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

unjust article appeared in the Cour-
ier-News Of Sunday date lined from
Valley City and no doubt sent in by
some Of the league adherents here:
Valley City, N. D., Oct. 21 - AL
though his petition contained over
four times as many names as the law
required, "Slippery Tom" Hall, sec
retary Of state, found way of keep
ing the name of George Rasmussen
off the general election ballot as a
candidate for the Legislature from the
Fifteenth district, Barnes county.
The action of Tom Hall, however,
will not prevent Mr.. Rasmussen from
running, or his hundreds of friends
from making the most determined
fight ever put up in the county. 1t
is the purpose of Mr.. Rasmussen s
supporters to see to it that every vot-
er in the district is supplied with
stickers.
Owing to his long residence in the
county, his high standing in the COM
munity in which he lives and his fit
ness for the honor, hundreds of I. V.
AS will rally to the support of Mr..
Rasmussen
No man in Barnes county stands
higher than George Rasmussen. He
has spent his whole life in the coun-
ty, with the exception of the time he
spent fighting for his country in the
Spanish American war. He is large
land owner, owns considerable stock
in the Farmers cooperative store at
Dazey; has an interest in the Dazey
bank; has served several terms as a
member Of the board of county COM
missioners; has been a member Of the
school board practically since it was
organized; and hasn't an enemy in
the world. He has a wife and five
children, and is known far and wide
for his honesty and desire to give JUS
tice. He is the kind of man hired help
comes back to work for year after
year, one man having made his 25th
annual trip to work for him thru the
harvest season.
And the voters of Barnes county
are going to send George Rasmussen
to the legislature on November T..
The statements made so far as Sec
retary of State Tom Hall are concern
ed are grossly false and misleading.
The blame for MI. Rasmussen not
getting on the ballot lies with c. A.
Fisher and others, who, thinking that
they knew more Of the requirements
of the election law than does our
competent county auditor, "balled" up
the whole affair. Mr.. Rasmussen did
get plenty of signatures to his petit
ions and sent them in to the secretary
of state in ample time to be filed, but
he did not designate platform or
party on which he desired to run as
required by law. Mr.. Hall sent the
petitions back for correction immedi-
ately but the campaign managers of
Mr.. Rasmussen again balled up the
affair and filled in the word republi-
can in Mr. Rasmussens petitions
they did not know that P. r. Trub-
shaw had been regularly nominated
at the primaries as the republican
nominee, consequently Secretary of
State Tom Hall had to again return
the petitions for correction, because
under the law no one else could run
as a republican candidate, the voters
having already nominated one. It
was because the petitions were receiv-
ed too late the second time that Mr.
Rasmussen did not get on the bal
lot, and the leaguers here and the
Courier-News know it only too we'll
and every fair minded, honest voter
will see that instead of the secretary
OF state keeping Mr.. Rasmussen OIL
the ballot it was the incompetent
management of his affairs by his
friends. The same people balled ur
j. S. Johnson's petitions in June b!
failing to remember that the womer
voted so that because he did not ge
signatures enough to file the count!
auditor had to refuse to accept hi
filing because it was sent in too lat'
to get additional signers. The Cour
ier-News has not headlined our com
petent county auditor as a crook-wh.
not? He obeyed the law just as di'
the secretary of state. The local cam
paign managers - incompetent - o
Mr.. johnson were the ones to blame