The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1920-01-08
Items of Interest From
The State Capitol

off had the Brinton graft wished on
him. Moody Of the Richland county
Farmer had previously refused the JOB
T. Now Rishoff has thrown up the
sponge and refuses to let himself be
soaked. "Brinton must CO." is the slo-
gan.
Popular isn't he?
It is stated that the Publishers Ser
vice Bureau owes about $1o0.GCO on
various plants. When the farmers
signed their notes for taking over the
Brinton papers, the paper was hooked
by the Publishers Service Bureau at
Fargo through the Scandinavian
American and other banks. Thrown
into a common pot, the money was
used in a manner never made public,
and now with 81 900 due there is a
tremendous scramble to raise the cash
to clear things up. But the farmers
are wary. Rishoff says thc only way
the farmers will dig again will be by
the canning Of Brinton.
All the disclosures by Risnoff have
recalled with startling vividness a bill
introduced in the senate at the recent
special Frazier Facilitaticn assembly,
which alleged that Brinton made from
$1,000 to $4,000 on his organization of
North Dakota newspapers, such finan-
ceering being made possible by the ad-
ministration's passage of the original
Brinton Grab Bill. The late graft bill
alleged that Brinton had cleaned up a
total of $4,000 as the result of 1egis-
lation favorable to his plan. Every
of Of levi,
fused to lie like a horse thief) to get
that bill out of con: niittee was block
ed by he League senator's.
Heigh-ho, it's iine mess.
Petitions of candidates for the pres
idency of the United Statcs will snort
ly be in circulation IN i'orth Dakota
for three candidates, Hiram Johnson,
Of California, General Leonard Wood,
and Governo" Lowtlen of Illinois.
Johnson at the present time is on a
speaking tour Of the Pacific coast
states but will come 90 North Dakota
SONIC time within re neX+ three weeks
for$at least four meetings in this state
His popularity is increasing, it is as
serted and the fact that he is progress
sive% in his ideas probably will work to
his benefit in this state. General L.
Wood because Of his military record is
considered a strong candidate and
would poll much larger vote in n. D.
than Pershing, should he enter the
race.
I,owden, of Illinois, is an unknown
factor in the North Dakota primaries.
johnson and Wood are avowel candi-
datr| and have already filed pctiti'",s
in some states. a strong ORGANIZED
tion is back Of the johnson loom in
North Dakota.
Perhaps the feature of the presiden-
tial campaign is that Lynn Frazier
who was being groomed as the "reds"
candidate for president, apparently
must be maintained in the position Of
governor to carry out the completion
of the "Townley looting' program,
State Treasurer Obert Olson, who
more or less has been riding the fence
politically during his present term Of
Office. probably will be read out of The
League councis Or receive at least ,hc
compliments of the governor and the
Courier-News as the result of his ''c-
fusal to be ''bulldozed by anyone.
On Monday. December 90. Governor
Fl azier announced that 40 expense,
or salaries incurred by the state licens-
ing department, which is under the ju-
risdiction of Attorney General Lam
Ger, would be paid after December 21.
He practically announced his own per-
sonal repeal Of the department. The
legislature did not repeal the depart
ment, merely transferred it to the
estate sheriff" from Attorney General
The governor had not named the state
sheriff nor made any demand for the
surrender Of the department.
Wednesday Olson wrote a letter to
the Governor demanding under what
payments Of warrants should
be held up. He declared that under
no condition less than legal action
would he hold up the payments Of war
rants, especially where a department
was not affected by the slash in the
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