The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-12-15

farmer, but more intimately connect
ed with eastern affairs, which are
long ways from the interests OF the
west. Outside of seeing that his po-
litical cronies, like Jim Shea, are Civ
en- the best federal offices, the sena-
tors "home" record has little to en-
thuse North Dakotans for his return.
At least that seems to be the view
point in Golden Valley county.-Beach
Advance.
During the several political cam
paigns of the past few years, when
feeling has run high and no sound ar
gument has presented itself to support
any action, it has been customary for
newspapers of certain class to re-
sort to villifcation of the character or
personality of the persons interested
This has been done so frequently that
we have become calloused and are
prone to allow such writings to pass
without even forcing retractlon. In
most cases the person or newspaper
making the statements is irresponsl-
BILE and any legal action taken would
only result in bill Of expense to the
plaintiff even though he was granted
Judgment. This may be alright in the
case of private individual but our
courts are founded on the principle
that our judges are competent men
of high intelligence: and that they
must be respected for the position
which they hold. A recent editorial
comment in The Courier News rela-
tive to the decision of the supreme
court in the recall petition case casts
reflection on the ability of Justice
Robinson and as result Of this COM
ment information charging contempt
of court has been filed with the SUI
preme court by Attorney General
johnson against R. M. McClintock,
editor of the Courier News. This is
as it should be, and it is to be hoped
that this action may result in more
care being exercised by writer's when
referring to others, that their char
acters may not be DETAINED with no
fear of legal action being taken.
A meeting was called in Minneapo-
lis recently by the committee Of 48 to
organize a new liberal party in Min
nesota. The platform has the en-
dorsement Of Sturgeon O'Dell, we'll
known in North Dakota under the
nonpartisan regime. This same lib
eral party is being advocated by the
defeated bunch in this state and if it
goes through will unquestionably be
along socialistic lines. The social
lists do not intend to quit because they
were defeated last October but on the
tr1y 70 hn Of
the farmers for a lot more graft
money under the guise Of the ''liberal
party" The truth Of the matter
is that the nonpartisan league under
the socialist rule was liberal
party,"-too liberal for the good of
the state as present conditions will
testify. What we want is not lib
eral party-but a conservative party
which will conserve the resources and
cash of the state, lower taxation and
give us business administration. We
would naturally think that the people
of this state had had enough of this
experimental politics which has given
them nothing but added burdens. Yet
we verify believe there are number
of local advocates of the new day who
are willing to go out--for considera-
ton of course-and try to gull their
farmer friends into putting some more
loose cash into the political hopper OF
this new party. In fact we really be-
lieve that they might be induced to
buy some more newspapers and few
more consumers stores and maybe
some more sisal land. This ''liberal
party'' idea has very euphonious
sound and might appeal to the unso-
phiscated for the first one or two an
nual subscriptions. Barnum said once
that the American people like to be
humbugged and he made great sue
cess doing it-North Dakota farmers
seem to like to be humbugged, too.
The tremendous cost Of publishing
the delinquent tax lists in the various
counties of the state has wrought up
quite a commotion and we do not Won
der at it. At the time increased rates
were asked for by the publishers of
the state for legal printing it was not
the intention to interfere with the law
governing tax sales and in the draft
ing of the new law this was overlook
ed and the tax list went in with all
classes Of printing. Mind you we do
not want to go on record as saying
that Friend Liederbach and his COL
leagues who had so nicely gotten fifty
three papers fixed up by the league
to get all this public pap had over
looked this bet because we think ne
knew all about it, and so did those who
were working with him, if he did not
we do not see why he should come up
here recently and try to get S34O OF
the amount allowed for printing the
Barnes county tax lost for the nonpar-
tisan geographically for propagan-
da, in addition to the $610 for setting
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