Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-01-01
ATTORNEY GENERAL URGES
CITIZENS TO CLEAN STATE
OF S0CIALIS1!C LEADERS
Show. Connection Of League ]'ders With soeialste
Movement All Over the Cow 5y, Declaring That the
Problem Of North Dakota lis got Local But National in
scope-Retiews Valley City md Scandinavian American
Bank Scandals, Nelson Cas-. and Other Activities Of the
League Leaders,

tigate and if it was found that they
were untrue could place him in the
pendtentiary Tor term of one year,
Mr.. LANCER told of Walter Caddell of
Solen, who is one of the represen-
tatives of Adams, Hettinger and
Sioux counties and who but a few
years before had been saved from 60
Ing to the penitentiary himself, de-
clared that an attempt had been
made to 'bribe him, but when he was
asked to name the man who had
made the attempt in order that the
attorney general might start prose
cut1on against him, Caddell said that
he would't name the man because he
was friend Of his and Of his mother.
Herman Hardt of Napoleon and
representing Mcintosh and Logan
counties made similar accusations
relative to attempts to bribe him
with money, and when he was asked
for the name of the man who offered
the bribe, he said that he "could's re-
member his name but that he wore a
gray suit" Hardt, the attorney gen.
eral declared, has been sentenced
three time by Judge Amidon to the
penitentiary. These facts. were given
merely to sohw the depth to which
the league leaders would stoep in
their reign of terrorism to gain their
ends.
/. LANCER Challenges Townley. .-
l. LANCER quoted the letter which he
recently wrote to A. C. Townley
challenging him to a debate on any
or all Of the following five questions:
(1) the Valley City bank deal; "(2)
the looting Of the Scandinavian
American bank; (3) the Nelson
Macdonald controversy; (4) the rea-
sons for the appointment of Waters
as manager Of the bank Of North Da-
kota, and (5), resolved that tho or
ganization of the Nonpartisan Lea
que is not democratic. Mr.. LANCER
said that he stipulated that Townley
should not substitute for himself in
this debate Walter Thomas Mills, Bill
Lembke, Kate Richards O1Hare, l.. ].
Frazier, Emma Goldman or Bill Hay
wood, and stated that he would agree
to treat Mr.. Townley as gentleman
during the debate and that Townley
could treat him any way that he
wanted to. The speaker said that he;
had received no answer to his chal-
lenge.
First Break Over a Woman.
The attorney general declared that
he was sorry to be forced to state
that the first trouble between Town
ley and himself arose over q woman,
and that woman was Miss Minnie
Nelson who was elected by the peo-
pie Of the state as superintendent OF
schools. Mr.. >Langer reviewed the
entire case Of the Nelson Dom
aid controversy from the time two
weeks before the election that a full
page ad appeared in the North Da-
kota Leader debating that Miss Mel
son was not qualified to hold the po-
sition of state superintendent Of pub
lie instruction up TO the discovery of
the objectional books on the shelves
Of the states libraries. MI. Langer's
declaration that the thing that he is
most proud Of in his entireGrecord as
attorney general is his decision that
Miss Nelson was qualified to hold Of,
fee was received With prolonged ap-.'
plause from the audience, =.
'.And I am hers. to tell you that J
Governor Frazier wanted that decl- !
sion pigeon-holed until after the cleo .
ton. That, is the kind of governor
you have: III tell you that hs is /
governor in name only" Mr.. Ian, !,
ger, then told Of how Mr.. Townley
came to hfm and said, not that Neil
Macdonald was good superintend-
end Of public instruction. but that he
had done the most for the party<and
therefore~should be reelected and
asked Mr.. LANCER what he would do
Il Mcdonald refused to give up his
office. The speaker said, that altho
he had campaigned for Mr.. MacDon-
aid, he gave the decision in favor OF
Miss Nelson in the face Of the op-
position Of Frazier and Townley and