The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-05-22
NEST0S OPENS
FIGHT;ATTACKS
N. PROPOSALS
Declares League Proposes To
Saddle Millions of Dollars
Debt on State
DEFENDS INDEPENDENTS
Declares Comparison of The
Business Records of Ad-
ministratiOn Is Invited

Jamestown, N. D., May 22.-Gov-
ernor r. A. Ncstos, candidate of the
Real Republican state convention
for denomination, opening the poll
tical campaign here last night,
spread before the voters the issues
of the campaign as he sees them.
He warmly defended the record of
his administration and assaied the
Nonpartisan League program as
embraced in it's convention plat
form.
The keynote speech of Governor
Nestos followed delivery of the
Nonpartisan League keynote at Nc
Clusky the night before by r. H.
H. Thoresen, league candidate for
Attorney General.
''The real issue in this campaign
is therefore, said the Governor,
after quoting the Nonpartisan
League platform for increased state
industries, lis whether you tax pay
ers can afford increased experiment
tation in state owned industries
adding not only to the kind Of in
dustries to be under taken but also
to the number of each or whether
you Yill deem it wiser to profit by
experience, to folloG the counsel of
the Independents and to confine this
experimentation within fair, rea-
sonable and safe limits
In his opening remarks the Gov
ernor said:
League Platform
Another political campaign is in
progress and / trust that you, as
voters of the state, are studying
with care the platform promises and
records of the factions and candi
dates appealing for your support.
Not only are the candidates aligned
in two definite groups, but each
group has made such platform dec
larations rs to make the issues be-
tween them clear and definite. The
platform of the League, among other
things, declares:
I'VE reaffirm the original plat
form of the Nonpartisan League as
being necessary at the time Of its
declaration and of even greater i'm
portance at the present time
I'VE demand that the Bank of
North Dakota be made to function
as was originally intended and we
pledge ourselves to do this
It then supplements this state
ment by specifically mentioning
state owned mills, elevators, ware
houses, coal mines, and briquetting
plants. The League candidates are
hAp ~ tns nj Mi tn
the continued operation of the mill
and elevator at Grand Forks, the
Drake mill, and the Bank of North |
Dakota, and they are pledged to
breathe the breath of life into the |
late and. as we thought, unlamented
Fome Builders Association. They |
do not stop there, and mark this
we'll. They promise. they threaten
I should say, to build more mills |
and elevators and to organize and
operate warehouses, mines, briquet-
ting plants and packing plants in
addition thereto.
Facing Issues
The Governor continued:
Let us at the very beginning un-
derstand clearly what the program
Of the League leaders and candi-
dates means to the tax paying cit
liens of this state. There can be
no doubt about the results. That
issue is as plain, as simple, as hu-
man language can make it. When
you walk into the election booth to
cast your vote you will vote either
for candidates who stand on a rec
ord of tax reduction and who are
pledged to still further decreases Of
the state tax burden, or you will
vote for the League candidates who,
if elected, say solemnly and without
quibbling that they will issue and +
sell more bonds to build mills, ele-
vators, briquetting and packing
plants, who will increase the already
heavy burden of interest the state
must pay and who will levy more
instead of less taxes upon an al
ready overburdened people. Do you
want more state industries, with
added bonds and interest and more
taxes? If you do, am constrained
10 advise you to vote the League
ticket because you will get none of
these things from us if we are re-
turned to power. Or, did you have
enough of experimentation and of
the mismanagement and inefficiency
of the League leaders when they
were in power and do you now feel
that the tax burden. should be de-
creased rather than increased? If II
SO, you can have your desire only
by voting for the Independent candi-
dates who will not plunge the state
farther into business and who will e
not issue or sell more bonds except t
for the farm loans. II
will they be able to mislead you
by the malice, falsehood and hate
which they seek to pour into every
community in this state? Will they
have the supreme hardihood to stand
before an audience of North Dakota
farmers and say I'VE think you
1hould issue more bonds and pay ii
more taxes SO that we may have h
more money to spend as we did at ii
at Drake, in the Bsnk of lie
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