The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1920-03-04
HOPE. STEELE COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA MARCH T. 1920

III DAKOTA, MARCH 4, l
Attorney General William LANCER
has called the hand of j. R. Waters,
the Townley Press, F. w. Cathro and
others who have tried to stunt the
blame on the attorney generals office
for the small number of loans made
to farmers through the Bank OF
North Dakota.
The Attorney General, as usual,
calls lie lie and today issued an
offer to those seeking to secure loans
from the Bank of North Dakota, as
we'll as calling the bluff OF the bank
officials.
The LANCER offer under date Of
February %. is addressed "To Whom
It May Concern" and is as follows:
"In a circular letter spread broad
cast over the state by j. R. Waters,
Manager of the Bank of North Da-
kota, he makes the assertion that the
reason that only $S92,199.00 in farm
loans have been made by the Bank Of
North Dakota out of applications ag-
gregating g$S.236,474.0O.is due to the
fact that my office has failed to ex-
anime and certify the abstracts of
title so that these loans can be APP
proved.
"This is a lie made out of whole
cloth. On February 1th, two days
before this barefaced lie was spread
over the state, every abstract which
had been submitted to my office by
the Bank of North Dakota has been
approved and certified.
II make the following offer to
every applicant to the Bank of North
Dakota for loan on real property:
If he will furnish me with des-
cription of the abstract accompanying
his application for loan. will call
upon the Bank of North Dakota for
the abstract and will examine it and
it the title is sound will certify it to
the Bank of North Dakota within
forty-eight hours after it has been
received by my office. II Mr.. Waters
of tn Bank of North Dakota will turn
the abstracts over to my office and
make the loans upon their return to
the bank, we will have every loan
now pending completed and the
lmOney turned over to the farmers in
two weeks.
(Signed.) William LANCER,
Attorney General.
i Likening the shooting out to
other banks Of poor collateral" ord
ers which Roy NJ. Halliday wrote to
the ScandinavianAmeric bank Of
ficials to hypothetical case of the
sheriff of county tipping off blind
pigger that a raid was due, advising
the pigger to take the brew to the
place of another party, and then the
sheriff telling the pigger to get his
; stuff after the raid was over. At
torney. General William LANCER in 4
fiery attack OH Townley and Townley-
ism told the inside story Of a few of
the recent incidents in connection
with the management of the state
affairs. His address was one of the
three political features staged stimuli
taneously in Bismarck last Friday.
! LANCER read several letters, pho
I tographic copies of documents taken
from the Scandia bank. He offered
reward if the Courier-News or any
league paper could be induced to
mention the $4,000 bond which was
/ 6d1u W nave Unsupported e1uu CAPAoAh-
ed why that matter was dropped SO
quickly. The explanation was sim
pie the bank examiner HalldOrson
was under 100000 surety bond and
the bank and the state were amply
protected.
AS usual LANCER defied any one in
the audience to have him arrested
under the Anti-Liars or any other law
for mis-statement of fact. He out
lined in length the Minnie Nelson
controversy, the Valley City Bank
deal and then scathingly excoriated
Representatives Held and Prater of
Burleigh county for being led by
their noses, and especially for HAVING
condoned tn resolutions charging
LANCER with IA violations of his
oath. the resolutions which were
passed at the closing day of the spe-
cial Frazier Facilitation convention.