The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-04-01
ANOTHER CONVERT SPEAKS

! AS soon as spring comes, they come
too-the scalawags, the carpet-bag-
gers from the south. The Townley
hirelings come to flood the state and
to carpet-bag the SIG victims. The
Townley political battle is on in full
swing. On Wednesday, March II,
certain St. Paul banker by the name
Of Thomas Sullivan addressed pack
ed hall of SIG victims at Hatton, N. D.,
and with his silver-tongued oratory he
wrapped his audience up in his silken
gauze of Socialistic political dreams
"a real Utopia. He carried his hear
ers with him in his fancy-through
dreamland into heaven of political
rest--pure, sweet, serene. OF course,
we will not need churches then-when
these carpet-baggers can so easily
take care of us and carry us all to the
paradis Of paradises, in their silk
gauze carpet-bags-and all for SIG.
% Oh, but these SIG Townley hirelings,
how they cure US all! Cure all our ills.
Cure all our political, moral and ply
steal ills from Adam down to Eve.
Surely they know how to run OUR
STATE. And what an ovation Mr..
Thomas Sullivan got from his audi
ence when he rang out with a full
burst of oratory, that I'VE will win
Minnesota, too! Yes, WE will win
minnesota" l, as a rube, suppose
then that WE who win all of Mime
sofa shall go down there and each one
of US take big slice of Minnesota and
! lug it back to North Dakota with us!
For WE will win Minnesota. too. Now,
what under the sun, moon or stars
what good will it do US poor citizens
of North Dakota, if Townley and his
hirelings win in. Minnesota? Where
do we poor citizens come in, only to
pay our fees and laugh and be laugh
ed at? I, for my part, have followed
Townley's lead as long as am able.
His gang rule and all his Office hold
ers and Office seekers and job seekers
all Socialists (for none other need
apply)-are a set Of fellows which l
shall not, cannot try to belong to.
Their policies are too thin and shall
low. Their political graft and schemes
too thick for me.
was Just a common rube until l
got full vision of what Townley,
Lemke and Frazier are and where
they lead US. Then I said, goodbye,
Townley-I have yet soul of my
own, which you will never buy with
SIG.
Mr.. Sullivan said WE should be
glad to pay our SIG or $18 and vote
for Townleyites, because if we did We
would all become millionaires. And
then his hearers clapped thir hands!
/, for my part, never saw more fool
I,ish and blind Tovnley. following in
my life than I saw in the Hatton opera
house an March II, 1920. Yes, the
fight is on. Townley has thrown his
glove into the fire pit of North Dako-
Ia and Mr.. Thomas Sullivan of St.
Paul, banker, tells us how WE will
also win all of Minnesota, but where
1--WE" will come in fail to see, ex-
cept a few pet Socialists who are to
get Minnesota jobs. Of course they
will be the ones to pocket the gold in
their carpet-bags and when they get
so much of it that their bags burst
i, they say they will all sail off to the
moon or to Hawaii and build their tu-
ture homes.
Bows and men of North Dakota, you
who are not real inside Socialists, you
will be left behind-and much poorer
than you ever were before the Town
leyites swept the state: 49,.
Yours, as North Dakota Citizen
onjv,.. G.. O. FEKJER.
Hatton. N. D., March Fl. Forum.