Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-11

petitions sent out before the Devils
Lake convention. 1t was probably
circulated during the first half n of
March, The other one was probably
circulated four months Later.
The state headquarters realized
that in spite of every effort to avoid
duplication there would be a few such
cases as Hagan has found and that is
why the state committee set out to get
ten thousand more signatures than
were actually needed. I I'M surprised
hat Implications have not been
found. but John Hagan. Lemke and
Frazier can depend on it hat if there
are not enough signatures on the pc
titions already filed to make up for
all Implications they find there Ii
enough more in our safe here at
headquarters to make up more than
the required sixty eight Thousand.
Haoan Wants To Shield Hirtsclf.
John Hasan and the Courier-News
are only making themselves ridicul-
Gus and insulting the men and women
who burned their own gasoline and
drove their own car for days among
their neighbors to get signatures on
the recall petitions. There were over
twenty-six hundred of these and
I'D hAo"S NiA0 AAOy 1 HUI lkkts
tools Of n enemies of the farmers
of North Dakota.
Most Of tho signatures on the recall
petitions came from the rural districts
and those who circulated them were
principally farmers who are neither
seeking office nor looking for any
special privilege Of any kind.
Among those who circulated peu-
tions are some of the 1874 farmers
who had failed applications for loans
with the Bank of North Dakota last
fall but who were brushed aside by
John N. Haean. commissioner of agri-
culture and labor, when he bold
bloodedly gave himself loan No. SO,
although his application was Nc. 1919.
The recall petitions will stand up
Just h same as all the other petitions
that have been circulated. Frazier
Lemke, Hasan and their in~ner-circle
supporters lave shouted fraud about
the petitions in the referendum cleo
ton in 1919, and the petitions that
were circulated after the 1919 special
session of the legislature to annul the
'ten-day low with which MI. Lemke
tried to set aside the constitution OF
North Dakota and make every act OF
that session an emergency act, regard
less of whether it received a two
lAiIoS fOte or nOL.
They charged fraud when petitions
were circulated for the enactment OF
the Ant-Red Flag law and for the
rererending Of the state sheriff and
smelling committee laws, and the .at-
tack on. the secret ballot in June las.
year. They repeated the same old
charges last fall when the petitions
were circulated for the laws that re-
stored to the superintendent of pub
lie instruction the powers that had
e taken away from that office.
that broke up the newspaper monop
oily, that stopped the Bank of North
Dakota from making loans to anyone
Dut North Dakota farmers, and the
public audit law that made it possible
Tor n people to find u something
about what the state officials have
done with public money and other
property.
But the petitions stood up and the
people supported the Independents by
maJorities ranging from 5000 to 16.-
900 on all OF these laws, and 80. 900
on the Anu-Red Flag law, which had
been twice defeated in the legislature
by some Of h League legislators.
Laws Are Timely and Necessary.
The laws now proposed by the indie
pendents are OF more CONSEQUENCE
and as practical and necessary a. CIV
OF the former laws.
Frazier, Lemke and Hagan know
that the voters of. the state want theee
laws enacted for their own protection
regardless OF whether they are Nom
parttsans or Independents. They also
know that when these laws are enact-
ed there Will be- an end to iDoItioai
'graftingssin North Dakota The farm-
erS are going to- approve the initiated
Avs ana elect the independent candf.
dates on October. 28, and az q res11lt
North Dakota will not Longer BE- q
grafters paradise.
North Dakota has been Z frut4ful
Held 9 promoters and schemere az
all kinds during the LIST few q
Our state officials have AUTHORIZED
and ~ some CASES been personally IN.
terested in stock selling schemes that
have swtndIed the farmers Of 80
state out OF several million dollar
the advent Of Townieyisn.
ttAxan knows thAt tbs 4. ". pe-
d4on cirtuIators arc not Entity n
Wholesale fraud. He Ii fust tryfnx a
Ast = people t. think about eonIe-
thing else than his staterbuiit h0tee.
M farm Loan. ana why ne lot 10 much
Mcney ret in1s Questionable
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