The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-04-22
Denies That 1t Is j.:
a Put Up Job

! members OF the l. V. A. were to Dt
excluded.
| l may be permitted to state in this
connection that the l. V. A. is neither
an office grabbing institution nor q
glory gathering one. We should
worry about who gets theA-glory OF
even who gets the Offices so long as
they are bound by a platform that is
fairly consistent with the l. V. A.
stand on Townleyism. The l. V. A.
is opposed to Townleyism as expressed
by it's deciples who stimulate neigh
bor-hating and who resort to lying
insinuations and personal villiticatisn
to gain political ends. The l. V. A.
is opposed to the specialization of in
dustry, the, squandering of public
money and the ruthless disregard OF
constitutional provisions which has
been resorted to by the advocates of
Townleyism.
:. The /. V. A. is not interested in the
Doodle policy or the Nonpartisan
League. = l don't know but what the
originators of it are entitled to the
fruits of it until majority of the
voters of North Dakota get behind a
legislature and a set of state officials
who will stop it.
.. In order to make up the 100 dele
gates that this article styles as hand
picked, it would be necessary to in
clude all the state central committee
men of the republican party and some
more, and it would be an insult to
those men to even suggest that they
are under the control of anybody. l
may be permitted to say also that so
far as the /. v A. state headquarters
is concerned we have absolutely no
check on how these forty-nine men
stand with reference to the candidacy
of William LANCER, and since the |. V.
A. as an organization has no particu-
lar interest in the candidacy of any
one man before the anticipated con-
vention has spoken, there can be no
good reason why the l. V. A. should
not be willing that it's entire executive
committee and all he forty-nine CEN
trail committeeman should not be dele
gates of the convention unless they are
elected by their fellow citizens in their
respective counties.
1t seems both amusing and strange
that we should have so much fuss
about getting together now when we
think of the fact that mass conven-
ton was universally approved two
years ago by means Of which to Sc
lect a state ticket. A mass conven-
ton is ten tines more dangerous than
any kind of delegate convention.
One year ago we were getting ready
for a real contest against ToWnleyiSm
ION laws only We had scarcely any
trouble in our campaign then, and l
anticipate that if we could concern
ourselves now with only the anti-red
flag law and the other three red terror
laws we would not have any trouble IN
our camp. All talk about candidates
helping to carry the day against Town
leyism is bosh. The best of them are
a load, and 1 do not hesitate to say
that of few of William Langer's boost
ers have done more to get the public
mind centered on individuals instead
of on principles in this contest than
the friends of all other tentative and
positive candidates put together. My
chief concern is with what we are
fighting and not who leads the fight.
If we are not careful we will so
lose our heads over candidates that
we will forget to roll up a majority
vote "for" the anti-red flag law that
is to be voted on June 3Oth. If that
is defeated North Dakota and North
Dakotans will be forever disgraced.
Truly yours,
THEO. G. NELSON,
Secretary, I. V. A.