Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1921-10-20
INDEPENDENT VICTORY NEEDED
TO RESTORE CREDIT and BRING.
GOOD TIMES BACK TO STATE
Change
Honesty Efficiency Economy open Books In
Our State

I A vote for the Independent candi.
dates and for the Independent program
Is a vote for "HoNEsTY, ECONOMY,
EFFICIENCY, OPEN BOOKS And
RESTORED CREDIT"
How the Independents Propose
to Save tho State.
Here is the program that the Inde-
pendent candidates in the recall cleo
tlon are pledged to put into operation:
!. To reduce the possible bonded
Indebtedness Of the state other than
farm loans from $12,0OO,OOO to $780,.
600 and to authorize the issuance of
bonds secured by first mortgages on
land (Rural Credit bonds), mortgages
to be limited to 500 Of the value Of
the land mortgaged. School land
money is loaned on that basis now.
The debt limit can not be reduced
more until the debts that have been
piled up during the last two years are
paid off.
2. To restore by the sale Of new
bonds the funds, belonging to town
ships, cities, villages, school districts
and counties, that are now lost or tied
up so as to not be available for current
public expense.
.. To safeguard public funds SO
that no set Of public officials, regard
less OF whether they are Independents,
Republicans or Democrats, can ever
again misuse public funds as our pres
ent Industrial commission has done.
4. To take the Industrial COM
mission out Of politics and limit it's
powers and operations to the Mill and
Elevator business at Drake and Grand
Forks and provide for. completing and
operating these and for closing up the
affairs Of the Home Building Associa-
ton. The Home Building Association
ls now in a hopeless tangle.s No work
has been done on the mill and elevator
Tor almost year with no prospect of
anything more ever being done as long
as Frazier, Lemke and Hagan are in
charge Of the Industrial commission. y
5. To provide for the closing Of the
Bank Of North Dakota and to estab-
lish a workable Rural Credit System,
patterned after the South Dakota Sys-
TEN under which thirty-six million dol
lars worth Of bonds have been sold to
4 people outside Of the state and nearly
that amount Of money loaned to the
farmers during the same period Of
time that our officials have sold no
bonds and made only few farm loans
and most Of them to their political pets
and then only using public tax money
contrary to the provisions Of the law
authorizing the making Of real estate
loans. 55
i 8. To provide, by means of two
election laws, for separate ballots for
candidates for county, state and fed
eral officers. One Of these extends to
all state officials the use Of the same
ballot for nomination and election that
Is now applied to all county officials,
districts and supreme court Judges,
and state and county superintendent
LOT schools. The other law provides for
\ the nomination and election Of all fed
eral and party officials in one election
by means Of separate party ballots in
the primary election and a one-column
ballot in the general election. Some
elective party officials are now elected
in one election and some in another.
i This law will do away with that prac-
tice which makes 1t easy for unscrupu-
lous politicians to disrupt, capture or
injure political parties. The date for
this latter election is the same. as the
township election day in March, which
generally brings out a heavier vote In
the rural districts than the general
Eelections. ;s1 N 555 N .>,s,3.
To stop swindlers and confidence
Imen from getting rich on the savings
Of, the pioneers of North Dakota by
means Of stock selling schemes Of all
kinds. .:z b 5 III /, IL +.
8. To Immediately dismiss all need.
Hess state employees and otherwise
1! economic? In the administration 4 f
public affairs. tsls 4 n al.
/ Every Intelligent voter, whether In
dependent or Nonpartisan, will admit
\ that this Is a reasonable, practical and
necessary program and that public
Officials, regardless OF whether they
are elected as Independents or Nom
partisans, should be limited In their.
\ powers and their operations as pro-3
posed In II. Is Is! ~
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