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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-07-28

in my duty if I finally supported a
measure which, while it unquestion-
ably provides much needed protec-
ton, still might result in a further
diminution of our trade with the
world, so necessary to the prosperity
Of every class of citizenship"
Even Senator McCumber, in charge
of the bill, and other Republican Sem
ators like Cummins of Iowa, Freling-
huysen Of New Jersey, and Townsend
of Michigan, openly admit that this is
no time to pass tariff bill. But this
is not the reason why Republican lead
ers and the Republican administration
are trying to find the way to shelve
the bill until after the election. They
fear defeat at the polls, and this fear
is the only consideration that would
prevent them from carrying out. their
contract with the special privilege
class to mulct the general public
through profiteering tariff rates.
The Tariff bill, which was one Of
Mr.. Harding's administration assets,
has become one of its greatest liabil-
tiles.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-07-28

Il understand, of course, some men
holding economic views like your own
are absolutely opposed to any imports
which in any way tend to compete
with their products. If that is sound
policy then il would be simpler and
wiser to place an embargo at once on
all imports; but no school Of thought
with which ! am familiar is willing
that this shall be done during a per-
iod of peace.
again, note your suggestion, Let
us take an article at a valuation in
Germany Of 81, France S., England
Sc and the United States $S. Under
American valuation the tariff should
be so per cent, which would compel
the German, Frenchman and English
man to pay 81 tariff on that article.
On the other hand, if foreign valua-
ton were used it would mean that a
tariff of 800 per cent must be placed
on the article, whereby the German
would pay 81, the Frenchman IS, and
the Englishman So tariff
again, it is your purpose to keep
out all competition. You would make
the price Of the German article with
the $50 per cent tariff duty So, the
French SO and the English SO. In
other words, your plan would limit all
American buying to Germany"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-07-28
Caraway exposes Cloture bluff" on
Tariff.

AS previously stated in these coll
umns the Republican move for cloture
on the tariff bill was a bluff. The
movers knew in advance that they did
not have the necessary vote, but they
carried out their pretense of wanting
speedy action, although they could on
ly muster 45 votes against 35. The 35
opponents included five Republicans
Borah, Brandegee, LaFcllette, Moses
and Norris. The Democrats, of course,
voted solidly against it.
The hypocrisy of the Republican at
tempt to adopt cloture was exposed by
Senator Caraway (Dem., Ark prior
to the vote, when he said:
"If Republican Senators in fact
wanted to pass the measure (tariff) f,
as they now say they do, why was it
that the president of the United
States, why was it that the leaders Of
the Senate and of the House, by unan-
imous consent, agreed that the House
should adjourn until the 18th of Aug
ust? Such action is in bad faith and
the country knows it.
"0h, why waste all this time to call
the attention of the country to the
fact that Senators on the other side of
the Chamber know the bill is bad and
they do not want OF pass it,"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-07-28
Judge Davis Gives Political facts in
Epigrams.


The Fourth Of July speech made by
Representative Ewin L. Davis of Ten
nessee, in New York City, bristled with
sparkling epigrams which makes it
one of the most effective speeches
made in celebration of our national
holiday. The following extracts are
taken therefrom:
with 1853 majority in the House
and "a majority in the Senate, the G.
0. P. has been unable to function. 1t
seems to have lot of control but no
speed"
"Both of these bills (tariff and ship
subsidy are for the benefit of special
interests. They (the Republicans)
are trying to pay their campaign con-
tributions going and coming"
"The results of the Disarmament
Conference constitute merely some
steps in the right direction and some
steps in the wrong direction"
During the last campaign the Re-
publicans pledged to the nation Hard
ing and Prosperity. They have full
filled only the first half of the pledge
they gave us Harding. Their pledge
Hdo ucSH IIdHoldLcu llJO IldFuluB anu
Hard Times"
"a large majority of the people vot-
ed for change-and got it. They ex-
changed eight years of Democratic
prosperity for four years of Republi-
can adversely. The humorous philos-
opher, Abe Martin, we'll expressed it
when he said: Tell Brinkley, who vot-
ed for a change. was let out at the
saw mill the other day. Millions of
Tell BrinlSleys have been let out under
the Republican administration"
Normally seems to be having Sc
rious tire trouble"
"There has been a reduction in rev.
enue as natural result Of reduc-
ton in incomes under Republican mis-
rule"
"Reactionary Republicanism is not a
cure for any i'll that may afflict the
body politic-in fact, it is malady
itself"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-07-28

gle amendment offered by the Commit
tee on Finance to the agricultural
schedule proposing to reduce rate;
there has not been single amend
rnent of the committee rejected; and
I honestly believe that if the Senator
from North Dakota had proposed to
make this rate 200 per cent ad valor-
EN- (on duties) he would get MAORI
ty in this Chamber in favor of it and
that it would be adopted. The COM
mittee may come with any rates they
see fit and get favorable action on
them.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-07-28
G. o. P. Has Lost Contact With
Business.

(Louis Seibold, National Political
Correspondent, N. Y. Herald, Rep.)
The demand in favor of discarding
the obsolete and unsatisfactory meth
DDS for building tariff on a politi-
cal foundation merely to vindicate the
archaic doctrines of the party has
been repeatedly brought OF light in
the tariff discussions. One thing ap-
pears to be absolutely certain. The
Republican party has lost sympathet-
ic contact with the business interests
Of the country.
The demand for the disproportionate
and haphazard scheme proposed by
Mr.. McCumber comes from himself
and other Senators who expect to reap
desirable political benefits, and not
from the business interests of the
country.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-07-28
GIimpses of President Harding and the
Cabinet from Behind the Mirrors"

cabinet from Behind the MlrrOrS.'
The glimpses of our great men
which the author of "The Mirrors of
Washington" gives us in his new book
Behind the Mirrors, are quite as in
teresting and in some cases quite as
enlightening as those in the first
named work. From Behind the Mir
rors" take peek at President Hard
ing and his cabinet:
President Harding-"Feebler than
Taft"
Secretary of States Hughes-"Mr.
Hughes mind is distinctly inferior to
Mr.. Harding's, which is one reason
why he never became President and
Mr.. Harding did"
Secretary of Treasury Mellon
"The shyest and most awkward man
who ever rose to power"
Secretary of War Weeks-@Nearer
akin mentally to the President than
any other member of the Cabinet but
with more industry and capacity for
details than his chief"
Secretary of the Navy DENLY
"Has big heart and more enthusi-
asm than he has self command, judg-
ment and intelligence"
Secretary of the Interior Fall-"He
has the frontiersman's impotence.
From his kind, lynch law springs"
Attorney General Daugherty--"In
physique, burly, thick-necked, his eyes
are unsteady, his face alternately ov-
al and minatory--I should say he
blutfed effectively--rough in person.
atty. His view of the world being
highly personal, his instructive idea
of office is that it, too, is personal,
something to be used, always within
the law, to aid friends and to punish
enemies"
Secretary of Commerce Hoover
"The practical utility of his mind, is
conditioned upon the minds of Mr..
Harding, Mr. Weeks and Mr.. Daugher-
ty."
Secretary of Labor Davis-"A pro-
fessfonal glad-hand man."
Discord in Republican Glee Club
Senator Stanley (Dem., Ky.) is al
ways happy in descriptive comment,
as witness the following from recent
speech explaining the discord among
prominent Republicans:
"Mr. President, may / respectfully
and affectionately suggest to my good
friend and neighbor from Indiana
(Mr. Watson) that the trouble with
this sepulchral glee club, this doleful
chorus, of which the President spoke,
is not that one man is doing all the
singing, but that too many are sing
ing and singing in different tunes. For
instance, when the President sings in
falsetto the powerful voice of the
Senator from Idaho (Mr. Borah) is
heard in a deep and discordant bass;
and when the President wants to sing
low the Senator from California (Mr.
Johnson) persists in singing high;
and when the President wants to sing
a good old reactionary doxology the
Senator from Nebraska (Mr. Norris)
breaks out in a progressive anthem.
1t is not that there is only one sing
ing, but that there are half dozen
singing at the same time and all sing
ing in different tune and on diff
ferent theme.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

he advised the farmer to hold his
wheat and the farmer lost a dollar
and half a bushel-yet he saved
several million dollars for the people.
Then he lodged the tariff and bonus
issues while he went to Europe to
study economic conditions there. Now
he is back telling what vast amount
Of money he. is saving the "peepul."
Bunk, all is bunk.
The Courier-News seeks to villify
Secretary of State Tom Hall because
George Rasmussen failed to get on
the ballot and a great splurge is be-
ing made in the league press about
the secretary trying to keep leaguers
off the ballot. Why in the world
cannot these league newspapers car
~ the news to the people? Mr.. Hall
had to turn down five independent
candidates, two in Golden Valley coun-
ty, because their petitions were de-
fective and had not the required quail
ifications. But do you see the Cour-
ier-News saying anything about that
on the front page of that paper? Not
so you would notice it. The paper
very cunningly keeps this fact from
it's readers, because it does not want
the voters of the state to see that the
secretary is fair to all parties and is
only doing the duty for which he was
elected-to be secretary of state for
all the people. Tom Hall is square
and wants to be right with everybody.
The Courier News knows and every
man or woman with common sense
knows that if Mr.. Hall had refused
proper petition to place mans
name on the official ballot the courts
would compel him to certify that
nomination. The league leaders in
Barnes county are we'll satisfied that
the secretary Of state acted right in
this matter, because they are not the
kind of birds to let the matter rest if
they thought that he was wrong in
the premises-they would have ap-
piled to the courts for a mandamus
to compel him to act and the party
writing the distorted and untruthful
facts in the article to the Courier
News knew he was lying when he
wrote it and the paper itself knew
it was all wrong when it printed it,
but it will not and does not publish
the truth.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

Lest we forget. Don't forget that
$4,000 house that Bill Lemke built
while he was member Of the indus
trial board. Just day or two before
he left office after being recalled he
was compelled to pay back to the state
something over nine thousand dollars.
He now says that he own the Courier
News.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

The Courier-News is still halping
about the fact that Gov. Nestos has
some stock in an oil we'll. Well, what
of it. 1t was his own money and not
the states. Why doesn't the Courier
News talk about the states business
instead of private business. Talk
about Bill Lemke's house for one thing
Plenty of issues if that paper wants
to talk about them-but it doesn't.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

Senator Church, who is campaign
ing for the league, recently made an
appeal for funds to carry on the cam
paign against the Nestos ticket. We
presume these funds will be thrown
into the Lemke hopper Of the Courier
News, the farmers only daily, opsr-
ated and owned by Bill Lemke.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

The Courier-News insists on deny
ing that the mill and elevator at
Grand Forks is nearing completion
and continues to publish misleading
pictures of that project in an effort
to convince the voters of the state
that the actions of the present admin
istration are being misrepresented.
Yesterday they published two letters,
one from an employee Of the Bank of
North Dakota bond department and
the other from a fellow who is evil
IDENTIFY Lacquer and who has been
employed as millwright at the mill.
The first letter claims that the mill
and elevator will not be completed be-
fore the last of this year or the first
of the next. When you speak of years
it sounds like a long time but in re-
atty the first of next year will be
here in trifle over two months. The
present administration has never
stated that the mill and elevator pro-
ject was completed. They have exert
ed every effort to get the project in
shape to handle at least part of the
1922 crop. They have done an enor-
nous amount of work on the project
since the league administration left
office-and left the project just bare
ly started, with work on the mill and
elevator stopped for lack of funds and
with no prospect of being able to fin
ance the completion of the enterprise.
Nestos, and his assistants, have the
mill and elevator nearing completion
after taking hold of it at most in
suspicious time. They do not claim
it to be completed as yet but they
have gotten the work so near COM
pletion that they are able to start the
machinery and begin operations at
once. While the mill will not be able
to work at its highest efficiency for
two or three months yet it is able to
start operations and that is consider
able more than the leaguers ever had
any prospect of being able to do. The
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26
THEN AND NOW

eff you were man and had the
heart and soul of anything but a
craven, you'd be in court today
demanding a chance to get at
him."
No, that isn't part of an attack on
Mr.. William Lemke by "Big Business
It's just part of what the state exec
utive committee really thought Of Mr..
Lemke last March, and the comment
was published in the Courier-News at
that time. Remember that the state
executive committee consisted of the
duly elected representative Of the lea
que, so this could be interpreted as
the opinion Of the majority Of the
league members.
Here is some choice invective aimed
at Mr.. Lenke by the same committee
''Instead, William, you are sit
ting in your office writing mean
letters to the men the league
elected to office to replace you,
and having them printed in all
the papers in the state that know
you so little that they will print
them. Which is about the way
you have always served the lea
que and it's members. You can't
throw enough dust to hide your
own derelictions. You can't throw
enough mud to make your own
hide clean. You can't hurl enough
offensive adjectives at clean men
to make you look pure by COM
parison."
Well, maybe Bill can't. But by
gosh, he can try.
But the finish of the article works
up to a grand climax Of denuncoation
Here it is:
"There is only one cure for
your condition and it makes You
wild. That cure is to take on Will
liam LANCER in the courts and
show him up for what you think
he is and what you say he is.
That is the only baptism that will
cleanse you-and it is the baptism
Of fire from which your whole be-
ing shrinks because you know
you know"
What William knows, we can only
guess, but it is quite evident that
William didn't stand very we'll with
the state executive committee last
March. They didn't place a very high
estimation on Williams "sufferings
for the common people," In fact they
seemed to have William the Sufferer
pretty well pegged last March.
Why then should the league men,
bers get Every damn enthusiastic ov-
er Mr.. Lernke, as one league editor
phrased it? His sole contribution to
lettering the lot of "the common peo-
pie" since last March has been his ap-
plause of an atheistic and Bolshevist
address at Grand Forks, and his law
suit to retain possession of the Cour-
ier-News which he has repeatedly said
belonged to "the farmers" Forum.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

The en-, in commenting on the at
titude of Nestos toward the Soldiers
Bonus Bill, states that McCumber led
the fight for the law and that Ladd
seconded him and voted for it." We
may be in error but we seem to have
dim recollection of reading that
Ladd was Somewhere in Europe"
when Congress was voting on that
famous bill.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard j. Staub are
the proud parents of a son born Oct.
10th. Mother and son are getting
along nicely.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

London, England, Oct. % 49, Bonar
Law will succeed Lloyd George as
Premier of Great Britain this evening.
Law formerly announced to King
George that he would accept the lead
ership Of the new government which
succeeds the coalition government
headed by Lloyd George. The retir-
ing Premier visited with King George.
to say farewell and turn over the
seals of the office to his successor
which he has held for six years. This.
marks the end of the coalition GOV
eminent which came into being dur
ing the war and which was sponsored
by the liberalists and the unionists
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

North Dakota is not the only state
where party lines are being smashed
to pieces in the coming elections. In
California, New Jersey, Minnesota and
other states the issues before the peo-
pie and the candidates govern the
election. In Ohio they have a fight
on for light wine and beer, New Jer-
sey the same and SO it goes. The
man who runs on beer and wine
platform in some of these states get
the support of the vets, no matter
what his politics may be.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

You cannot very we'll blame the fell
lows who applied to the state to have
houses built for them at stipulated
price if they refused to pay several
thousand dollars more than their con-
tract called for. We would feel just
the same way they do about it and
so would you. But the taxpayers will
have to shoulder the several thousand
dollars loss occasioned by this bad
management of the Frazier admins
tration, yet Suffering Bill Lemke, one
of the industrial board allowing this
rottenness to go on and responsible
with Frazier and Hagan for it all,
wants you taxpayers to land him in
the governors chair so that he can
spend several hundred thousand dol
lars more for you for which you de-
rive no benefit only the payment Of
additional taxes. Do you think a
man recalled for incompency should be
reelected? We do not think so.
Governor r. A. Nestos: Some time
ago | issued a proclamation setting
aside October 9th, the Birthday of
President Roosevelt, as a day upon
which to consider his force Of charac-
ter, his high ideals, and his splendid
service to the country. note from
the press, that in many states the
same day will be proclaimed as Navy
Day. There will be no special proc
lamation issued in this state, but in
connection with the consideration Of
Roosevelt's life and services, it would
seem most appropriate to consider al
so the splendid services rendered by
the American Navy during all of our
country's history, and more especially
during the Spanish-American War,
and in protecting the transports that
carried our soldiers across the seas.
Now that the American people feel
gratified that important steps have
already been taken for the reduction
of ornaments and the naVies of the
leading nations on earth, a move which
we hope will continue, it would also
seem appropriate that they should
impress upon the people Of every state
the great services rendered by the
Navy, and the uses for which the ma
val power is essential and appropri-
ate.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

Gov. Nestos, in mis- speech last
night at the high school gym, made
the assertion that Mrs. C. A. Fisher
of this city, in speech at Glendale,
made the assertion that the state adj
mnistration did not have the mill
near completion, that it was not the
intention of the administration to
complete the mill. and that the admin
istration was trying to fool the peo-
pie. The governor said that it would
be good plan for the leaguers to
chip in and send a representative to
Grand Forks to see the mill and ele-
vator then come back and tell the
truth. 'In fact" said the governor,
Il would like to lead the lady to the
mill at Grand Forks, place sack of
the flour made upon her shoulders,
then have a photographer take a pic
ture of her in this position, and go
out and tell the people of the state
about it," With such evidence league
speakers could not prevaricate about
the big mill and elevator. The gov
ernor came very close to saying last
night that Mrs. Fisher, making such
a statement, lied, but he expressed it
little more genteelly. The great
hope of the leaguers was that the
present administration would fail to
finish this job and they are greatly
disappointed that the governor has
kept his pledges. Tell the truth to
the people.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

The Courier-News wasted column
and a half Of space yesterday under
the heading "Get Lemke" and told
how every business man and repre-
sentative of big Biz" was after his
scalp. That boy William is certainly
getting conceited. To the casual OBJ
server it seems that Lemke is not even
an issue in this campaign. The league
leaders are less than lukewarm in
their support of him and the league
papers, aside from the Lemke owned
en-, mention him as little as posi-
BILE. He leaves such stencil in the
nostrils of the leaguers that they are
handling him with tongs and keeping
him as much in the dark as possible
probably feeling that he is the great
est danger to their ticket which they
have. No one is out to "get Lemke"
he got" himself by his inefficiency
and disregard for law while in office
formerly. His expensive attempts to
run state affairs while he held office
at Bismarck are too fresh in the men,
DRY Of the voters and they do not
compare we'll with the efficiency of
the Nestos administration, at least
not we'll enough to MAZE I.cHlkc q
dangerous opponent in this election.
The editor Of the en-. even has the
temerity to couple Lemke's name with
that of Our Makers in showing that
Lemke is being crucified in the inter-
ests of the people whom he expects to
return him to office. The editor also
says Lemke gave the best years of
his life in the service of the people.
That has always been our contention.
Lenke gave the state the best that
was in him and that best was woeful-
ly inadequate, so inadequate that it
will prevent his being returned to a
place of power by the voters of the
state.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1922-10-26

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