The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-19
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dental nominee on the democratic
ticket, has visited Valley City and
gone again, leaving behind him men,
cries Of a very fine appearing, genial,
we'll cultured gentleman-and that is
about all, so far as any good he has
done for the democrtic ticket is con-
cerned. The attendance was not what
it should have been and was what we
would term was shall perhaps four or
five hundred being present, but that
can be accounted for in the fact that
the farmers are too busy harvesting
to come in to listen to political speech
es-or it might be that they have had
too much democracy il" the past eight
years. The distinguished visitor ar
rived here from Fargo by auto along
about three o'clock and shortly after
was escorted to the city park by the
Valley City Municipal band and a few
automobile loads of prominent demo-
Gratis who graced the speaking stand
with the prominent citizen who has
come out west asking US to support
the democratic ticket of which he con-
stitutes part The first speaker
was Hon. Wesley Mcdowell Of Mar
ion, who gave us mighty nice talk
and we believe the best of the lot. He
introduced Capt. Marx, of Ohio, who
for fifteen or. twenty minutes told how
great and good a man Jim Cox was
and how poor man Senator Harding
was, in spite of the fact that when
Jim Cox was elected governor Of Ohio,
at the same election Senator Harding
was elected United States senator by
popular vote and receiving majority
of $4,000 votes. This shows what
the citizens of Ohio think of Mr..
Harding. Capt. Marx said that Sen
ator Harding had done nothing but
knock knock, knock, and then pulling
good sized sledge hammer from
somewhere about his, anatomy he
pounded Mr.. Harding with vigor and
courage-because there was no opp0r-
tunity for any of Mr.. Harding's
friends to say him nay. AS knock
er the captain is record breaker and
we rather fancy he made friends for
Senator Harding. The captain praised
the work Of North Dakota in the
worlds war as all astute politicians
do, but we knew that without him
telling us--but that is political bum
come to try and catch the soldier vote.
They all do it-republicans and dem
ocrats alike, and then came the great
man himself, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
advancing to the front of the stage
and carrying very carefully in his
hand a copy of the Times-Record of
a few days, probably handed to him
by our over Jealous friend Hugh Nc
Donald. In this paper we had criti-
cised Mr.. Roosevelt for mud singing
and we guess it rather got under the
gentleman's hide but he acted real
peeved over it and in his very pleas
ant and satirical manner he proceeded
to hand the editor rebuke for daring
to c, iticise a prominent democrat with
vice-presidehtial aspirations. He con-
sumed one-third of his talk to giving
the Times-Record some very valuable
advertising which was highly pleas
ing to US, Of course as this is the first
time in our young life that our efforts
at editorial work have been made of
sufficient Importance to be discussed in
public by national candidate.
After this important part of his
speech had been gotten out of his sys-
tenn Mr.. Roosevelt proceeded to tell
how he and friend Jim Cox would
again serve this nation if elected next
November There being no more war
only in the mind Of the great demo-
cratic president we now have who
refuses to declare peace after congress
has said we are at peace, they cannot
ask for your votes on account Of keep
ing us out of war-he proceeded to
tell how bad a man Mr.. Harding was.
In fact that was his chief subject out
side of his burial Of the tariff oues-
tion and q real honest to God Ameri-
can thought on the bond question
that was fine. The American liberty
bond is good for every face dollar it
represents and Mr.. Roosevelt said 50.
That was the best thing he said. He
stated with emphasis that Mr.. Hard
ing was man of very little account.
He was nominated, he said, by a
bunch of reactionaries and if Mr..
Harding was elected it would be a
case Of the country standing still and
if Jim Cox was elected it meant pro-
gress and great future for the coun-
try. He made great fun Of Mr.. Hard
ing's porch campaign but he. did not
tell that the late lamented VIM. Nc
Kinley made the same campaign in
the same good old Ohio, and won out
over the democrat by the biggest pop
ular vote Of them all, Mr.. Roosevelt
did not tell his hearers-while he was
knocking Mr.. Harding that this same
jim Cox whom he so glowingly held
IN az the GREATEST .an0st1o If human