The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-06-10

Mp. |. SPEECHES
ARE FAILURES
A good sized audience of Eddy
county citizens had the pleasure Of
listening to four nonpartisan speak
ers in the courtroom of the court
house Saturday evening. The meet
ing was called to order by Mr.. Sund-
berg who stated that the home build
ers' committee would be in New Rock
ford this afternoon and tomorrow
morning prepared to do business this
time and that everybody that wanted
the state to build them home was
invited to be present. The meeting was
then turned over to Representative
Larkin, who introduced a lady from
Bismarck, who was given five
minutes. It was enough. She threw
a skunk's cabbage at Miss Minnie
Nelson that was amusing to those
who had heard The mastery address
of Miss Nelson to the graduating
class last Thursday night. 1t was adj
mitted that Miss Nelson had life
certificate, but stated that it was CIV
en- to her, she not having earned it. A
bouquet was thrown at the nonpar-
tisan candidate for superintendent at
Tiago and then the floor was given to
Mr.. Reichert, legislative candidtte
from Darlington.
Mr.. Reichert stated that all he was
getting was 500 day and expenses
showing emigrants the land listed for
sale by the state, but business was not
very good so he had tried to borrow
SO 900 from a Darlington bank, but
as the bank was hard up under the
present administration he could only
get $4,000. He also read an extract
from a bankers magazine stating it
was written in 1898, or twenty-seven
years ago. He admitted that he had
advanced some from that time but did
not admit that anybody else had, and
if he was elected to the legislature
he would see to it that the 1898 ideas
did not go any more. The next speak
err was the nonpartisan league cam
didate for congress, Thos. Pendray,
of Jamestown. Mr.. Pendray told few
chestnuts that were old enough to
shave, and about how he had bested
minister in Bible argument, read
ia personal letter from a former
friend, said he thought he knew
who it was but if he was sure he
would go and give him licking. He
also stated that on his trip to WASH
ington, D. c., he was looked upon as
a curiosity which may have possibly
been overdrawn as Mr.. Pendray is
Just a common looking duck like the
rest of US. If he knew anything about
economic conditions confronting the
United States and the world at large
he forgot to mention it and the audi
ence was left entirely in the dark
about single idea of his concerning
change in economics conditions-if
he had any.
The next speaker was State Sena-
tor Cahill, who proved to be very
pleasant gentleman of Killarney ex-
traction and he evidently had copied
off piece of the Barney stone and
had it with him. A piece of good ad-
vice he gave the audience was to send
fifty cents to the secretary OF state
and get a copy of the laws and read
them. His speech was mainly noted
for things he had forgotten. His rea-
son for building the state mill was
that the mill feed would be kept at
home. He forgot that in an average
year there is three times as much
mill feed manufactured in North
Dakota as is used here. The Hon.
Nels Mattson unknowingly forced him
to admit that the state had a $780,
600 90 mortgage on the state mill at
Drake, but he forgot to tell the audi
ence what it was for. The state got
the Drake mill less than year ago
for less than $4,000 and the money
was furnished by the citizens. of
Drake and now the mill owes the state
S120, OOO-wonder if that is the reason
Governor Frazier says "Lock up the
books" He accuses the /. V. A. Of
importing speakers, mentioning Rev.
Birchenough. But he forgot to men
ton James Manahan of St. Paul, Geo.
A. Wilson of Oklahoma, Prof. Roy
lance of Idaho, Mills from New Tea
land, Anderson from Minneapolis,
Stangeland from New York, Sigma
Lund from Indiana, Kate O'Hare from
Hades and others. He admitted that
LANCER caught the Scandinavian bank
with it's pants down and that Cover
nor Frazier thought they ought to
have thirty days to sew on some
buttons, bu1 he forgot to state that
the bank was notified to get busy with
buttons six months before they were
caught. He stated that LANCER said
that 2os:ca:ed checks were worth
only fifty cents on the dollar but he
foruot tn state that LANCER OnlV quot
ed Townley, when Townley was under
oath in a court. The climax was cap
ped when Tim O'Connor wanted to
know why his taxes on certain
quarter of land raised from $4,000 to
$4,000. Mr.. Cahill leaned up against
the judges bench, the Blarney stone
refused to work, the meeting was
closed-and Tim has not found out
yet.-New Rockford Transcript.
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