The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1922-11-02
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SllRRllsli ADDR[Sy
VIM. Iemke, Nonpartisan candidate
for Governor, addressed the voters oi
Bottineau at the Grand Theatre last
evening and spoke To one Of the larg.
est political crowds ever gathered il
I Bottinean To hear All indoor political
speech. The Grand Theatre comfort.
ably seats $50 people and probably
100 more stood up at the back of the
I theatre and out on the sidewalk and
& 50 you may further believe the above
assertion we call to your attention
that Editor Wilson Of the Advocate
occupied one Of the 100 positions 81
! the rear Of the Grand, that Of stand
ing up. III 35s
s Mr.. Lemke's bills announced that
there would be fireworks before the
address, during the address and after
the address, which is true, political
speaker In Bottineau was never ac-
corded more encouragement in the
way Of applause than was VIM. Lemke
1 last evening. IS
Mr.. Lemkes opening remarks dealt
with that big house OF his at Fargo
and which cost something like Sill
0D0.00 and in which the states does
not have one cent but for which Mr..
Lemke owes several of his friends
who were kind enough to loan him
the money TO pay for it. Mr.. Lemke l
brought the house down wher. he
made the statement that "if r. A.
Nestos can ever find a girl foolish
enough TO marry him, ] will give him nm
this house. - s5@. @ IT. +
Mr.. Lenke labelled lie after lie be-
ing told BY opposition speakers and
press alike and in each instance his
proof for the lie was either based on
official state bank reports, the Fargo
Forum, OF the Independent, the Off
cial organ Of the / ". A. .f.z..s "a.
Mr.. Lemke said that the League ln-
dustrial Commission turned over APP
proximately SIC, COT, 900 to the Nestos
crowd as returns from the sale OF
real estate bonds, this money to be
used by the !. v. a. to further extend
credit to needy farmers in North Da-
kota by making them loans. Up to
August 18th only about $7OO 900 OF
real estate loans had been made, but
j report issued by Mr.. Nestos in June
claimed that already the !. Y. A. In
,dustrial Commission had made 3 times
as many real estate loans as the Fra
zier administration, ard figures
showed that before leaving office the
League officials had made upwards
of $3 3,OOO, 900 in loans. This is but one
Of the many lies etolddby the ". A.
Another is the selling Of the Bank
Bonds by Gov. Nestos, which sale ne
claims to have made at an expendI-
ture Of "a cents in stamps when the
fact of the matter is the bonds had
all been sold before Nestos took OF
flee. &s I'D : @.ss y @is5 .ssf ..s.e. .z
Mr.. Lernke next took up that IA
NOUS .Jud debate and which great
many of the Courant readers are Ia
miliar with because they take The
Grand Forks Herald. The Herald said
the debate was fake, gotten UP py
Leaguers to help pull a crowd and that
the Jud I. ". AS had. never consent
ed To- it. Mr.. Lemke said adownl there
at Jud they have q few well7meanlng
i. y. AS who figured q debate be
tween either Nestos, Johnson, OsCon-. jtIt !.
nor or some other speaker ard my
self would be a good drawing card.
Therefore they wagered q small bet
with the League bureau at Jud that
Lenke would not be willing to debate
against any Of the above named men.
The date WIS set League bureau got
in touch with NE and accepted, Mes
tos was hut ten miles from Jud tne
NIGHT before but on the day Of the
DEBATE could not be found, they asked
if substitutes could be used, sald
YES, bring them all on, Nestos, john
son, any local speaker or anyone else
and throw O'Connor in for music ana
harmony, !, The II. ". "a. could get NO
speaker TO meet Mr.. Lemke but 2
good League meeting was nevertheless
held.
Mr. Lemke said that the ], " As IS
were making last stand in this elec-
tion 81 opening the state mill at
Grand Forks just six days before elsc-
ton with but one of the eight legs
completed. The mill has neither heat,
water, nor power of their own. Power
il being transmitted from the John u.
rockefeller plant at Crookston, dis
tance Sof so miles. That the above
statement ii true will not be doubted
by anyone who stops 10 think tnas
no body of well meaning men would
open y mill of this sire when 4 y 10
no instance ii shape u do anything.
The Courant could go on and give
Won another full column Of the good
things brought out BY Lenke but the
Iateness Of the hour Of going 70 press
preyents this. ssS.s5
MRS. q. q. Bailey of Dunn Center
M, was the first speaker Of the evening
and Mrs. Bailey certainly handled the
subject ID m able manner. She sra-
phasized the fact that the issues Were
economic and not religious IS the ii
~. a. are making III She said when
D voters come out To listen % = politicai
sadress they do not want to listen to
pack of He's. Mrs. Bailey was well
received and The Courant only wishes
that she might have appeared here
n anotheah dvesaing when the Wonasn
.,.,.,.,.d Rnff;ns,saal ct,afld hear her. saa d