The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-25
BOt1xer Launches
Attack on Jones

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Hazen, N. D., June 25.-Political
dynamite was touched off here Fri
day night with the appearance of A.
F. Bonzer, Jr., state senator from
Richland county, to join in the effort
to recall E. w. Jones, Killdeer, as sem
ator from the 48th legislative district,
comprising Dunn, Mercer and Oliver
counties.
Bonner warmed up in the afternoon
with an address at Center and spoke
again at Beulah at 6 p. m. Senator
Jones attended the Beulah meeting
but refused Bonzer's invitation to take
the platform and defend his record as
Bonner read it to the audience. He
announced, however, that Mrs. John
B. Cooley and Senator j. p. Cain,
Dickinson, would come into the dis
trict Monday and Tuesday to defend
him.
Addressing approximately $50 per-
sons here Friday night, Bonzer again
called on Jones to defend his record,
but the incumbent failed to do so. In
an exchange after the meeting, Jones
demanded to know if Bonner would
sign an affidavit stating the things
which Bonner had said on the plat
form. Bonzer'S reply was that he
would sign q Million
Six state employees, all adherents
of the I. v. A. faction, attended the
meeting here and two stenographers
from Bismarck took notes on Bonzer's
address. Bonner called attention to
them and suggested that they prob
ably are here at state expense" He
suggested that the public should check
up on travelling expenses incurred by
state departments during June, charg-
ing that tax money is being used by
the I. v. A. organization to finance
the campaign and that mileage Is be-
ing charged for trips made wholly for
political purposes.
Paying Own Expenses
Bonner said he is paying his own
expenses in his campaign against
Jones and in making it as his con-
tribution to an effort to restore sin
certify to state politics and the state
government.
The speaker asserted that political
officeholders and managers are Of
two types, one the beaver" type
which works for the up-building OF
the community and supports its in
terests and the things which are bene-
fetal to it, the other the rodent
type which seeks to live on the fat
of the land at the expense Of others.
In the latter classification he group
ed Jones, Governor George F. Shafer
and L. l.. Twicnell, I. v. A. campaign
manager, asserting that they have
consistently refused to support the
best interests of the state and have
listened to counsel inimical to the
welfare of the people.
Mentions Campaign Finances
In citing votes by Jones against
grain storage bills which. he said. were
in the farmers interests and would
save him money, and his votes on 9TH
er measures Bonner said 1t was pos
sible than the finances for the I. V. A.
campaign may have been obtained as
result of the defeat OF the bills
against which Jones voted.
Supporting the Frazier bill, Bonner
pointed out that six state legislatures
have asked congress to enact 1t into
law, including that of Illinois. which
lists many lawyers and bankers IN It's
membership. Despite this fact, ne
said. Governor Shafer and Senator
Jones opposed it on the ground that
! it was not economically sound. He de.
manded to know when Jones had
qualified himself as an economist.
Bonner also clarified his polltlcal
position. He said he Is not and has
not been a member of the !. v. A.
faction, although technically listed as
such at the last session of the legis-
lature. He asserted that he is an In
dependent Republican who believes IN
the principles of Lincoln but disagrees
with the party interests which have
failed to make it responsive to the In
terests of the people. He pointed out
that the Republican party which
elected Lincoln was new party
which had reyolted against the Wings.
Bonner charged that Governor
shafer, in his management OF the
states affairs, had made everything
subservient to his own political ambi-
tons and branded as "calumny on
the Red Cross the statement that
"shafer and the Red Gross saved the
people in the drouth section last
year."
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