
So newspapers owned by Brinton ct al
, in North Dakota.
! Anderson succeeds Fred B. Smith,
for many years with a printing ma
chinery and supply company as a
| travelling salesman in this territory.
Smith resigned because of conditions
in the league newspaper bureau and
!. refused to be connected with the en-
terprises.
! It was Smith who took the place of
10. T. Rishof, former dictator of the
Non-Partisan League newspaper COM
bine after Rishoff quit the Publishers
National News Bureau because some
one sooner or later would be in the
tolls of the law and he was not going
to lay himself liable to trouble.
! Anderson, the new dictator, is an
avowed and confirmed socialist, evi.
identity entirely in accord with the ain,
Of the bipartisan League leaders
for communication of the natior
and the furthering of the principle o1
righting "the trouble with this coun'
try which is that man is allowed t
own land"
) ''The trouble with this country is
that a man is allowed to own land
is the statement alleged to have beer
made by the Rev. Geo. A. Totten, ST.
) who has twice been unfrocked as {
minister and who, high in the council.
. Of the Non Partisan League as heae
of Governor Frazier's board Of ad
ministration, is now suffering from
Kane-itis.
,Totten, according to prominen
: lawyer Of the state, was expoundint
, the doctrines of 1.-THE New Day. on
! certain railroad train. He told Of tn,
future of the state, the nation and tn
earth and then confdentially took hi!
small audience into the secret
I 1.-THE trouble with this country i!
.. man is allowed to own land"