The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-10-03
INDEPENDENTS
ISSUE CALL TO
MPAIGN WORK
Statement Issued by Committee
Asking Workers to. Support
Recall Candidates
OUTLINES RECALL STAND
Question: care Officials Guilty
as Charged" Says Cam
paign Statement Made
OUTLINES RECALL STAND

osaSCWeAt was ISSUED by lnue'
pendent campaign Headquarters in
Fargo, received here today, in which
it calls all Independent workers ia
stick to the real issucs--the charges
against the officials under recall.'
The committee says the question to
be voted on October % is: "Are the
officials, against whom The recall has
been invoked, guilty Of the charges
lnade?"
In the statement the committee
says:
with only two sets of candidates
in the field and no Other measures af-
fecting the economic affairs of the
state than those proposed by the In
dependents, the issues of the cam
paign come before the voters in a
clear cut 'for-or-againsu' proposition
Before the polls close on October
28, the voters of Norti, Dakota will
have written into history that -at a
crucial moment they either voted for
honesty. economy, efficiency and open
books in the administration Of on,
state government and for restored
credit SO that farmers and business
men can get properly financed again
and so that political subdivisions can
again obtain control OF all funds that
belong to them; or ,aat they voted
to retain in Office three men who have
not only admitted that Iiley have used
millions of dollars Of public and pri
vate money for the purpose of building
a political machine with which, to
keep themselves and a horde of i'm
ported and home grown Won't Work
radicals in luxury at the expense OF
the taxpayers of the state, but are
brazenly indicating that they intend
to continue their reckiessness with
public funds and disregard for the or
dinary standards of honesty as long
as they are kept in Office
States Credit.
On October 28, the citizens of North
Dakota will also have voted to either
approve or disapprove of laws that
vii help to restore our credit and pre-
vent public ofkcials, whether 1ndepend-
ent or Nonpartisan, from ever again
public funds as the mem
Ders of our present industrial commits
sion have done.
"The voters OF the state are face
% face with most serious prOposi-
ion. Thousands Of our people are
about to be bankrupt because they
cannot get new loans, or old loans re.
lewed, even though it is matter Of
common knowledge thai there is lessf
nhati0n in land values in North Da
z0ta than in any western agricultural
state.
''The records of banKs, trust COM
,anies and real estate loan compa nies
'how that non-resideats, VINO nave
,een loaning money to North Dakotans.
ire now instructing their agents to
:all in loans amounting to more than
$50, 100000 that are needed badly just
low.
Issues At Stake.
The good name of the state and the
Welfare Of future generations are ut
,take. II we vote to retain in the
highest Offices in the state men who
lave by their own testimony admitted
hat they have misusei more than s6,-
100000 OF public money and violated
lnti-grafting laws that all minor Of
icials have wholesomely respected
'ince statehood, we will put a blot
lpon the state that can never be re-
moved and fingers Of scorn will be
pointed at us and the Eext generation
wherever we go on the North Amerl-
:an continent. If we vote to put IN
he places of the guilty officials, set
II men against whom there is not even
! charge Of irregularity III public serv'
ce or private business, the mistakes
If the past will be forgotten and we
will enjoy the respect that is rightfuliy
lue the pioneers Of any state when
hey are about to turn over their WORK
o the next generation as those VINO
irst broke and built in North Dakota
ire now doing.