Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-10-02
A ADDRESS

A .MAsTERLY ADDRESS
Two features ore especially noteworthy III the
mastery addresslHith which Governor Nestos open
ed his speech making campaign at Wilton, and
which he has repeated in substance at other points
in the state. These are, first, the clear analysis OF
full presentation of the reasons why the speaker, a
Republican, refuses to support the candidate who
Won the official nomination of the Republican party
for the United States senate, and supports, instead.
the Democratic nominee for that position.
In his discussion of state issues Mr.. Nestos
demonstrated his familiarity with the facts, { He
has made himself master Of them, and he presents
them clearly and forcefully, reducing them to, their
simplest elements. He shows that each OF the bust
ness departments established under the Nonpat-
tisan league regime has involved the state in an
actual net loss to date Of considerably over $150,00
a total of more than $500, 900 for the four principal
departments treated, the Bank of North Dakota, the
commission, the, Home Building associa-
ton and the Mill and Elevator association. These
losses are those which are apparent now; with full,
book value allowed for all the remaining assets of
each enterprise, although the liquidation of the
affairs of these enterprises, and realization. on their
assets are certain to increase these losses very large
ly, though to what extent cannot now be known.
This is but one item in the long bill of particu-
lars which the governor files against the former
league management of the state, an administrations
whose record was SO unsatisfactory that the people
ousted it from its position last year and installed
new officials to correct the mistakes and reform
the methods of its predecessor. Two of the same
men who were last fall elected from their positions
are now candidates for positions of trust, the one
for a United States senatorship, and the other for
the goverporship of the state, and Governor Nestos
points out most appropriately that upon these men
now rests the burden of proving that they haye 80
repcnted of their evil ways and changed their stti-
tude that it will be. safe for the people again to re-
pose confidence in them.
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the SENATORIAL Situation. The offices of governor
and senator are not necessarily very closely related.
Under some circumstances the two campaigns
might very properly be separated. But in this case
there can be no separation. This contest is not be-
tween organized political parties as such, nor is it
between individuals as such. 1t is a contest of dcs-
~tructive radicalism~ against sane progress under the
orderly regulation of the constitution. Specifically
it is a contest between the independent members OF
both political parties and those whose tendencies
are opposed to the principles Of either party, and
whose party membership is a matter of convenience
rather than Of conviction. s
,1s Governor Nestos shows by the citation of par
ticular instances and the quotation of specific sex-.
pressions that ever since Mr.. Frazier became prom
inent in the political field he has opposed and de-
nounced the acts and policies of the Republican
party, and has allied himself with Democrats and
Socialists whenever he found that course convent
ent. He demonstrates that with Mr.. Frazier the
Republican party designation is a fimsy disguise,
and that beneath it are none Of the qualities which
entitle him to be considered a Republican candidate
In declaring his unqualified support, of Mr..
O'Connor for the senate the governor shows that
his attitude is the only one possible for a man who
believes in the fundamental principles of Republic
anism. He does not need to do any guessing as to-.
the attitude of Mr.. O'Connor on the questions
which are now the most important Of any before
the American people the question which, in its last
analysis is whether law shall be respected or de6ed.
He has, in addition to Mr.. O'Connor's declarations
from hundreds of platforms all over the state, the
useful and honorable record which Mr. O'Connor
made in the legislature of the state, where. upon
every occasion involving these issues, he spoke and
voted in accordance with ! the Republcanism of
Abraham Lincoln, and against the Republication"
of Lynn J. Frazier and William Leinke. With the
records of the two men before him it is not difficult
for Mr.. Nestos to choose, and his choice is en1phat-
ically for. O'Connor. /.
We ~feelssafe in saying that no more convincing
message has ever been delivered in North Dakota
than that contained i'm the Keynote" address Of
Nestos.