Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-04-21
A "RECALL" BOOMERANG

A RECALL" BOOMERANG
The following article is written by
Col. George Harvey, recently appoint
ed by Pres. Harding as Minister to
Great Britain: ,S5
Of all radical dogmas none is more
sacrosanct than the Referendum and
Recall-particularly the Recall. If
public officials do not measure up to
radical standards in the performance
of their official duties, do not wait un-
til their terms of office expire. Vote
them out Of their jobs on the spot,
and vote somebody else in. That is
the sacred Recall, dear to the heart
Of radicahom.
AS a matter of course, North Dako-
ta's Non-Partisan Lacquer Socialist
went in for it from the start. They
embodied in the State laws the
moment they got control. And there
by they created monster that is just
now getting steam up preparatory to
running ,over the whole Non-Partisan
League outfit with true steam-roller
efficiency. With the aid Of North Da-
kota's level-headed women, all the
preliminaries under way for clean
ing-out of the entire Non-Partisan
group recently elected to control in
State affairs. Governor Lynn j. Fra
zier, Attorney General William Lem
Ike, and Commissioner Of Agriculture
John N. Hagan-all loyal Non-Parti-
san Leaguers- are booked for the
Recall toboggan-slide which will be
ready for action early in November
next. "The brain child of the Social
istic regime-the Recall-having been
placed on the North Dakota statute
books by the Non-Partisans," remarks
Mr.. Theodore G.. Nelson, Secretary of
the North Dakota Independent Voters
Association, "has grown up in four
years and threatens to destroy its
parent"
This recall vote in North Dakota
is interesting in that it will be the
first time the Recall process has been
applied in the United States to the
retiring of State officers. It will also
be interesting because it probably will
measure the dwindling strength of
that curious crank obsession which has
almost put the splendid State of North
Dakota out Of business as a commun-
ity too much tainted with legislative
lunacy and haymow finance dreams to
be trusted. North, Dakota banks, un-
der Nom Partisan Soviet administra-
tion, have been going down like houses
of cards, and the road to rum was
stretching wide open before the State
when the revolt against such lunatic
government broke pose. But the
Non-P -Partisans are byzAo means sub
dued even by the Rasl threat. They
are rallYing to make the fight of their
lives. They are rounding up a $780,
COO campaign fund, and they have al
ready trained their batteries on the
Wall Street octopus. The Fargo
Courier-News, the Non-P Partisan
Leagues official newspaper. directs
blow at the solar plexus of the con-
spiracy of the magnates against the
people. It says:
They are forcing recall election in
North Dakota because they think the
farmers are broke, and they are post
poning the recall until November be-
cause they believe by that time the
farmers will be even less able to de-
fend themselves than they are now.
The Leaguers have got to fight; either
that. or. we must surrender our inde-
pendence as free-born American citi-
zens and accept the dictates of Wall
Street, the grain gamblers, and the
railroads.
What in the world would the Social
lists, East, West, North and South, and
particularly the nor by nor'west mad
Socialists of the North Dakota Asylum
do without dear old wicked "Wall
Street," And vet is was but few
weeks ago that these same Nom Parti-
san ghost dancers were down in Wall
Street irving to make the Octopus
ghost itself get them out of the mess
in which their organized lunacy had
involved them!