The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1921-09-29

find time to stir up trouble. OF course
you hear of graft in state government
out there the same as you do here and
elsewhere but most figure there is a
remedy through the ballot box without
resorting to socialism and the red flag
organization that has put North Da-
kota into the category of rube states
and given one Of the finest states in
the union black eye that will take
many years of careful, conservative
government! to eradicate. So far as
the editor can learn-and we have tax
ed considerable pains to find out in
our travels-no calomel will be need
ed to clear the vision of the people of
either Washington or Oregon. When
they have feeling that they are slip
ping they Just cast an eye over toward
the state of North Dakota and that
usually settles it. Bolshevism and
radicalism are dead in those states and
will be deader than a door nail right
here in North Dakota in the very near
future.
Representative James H. Sinclair,
of the third North Dakota congress-
ional district, democrat elected as a
republican on the league ticket be-
cause he could not be elected as a
democrat on the democratic ticket in
this state-and on neither ticket un-
less by the help of the Townleyites
comes out in righteous Indignation
and says that the recall is unjusti-
fed. That is to be expected from him
who was led into congress by Town
ley at the end of a rope and he has
been standing tethered ever since.
Back there in Washington he is bot
toming a very fine mahogany chair, is
well fixed financially so that the wor-
ries of the new day do not interfere
with his peace of mind, and he is
worrying much less about the drought
stricken farmers of his own district
and cares less. He is not familiar
with the conditions here or he pre-
tends not to be. and in order to retain
his seat in the lower house of congress
he must do something to convince the
socialist leaders that he is trying to
earn his job and comes out with a cry
to the heavens that this recall is un-
justified. Such piffle is enough to
make a dog laugh. James H. is a
foxy boy to say the least. But putting
up wall to the heavens like he
does, does not satisfy those farmers
who have been doing road work in
their districts, who have good hard
money in the Bank of North Dakota
and cannot get their warrants paid,
and it does not satisfy educators who
are getting their salaries paid in lit
tie driblets, it does not satisfy the
business men who cannot get their
pay for goods delivered to state insti-
buttons and it fails to satisfy any rea-
sonable thinking man or woman who
is familiar with the poor financial con-
ditions of this state. The only ones
who think this recall is unjustified
are those who are holding office or
getting some blood money out OF the
people. Those consumers stores were
unjustifed but Mr.. Sinclair up at
Kenmare was the leading spirit in
getting one hundred dollars apiece
from his farmer friends to give the
privilege of trading at the Townley
controlled store but it did not give
them vote on how to handle the store
they were financing. Yes indeed, ac-
cording to-. Sinclair, Frazier and
Lemke we are not justified in trying
to close out the administration of a
bunch of men who have been utterly
incapable of giving the people even
ordinary business management of our
state affair. The recall and election
of r. A. Nestos and his colleagues
cannot come too quickly. -