Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-17
,B|UIRlTNESS ASKS
SUPPORT FORJ.
+. I. 0'CONNOR
Nestos Administrator En-.
dorsed; Says Pledges
Have Been Kept.

IS n NASOH' ~. Dr Sct' WIio1o"
! heafted endorsement of the Nestos
Multiplication and its achievements.
the branding of Lynn J. Frazier as a
socialist inc the urging Of support for
j.. r.. T. O'Connor in his candidacy
for election to the United States SEN
ate. marked the address delivered here
last night by Olger B.: Burtness Of
Grand Forks, Republican congress-
man.
Durink his address Mr.. Burtness-
Declared that the Nestos admins
.tration had kept faith with the farm
ers of thb state. He proved that they
had kept every pledge made during
the recall campaign and that they
had pushed the state mill and elevator
through to practical completion where
the league administration had failed.
Presented facts and figures to show
how loose. management of the Frazier
losses OF taxpayers money and scored
the Courier-News for lts deliberate
lies to the voters. :
After showing how Frazier con-
doned and aided in the gross mis-
{ management Of the states affairs and
branding him as n Socialist and not a
true Republican, declared that he
TMr. Burtness) the Republican NOM
inee for congress in this district had
porting J. F. T. O'Connor. a Democrat.
: During his address Mr.. Burtness
said in part:
"Just about q year ago the people
OF this state were in the midst Of
first statewide recall election eve
ington at the time and as the cam.
patgn progressed I noted that a large
number Of Missionaries. radicals and
insists such al Coin Harvey, Fred
erick c. Howe. and others, from all
ends Of the country wore being i'm
ported Into North Dakota to tell Jul
people how to vote. Regardless Of
tics or in business mataters may have
been, I have always felt that the peo-
pie Of North Dakota could run their
own affairs without advice or dicta-
uon from people Of that sort. When
I read in the press about the mis-
speakers and the feelings Of class
hatred and prejudice which, like
others who had gone before, they
were attempting to engender my blood
fairly boiled ana I regarded It az my
duty to leave Washington and do my
bit in trying to Keep the Issues
stump stua110i in thai 'p eampa,e n'e sell. ns ths
voter and particularly the members
Of tho Nonpartisan League, that II
they would elect MI. r. A. Nestos a.
governor Of this great state. Mr..
6veinbjQrn~Johnson Is attorney gen.
eral, and Mr.. Kitchen 10 commission
or Of agriculture they would never
regret the day they did So. I told
them that these men would bring or
der out Of chaos md would restore 70
q. large degree the credit Of the state
and Of individual property within the
state. told the voters that these
men would be- able to complete the
state mill and elevator project at
Grand Forks upon which no work had
been done by the/Frazier admintstra-
ton for-asyeaf. Y told them thatathe
~so-called farmers program would be
given q lar deal. making It plain
that by the farmers program I meant
those things which the farmers \of
h state. the members Of the league,
= .you please. had wanted during
gthe preceding years, those measures
which they themselves had asked for.
and not the expensive frills which
had been added to that program by
the self-appointed and greedy DO
lttical dictators of the Nonpartisan
league. ~
! Promises Arc Fulfilled.
To-day, a year later. Il have the
moral conviction that every promise
made In the press or on the stump
on behalf Of the Nestos ticket in the
recall campaign has been faithfully