The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-05-17
LEMKE 1 WANTS ]! TO
BE ON DECK FOR
RICH PICKINGS
Industrial Commission is Bait
Which Lures Chief b from
Obscurity
LAST DESPERATE STAND
Nonpartisan League Leaders
Staving Off Defeat by Run
ming Bishop Bill
LAST DESPERATE STAND

William Lemke} is hardly living up
to the traditions of political boss
in accepting an office. Together with
Arthur C. Townley #he has been the
Bunty that pulls the strings in this
state. Why he is willing to penetrate
the veil of mystery and come out into
the open just like any garden variety
of office seeker is quite apparent. Tho
attorney general is a member OF the
industrial commission. the body that
has under it's direction all state own
ed industries
Governor Frazier and John Hagen
are the other members of that COM
mission and they are candidates foc
denomination at the June primary.
II Arthur G. Townley can carry the
primaries an the November elections,
he has an airtight industrial commits
sion and allied with it board Of uni
versity and school lands which might
look with favor upon. the investment
of the states school funds in bonds
of state owned industries.
Cards All Stacked
The cards. are stacked for a des-
perate last stand to gather up the
few reins of power not yet within
the grasp of Townley and his greedy
henchman. Everysman who in the
past has shown the slightest in
dependence has been dropped. The
Townley-Lemke dictatorship is taking
no chances. There must be no more
Langer:Hall- KOsitzky rebellions. Men
have been selected by the league who
will take orders and who are able
to hear the commands the first time
and execute them in true soviet
fashion.
There is no surprise at the kind OF
! ticket the league machine hand
picked at Fargo last Friday. None
of the persons named is conspicuous
| for his service to the state.
DR.. Ladd who gets the biggest plum
in the endorsement for United States
senator has played the game from the
very start. His alliance with the
Townley machine is the most vicious
Of all, because he is supposed tC
have some standing in the profes-
sional circles of the nation through
his experiments in the auulteration OF
foods. Since his entry into the hurly
burly of active politics, DR.. Ladd's
standing in educational circles has
reached the zero, point. He has pros
tituted his high position as head OF
the second largest educational insti
tuition in the state to play rank par
tisan politics. He has even given
Mr.. Townley's political vagaries en-
dorsement Dr. Ladd was in posi-
ton to reveal to the farmers of the
state the fallacy of the league pro
gram, but he preferred to climb on
Townleys utopian band-wagon.
Faithful Lynn
It was conceded that Lynn J. Fra
zier who only recently returned from
New York where he cast his lot with
the admirers Of Debs, O'Hare and
Berger, would be endorsed for COVER.
nor. Lemke discovered Frazier's do
cility when the two played football
at the University. Arthur Townley
sized Frazier up four years ago and
endorsed "Comrade Bills" judgment
Frazier has stayed hitched perfectly
for four years and gives no visible
warning that he wont be the same
earnest servant of the league bosses
! if elected for another two years. "Bill
and Art made no mistake in en-
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