The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-06-10

audit the books and find out II thlngs
are AZ thew claim. What is there that
thew want covered up. Honest 9th.
Gals always solicit an inspection OIL
their records instead of trying to put
them off. The people are entitled TO
know the true condition of an lnstltu-
tion that is taking all the money out
of the local banks, from school treas
urers and other public officials, ana
shooting this money on loans to out
sjders and occasionally to other league
banks when the public bank examiners
are making the rounds. An honest
administration is not afraid OF any
public examiner, but the manager ana
those in authority of the state bank
of North Dakota seem to be awtuily
afraid of an examination OF the BOOKS
of that institution.
Congress adjourns at four o'clock
today after long and strenuous ses-
sion. The senators and congressman
will now devote some of their own
personal efforts to getting themselves
reelected, those who want to return
to congress, and most of them Will be
taking the stump in support OF the
national ticket in the near future.
Washington will be lost sight OF for
the next two weeks because all eyes
will be centered on Chicago where the
big battle for the presidential noml,
nation on the republican ticket WIN
start next Tuesday. 1t is generally
conceded that the man nominated Tor
president at Chicago next TUESDAY
will be the next president of the Unit
ed States, therefore Chicago is the
mecca for the big politicians for the
next few days.
President Wilson adds little more
glory to himself by vetoing the feder-
al budget bill. Thirty five democrats
Joined with the republicans in trying
to pass it over his veto but they lack
ed nine votes in the house of doing
that. The president said that under
the bill congress would have authority,
to remove the comptroller general
from office and that this authority
should be reserved to the executive
department. In other words the only
reason for the veto was the probable
loss of little executive power-and
Mr.. Wilson wants to be the big ~
all that time. That has been his
spirit in the peace treaty fight and
will be in everything until the people
veto his job as president at the NO.
vember election and his retirement
next March.
Attorney General LANCER is telling
his audiences that if he finds anything
crooked in he State Bank of North d.
kota every man responsible for 1t will
go to the penitentiary. Mr.. LANCER
is making a vry broad statment. IN
the first place he cannot get chance
to find out if anything is rotten IN
that or any other state institution be-
cause the governor has ordered the
records kept secret and the manager
of the bank locks up the vaults when
anybody goes around there to look
the institution over. They are very
much afraid to let the public know
what they are doing. Then again If
LANCER did convict anybody he could
not get them into the penitentiary be-
cause they would be granted new
trials. The best thing to do under the
circumstances is to fire the bunch out
of office and give the state depart
ments cleaning out so that the peo-
pie can know what is going on.
If that dynamite eating Kate
O'Hare had any sense OF gratitude
about her she would get back here in
the state and get to campaigning for
her bosom friend-in other words,
Governor Lynn J. Frazier, the man
who wrote letter to President Will
son asking for the release of this an
archist. Mr.. Frazier is no doubt con-
graduating himself upon the splen-
did oratory put forth in his letter and
the splendid fruits which it brought
| forth. A man Of his caliber and
standing aught to be ashamed Of him.
self for ever letting such thought
enter into his mind. Mrs. O'Hare was
tried, found guilty and sentenced to a
just term of years for disloyalty and
she should be made to serve her term.
If any other governor, no matter how
good his record, would commit such
an act, we would begin to come to the
; conclusion that he was cut out for a
chimney sweep, and not a governor,
and that he did not have the interests
of the state or country at heart when
he committed the act. But as the old
saying goes birds Of feather flock
together"
The senatorial fight is warming up
at lively rate these days. The state
central committee want to get either
Gronna or White to withdraw from
the race so that it will be a clean
fight between Ladd on the nonpartisan
ticket and one of these two gentlemen.
Both Gronna and White have filed for
the nomination and it is probably too
late to keep their names off the official
ballot and the only way to head this
off is for one or the other to withdraw
Mr.. White feels that it is not his place
to with9~>x and he is getting prom
Uses of real support all over the state
and it looks to US that real campaign
in his favor might bring forth results
On the other hand Gronna has large
following in the state, has big ma
chine of his own, and he feels that he
would ro%bor oor+;p,,o IN 11,orno tho