The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-11-11


of that comes out Of the election by
q handsome majority. 1t would have
been a crime to have replaced Mr..
.uny by man of Olson caliber-
not that we are saying anything
against Mr.. Olson's character-but
we. are comparing him in ability to
- IS j fine record as
a congressman and who has attained
a p.s on un Committees chat is sell
dom attained by man from a state
like North Dakota and only after eight
years in congress. Mr.. Young has a
greater chance now than he has ever
had before to do something for the
state and we are very much pleased
that he has won out 50 handily after
one of the most stubborn fights in po-
litical history. The Times-Record
Congressman Young on
his most notable victory, which under
the circumstances and the way the dis
trict went for Frazier, is a big one.
Gov. Frazier has been reelected to
his office by bare majority of about
four thousand, which with the wo1n-
ems vote is mighty small victory for
him He can thank his lucky stars
that he was running on the republic
can ticket with big landslide to the
presidential candidate car
rying him over the top. Had it been
merely state election he would
have been buried under pile of votes.
The fact that thousands of voters vot-
ed the little cross at the top of the
ticket is what made it possible for
Lynn J. Frazier to get third term as
governor in this state. The whole
ticket was carried in on this wave of
republicanism. Not one man was
elected on the democratic ticket, and
YOU will notice that in Montana and
other places where the league went on
the democratic ticket, that ticket was
defeated. Senator Harding will have
about 100000 majority in North Da-
kota, yet there are few unWise be-
ings around here who were telling us
that Cox would carry the state. They
are wiser now. 1t was case of too
much wisconsin all over the country
and the voters wanted change and
said so very emphatically last Tues
day.
Some narrowing stories will be told
to generations to come of the hazard
Gus whisky running profession that
exists now in this state and Mime
sofa. Whisky running seems to have
become professional hazardous
one-but nevertheless providing fab
ulous sums of money for those who
undertake it. Federal agents, operat-
ing in this state, and in Minnesota, are
almost powerless to stop the illicit
flow of liquor across the border. Many
different ways are employed to get the
liquor across the border. Airplanes
is the newest method which has been
employed, and officials report seeing
over a dozen planes pass over the
border in a single day, besides several
high powered motor cars, going at a
terrific rate of speed. Inability to stop
to large extent, this sort of trade,
is due to the shortage of federal
agents who will take the risk Of the
peril to be incurred in attempting to
uphold the eighteenth amendment. 1t
is clearly battle of wits-one side
winning at times and losing at an
other. 1t is to be hoped that agents
will be able to cope with the wide
realm Of lawlessness that now exists
and stop to a large extent this kind
of business.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
great leader of the woman suffrage
cause, came out in an eleventh hour
endorsement of the democratic candi-
date for the presidency, but since that
time and since she has read the cleo
ton returns we have not heard from
her The American laboring man also
turned deaf ear to Samuel Gompers,
who came out in favor of Cox and
Forty-ffth Cousin Roosevelt. The re-
suit of the election in its great nagni
tude, seems to show very conclusively
that American labor, while standing
united for its rights, cannot be stam-
peded to any party at the dictation Of
its leaders. The fact of the matter is
that labor as we'll as other people,
had become tired of the democratic
administration and wanted a change.
If the new administration does not do
things in the next four years the re-
publican party will hear from the
electorate at the next presidential
election. President Harding and his
party coming into power on March
a next, are to face one Of the great
est problems that ever confronted a
president and party-that Of getting
the country back to normal state,
reducing expenditures and putting the
country on a sound basis. One of the
big things to be accomplished by the
incoming administration is to pass
some sort of legislation to officially
end the war. This was attempted in
the last congress but President Wilson
vetoed the proposition. The next time
the senate formulates plan for peace
and passes it, it will be signed by, a
republican president and we shall be
at peace with all the world and normal
trade can be resumed with Germany
and other countries Of the world with
whom we are supposed to be at war.
Minnesota put it all over Mr.. Town
ley and his crowd in good shape, SO