The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-10-21

and they want change. Mr.. Cox has
said that he. will follow Mr.. Wilson's
footsteps and Forty-Ninth Cousin
Franklin D. Roosevelt says "me too"
to that. So it looks like safe bet for
Harding and Coolidge who appear to
be the best fitted for the Jobs for
which they are running.
What we want in this state is home
rule instead Of having the state gov
erned from the nonpartisan league
headquarters at St. Paul, MINI. We
have had too much government from
St. Paul in the past. That is why we
have the nonpartisan league. Let's
change it back to home government,
for the people, of the people, and by
the people, on November 2.
The socialist forces are licked and
you do not have to take our word for
it. Townley himself says SO and all
real good nonpartisan will admit
without hesitation that he is the one
man in this whole country who is tell
ing the truth. Didn't he say that he
owned no property when he was in the
bankruptcy court? And hasn't Brin-
ton said that he owns twenty-three
thousand acres of fine land in Florida
given to,him by the farmers of North
Dakota. What is the use arguing
about how the state is going on Mo-
vember 2. Mr.. Townley says he is
licked and we shall have to take his
word for it-because we really think
this time he is telling the truth.
If anyone in the state deserves your
support, it is State Superintendent
Minnie J. Nelson. She has borne the
brunt of the league batteries in the
past and their smut mills this CAM
paign have been working over time
trying to besmirch her character and
her official acts while in office. Barnes
county should resent those kind of tao
tics and on November 2 give Miss
Nelson one of the finest endorse
ments she ever got. She is worthy
Of it, has made good official, has
been harassed and badgered by the
league leaders and it is time the peo-
pie of the state put stop'to this sort
of thing. Mark your ballot in favor
of Minnie J. Nelson for state super
intendent of pubic instruction.
There is much confusion among vot-
ers as to their right for voting in
moving from one precinct to another.
At the special session Of the legisla-
ture held in 1919 an amendment to
the law covering residence require
ments of voters was passed, as fol-
lows: Chapter %, special session of
1919 says:
AMENDMENT: Every qualified
elector who shall have resided in the
state one year, and in the county
ninety days, and in the precinct thirty
days next preceding any election,
shall be entitled to vote at such cleo
ton; provided, that where qualified
elector moves from one precinct to
another within the same county, he
shall be entitled to vote in the pre-
'cinct from which he moved, until he
establishes his residence in the pre-
cinct to which he moved. m
Approved 9:45 p. m. December II,
1919. ~ ..er ~ q. - T.
Cut out your party politics in North
Dakota. We are more concerned in
this state in getting a change of ad-
ministration for the better than we
are Of electing a president. North
Dakota is in bad shape and needs
united effort on the part of every
democrat, every republican, every man
in the state, and we mean the women,
too, who has the welfare Of the people
at heart, to get behind Hon. ]. F. T.
O'Connor for Governor. We need a
period of sanity and business judg-
meF in the capital at Bismarck by our
state oficials-men who can work for
the good Of all the people instead of
the needs of the selected and hand
picked few. It is time for sacrifice
of personal, political ambition, to be
cast aside in the interests Of good
government. We want some one for
instance in charge of the Bank Of
North Dakota who is unafraid Of the
light Of public scrutiny-who is will
ing to allow state institution hand
ling hundreds of millions of dollars Of
our funds to be examined. No man
who is straight can object to that.
We want state banker who will keep
the money of the people of North Da-
kota in North Dakota for the needs
of tho for,o,orc ~ \ nol,o%o Owl