The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-08-17
From The Journal, August IL.

From The Journal, August IL.
We suppose we ought to turn several handsprlngs in
exultant gee over the announcement that Frazier, Lemke and
to- Hag we SUPPOSE II eS"s sta an dp on the s' h S%s @aa and shout to 1t the world
that the setting satellites of North Dakota's New Day. are
the south. We ought to get so excited over the news, that we
should drop everything 1aa else Esa and devote rn"s;a all , our emese'es 5 to CIV "
hearts, our arms and our homes to them, and make them
esrnated n Eij @S or a second : Moses .'S They they q no doubt. will bring
to us something new and elevatin gg.n in the matter OF state GOV gov;
tell us, no doubt, that the Nonpartsan regime in North Dakota
has been an angelic one, that the foundation of Utopia has been
laid in the state, and that all that is necessary to complete the
Arcadian dream is to re-elect Frazier, Lemke and Hagan next
And this question of electing these three gentlemen to
office again brings us to the meat of the matter and the real
Day. Our local contemporary, which a short time ago assured
its readers that hereafter it would be s,a an independent a@s1! t news vs.
t Ra 1wes f its aiegian 1ce% to p no po1ific an fs scGea co aaessi forth t with with
s : 5rSnt Gsss fRgS" ior sfot ef he ev stst {ns sd f1%'nE zis Of the three
"The people of Devils Lake and Ramsey county are
making the affair one Of the greatest this state ever saw"
Says our local contemporary. We suppose, therefore, that
should get behind the latest vacillation Of the local Nonpartisan
weekly and sqm boost for t%s the hfor Mon nP tna mee ef6sja lis tb An w p%iRfef ;@ssd
of the Nonpartisan paper, would think that everybody in the
hand. But one who knows the conditions we'll knows that the
Labor Day program m is merely r a Ca; cam 3ovfl e. o of Nonp a1t:s
istration are coming here, not to educate US on the truth in
BIS eisstien but %h %sf tSs t to m& effci e s % fpf Be yG Gtss, 1t tn? 4 Seys sre
merely campaign stump speakers and no shouting of the local
And We are told that "Athletics in every form, amusement
features, Grub, and the popcorn man will be features of the
affair" Phoebus what a circus! 1t ought to make a Roman
holiday pale into insiignihcance, or a Spanish bull fight look
interesting attractions to get the crowds out. Arthur Townley,
their reincarnated Potipher, drew a large crowd to 4 Devils
Lake last year with the announcement that he was going to fly
to the city in an airplane, and when the crowd had gathered
and waited all day, it was finally told that Townley was in
Minnesota. However, the camouflage of a "get-together
picnic" will not remove from the Labor Day affair its political
motive.
And we are told that zone Of the city's prominent attor-
neys has volunteered his services and others are expected to
follow suit We have a fair idea. although we have NOT been
let in on the secret, who that "prominent attorney" will be,
and we are sure that others will follow suit, provided they
wear the same kind of political suit that he is known to don.
Why does not the Nonpartisan weekly tell us the name of this
prominent Attorney that we, or those who are really capable
of judging from a legal standpoint, may Judge wherein his
prominence lies?
The whole trouble with the story in our contemporary is
that the Labor day event has been given a misnomer. Instead
of calling it "The greatest monster get-together farmer-labor-
business man picnic of all times in Ramsey county, it should
have been called, that the readers of the paper be not misled,
"The greatest attempt of Frazier, Lemke, Hagan and the Non
partisan bosses to stage a comeback for the waning New Day."
But what's a little deception, more or less, between Nonparti-
san propagandists?