The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-10-20

10 Clear your VlSlOl.
"Coin" Harvey at the court house
the other evening invited all those who
were going to vote for the recall to
leave as he wanted to be confidential
with the followers of fellow worker
Townley, Lemke, ct al. Of course it
required lot of nerve to tell people
to get out of the court house-a pub
lie building built and paid for by the
tax payers of the county. But we Will
let that pass. "Coin" has been very
aptly named because it personifies the
purpose for which he was there and
the aims he had in trying to shake
down the faithful for some more coin
to help pay "Coin" and other pro-
pagandists for the nonpartisan league
who are making a living at the ex
pense of the people of the state. When
the gent eman commenced to smoothly
suggest that they come across with
some of the "long green" there was
sort of chill come over the enthusiasm
of those who are supposed to think
that the new day is the proper thing to
have and they left in small punches
and beat it for home. They are get
ting to the real shake down at the
court house these days and it is keep
ing them busy trying to make both
ends meet paying for the new day as
out in effect by the high tax rate
and the prospect of much more to pay
next year. Yes, indeed, pay day has
arrived for everybody and since ma
jority voted for this new state social
icr
now have to pay for it. But a stop to
it on the 28th and vote that bunch out
and let US get some business men at
the head of the state government.
Vote for Nestos, johnson and Kitchen
and make good start. And vote for
the amendments and initiated laws.
That won't put things right until you
can have legislature to remedy mat
tiers, but it will stop this reckless
waste. Forget that you are or were
leaguers or independents, or demo-
Gratis or republicans, and vote for the
good of the state.
The alleged sale of million and a
half of North Dakota bonds, as an
nounced by the Industrial Commission
through Director General Cathro, is
heralded by the league press as the
great political event of the past week,
and nonpartisan papers all over Che
state unanimously declare that there
is now no more reason for the recall.
To further clinch the matter they
point to the fact that the Bank OF
North Dakota has managed to borrow
another half million, and it is fur
l. L.. 1n+ ttr,o
in bonds will be disposed Of as soon as
the engravers can turn out the plates
for printing. Instead. of furnishing
an argument in favor of calling Oft the
recall, these real or fictitious deals, as
Sveinbjorn Johnson, the independent
candidate for attorney general, said IN
his Mandan speech last Friday, should
rather call for advancing the date OF
the election. One Of the main reasons
why more than eighty-one thousand
men and women voters have emphat+
ically demanded that Frazier, Lemke
and Hagan be removed from office is
that they have exhibited zeal and abil-
ity in only one direction, namely to
squander the states money for the
benefit of themselves or their politi-
cal pets. This they have done so
faithfully and completely that even
the school funds, the hail insurance
fund and even the comparatively
small volunteer fremen's fund have
been depleted. Whenever there was
money in a Bank of North Dakota
cash box, greedy hands pretty soon
saw to it that it was emptied for the
benefit of observing" friends. Not
the sky, but the bottom Of the public
till has become the latter day limit of
the Frazier-Lemke-H agan administra-
ton in it's mad rush towards tate.
bankruptcy. Two millions or four
millions, what's the difference! It
means only that the indstrial commits
ion has so much more money to
squander, and the taxpayers ulti-
mate burden will be so much harder
to carry. 1 :.
Can any Lacquer living in any town
ship in this state, which said town
ship has been awarded an Airedale
pup or promise of pure bred calf.
tell us what benefits they have re-
ceived outside the pup or a promise
for calf-providing they come across
with all the money they can-from