The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

CITY, NORTH DAKOTA
= leaguers are making great fuss over
the plan to start the mill on power
received from Crookston, claiming
this is exceedingly expensive for the
taxpayers. They evidently thing that
power supplied by an outside compa-
ny consists chiefly of profit to the
company, forgetting that the same
power would cost the state practical
ly as much to produce SO the loss will
be small from that source. Whatever
loss is occasioned by that plan should
be made up by the saving to the far
mers of the state if the project is as
! successful as the leaguers claim it will
be. At least, if there is any loss. Mes
tos will be well able to pay it from
the hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
saved by the cancellation Of the sale
of mill and elevator bonds which the
retiring administration made in their
last minute in office at an exorbitant
rate of interest and at a discount. If
the mill and elevator project is the
best campaign argument the league
leaders can think of they had better
save their breath and printers ink
and concede the election to the indie
pendents.
We have heard much about the
Courier News being the only farm
er's owned paper in the state, and oh,
how they have been calling on the
farmers to send in their cream checks
and other donations so that the pee
pull" could have a means Of publicity
free from the domination of big bust
ness. 1t was great ideal to hold be-
fore the eyes Of suffering humanity
but the ideal has been shattered and
the broken fragments Of trust betray-
ed lie scattered on the ground, mute
testimony to the deceit and chicanery
of one Bill Lenke, league candidate
for governor. You remember that
last spring when Liederbach and his
bunch of post dated checks advocates
tried to get control Of the en-. Lem
Ike came along and said it belonged to
the farmers Of the state and battle
royal resulted all Of which to our
readers is ancient history. The whole
upshot of the affair was that bunch
Of farmers, firing of the way the pap
er was handled, brought suit against
Lenke and his crew of state wreckers
to force control Of the paper back into
the hands Of the farmers. Mr.. Len1ke
has recently filed an answer to that
suit in court in which he says he is
the owner of the Courier-News, so
if that is the case you farmers have
been digging up good hard earned
money to pay for the upkeep of VIM.
Lemke's personal organ-not the far
mer's paper as has been so loudly &C
claimed from the housetops. How nice
it must be for a person to have lot
of farmers dig up good money all the.
time to run your business. Wouldn't
this come under the head of big bus
mess? You know the Times-Record
and other papers run by the efforts
and capital Of those who own them,
are dubbed by those disciples Of cream
checks and post dated checks as being
backed by big business. Mr. Lemke
has double crossed the farmers of the
state if his statement is true and he
has deliberately by cunning and
stealth distracted from the farmers
and taken unto himself, the Courier
News, and all the money you farmers
have put into it has been thrown into
a political hopper to further the self
ishness and ambition of man who
wants to land in the governors chair
and if he should happen to be elect
GU, WHICH W ltS SCCillS III ~ UdUlC-dIt
we can say is God save our state
there will be nothing left of it when
he gets through. Lenke goes out
around the state and breaches great
ideals Of government according to his
notion, but while he is doing his
preaching he has his hand in the
pockets Of the farmers abstracting a
stream Of money to operate and run
daily newspaper at no expense to
himself and to be used for his own ag-
grandizement and to further his self
ish political ambitions. That is the
man who, with a handful Of his own
hand picked delegates, forced his NOM
ination onto the league as a candidate
for governor and is now asking you to
elect him governor. He has proven
himself to be nothing but broken
reed, and when the wintry blasts of
November 18th have passed over his
frost bitten remains-politically-he