The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1920, Page 1

= ==] THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE= BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, | SATURDAY, FEB. 28, PRICE FIVE CENTS NSON PLEADS FOR RETURN ’ TO RIGINAL AMERICAN PRINCIPLES TOWNLEY’S THROTTLING GRIP ON | NORTH DAKOTA SHOWN IN SPEECH | MADE BY WILLIAM LANGER HERE Attorney General Covers the Five Main Points of the Non- partisan League Misrule of North Dakota and Exposes + Duplicity of Its Leaders in Its, Effort to Perpetuate an Un- yielding Yoke of Oppression, and Extravagance on the Vot- ers of the State Flaying the rule of Townleyism in| North Dakota in a fact-filled resume of the looting of North Dakota under | the gu of a socalled farmers mov ment, William Langer, the Insurgen attorney general, held a huge crowd at the auditorium yesterday afternoon for over two and a_half hours, with a. tenseness seldom in evidence at a political gathering ef this character. This was the first time that At- torney General Langer has appeared | in public in this city-and his. address, | delivered in a rasp'ng, non-theatrical | voice and Manner, was a genuine sur prise. Nothing but a message over- laden with pointed shafts instead of glittering generalities could have cen- tered the unswerving attention of such an audience as°grected Mr. Lan- ger. His reception and the interest} and applause which accompanied his speech were a tribute to the man and hig message and not ‘an evidence ‘of | Mr. Langer’s oratorical powers. , LANGER’S. CHALLENGE Mr. Langer confined his speech to the five pointed challenge which ‘he issue dy to A. C.. Townley last October und which.challenge:Mr:'Townley..has,con,.| sistently refused to recognize. . These points, which’ were outlined at. grer length and in’all their details, were 1—The Valley City bank dal. 2.—The looting of ‘the Scandinayvian- American hank ‘of Fargo. 3.—The Minnie J, Nielsen controver sy over the oflice of superintendent of public instruction. 4.—The activities of J. R. Waters as bafhk examiner and manager of the Bank of North Dakota. 5.—Proof that the organization of the Nenpartisan league is not demo- cratic and that A. C. Townley was as autocratic as the most despicable reign of any of Russia’s most tyranni- eal czars. ' Proceeding the main portion of his speech when he took up each of the five points in detail, Mr. Langer told how he and other state officials had toured the stat» telling the voters they should vote for the ten amend- ments to the state constitution and how Townley and Governor Fra had repudiated their spoken and wr ten promises given during that tour \time and again. PROMISES BROKEN “We all—Frazzier, Townley, Tom Hall, myself and others: -had promis- ed you in those speech that ne measure passed by the ate legis: | lature would become a law before ane people of the state had a chance to! decide directly whether they wished those Jaws or not.” said the attorney | general, “But after itv the legislature, which was controlled lock, stock and barrel by Townley. pinned the emergency —prevision on them regardless of their promises made in the campaign. That is how Townley and Frazier, leagué controlled —1é their selemn promise “Last spring in the t referendum tam- ; paign, you were again told to vote ‘yes’ on certain laws. ‘Of these seven Jaws, two were the most vicious that were ever presented in any state; the newspaper graft law ud the board of } administration law. On these two Tom Hall and I advised you to vote ‘no’ but they were finally approved through the influence of Townley’s machine. MISS NIELSEN'S FIG “The first trouble I ever Mr. Townley w Minnie J. Nielson. en of the most bitter untruth Nielson won the oflice of 5 tendent of public instruction. islature, kept that time until she was to assume j ia in St, Alexius’hopital. her duties. Miss Nielson was prosecut ed, insulted, humiliated aud the} proudest act of my official career was the opinion 1 furnished showing that Miss Nielson was qualified for that office. “It took a sheriff with a lot of © al blood in his veins who does not be- lieve in men making war on women | Macdonald from the) to oust N all over. | through their ; P NEW AIR MOTOR | SHOOTS AS WELL | AS DRIVING CAR New York, Feb. 28.—Acceptaa the, army air service o! an airp! motor whica while driving a plane in{ fiight automatically shoots in rapid {succession she‘ls one and one-half inches in diameter weighing a pound was announced today here by the Manufacturers Aircraft assou! | The airplane cannoa which ; Wright-Hyspano design was built to pi armored airplanes, tanks. sub- | marines and dirigibles. FARMER-LABOR COMMITTEE TO . FIGHT TRUSTS George’ P. Hampton, National , Council Manager, Chair- ; man of Board STONE IS VICE PRESIDENT ‘Complete Personnel of Organi- zation to Be Announced _..dn Near Future- | ! Washington, Feb. 28.—Formation of a “farmerlabor congressional *com- j muittee which will assist in eleeting a ‘cong:ess “responsible to the people which will make the transportation ‘trust, the food trust and the money, trust, the servants of the people in- stead of the masters of the people”: and restore the “constitutional rights | of freedom of discussion” was an- ‘nounced here today ‘by George ‘P Hampton. managing director of the Farmers’ National c ten is chairman and Warren S. Stone, | grand chief.of the brotherhood of loc- omo.ive engineers, is vice. president | of the committee. . The personnel of the committee has| not been selected in full but will be announcéa soon. IMr. Hampton said among those already selected are a’ majority of the heads of the various! rulway employes’ organizations and heads of nation! und state farm- end labor organizations. Head- rters have been established here.| i MEXICANS KILL YANKEE CONSUL | Representative of United States Murdered—Leaves Eighty- Year-Old Widow ‘rill, formerly Gnetein: coun- | sul at Manzanillo, Mexico, was | killed by Mexican bandits Feb- | rary | ATTAOKED “FROM AMBUSH H Washington, Feb, 28.-The ccunsel ouncil. Mr. Hamp- | BARR RRR es STATE RIGHTS SUSPENDED BY DRY ENFORCER TREATY FIGHT | FEEL STRONGER ‘Article 10 Remains the Greatest ' Stumbling Block in Way of Ratification ,Commissioner Roper Says. to “Give Them Limit Regard- less.of Statutes sons found violating the federal prohibition enforcement state statutes: leg nnouneed tod ner Roper of the in- , Roper’ s ruling resulted from : pending hefore islature legal Je adn manufacture of beer aining 344 percent alcohol, LZ CHINESE FRONTIER 1 he as at Manzanillo in’reporting the kill-| ing to the state department said Mer-| rill was attacked while on his way! home three miles from Colmia and | that in a fusilade of pistol shots he re The American emba City by: been instru to make urgent representations to the Mexi-) j can goverdnment. , | LITTLE BOY ILL James A. Snyder, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder of) rom | Broadway, is quite ill with pneumon-} Sin Kiang if | comply with thes» demands it is REACHED BY BOLOS| 7—Russi ian Mi ols hev ik frontier | in the Tyr 1 two wounds. {eastern Turkestan according to dix at Mexico! patches to the war office here. are said to have demanded that the of the province of eoup the Russian consul ‘and all refugees and allow the appoint- ‘iment of Bolshevik consuls in the pro- | Chinese governor Threats have been made to Seenpy | H the governor | “IT IS ROTTEN DEAL, ” SAYS FORMER TOWNLEY LEGISLATOR IN AFFIDAVIT SUPPORTING SCRANTON CONFESSION | position which he thought he held for; “It is rotten.” says Rep. D. B. life. That man was Sheriff Rolin Welch of this county and he had to in an affidavit made at the request oh take Mr. Macdonald hy the nap of the, neck—if he has a neck—and by the seat of his pants and propel him ss his confession at Nielson could enter the office to whieh | following an address by Attorney the majority of the people of thix.eral Langer. “T\ enty-fiv rs ill not right the wrong I| pose and (Continued on Page Six) through the open doorway before M state had elected her.” (Continued on Page Two) the Rowman County mers’ Leader, a Nonpartisan newspar substantiat- ing the statements which he made in nton last w of ye | apologizing: | have done him.” says Arnold, referring | Arnold of the 39th legislative district] of the recent special session condemn- jan alternative wr ing the attorney gene Rep. Arnold’s 4 | pelling the in full is as j the cane B {hine on one petition and all candidates .| State of North j for electe en | County of Bowman. “1, B.D. Arnold, upon my oath, as follows in order that | filing F “SIGN ERED a FSS The ipatade of. Nations as Johnson sees it. ~ LEMKE PLATFORM OPPOSES RETURN OF RAILS AND UNIVERSAL TRAINING; ' STANDS STRONG NK FREE SPEECH Members of Republican State Central Committee Respond | to Call and Frame Program | for Their Party—Hiram Ww. | Johnson Endorsed—Old Gang | Denounced for Attempt to! Get “Slice of Melon”’—Victory |. Assured, ane Wehe ‘LEAGUE TICKET The ticket endorsed by the re- pmblica central committee y afternoon is ax For president-Hiram W. John- son of Califor For nations B. Olson of county, For delegates he tional eonvention—-Ger Gannon, den, Bist 6 liston: Leigh J. Monson, G. Mad- | Wil- | Fargo; Ole Gilbertson, Towner; TI. HH. Anker. Grate For! » Moz- i M. Rudd, R. M. clectors d Underwood, Enderlin Ls tharles Joyce, Rowman: j i i i {] vison; J | This is the ticket nominated at the | ' convention of 100) progressi re. publicans in Hillshoro last week, Ite|) | fate now rests with the supreme court =f ob North Dakota, which Attorney to the resolution adopted at the close; George M, Gannon wil foday ask for of mandamus com: | of state to show he showld not permit ail tes for delegates to. com | cause why to combine on another, declined to ac- i petitions for | “contending that tle laws { (Continued on Page Six) 1 "No ENTANG LING ALLIANCES" Reid in The National Republican Washington, today as the itions fo art admittedly the greatest stur be | x in the path of ratification, epublicans went so far as to sayy | that ninitteeman—O, | votes .were needed for the poaulales was contested by! x qd rat-! | two-th M. } ification would fail unless reservations were modifie: ile the informal 2 TO CHICAGO » on a business mis: ents and two machen’, at "Kemp. , an exclusive young women at Kenosha, Wis. xpelled Thursday “for flag- rant violation of school rules” e known today. Kemper hall, except to sa for a violation of school reg- i | | 1 i 1 i ‘MANDAN COMMERCIAL Z| conference has| the budget for the reorganized Com- ‘been in progress debate nas continued, mercial club are still at work, and} STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF CLASSY GIRLS’ SCHOOL OUSTED FOR MAKING (“Sway nn ca RAISIN WHISKEY AND ROLLING DICE | yc! (2"ctene peta as iH iN. P, RECEPTION i have several di hit has been nece DECLARES NOSTRUMS POLITICIANS OFFER ARE NOT PANACEA ¢ Expressing willingness that Great Britain, Japan, Italy and France should retain the territory which they gained from the world war; but declaring “I am not willing that my son or your son shall guarantee that territory and fight for it during all the years to come, under a League ‘of Nations,” Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California last night brought to a climax a bitter at- tack upon the peace treaty and upon Wilson’s part in the delibera- tions at Paris, and he closed an address which time and again stirred to tumultuous applause an audience which filled to stand- ing room capacity the Bismarck Auditorium with an appeal for a return to old-time Americanism. “That is what this nation needs today,” cried Johnson— “a return to the old Americanism. There are those who wrap themselves in the flag and hide some very ugly sores;. there are others who prate of Americanism and know not what they mean. “My Americanism demands that we return to the consti- tution of our forefathers; that we live our own lives in our own way in the future.as we have in the past; that we take this splendid heritage handed down to us and hand it on, un- tainted, unsullied and unchanged to those who follow us.” Lesa tlt WILSON WAS BAMBOOZLED Senator Johnson, admitting that in so doing he might be suspected ot havin: | A personal dnterest it . % a a . ho the i COMMITTEE HAS j}twok. “weed his audience to read a i + jj volume written by Keynes, head of | RIDE IN VAIN [1 the ingtish cconoist cho 'snt shone ae peace table. that they might dis- i Senator J. I. Cahill of: Leith. } cover for themsel “hoay our presi- | Miss Aldyth «Ward: and __ thre i dent was bamhoos other members of the “official” He told how Keynes described W | reception committee, named Fri- son sitting there, with Lloyd Geor: | day afternoon ba the republican {' On the one. side and Clemenceau on state central committee in con- |/ the other. and what happened. after | vention here, had a long, cold |/# few months. He , de ed the, | | automobile vide to Arnold for ngements which would give Great naught Friday evening. | Britain six votes to Ame 's one in Learning that the train was | the league of nations, and told how | Tate, the league receivers con- for ten months “British-Americans” | ceived the idea of & wz to Ar- had Ween going up and down ‘the nold, riding in with Senator |/ country, propounding a matltematical Johnson, and beating the local ‘i reception committee to it. Sen- ator Cahill, first to board the a " train, was introduced to Senator | out-Kngli the English in giving Johnson by the latte stage |! Great Britain six yotes to our one. manager, R, S. Wileox, and the |} ana how comes Lord Grey, and | ining how America w: : her veto power, “Th leaguer informed the’ Califor- |! ane who is at all familiar with dip- nian that a republican state convention was in session in || spea Bismarck; that he and four sociates had been appointed an official reception committee. and that they extended to the senator the hospitality of the capital city and urged that he ustage knows that when he it is with the official voice of ish empire, and he . you're entitled to it. y “we'll have the old kind 0? in, since Lord Grey has FE PRECEDENT. OF 1912 | | here. | debates on this question closed Novem- be their guests during his stay Souator Johnson said that since the Senator Johnson politely re- her 1 he ha : He aus i ; e had learned something | plied that his manager had | whic) cast.a new light on the whole made all plans for his reception, | yirair, is wis the action taken at and that those plans would not! tne international radig cong: in be interfered with. He thanked ‘| Tondon in 1912, There, too, Greai can for Ms cpolteitunde, put } Britain voted to herself six votes, one with his long ‘ride from Minot |. 70" Camus. one for New Zealand, one that he did not feel equal to any | fo" South Africa. one for Australia Soalal- diversions. = Thee remains one for India, and) go. forth. nd ing members of the committee Russia called the turn, and Americ: filed in and were introduced, and backed up Ru 1 with the result that Johnson chatted with them in Ame "a “also claimed her votes, a eachion. but when hig | 28d Whitelaw Reid. American am- train reached Rismarck, be ad- bassador to the court of King James, journed to the Grand Pacifie boo | “Tele home that a precedent had heon tel, where reservations had been established 1 would Jast) for ali made for him, and the leaguers Himes, a proceeded empty-handed to. the Mun aeere ne pregentod Used cans, the tid the senator, “hoe the it didn’t live very Nonnartisan hotel, where they | had hoped to deliver their prize. | + gyaduaily findi pont what trans * out the red there | | CLUB MEETS MONDAY | INTRODUCED BY O'HARE | ‘rhe speaker was introduced by ¢ ty ) Atiorney H. FP. O'Hare, who refer "7.--The committee to Senator Johuson as one whom ever; one knew or should know, through his si sful fight to drive the Southert: * out of California polities, a running unate on the ticket with Theodore said O'Hare in closing. nothing better that I can ity Mandan, [et linat has in hand the bringing up of work ahead so that ary lo postpone the originally been, T meeting that I | planned for last, night until next} | Monday evening, | thunderous cheering and hana- ping with which the house re ived Jobson attested to his popular: \| y with the fourth great North Dake 'Vta andience which he had addressed {during the, three days he has spent in this state, aid the speaker. “Lam whder m: ms to the people of this grea wealth. Coming inte — this ite just three days ago, T have met | with nothing but ndu and cour- in wine. | tesy and hospitality. Dr. Griffin declined to discus: the “moonshining” report but di ulations bit the students pa out the report the girls and the two teachers were found making ra “T was told not to come into nied avreport that the girls were =| North Dake I don’t know just dismissed because they had been why that advice was given me. gambling with dice. An order | but if they had known me they was issued forbidding students to wonld have known that the one discuss the dismissals. i (Continued on Pag Seven)