The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, June 18, 1920, Page 4

ie Fr PAGE FOUR e BISMARCK DAILY TRIBUNE FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1920 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE Entered at the Postoffice, Bismarck, N. D., as Second Class Matter. GEORGE D. MANN : : : ? Editor Foreign Representatives G. LOGAN PAYNE COMPANY 7 CHICAGO -DETRO. Marquette Bld, PAYNE, BURNS AND SMITH NEW YORK S : - - Fifth Ave. Bldg. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use iblication of all news credited to it or not otherwise Kresge Bldg. for * eredited in this paper and also the local news published rein. 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. Daily by mail, per year (in ) i Daily by mail, per year (in state outside Bismarck) 5.00 Daily by mail, outside of North Dakota............ 6.00 THE STATE'S OLDEST NEWSPAPER (Established 1873) iii HAS ITS DATA MIXED One of the most bitter opponents of the Repub- lican presidential ticket is the New York Times. Its special correspondents to Chicago in writing their accounts have worked overtime to create a third party spirit among the republicans. To those who know conditions in the West, it is amusing to find such gross errors in the handling of political news. ‘ For instance we find this statement on page one of the New York Times, June 14: “Members of delegations from other republican states in the Northwest before leaving’ Chicago expressed fear that the nomination of Senator Harding might affect the result of their state and local elections this fall. That was’ true especially with regard to delegates from Minnesota WHERE THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE HAS RECENT- LY SECURED CONTROL OF THE REPUBLI- CAN PARTY MACHINERY in very much the fashion it used half a dozen years ago in North Dakota.” Nothing could be more false. Minnesota’s par- ty organization is still under control of republi- cans. Whether that will be the case after June 21, the date set for the Minnesota primaries, re- mains to be seen. The New York Times’ corre- spondent if as poorly informed upon other west- ern political conditions as he seems in this par- ticular, his deductions about the dice aimed of the west over Harding’s nomination are not to be taken seriously. : Later in the same article is this statement: “Other states in which progressive or semi- radical influences have been at work in the re- publican ranks failed to give their undivided votes to Senator Harding. An exception was| North Dakota, which sent to the convention a re- publican delegate solidly opposed to the Nonparti-| san league, which was seated by the Republican National committee over the delegation that con- tested for North Dakota’s ten seats.” Probably the New York Times left a “cub” re- porter in Chicago to “clean up” on the aftermath. | As far as The Tribune is informed there was - no contest filed in the case of North Dakota. The ten delegates were elected at a direct preferential presidential primary and held certificates of elec- tion from the secretary of state. ~ If the findings of the New York Times corre- spondents of what really happened at Chicago are no closer to truth than its deductions in the case ‘of Minnesota and North Dakota, the alarm _ it sounds concerning sore ‘spots and third party action is not to be given weight. Probably the wish is father to the thought. The progressive west is satisfied with the Harding-Coolidge combination and the nomina- tions will receive the undivided support of the republican organization. EXPLOITERS OF UNREST 5 Will North Dakota republicans return the “Ex- Ploiters of Unrest” to party control June 30? Will the voters continue the political -hypocrisy: initiated four years ago when avowed socialists captured the republican party organization? The supreme test comes in two weeks. There is a semblance of republican organization left, centered in those men who do not believe in so- cialism and who oppose confiscation of property through excessive taxation. : Never since statehood has an election been fraught with more importance to the future of North Dakota. The courts have been appealed to in an effort to prevent a levy on private Property, but they have decided that no relief can be had by that avenue. If the voters want to throw their dollars to the birds, it is their business and nothing but ballots will put an end to the socialistic spree upon which the state has embarked. : The economic program so-called is not at issue. That has been started. How far we shall travel along: socialistic lines, however, is at issue. Whether we shall experiment conservatively with a few of the enterprises or plunge head over heels into unlimited debt is the burning issue. Under the socialist administration there is no provision for a proper audit. Mr. Townley has unbridled control of the state’s resources and under .the soviet laws possesses power of attorney to slap a mortgage upon every particle of propert¥ to car- ry out his bolsheviki program. Every tax payer has a vital interest in the elec- tion. Townleyism is excessively expensive. North Dakota’s bank roll will be at his mercy if the Nonpartisan league administration captures the June primaries. We are taxed to the limit now, but if the voters warit fo'be taxed to the point of confiscation why they will support the}: Townley ticket. On the other hand, however, if the farmers of the state desire to retain secure the thrift of years, they should turn away from Townley’s leadership to a safe and sane program. Forget everything else if you can. Townley’s shameful record on Americanism; the Kate Rich- ards O’Hare incident; the league leadership’s at- titude toward the war; its leanings toward Rus- sian sovietism; its well paid crew of carpet bag- gers. You may call all these matters of political opinion. But the tax load Townley and his crew are piling upon the backs of the North Dakota voters is actual and real. There is nothing aca- demic about that Mr. Farmer or Mr. City Man. Don’t fail to weigh the facts carefully before you cast your vote June 30. STEAM UP THE CAMPAIGN . Little more than two weeks remain in which to carry the truth to the people concerning the so- cialistic inefficiency of the Townley-Lemke-Fra- zier administration. The candidates have been doing valiant work, but it is now for the republi- cans to steam up and perfect an airtight organi- zation, Members of the Victory Ticket cannot do the job alone. It is essential first to get the vote registered, canvassed and then out to the polls. County workers must perform this field work. It can not be loaded upon the state headquarters which have all they can do to handle speakers and see that the publicity is taken care of. Some counties have fine organizations and are beginning with the precinct as a unit and working up an efficient force for the last two weeks of the campaign. Be sure that you have registered. Acquaint yourselves with the names of the Anti-Townley candidates, especially those running for the state legislature. It is essential to control both bodies of the legislature if the state is to be redeemed from the red card socialists. Townleyism has brought a blight upon the state with its vicious propaganda and its exorbinate taxes. State credit has been impaired and we have an arrogant one-man rule. ‘ Unless there is a complete awakening of the good citizens of the state, the Townley regime will retain its power and continue its policy of confiscation through taxation. There are signs of awakening on every side, but the voters them- selves must carry the truth to their neighbors. They must see that the vote gets out. There is one fatal thing that will defeat the good work done so far and that is apathy on the part of thé voters. Townley has a compact, or- ganization. Hundreds of men paid out of public funds apparently for state work are campaigning industriously to keep their jobs. Everyone in the opposition must be'on his toes for the next two weeks. 4 It is no mean political machine that opposes the Anti-Townley republicans, but it is not invincible, however, deeply it may be entrenched and how- ever well it may have fattened upon the public purse. | 2 The state campaign is one of principles. Money alone will not win the day. Earnest effective work on the part of those who are awake to the menace of socialism will do much more than cam- paign funds to defeat Townleyism. ‘The contest is taking on the form of a great crusade against the most vicious propagandists that ever con- trolled a state government. Only fifteen days more before the primaries. You, Mr. Voter, steam up and win some con- verts to the cause: Very likely some wily doc would have paid a stiff price for the prescription concession at Chi- cago. EDITORIAL REVIEW Comments reproduced in this column ey intons of The Tribune. T! are may re sented here in order \hat our readers may have born sides of important issues whi the presh of the day. Heh, are discussed in THE FALL OF SILVER Coinage prophets predicted some months back that silver’s price would never go below $1 an ounce. That enthusiastic bimetallist, Moreton Frewen, wrote columns to prove that silver would not go below the 16 to 1 figure of $1.29 per ounce. Yesterday it was selling below 90 cents. Finan- cial reporters had it that it might get to 80 cents an ounce. This is hard on the miner of silver. But he has nothing to say about it. He has no more to do about it than if silver were sent hither from Mars. . Silver’s price is fixed in London. We were told during the war that very soon we would be inde- pendent of London, 'that New York would set the price on silver and other things; but we may have to wait a long while for this to come true. Lon- don, on behalf of the Orient, sets the price on American-Mexican silver, which is nearly all there is produced. Asia is “fed up” on silver. The silver pots and pans of Europe were melted to send to India and China. This‘country did its share in flooding the markets. Trade is falling off in the two principal silver using countries. The panic in Japan affected the whole Oriental marts. And the silver miner of Colorado is suf- fering because things are going wrong in another sphere. In miles it is a far distance to the capi- tals of India and China, but in finance they are next door. This is economic internationalism as distinct from political internationalism, which latter has but one eye and that often in the back of the head.—Denver Post. | “COME ee N; THE VITAL-QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED TO “BISHOP” LEMKE COVERING HIS CONNECTION WITH LEAGUE F. E. Packard first assistant gen-, eral in replying to some muck raking charges in the socialistic daily in Fargo takes the opportunity to ask the publisher .of this paper, “Bishop” William Lemke some pertinent ques- tions as to the management of state affairs by the administration which he controls as A. C. Townley’s first chief deputy. Mr. Packard’s questions are very intéfesting and will be read with a great deal of interest by citi- zens of the State and stiJl more, in- teresting reading made will be the reply by “Bishop” Lemke if he dares to reply. This is what Mr. Packard has to say: “Bishop Lemke is a chivalrous soul, and like his prototypes Lenine and Trotsky, he does not hesitate to make yvomen. His morning ‘Char- im” makes an.uncalled for, unwarranted, and false attack upon three of the women employees of the Independent | Republican Campaign committee. Two of these. young women were legislated out of employ- ment by his spite bill which robbed Bill Langer of ,practically all his ap- propriation; tlie other, after working a year for the Bank of North Dakota was dismissed without notice and with a week’s salary unpaid. .It is needless to say that neither of these young women on any one else em- ployed by the committtee are in the pay-roll of the State. It is true that Earl Tostevin and myself are ap- pointees of Langer and are taking part! in this campaign. _We have no apolo- gies to offer; we not only propose to see. this campaign through, but each and every other campaign until the State is redeemed from the blight of Socialism and incompetency which Lemke and Townley have fastened upon it. “Speaking of political activities of public officials and the diversion ot public funds to political and private purposes, Bishop, there are ,many things which you really ought to ex- plain to.the public. I am suggesting a few of them, and advise for the sake of your reputation in your diocese of North Dakota, that you answer them truthfully. Answer “Truthfully” “Is it true, Bishop, that the Bank of North Dakota keeps on deposit with correspondent: banks outside of the State a much larger amount than was ever $0 deposited by private banks before you invented this unique curiosity of the banking world. If! this is true what is your object? Does it benefit the farmer or someone else? “Did you consider, Bishop, that you were making proper use of public funds when you slipped a nice tempt- ing deposit to most of the Banks in the State with your right hand and with your left hand asked them to make a loan of $1,000 each to yout political organization? Did you con: sider there was any improper connec: tioh between the two transactions. “Why, Bishop, does your Bank oi North Dakota carry as deposits the funds which it has placed in banks rather than as money due from other banks? Is this.a scheme to slip some- thing more than a quarter of a million dollars to the Scandinavian American Bank of Fargo? “Why, Bishop, did your Bank. make liberal loans to your political lieuten- ants greatly in excess of the actual loan value of the lands involved when hundreds of applications by plain or- dianry farmers were rejected or de- layed or the loan cut ‘so low that they could not be used? “Was your object political, Bishop, in advertising not only in North Da- kota but throughout the northwest that the Bank of North Dakota show- ed a very handsome net profit when as a matter of fact you arrived at this profit by clfpping coupons from the State Bonds in the possession of the Bank which had not been sold? If these coupons were a part of the earnings of the Bank, why cannot the average farmer of North Daketa grow rich by making a note for $100,000 at six per cent payable to himself and then annually credit himself ‘with $6,000.00 profit? : About the Bank © “Is it true, Bishop, that you are afraid to have the Bank of North’ Da- kota actually examined by Carl. Ko- sitzky or chartered accountants. of the Attorney General? | Is there any- thing wrong with your bank that-you refuse to permit its examination? Does it virtually control the Scandina- vian American Bank and would that Bank have to instantly close its doors if you were to withdraw the’ deposits of public funds placed therein by the Bank of North Dakota? Is there any- thing you are really afraid of in the Bank or is just a question of it being your Bank, ‘and your running it as you please and the public ‘be damned?” “Did you think, Bishop, it was a proper use of public funds.for your man “Friday” Cathro to charge his laundry bill, his gasoline bill, four meals aday and expenses of trips to Bottineau on private business or to the lakes on pleasure to the state of North Dakota? “Do you think, Bishop, it a proper use of public funds to employ Profes- sor Roylance, a citizen of Utah, pro- viding him a desk and assistants and pay his salary out of the funds of the Bank of North Dakota, to devote his WATER’S _ FINE” te | cyte ri ‘re ih Midi ae ‘| == sands and distributed them all over North Dakota and other States at the expense of the Bank of North. Da- kota? “Will you tell the public, Bishop. how many land -appraisers the Bank of North Dakota has employed first and last and just what you paid them, was it $150 a month and expenses, ten dollars a day and expenses or seventy-five per cent of the appraise- ment fee of five dollars per thousand? However, whalever the manner of your payment you had plenty of them, did you not, Bishop, about how many in each county, and where they per- mitted to-act-as league organizers and to talk politics? “What was the exact number, Bishop, of hail adjusters employed by the hail department during the past year. Is it..true that they were so numerous that they did more damage to the grain than the hail, and were they ever permitted to act as league organizers ‘or*tutk <polities?= 2° “Again, Bishop, are the several dozen land agents employed by the Immigration “Bureau permitted to roam over the northwest making poli- tical speeches. The speech made by one of them at Blue Earth, Minnesota, was a veritable blast of Socialism; was this an exception or do thege agents usually make such speeches. “Is it true, Bishop, that when you were unable to dictate the appoint- ment as tax supervisors in the several counties of the state League organi- zers and pet politicians that you se- cured a repeal of the law and sought some other method of campaigning at public expense? “What was your object, Bishop, in the enactment of the State Sheriff Bill. Was it your intention that your Governor could appoint hundreds or thousands of deputies for the purpose of controlling elections by persuasion or intimidation? “Again, Bishop, do you consider that time to the preparation of propaganda | the appropriation of $2,500.00 for your to continue you in power? in the shape of leaflets, by the tens of thou- paganda pamphlets, et Smelling Committee, which is to be “Do you likewise consider it a pro-| paid over to the committee and spent per use of public funds to print pro-| by them without accounting a proper method of handling public funds? “Do you likewise considcr, Bishop, EVERETT TRUE A4oo. TO BEAT HER. THS COMPANY. OFFGRED HER $¥ goo, A SSTTCSEMENT FOR HER OLD MAN'S DEATH, But THE FOOL WOMAN WOULDN'T ACCEPT IT. SHE WANTS ¥%2000, BUT IF SHE TAKES IT To COURT WS/LL BEAT HSER SURGE. By Condo AS WE'CC SPEND WELY, THAT'S ONLY A LOVE Tap lt BT Wee Do UNTIC T HEAR OF ‘You BEATING THAT WOMAN : IN COURT 'Dairyman Says He Gained 16 Pounds By Taking Tanlac “Yes, sir, I am feeling like my old self again since I have taken Tanlac, and, if anything, I am in better health than 1 ever was in, all my life; said Wiil.am Scheel who ownes a big dairy farm out on Route WNo. 1 from ‘Newport, Minn. a town ten miles from St. Paul. “It was just a year ago this mont. that 1 was: down in bed for thre? weeks with the influenza, and the after effects 1 was never able to get rid of until I started taking Tan- lac,” Mr. Scheel continued. ‘M stomach was left in an awtul co: dition and nearly everything I a disagreed with me. Gas formed and Pressed up around my heart and into my lungs until 1 could hardly breathe. 1 suffered with pains in my stomach day and night and I got so weak anu faint at times that I would almost fall over. I had a bad cough all the time and of mornings it was so bat as to nearly exhaust me. My back troubled mea great deal and it was so weak I had to be very careful about lifting anything. I could sleep but little at night and when I got up every morning I felt so worn-out 4 just had to drag myself off to work. ‘That was my condition when I started taking Tanlac, but things are different now. Ihave just finished my fourth bottle of Tanlac and not only have my troubles all: disappear- ed but I have gained sixteen pounds in weight. Everything I eat agrees ‘with me, The pains and cramps have all left me and as the gas has quit forming my breathing is free and nor. © mal. That aggravating cough has g0ne too and my back never bothers me any more. | get up of mornings after a fine night’s rest and really en- Joy doing a big day’s work. 1 want to tell the world about Tanlac, for since it has done so much for me | want to see others benefit from it like Ihave.” Tanlac is sold in Bismarck by Jos. Breslow, in Driscoll by N. D. and J. H. Barrette, in Wing by H. P. Ho- man and in Strausburg by Strausburg Drug Co. Advt that the method you have written in- to all of your laws of constructing buildings and making purchases on the part of the State without bids or estimates, a good policy and a proper way to handle public funds? The Game Wardens “How many game wardens, Bishop, patrol the Missouri River in the dead of winter to protect the luckless beavers, or the: prairies in summer to protect the festive prairie chicken, and the plebian duck from slaughter; and are they actually allowed to sign up memberships in the League and campaign for your candidates? Is it true, Bishop, that Comrade W. A. Anderson, late Secretary of Com- rade Van Lear of Minneapolis was given a fat berth in North Dakota with two salaries, attached because ho helped Comrade Townley out of a tight Place ‘at his trial. at Jackson, Minne- SOL ever a sara Is Yt tiie that” the agents, exports and workers employed by the Mill and Elevator Association are carefully selected as to their political perfer- ences. Is it also true that they are paid salaries and wages in excess of what men of other could be secured for? Is it true, Bishop, that expense items which should be charged against the Drake Mill are charged against the Mill and Elevator association? Is it true if these were deducted and the profit made on those famous bags de- ducted, the Drake mill would be badly in the red? Is it true that the pur- chase of 19,000 bags by the Drake mill, enough to last that institution eleven years at the highest possible price in all human probability bags will ever reach in this world, is a sample of the business acumen of your administra- tion? Political faith About the Comrades Is it true, Bishop, that Comrade Tot- ten and Comrade Liessman are in- structed to secure presidents, instruc- tors, professors, teachers, superin- tendents, workmen, keepers and jani- tors in all the state institutions who will vote right? Is it true, Bishop, that you consider the Workmen's Compensation fund as a sort of a private jack-pot which is to be kept and spent as seems best without any accounting to the public. Is it true, Bishop, that most of your imported socialists, anarchists and radicals generally do not even pos- sess household furniture but live in hotels or rent furnished rooms? Can it be possible, Bishop, that they do not expect to remain long in North Dakota, for surely their salaries’ would justify them in owning a little household fur- niture. . What He Controls. : As a reformer and friend of the plain people, my dear Bishop, how do you reconcile your attempt to grab $3,600 from the treasury of the state for sit ting at a table and looking wise when theChamber df Commerce case was be- ing tried? Is it true as charged by many Non- Partisan leaders that as attorney for the league you secured control of the Service Bureau, of the Consumers’ Stores Company, the Courier News printing company, and the several oth- er corporations heretofore dominated by the inner circle and that you now have Comrade Townley on the hip, and that Comrade Townley, the public, and everybody else can be “damned ;” that you are running the politics and public affairs of the state as you see fit without let or hindrance? Has it oceurred to you that you are building the most tyranical and unscrupulous one-man political machine ever seen in the northwest? Do you consider that you have a divine right to make what disposition you please of public funds, public officials and public in- stitutions, as strikes your fancy? In brief, my dear Bishop, do you in- tend. to take anybody in the state into your confidence and tell them the truth about the conditions in the state for what and how our public funds are being expended and what is transpir- ing in the secret closets of the execu- tive officials of the state, or do you intend to wrap your mantel of egotism about you and like Lewis the 14th ex- | claim, “I am the State,” or like that other Louis of France—“after me the deluge?” E F. E, PACKARD.