The Hope pioneer., 1921-03-17
INDEPENDENTS URGE RECALL
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ing any effort to correct the
things that are claimed to be
wrong.
That recall is the only way out
under the law and that by fail
ing to make use of this weapon
the Independents may rightful-
ly be charged with condoning
rascality and therefore equally
guilty with the perpetrators of
the acts the Independents and
their newspapers have so vocif-
erously condemned.
Charge May BE Sustained
1t is further claimed by the
Independents that if their fight
is allowed to cool off, the Lea
que bosses who never stop cam
paigning and their newspapers
would in a few weeks have the
people of the state convinced
that the investigation of the
state industries and the Bank of
North Dakota showed these in
stitutions to be in sound con-
dition, and that the Senate
committee and not the House
committee got at the truth in
: the matter.
And finally everybody agrees
that it is we'll ito go slow" and
that the case against the admin
istration should be we'll pre-
pared before it is taken to the
people for judgment, but pro-
gressive Independent leaders at
the capital maintain that the
only effective manner in which
the case can be prepared is by
a forceful campaign, by includ-
ing the proposed initiated mea-
sures and delaying the election
till the middle Of June. That
would give the people more
than three months for discus
sion which is more time than
has been at their disposal in
any former campaign since the
Nonpartisan League began to
be a menace to democratic gov
ernment.
Grape Hangers" Cause Resentmen
An eleventh hour attempt at hang
ing crepe at the door of the recall
has caused considerabl,
furry at the capital, and while
has succeeded in cooling off the en-
Lhusiasm in some quarters the grea
stands pat on the PROPOSE
ton as decided upon by the commit
lee OF twenty-one and endorsed b,
the Independent members of boil
legislative houses after several con
ferences where the question was dis
cussed in detail from every conceiv
able angle. Many of the former in
surgents and progressives view tn
crepe hanging propaganda with opel
and even resentment. The,
are at loss to understand what tn
reasons are for this eleventh hou
caution, and not few of then
are beginning to talk of special in
terests' being behind the moyemen
all of which is sure sign tha
are dangerously near tn
breaking point in the ranks of th
Independents.
The situation, as the seventeenth
legislature is stepping out of actua
life and into history, then is this
A small minority is still of the opin
ion that an early election, f. i. i,
May, is preferable but they have &C
cepted the more conservative council
in favor of longer campaign whic'
also permits the opposition to tn
administration to include the pro
posed initiated measures as a par
of the issues; the big majority deen
a recall necessary, even though the
hesitate to take such drastic steps
and they are ready to go down tn
line with the program as proposed b.
the committee of twenty-one Will
the adherants of the let-bad
alone plan are negligible and tn
source of the propaganda the subjec
OF suspicion and resentment.
Some Expressed Views on the Subjcc
c. Ness, representative from tn
fifteenth district, part, of Richlan,
County: My opinion as to the re
call is that something must be dom
TO lift the state out of the financia
mire in which it now finds itself
The Nonpartisan League persists il
their excesses in squandering the ia,
payers money without getting an,
results for the many fragrant expen
ditures. The Independent Voter
has attempted to pas
laws which would re-establish th