The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-06-16
TREND SETSIN
FOR LANCER MEN,
ALL0YER STATE
Reports Received on Political
Situation Indicate Sweep
ing Victory for Ticket
SOCIALISTS ARE UNMASKED
Farmers Learn of S0cialistic At
tack Through Facts Which
Cannot be Denied
SOCIALISTS ARE UNMASKED

With the primary election set for
two weeks from today, every candi-
date Of the Victory Ticket and every
member of the organization that is
fighting socialistic control in the state
feels confident of success.
That there has been trend toward
the nomination of William LANCER as
Governor and the entire Republican
ticket endorsed by the Minot conven-
tion is not questioned, even by Non
partisan league leaders.
Beginning slowly, the movement
against socialist control has been
steadily gathering force in every
part Of the state, according to reliable
reports. Going into hard fight at
first with the intention of making
every effort for victory but with
doubt existing in some quarters that
the voters in every section of the
state could be reached by June 30, the
leaders in the anti-Towniley fight are
Eow more than pleased with the re-
suits of the campaign. 1t is farther
advanced now that they hope it
could be by primary election day.
Farmers on Ticket
The presence of many farmers who
have toiled long in North Dakota soil
and "laboring men on the state and
county Victory ticket gives the lie to
the representation of the league
leaders that they are the sole repre-
sentatives of the farmers and the
laboring men.
They are being shown in their true
colors as leaders of a socialistic
movement which has state socialism
as it's goal, with North Dakota as the
starting point for a nationwide at.
tack on the principles of government
on which the nation was founded and
has prospered.
Know its the Truth
The crowds of farmers who have
left their fields to hear Attorney-Gen-
eral LANCER in a score of towns indi-
Gates the tremendous interest in the
campaign.
An example is Mckenzie county, a
league strong hold during the last four
years. 1t is estimated that between
1GO0 and 1900 farmers heard Mr. Ian
ger in three speeches. The Halliday,
Dunn county, Promoter told of Lam
ger meeting, saying: Every man
who is honest with himself knows
that LANCER told the truth about the
Townley bank wrecking deals at Val
ley City and Fargo, about the Jim
Waters letter to Shoot the bad paper
IN, h1 ho, TO oil ho u, f~,
the examiner got around; about the
newspaper graft bill in which
the farmers put up the money;
about the socialistic bunch that
holds fat jobs at the state capitol:
LANCER hit from the shoulder; he had
all the proof right with him and pass
ed it through the audience. The edi
tor of this paper, like every other
man, who reads both sides and follow
ed these bank cases in court knows
that LANCER told the absolute truth"
Meeting a Failure
Reports received here today indicate
that the third of four ratification
meetings" of the Nonpartisan league
at Grand Forks yesterday was a
failure.
When the first rally was held at
Bismarck a picinc was to be held on
the state capitol grounds in the
morning. There were three picnic
parties present. The crowd which
gathered at the Auditorium in the af-
ternoon after the league leaders had
hurriedly hired band to parade
through the streets was estimated at
less than 500. outside of the state
capital employees and other agents of
the league.
The Fargo picnic was not. There
were not enough to hold picnic and
a crowd estimated at from 300 to 500
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