The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 1, 1920, Page 4

i A z t : rarer aghe # " } tHE HG fi &. 4 re] z & 3 ey =4 BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE THE BISMARCK TRIBUN Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : = : . Foreign Representatives : G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY wrote Bld pitas PAYNE, BURNS AND SMIT NEW YORK . ith Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE: Daily by carrier, per year..)........006 eae $7.21 'y by mail, per year (in Bismarck). Fr Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily By mail, outside of North Dakota........ wees 6.01 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) <> A CONVENTION BY ALL MEANS There is something radically wrong with the mental processes of those republicans who desire to substitute a committee of twenty-one members for a mass convention of republicans for the pur- pose of eliminating candidates for governor and Editor of narrowing the field opposed to Townleyism |_. down to one candidate. A convention should be called to meet in Bis- marck or at some other centrally located place for the express purpose of drawing up an anti- Townley ‘ticket, the formulation of a platform and such other business as would naturally come be- fore such a gathering. : Of course if the opposition wants to play into Townley’s hands, it can take no better way than to oppose a convention. No one will be bound by the action of a few handpicked committeemen. Nothing short of a mass convention will clear the atmosphere and banish’ some of the camouflage evident during the last few days. Division of republican votes at this time means a continuation of socialist control. The former crown prince was undisturbed by reports of the revolution. German affairs of state never did interfere with his pleasures. HUNTING ISSUES Political writers continually refer to candidates who are hesitating 'to express their views now, because “they want to wait ‘until the issues be- come more clearly defined.” And politicians continually profess to be nos- ing around “the grass roots” to. see “what the people are thinking about.” They’d make one believe that campaign issues ‘and public thinking are mysterious sorts of things that have ‘to be sherlocked and isolated and finally hauled into the limelight so they can be studied. Nothing to it. ‘ The people’s thoughts aren’t hard to find these days. Shortage of houses—exorbitant rents—profit- eering—excessive taxes—government inefficien- cy—that list’ pretty nearly summarizes public thought, as expressed continually in household conversations, on the street, on trains and every- where else where people come into contact with each other. Why do the baby’s shoes cost $4.50 and $5, -and his little cotton socks 50 cents? Why do prices steadily go up when the government keeps talk- ing about decreasing them? Why does the little fellow ultimately bear the brunt of all the taxes? What becomes of the profiteers the department of justice is always claiming to'be rounding up? Why can’t the government do something to help the people get houses? There are a few cam- paign questions. And the fellow who can come nearest to an- swering and meeting them to the satisfaction of the man with two or three children, and the woman who struggles each week with the family budget, will find the most:votes in his favor the morning after election. ——_—————_ “One need not be‘alarmed by the prediction’ that a haircut will soon cost a dollar. He can learn to. shave his head with a safety razor. ( BUT-3SWAT ’EM ; In a recent photoplay, Douglas Fairbanks, with the aid of camera trickery, walks on the ceiling, just like a fly. v The-feat, recalled a former Tong discussion as to what really enabled flies to walk on a ceiling. It used to be the theory that they owed their abil- ity to perform the feat to each of their feet being a small dir pump. Then someone came along and knocked this theory galley-west and:folk said it was by means of a viscous substance which came from the hairs of their feet. Then a Dr. Rombouts proved that they hang on by the’ aid of capillary adhesion—that attrac- tion between solid and: liquid bodies. In fact, it was proved the attraction was so great that a fly, could hang if it were nearly five-ninths again as heavy as it is. As each fly is supposed to have from 9,000 to 11,000 foothairs, so it is fair to assume each hair is very minute. ; Flies find it difficult to mount a glass surface that is damp, because of ‘the repulsion between the watery surface and the oily substance. When a fly makes its toilet, it is not doing so to look 0 | thing to laugh about. nice for leap year or anything like that, but really that it might adhere mose easily. (That’s the best time to swat ’em.) One who enjoys silence would feel at ease in the presence of Lansing. And when a dollar is again worth itself you will be sorry that you didn’t save a few while they were coming easy. Sims says Berlin knew of troop sailings before they started. It also heard from the troops after| they got there. Half of an impotent world sending bossy notes to the other half at least gives the gods some- The reason the junker crowd doesn’t press its claims is because it is afraid the communists would make junk of the fatherland. EDITORIAL REVIEW a en Comments reproduced in this column may er may not express the opinions of The Tribune, They are pre- sented here in order what our readers may have both sides of important issues which are pane discussed in the press of the day. | HOW THEN. P.L. VIEWS IT. | GETTING RID OF LANGER How to get rid of Langer is the problem that is worrying the I. V. A. these days. The obvious way, of course, would be simply to disown him. But the problem admits of no such easy solution. Langer is capable of becoming, as the Forum ad- mitted, an extremely dangerous man. Though the I. V. A. cannot win with Langer, it cannot even hope to win without his support. There- | fore Langer cannot be booted out, as the more honest and sincere of the I. V. A. leaders would like to boot him. So other measures must be adopted. Doubtless the, method upon which agreement will be reached is that adopted at the recent conference in Fargo. Langer will be permitted a clear track in the republican primary, if Nestos and Steen can be pulled off. There isn’t one chance in a hundred that Langer can win, but he will carry on the fight against the Nonpartisan league, at least up to election day, and that will fit in with the I. V. A. plans. In'the meantime the I. V. A. will concentrate on the democratic ticket. As in 1918, so 1920, the democratic ticket will be the I. V. A. ticket. That stalwart republican, N. C. Young, and that equally stalwart democrat, S. J. Doyle, whatever their differences on minor points, like the proper presidential candidate, will work shoulder to shoulder for the proper state ticket, “proper” in their minds being one that will perfectly do the bidding of big business. And they would, therefore, on the whole prefer Langer to be beaten in the republican primary. If he is well beaten, he will be the more certain to’ come out and help elect the democratic I. V. A. ticket, which is now the one hope of the big busi- ness bosses. Even in the wildly improbable event that he should win the republican primary, how- ever, the I. V. A. would be under no obligation to indorse him. It could still proceed to elect its democratic candidate, who will be a far less “dan-| + gerous” man, from the corporation standpoint, than is Langer. There will be more or less noise in the pehdaey | 8 fight, of course. Thq I. V. A. will spend money | for Langer, not with the object of nominating him, but of harrassing the Nonpartisan league as much as possible. But the, bulk of the I. V. A. funds will be reserved for the democratic state ticket. The really big fight will come in No- vember.—Courier-News. POLITICAL BEDFELLOWS HAVE TROUBLE The Townley Nonpartisan league and the Non- partisan Labor party, which joined in the selec- tion of a state ticket last ‘week, are said to be having trouble in agreeing upon a platform. That ought not to surprise anybody. The Non- partisan farmers’ organization and the Labor. Nonpartisans are not driving at the same thing. Their interests are not common. The Labor Non- partisan is for high pay and a short day; the Non- partisan farmer is for a long day and lower pay. One is an employe and the other i is an employer, with less of common interest than the man-in the shop and the manager of the plant. Another sourcé of difficulty appears to be the liquor question. The Nonpartisan farmer is, for the most part, dry; the labor Nonpartisan is, for the most part, wet. And then there are some other peculiarities in this situation that are interesting, not to say amusing. The only labor representative on the ticket is an ex-service man with one of the finest military records in the stafe. He fought the Ger- mans as if he meant it, and he did. The Non- .partigan league is being recruited in this state mainly in those sections where pro-Germanism before and during the war was most offensive. It is easy to imagine with what intense enthusi- asm pro-German Nonpartisan leaguers are going to rally to the support of a candidate whose chief claim to distinction is his military record. . The platform of this curious combination is yet to be announced. It: will be interesting to see what it does with issues upon which members of the combination are so radically opposed. \ “Politics makes strange bed fellows.” —Minne- apolis Tribune. | | THESTATE CONVENTION BOGEY Editor's note: ‘These arguments ap- ply with equal force to the political situation-in North Da Just what are the mental processes of the few Mimesota Republicans who are opposed to calling a State Conven- tion to select candidates? A. ©. Town- ley and his Socialist Heutenants must be laughing in their sleeves at the pur- blind politicians who so obligingly are playing into their hands. The Town- ley ‘papers, with an impudence that is sublime, din view of what took place in St. Paulast we Are prating about the immorality of an “extra: legal” convention, One delegate from each rural coun- ty, each man elected by a secret coun- try convention that. was managed ac- cording to the well-known policy of the Socialist Party, met in a secret State Convention called to order by their boss, A. C. Townley. ‘They were met to select u State ticket. i But even this little hand-picked gathering was too lirge for convenient manipulation. So they were sifted down to a committee of eight. This committee met with a similar commit- tee from the Lubor Convention. The Labor Conyention was the lar- ger of the two bodies, and its delegates had been elected members of yari- ous unio! according to the soviet scheme of ernment, The little joinr committee from these two bodies pick ed the ticket. Resolutions adopted by the two-con- ventions showed divergent views, and the committee tried to repongile them but failed. So-the conventions ad- journed without agrecing on a plat- form. Now-it fs ammounced that the platform will be “prepared” by the candidates. Speaking of extra-legal conventions, talking of “boss rule” and “machine polities.” where could there be a finer example? . Yet the candidates evolved by this secret inceting are to file as Republi- cans, and with the aid of. Socialist yotes they hope to be nominated in the Republican primaries. They will be, if the candidates opposing them are so blinded by personal ambition that they cannot see the inevitable. Any division of the Republican: yote means surrender to Socialist control, wreck of the Republican party in the State, and incidentally, political obliv- ion for the men responsible. It may. be urged that Republicans heed not adopt “boss rule.” just be- cause the Nonpartisans have. But the proposed Republican Convention is to be wholly different from the affair of last week. Instead of secret caucuses and conventions limited to sixteen-dol- lar subscribers: to the Townley. organi- zation, Republicans are to have public delegate conventions, elected at pre- cinct meetings ‘open to all qualified BILL LANGER URGES ELIMINATION CONVEN- TION AT BANQUET Ha ae (Continued. From Page One) posterity. Mone hiidren will,in after years, look’ back, to. the next ‘few. months and; will) judge you. not by what you have done in the past but by. what you did When the crisis was at hand. ‘This is the time not for division but unity, not for money making but for money apeithing. There must not be dispute and haggling but agree- ment, unison and work. “All over this’ great ‘big beautiful country of ours, the people are watch- ing North Dakota. 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The moral thing to do, appar- ently, is to “let the people eliminate” after half a dozen candidatés have filed, thus clearing the way nicely for the -Townley choice. \If the people are to eliminate, why not have the names of Charles A. Lindbergh, Willis M Ernes Tundeen and other as) ts for the Towhley indorsement aso on the bal Plot? But they will not be there. ‘The Townley isciplined. They nye not splittin en detachments. — Perhi the men named think more of x! ss for the ‘Townley ticket than they do of. per- sonal advancement. | What about the Republican caudi- dates? Is the welfare of their party of any consequence to them For t sake of their stiff-necked ‘selfishness, nust the party, they profess:to love be led to the shambles? Is the farce of “rule by ‘the people” to be played to the final curtain, with the people themselves the butt of the whole performance? What pretense can there be of rule by the people, when campaign issues are clouded by conflicting personal ambitions, and the is made clear for rule by a minor- } There is just one issue befote the people this year. It is whether or not they want: to turn the State over to.a clique of Socialist carpetbaggers. There should be just ope candidate. standing for the affirmative of this proposition, ti the proposed Convention, a Conventic ordered with not a dissenting yote by) eleven hundred, representative Repub- licans, assembled from every County in the State. ‘Can the candidates hear and heed this call to duty? Do they comprehend the situation as here set forth, or must it become nece reduce it to words to one The attention lo “me” and “my cam- paign.' it is not a time for hair- i splitting, for’ jockeying, for poker “blaffs.” [tis a time for plain speaking and for decisive action. Will Republicans meet the test? Minneapolis Journal. 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