The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-09
Official City. State and County Newsraper)
"keynoting" With Nestos

81 At Darlington the cher day Former Gov
psrnor Nestos pitched his voice in sonorous key
ytnd noted few things that agtate the body
r)otic in North Dakota. He merely tossed the
vtame old grist into the hopper-there was
nothing new or constructive in his address.
= 1t is just as we'll to keep the record straight
en- this campaign, as voters soon forget. Homes
oly of purpose should govern even keynote"
Speech; honesty of statement also.
a The voters will remember that r. A. Nestos
y.erved portion of Frazier's "unfnished' term
ind two years on "his own as it were.
N Mr.. Nestos and his board of managers ran
he mill. He sold flour at a loss as others have.
NE purchased grain from commission houses
iitdr farmers elevators even from Canada-just
gvhere he could get the quality, the price and
whe service.
p Now there is no criticism because Mr.. Mes
EOS managers of the mill did this. They had
BIO do so just as the managers and wheat buyers
dinder Governor Sorlie have to- 1t was hardly
air for Nestos to condemn the Sorlie regime
uor doing just what he did when he was respon-
c:ible for the business and policies of the Grand
works mill
" 1t was admitted at the special session that
wheat cannot always be purchased from farm
hrs elevators. 1t was shown by competent
pnill and grain men that practically all farm
HRS elevators are financed by the commission
Houses of Minneapolis or Duluth. In many in
tances farmers elevators are contracted to de-
FLYER grain to certain commission houses. At
cimes, it is impossible for mills to purchase
wheat anywhere but through commission or
sid line houses. Now Mr.. Nestos. if he knows
rnything about the wheat or milling business,
-hould know this.
The matter SINNERS down to this: As long
IS the state stays in business for profit. mis-
sakes of management will be made regardless.
a,he farmers believe and honestly so that the
Industrial nr06rQn is vaIlIahln clnh Whnth-
nr it IS or not remains to be proved, but eighty
live per cent of the population in North Dakota
I've on farms and they pay majority of the
axes directly or indirectly. If they want to
:amble few dollars year on an industrial
4rogram the other Is per cent of the popula-
Jon will have to grin and bear it or move to
mother state which is not so 'bolshevstic" as
NE Independents are branding North Dakota.
] However, the Sorle administration Of every
department. of state government SO far sur
fasses what obtained under Nestos as to make
comparisons "odious."
Revision Of the so-called industrial program
hust be made in the legislative halls At sew
jral sessions the l. v. A. has had control Their
leaders, never made one step to cut off what
hey refer to as the "socialstc" program or
she "ruinous' taxes. When in power they
lode on the band wagon and passed out the po-
1tical provender in great glee AMI elation.
! Their assault now on the records of few
tate executives comes with very poor grace
When Nestos and his henchmen could have
leaned house why did they not do SO?
;, That might interest the voters Of the state
I'D up on political buncombe.
Let the voters get down to cases and elect
legislators who will tighten up on the purse
!trings. The l. V. A. had the chance and fell
Town. The Sorlie administration has actually
I'm the government more efficiently and more
economically than the Nestos regime.