The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-11-11

face and laughing 10 nAl,iseAA S
heartily. After reading the returns
from the late election we raise IN our
sent to ask "What for?"
The days of rubber stamps ana nv
ing voting machines operated ny
hosses has been wiped out in the leg
islature by the election OF an 1nde-
pendent majority. That req headeo
and black headed clerk VII! be OUT OF
a lob next winter and will have 10 go
and seek work like the rest OF US.
With only nine precincts left to re-
port in the second congressional DIS
trict Congressman George M. Young
has a majority of 1901, as follows:
Young's majority ....... 23O1
To show how bad the Townley
forces In Minnesota were beaten
Preus was elected by a plurality OF
129 900 and he had real majority
of $4,000 over the nonpartlsan and
democratic candidates for governor.
The democrats in Minnesota dltched
their party nominee for governor to
HELM along the cause of independence
and freedom by voting for Preus: It
was a great victory for our nelghbors
the other side of the Red River.
The Courier-News this morning is
claiming the election Of Frazier by
$4,000 majority. At nine o'clock this
morning Mr.. O'Connor was $500 IN
the lead and 600 precincts to hear
from. The Courier-News also claimed
the defeat of Miss Nelson and every
body else on the independent ticket.
It will be a day or two before they
know how the result of the election is.
There is this to be said, however, that
the vote remaining to be counted is IN
Frazier territory and he may win
out, but not by any $4,000 majority.
THAT solemn referendum" that Gov.
Cox referred to, in speaking of cleo
tion as regards the league of nations,
turned out to be a kind of joke.
Judging from the election returns. This
election should about settle the minds
of the Wilsonites who have been advo-
eating the league Of nations as die
tated to us by Mr.. Wilson, that the
majority of the people of the country
do not want it, at least not the way
President Wilson brought it back from
Paris.
There will be one lone woman in the
mex congress, Oklahoma sending one
from that state. We hope she will
meet with better success than Miss
Rankin did when she represented the
state of Montana. Miss Rankin you
remember was defeated for reelection
on account of her war record and then
tried to get elected to the United
States senate as a nonpartisan leag-
uer and was badly beaten out at that
time. Montana last Tuesday put a
further disapproval of the league pro-
gram by giving that organization a
good drubbing.
The landslide Of Harding land
Coolidge is so great that the people
Of Mississippi and Texas want to vote
over again so they can vote to make
it unanimous. The republicans will
have majority of ten in the senate
and in the lower house they have gain
ed twenty seats, some of them from
rank democratic DISTRICTS. Victor
Berger, the noted Milwaukee socialist
has been defeated for congress in his
district. Berger has twice been de-
MED seat in congress by the house
Of representatives on account of his
disloyalty to the government, but this
time the people themselves have turn
ed him down. Good for the people of
Wisconsin.
The Courier-News this morning,
after sizing up the returns on the
initiated laws, says that the return of
the bank funds, will not kill that in
stitution off, but rather it will leave
the bank open to receive private de-
posts. During the campaign this
notorious sheet told the people that
if the public funds were taken away
from the bank it would kill off the in
stitution. We told the people that
was a false idea, now the c. N. APP
proves of what all independent papers
advocated during the campaign-that
the return Of public funds to the var
ious counties would not hurt the Bank
of North Dakota And the return of
the state to the people instead Of this
sociaistic bunch would not hurt the.
state, either.
Congressman George M. Young has
won most notable victory IN his re-
election to Congress. He is in one Of
the most rabid league districts in the
state which gave Frazier for governor
several thousand majority yet in spite