Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-06-09
HUNDREDS HEAR NEST0S
OPEN RECALL CAMPAIGN
AT MEETING OF WORKERS.
Stutsman County Campaign Committee and Many Scores
Of Workers Hear Mr.. Nestos Fine Address and Begin
to Circulate Recall Petitons-Al Believe in North Dako-
ta-Confidence Expressed

l
bers OF the Stutsman county cam
!!paign committee. precinct workers
from the country towns anf James
ltown gathered at the Company H
larmory in jamestown Monday night
to hear an address by r. A. Nestos Of
Minot, Independent candidate for
governor, and to receive instruction
for the circulation Of the petitions
necessary to bring about the recall
election and des)Ted reforms and
changes in North Dakota this fall.
All Of the old faces seen at the cam
paign meetings for the past year or
| two were present and also there were
many new Workers. very auspci-
GUS sign. The workers, men and
| women, again "lined up for chow"
| were served q well cooked and
plentiful dinner, got acquainted and
visited for a while, and then settled
down for real business meeting.
The big attendance, the prolonged
applause for Mr.. Nestos and the
earnestness and enthusiasm OF the
hundreds present proved beyond any
doubt that the Stutsman county plan.
which includes as workers all the
anti--Townleyites of Stutsman, is
plan soundly drawn and one of. by,
and for the people.
senator Steel Prcsitlcs.
After the dinner tables had been
cleared away and seats drawn before
the platform, Senator Alfred Steel
opened. the meeting. During the
war period. he said, when human
frailties became more apparent, de-
pendence upon supreme being was
felt necessary, and the custom then
established of opening public gather
ings with prayer later had been
adopted as the custom of the Stuts-
man county campaign committee.
Rev. Ward p. Boyd of jamestown in
voked divine blessing upon the meet
ing. that If it's purposes and motives
lie right, success might follow the
efforts or the workers.
This is essentially business meet
ing, stated Chairman Steel. rather
than political gathering. or meet
ing for entertainment. A celebration
for the big gains in the November
election was held last fall. A serious
business now confrOnts the workers.
to bring uniformity in the coming
campaign and get results. Returning
from recent trip across the state
from east to west, Mr.. Steel had
found crop conditions uniformly mag
nificent. with North Dakota optimism
the people felt that this is to be the
year to realize many of their hopes
for renewed prosperity. and he found
among the Independents similar OPP
timism towards success in the No
vember election.
Two months ago, at the James,
town court house, the Independents
of Stutsman county united in the be-
lief in the necessity for a change in
state government and political lead
ership, to keep North Dakota off the
rocks, were nevertheless hesitant
over a recall rs something new, ur1-
tried. The delegation to Devils Lake,
therefore, went uninstructed to de-
eide what is best, but the Independ-
ents of Stutsman county pledged
themselves to support the decision at
Devils Lake.
The convention decided for the re-
call, to recall three state officials:
governor, attorney general and COM
missioner of agriculture and labor;
named r. A. Nestos, Independent
candidate for governor; Svenbjorn
Johnson; for attorney general, and
later, Joseph Kitchen was named can
didate for commissioner of agricul-
ture. We are now in honor bound to
abide by that decision, support these
candidates and the Independent plat
form. Tonight is set apart, to ar
range for securing the necessary
signatures upon petitions.
In selecting the candidate for gov
ernor, Mr.. Steel paid warm tribute
to r. A. Nestos of Minot, a man
whom he had known many years and
esteemed very highly; but before
Mr.. Nestos was introduced. o. ].
Seller of jamestown was called upon
to explain the system for obtaining
the signatures.
Plan to Secure signatures.
Mr., Seller briefly and clearly out
lined the plan for this part of the
campaign. The work must be sys-
tematized, he said, and If divided UP
amongst many loyal workers, as with {
the Liberty Loan. Red Cross and
other drives for the country's vel
fare. obtaining the recall signatures
can be done easily and quickly. Sec
retary j. E. McElroy, had sent out to
the precinct workers all over the 4
county the petitions tc be signed.
Each man and each women must sign I
ten times. The work has been fairly 4
divided and mo- undue burden asked
of any one. ia Il
Is Mr.: Seller made, a, distinct point !,
when, he said that The S.Itsn;ln c0un, n