The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-10-21
BEGINS
SPEAKING TOUR
FOR 0'C0NN0R
Attorney General Says All Real
Republicans will Support v
Him at Polls
"THE ISSUE is SOCIALISM,
Says That Efforts of League
Leaders to Disguise it Are
Thinly Yelled
'THE ISSUE IS SOCIALISM,

Declaring that the issue in the
present campaign is socialism, and
that it transcends party lines, William
LANCER, defeated in the Republican.
primary, began a speaking tour to-
day in behalf of j. F. r. O'Connor and
the entire fusion ticket.
Mr.. LANCER made his first talks at
Ashley and Wishek. Declining 80 III
vita tions to speak in Montana, he will
speak daily in the state until Novem-
Der 2.
II want everv man who voted for
me in the primaries to vote for o..
Connor this fall, and in doing this
am loyal to the Republican party in
North Dakota, because real Republi-
cans today have only the choice be-
tween a Democrat and socialist and
real North Dakota citizen must
choose the Democrat he said.
"The socialists are trying to dis
guise the issue. They are Disgusting
it in their publications, but I would ev.
cry citizen in this state to understand
that the issue he is voting upon Nov
u is whether or not he ultimately
wants here in North Dakota, state
ownership of lands
"Today in North Dakota, there is
no Republican candidate for govern
or. Lynn j. Frazier does not repre-
sent the Republican party. These last
few weeks | have written hundreds OF
letters. paying the postagej myself, to
Republicans who supported me in ths
primaries, asking them to organize
school house campaigns and get out
and lay aside their business for &
period of ten days to elect the fusion
ticket in the state. Unless the fusion
ticket is elected, the Socialist political
machine, which / have so clearly dc
scribed in my book, machine which
overnight can create a thousand jobs
in any community in North Dakota ii
they choose and pay them any salar,
they may wish to pay, will have be-
come so powerful that the Socialis
leaders will be stronger than the peo
pie themselves" was the prediction
Mr. LANCER made. ...
Issue is Socialism.
"The issue is Socialism. The Cour'
ier News and the Socialists are trying
to make the farmers Of North Dakota
believe that they are not Socialists
but the record speaks for itself. The
leaders of the League themselves arc
Socialists, the men they have import
ed from other states are practically
all Socialists. The chief bills thai
they tried to put on the statute books
were defeated by men like Kositzky
and Senator Mees, if passed woulH
have fastened pure, unadulterated So.
cialism upon the people and it is ol
the utmost Importance that the men
who voted for those bills be defeated
and the Independent candidates
elected
"O'ConnOr's record in Miss Mel
sons case shows that he will not
stand for Socialism in the schools OF
North Dakota, and the tremendous
fight that the League is putting ul
against Miss Nelson ought to SHOW
every man and woman voter in NOrtl
Dakota what the real issue is. Hid
ing behind the low price of grain and
live stock, which everyone knows il
far too low today, these Socialists, BY
using the low price propaganda, ar:
attempting to deceive the farmer, in
to fastening Socialistic rule on tt
North Dakota and placing Socialists
in power who will continue to ust
their power to raise the taxes ever
higher than they are today.
Vote for O'C0nnOr.
II want every man who voted 70:
me in the primaries to vote for O'Con'
nor this fall, and in doing this l a.
loyal to the Republican party in North
Dakota, because real Republicans to
day have only the choice between q
Democrat and a Socialist and a rea
North Dakota citizen must choose the
Democrat. The Socialists are tryine
to disguise the issue. They are dis
guising it in their publication, but
want every citizen in the state to un
derstand that the issue he is voting
upon November 2 is whether or moi
he ultimately wants here, in NORTH
Dakota, state ownership of land"
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