The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-07-22

news article on the North Dakota
crop, From this it appears that pros
poets for a good crop throughout the
state are excellent. 1t gathered the
information from all the counties OF
the state. The Forum is without
doubt the best news gathering agency
in the state.
A good way to size up the running
Qualities of a candidate is to compare
his vote with someone on the tlcKet
who is running for the first time and
whose strength is large part that OF
the ticket. Judging LANCER by that
measure he shows up to splendid ad-
vantage. He received 4.164 more
votes than Streeter, 1924 more than
Arthur White and 6071 more than
Quambeck.
The people of Minnesota are not
satisfied with the defeat of Congress
man Volstead at the primary election,
so they are going to run him as an IN
dependent candidate this fall. Mr..
Volstead is one of the best congress
men the state of Minnesota has had
and the people of his district feel
that he should be continued in con-
gress. Committees are at work work
ing out plan of campaign for him
and lively fight for that seat will be
staged at the November election.
An interesting problem which will
confront the government as a result
of the recent census is the reported
increase rather than decrease in the
population of the Indian race. Accord
ing to census reports, this race has
shown an increase, although small,
which is surprising, as the average
person is of the opinion that the race
is slowly but surely dwindling out:
Almost the entire Indian population OF
the United States is now situated on
reservations provided by the govern
ment in different states. If this re-
ported increase continues, before long
the government will be faced with the
problem of finding new lands and
dwelling places for them. A small
number of them nave broken away
from their race and are running
farms of their own or are earning
their livelihood in some other manner,
but the bigger part of them still live
together on the government reserva-
tions and receive their allotments
which are given them by the govern
ment.
The third party radicals made dis
NAL failure of their convention at
Chicago the past few days. They
made lot Of nois to start with and
then fzzled out. The single takers
could not stand the platform the rad
icals wanted and the radicals could
not stand for the single takers and
there you are. Then the committee
of 48 while having strong stomachs,
could not stand for the radicalism of
the I. w. w. element and Senator La
Toilette, while wanting to be presi-
dental candidate very badly, could
not go this outfit. so the whole ca
Doodle was a fizzle and each bunch
will 60 on their own single track.
You cannot mix up this political sue
cotash with all its radical elements
and have any kind of unity. The two
old parties will now continue to- finn
fam the public on prohibition, woman
suffrage, the league of nations, gov
eminent control, etc., while prices for
clothing, shoes, groceries and all those
things that you have to get to exist
will soar to say nothing about the
price of coal going up out of sight,
and sugar selling at &c per pound.
This is indeed a great old country.
Nominee Cox, democratic candidate
for the presidency, makes the state
ment that If elected president he will
appoint "dirt" farmer secretary Of
agriculture. We thought that very
good idea. But along comes Candi-
date Harding, republican nominee for
the presidency, who says that the re-
publican party kept a real farmer in
the Office Of secretary of agriculture
for sixteen years prior to the demo-
cratic control of the government when
President Professor Wilson appointed
a university professor to the post. Mr..
Harding refers to "Uncle Jim Wilson"
Of Iowa, who was secretary Of agri-
culture under Mckinley, Taft and
Roosevelt successfully until Houston,
then president Of the Washington
University Of st. Louis was given that
Office. Mr.. Cox is not introducing
anything new in "dirt" farmers in i
case he is elected president. The re-
publican party long since recognized
the need Of . farmer in the cabinet and
had one, but when democratic pro-
lessor was elevated to the presidency