The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-09-09
Sharon Paper
is Candidate

The Sharon Reporter, published
at Sharon, this county, by S. Malmin,
has announced tic candidacy for the
position Of official newspaper of
Steele County, the selection to take
place at the coming general election
in November.
The present newspaper laws, pass
ed by the Nonpartisan legislature,
made it possible for a commission
of men, selected by those in power,
to appoint their own official news
paper in each county, so shat the
official county business and all legal
publications are now printed in the
Nonpartisan paper of this county,
The Steele County Farmers Press,
at Finley. However, this commits
sion was only a temporary organ
ization as another part of the bill
provides tht in the next general e.
lection to be held this year, the vot-
hers Of the county will have the right
to select their own official county
paper.
For those who are not acquainted
! with the Sharon Reporter and it's
editor, Mr.. Malmin, we wish to write
our Recommendations. That paper,
after careful consideration OF the
present. political situation in North
Dakota, has taken active part in the
campaign against Townleyism and
socialism. AS a result of this stand
and the unfair laws which legislated
away from a. large amount of bust
ness, Mr.. Malmin has found it diff
cult to continue his publication, but
has stood by his ship and is 10Y
asking the voters of the county to
endorse him and his newspaper in
his stand. He has always taken an
active part in community and polit-
ical work, stood for what he thought
best, and conducted a high class
newspaper. He is not a man looking
for an! political plums", as he has
been a resident of u county for
nearly twenty years and all that
time has conducted his newspaper,
taken an interest in the betterment
of his town and county, and carried
OH an honest and upright business.
When the old newspaper law was
in force, the county commissioners,
whom the voters endorsed to carry
on the county's business, found it
a fair and just policy to give each
newspaper of the county its turn at
receiving the benefits of the official
county business. That thoughtful
policy is as fair today as it was then,
SO that even though some Of the vot-
ers of the county may have their ia
vorite paper, would it be just to en-
dorse such a paper year after year,
building up one paper in the county
and letting the others get along in
any manner they possibly could
or not at all? Different individual
know how they appreciate their
hometown paper and will also APP
preciate the fact of what it would be
to not have one so should be thot-
Iful of the "other fellows" of the
codaty, and let each county Jews
paper have its turn at the profits of
legal publications so as to keep all
newspapers Of the county on a pay
ing basis and allow them to spread
forth their tidings of their home
town and county without being COM
pelled to suspend publication.
1t is our opinion that the voters
of this county will give this question
an unbiased consideration and then
join with the Hope Pioneer (for we
will not be a candidate for this po-
sition this Year, in heartily endors-
ing Mr.. Malmin and his paper as the
official paper of Steele County at the
coming election.
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