Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-02-05
.STUTSMAN COUNTY
PLAN OF CAMP AlGN
MADE STATErWID

Counties in 1920 Cam
paigns.
The same effective method of cam
paign, which resulted in such pne-
nomenal success in the Stutsman
county referendum fight and which
changed a Townley majority of more
than five hundred tO an Independent
majority of about the same number
Of votes, will be carried into every
county OF the state during the 1920
campaigns as = result of the meet
ings of representatives of the various
countries Of the state which were
held in the armory Wednesday. One
of the most convincing arguments In
favor of the stutsman county plan,
and one which shows that it is prac-
ticable. is that it has been given
thoro trial in one of the hottest po-
litical fights the state has ever wilt
messed.
To the skeptical. one has but to
point to the fact, that while the cam
spDaign in Stutsman county was less
costly than those Of other countless
the results we're much more gratify-
ing. In Cass county, for example,
the bank of North Dakota law re-
Corded fewer mo votes than did the
credits law of the preceding election,
while in Stutsman county the gain
OF the bank Of North Dakota law In
.'no' votes was over one thousand,
or !. Eatn Of about one hundred per
cent. phe bank of North Dakota
NV isS taken as an example as It was was
aet papllla E4af tha. aaEen leaxRs.
4 measures submitted tos the people sat
the referendum election in the spring
OF 1919. A comparison of the re-
suits attained in other counties of
the state are even; more favorable to
the Stutsman county method.
Outstanding Features
of Stutsman Plan
Some Of the most outstanding fea-
lures Of the plan Of campaign, which
is really very simple, are: Cd a
clear-cut realization of what the
dominant issue in North Dakota is,
/ e.. finish fight between constitu-
tional government and radical social
ism, (2) realization on the part of
every member Of organization that
he, personally, is responsible for the
showing to his neighbor the condi-
tions with which the people Of the
state are face to face, (3)'a thoro or
ganization Of every precinct based
upon much the same plan as the
Liberty Loan and Red Cross cam
paign organizations, (4) personal
campaign, not for funds or for mem
berships, but for the selling of real,
100 per. cent Americanism, 90
hearty cooperation with the other
organizations of the state. which have
the same object in view but which
may be organized upon a different
basis, (6)s the absolute elimination
Of all personal ambition to be elected
to any position Of trust or honor, and
the submerging Of all petty diff
ferences in the struggle for the good
Of all, and last but not least, each
county selecting its own candidates
and conducting its own campaign.
The heart of the whole idea might
be summed up in the words of two
Of the principal speakers at the open
ing session Wednesday morning, the
first one asserting that ''it is the bus
mess Of every true American citizen:
to go out and sell his neighbor Amer
icanism. The other fellow Is selling
socialism, however cleverely camou-
tagged It may be, and we must combat
him by selling xAmericanism.' = The
other speaker said, It Is not q mat
ter Of politics: or Of policies. 1t is a
matter Of patriotism. It is q matter
5of being willing to sacrifice for th..
ipreservation Of constitutio tional govern
smelt. which is being oYerthrown By
the ruthless doctrines OF extreme So
8cialism. It is not matter: Of the
Selection Of any man, OF of any, one:
issts sof men. but a matter of the life
'of our country" 35:
Needing Called to Order 81
by y. q !. Bschanan
The drst meeting was called to or
der by j. "a Buchanan, who was;