The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-04-13

way, and the editor of the Forum very
nicely comes back at the C. N. in the
following manner: eve rather like
the title. The finest people we know
are "old ladies'" The mothers of
most of US grew to be "old ladies'"
"Old Ladies" generally have the qua
lities a newspaper should have -
honesty, decency, kindness, and good
Judgment"
A good deal of space is taken up
today with the teachers convention
now going on over at the State
Teachers College. 1t is not very Of
ten that Valley City has the oppor-
tunity of playing host to several
hundred teachers and it is pleasure
for us to give them liberal space in
the paper. 1t may be that Valley
City will be selected as permanent
place for holding the southeastern
educational convention, but whether
or not this happens, we are mighty
glad that the teachers came this time
and we hope that they will come
again. Weather conditions are
against the proposition of taking the
visitors around but the warm well
come is here just the same.
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the attitude our nonpartisan friends
take in the election of United States
senator. Our own junior senator, E.
F. Laid, elected on a bipartisan tick
ct, voted to unseat Newberry of
Michigan, because the friends of
Newberry spent a large sum of mon
ey to get that gentleman elected to
the senate. On the other hand this
same Ladd and those who travel in
his nonpartisan class, are now "hol-
lering" loud and long for a fund of
one hundred and seventeen thousand
dollars to put Frazier in the senate.
If this is done why shouldn't the SEN
ate declare his seat vacant if he
should happen by some stroke of
good luck to be elected? 1t is no
worse for Newberry to get there by
the money route than it would be for
Frazier-and that is not saying that
the idea is right. 1t seems to make
great big difference as to whose OK
is gored. Put Frazier in the senate
no matter what it costs or whether
he is the right man for the job is the
slogan Of the nonpartisan bunch con-
trolling the Courier News. The peo
pie said he was incompetent to act
as governor-and he proved their as
sertion to be true-yet they want to
endow him with greater responsible
tiles and calling for more stateman-
ship by sending him to the senate.
The opposition papers have gotten
into the habit of speaking of the
jamestown convention as a trump re-
publican convention" If the state
ment is reiterated often enough with
out contradiction great many peo
pie will begin to believe that the
statement is correct. For that reason
it might be we'll to remember just
what constitutes trump" conven-
ton, in the popular meaning of the
term. When a convention is called
for the purpose of selecting candidates
for Offices it is customary for the ma
jority in the convention to rule. Of
tentimes there is minority group
that does not agree with the majority
in their selections and will not abide
by their decision. After the regular
convention this group will hold a sep
arate convention and indorse the can
didates whom they think will conform
to their ideas. This gave the name
of trump" convention. But is the
independent republican convention to
be held at jamestown in this cate
CORY? The non-partisan league men,
bers of the state held a convention in
Fargo. Their policy was to exclude
any and all persons not bona fide
members of the league or known to
be strong sympathizers of the league.
The league, while travelling under
the republican banner, is composed Of
republicans, democrats and socialists.
Naturally, as the state is known to be
republican in majority, the majority
of the members Of the league are re-
publicans. But this does not signify
that convention of leaguers is re-
publican convention. There are
great MANY republicans in the state