The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-09-14


ord as attorney general, during his in
cumbency, getting hold of a twenty
odd thousand dollar house where he
should have only gotten one for five
thousand under the law. Several Of
his friends likewise got expensive
houses at the expense of the taxpay~
ers, and Lemke's regime was the most
disastrous one to the state. If he
should be elected governor before he
got through with his term of office
he would have deed to the state
house made out to himself. The pea
pie have recalled him from office once
and it hardly seems probable that they
will again put him back into office
but they nominated Frazier, and there
YOU are. Politics are hard things to
fathom, sometimes.
The league faction of the republi-
can party at their meeting at Bis
marck on Wednesday declared them
selves for the restoration Of the Bank
of North Dakota and Homebuilders
Association on the same basis as they
were under nonpartisan control. No
greater condemnation Of the league
ticket is needed than that action. EV-
ery voter in the state knows the state
of the Homebuilders Association when
the independents took control of the
state administration The association
had lost thousands Of dollars thru mis-
management. Houses had been built
at costs ranging from six to ten thou
sand dollars for which the state is
unable to collect more than the five
thousand dollars provided by law. Le-
cal action has been brought to test
the states position in the matter and
the result has been that the loss on
these houses has been placed on the
shoulders of the taxpayer. The or
binary man expects to pay for all ne
gets and expects the other fellow tC
conduct his affairs in like manner
} That the people Of the state should
pay a large proportion of the cost OF
jhomes for faithful nonpartisans seems
unreasonable to most people and yet
that is what the leaguers insisted they
should do when they declared in I,tIol
/ of the restoration of the previous bus
I mess administration of these depart
! ments. Evidently the leaguers were
afraid that the Endorsement of Lemke
: would not be enough to insure the
! election of Nestos and added the above
, resolution to make the election GER
tain.
The nonpartisan league faction o:
? the republican state central committee
. seems to be having the same trouble
? experienced by the league in their in
; dorsement Of candidates for the pr
t mary election last spring. At the com
5 nlittee meeting in Bismarck last Wed
. nesday the league faction indorse'
e E. r. Sinkler, of Minot, for the post
;. ion of attorney general but Mr.. Sink
e Ter came out flat footed yesterday an
- stated that he had no intention of &C
c cepting the Endorsement and woul
f not become a candidate under any cir
n cumstances, claiming personal bust
ness would not permit the acceptance
Now it will be up to the committee t
+. find some other man who is willing I
t be sacrificed. Sinkler is a smart MAJ
+ He knows which way the wind blow
It and tries to set his own course to 6
II with it. ANY other man having tn
h qualifications for the office would fec
t. the same way and it is our opinio
y that, if they are able to get someon
y to accept the Endorsement, he will nc
d be fit timber for such a position.
= any event the political situation, 6
" far as the independent forces are col
is cerned, looks brighter every minut
I'd The league has been inferring tn;
to Lynn J. Frazier had received the il
Of dorsement of the national republica
~ committee which claim is not borr
&c out by the facts in the case. No
ell that the league has decided to pla
to an opponent in the field against Il
lie republican nominee for governor
r seems unlikely that the national cor
IL mittee will be able to recognize II
IS league candidate for United Stat
et senator, and O'Connor's candida
to will be enhanced a great deal. Th
he Lenlke can poll a majority of the vot
lr. against Nestos is beyond tho 'ange
hit possibilities. In the recall electi
le- Lemke took the short end of the tic
20 ct in the amount of votes polled.
ng he was not good enough to hold t
job of attorney general, and it
certain that he was not, then the
ok is little possibility of his being ak
on to hold down the gubernational chs