The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-10-25
SOCIALISM is
ASSERTED BIG
ISSUE IN N. D.
HalvOr HalvOrSOn, Speaking
in Fargo, Assails Radical
Aims
EXPLAINS THE SYSTEM
Says FOrefathers System OF
Checks and Balances in
Government
EXPLAINS THE SYSTEM


just one vital question before the
voters Of North Dakota in making
their decision as to state candidates
at the coming election, declared Hal
vor L. Halvorson, coalition candidate
for governor, in his address at the
Fargo auditorium last evening.
That question is: Do the voters
want to turn this state over once
more to one Of the most drastic
programs of socialistic experimental
tion ever attempted in the world out
side of Russia, or do they want to
continue the work of getting North
Dakota back onto the sane, tried and
proven methods Of government which
have made these United States the
envy and the admiration Of the
world?
Mr.. Halvorson spoke to one Of the
largest crowds that has turned out
to hear a political address in recent
years in Fargo, crowd that filled
the entire lower floor of the big Far
go auditorium to capacity and over
flowed into the balcony, and which
listened with the closest attention
from first to last and accorded the
speaker a rdusing burst of applause.
The address was broadcast by
radio fans throughout the northwest
from station WDAY.
For an hour and hal: Mr.. Hal
vorson discussed the real issues of
this campaign. His address was free
from flamboyant OratOry. 1t was a
concise, logical and convincing pre-
sentation Of the important questions
| which confront North Dakota.
Presents Mastery Plea
His plea for the preservation of
the American constitution as the
| foundation upon which has beer
builded the great success Of the
American system of government was
| masterly and he flayed the LaFol.
lette idea of departing from this
tried and proven system of govern
! ment, the oldest continuing system
, of government in the world, to en-
bark upon an experiment that would
put into the hands of congress terri
Bile and tyrannical power.
1.-THE fathers who founded this re.
public, who wrote the constitution
that has lasted longer than any other
system of government now in exist.
ence. were fearful of the very thing
which LaFOllette now proposes tO
do" said Mr.. HalvOrson.
"The fathers were men who had
known the terror Of tyrannical pow
er. They had come to this land to
be free from that tyranny and they
planned system of government that
would be an automatic check on
tyranny.
Fathers Planned Checks
"They planned to have three chief
departments in government: the ex-
ecutive, charged with enforcing the
laws; the congress, charged with
making the laws; and the courts,
charged with interpreting the laws,
and the constitution.
"The fathers realized that to put
any two OF these powers into one
body would be to invite tyrannical
usurpation of power.
"Now comes Mr.. LaFollette and
asks the American people to give to
congress, not only the power to make
the laws but if the supreme court
held any law unconstitutional, all
that congress would need to do to
nullify that decision would be to
pass the law a second time.
"That would put into the hands of
congress terrible power. and l do
not believe the American people are
in favor of giving such power to
congress-.
Mask For Socialism
"Mr. LaFollette is, indeed, being
used as a mask behind whom the
socialists of the country hope to
come into power. If you do not be-
lieve that, read the press dispatches
which tell of the fact that Victor
Berger, the Milwaukee socialist, has
come out and boldly proclaimed that
LaFollette has come over bodily to
the socialists.
'If you want further proof, all that
is necessary is to realize that Dewey
Dorman, who has Is years record
as socialist in North Dakota, is
LaFollette's campaign manager in
those four states.