The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-05-06

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Kansas democrats have decided to
go to the state democratic convention
dressed in delmins and overalls. We
presume that the old banner He kept
US out of war; will now be supplant-
ed by the banner HE kept US out Of
clothes"
1t is about time for Mr.. Taft to say
again that it will be unwise to nomi-
nate Hiram johnson, who he claims
is too radical to get the votes of the
thickly settled eastern states. Mr.,
Taft ought to know. He is the hero
of Utah and Vermont.
We are having a lot of trouble get
ting print paper, especially OF the
blue white variety and today we are
forced to print the Times-Record on
paper with decidedly yellow tint.
However, the only yellow thing about
tbs paper is the color Of the paper it
is printed on. At that we are in luck
to get any kind of print paper at all.
With the prlce OF potatoes going
up the way they are nowadays it is
almost cheaper to eat fresh strawber-
ries and cream if you leave out the
sugar. Sugar is about 35c per pound
which is an outrage and uncalled for
yet the government is allowing this
profiteering to continue at the eX-
pense Of the common people of the
country. The sugar trust sure has
the country by the throat and there
seems to be no help from it so far
as the legal arm of the government is
concerned.
The Bismarck Tribune plays up the
opinion of Chief Justice Christianson
that the newspaper law is ''clearly UNI
constitutional But everything the
Nonpartisan League has done has
been held ''clearly unconstitutional
by the esteemed chif justic.-Cour-
er-NeWs.
How about everything being held
constitutional by Grace and Bronson
and Friend Robinson who declare ev-
erything constitutional that is in IA
vor of the nonpartisan league? Huh!
There is still room for several doz-
en- or more candidates for governor
to get into the gubernatorial SWIM
ming pool. The water appears to be
fire and everybody with bee seems
to be getting in regardless of fitness
for the job or any superior qualifica-
tons. Come on in, boys, don't be
bashful. In the meantime Friend
LANCER seems to be gaining IN
strength and popularity and we are
going to predict his nomination at the
Minot convention the fore part Of
May when thta big convention gets
together to nominate state ticket.
Gen. Leonard Wood finally carried
New Jersey by about fifteen hundred
votes over Hiram Johnson. The lat
ter is now yelling fraud and wants a
recount Whatever the outcome of
the matter is, the remarkable vote re-
ceived by Hiram Johnson has opened
the eyes of the whole caboodle Of pol
iticians to the fact that he is going to
cut a big swath in the convention at
Chicago next month. The way things
look at this time neither Johnson or
Wood will be the nominee of that con-
vention. On the democratic side Mr..
Bryan will cut lot of figure in the
convention and history may repeat it.
self by having the Nebraskan make
a speech that will carry the dems off
their feet and nominate him. Strang-
er things have happened. But why
worry about the democratic conven-
tion--there is no chance this year for
democrat.
A newspaper is the sole Judge of
the value of news as such. Newspa-
pers have a right to decide for them
selves what is news, regardless of the
effect on any one. Such is the tenor
of decision of the Illinois appellate
court in the case of candidate for
office who sued Chicago newspaper
because it failed to print his name on
a facsicie Of portion Of a specimen
ballot. "According to the plaintiff S
argument" the court said 'the de-
PENDANT (the newspaper) is liable not
Trained from doing. Such, indeed, is
a novel proposition. To make the de-
PENDANT liable for its silence we must
hold that it was obliged to publish in
it's paper the whole Of the facsimile
judicial ticket. This we are not pre-
pared to do The court is eminently
right. Freedom to print involves
freedom not to print. 1t is no more
just to compel newspaper to print
what it does not want to print than it
is to compel it to refrain from print
ing what it wants to print. In this
case the paper in question judged
that the candidate had no chance of
election and was not serious con-
tender. 1t had right to that view.
Probably there are many young men
who have become voters since the old
convention days who do not know
what is meant by the unit rule. It
was the custom for county conven-
tions to instruct the delegates elected
to the state convention to vote for
some favorite son Of the county for
certain state Office and to vote all
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