Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-06-05
governor, and I. wish to advise that
the people, Of North Dakota do, not
thank you for having pardoned

tive, also spoke at sAlmo. LANCER left
this morning for Mckenzie county,
where he, will speak: =, sA
,b MI 1E n m. found ID, T. i nearly m q
had scheduled due to. the heavy
rains, as he is travelling by. car It
was nearly, 1880 when he arrived in
Ray. but the crowd stuck and: listen
ed to his talk for two and one-half
hours " ~. -
Killdeef, N. d., June s:-william
Lahger. candidate for governor ION the
q tremendous crowd here tonight
when he makes his fourth speech of
the day lin, Dunn county. Auditori-
inns at Halliday, Beulah. and Golden
Valley were filled to overhowing at
his earlier: meetings and hundreds Of
farmers shopping here todayaplanned
on remaining to hear the next gov
ernor." They reported many more
Of; the" neighbors coming in later.
Ithe farmers of northern, Hettinger
county at a big, picnic to be. held at
Villa.
I That the, seven farmers on the jury
which, convicted H. j.. Hagan, 'presi-
dent. of the Observation-Disclosures
bank at. Fargo. are not the only
farmers who re. convinced OF the
C~TOOASQHeS0 OIL the Oduk anu CQ0 ,SOn-
nivance Of the officers Of the Satate
banking board controlled bJE2 the
Townley machine, is evidenced It all
the LANCER meetings, as he is;N Using
with telling. effect the photographs OF
the documentary evidence-the orig
mails of which were by court order
turned over to o. e. Lofthus, state
bank examiner given by him to the
indicted officials and lost when the
trial opened.
Mr.. LANCER is not trying to mini
,,,mize the fact that he was originally
Ia Nonpartisan Lacquer. In his speech
es he has told the story OF or8aniza-
ltion-and dissemination. In One of
his speeches the last week he sad:
! "A few years ago North Dakota
wanted certain definite specific re-
forms. We wanted state-owned ele-
|vators. mills and packing plants and
addition certain better tax reforms.
I'VE all got together, paid our
money and. signed the same agree
ment. An executive committee of
i've men appointed themselves and
every time we signed an agreement
f. these I'VE mems names were at the
head Of ia. C. Townley, !. B.
Wood. O. s. Evans and e. A. Bow
man.
W. went out over the state. and
told the farmers what we would dc
when We were elected; We went to
Bismarck and had control bf all the
executive Offices, the house, and lack
ed one vote in the senate.
But three men, Townley, Lemke
and Wood, realizing the tremendous
political power, Of the North Dakota
secretly and ran things to suit them
selves. They were able to start the
specialization Of the state.
1T was impossible to get these
men out of the executive offices be.
cause under the constitution which
they themselves had framed for the
Nonpartisan league, they themselves
met as the executive committee to re.
elect thmselves as successors. t.
themselves, :
I'VE, you and, 1, still have q chance
to see our hopes come true. We still
have a chance to get our experiment
in state owned mills, elevators and
packing plants. And IL elected gov
ernor, I viii do all in my power to
see that We get a reasonable expert.
ment and not an e7travasant expendi.
ture Of 317,eoo,o 900.
Gus convention than that at Minot
clerks, railroad men. bankers, stenog.
raphers, plumbers, mechanics, me
and named men from among them
selves n. delegates. They met and
they adopted IS. planks, in the Repuh.
lican state; platform, every single
feature which you farmers wante,
that va, in the original Nonpartisar
"But," he added. they didn't en-.
dorse Neil. Mcdonald in. a fight against
Minnie. Nelson; they didn't endorse q