The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1922-07-01
NORTH DAKOTA CHOOSES FRAZIER.

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NORTH DAKOTA CHOOSES FRAZIER.
Nomination Of Lynn J. Frazier as republican can
didate for the United States senate from North Da
kots 10 equivalent to his election to that high Office
for the democratic party does not cut much Of q
figure In that state. Even though the democrat.
plan to combine forces with certain rock.rbbed con
servatives Of the republican party, there Is hardly
possibility Of an overturn. His victory in the
primaries rctires Porter J. McCumber to private life
Who and what is Frazier! II is generally known
that he was three times elected governor Of his state
by the Nonpartsan league and at the end recalled
during cleanup Of that farmer organization Tha,
man could survive the disgrace Of recall and rise
from . state figure to national one indicates q
peculiar strength.
Frazier 10 . moderately well-to-do farmer of the
Red river valley, his farm being not far from the
Canadian boundary. He is q college graduate. Not
even his bitterest opponents have dared mpugn his
personal integrity. Deliberate in judgment SLOW to
move, yet he 10 = hard hitter when he decides the
time has come for action His Scotch stubborn
ness has given consistency to his actions, whereas
greater ability to learn from experience or from ad
dtional study might have altered them He is neither
demagogue nor an orator. more an executive than
q lawmaker.
So much for the man; and now for his beliefs.
Fundamentally. he considers public ownership of
natural resources and monopoles the solution of
many Of the problems confronting the nation His
policy during the winter coal strike when the people
Of his subarctc state seemed threatened with freez-
ing to death illustrates his position. He rushed
few militiamen to the Ignite coal fields of North
Dakota, seized the mines in the name Of public
safety, conferred with the officers Of the mine union
and put the back to work. granting all their de-
mands but getting the coal.
Public ownership of the fuel supply is his remedy
for the recurring labor troubles shortages and high
prices this not in the name of any theory, but for
the public welfare he sees it. He is against the
ship subsidy but in favor Of the tariff which McCum
Der framed against the Esch-Cummins law, and at
one time a supporter of the Plumb plan of rail
operation.
That is Frazier. The democrats will do all in
their power to head him of with their lawyer candi-
date, j. F. T. O'Connor 1t must be admitted that the
people know where he stands, and their opinion is
entitled representation in democracy. 1t may be
predicted that in the senate Frazier will speak
but seldom, attracting little national attention. un-
bending in his position but largely content to voice
his convictions by vote that disregards partsanshp
OMAHA AND THE PACIFIC RAILWAYS.
a oet VI ASoOluSAOHS duOPteu Wy tIle OIndHd OndWs
Der of Commerce and published by the Omaha Job
bers Association contains matter that should be Sc
riously considered by all Omahans. In plain concise
terms the resolutions point out what is being done
to the detriment Of Omaha by the Southern Pacific
railway.
We are not inclined to argue strenuousy for the
Union Pacific that great institution is amply able
TO for ITSELF However, it is involved in the con-
'ideration of the situation to which attention is
directed by the Chamber of Commerce. Traffic is
being diverted over a longer route, to the disad-
vantage Of city and the country generally, be-
:ause the Southern Pacific company has control Of
he Central Pacific line. divorce has been ordered
BY the supreme court between these systems, to
which the Southern Pacific offers resistance, for, if
he decree Of the court is carried out it should be-
large amount of traffic will be removed from South
I'm Pacific domination.
The order of the supreme court in effect will
restore very nearly what originally the plan,
hat of direct line from Omaha to Oakland. This
the shortest, and easiest, Of all transcontnenta
,outes, and consequently is the one business will
naturally seek when artificial restrictions are re-
moved.
The Omaha jobbers are not fighting their own
light alone; it is the fight of the entire transmits
ppi region, and in large sense that of the whole
country, for export trade as we'll as domestic COM
nerce is affected. The point should not be lost
light of.