The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-03-03

P. T. Barnum once made the sage remark that the
American people liked to be hmbugged and we guess he
right. There is not greater farce and comedy in
existence that compare with the called nves
cation being staged by the senate committee nves
eating the state bank audit at Bismarck 1t is not only
sham and mockery but it is spending useessly lot of
money paid by the people Of this state to try and bolster up
political propaganda of the nonpartisan league try
and keep that bunch power The editor Of this paper
the carpet for about hour Wednesday night and
Attorney Paddock became very much peeved because
the Times Record Of that date e We very clearly
and firmly told where got information and that
thought the inforatio secured absolute fact
The Courier News this morning tries distor our test
mony-but the c. n. publishes correctly anything
that relates to the msdeeds Of its shpwrecked party Mr.
Paddock worried himself up to condition bordering
nervous hstera in trying to get say that thought
the evidence we gave in article in which we stated
that the Bank Of North Dakota had safeguarde those
$2500 notes by placing money in the Security National
Bank, but we told him we thought information
absolutely reliable and that we believed and is true
Mr. Paddock and of the other attorneys for the
ate committee have placed Of those who signed
venenty hiked off fishing trip to Arkansas some
other place not to be in the state at this time If
those league fellows wanted the truth why didn't they put
these six men who signed the notes and Mr. Gradv who
made the deal with Towney the stand If they told the
truth they would have subantiaed statement and it
would not have been necessary to call to Bismarck at
we know in our own mind and from the source we it. to
be the truth They dare not put these the stand
They proved very concusive yesterday by E. L. Fouks
that these notes given by these six men, and did not
deny that they given for political purposes to help
out Mr. Towney Fouks testified that $4,000 was placed
on deposit in the Security National Bank in March and
that later he told by Mr. Grady that it could not be
checked against. If this money could not be checked
against what it there for The answer is easy 1t
to protect these notes and Mr. Paddock knows that
there agreement made by Townley and Grady
The house committee proved BY Mr. Stab contention
that the money secured for political purposes and
those who know but will not say know only too we'll that
the money kept in the bank those notes
til they were paid The whole deal shows that the peoples
money used for political purposes The Scandinavian
American Bank at Fargo proves that They have several
hundred thousand dollars of the peoples money tied up
there through political preference Mr. Cathro admits
bunch has the audacy and the to try and look the
people in the face and tell them that nothing is wrong
Then when they have been caught with the goods they
try to intmidae newspaper who have the courage to
expose their rotenness and guess for nearly hour
MIR. Paddock found one newspaper whom he could
neither bulldoze We assert here and that
whatever statements made in that article last October
has been proven by their witnesses in the house but
not in the senate because they dare not put these witnesses
under oath do not want to- Mr. Paddock tried repeatedly
to break testimony by endeavorg to get to say
that Mr.. CoWes testimony was not true but we stuck
to it that it true and base judgment his in
formation and his dope right and Mr.. Paddock
knows it only too WE'LL Mr. Lederbach, who has dis
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