Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1920-03-04

the seat OF his pants and propel him
thru the open doorway before Miss
could enter the office to
which the majority of the epeople OF
this state had elected her.
Mr. LANCER then outlined the fight
that was continued on Miss Nelson.
even after she had taken her office,
how she was humiliatsd and shamed
in Sthe district court here by Mac
donald's league lawyers and how
finally Judge W. L.. Nuessle, within
tivegmtnutes after the close Of argu-
ments said, II find that Mr.! Mac
donald has not a shadow Of claim to
the office which belongs entirely to
Miss Nelson"
Townley Lied. .s
During the PERIOD" continued
Mr.. 4 LANCER. "Townley went up and
down the state and told the voters
that the board of administration bill
would give Miss Nelson more powers
than she ever had before. When Mr..
Townley said that he deliberately
lied. The bill he was referring to
was not the board of administration
b II at all, but another senate bill. 4
after the board of administration
was brot into being, the first thing
Governor Frazier did was to ignore
the hundreds OF men qualified to be
members Of that board by their as
sociation with institutions of learn
ing and appoint such men as the
twice unfrocked minister, George H.
Totten, Sr., as chairman Of the board
and William Lemke's 3rother-in-law
rs one of the members and Pat Casey
as the third. These men with John
Hagen, secretary Of agriculture, gave
Townley four votes and Miss Nelson
one lone vote. And to cap the su-
preme insult to the people of this
state, Mel Macdonald was made Of.
fetal advisor to the board at $4,000
a year and his wife given a position
at $4,000.
Finances Cause Split. j..
''Up to this time, Townley called
me Bill But q greatstinancial affair
caused our real spiits Thomas Allen
Boxsand J. j. Hastings, the mightiest
financierssin say land were the di-
rectecause Of my downfxN from grace
in T6wnlsy:a eyes. sass 81
The attorney general then outlined
how Box and Hastings went around
the country organizing banks under
Townley control getting commits
sions of $4,000; $4,000; $500, for
their efforts. In humorous vein,
Mr.. LANCER showed how Box AMI
Hastings dropped Porter Kimball
from their bank organizations be-
cause they wanted to retain a larger
share of the profits. Kimball, Mr..
LANCER said, was made coal baron.
From this point on, Mr.. LANCER
confined himself to the five subjects
which he challenged Townley to de-
bate. Plunging into the details of
the Valley City bank deal he traced
the manner in which Box and Hast
ings operated, how in less than a
week these two Townley henchmen
had sold 100000 worth of bank
stock and collected $4,000 for the
weeks work, how $4,000 in cash il
the bank soon turned into $4,000 in
questionable securities, how it was
that the American Ma
tional bank was bought for 100000
when the real price was '$146,00o
and how Box and Hastings then de-
camped to Florida to work for the
U. s. sisal trust "to make bindery
twine for North Dakota farmers"
Waters Sticks.
''Jim Waters then sent out a state
ment over his own signature saying
that there was nothing dishonest or
in this DEAL" said Mr.. Lam
ger, .tand when I demonstrated with
him and told him he knew it was
untrue, Jim Waters said to me, We'll.
We fellows have to stick together,
This salley was greeted with q storm
IF applause.
The attorney general then launch
I'd into the Scandinavian-American
bank expose and brought gale of
laughter from the audience when he
explained the true meaning Of a
bank examiner first notifying bank
hat an examination Of that institu.
ions books would be made in a day
,r two.
take for instance" said Mr..
LANCER, 'that your sheriff here. sRo-
in Welch, knew there was some
bootleg booze In the home Of Bill
?rater and he said to Bill, 'Prater
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