The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-10-28
D0ckAcE BUSTER
BACKS DOWN

bAUhO DUWlV
Truly when Dockage Buster O'Con-
nor, candidate Of the IVA, Grain
Gambling Combine for governor, looks
back over the avenues of his political
life sometimes he must feel lick duck
ing into an alley. r.
Recently the Dockage Buster made
a political speech in Garrison, N. D.,
feeding bunkum to small audience
and, vainly endeavoring to make the
farmers believe he is in sympathy
with their aims. An attempt was made
by a.representative of the Mclean
County Independent, the Farmer-La-
Dor newspaper, to get Slippery Jeft's
record before the same audience, but
O'Connor denied him the floor. The
Dockage Buster was unwilling to face
the Garrison editor in open debate.
Following is epitome of Slippery
.Jeft's legislative record and his other
attempts to undermine the farmer-la-
Dor program which appeared in the
Mclean County Independent Oct. IA.
81. AS representative from Grand
Forks county in 1919 you voted and
talked against House Bill 9 which
authorities the state to issue bonds
necessary to establish the state mill
and elevator system and other indus
tries. You also failed to vote for the
mill and elevator bond issue. Is. B..
75.) -.
"2. You spoke and voted against
House Bill IL which permits the state
to engage in industry or business en-
terprises. The defeat of that bill would
have made it impossible to erect even
a small mill or elevator, or to estab-
lish the state hail insurance or the
State Home Building Association. The
fact that you hypocritically (or pre-
tend toy favor a part of this indus
trial program, in the face of the fore
going record, aggravates this crime.
"3 You voted against establishing
the Bank of North Dakota without
which the industrial program could
not have been put into effect; you al
so voted against the bond issue neces-
sary to start the bank.
~. You fought the rural credit Of
the Bank of North Dakota voting
against Senate Bill 100 which author
lied the issue of s$10,0OO,000 Of rur-
al credit bonds. That you now pretend
friendship to the farmer despite this
record makes the crime more wicked.
t5.. You voted "NO" on the Indus
trial Commission Bill (H. B. ~ with
out which the state mill and elevator,
the soldier bonus act, the Bank of
North Dakota, the Home Building AS
sociation all would have been left 'up
in the air''-without management.
&c. Your cloven hoof is especially
visible in the course you have pursued
in the grain grading and dockage act.
First, we find you speaking against
this act (Senate bill 14), claiming
it was unconstitutional and, finally,
YOU fail to vote for it. Next we find
YOU as one Of the attorneys of the
| grain trust trying to destroy in the
federal courts this law that is saving
the farmers at least $4,000, 1000 per
wear. Last, but not least, you make
speech at Minot attacking this law.
In that speech you are caught by
State Grain Inspector Ladd in num-
Der of bare-faced lies such as that the
law vas "costing the farmers $780,
900 per year" when the records show
that the expenses incurred in enforc-
ing the law were more than covered by
the s65,OOO of fees collected from
grain buyers and elevators. You are
caught in another lie when you try
to figure a general loss to the farm
ers from ONE instance where Dep
uty Inpector Govern forced an ele.
vator to buy wheat on a No. instead
of a No. 5 grade, when it is a fact
notorious to all grain farmers that
the great mass Of grain buyers grade
DOWN and not UP unless they find
some way to recoup themselves on
apparent increases. In the latter
| statement you as good as confess your
guilt Of advocating dishonest grades
for the farmers grain instead Of en-.
forcing a grade fair to farmer and
rain buyer alike, based on grain
standards. All Of which ties you up
body, boots and breeches with the
grain gamblers Of the Minneapolis
Chamber Of Commerce.
"7. But your worst offense, as in
dicated before, consists Of your shifty
tactics, Of your cowardly hypocricy II
pretending to stand for something
4 that you fight with every evil, secret
method you possess, You indulge u
! near-oratory of the school boy type
shedding imitation tears for the cor1'
mon man while devising plans to be.
! tray him. We find You are q human
rattlesnake with apologies to the
lrattlesnake which, at least, has the
decency to give warning before !,
strikes. Your record proves that you
] stab ii the back and strike IN The
l dark. Z
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