Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-07-21
Fargo, July 18-The morning
and noon mail brought in 071
more signatures to the recall
petitions.

partisans are not only signing the
recall petitions but in many local
tiles they are working hard to get
signers according to reports from In
dependent field workers in various
parts of the state. >s.
ROlette county, for example, is
going so strong that VIM. Schulz, of
Rolla, chairman Of the county cam
paign committee, writes the Inde-
pendent state headquarters to the ef-
feet that lit seems that the whole
Nonpartisan League are camping in
Rolette county this week"
Rolette has been one of the strong
est League counties in the state. Be-
fore the last election the local lea
3 que leaders were strong enough to
turn down, in the last moment before
the election, their regularly nomin-
ated candidate for superintendent of
schools because she declared in a
public speech that no faction could
dominate her, run another candidate
on stickers and elect her. Last week
Governor Frazier and Commission
er Hagan got such q cool reception
in this county that they expressed
themselves disappointed and disgust
ed
Rather See Ball Game
Than Hear Gov. Frazier
In his speech at Rolla Governor
Frazier, according to the Turtle
Mountain Star, wasted some valu-
able time berating our neighbors
from Belcourt because they seemed
to prefer baseball game to listening
to his speech" The ball game had
been postponed out of consideration
to the governor, but he evidently had
to blame some one for the size of the
crowd.
Only one kick is registered from
the field. and that deals with the
slowness with which some of the To-
cal Independents went to work on
the first. roundup of petitions. 1t
seems, it was said at the headquar-
ters last night that in some strong
League districts the local workers
think it useless to- get after sigma
lures being Of the opinion the lea
guers will not sign. In every in
stance where this condition. prevails
success has been reported, however,
when the start finally was made.
Bank Waking People Up
Illustrative of what can ! be ac-
complished by applying the 1'up-and-
anthem spirit is the report receiv-
ed yesterday by Lewis F. Crawford
who made trip to- a district in the
southwest part of the state. He
writes headquarters:
"We are getting this place lined
UP. Until came down nothing had
been done to speak of on the petit
tions. found it hard to get any one
to take hold. We have, over 450
signatures now and many petitions
on the go. AS usual the country peo-
Tles We're much moro responsive
The thing that is waking the people
up here is the returned and register
ed checks from the Bank Of North Da-
kota. They now know what the
bank is doing.
.'In the league territory all town
ships, school and county money, is
still at Bismarck and nearly every
one has had a little taste. In the
rural districts this is the chief topic,
OF conversation. The vote here will
show q change in our favor. In ev7
cry precinct where they have TAX
en- up the signing of the petitions
they have over-run the O'Connor
vote.
Business Men Slow
n Similar reports come from the
northwestern corner Of the state
where M. p. Johnson has worked in
Mountrail, Burke, Divide and Will
liams counties. Mr.. johnson also
finds that some OF the business men
in the towns are slow in seeing the
necessity and the success Of the re-.
call, but he says that he is meeting
with considerable success even on
this score. And he ads: 81 VI
However. Il Z have succeeded in
getting quiteJa number Of strong lea
guers out to work with other people
ii our interest some 81 them are
doing really good work and the de-
velopment 81 the last week q or so |
atSthe league headquarters is adling
considerable strength to our cause.
Many 81 the more mod derate leasNersi