Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-10-07
McCRANN SHOWS
UP FAILURE OF
MILL AT DRAKE
Anti -Townley Candidate For
Lieutenant Governor Tells
Why State Industries Must
Necessarily Fail Under
Present System.


brake must be failures under tne
present system as practiced by the
Non partisan League leaders, JonR
r. McGrann, the anti-Townley can
didate for acknowledgements, pre-
sented undeniable proof OF MS
statements in his address at Orlady
hall Friday night. Mr.. McGrann
showed that the state bank has not
lowered interest rates, and that the
state mill is charging more lot lts
,s,our than nrivately owned mills in
North Dakota.
The speakers had in his possess
sion, he declared, between twenty
five and thirty-five invoices sno"lhe
that the state mill at Drake charges
more for flour than other mills.
Three of these invoices made out 10
the same person on the same day
were produced for the inspection OF
those present. The invoices were
dated February 4th, 1920, and
were made out to Olson and COM
pany of Litchville. They showed
that the wholesale price OF the
flour manufactured at the Drake
mill was from fifty to sixty!
cents more per hundred POUNDS on
that date.
The high price charged for the
flour from the state owned mill at
Drake, the speaker said, showed
one of two things, either the Non
partisan leaders in control were
profiteering or there was gross
mismanagement. The principal rea-
son for the failure of the mill, Mr..
McGrann, who is an experienced
miller, said, was that the League
leaders selected the manager OF the
mill Just as they have selected all
other Office holders. not for know
ledge or ability, but because they
are "good Nonpartisan Leaguers'.
Mr.. McGrann also asserted that the
mill could never succeed under Its
present management and that 1t
was the wrong kind of mill and
was manufacturing the wrong KIND
of flour"
He declared the League organiz-
ers in otheb states were claiming
the Drake mill was paying more
for it's wheat, selling its flour
cheaper than the, privately owned
mills and that it was at the same
time saving money for the state.
All of these statements have been
proven untrue. If they will lie
about the hesrtaanufacture%c CT flour and
the state mill at Drake, T. believe
that they will lie about other. mat
ters," the speaker said.
Touching on the state bank and
high taxes, Mr.. McGrann said that
he had been forced to borrow six
hundred dollars more this year to
pay his taxes than he did last year
and that he paid two per cent more
on the loan. He said he could not
discuss the bank very we'll because
he did not know very much about it
business and that none of the 9TH
er stockholders in the bank could
tell anything about it either unless
they were on the inside, because on
ly those on the, inside knew what
was going on. He urged his hear
ers to vote yes on the initiated
law which will allow an inspection
of the bank by some one not a
League appointee, declaring that
every taxpayer in the state is q
stock holder in the bank and should
know what the bank was doing.
In Favor of Farmers Movement
McGrann declared he is in favor
of a state bank and state-owned
flour mill but he believed in run
ming them on sane business basis,
and assured his hearers that If the
O'Connor ticket was elected that
they would be given fair trial. i
am in favor of farmers move
ment", he said, "but deny that the
League is a farmers
movement unless it is a movement
to move the farmers of from their
FARMS"
II do not say every Lacquer is a
Socialist but l. do say all of their
leaders are socialists and that they
are blindly following these social
istic leaders. There is no doubt
but Mr.. Townley is a socialist. He
has registered as socialist and
was a candidate on the socialistic
ticket. Neither is there any ques-
tion but that LsSeuer is socialist.
Van Lear is, a socialist and Walter
Thomas Mills is a socialist, and
there you have the four big leaders
of the Nonpartisan League.
Belong to No Party
Mr.. McGrann also pointed out
that the Nonpartisan Leagueers
vary their attack to suit the condi-
tions and that they say one thing in
one place and another thing some
other place. ''In North Dakota It
is farmers movement. In Mon
tana it is q miners movement, and
in the labor centers, it is laborers'
Then too, in North
Dakota they claim they are repub-
licans and in Montana and other
places they are democrats.
Welcome Women Voters
In opening his address. Mr.. Nc
Cram, said he was glad to say,
Ladies and gentlemen" instead Of
Just Gentlemen. as he thot the
votes of the women Of the state
were needed more this year than
they ever had been before and that
the vast majority Of them would
vote against the rule of socialism.
Many people,, he declared, Tabor
under the delusion that the women
will vote as their husbands vote. I
rather believe that tho women will
not only vote independently, but
will influence the vote Of their huS-
bands,
& Urges All TO Hear Both Sides
Mr.. -odcGrann said that he did
not intend to do any mudslinging
and that he had no personal griev-
ence against anyone but that he
was lighting for principles. He urg-
ed his hearers to be opened-mindeda
and hear both sides OF the issues
discussed declaring that he listened
70 the League speakers and read
their literature .3 II /.
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