The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-10-27
INDEPENDENT VICTORY NEEDED
TO RESTORE CREDIT and BRING
GOOD times BACK TO STATE
Honesty, Efficiency, Economy Open In
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Our State 49,

The issues in the present recall cam
paign are simple and easy to under
stand as they are important and far
reaching. The Independent opposi-
ton to the present administration pro-
poses:- H.. ta1
1. To change the membership
of the industrial commission by
removing from office Governor
Lynn ]. Frazier, Attorney General
William Lemke and Commissioner
Of Agriculture and Labor John N.
Hagan.
2. To incorporate into the laws
of the state a constitutional
amendment and certain other laws
which will enable the next admin
istration to repair as speedily as
possible the damage done during
the five years of League bossism;
also to prevent a repetition of the
unheard Of waste and profigacy
practiced by public officials under
the League regime and to make it
impossible, or at least exceedingly
difficult to inject foreign issues to
state interests into state politics.
Frazier Lemke and Haaan Guilty
Of Grave Wrongdoing. o., s.-
The Independent candidates, r. A.
Nestos, Sveinbjorn Johnson and Jos. A.
Kitchen, are proposed to take the
places Of Governor Frazier, Attorney
General Lemke and Commissioner Of
Agriculture and Labor Hagan, who con-
stitute the industrial commission.
Taking advantage of the almost un-
limited powers that the industrial
commission has had and now has,
these last named men have, according
to their own admissions, used several
million dollars Of public funds in adj
dition to millions Of store money, news
paper money and other private money
to build, what they hoped would be,
an indefeatable political machine with
which to keep themselves and horde
of imported and domestic radicals in
luxury at the expense Of the taxpayers
Of the state.
They have tied up more than $6,000,-
600 in thirty year loans and other
long time investments when funds for
thse purposes should have been OBJ
tanned by the sale Of bonds.
Much Of this money is lost to the
state already and will have to be made
!ood by increasing taxes in the future
They have used public money and
property for their personal bnefit.
They have by their own testimony
not only admitted that they are guilty
of all of these charges but that they
are, determind to continue their reck-
lessness as long as they are retained
in office and are now protesting
against the voters approving laws that
will prevent such recklessness and
grating in the future.
North Dakota Bankrupt in Faith,
Friendship and Finance. ~
The credit of the state has been
ruined by this administrative waste,
recklessness and dishonesty. AS ex-
Governor Hanley so well said at re-
cent meeting in Mandan: "North Da-
kota is bankrupt in faith, friendship
and finance
The people of North Dakota will not
be able to finance their affairs properly
until men who have the confidence of
the public are put in the places of
those who have lost it, and until we
have changed our laws SO as to leave
no doubt but what the voters Of the
state are going to make it safe for
other peoples money in North Dakota
and see to it that public money is not
used for other purposes than those for
which it was paid by the taxpayers.
Only One Way Out; Vote -. -.
Independent Ticket.
Can there be any doubt in the minds
of law-abiding citizens as to which set
of candidates to vote for when the
choice lies between three men who ad-
nit that they are guilty Of the most
serious official misconduct and pro-
pose to continue along the same line,
and three other men against whom
there is not even charge of irregular
ity in either public service or public
business and who are themselves work
ing for laws that shall prohibit any
further misuse Of public money by pub
lie officials no matter who they are?
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