Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-04-04

rams 1of the recall campaign
against the present members of tho
cussed at meeting of the Independ-
eent joint campaign committee held
mere Sunday night and this morning.
Women to Be Named.
The first step in the campaign will
be the formation of the committee OF
forty-two to manage the campaign
which will be done by the addition OF
twenty-one women to the present
committee of twenty-one. Seven Of
these women will be named by the
Republicans. seven by the Democrats
and seven by the Independent Voters
association.
This will be followed by the organ.
izatipn of the auxiliary committee to
consist OF one man and one woman
from every legislative district of the
state. These two committees wilf
give the Independents a thoroughly
democratic organization with full
representation for the women.
The following statement was made
its meeting:
General Satisfaction.
THE voters Of North Dakota who
have the welfare of the state at heart
are almost unanimous in their ap-
There has never been such general
! approval of candidates. and program
at the beginning of any campaign
since Townleyism became an issue in
North Dakota.
The signing Of the recall petitions
has been taken up with renewed
vigor. New recall petitions are not
needed -9{2 80
There is every indication now that
thousands of Independents who in
:. previous campaigns have been in-
cEned to dodge the fire of the league
leaders will get bodily out in the open
for an over the Top" drive.
! The wailing. begging and Dragging
of the Townleyized press indicate
clearly that. the leaders of the league
see the hand writing on the wall.
They know that a very large majori-
lty of the voters will vote for pro-
gram of financial relief. peace and
prosperity. Townleyism is doomed.
1t will fall in North Dakota not later
than November s. 1t will fall every
where a short time after it falls in
our state. lN
| Saves Peoples' Money.
eff by bringing on this recall cleo
ton we have succeeded in preventing
our present state officials from selling
bonds, the state has been saved many
|
because as long as the industrial
com mission remains as it is and the
Bank of North Dakota is allowed TO
receive deposits, money that might
be obtained by selling bonds would be
subject TO the same misuse as the
current tax money has been up to
this time.
Under our laws as they are. our
state officials can use money obtained
| ho So1 Ia Of h4
port of their political machine instead
of paying back to political sub
sions the money due Them. John
Hagan. commissioner of agriculture
has boldly stated that thu are will
ling to spend S1S5.00O of the public
money for the promotion and protec-
ton of their political machine by
paying it out for political advertising.
! Rcfundins Bond Plan
| ''11veryone who understands our
needs realizes that the state must gct(
considerable money from outside OF
the state in order to prevent further
loss and get our state and local gov
ernments back to normal and that
the most profitable and quickest way
to do it is to issue refunding bonds
as the direct obligation of the state
as is provided for in the proposed
constitutional amendment which also
reduces the possible bonded indeb,-
edncss Of the state from $4,000, 900
to s7.750.0OO.
| The state officials to be recalled
have already been the means of los
| ine several million dollars of public
money. The taxpayers must make
sood that loss some time. The soon
er we take it. the smaller it will be,
and the sooner we get our credit re-
stored the greater the number of peo-
yoJ~ hot vx-sl tA
trassrnent.
I'VE are going over the top this
fall. and we will have the grandest
! Thanksgiving celebration. this fall
that North Dakota has ever seen."
| Joint Campaign Committee.