The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-14
FFlClYPAPER
BA. VES COUNTY

TIE TIMES RECORD A CANDI-
DATE-IT NEEDS YOUR HELP
.,.r, WILL YOU GIVE 1T? A.
The voters this fall will have an op-
portunity to vote for the official news
paper OF Barnes county and the Times
Record will be a candidate and we are
going 70 ask every friend of the paper
not OF the editor-but the old pio-
neec newspaper of Barnes county, to
vote for the Times-Record as the Of
ficisl paper. There are -four candi-
dates IN the feld-the Times-Record,
The Peoples Opinion, The Barnes
County Citizen and the Sanborn En-
terprise. We have no hesitancy in
saying that this paper can give the
best publicity and the best service to
all the people of the county than any
ether paper in the county. In making
a campaign for the votes of the peo-
pie for his paper Mr.. Stearns, man.
ager Of the Peoples Opinion, says:
"While l feel that we will win the
Official Paper, it is incumbent upon
US to take no chances and therefore
earnestly ask you to make, it person.
al matter with your friends to secure
their vote for the Opinion. To become
official paper for Barnes county means
not less than $3,5O0.0O year to your
paper, or a minimum of $3,7OO.OO in
the next two years-if the other fel-
low gets it the funds will be used to
fight you and your cause for industrial
freedom, the fight in this county is be-
ing waged principally by the Valley
City Times Record, as you KNOW"
We most emphatically dispute the
statement that this paper has been
working against the farmer or against
industrial freedom. For many long
years before Mr.. Stearns, his manager,
Mr.. Papke, and his supreme dictator
Bill Lemke and Royal Arch Emperor
A. C. Townley came to this state, the
Times-Record editor has fought the
battles of the people as against raids
of this horde of socialists that is try
ing to corrall all the state industries
of the state and socialize them at a
big tax raising cost to the taxpayers.
We have consistently fought this
regime of plunder and will continue
to do 80, but we deny fighting the
farmer. We have been working for
the best interests of the farmer and
the people generally, and you will no.
tice in the letter of Mr.. Stearns that
he has been here just few days but
he is already getting busy sowing the
seeds of class distinction with almost
his first breath. If we had been work
ing against the industrial freedom Of
the farmer the Peoples Opinion would
have had hard time getting publish
ed the past few weeks. For the past
few weeks the publisher Of this paper
has furnished all the type to print
the Peoples Opinion and for three
weeks the past summer when the mo-
tors of that institution were out of
kilter and they could not turn
wheel, the Times-Record threw open
it's office and allowed the paper to be
printed upon it's presses. We felt we
wanted to be fair and square and think
we were. If we wanted to take an ad
vantage of situation of that kind
and had a desire to cripple the farm
ers we had the opportunity, didn't
we? This bunk about fighting the
farmers is all rot and Mr.. Stearns and
his bunch of advisers know it. We
have been, and still are, against the
present reckless spending of the peo-
ple's money in reckless and useless
taxes. The backs of the farmers are
now bent double over the enormous in
crease of taxes and more are coming.
What have they got for their sacri
flee to this bunch of false gods? They
have, the pleasure of seeing the lead
ers boarding up money furnished by
the hard toll of the farmers of the
state. They have the satisfaction Of
seeing Mr.. Townley sailing around in
a $4,000 aeroplane while he comes
to the farmers to get another shake
down occasionally. They have the
pleasure of seeing state officers draw
ing fabulous salaries and boarding at
the highest priced hotels for which
the taxpayers pay. They have the
satisfaction of seeing hordes of organ
izers pounding them on the back for
money to keep up their salaries and
find them a soft job. They have. con-
tributed enough money, in Barnes
county alone to build the finest eleva
tor in the country which would take
care of the farmers grain. The farm
ers have contributed enough money
to buy seed grain and feed for the en-
tire western part of the state to all
the drought stricken farmers in order
to build up socialist machine that
has added heavy tax burdens upon the
people of North Dakota and now this
paper is asking for your votes to con-
tinue this same sort of propaganda.
Do you want this kind of a paper or
do you want a paper that is fearless
enough to fight for the right no mat
ter what the consequences may be. No
man ever put a collar on the Times
Record editor and no man ever will.
We fight for right and principal as
we see it and we are going to stick
to this line if it takes all we have
and all our strength. r~-l
Now. what about the Times-Record.
Since we have bought the paper we
have tried to make it a real paper.
We have the largest circulation of
any paper in Barnes county.
We can give the news every day sew
eral days in advance of any other