The Ward County independent., 1921-04-14
R, A. NBSTE GIVEN Ol><ylON
BY THE CITIZENS Or St[NOT

II, A. NeSCOS OF MMOC, nominee 1OE
governor at the Independent state con-
veution held at Devils Lake recently,
was given a flattering testimonial by
the citizens Of Minot at a rousing mass
meeting held at the high school audi
torium Wednesday evening. The
large room was practically filled with
the friends of the Minot man. So Of
ten, the people Of community fail
to measure the worth Of one of their
own citizens with whom they have
been on familiar terms for so many
years, but in the case of Mr.. Nestos,
it was proved conclusively that he is
regarded as ''big man" not only in
the state as whole but in his own
home town where he has lived for
seventeen years.
The Community band, under the dir
ection Of Prof. John f. Howard, gave
a concert at the opening Of the meet
ine. The band comprises 35 pieces
and this was its first appearance.
Many remarked that this is one OF the
best bands Minot has known. The
band will soon give concert to which
the public will be invited. The band
is to be active in community affairs
and the public Wednesday night show.
ed that it was proud Of its band and
it's capable leader.
Mrs, Kara A. Dickinson presided
at last nights meeting and as she
arose to speak, she was given pleas
ing ovation. She paid high tribute
to Mr.. Nestos and referred to him as
"our next governor. Mrs. Dickin-
son is an easy speaker, told some ex-
cellent platform stories and demon
strated we'll just what the public may
expect in the future in the way of
political gatherings with the members
Of the fair sex welding the ballot.
Francis J. Murphy was the first
speaker introduced. He referred to
the program which the nonpartisan
league foisted on the citizenry OF
North Dakota. For several years a
number of self appointed prophets saw
that everything was wrong in our state
and set about to change the form OF
government" he said. ut seems to
have been a new form of sport. They
adopted new schemes for New Day
and a New Freedom. For time
they have had entire control of the
executive, legislative and judicial
branches Of our state government.
They claimed that business affairs
were out of gear and the only way to
fix them was for the state to go into
business. They made business the
first order of politics, that all might
get rich. | claim that no man will
get what is worth while unless he
works and struggles and sweats for
what he may accomplish. The state
threw off its sovereignty and got down
to the level of business. 1t went into
the mill and banking business and the
business of building homes-to build
homes for some who didn't need them
at all. The recent investigation dis
closed the grossest form of misman-
agement, not to say corruption" The
school money was diverted to build
homes and run banks, mills and ele-
vators, he said. No man can predict
what the Grand Forks state mill is go
ing to cost. It's only half complete
now. Several homes were construct
ed contrary to law, homes costing
more than $4,000. Referring to the
Drake mill, he called it a zone horse
mill" that had bought $4,000 worth
of sacks at one time, sacks so poor
that the railway company refused n
nally to accept the flour for shipment,
ulness it did so at the owners risk.
A trust deed for the state mill for
$120,OOO.O0 had been turned over to
the state department to issue bonds
on it. Of this amount, $4,000 was
for sacks, coal, -four, book accounts,
ETC., and $40,0O0.00 for real estate.
The nonpartisans say if they were
allowed to sell SIS, ,000, 100000 worth Of
bonds, they would have been able to
operate their, industries. They could
have operated no doubt until the
money had all been spent, the speak
er declared. If we had order instead
Of disorder, in the state, all our bonds
could be sold at a premium. Bonds
are merchandised and the reason our
bonds cannot be sold is that the pros
pective purchasers are not able to re-
sell them. The people here are all