The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-10-06

ANYTHING to get away from the cold,
cold facts of nonpartisan misrule, is
the effort of Lemke's daily and the
league radical press generally. Like
a bunch Of gossips they chatter, Mes
tos said this. Nestos said that Some.
BODY said this. Somebody said that"
Personal attacks based on hearsay, or
homemade, fabricated gossip is not
going to get the mudslingers anything.
Nestos has been before the people Of
Ward county and of North Dakota too
long to be damaged by such silly rot
Then again. "Nestos speaks a brogue."
Possibly. So do some Of the profes-
sors at the University. We have
many kinds Of brogue, Scotch, Irish;
German, French and Scandinavian
Also some provincialism from down
east and out west. Does the Lemke
outfit imagine that slight brogue or
provincialism in mans speech here
in North Dakota is going to determine
peoples estimate of his honesty
character and ability. There are en-.
tirely too many honest, capable, good
men and women using brogue from a
slight degree to very high one to
stagger the voters. Why, great Scott
Man! Look up the childhood OF
Lemke and other shining lights in the
league and you will come to the con-.
clusion that brogue is not on one side
alone but on all. In fact, give US all
who use a Scandinavian, German:
Scotch, French or Irish brogue, or who
use provincialisms, and you will find
a strong minority on your side. Bet
ter leave brogue alone and stick to
facts. The Lemke outfit must be hard
pressed, indeed. if color of eyes, size
of feet or peculiarities of speech are
worthy of attention and remark at a
time when voters are looking for hon.
esty, ability and uprightness Of char
acter. @ ~
Some days ago the Fargo Courier
News published some dope that J. w.
refused to pay a $50 check
in one of our state banks and called
in the public press that
did not pay his checks or
to that effect. Brinton. had
paid the check and wanted McClin-
took, of the Courier-News, to retract
and in meeting to discuss this retrac-
ton recently McClintock refused to re-
tract and the meeting ended in fist
fight with Brinton sustaining his repu-
tation as scrapper and fighter. Edl-
tor McClintock says editorially that
he received his first chastisement in
20 years, and inasmuch as it came
from the notorious Brinton the mat
ter becomes of public interest. The
Courier-News editor uses up column
Of space telling about the scrap. Mr..
McClintock says that some day Brin-
ton will Jump onto the wrong man and
find himself at the receiving end Of a
beating instead of the giving and that
he may discover it was more blessed
to give than to receive. This is all
true and we are absolutely opposed to
Mr.. Brinton or anyone taking upon
himself this method of getting what
he believes are his just dues. If Nc
Clintock has libeled Brinton in regard
TO that check it was his business as a
fair minded man to make the retrac-
ton as asked-and it seems that Mac
has been proven wrong. On the other
hand BrlntOn SnOuld curD MS teHlPeI
It is neither dignified or gentlemanly
to try and prove anything in the way
Of argument by superior power. We
don't care how much these former
fellow workers pound each other up
or how much they tell about their for
mer bosses, but the Independents Of
this state object to McClintock class
flying Brinton as one of the |. V. A
workers. He is not. He is telling
some inside facts about the inner
of the league machine but
he is out on his own resources and be-
cause he has a grudge against Town
ley and some of his former fellow
workers. They can wash their own
dirty linen in their own wash room
but we don't want them to come into
the laundry of the Independent forces
to do it. The whole league bunch has
a nasty mess of dirty linen to scrub
up and on the 28th day of this month
the independent forces of this state
will give it it's first washing by run
ming it through the laundry of public
Of their administrative