The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-13

leclare they will make a public
. within the league organization,
e league organization has passed
Who started it into the hands of
Prospects of the accusations of both
sides being aired in the courts were
strong following the statements of
both sides in the controversy The
statement of Waters, which started
the imbrolgio, follows:
To Whom It May Concern:
My resignation published in the
Courier-NeWs was not written by me
at Miami, or elsewhere, was published
without my knowledge and consent.
and is forgery committed by the
Courier-News editor, Mr. Lemke, or
some other employee of the League
or Bank Of North Dakota.
The first saw Of this resignation
was in the Courier-News while sitting
in Miami hotel. This so-called res.
ignation does not express my senti.
ments and is false and an attempt to
cover up strife and friction that ex.
listed in the Bank of North Dakota
during the entire time I was acting
as manager, in name only
It is we'll known to the Governor,
Mr.. Cathro, Mr. Townley and Mr..
Lemke that the management Of the
bank was never in my hands and that
was out of harmony with them at all
times, and opposed and objected to
numerous transactions that took place
in the institution, such as the sending
OF unlimited funds to the Fargo bank,
the sending of funds out of the state.
the putting Of League paper into the
institution. the payment of excessive
salary and expense bills to bank EN-.
ployees and the payment of money to
League employees under the pretense
of expense.
had notified Governor Frazier on
several occasions that would not con.
tinue as manager of the Bank under
such conditions and only agreed to
stay the first year as personal favor
to him, but expected to be given the
courtesy of writing my own resigna.
tion, giving my own reasons for so do.
ing, instead of having the League
Bosses do it for me in my absence.
l will have more to say regarding
this affair and the Banks management
as soon as | have medium through
which to speak and through which
can reach League members.
(Signed) J.R. WATERS.
Socialists Supreme, He Says
In an advertisement to boost a
deal Waters declared that
"the imported Soviets in cooperation
with local Socialists are using the
league to put over on the
state an entirely different program.
including the ideas of Walter Thomas
Mills, Carl Thompson, Victor Berger,
Eugene Debs, Kate Richards O'Hare.
Upton Sinclair Charles Edward Rus
sell and other national and interna.
tiOnal Socialists = whom the farmers
of North Dakota never pledge them
selves to support. This with criminal
of the state government
and the League. and with dishonest
political management Of the farmers
state conventions. threatens the sue.
cess of the original program"
Waters claims that he is for the
original program of the league-that
lie is out to put the league bosses who
are not farmers friends out of power.
Appealed to Frazier
A. c. Townley, who is the particular
arget of Waters. ran on Socialist
icket in Golden Valley county in 1914
n opposition to the farmers ticket"
according to one of the charges of
Waters and his associates.
One of the statements made is that
Governor Lynn ]. Frazier was appeal
ID "in putting stop to graft and
rookedness within the organization"
apparently having failed they say they
will now appeal direct to the league
membership and demand the ousting
# certain high state officials and Of
cials in the league and a reorganiza.
ion of management within the
eague"
Fac-Simile Shown
The Fargo Courier-News, known
enerally as William Lemke's per-
onal organ, prints what purports to
e facsimile of Waters letter of
esignation to Governor Frazier. The
Imported letter was written on sta
lonery of the Hotel Tamiami, ut
[iami, Florida, April 1, 1920.
In the letter, which Waters says
e never signed, it is stated over 4
gnature purporting to be his that
e had accepted the position as man
ger of the Bank Of North Dakota
My in order to aid the farmers
rogram and that he was resigning
ecause it called for too great a sac
flee in his personal affairs. The
'tter thanks the Governor for CO.
peration and declares the people
ave "going concern
After charging that Waters lie1