The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-11-17

now holding down 1aC state JOD DIS
state fish and game commissioner, is
the prime mover in this contest up at
Bismarck. You see he does not like
the prospect of having to let 60 of
that fat job so he is going to try and
get the courts to set aside the YER
dict of majority of the people. We
are going to predict that John is go
ing to get a jolt before he gets
through with this undertaking as well
as losing his meal ticket which is now
being furnished him by the state OF
North Dakota.
The Courier-News this morning is
trying to throw bricks at the Harding
administration by saying that the
| elections last week shows how Mr.
Harding and the uepu blioan party
lost big republican majorities in the
! elections. The republican party did
lose big majorities, notably in New
! York, but the Courier News has not
| the honesty to tell it's readers why
| they were lost. To simmer the mat
ter down it all came about over the
whiskey question. 1t was a victory
! for the vets, not victory for any ad-
Administrative plHlClplc. 1Hoh . 80
satiate thirst for liquor seems to go
far ahead of the principles involved
in a nations government pollcy.
Booze is the great underlying motive
| with thousands of men who would
| rather have booze than good gov
eminent The democratic party in
New Jersey tried to elect candidates
on wet ticket but failed, but 1t was
no fault of the democrats. When you
see the constitution over-ridden like
it is being done now by selling beer
in drug stores while hundreds stand IN
line with alleged prescriptions we rise
to ask what is the country coming to
and what care the vets for any policy
that will help the people from tax
standpoint so long as they get, the
booze flowing again all over the land
Frederick A. Pike: attorney, OF st.
Paul, has filed suit in the district court
of St. Paul to recover $4,000 from the
! Bank of North Dakota. An affidavit
of garnishment also was filed, tying
up funds of the North Dakota bank
now on deposit with the First National
Bank of St. Paul. Pike alleges he
was emplOyeu ny Cle De'iih VI A'o
Dakota to render legal services IN
1919. He performed such services IN
matters before the supreme court and
the commission agreed to pay MN
whatever his services were reasonably
worth. He thought that as it came
out of the tax ridden people OF North
Dakota his services were worth Slo,.
600 and he has been paid only five OF
this amount. Here is another glar-
ing fake perpetrated by the present
state commission who are being told
to contest their ousting from office.
Then in the next place Bill Lemke,
elected to do the legal work OF the
state, vet under his administration 1t
will cost the state $4,000 and more
mavbe for added costs to do the work
| for which Lemke was elected to do
And so this is the way Bill is saving
! several millions of dollars for the tax
| PAYERS Of the state The whole thlng
; is nothing more or less than huge
craft. No attorney is worth fifteen
| thousand dollars for appearance IN
| the supreme court as is made by Pike
No wonder there is unrest IN the
country. Do we want to continue
! Lemke in office? We do not.
! On the front page of the Fargo
Courier-News this morning is long
article saying that move is on foot
to start suit before the supreme
court to stop Mr.. Nestos, Mr.. john
son and Mr.. Kitchen from being m
augurated next week. The grounds
for this contest being that gross
frauds were perpetrated in the clrcu-
lation of the recall petitions, etc. Inc
article states that three we'll known
attorneys have been engaged to light
the matter before the courts, namely
e. R. Sinkler, of Minot, S. E. Ellis
worth. of jamestown, and Lee Combs
Of the firm of Combs & Richie: of
Valley City. The Times-Record has
no knowledge of what Ellsworth and
! Sinkler are going to do in this mat
| ter but we do know that the nrm
of Combs & Richie and each MEMBER
| of it have absolutely refused to take
part in the action, although fine fee
was offered them for their services.
Sunday evening Mr.. Combs was call
ed up and asked to go into the case
and he replied that he would consider
the matter with his partner, Mr..
Richie, and let them know at once or
in the immediate future. The matter
was taken up the next morning and
we happened to be in the office OF
Messrs. Combs & Richie when the
matter was under discussion, and right
then and there this reputable firm OF
lawyers turned the matter down-pre-
ferring to lose a very fine legal fee
in preference to losing their prlnacl-
pies and independence and integrity
Messrs. Combs & Richie fought for
the recall and believe in it, and they
felt that they could not with a clear
conscience take part in any action
that was dramatically opposed to the
principles which they believed in and
to those friends who had always been
with them along business as well as
political lines. 1t means great deal
to attorneys to refuse to take good
money that can be had as easy as this
could be had in this case but there
is principle involved and this re-
putable firm of attorneys would rather