Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-28
Of million Dollar
Fund" Refuted by the North
Dakota Campaign Committees

North Dakota into the belief that It
Is big Business which is fighting
socialism in North Dakota.
THE Courier News article, wherein
1t charges that q million dollar cam
paign fund has been raised, OF has
been attempted to be raised; to fight
the socialist bodies in North Dakota,
wherein it states that the counties
nave been assessed on an average Of
$4,000 each, when it states that this
mythical assessment has been raised
to 100000 for each county; when it
states that the fund raised in. North
Dakota a been augmented by .con-
tributions of corporations and others
outside Of the state, deliberately and
knowingly attempts to deceive the
farmer and laborer in North Dakota.
THE matter of the Joint budget for
the campaign to be made In the pri-
maries against socialism in North Da-
kota is one Of public knowledge. as Is
the apportionnent made to the sew
eral counties IN the state, from which
counties every dollar contributed to
this joint campaign fund is received.
The joint budget as made up and as
sen out through the state to those
interested in the campaign called for
fund, if received. to be expended by
the A~nti-Socialist Republican State
Central Committee, the Democratic
State Contra Committee and the In
dependent Voters association, each Of
such organizations handling various
features Of the campaign. The ap-
portionments made to cover the cam
paign fund and as allotted to the sew
eral counties in the state aggregated
s134,S5O and these funds were allotted
to be raised as follows:
Assessments Levied.
Adams, 5000; Barnes. $4,000: Ben
son, $4,000; Billings. SEQ; Bottineau.
$500; Bowman. 5000; Burke, $500;
Burleigh, $4,000: cass, $4,000: Cav
alier, $4,000; Dickey. 1880: Divide.
mons, $500; Foster. $1,000; Grant,
s4oo; Golden Valley, $1,000: Grand
Forks, $4,000; Griggs, $500: Het-
finger. $3.50: Kidder, $3.50; LAMoure,
$1,000: Logan, $3.50; McHenry. ST.
600; Mcintosh. $500; Mckenzie, 5000;
Mclean, $4,000: Mercer, $3.50: Nor
ton. $4,000: Montrail, $500: Nelson,
$4,000; Oliver. 500; Pembina, 5000;
Pierce. $3.50: Renville. $500; Rich
s1,75O; Sheridan, $500; Slope. $3.50;
Sioux. 800; Stark. $500; Steele.
$1,000; Stutsman. $500; Towner.
$4,000; Trail. $4,000: Walsh. 5 5000;
Ward, $4,000; Wells. $1.75o: Williams,
$1,000.
Neither this budget, this appor-
tionment, the name in which it was
to be raised. the amount which was
asked to be contributed by each coun-
ty. nor tho manner in which every
dollar of it was expended, has been in
any respect secret. These matters
have been given full publicity to
every one in the state interested in
raising these funds, or the expendi-
lures thereof. So far, on this joint
campaign fund there had, to and in
Guiding June Is, been received from
every source and expended in this
campaign by the three organizations
above named. a total Of $52,735.50.
every dollar of which was received
from contributions collected in the
several counties in North Dakota, un-
der the apportionment heretofore
shown. Not one dollar of funds con-
trtbuted to this joint campaign fund
has been solicited or collected by any
one working for OF under the cam
paign 4ommittee. from business out
side OF North Dakota, or from persons
other than farmers and others en-
gagged IN business in this state. The
fact that the organizations opposed
to socialism have been short Of funds
with which to carry or this campaign