The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-25

,cI1Ily HAVING a IlIet-COluIllIl UdllUI VI
;aly Of state, of being a party to the
The supreme court upheld the three
column ballot found no evidence OF
raud and many county auditors now
re writing to the supreme court ask
ng for full interpretation of the law
-Lemke apparently not considering
he matter of sufficient importance to
lotice- them. But though the court
disposed of his fraud scheme the sub
sidized weekly newspapers Of the
. eague picked up the fraud cry from
.emke's Courier-News and reiterated
t several days after the supreme
burt had rendered it's decis.on.S
O'Cennor Approved.
Mr.. O'Connor's method of campa ign
ng discussion of the issues without
itterness has won him hundreds Of
friends particularly league farmers
Tho have come to realize the damage
'ownley has done to North Dakota
trough injuring its credit structure,
Ugh taxes, fomenting hatred, and
adding upon the league organization
nd on the state imported socialists
he Dickey County Leader says of ali
JConnor Speech:
Real cooperation by farmers, along
ines which have proved successful
s advocated by Mr.. O'Connor as the
sreat constructive need Of North Da-
.;ota. Speaking to his audience here
Ir.. @ 'Cennor went into detail lin dis
ussing the cooperative movement.
I The fusion ticket candidate is not
preaching something, new when he
breaches this doctrine. He has own
I'd stock in a farmers elevator and
as preached cooperation for years
such cooperation cannot come thru
he Vaccinations of politicians, who
adopt a farmers program to gain
lotes with the intention Of accom-
)lishing socialism.
y Mr.. O'Connor admitted that when
here is such difference between
what the producer. receives for his
products and what the consumer pays
for the same products, there is a
problem for the thinking men ami
women Of the state to solve, and while
lie pledged himself to an honest and
sincere effort to make the state own
ed mills and elevators of North Da
'lota complete success, he declared
hat the farmers of North Dakota
should organize into units of great
cooperative organization that would
embrace the entire state and through
this organization dispose of their
stock and their grain just as the far
mers of California dispose Of their
truit and the farmers Of Denmark
dispose of their products. He pro
posed having a state manager TO-.
such an organization and this state
could invade the grain or
stock markets with a selling power
that equalled the selling power of all
the farmers of North Dakota and then
could demand his price. I'll.
A Contrast.
In contrast to O'Connor's discussion
Of basic problems affecting the state
is the league method of using religious
and class hatred to gain votes. The
Ashley Tribune speaks of Frazier as
''the man who did not deny the Ger
man speaking citizens of North D2-
kota the right to talk in their own
language" wholly false and vicious
attempt to win votes through prejl-
dice. f"
In another county Lacquer is us
ing the stock argument that efforts
have been made to bribe him by big
Biz" The Shields Enterprise says:
THE statement of one of the To-
cal Townleyites that he has been Of
fered money by the opposition is as
false as h, and he knows it. Do
you believe that if he had been OF
fered money he would go about brag-
ging about it. Not on your life. He
is not that kind of politician
"Be. Regular" Plea.
Some of the league newspapers are
seeking to hurt the anti-Townley tick
ct by pleas of Republicans to "be reg
ular." At the same time the paper
makes a fight on Thomas Hall, John
Steen and w. H. Stutsman, nominated
overt league candidates in the pri-
mary.
The secret caucus pledge which
league candidates for the legislature
are compelled to sign, and which
"Homebuilder Bill' Prater, league
boss of Burleigh county, absent-mlnd-
edly filed with the secretary of state
and then asked to get back, has bob
bed up in Grant county. 0. c. Gross,
league candidate, has admitted that he
signed a pledge, "but said he had for
gotten the exact words" He promised
to make the full text of the pledge
public, but failed to do so.
Offer Not Accepted.
The most frequent argument used
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