New Britain herald., 1921-10-27
CAMP PAIGN DRAWING
 10 CLOSE IN N. 3.
Was One Of Most Intense Ever
 Held for State Offices

Ll.--One the mosts intense campaigns for state o1nces Waged in any state will come to an end in North Dakota, Oct. 2S with the casting and counting of ballots in it's now famous recall election. The three men that the Independent Vot- CTS association attempt to recall form the North Dakota Industrial commits sion and it is for the handling of state finances as officers in this body, rather than for individual acts as governor, attorney general and commissioner of agriculture and labor, that the recall petition has been set in motion. At the same time the recall ballots are cast, voters of the state will be asked to pass upon six measures it is proposed to write upon the statute books of the state at this time through the ap- proval of the voters and also to decide if they desire to accept or reject, three amendments to the state constitution
 The recall petition proper, asks the removal from office of Lynn J. Fraz- fer, governor; William Lemke, attor- ney general, and John N. Hagan, com missioner of agriculture and labor The candidates to fill these positions, if va cated, are R. A. Neston of Buxton, for | Forks, for attorney general, and Joseph A. Kitchin of Sentinel Butte for con- missioner of agriculture and labor MT.
 Frazier and MT. Hagan have held of
 fee for six years each while MT. Lemke
 took office at the beginning of the present year. Their present termss ex-
 pire with the end of 1922 and if any are deposed the candidate taking the I,;- While the battle for these individual places is bitter, so bitter it has passed the stage of argument, an intensive fight of the campaign has been waged
 over the initiated measures and the constitutional amendments The initiat- ed measures, if passed, will end what l is known in the nomenclature of this state as the "Non-Partizan League Program The principal item of the initiated measures is the dissolution of the Bank of North Dakota, the taking over of its farm loan business by a Rural Credits association based in part upon the similar organization now func- tioning in South Dakota, toschange cer- l tain financial conditions with the state l and to provide, by means of two elec- ] tion laws, for separate ballots for can
 
 l office.
 The three constitutional amendments | provide for a constitutional debt limit | and the creating of a sinking fund for 1 the payment of bonds, and a real es- | tate basis for said bonds, for increase in the pay of the members of the state 1 legislature and of the combination of the office of judge and county clerk in | of lat r While the North Dakota law, pro-
 vides that every voter shall receive a
 publicity pamphlet setting forth in full
 the measures it is proposed to initiate,
 the same pamphlet presenting the ar guments of each side at so much per page, the rival factions have not been content with this method of reaching the voters alone, and candidates and state officials have been in the field in regular old fashioned political meet ings for more than a month. Before the votes are counted, many men from outside of the state will take
 part in the contest. The Non-Partisan leaguers have arranged for help from Gutzon Borglum and c. c. Daniels of New York City, the latter a brother
 of Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy; Senator E. F. Ladd ot
 North Dakota, Glen Plumb and Will liam H. Harvey. MT. Harvey spent al- most a month in the state, making ad- dresses upon financial subjects.
 The. Independent voters association have announced dates for Governor J. A. O Preus of Minnesota and will have
 the assistance of former Senator A. J. Gronna, Thomas Hall, present secre-
 tary of state, Congressmen George M. Young and O. B. Burtness and a num- Der of former state officials.