The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-04-02
IND. PAP PE.RS
. VARY COMMENTS
ON ELECTION
Slope Counties Hesitant About
Recall at Any Time, Says
=. Pioneer a#.. ...
ALERT COMMENDs PLAN
Jamestown Paper Approves
November Date-C0mprO-J
mise, Thinks Forum
ALERT COMMENDS PLAN

Independent papers throughout the
state show a wide variance in their
news on the various angles of 2ccall
election. r.-~-.
The Mandan Pioneer, rejecting ap
parently the reluctance in the western
part of the state to enter the combat
now, hesitates to endorse the action at
Devils Lake.
HeSltant About Recall.
"The Slope counties, it declares,
"do not want a recall In June and
they are hesitant about a recall al
any time, for it means the opening
OF county fights as well as campaigns
for state officials" ...ss .
1t suggests that the recall is giving
the Nonpartisan League an excellen,
opportunity to }replenish it's depleted
treasury. ..s' e
Commends Platform. .
The Jamestown Alert, which fought
the June recall but was favorable to
an election III the fall, commends edi-
torially the program adopted and the
candidates endorsed and welcomes the
action of the convention.
1t says in part:
The air clears with the decision for
a recall, the setting Of date and Sc
lection of candidate for governor
The people of North Dakota will well
h0 Nf pfoir ir,fv n
action and suspense. always harder to
endure than ignorance and inactiOn
BY its decision to hold the recall in
November instead of June, by the
fairness Of the Independent program
as adopted in its resolutions Whlcn
include the best features of both The
Nonpartisan and the anti-Nonpartisan
principles, the Devils Lake convention
reflected honestly and accurately the
desire and best counsel of their con.
stituents. In selection Of r. A. Nestos
Of Minot, Republican, and Sveinbjorn
Johnson of Grand Forks, Democrat
the convention chose clean. capable
men. An American Legion man will
complete the Industrial Commission
as Commissioner OF Agriculture. .e
p Forum Approves.
The Fargo Forum, which has been
a vigorous opponent OF the recall, de.
clares that the action at Devils Lake
was a compromise and that instead
of an immediate recall Of all staCt
officers, including the supreme court
justices, and with no constructive
program on which to work, we will
have a limited recall, confined to the
three men chiefly responsible, held
five months later than originally pro-
posed, and with a definite program OF
reconstruction. Instead Of merely
changing officers and putting in new
men with their hands tied, the new
men. will be given something to worn
with.
mo attempt will be made to recall
the supreme court justices, and that
decision should stand as precedent
whenever the question arises again in
North Dakota. ....
]"The recall will be confined to the
three members of the industrial com
mission and will he postponed unit
November. That is In effect, a vic.
tory for those who opposed the recall
"at this time 1t will give five addi,
tional months for the truth about con-
ditions in North Dakota to be driven
home. It will give five more months
for league enterprises to collapse, and
five more months for voters to come
to realization of the states true con-
ditiOn!
Th. Valley City Times-Record holds
to it's former view that the recall is
not advisable but states that the In
dependents now that the action has
been taken must get behind the ticket
and put it over:
"The recall election has been defin-
itely decided upon by the convention
at Devils Lake and on November 8
the election will be held to recall the
governor, attorney general and COM
missioner of agriculture, known as the
Idustrial Commission. The die has now
been cast, much as we regret the ac-
ton of that convention, and it is now
up to the people. For governor the
convention nominated r. A. Nestos OF
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