The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-07-14

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Three million bushels OF wheat nave
now been signed in North Dakota to
he marketed through the U. 5: Gram
Growers. Inc, practically all of it BE-
inc pooled. At headquarters IN the
fam bureau Office it is claimed that
an additional million and hal1 Dushe
els will be signed before the emu u
this week.
IF a few more of the pet nonpar-
tisan league leaders get arrested Ior
embezzlement and bootlegglng,,, tne
chances that North Dakota Will go
hack again into the union are mighty
Good this fall. When they begin to
accuse each other of such things ana
r;pht in their own paper the. radicals
in that party should not advise us TO
take calomel to clear our vlslon-they
must have been taking some tnem-
selves.
The perjury case brought against
Rrinton bv the Townley crowd ended
Nv the acauittal of Brinton after the
;,1rv had been out three hours. Inc
Conrier-News after the verdict came
ont next day and said that all sucn
cases brought by leaguers would
be handled that way by !. V: A: ]urles'
On the Brinton jury were eight farm
ers four of them belonged to the non
PARTISAN league and four Of them were
antis. Now the question arises that
if the politics Of juryman governs s
his verdict it was the duty OF tno s'
four nonpartisans to stick Tor SUCK
inc Brinton whether it was rlght or
wrong. The fact of the matter IS tnat
Townley and his bunch are beng
handed a jolt every time they get INTO
court.
Between June, 1920 and May, 1921,
the cost of living dropped II per cent,
according to figures of the U. 5. De-
partment of Labor. TIL republican
partv made no overt promise to re,
duce the cost of living, but it did
promise to restore the protective tar
If policy, and it is doing so. Accord
ing to long time democratic argument
such a promise alone should have
boosted living costs. Nevertheless
thew have decreased, and the republl-
cans are not press-agenting the coun-
trv to claim credit for it. In 1912 the
democrats made a solemn promise to
reduce the cost of living by resorting
to free trade. Near-free-trade was
adopted and prices went up and tons
of democratic publicity were dlstrlb-
uted in the attempt to create the be.
lief that prices had declined and that
to the democrats belonged the credit
The republicans have not sought to
make political capital of economic law.
The democrats denied that the law
was in operation.
The petitions for the recall election
ire being literally signed and there is
no question but more than enough
signatures will be secured to comply
with the law to order recall election.
Everywhere all over the state R. A.
Nestos, who has been chosen as the
leader of the independent party in the
coming election, is gaining friends
every day. His friends predict his
election by handsome majority If the
election is held. In the meantime ev-
cry person who is anxious to stop this
waste and mismanagement in the
state should feel it duty sign the
petitions. This is no time to ques-
ton whether it is right or wrong to
have this recall election next fall. "a
large majority of the delegates elect
ed to the Devils Lake convention have
said that it should be held. Their
judgment is as good as ours so let's
abide by the majority. The past three
months of mismanagement OF state
affairs should convince the most skep-
teal that halt should be called in
state affairs under this administration.
Dispatches from Washington say
that Senator McCumber has filed
formal endorsement of Andrew Miller.
for appointment of federal judge, de-
spite the serious opposition that has
been sent to Washington against his
appointment. The same dispatch car
ried in the Courier News of a couple
of days ago, also states that Congress-
man George Young has given his en-
dorsement to Mr.. Miller. The Times
Record hopes this is not so. Mr.. Mil
Ter is not satisfactory candidate to
a great many people of this state es-
pecially to the w. C. T. u. organiza-
tions who claim that Miller is abso-
lutely wrong on the liquor question.
In the next place we do not believe
him to be a lawyer of high enough
standing to occupy that position when
there are so many more efficient de-
serving lawyers in the state to select
from. AS we have said several times
however, that if McCu:1lber and Alex
Mckenzie want Miller appointed, the
probabilities are that l:e VII get the
Job, but it will not be very satisfying
news to the, rank and file Of the people
Of this state who thought the non
partisan league was born to get away
from McKenzieism-bu the nonpar-
tisan league is more strongly domin-
ated by Mckenzie and his able lieu
tenant McCumber than it ever was in
the palmy days of what is called the
gang regime and which was respon-
sible for the birth of the biggest fake
that ever hit the state-state socialism
under the guise Of the nonpartisan
league.