The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-20
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EDITORIAL

What happened to one Obert Olson,
state treasurer!
John Steen has licked 'em before
and Of course can do it again
The Fargo Courier-News editor is
firmly convinced in an editorial this
morning that William Langer wants
to be governor. -. If the c. N. editor
remains on the job much longer we
rather think he will be wise man
before this campaign is ended.
OF course everyone VINO has been
at all observing knows that the edu-
cational system has been plunged INTO
politics by the Townleyites to tine
limit, but one would have though
that even for appearances they would
have refrained from making the pres
ident of the Agricultural College their
candidate for u. S. senator. cf al
the educational institutions it is the
most vital Of the industrial interests
Of our state. and it is deplorable to
plunge it still further into politics.
O Lord, how long!
That the freight congestion in some
Of the eastern states is really serious
due to the switchmen's walkouts and
other labor and financial troubles is
well established fact if one happens
to have any freight coming from
some eastern point. We have had an
invoice of shipment Of ink for two
weeks now and the ink has failed to
show up, and is perhaps reposlng IN a
box car on some out of the way place.
Pretty bum service, but who is to
blame, the company or some OF the
Workmen.
What becomes Of the much boasted
policy of the nonpartisan league to
never under any circumstances nomi-
nate anyone for Office who holds ar.
executive or salaried position in the
league? 1t is said Brinton was re
fused an endorsement upon that the
DRY, and that Bowen was actually en-
dorsed in a convention in Minnesota
and they had to pound him over the
head, speaking hgurative]y, to get him
off the ticket in order to free the
league from the suspicion that its
chief promoters were personally am
bilious. Now the league reverses
everything and puts Lemke and Cahi!l
On it's ticket. But before this cam
pajyn is over they will be in suc1 eX-
tre,nity as to reverse almost every
thing, including their shirts. Any
port in storm.
Eugene V. Debs, VINO is in the fed
eral penitentary, has been nominated
for president by the socialists Of the
country. They wanted Kate O'Hafe
for vice president, she was not noml-
mated, but she is still in the federal!
penitent iary--and may she stay there
for some time. Gov. Frazier has been
trying to get her pardoned. Putting
two and two together it looks as if
the present state administration is
hooked up rather close to the social
lists whose leaders are in the federal
penitentiary for being disloyal to the
government. This ought to be sudi-
c!ent evidence for any real American
citizen to turn down the present so
cialist regime in this state.
Lack of railroad development in
China has been threatening the flu
ture of approximately four hundred
million people for a decade At least
two-t:1irds of China's internal trou-
bles may be traced to the fact that the
republic has over three times the pop
ulaton Of the United States, but has
railroad mileage equal to that Of the
state Of Wisconsin only, having but
one mile Of railway TO each 46O
square miles Of territory. The Unit
ed States has 4 NILE CT railway 70
each twelve square miles Of land,
which goes to show the advanced
stage Of America as compared with
China.
The United States senatorsl1ip is
creating quite ripple on the political
pond of North Dakota. There are
now four avowed candidates for the
job of representing the state in the
upper halls Of congress. Col Frank
White, Pat Norton and the present in
cumbent, A. J. Gronna, are all willing
to sacrifice themselves on the altar
Of public favor for this job, while the
league has nominated DR.. Ladd, Of
Fargo, as their candidate Instead Of
eliminating candidates the refusal of
the Minot convention to nominate a
candidate for senator has brought out
a whole flock Of them and unless some
Of them drop out by the wayside there
will be nothing to it for DR.. Laid
With three opposed to him that gen
tlen1an can feel very much delighted
over his prospects Of securing the
coveted plum or at least the republi-
can nomination at the June primaries
The good of the party seems to have
been lost sight of and personal an1b-
ton has the floor
A fine illustration of the attitude
Of the emigrants which are leaving
this country for Europe is contained
in the May World Outlook, one of the
most widely read and one of the best
education factors in the country
In order to learn the attitude Of the
emigrants, certain representative
Of this magazine gained steerage on
the one Of the returning emigrant
ships and gained the information in
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