Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-07-16
GRAND FORKS
HSTRONCEST
FOR RECALL.
This County Leads State in
Signing Up the Recall
Petitions.
46,847 SIGNATURES
AT HEADQUARTERS
About 10000 More on Pet-
tons Still Out; $4,000
By August /.
(Herald special serv,ce. !,

'SkSSSAo4
Fargo, N. D.. July 16.-The signing
of the recall petitions is now in full
swing all over the state At the Inde-
pendent state headquarters here it
was stated yesterday that petitions to-
falling 46,847 namee had been re-
turned so far and reports from field
workers show that about one thou
sand petitions with more than twenty
thousand signatures are being with
held for additional signers. Grand
/! Forks. county leads the state in the
/ number of signatures actually turned
!: In. "A 4
! ~ The. joint campaign. committee,
. which Is handling the recall election
iis very well satisfiefd with the results
80 far,3and Secretary ,Theo. q. Nelson
OF the depend ent Voters, association
! points out that the recall is assured
! with only a little more work The In
/ trating their efforts on securing at
i2least eighty thousand signatures be-
fore the end of the month I,
Demand for Petitions General,
For> the purpose of keeping a full
and complete check on all recall pc
tition work the state has been divided
i into sixty three units. Where the leg
islative district is confined to one
county, or part of one county, the dis
\ trict is the unit but where more than
| one county from the district the coun-
| ty Is the unit. Each unit has man
ager who supervises the work of cap
| tains in each precinct.
| 1t is admitted at the Headquarters
that 1t took some time to get the work
We'll under way, but when it onoe had
a good start the movement gained
momentum by its own weight. Added
impetus has been given to the cause
| during the past week as q result of
the jury finding in the Brinton trial
and the upheaval in the Fargo Cour-
fer-News. New requests for petitions
arrive at the headquarters with every
mail and added activity is shown in
every part of the state.
Banner League Counties in Line.
In league strongholds Nonparisan
newspapers and workers have at
tempted to scare the voters from sign
Ing the petitions by threatening to
make it unpleasant for them after
wards. This threat does not seem to
have had very much effect, however.
Tor several OF the banner league coun-
ties show a good average of signatures
SO far. @
In many OF the rural precincts
where O'Connor was showed under
last I'LL CHere mas 6een a large num-
| Der of signers. Representative Erick-
son Of Walsh county thus informs the
Independent headquarters that one
precinct in Walsh shows So signers to
the recall petitions while the o'Con-
| nor vote was only 10: one township
in Burleigh county which gave Lam
ger one vote and O'Connor none. four
teen names were added to the peti-
tons; in a district in Billings county
| where the O'Connor vote was nesligi-
bic last fall-52 out Of IS voters signed
| the petitions and five others declared
that they had voted for the present
administration for the last time.
Energetic Work Brings Success.
Examples OF this kind could be re-
peated by the hundreds and CORE
spondence to the headquarters show
that in every instance where ener-
getic work has been done in the rural
districts the number Of signers ex-
ceed expected quota OF the OConnor
| vote. One district supervisor in Walsh
county reports the following for five
precincts:
One precinct, s2% Of the o'connor
vote. ... .,5E, ,g =" :,