The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1920-06-10
LANCER TELLS WHAT
he Will DOlf he IS
ELECTED GOVERNOR
Wanted to Know Why Farmers of
State Cannot Get Loans from
Bank of North Dakota.

the various OlNceS anu Une WUIherS
in the campaign" said A. w. Carlson,
director Of the speakers bureau at
Republican Headquarters.
"Formerly the general voting pub
lie was apathetic, while the followers
of Townley Stunned an anti-Townley
speaker as though he were leper.
Today, in the former solid league
counties, audiences are composed of
from so to 80 per cent of friends OF
the original program.
Mr.. Carlson continued: From all
parts of the state come reports, to
hold the crowds, and of ever flow or
open air meetings"
Apparently the campaig IL has awak-
ened the league members to the actual
conditions brought about at the dicta-
ton of Townley, Lemke and the
others.
The story of the campaign, in fact
the major issues are contained in the
following excerpts from speech by
William LANCER in which are succint-
ly set forth the cause of the present
political battle:
"A few years ago North Dakota
wanted certain definite specific re-
forms. We wanted state-ow ele-
vators, mills and packing plants and
better marketing conditions and in
addition certain better tax reforms.
"We all got together, paid our mon
ey and signed the same agreement.
An executive committee of five men
appointed themselves and every time
we signed an agreement these five
mems names were at the head of it
A. C. Townley, F. B. Wood, o. s.
Evans, and E. A. Bowman.
I'VE went out over the state and
told the farmers what we would do
) when we were elected; we went to
Bismarck and had control of all the
executive offices, the house, and lack
ed one vote in the senate
"But three men, Townley, Lemke
and Wood, realizing the tremendous
POLITICAL power Of the North Dakota
Leader and other League papers met
secretely and ran things to suit them
selves. They were able to start the
socialization of the state.
ut was impossible to get these men
out of the executive offices because
under the constitution which they
themselves had framed for the Non
partisan league, they themselves met
as the exective committee to re-elect
themselves as successors to them
selves.
"We, you and l, still have chance
: to see our hopes come through. We
still have chance to get our expert
ment in lstate-owned mills and ele-
vators, and, if elected Governor, /
will do all in my power to see that
we get reasonable experiment and
not an ,extravagant expenditure of
Seventeen million dollars or more.
"There never was more harmoni-
GUS convention than that at Minot.
Farmers, lawyers, Nbookkeepers, clerks
hailroad men, bankers, stenOgraphers,
plumbers mechanics met and named
men from aml,ng themselves as dele
gates from the various counties.
They met at Minot and they adopted
as planks in the Republican State
Platform ~ EVERY SINGLE FEAT
URE WICH YOU FARMERS WANT
THAT WAS IN THE REAL AND
ORIGINAL NON PARTISAN PRO-
GRAM.
"But" he has added, "they didn't
endorse Neil Mcdonald in a fight
against Minnie Nelson; they didn't
endorse bank which is run as a pri-
vate institution for the benefit of the
friends of Waters, Cathro, Townley,
Lemke and Frazier. They didn't en-
dorse state sheriff law that adds
another expensive officer to the state
payroll and deprives your county sher-
if of their powers and duties; they
did not endorse an absent voters law
that would let a crooked bunch of pol
iticians go out and buy up the votes
they needed three weeks in advance
of election, buy enough until they had
election cinched; they didn't free love
or the l. w. w. Nor did the Re
p1bHcans endorse the law which would
let smelling committee come into
your home and look over your personal
books, or read or even make public
your love letters which your wife had
saved; furthermore the Republicans
did not endorse the flying of the red
flag of Socialism or the black flag
lof Anarchy.
"Republicanism," said Mr.. LANCER,
sis not Townleyism, Republicanism is
not socialism, but it is Americanism
and it doesn't stand for the pardoning
Of Kate Richards O'Hare's. It does
stand for the things which Townley
promised you would get-but you
didn't.
Referring to this latter subject Mr..
zone thing ! will do if elected Gov
ernor will be to write to Woodrow
son and in that letter l will say Mr..
president, few months ego the for
mer governor of North Dakota wrote