The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-06-03

leaders. LANCER knows too much of
the inner workings of things to please
Townley, Lemke & Co. And if he is
elected governor, what houseclean-
ing there will be!-Hankinson News.
One of the things that should be
done by the next legislature is to re-
store capital punishment to our sta
tute books. Tender hearted sentiment
talists argue against the barbarity of
death for any crime, but monster
such as the one who butchered a fam
ily of eight near Turtle Lake recently
should not be allowed to live. He
should be hanged, not as punishment
for his crime, but for the protection
of Observation-Disclosures News.
Fishing for service mems votes with
sucker bait seems to be a favorlte
pastime of the Townley henchmen
First the league passed its legisla-
ton for a $25 a month bonus which
appealed to the soldiers until they
discovered that it left the vast major
ity unable to qualify. When the law
was changed at the special session to
make most service men eligible, it
was. forced and not a popular matter
with the league. Then the ultra-rad-
icals saw trouble in store if the anti
red flag bill was passed. 1t would
not set we'll in case the time ever
came when communication of the
state was realized. That red flag bill
has stirred the service men as nothing
else could, except perhaps the refusal
of the Legislature to change the bonus
law so it would give the aid to the
men when they needed it and not in
1888. Representative Minis of Ran
som county introduced bill provid-
ing for the issuance of negotiable and
interest bearing warrants so that all
service men might be paid Immediate
Iy. This was killed in secret caucus
of the league and smashed on the
floor of the house. Yet-today in
frantic effort to appeal to the service
men whom they have twice had leg
islative session possibility to serve-in
a frantic sucker bait dangled before the
Americans-the service men-ToWn-
ley inserted in the platform adopted
at Fargo and had published in all the
SO "kept" papers, this. eve recon-
mend that the coming legislature en-
act a law authorizing the state to
pay in full the bonus given by the
state to the returned service men,"
Idnetically what Minis and all the 9TH
er independents wanted-in addition
to the anti-red flag bill. The anti-red
flag bill is not referred to in the So
cialist platform.
The senatorial conference held at
Fargo Friday between Senator
Gronna, COL Frank White, R. A. Mes
tos and others with a view of simpli-
flying the matter by getting one or the
other to withdraw, has resulted in nil,
and there will be three candidates in
the field to fight it out. Col. White
felt that it was not up to him to
withdraw, and Gronna feels the same
way, while Nestos very wisely says
he is out of it. 1t has simply gotten
down to this point. Frank White is
going to make the race and is going
out to make thorough and spirited
campaign. We believe he has very
excellent chance to win out at the
primaries in June if his friends will
''stick." Frank White lived on a farm
for sixteen years in settlement made
up entirely of farmers of German and
Scandinavian birth; citizens of the
United States. They called him
Crank" if he is elected senator
he will want them to still call him
Frank-there are no frills on the col
onel. If you are square with him he
is your friend all the time whether
you are a rich or poor man-they
all look alike to him - he is every
body's friend They repeatedly sent
him to the legislature with the unani-
nous republican vote and large
proportion Of the democratic vote.
The call to service in the Spanish
American war made it necessary for
him to sell his farm and improve
ments for SIS per acre. He bought
another farm later. He understands
the farmers problems and can serve
them we'll. Don't you think man
like Frank White-who has been all
right all the time both as a soldier
and as a private citizens-is 100 per
cent better than a man who has wob-
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other and has been wrong? That's the
way we look at this senatorial fight.
Gronna was wrong during the war
and he is still wrong. If he looked at
it that way when the country needed
his vote in the senate to help whip
the Hun, he is wrong now. Frank
White did not wait to find out how
the country felt about it, he knew
and he jumped in right off the reel,
went over seas, left his business and
all his interests and conducted the
work of his munition bureau we'll and
faithfully for the good of his country
and in most creditable manner
that is the kind of man Frank White
is.
We have been preaching about auto
speeding right along ever since we
have been in this business, but it does
not seem to have very good effect
among the joy riders. Friday we
had three automobile accidents any of
which might have resulted in the loss
IF 1;fo only, a kind nrnvi6onco stennin o.