The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-08-19

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Brinton and Waters have now been
properly placed in the traitor class by
the morning league organ at Fargo
One by one the roses fall.
We expect that Friend Townley
will soon be sending out squads OF
shock troops to try and stem the ad-
vancing tide Of disaster that is threat
ening to overwhelm the socialist ma
chine since the Brinton- Waters ex-
pose came out.
According to the Kathryn Recorder
Messrs. Hastings and Box are trying
to put over another very lucrative IL
nancial scheme. If they cannot put it
over successfully alone there is our
old time friend and admirer Bill o.
son running around who might be in
duced to help them out if he is guar
anteed a reasonable slice of the melon.
The express men of the country
have been granted the increase OF
wages demanded and now comes the
express officials and ask permission
to raise the express rates. Certainly.
Give 'em anything they want along
those lines. 1t matters nothing to
the public Somebody must stand the
gaff in preference to the corpora
lions and everyone who has an ex-
press package to come along occas-
ionally will be indeed pleased to help
keep the profits of the corporate inter-
ests up to the standard.
Saturday the Times-Record pub
lished the acceptance speech of Gov.
Cox, the democratic nominee for the
presidency, and this morning hide
bound republican guy came in and
wanted to know if the Times-Record
had gone democratic. If this poor
simp had stopped to think minute
after reading Cox's speech, he would
know that the more that speech was
published the more voters would vote
for Mr.. Harding-and besides this is
newspaper not a political sheet, and
we believe in publishing both sides
once in a while.
When rogues fall out and disagree
there is hope for the redemption of the
state from the Townley regime. If
you want to get some real facts about
what is going on in the state, read
the Brinton- w aters-F Frazier squabble
in the Fargo Courier-News this morn
ing. It will take more power than 60
ing home "to lie like damned horse
thief as Townley says to refute facts
that come from the league leaders
themselves. If they have been telling
the truth-and they say they have
then you must believe them.
We were told to carry the truth to
the people by the league press during
the past campaign. then after we had
told the truth the league collar ridden
press said we lied. The Courier News
in its fight with Mr.. Brinton, Mr..
Lemke and Mr.. Waters, are telling you
the same truth we told you a few
weeks ago only more of it. They
have stirred up a sweet mess in the
league headquarters at Fargo. It
should not take the people very long
to render a verdict of guilty on the
league bunch after they have con-
victed themselves by their own EVIL
dence. We wonder who has been tell
ing the truth?
The Fargo Courier-News has gotten
to that point when it calls the Fargo
Forum yellow sheet. That is rich.
While the Fargo Forum from the pub
Usher down to the smallest carrier boy
was buying liberty bonds to the ca
pacity of their means, the Courier
News was trying to defend A. C..
Townley and other slackers along
these lines who under oath before the
United States senate committee testi-
fed that the thought perhaps the Office
force had purchased one bond for A..
c. Townley. If the Fargo Forum is a
yellow sheet then the Times-Record
and other independent papers of the
state are in the same class and we are
mighty pleased to be in such good
company.
The state railroad board of Mon
SeSAAss AAsSS uSSAAASA w SAout a 1dASc VI
passenger rates in that state to the
railroads. That is mighty encourage
ing. 1t is also good precedent for
the North Dakota board to follow. We
are paying enough to the railroads at
the present time and it is time the
people got little relief from these
continually advancing prices. What
an awful shock it would be to the peo-
pie if some morning we should read
in the daily papers that something had
dropped in price and remained "drop-
ped" for at least twenty-four hours.
Last week there was great drop in
wheat prices but we never heard zip
about anybody dropping the price Of
foodstuffs and eatables made from
wheat products but yesterday we
again read that wheat has advanced
in price and flour has gone up again.
The market seemingly only operates in
favor Of one side-and that is not the
consumer.