The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1922-11-06
PARADE, RALLY
STAGED HERE
IN CAMPAIGN
Floats Feature Red-Fire Pa
rade Staged by O'Conn0r-
Nest0s Club in Bismarck
SHAFER, BIRCHENOUGH
Candidate for Attorney Gen.
eral Discusses Losses in
Various Industries
SHAFER, BIRCHENOUGH


in Bisnrarck Saturday night with a
red-fire parade and addresses at the
auditorium by P. G. Harrington,
George F. Shafer, and Rev. Allen
Birchenough. Leaders in the cam.
Daign are devoting their last hours
to completing their organization
work. The polls onen at 9 o'clock in
the morning and close at o'clock at
night. b,
& The parade was staged by the
OConnor-Nestos club. Formed a:
the Bank of North Dakota building
the parade passed west on Main
street and back on Broadway to the
Auditorium. Included were march
crs carrying torches, floats repro
ducing the Werner creamery and
William Lemke's house, the Drake
mill and Andy Gump. The Mandan
band led the parade and drums help
ed increase the noise.
Mr.. Harrington opened the speak
ing at the Auditorium, followed by
George F. Shafer, candidate for at
torney general: Mr.. Shafer devoted
his address to comparison Of the
record of the league and Nestos> ad-
ministratiors, discussing the losses
in the Home Builders Association,
Drake mill and other enterprises and
commencing the Nes.os administra-
ton for the sale of hail warrants,
bonds, management Of the farm loan
department. Of the Bank of North Da-
kota and other afts. @
Rev, Birchenoughs address was. de-
voted mainly to a plea for the cleo
ton of ]. F. T. O'Connor. He said
that he was Methodist and O'Con-
nor Catholic; he was a Mason and
O'Connor was X. of c.; that he
was a Britisher and O'Connor was
an Irishman, and that he was going
to vote for O'Connor because he was
anti-socialist. He declared he knew
him to be an upright man. He ac-
cused Frazier of being controlled by
Townley and Lemke.
Goes Into Details.
Mr.. Shafer went into detail in his
discussion of the business manage
ment of the state affairs, The losses
in the Home Builders association, he
said, may reach figure far beyond
that shown by the audit, which he
said was over $150,000. He referred
to the decision of Judge Pugh in the
Wallace case, which case is now IN
the supreme court. If the state loses
this case, he saidk the taxpayers
will be called upon to pay up an
other 100000 or $250,O00 deficit in
the association. If the state wins,
it loses he said, because some Of
those for whom houses were built
refuse to take them at the price the
state demands, and in one instance
in Fargo where the state was forced
to sell one of these houses it brought
$4,000 less than it cost the state to
build it. He said that the state
could not force collection Of all the
money on many, naming W. G. John
son, formerly manager Of the Con-
sumers United Stores. He said that
Mr.. johnson had written the state
stating that he could not pay the full
amount of the house and asking the
state to return what he had already
raid.
"What does the present admins.
tration say of this business?" he
asked. 81 find it in the platform of
September 6. 1t says the state shall
clean up this business as quickly as
POSSIBLE, and then get out of this
business and stay out"
He referred to the losses of the
Drake mill and the minutes of the
Industrial Commission, and declared
that Frazier, Lemke and Hagan were
the men most responsible for all Of
the difficulties of the league admin
istration.
Home Builders Idea. a
The Home Builders idea, Mr.. Shat
cr said, sprang from Walter Thomas
and others, and was not in response
to demand of the citizens.
Townley, he asserted, had engraft-
cd the state mill idea on to the old
terminal elevator demands Of the
r,rn,arc ,nd II was done because Of