The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-19

accounts on time. In the south, souh
west and far west, demand deposl
accounts largely predominated. Thu
! as given by the statement, from thu
call issued for the condition of ma
tional banks on May 4, was 1872. Thu
number of deposit accounts, both de-
mand and time, for each 1000 of pop
ulation are PIG, or over one-fifth. Thi:
of course is national banks only, ant
does not include large number o.
state banks, which would naturally
strengthen that number considerable
Sixty-three members of the NORTH
Carolina legislature have sent tel
egram to the members of the Tennes
see legislature asking them to VOTE
against ratification of the woman
suffrage amendment. This number is
a majority of the house in North Car.
DINA. 1t speaks for the defeat of the
amendment in this state. In Tennes.
see a bare majority had been pledged
to pass the amendment but enormous
pressure is being brought to bear
against legislators in this state to get
! them to turn down the proposition
Just what there is in following the
women Of the country to vote to cause
such a terrible commotion and cam.
paign against it by these unenlight.
ened states in the black belt is beyond
our ken. The Tennessee legislature
will vote on the proposition tomorrow
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, head OF
the suffrage organization, is confident
that Tennessee will pass the amend
ment. Here's hoping that she is cor.
rect. But if those southern colonies
think by giving the women the vote it
will permanently cut off their mint
juleps, the cause is lost.
If Franklin D. Roosevelt continues
to throw mud at Mr.. Harding as he
has done in the few speeches he al
ready has made, his visit across the
country will result disastrously to the
democratic ticket. 1t was to be hoped
that mud singing would be kept out
of his campaign but Mr.. Roosevelt
has started in already. He should re-
member that the severe criticism of
Chas. E. Hughes is what helped re-
elect Mr. Wilson. If it is mud sling
ing the democratic candidate wants,
he can get it. For instance it might
be said that his running mate and
leader on the ticket is the candidate
of the Tammany hall bunch, the most
corrupt gang of political tricksters in
the country. 1t might be said that
Mr.. Cox is the candidate of the "wets"
and few things like that. Put on the
soft pedal, Franklin, or you are going
to get into the mud deeper and dirtier
than the platform on which Mr.. Hard
ing stands which you declare is "as
clear as mud" That republican plat
form which he declared is as clear
as mud cannot be any muddier than
the platform he is now trying to get
elected on.
If the Fargo Courier-News in pub
fishing the Brinton letters thought it
was going to come out and put it all
over Brinton by claiming it is all a
tissue of lies, it over shot the mark
The whole scheme is the truth as told
by Brinton and it is going to be dis
astrous to the league ticket this fall
and it should be. This administration
is rotten and the fact, as Brinton says,
that they are afraid to let the, state
auditor examine the bank of North
Dakota, proves it. "Shoot it to the
other banks" Then lot of our sup
posed level headed farmers fell for the
Townley bunk and went down to the
shake down meeting of the Scandi-
l. ~
solutely insolvent and dug up some
more money to cover up the crooked
ness. They say murder will Out"
Same way with crookedness in state
affairs. They crop to the surface in
due time and the people are beginning
to get the truth-just as we have been
telling them the past three years.
The Fargo Courier-News car
ried big headline across the top
of its front page that read like this:
"Brinton and Waters Political Bubble
Bursts" This is mighty significant
. to those who have been watching the
workings of the socialist political ma
chine in this state. Brinton and Wat
ers until lately have been two of the
strongers supporters of the Townley
league in the state, and, Brinton him
self is the guy who put over the news
paper graft bill, is responsible for the
consumers store graft and has been
in every way one Of the medicine mix
ers in chief to fool the people of the
state. Waters was manager of the
"shoot it to the other banks" and has
long since dropped out of that lucra-
tive position that furnished such an
ample salary and such elegant meals
and beds at the Hotel Mckenzie owned
and operated by the arch-leaguer for
revenue only, Patterson. The Brin-
ton-Waters embroglio is only the sim
merings of big eruption in the
league coming to the surface. There
has been subterranean rumblings in
the bowels Of the socialist organize
ton for some time and it has only
been . question Of time when dissatis-
faction physic would commence to
work on the system. It has
now commenced to work and dis
Interrogation 10 now evidenced. Mr..